Today, 13 October 2009, Afternoon Edition

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    20 1 TODAY Tuesday October 13, 2009 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking TODAY Tuesday October 13, 2009 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking
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      in the news
      229 1 ■"1 Q You owe £12,415, Mr PM: 10 Gordon Brown has been sucked into the MP expenses controversy for excessive or incorrect cleaning and gardening claims. He denies any wrongdoing. ■"I Q She took child sex photos 10 to impress a man she met online and had
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      Lock icon Despite the green shoots, concerns about economy still reign
      863 1  -  LEONGWEEKEAT CHANNEL NEWSASIA weekeat@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Singapore may have reported its first year-on-year gross domestic product (GDP) growth in five quarters yesterday but if your first instinct is to demand a restoration of pay cuts or salary increments, the advice from economists
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      Lock icon Angels & Demons in real life?
      472 1 Angels Demons in real life? AP AFTERNOON LATEST Did French doctor with Al Qaeda links want to grant access to Hadron Collider? PARIS A French investigating judge has filed preliminary charges against a physicist at the world's largest atom smasher who is suspected of Al Oaeda links, a judicial official
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      Lock icon Five missiles fired
      394 2 AGENCIES NORTH KOREA SEOUL North Korea test-fired five short-range missiles off its east coast yesterday, even as South Korea proposed working-level talks with its neighbour. The Yonhap news agency, citing an unidentified South Korean government official, said the missiles were surface-to-surface KN-02 rockets with a range of
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      Lock icon Singapore wants your suggestions
      511 3  -  TEOXUANWEI TOURISM COMPASS 2020 xuanwei@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Unlike years past when the arrival of tourist magnets such as the Integrated Resorts and Formula One to our shores were largely Government-led moves you can now have a bigger say as to how Singapore's tourism scene should be like.
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      Lock icon First woman winner 'in shock'
      344 4 AGENCIES STOCKHOLM Americans Elinor Ostrom and Oliver Williamson won the Nobel Economics Prize yesterday for their research on ethical corporate governance and natural resource management. Their work may be seen as particularly topical in the wake of the global financial crisis and efforts to combat
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      Lock icon Strike at financial heart of criminals
      622 4  -  ZULOTHMAN AGENCIES ZULOTHMAN LAW ENFORCEMENT US appeals for international help to clamp down on organised crime, terrorism zul@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE If law enforcement agencies are to ever clamp down on the operations of organised crime and terror groups, "robust money laundering legislation" will be needed.
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      Lock icon HEAVE HO!
      104 6 MARINA BAY SANDS One of the two heaviest pieces of the 7,000-tonne Sands Sky Park was moved into place at the top of the hotel towers at the Marina Bay Sands Integrated Resort yesterday. Weighing 1,360 tonnes in all, the two massive steel box girders will provide support
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      Court reduces jail time
      615 6  -  ONG DAI LIN MITSUI OIL ASIA Former trader, boss had appealed against 5-year and 36-month terms dailin@mediacorp.com.sg HE WAS all smiles yesterday when he heard the High Court verdict. Instead ofthe five-year jail term he had been handed for his part in hiding the US$Bl-million ($ll3-million)
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      Teach us more about love, say respondents
      434 8  -  NEOCHAI CHIN DUREXSURVEY SINGAPORE Singaporeans want sex education to stress "more on emotional well-being". A survey done by contraceptive maker Durex identified these "emotional aspects of sex" as love, respect and the shared enjoyment of giving pleasure to one's partner. Many of the
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    • SINGAPORE ROUNDUP
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        PARIS, ANYONE?
        69 10 Together with the prestigious theatre school in Paris, Ecole Phillippe Gaulier (EPG), the National Arts Council is offering an annual residency at the school to Singapore theatre practitioners for the next five years. One outstanding theatre practitioner will be selected each year for a nine-month stint at EPG,
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        Lock icon KUDOS FOR GROOMING FUTURE ECO-CHAMPIONS
        80 10 CHANNEL NEWSASIA Two ofthe three recipients of this year's President's Award for the Environment Commonwealth Secondary School and the National Youth Achievement Award Council —focus on grooming youths as future eco-champions. The former introduced a structured programme for environmental education for its students, while the
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        PROJECT HOPE FOR DISASTER VICTIMS
        152 10 For the first time, there will be a TV charity show to benefit the victims ofthe recent tropical storms and earthquakes in Asean. Produced by MediaCorp, Project Hope will see more than ioo MediaCorp, local and Asean artistes come together for the charity special. MediaCorp,
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        Lock icon UNPROFESSIONAL DOCTOR FINED $2,000
        95 10 938 LIVE The Singapore Medical Council (SMC) has fined a hand surgeon $2,000 for professional misconduct. The SMC's disciplinary committee found Dr Jonathan LeeYi Liang, who practises at True 'Est in Ngee Ann City, had failed to exercise necessary supervision in the prescription and supply of
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      Lock icon OOH — it's a hit already
      255 10 OOH it's a hit already 'CHANNEL NEWSASIA MEDIACORP ADVERTISING SINGAPORE Within three months of its launch in July this year, MediaCorp's out-of-home advertising platforms managed by its out-of-home advertising arm OOH Media have proven to be a hit with advertisers and marketing professionals. MediaCorp said one of its specially developed
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      Lock icon Thai security detains 60 at Islamic school
      204 12 AP PATTANI Security forces raided an Islamic school yesterday in southern Thailand, detaining 60 students and religious teachers for questioning, police said. The raid came two days after a group of suspected insurgents opened fire on the motorcade of a high-ranking civil servant
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      Lock icon 41 killed in latest blast
      431 12 AP PAKISTAN UNREST PESHAWAR (Pakistan) A suicide car bombing targeting Pakistani troops killed 41 people yesterday, the fourth militant attack in just over a week, as the Taliban pledged to mobilise fighters across the country for more strikes. The Taliban also claimed responsibility for the
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      358 14 AGENCIES IRISH PRIEST KIDNAPPING PAGADIAN Police and soldiers yesterday launched a manhunt for suspected militants who kidnapped a well-loved, 78-year-old Irish priest in southern Philippines. Six gunmen snatched Reverend Michael Sinnott on Sunday at his home near Pagadian city in Zamboanga del Sur province. While nobody has
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      Lock icon Free honeymoons to save marriages
      213 14 AP,THE MALAYSIAN INSIDER. KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia's Terengganu state government says it plans to offer free honeymoons to save the marriages of couples who are on the brink of divorce. Mr Ashaari Idris, a Terengganu government official, says troubled couples will be allowed to spend two
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      Lock icon INDONESIA REMEMBERS THE BALI BOMBINGS
      87 14 AFP Survivors and relatives ofthe dead held a solemn memorial service yesterday to mark the seventh anniversary of the Bali bombings that killed 202 people, mostly Western tourists. About 70 people held a joint prayer at the memorial in the main tourist strip of Kuta,
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      Lock icon This Is It — Michael Jackson's new single debuts online
      251 15 This Is It Michael Jackson's new single debuts online AP LONDON Michael Jackson returned to the airwaves yesterday with a new song the first from a coming musical documentary featuring the late king of pop. It is the first new material by Jackson to be released since his sudden death
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      Lock icon Better tracking system needed
      459 15 THENEWYORKTIMES ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION Recent bomb plot shows security loophole not fixed DALLAS Eight years after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the United States still has no reliable system for verifying that foreign visitors have left the country. New concern was focused on that security loophole last week,
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      Lock icon Television 'ban' for Australian toddlers
      177 16 AFP SYDNEY Children should not watch television until they turn two because it can hurt their language development and ability to concentrate, according to new Australian guidelines. The government recommendations, expected to be released next week, also say that children aged two to five should
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      63 16 AFP Stranded commuters cross a temporary trail at the foot of a collapsed highway in Tuba town, Benguet province near Baguio City north of Manila yesterday, three days after massive landslides Search and rescue teams struggled to reach areas ofthe northern Philippines cut off by storm-triggered landslides
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      Lock icon Passengers culpable too
      255 16 AP DRINK DRIVING BEIJING China has proposed expanding a nationwide campaign against drunk drivers to include penalties against their passengers. The proposal, released by China's Ministry of Public Security over the weekend, calls for fines for passengers riding in cars with a drunk driver and increased jail
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      Lock icon More arrests made in 'Vile' paedophile ring investigation
      306 18 THE DAILYTELEGRAPH LONDON—A woman has been arrested allegedly in connection with the paedophile network involving Vanessa George, the nursery assistant who abused children in her care. Tracy Lyons, 39, from Portsmouth, who is seven months pregnant, has appeared before the city's magistrates
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      Lock icon It's payback time, Mr Brown
      429 18 THE DAILYTELEGRAPH AFTERNOON LATEST UK PM owes $26,500 in excess claims LONDON British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is to repay more than £12,000 ($26,500) in expenses after an independent inquiry found he had made excessive claims for cleaning, gardening and decorating. The Prime Minister has
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      Lock icon 'US fails to reach civilian goals'
      440 20 THE NEWYORKTIMES AID FORAFGHANISTAN WASHINGTON Even as President Barack Obama leads an intense debate over whether to send more troops to Afghanistan, the United States is falling far short of his goals to fight the country's endemic corruption, create a functioning government and legal
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      Lock icon Afghan election announcement expected within days
      271 20 AFP KABUL Afghanistan's electoral authorities are expected to announce their decision on fraud allegations plaguing the presidential election within days but the bitter wrangling is likely to drag on. Officials said an announcement could be made before the end of the week on who
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      Lock icon India successfully test-fires missile
      143 20 AP NEW DELHI India has successfully testfired a nuclear-capable missile with a range of 350 km. A Defence Ministry official described yesterday's test as routine. The surface-to-surface missile, Prith-vi-II (Earth), was fired twice within five minutes from a range in Chandipur in the eastern state of
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      HELP MAIDS SAVE UP
      52 22  -  Tan Keong Boon Letter from Banks should be compassionate and lift their minimum-sum deposit requirements for foreign domestic workers here, like they do for senior citizens and minors. The $500 they are required to have in their accounts to avoid a penalty is more than their
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      I SAY HARDSHIP? MORE LIKE A JOY
      440 22  -  Dr Amos Ezra Katz Tm an expat who can't wait to become a local I AM writing in response to Budget Tai-Tai Tabitha Wang's piece, "Expat life is hardly a hardship" (Oct 9). I suppose I fit into her definition of an expat,
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      FOCUS ON THE FAMILY
      244 24  -  DRJAMES DOBSON BY PARENT-CHILD SEPARATION PART 2 We talked last time about the life-long consequences of divorce on children, but what about parent-child separation that occurs for reasons other than divorce? Recent research confirms that the consequences of any parent-child separation are severe. In one study
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        Even us teachers couldn't answer some questions
        290 24  -  Ho Kong Loon Letter from I REFER to the report "A calculated adjustment?" by Teo Xuanwei (Weekend Today, Oct 10-11). This genre of examination papers, with Mathematics/Science questions which even the creme de la creme of the Primary 6 cohort find excruciatingly difficult",
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        Be careful not to break a young child's spirit
        116 24  -  Robina Khan Letter from THE sentiment among those who sat for last week's PSLE Maths exam was that it was very hard. Some students cried during their examinations; many more, in frustration, broke into tears upon seeing their parents. What does
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        It's not an exam without a few tough questions
        185 24  -  Maria Anthony Letter from I AM appalled to read that the PSLE Mathematics examination has come under the spotlight because some students were unable to solve a problem, which is based on the straightforward (if timeconsuming) guess-and-check/trial-and-error method. If an examination
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      Was Chinese passage a reproduction?
      134 24  -  KohJL Letter from MANY students who took this year's PSLE Chinese examination have said that one of the comprehension passages in the paper was taken from an assessment book that can be found in bookstores, except with the word "mango" changed to "apple". If this
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        The new frontier
        1074 26  -  MAYO MARTIN DA:NS FESTIVAL 2009 Watch out Europe (and China and Japan and Korea) South-east Asia may be the next big thing in contemporary dance mayo@mediacorp.com.sg IT WAS like "dancing in the dinner hall at Club Mcd". That's how dancer Lee Mun Wai described last month's rehearsals
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      Lock icon Wild Things made my heart sing
      754 28  -  BRUCE HANDY THENEWYORKTIMES ADULT EDUCATION Are vgood children's books' loved more by adults than the kiddies they were intended for? MY 10-YEAR-OLD son Isaac and I were at some kid movie enduring the antic coming attractions, when a trailer came on for Spike Jonze's
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      408 29 .AGENCIES BOYZONE DEATH Ronan Keating and the guys in Majorca after sudden death of Stephen Gately MAJORCA (Spain) Grieving members of Boyzone have arrived on the Spanish island of Majorca following the sudden death there of band member Stephen Gately. Ronan Keating, Keith
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      496 30  -  MAYO MARTIN LOCALTHEATRE Two productions offer unusual approaches to vhigh-art' shows mayo@mediacorp.com.sg DAUNTED by musicals or operas? Don't scared, don't scared. Theatre company Stages' new production, Broadway 4 Suakus will make you feel like the ground zero for musical theatre in New York is "just around
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      720 31  -  EVELINE GAN WORKOUT WOES Improper exercise can do more harm than good eveline@mediacorp.com.sg MR CHNG Poh Choon had been experiencing a dull, nagging pain around his neck and right hand for six years. He attributed it to a "blood circulation problem" and started on an exercise regime that
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      440 32 THEDAILYTELEGRAPH HAVING shingles increases the risk of suffering a stroke within the next year by almost a third, according to a new study. And those who have had a rare form of shingles affecting the eye were four times more likely to suffer a stroke,
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      259 32 QUERY FROM DOREEN LAM I am 42 years old. For the past two years, my voice has been sounding a little lower than usual as though I am having blocked nose. Lately, phlegm has been building up around my throat and I've lost my sense of taste.
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      635 33  -  HE PEIWEN Eu Van Sang bottles bird's nest with a twist brewed in aromatic floral teas hepeiwen@mediacorp.com.sg LEGEND has it that Cleopatra was so taken by roses, she had her palace floors covered with rose petals and made sure that the mattress she laid on was stuffed with
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      758 35 AGENCIES PRESIDENTS CUP It's a perfect week for world No 1 Woods, as US retain their title SAN FRANCISCO Once inside the ropes, he is all business. There is no debating that point about Tiger Woods, no matter the venue, the stakes, the size ofthe trophy. When the
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      252 35 AGENCIES SAN FRANCISCO Aussie Robert Allenby thought he might be in for an easy Presidents Cup singles match on Sunday when he heard that his American opponent Anthony Kirn had spent the previous night out on the town. But International team member Allenby
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      439 36  -  SHAMIR OSMAN SINGAPORE FOOTBALL Dune will consider his future after ensuring SAFFC win their fourth title GREAT EASTERN-YEO'S S-LEAGUE 2009 SAFFC v Super Reds Choa Chu Kang Stadium, 7.45pm shamir@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE—The Indonesian Super League (ISL) has already snared four Lions, while a fifth (Precious Emuejeraye) has
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      60 36 Veteran Home United skipper S Subramani enjoyed a half-time tribute from his teammates, during the Protectors' S-League clash with Sengkang Punggol at Clementi Stadium. The former Lions' defender is a centurion, having received 113 caps for the national team. The tough-as-nails defender won three Asean
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      251 36  -  LOW LIN FHOONG linfhoong@mediacorp.com. sg SINGAPORE Top female paddler FengTianwei's hopes of reaching her first final at the Volkswagen Women's World Cup in Guangzhou were dashed yesterday morning afterthe 23-year-old Singaporean succumbed 4-2 (8-11,11-5,10-12,11-8, 6-11, 8--11) to world No 2 Guo Yue of China in
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      801 37  -  LEONARD THOMAS POINTOFVIEW sports editor leonard@mediacorp.com.sg It's going to be World Cup time soon, and Brazil will be well wary of Germany THEY are always part of the narrative, appearing in grainy black and white newsreels and in the splendid colour of modern television, men wearing
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      292 37 AGENCIES MADRID Real Madrid striker Cristiano Ronaldo's injured right ankle will keep him out for three or four weeks, Spanish media reported yesterday. Madrid-based Marca listed all the matches the world's most expensive player will miss, including Champions League ties against AC Milan on
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        Lock icon A RETURN TO SILVERSTONE?
        108 38 THE GUARDIAN Bernie Ecclestone, who owns Fi's commerical rights, has cleared the way for the British Grand Prix to return to Silverstone next season if plans for Donington Park to take over fall through. He appeared to set Donington a final deadline in which to generate
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        104 38 THE DAILYTELEGRAPH Felipe Massa said he felt he could complete "two races straight after each other" after climbing back into the cockpit of an Fi car for the first time since his life-threatening accident in July. "It went very well," Massa said of his rain-hit
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      305 38 THE GUARDIAN AFTERNOON LATEST Burden of pressure has blighted current crop of English footballers: Lampard LONDON England's players consider themselves blighted by their reputation as the "golden generation" a moniker first granted them by the former chief executive of the Football Association Adam Crozier and Frank
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      141 38 THE DAILYTELEGRAPH TURIN Italy captain Fabio Cannavaro has criticised the press after he was officially cleared of any wrongdoing over a failed drugs test. Cannavaro tested positive for the banned substance cortisone after taking a medicine to treat an insect sting in August, and the national
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      434 39 AGENCIES 2010 WORLD CUP QUALIFIERS Capello backs Ferdinand as criticism of British defender grows LONDON Manchester United forward Wayne Rooney has withdrawn from England's squad to face Belarus in tomorrow's (Thursday morning, Singapore time) final World Cup qualifier, it emerged yesterday. He sustained a calf
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      191 39 AFP SYDNEY Former world No 1 Justine Henin has been granted a wildcard to play in the 2010 Australian Open, organisers said yesterday. The 27-year-old Belgian, who won the Australian Open in 2004, announced last month she was ending her self-imposed retirement
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      34 35 SPORTS ON TV TODAY 8.30 am NFL New York Jets v Miami Dolphins, Ch 117 2pm Tennis Shanghai Masters, Ch 22 SPORTS ON RADIO 6.35am-n.3spm Sports Zone Minutes Hourly Sports updates live on cySL/ve
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      210 37 S.League SAFFC Super Reds Tue, 13/10/09 7.45pm Asian Cup Australia Oman Wed, 14/10/09 4.30pm International Football Japan Togo Wed, 14/10/09 6.30pm International Football Korea Republic Senegal Wed, 14/10/09 7.00pm S.League Tampines Young Lions Wed, 14/10/09 7.45pm World Cup Germany Finland Thu, 15/10/09 12.00 am World Cup France Austria Thu, 15/10/09
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      478 40  -  SHERMAINEWONG SINGAPORE MEDIA AWARDS 2009 THE Singapore Media Awards (SMA) 2009, which pays tribute to innovative advertising and the talents behind these works, was held two weeks ago. Organised by the Association of Accredited Advertising Agents Singapore (4As), the SMA demonstrates how the nedia and
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      486 40  -  SHERMAINEWONG IT ISN'T something that many women talk about, let alone feel happy about. But feminine care brand Whisper wants to change all that with its "Happy It's Here!" campaign. Launched in August, the ongoing initiative is targeted at young women. According to Ms Cynthia Lam,
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      584 41  -  WILLIAM PESEK POINTOFVIEW JAPAN It's buyer's remorse, Japanstyle. A month after naming Mr Shizuka Kamei financial services minister, Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama must be wondering what he was thinking. His attempts to impress investors are being scuttled by Mr Kamei's apparent contempt for them. Hanging in the
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      288 42 BLOOMBERG SEOUL Lotte Shopping, South Korea's biggest department store owner, is said to be in talks to buy control of Chinese supermarket operator Times, rivalling a bid from Wumart Stores. Seoul-based Lotte is in discussions to pay cash
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      447 42 BLOOMBERG THE GREENBACK Currency reaches breaking point as banks shift reserves WASHINGTON Central banks flush with record reserves are increasingly snubbing dollars in favour of euros and yen, further pressuring the greenback after its biggest two-quarter rout in almost two decades. Policy makers boosted foreign
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      420 44  -  DESMOND WONG CHANNEL NEWSASIA SINGAPORE BANKS But more conservative banks expected to do better desmondwong@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Banks here are likely to see some revenue growth in the coming third quarter results season. However, analysts believe that their net profits are expected to remain
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      291 44 938 LIVE SINGAPORE Home-grown Jason Marine Group is the latest company to embark on a fundraising exercise amid the improving sentiment in the capital market. A provider of integrated solutions of a wide range of marine communication, navigation and automation systems, the
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        136 44 938 LIVE Singapore Technologies Engineering has paid $17.57 million for a 33-per-cent stake in Singapore Airshow and Events (SAE) and is nowthe single largest shareholder of the company. The other shareholders of SAE are the Defence Science and Technology Agency with 17
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        123 44 A unit of Singapore-listed engineering firm Asiatic has agreed to take a 30-per-cent stake in a joint venture company to develop the group's first biomass power plant in Malaysia. The group expects to invest about US$2.9 million ($4 million) in the company, Maju
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      318 45 BLOOMBERG SINGAPORE Singapore Press Holdings (SPH) yesterday reported that full-year profit fell 3.6 per cent amid a slump in advertising spending. Net income fell to $421.9 million, or 26 cents a share, in the year ended Aug 31, from $437.4 million, or
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      417 45  -  NG BAOYING ECONOMIC GROWTH Upbeat Q3 economic data released yesterday baoying@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE More economists are upgrading their forecast for Singapore's full year growth following the upbeat third quarter economic data which was released yesterday. In line with the Government's full year growth upgrade, private sector economists
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          108 46 S&P hits l-year high US stocks mostly rose amid market confidence on earnings of blue chip companies, in line with expectations of economic recovery from the long and brutal recession. The Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed 20.86 points (0.21 per cent) to end at 9,885.80, a new closing
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          61 46 Up 2.1 percent Crude oil traded near a sevenweek high in New York on optimism fuel demand will increase amid improved prospects for an economic recovery in the US. New York's main contract, light sweet crude for delivery in November, ended US$l.5O higher to U5573.27 a barrel. London's
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          66 46 Strong rallies Europe's main stock markets rallied after Dutch electronics giant Philips reported encouraging earnings and Britain unveiled plans for a massive sell-off of state assets to reduce its debt London's FTSE 100 index closed up 0.94 per cent to 5,210.17 points, the Paris CAC 40 index gained
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          55 46 Waiting on results The US dollar was mixed as investors looked ahead to Q3 earnings reports for more clues on the state of the economy. The euro inched up to U551.4776 in late trading from the U551.4709 on Friday. The pound fell to U551.5786 from U551.5835, while the US
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        537 46  -  CHEOWXINYI SIJORI RESORTCLUB cheowxinyi@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE More than 200 disgruntled individuals who took up memberships with the former Sijori Resort Club in Sentosa have filed a class action lawsuit against the new owners for breach of contract. The writ of summons against Treasure Resort and its sister
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        293 46 BLOOMBERG NEW YORK Borrowers have sold more than US$l trillion ($1.4 trillion) in United States corporate bonds in 2009, the fastest pace on record, taking advantage of lower rates and government support to bolster cash holdings after last year's credit freeze. Citigroup, the third-larg-est
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