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  • 20 1 TODAY Thursday October 15, 2009 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking TODAY Thursday October 15, 2009 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking
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  • 149 1 2 Full-time school counsellors were introduced to much fanfare in 2005. Now students appear to have little confidence in their effectiveness. 6 Joseph Estrada, ousted as Philippines President in a military-backed revolt eight years ago, intends to contest the presidential election next year. (2 More than half
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  • 849 1  -  ESTHER NG LABOUR MOVEMENT Unionists back cheaper, better, faster mission but have concerns estherng@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE How the labour movement has performed in keeping both unemployment and record layoffs at bay has been a relief for unionists and workers. But it is the
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  • 581 1 AGENCIES KUALA LUMPUR Unlike his predecessor, Umno Youth leader Khairy Jamaluddin did not raise the controversial keris during the wing's annual meeting yesterday. And he made remarks that were likely to go down well with many non-Malays, such as his call for Malays to end
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  • NEWS
    • 458 2  -  LEONGWEEKEAT SCHOOL COUNSELLING SCHEME They fear stigma, don't believe their problems are kept confidential: Survey weekeat@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE On Monday, a Primary 5 boy revealed to a school counsellor that he had not only picked up smoking, but also sniffed glue on two occasions. "I felt
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    • 309 3 calls last year than a year ago. Relationship, social and psychological problems were the top three concerns for those aged between 10 and 19. "Callers have control as they can end calls anytime. They don't have to reveal their identities and feel more secure talking to a stranger," said
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    • 142 3  -  TEOXUANWEI An 11-year-old boy fell to his death yesterday afternoon. The Primary 5 pupil from Sengkang Primary School is understood to have gone to a nearby block of flats after school and fallen from the 16th floor. He was found in his school
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    • 697 5  -  ALICIA WONG MEDICAL STUDENTS Those who opt to do so will get more structured postgrad medical training alicia@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Come next May, medical students will be allowed to choose between starting speciality training immediately after graduation and continuing with the standard one-year housemanship. And
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    • 380 6 AGENCIES PHILIPPINE PRESIDENCY The former President is confident of victory MANILA Eight years ago, he was ousted as President of the Philippines in a mili-tary-backed revolt, following accusations of corruption. But Mr Joseph Estrada, who was once a popular movie star, said he intends to contest
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    • 150 6 AGENCIES Former President Joseph Estrada will face two strong opposition contenders representing other parties in next year's elections. They are Senator Benigno Aquino 111, the son of late democracy icon Corazon Aquino, and billionaire property developer Senator Manny Villar. Mr Aquino yesterday topped an independent survey
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    • 294 6 AFP TAIPEI Taiwan has carried out its largest missile exercise ever, less than a fortnight after China showed off advanced ballistic weaponry in a massive National Day parade, local media said yesterday. The missiles were launched on Tuesday from the secretive and tightly-guarded Chiupeng
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    • 461 8 PROFESSIONAL MISCONDUCT Cosmetic surgeon fined $s ooo for a not "generally accepted' procedure SINGAPORE For patients who wanted to look younger, he performed on them cell therapy, which involved injections of animal foetal cells to combat ageing, at his upmarket Orchard Road clinic. But in
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    • 316 8 938LIVE, CHANNEL NEWSASIA SINGAPORE More workers died or were disabled on the job in the first six months of this year, despite efforts by the Government and companies to make worksites less dangerous. In their latest report, the Manpower Ministry (MOM) and the Workplace
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    • 252 8 SINGAPORE The Singapore Rebel may have been given the green light to be shown here, but the ban still remains on another Martyn See film Zahari's 17 years. Mr See had submitted a request to the Ministry of Information, Communications and the Arts (Mica) to
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    • 250 10 SINGAPORE With the Media Development Authority (MDA) helping to develop and deploy up to 24 game titles over the next three years, memorising the periodic table in chemistry could soon become child's play for students. At least $6 million will be
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    • 570 10 PUBLIC HOUSING Over 20,000 apply for 2,132 flats in HDB #s new Sale of Balance Flats SINGAPORE If you were one of the 1,022 who applied for a four-room flat in Sengkang as of spm yesterday, your chances aren't good in fact, they are a
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    • SINGAPORE ROUNDUP
      • 119 12 This Saturday, the Istana grounds will be open to the public in celebration of Deepavali. Opening hours are from 8.30am to 6pm. School bands from Nan Hua Primary and Zhonghua Secondary will perform, while PA Talents will put up an Indian dance. Visitors can also get close
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      • 82 12 Police have arrested a 63-year-old man in connection with the death of a 46-year-old man in hospital early yesterday morning. The younger man was taken to hospital at about 3.25 am, and succumbed to his injuries at 4.15 am. Police were notified, and investigations revealed he had
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      • 96 12 938LIVE Republic Polytechnic will be offering a new Diploma in Renewable Energy Engineering from the next academic year, to help meet rising demand for manpower in the green energy sector. The diploma will focus on the application of clean and renewable energy systems in green buildings. Students
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    • 476 12  -  ZULOTHMAN ADDITIONAL REPORTS FROM AGENCIES PI RACY AT SEA But Australia's Inspector of Transport Security says this vis a modest concern' zul@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Even though sea pirates are stepping up their activities in the straits of Malacca and Singapore, this "is a modest concern",
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    • 252 12 938LIVE SINGAPORE A new fund has been set up to aid navigational safety and marine protection along the straits of Singapore and Malacca. The International Maritime Organisation Trust Fund was launched yesterday at the Second Co-operative Forum, which was hosted by Singapore and
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    • 292 14  -  ONG DAILIN SINGAPORE He will die "quite speedily" in prison if he is sentenced to a jail term, a doctor who has been treating wheelchairbound businessmanJagbir Singh for 19 years told the court yesterday. Dr Edward Menon, the medical director
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    • 334 14  -  ONG DAI LIN MOSQUE FIRE SUSPECT dailin@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Just two days before he allegedly set fire to the Kampong Siglap Mosque last Tuesday, the 14-year-old boy charged with that act was discovered in the act of another crime at an old folks' home. The
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  • WORLD
    • 254 16 AGENCIES ULEE LHEUE (Indonesia) Sirens wailed and crowds fled across Indian Ocean nations yesterday in a mass drill simulating a giant tsunami similar to the one in 2004 that killed about 220,000 people. The Hawaii-based Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre and the Japan Meteorological Agency sent out
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    • 290 16 AGENCIES NUCLEAR STANDOFF SEOUL North Korea called yesterday for a peace pact with the United States, saying this was a "most reasonable and practical" way to end the long standoff over its nuclear weapons programme. "A peace accord should be concluded between (North Korea)
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    • 135 16 1 AFP North Korea yesterday expressed regret over the deaths of six South Koreans who were swept away by a cross-border flood, in a rare admission of blame by the hardline communist state. Seoul's presidential office welcomed the statement as a "positive signal" that relations were thawing
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    • 172 18 AP HANOI Vietnam evacuated some 30,000 people along its northern coast as Tropical Storm Parma approached after leaving more than 300 people dead in the Philippines and China. The government's National Weather Forecast Centre says the storm was expected to be downgraded to a tropical depression
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    • 246 18 AGENCIES INDIA-CHINA RELATIONS NEW DELHI India yesterday criticised China for helping Islamabad set up projects in Pakistan-administered Kashmir, a day after a fresh row broke out between the Asian giants over a disputed northeastern territory. "The Chinese side is fully aware of India's position and our concerns
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    • 236 18 AP BANGKOK A part-time taxi driver confessed to the gruesome murder of a 5-year-old boy, saying he shot, decapitated and dismembered him after a lover's quarrel with his mother, whom he also murdered. The child's body parts were discovered on
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    • 216 20 AFP TERROR CRACKDOWN JAKARTA —A suspected Indonesian extremist linked to slain terror leader Noordin Mohammed Top has surrendered to the authorities, police said yesterday. Ahfam Ramadan, a 23-year-old university student, surrendered after being pursued in a massive crackdown following July's double suicide bombings at luxury
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    • 145 20 AGENCIES ZAMBOANGA (Philippines) A "notorious" pirate leader in the southern Philippines kidnapped an elderly Irish priest, and may have passed him on to rebels as part of a ransom plot, said the military yesterday. Reverend Michael Sinnott, 79, who has spent about 40 years
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    • 589 23 AP NOBELJURY OSLO One judge noted with surprise that United States President Barack Obama "didn't look particularly happy" at being named the Nobel Peace Prize laureate. Another marvelled at how critics could be so patronising. In a rare public defence of a process normally shrouded
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    • GLOBAL ROUNDUP
      • 77 23 AP United States President BarackObama won an important victory on Tuesday as a pivotal Senate panel endorsed a Bill to overhaul the US health care system. And in a hopeful sign for MrObama, one Republican Ms Olympia Snowe —joined the 13 Democrats on the
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      • 62 23 AFP Nepali KhagendraThapa Magar (picture), thought to be the world's smallest living man at only 56cm, has turned 18 and hopes to be officially recognised for his record size. Four years ago, MrThapa had his application for a Guinness World Record forthe
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    • 565 24  -  ROSS DOUTHAT THE NEWYORKTIMES POINTOFVIEW Obama is doing himself no favours by accepting the Nobel Peace Prize THIS was Barack Obama's chance. Here was an opportunity to cut himself free, in a stroke, from the baggage that's weighed his presidency down the messianic hoo-ha, the gap between
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    • 187 26 AFP SAN FRANCISCO American soft drink giant PepsiCo has apologised for a free iPhone application crafted to help men seduce women and keep records of conquests. The app, however, remained available on Tuesday. Pepsi's "AMP up before you score" iPhone application categorises women into
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    • 234 26 AFP SUDDEN INFANT DEATHS Co-sleeping the key culprit: Study PARIS More than half the sudden infant deaths reviewed in a study released yesterday occurred while the babies shared a bed or sofa with a parent. The incidence of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (Sids) increased when the adult
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    • 175 28 AP MOSCOW A Russian court ruled against Josef Stalin's grandson on Tuesday in a libel suit over a newspaper article that said the Soviet dictator sent thousands of people to their deaths. A judge at a Moscow district court rejected Mr Yevgeny
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    • 297 28 THEGUARDIAN FASCIST SURPRISE LONDON History remembers Benito Mussolini as a founder member of the original Axis of Evil, the Italian dictator who ruled his country with fear and forged a disastrous alliance with Nazi Germany. But a previously unknown area of II Duce's CV has come
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    • GLOBAL ROUNDUP
      • 104 28 AGENCIES The United Nations and the Council of Europe are pushing for an international treaty to combat the sale of human organs for transplant. In a report, they say the extent of the illegality has not been well documented. UN and council officials presented
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      • 83 28 AP President Nicolas Sarkozy suggested on Tuesday that his 23-year-old son had been thrown to the wolves by critics since he launched a bid for a job overseeing France's biggest business district. Critics say Mr Jean Sarkozy, a law student, is too inexperienced. His candidacy has
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  • voices
    • 338 30  -  Verena Tan WET MARKETS VS SUPERMARKETS Letter from WHILE I am not as eloquent as Mr Cheng Shoong Tat ("Not a free for all", Oct 14), I would like to lend my voice to the chorus in support of preserving our wet
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    • 185 30  -  Tan Lay Choo Letter from Chief Executive, Singapore Examination and Assessment Board (SEAB) WE REFER to Mrs Koh's letter ,"Was Chinese passage a reproduction?" (Oct 13). The SEAB has in place a due process to ensure that all examination questions are carefully set and vetted
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    • 172 32  -  DR JAMES DOBSON ,,,,BY RECOGNISING MENTAL ILLNESS Every parent of a teenager may wonder at some point if their son or daughter has gone crazy. How can you tell the difference between normal behaviour and the beginnings of mental illness? Dr Paul Meier explains that all teenagers exhibit
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    • 239 32  -  RachelleTea CUSTOMS ETIQUETTE Officers were rude and made me unbutton shirt in full view of public Letter from I FOUND myself humiliated when I went through the Tuas checkpoint last Wednesday at about 6.30am. I noted that the officer on duty had spoken very rudely
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    • 342 32  -  Chia Hui Keng Letter from Head, Public Internal Communications Branch, Corporate Communications Division, Immigration Checkpoints Authority WE REFER to the letter "The Woodlands bottleneck" (Oct 6) by Chua Kheng Yeow. On Oct 3, the Woodlands Checkpoint experienced a high traffic volume from 10.30pm till after
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      • 161 38 AFP A FILM studio and Rio de Janeiro have offered almost US$l7 million ($23.7 million) to American film director Woody Allen to work his celluloid magic in the fabled Marvellous City. The offer was made last week when Allen's sister and film producer Letty
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      • 596 40  -  MAYSEAH POINTOFVIEW What happens when you're too pretty? may@mediacorp.com.sg SO YOU thought David Gan was just a celebrity hair stylist. Well, now it seems he's a celebrity hair stylist and a seer. A while ago, when I interviewed David, I asked the little bald harbinger of style
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      • 481 44 AP DAMIEN HIRST Britain's vmorbid bad boy picks up the paintbrushes DAMIEN Hirst has made a fortune and become an art world brand by peering at life's dark side. Rows of skulls stare sightless from deep blue backgrounds in the new exhibition by the man who
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    • 653 50 To boldly go SHORTHAULSPECIAL :ADVENTURE Find ancient Asia in Cambodia's far off province of Rattanikiri by Kris Leßoutillier RATTANIKIRI isn't easy to get to. Far in Cambodia's north-east corner, the province is a day's ride by car from Phnom Penh. There is no direct flight to Banlung, the main town.
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    • 256 56 FUTURE OF COACH TRAVEL Some 3 million people from Singapore travel to Malaysia by bus every year. If you're one of them, it's worthwhile to know what you can look forward to during the ride north. If you're not, the eight top-of-the-line coaches displayed at Travel Malaysia 2009
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    • 420 57 AP ASIAROOMS.COM, Agoda.com, Hotel Club.com, Trip Advisor. com there's a constellation of hotel-sorting websites to help travellers find accommodation to match their budget. But other, less well-known sites can also steer you toward exceptional hotel deals or experiences around the world. Some specialise in boutique
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  • sports
    • 500 60  -  SHAMIROSMAN SINGAPORE FOOTBALL Duric confirms move to Indonesia, but not before helping SAFFC to S-League title shamir@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Some footballers start looking for a retirement-club when they cross the age of 34, to start winding down their career. But not Aleksandar Duric, arguably the most consummate professional
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    • 284 60  -  SHAMIR OSMAN SINGAPORE -Tampines Rovers' title aspirations disappeared after they fell 1-0 at home to the Young Lions in last night's Great Eastern-Yeo's S-League 2009 match. With three games left in the season, the Stags trail SAFCC by 10
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    • 415 61  -  LOWLINFHOONG linfhoong@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Youth Olympic Games hopefuls from around the world will be speeding along Singapore's city streets at the OCBC Cycle Singapore on March 6 and 7. Revealing this at a media briefing yesterday, event organiser Spectrum Worldwide said the 50km Super Challenge will
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    • 593 61  -  lAN DE COTTA SINGAPORE SPORTS Teen Stefan, thrower Wong aim for SEA Games gold ian@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The Republic can hope for two athletics gold medals at December's SEA Games in Laos, if the confidence of triple jumper Stefan Tseng and discus thrower James Wong
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    • 218 61 lANDECOTTA SINGAPORE Ten days after collapsing from a heart attack during a veteran's match at the Jalan Besar Stadium, Singapore football legend Dollah Kassim remains in a coma. Doctors treating him at the Tan Tock Seng Hospital (TTSH) said in a statement yesterday that
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    • 599 62  -  SHAMIR OSMAN SINGAPORE FOOTBALL Sivaji admits Protectors have had a poor year, as he vows to turn things around GREAT EASTERN-YEO'S S-LEAGUE 2009 Geylang United v Home United Bedok Stadium, 7.45pm shamir@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE It hasn't been the best of seasons for Home United,
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    • 347 62  -  SHAMIR OSMAN GREAT EASTERN-YEO'S S-LEAGUE 2009 Balestier Khalsa v Woodlands Wellington Toa Payoh Stadium, 7.45pm SINGAPORE Four losses on the trot is hardly confidence inspiring, and players' fears of possibly being out of contract next season haven't helped Woodlands Wellington in recent months.
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    • 453 63 AGENCIES GOLF After a battle with cancer, he wants to play in British Open LONDON Don't cry for me. That's the message from legendary Spanish golfer Seve Ballesteros, who survived four operations to remove a brain tumour after collapsing 12 months ago. The 52-year-old, who spent 22
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    • 290 63 THEDAILYTELEGRAPH LONDON Lewis Hamilton and Felipe Massa's rain battle in Brazil last year is one of the sport's greatest moments, so the British Formula 1 world champion is well versed to give Jenson Button a few timely tips with a baying
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    • 657 64 AGENCIES INTERNATIONAL FOOTBALL Argentina at a crossroads under Maradona, who relies more on prayer than plans BUENOS AIRES One story about Diego Maradona is that when he was a toddler, squeezed with his large family into a three-room shack in a poor neighbourhood of Buenos Aires,
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    • 312 64 AGENCIES LONDON Sven-Goran Eriksson is understood to have turned down an offer from North Korea to become their technical adviser for next year's World Cup. The former England manager, currently Notts County's director of football, was approached by the North Korean FA, but has
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    • 626 66  -  DANIEL TUBBS ANALYSIS newsifpmediacorp.com. sg THE record-breaking performance of global emerging markets in the second quarter clearly indicates that investors are pricing in a global recovery. Emerging economies are outperforming other regions due to a combination of structural reasons and strong fundamentals.
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  • BUSINESS
    • 355 68 BLOOMBERG HONG KONG LAND SUPPLY Tsang: Govt may release more land for housing HONG KONG Hong Kong Chief Executive Donald Tsang said the government may revise its policy to speed up land supply to prevent a potential property bubble created by a scarcity of supply
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    • 242 68 BLOOMBERG KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia's economy may shrink less this year than previously forecast amid signs of a global recovery The Malaysian Institute of Economic Research (Mier) said that South-east Asia's third-largest economy will probably contract 3.3 per cent in 2009. In a report released today,
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    • 246 68 BLOOMBERG PARIS France's lawmakers passed a Bill yesterday that aims to authorise online poker and end a government-controlled monopoly on Internet horse-racing and sports betting from next year. The proposed legislation, which still needs to be adopted by the Senate, creates a regulator which will
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    • 486 70 BLOOMBERG BANK OF JAPAN TOKYO The Bank of Japan (BoJ) has held the benchmark interest rate near zero. It also would not say if it would end its emergency programmes of buying corporate debt from lenders. Governor Masaaki Shirakawa and his colleagues voted to keep the key
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    • 313 70 BLOOMBERG BEIJING China Petroleum and Chemical Corp's profit from turning crude into fuels fell in the third quarter because of higher oil costs. An official familiar with operations at Asia's biggest refiner said that margins were narrower between July and last month, compared with the
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    • 915 72 BLOOMBERG JAPAN'S FUNERAL INDUSTRY TOKYO Death is a growth industry in Japan and everyone from railway companies to retailers wants a slice. Japan's US$lB billion ($25 billion) funeral industry is expanding as the nation's population ages faster than any other nation. The number of
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    • 182 73 938LIVE SINGAPORE The lifestyle furniture group, Lorenzo International, has opened a new $14 million plant in China which it says will boost its production capacity. The new factory, in China's Jiangsu province, manufactures both wood-based furniture and leather upholstery collections. With the new plant, the Singapore
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    • 321 73  -  RACHEL KELLY JURONG ISLAND KILO LAB rachel@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE A new laboratory has been officially opened in Singapore with the ability to carry out testing in big quantities. Known as a kilo lab, this facility, which is located in Jurong Island, is expected to help
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    • 216 73 DESMOND WONG, CHANNEL NEWSASIA SINGAPORE Inflation is unlikely to pose a threat to the budding global recovery, as it's expected to remain low for at least the next few years. As a result, interest rates will remain depressed across Western economies, some analysts said.
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    • STOCK CALLS
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      • 56 74 7 cents I Buy DMG starts call with 10.5 cents target price, based on 0.7X P/B ratio. Says DVD maker benefitted from demise of small players following intensive competition. Notes Swing Media is also venturing into solar business, with recent acquisition of China-based company specialising in installing
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      • 85 74 $1.04 I Buy DBS Vickers maintains call with $1.36 target price "on the back of favorable steel prices and on-track delivery. Adds Chinabased shipbuilder expected to report stellar Q3'o9 results similar to Q2'o9. Tips Q3'o9 earnings of 550 to 600 million yuan ($122 million) versus 475.3 million yuan a
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      • 27 74 Hang Seng 21,886.48 A 1.95% Nikkei 10,060.21 T 0.16% Shanghai 2,970.53 A 1.17% Seoul 1,649.09 A 1.24% Mumbai 17,231.11 A 1.20% Malaysia 1,246.84 A 1-08%
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    • 509 74  -  TAN HUI LENG PRICEWARS huileng@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The playing field for the three local telecom giants has been raised a notch, as competition between them is expected to intensify in coming months. Analysts believe that the recent mega deals such as SingTel's coup in securing the English
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