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  • 21 1 TODAY Wednesday October 21, 200 9 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking TODAY Wednesday October 21, 2009 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking
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    • 138 1 6 The first of 11 million jabs of the HINI vaccine were administered this morning in the UK, with Germany and Spain set to follow suit soon. C O Sir Alex stormed out *J^J of a press conference ahead of Manchester United's Champs League match in Moscow when
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    • 417 1  -  ALICIA WONG alicia@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Doctors were unhappy when they heard in January that legal eagles could preside over their disciplinary hearings. This was meant to raise public confidence that independent adjudicators would hear out patients' claims. Now, the doctors' voices have been heard. There
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    • 561 2 AGENCIES JAKARTA The presence of many foreign representatives at his second inauguration is a sign of Indonesia's positive position in the world, said President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono after he was sworn in for another five-year term yesterday (picture). "Indonesia is facing a strategic environment
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    • 209 2 CHANNEL NEWSASIA JAKARTA Indonesia needs to work out the problems relating to foreign investments in order to attract more money from overseas, said Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong yesterday. "Indonesia has grown very steadily... but the investments have not been as high
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    • 714 3  -  SHOEB KAGDA IN JAKARTA POINTOFVIEW THE next five years could herald a new Golden Age for post-Suharto Indonesia. Following his thumping victory in the July presidential elections, MrSusilo Bambang Yudhoyono has released a Cabinet line-up that has been cheered by market players and businessmen
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    • 469 4  -  LAW SOCIETY ELECTIONS Apathy, sense of disconnect in profession, say lawyers ANSLEYNG ansley@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Is apathy taking root in the law profession? Or are its champions not doing enough? Those were some of the possible implications after the Law Society's annual elections last week received
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    • 392 4  -  LEONGWEEKEAT weekeat@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The meeting between employment agents and the chief editor of an influential Bengali newspaper was supposed to clear the air over yet-to-be published allegations of foreign workers being deceived into coming to work here. But last Saturday's pow-wow at
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    • 424 6 .AFP AFTERNOON LATEST LONDON The British government launched a mass vaccination programme to prevent the further spread of swine flu this morning, with officials urging healthcare workers and at-risk patients to be first in line. The jab will be available to more than 11 million
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    • 249 6  -  AP, ONG DAI LIN SINGAPORE After falling three places last year, Singapore has rebounded up the Press Freedom Index compiled by Reporters Without Borders. It moved up from 144 th spot to 133 rd, just shy of Thailand (130 rd) and Malaysia (131 st). Five
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    • 111 8 AFP Myanmar has scuttled a plan by fellow members of the Association of South-east Asian Nations to issue a public appeal seeking amnesty for detained pro-democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi. "They rejected it two months ago," said a Southeast Asian diplomat. Asean leaders will
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    • 566 8  -  SRAMESH .CHANNEL NEWSASIA GEORGE YEO ON ASEAN rameshs@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The Association of South-east Asian Nations (Asean) is looking at enhancing connectivity among its members, as well as with China and India, by road and rail. This is one key issue to be discussed when Asean
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    • 329 10  -  DYLAN LOH 938 LIVE HYBRID OPERATINGTHEATRE dylanloh@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Care for highrisk heart patients looks set to improve with the new hybrid operating theatre at the National Heart Centre (NHC) the first in Singapore. In it, doctors can convert an angioplasty, a minimally invasive procedure to
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    • SINGAPORE ROUNDUP
      • 121 10 CHANNEL NEWSASIA Between October last year and last month, 136 youth were arrested for loanshark-related harassment activities. Almost half were students, said Education Minister Ng Eng Hen. In a written reply to a question from backbencher Lee Bee Wah, Dr Ng said the reasons for school
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      • 167 10 They are elderly, poor, living alone, divorced or widowed, or in poor health and there are 30,000 of them in Singapore. These are the numbers at risk of social isolation, said Minister for Community Development, Youth and Sports Vivian Balakrishnan as he gave
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    • 310 12  -  NEOCHAICHIN THE KIDS HAVE SPOKEN S #porean kids watch more TV than they go online: Survey chaichin@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Singapore has one of the highest Internet penetration rates in the world, but for children here, television still trumps the Web. In a survey, 64 per cent of
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    • 242 12 CHANNEL NEWSASIA SINGAPORE Businesses that help the disadvantaged and the needy are getting some help themselves. The Social Enterprise Association was launched yesterday to provide these businesses with opportunities for networking and mentors hip to develop the sector. It is important to help it succeed, said
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    • 202 14 SINGAPORE The Government "cares about Singapore's branding", but it sees no need to regulate beauty pageants. This is because these pageants are run as businesses, and "market discipline" is imposed by sponsors, noted Trade and Industry Minister Lim Hng Kiang. He was
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    • 206 14 MIXED UNIONS SINGAPORE Four per cent of marriages between a Singapore citizen and a foreigner in 2004, ended after five years. That's under the 6-per-cent divorce figure for all marriages contracted in 2004. As a proportion of the total number of divorces last year, split-ups between
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    • 201 14 SINGAPORE The Park and Ride Scheme, which encourages drivers to make public transport a part of their daily commute, is being revamped. For one, the Land Transport Authority (LTA) is working with the housing board to increase the number of park-and-ride lots at the more
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      • 120 16 Singapore's position as a traditional medicine hub is set to be enhanced as it plays host to the first Traditional Medicine Expo (TMExpo) from Dec 4 to 6. Traditional medicine organisations from the region will showcase the latest in patent medicine, raw herbs, herbal
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      • 124 16 CHANNEL NEWSASIA Singapore Customs has charged a local logistics company and a man for abetting the false declaration of the country of origin of goods that were exported out of Singapore. In doing so, they violated the Regulation of Imports and Exports Act (Rica). Goodwind Transport
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      • 147 16 The Singapore Police Force (SPF) is conducting exercises at Tuas today, and from Friday to Sunday. The following roads will be closed from Friday, gam to Sunday, Bam: Tuas South Aye 9 (between Tuas South Aye 6 and the end of Tuas South Aye 9) •Tuas
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      • 99 16 More Singaporeans are willing to adopt a clean and green lifestyle, according to a recent survey by the National Environment Agency. About 87 per cent of respondents said they would adopt more environmentally-friendly practices, up from 85.5 per cent in 2007. Some 1,546 respondents
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    • 42 16 WAVES FISHBYTE On Saturday, 120 amateur fishermen sailed to the southern islands to compete for the biggest overnight catch in Singapore's largest competition of its kind to date. The winner was Mr Richard Li, who caught a 12-kg grouper.
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    • 302 16  -  RIZSUNAWAN PROJECT HOPE riz@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE They sang their hearts out and took the calls, and their hard work on Monday night netted $1.3 million so far for MediaCorp's fundraising event, Project Hope. Donations poured in as soon as the phone lines opened, as more than
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    • 156 12 NEWSTHAT'S IMPORTANT, ACCORDING TO KIDS In Cartoon Network's regional survey, 2,139 children were asked to pick the news item they thought was the most important. NEWS PERCENTAGE NEWS PERCENTAGE 1 Spread of HINI virus 24 5 Nuclear weapons threat 11 2 Environmental issues 14 6 Poverty 9 3 Terrorism 14
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  • WORLD
    • 345 18 THE MALAYSIAN INSIDER MALAYSIAN POLITICS KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin yesterday signalled the growing impatience of the United Malays National Organisation (Umno) with its coalition partner, the Malaysian Chinese Association (MCA) over its leadership crisis. He pointed out that the party
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    • 187 18 THE MALAYSIAN INSIDER KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia is planning to have Primary 1 students start learning mathematics and science in Bahasa Malaysia from 2011 a year ahead of schedule. This follows the failure of the government's English policy. However, Deputy Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin, who
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    • 137 18 THE MALAYSIAN INSIDER PUTRAJAYA The Court of Appeal yesterday struck out an appeal by opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim to continue with his RMIOO million ($41.3 million) defamation suit against former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad for calling him a homosexual in 2005. The
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    • 329 20 AFP AFGHAN ELECTORAL FRAUD KABUL Afghanistan will hold a second round of its presidential election on Nov 7 after incumbent Hamid Karzai failed to win a clear majority in the fraud-tainted contest, officials said yesterday. Exactly two months on from polls that Mr
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    • 327 20 AP AFP ISLAMABAD Twin suicide blasts tore through a university campus in the Pakistani capital yesterday, killing at least five people and wounding 29, as the military pursued a critical offensive on a Taliban stronghold near Afghanistan. The bombing of Islamabad's International Islamic University
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    • 603 22  -  DANNY LEE POINTOFVIEW dannylee@mediacorp.com. sg OVER the last week, Taiwan appears to have been sending mixed messages regarding its ties with the mainland. Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou said on Monday that the island should begin to divert more of its exports to the mainland, instead of the
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    • 59 24 AFP BEIJING Police in northern China shot and killed one escaped convict yesterday and captured his three fellow fugitives, state media reported, bringing a dramatic end to a four-day manhunt. The four men, all in their 20s, escaped on Saturday after killing a guard at their
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    • 332 24 AFP USAIRBASE TOKYO United States Defense Secretary Robert Gates yesterday rejected demands by Japan's new government to review a deal on the future of a controversial major US airbase. Mr Gates made the comments on his plane en route to Tokyo, before he arrived as
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    • 250 24 AFP HANOI After nearly a month at the Danish Embassy, nine North Korean asy-lum-seekers flew out of Vietnam yesterday, minutes before South Korean President Lee Myung Bak arrived for a State visit, sources said. The group, mostly women, had been living in a
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    • 287 25 AFP IRAN-PAKISTAN TIES Iran gets tough on Pakistan over attack on elite Guards TEHRAN Iran ramped up pressure on Pakistan yesterday, saying the group accused of launching a deadly suicide attack in the Islamic republic is based in its territory, a charge strongly denied by
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    • 117 25 AP TEHRAN Iran has convicted an Iranian-American academic for his alleged role in the postelection unrest in the country and sentenced him to more than 12 years in prison. Kian Tajbakhsh (picture) was arrested on July 9 during a violent crackdown by security forces
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    • 182 25 AFP BEIJING China vowed "all-out efforts" yesterday to rescue a Chinese cargo ship hijacked in the Indian Ocean with 25 crew aboard, bringing to six the number of vessels currently in the hands of Somali pirates. This is the second time a
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    • 163 26 AFP OTTAWA Canada has asked China to address suspicions that some Chinese children presented as orphans and adopted by Westerners were snatched from their parents and sold to orphanages, The Vancouver Sun reported on Monday. After a Los Angeles Times report last month,
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    • 226 26 AFP BRITON ON DEATH ROW IN CHINA LONDON British Prime Minister Gordon Brown pressed a visiting Chinese minister on Monday over the case of a Briton facing the death penalty for drug trafficking in China, the Foreign Office said. Akmal Shaikh, whose family and supporters say
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    • 144 26 AP ADELAIDE An Australian elementary school has banned hugging and other displays of affection between preteen boys and girls to set a good example for younger students, the principal said yesterday. Students at Largs Bay Primary School in the southern city of Adelaide were spoken
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    • 754 28 THENEWYORKTIMES TEEING OFF IN VIETNAM PHAN THIET It may be the most capitalist enterprise in communist Vietnam by the rich for the rich: A proliferation of golf courses that is displacing thousands of farmers and devouring the very rice fields the country depends on.
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    • 200 30 AGENCIES MANILA Preparations were in place across the northern Philippines yesterday as Typhoon Lupit threatened to dump more deadly rains on the storm-ravaged region. Hundreds of rescuers have been sent to evacuate residents from areas that lie in the direct path
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    • 295 30 AFP GLOBAL RECESSION ANAND The global economic downturn has hit businesses around the world, from big banks to local shops, leaving millions in fear of losing their livelihoods and desperate to cut down on spending. But among the recession's more unlikely victims have been infertile
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    • 212 32 AP CANBERRA A blood-swollen leech found at a crime scene eight years ago has led Australian police to an armed robber in an unusual twist of DNA technology, officials said. Forensic science researcher Sally Kelty said on Tuesday that the case could be the
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    • 483 32 AGENCIES ATTEMPTED ESPIONAGE Leading US scientist a suspected spy for Israel WASHINGTON US authorities on Monday arrested a leading American scientist who had worked for the White House and Nasa, and charged him with attempted spying for Israel. Stewart Nozette (picture), 52, was apprehended after a sting
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    • 174 36 THE GUARDIAN LONDON The British government is poised to allow nuclear power generators to use ordinary landfill sites for dumping "hundreds of thousands of tonnes" of waste in an attempt to reduce the £73 billion ($166.6 billion) cost of decommissioning old reactors.
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    • 348 36 THE DAILYTELEGRAPH MEDICAL ENGINEERING Sii^m research project could see the rise of the vbionic pensioner' LONDON Scientific advances including techniques allowing patients to grow new joints inside their own bodies will allow the elderly to remain active well beyond their 100 th birthdays, researchers claim. British scientists
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    • 172 36 THENEWYORKTIMES WASHINGTON The Wall Street giants that received a financial lifeline from Washington may have no qualms about paying big bonuses to their traders. But their willingness to deliver "thank you" gifts to United States President Obama and the Democrats is another question
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    • 492 37  -  CHRIS ALDEN THE GUARDIAN POINTOFVIEW ARE China's investments in Guinea a callous grab for resources, or much-needed support for a struggling African economy? Reports that China is financing investments to the tune of US$7 billion ($9.7 billion) in military-ruled Guinea in exchange for access
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    • 158 37 AP VATICAN CITY Pope Benedict XVI has created a new church structure for Anglicans who want to join the Catholic Church, responding to the disillusionment of some Anglicans over the ordination of women and the election of openly gay bishops. The new provision
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    • 678 38  -  SIMON TISDALL POINTOFVIEW To avoid disaster, US President must shift to a vhugs not slugs' policy GIVEN his tough rhetoric on Darfur during last year's election campaign, United States President Barack Obama will face inevitable criticism over his new policy of engaging, ratherthan bashing
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    • 536 39  -  ROBWOOLLARD AFP POINTOFVIEW JOURNALISTIC lessons from the "balloon boy" hoax are likely to go unheeded by media outlets desperate to meet the voracious demands of the 24-hour news cycle, analysts say. For several hours last Thursday, American Richard Heene's publicity stunt mesmerised US networks as they
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    • 177 39 BLOOMBERG WASHINGTON The Obama administration is advising federal prosecutors not to seek criminal charges against those who use or supply marijuana for medical purposes in accordance with state laws, reversing the former administration's approach. The guidelines, released today by the United States Justice Department,
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    • 166 40  -  Jeffrey Law Lee Beng MEDIACORP'S PROJECT HOPE Letter from SINGAPOREANS have always responded spontaneously to calls for help, and it was no exception with MediaCorp's Project Hope concert on Monday. Besides entertaining the audience and viewers and raising more than $1.2 million, the two-hour show
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    • 155 40  -  Gilbert Goh Letter from THE Government initiative to abolish the 10-per-cent pay cut for those aged 62 and above is to be lauded. These days, it seems the employment advantage belongs solely to the employer. To get by, many people have no choice but
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      • 419 48  -  MAYO MARTIN LOCAL ART Performance art galore in public in coming weekends mayo@mediacorp.com.sg CAN artists having coffee be treated as a kind of performance art? If so, the next few weekends are bound to get interesting with a series of contemporary art events lined up courtesy of two
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      • 178 49 CHANNEL NEWSASIA CELEBRITY ENTREPRENEUR AS THE co-owner of several salons and coffee joints, comedian Mark Lee is already an entrepreneur in his own right. While in India to host Singapore Flavours a variety programme in which he treks across the globe to
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    • 497 49 Today predicts which unlucky finalist will be sent home tonight on Singapore 1d01 DUANE HO Granted, last week's "try and impersonate Michael Jackson" episode wasn't a great gauge of the finalists' abilities because, frankly, no one can could "heee-heee" or "hoooo!" like MJ can. However, the rather stoic performances of
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    • 1015 50 TV LISTINGS ON MEDIACORP CHANNEL ON MEDIACORP SINGAPORE IDOL 6.00 AM Entertainment Tonight 3.00 GrowingUplV 10.00 Singapore Idol 2009 ADAM CINTA SI APA Spectaculars 5: For Someone Special s -3° Prime Time Morning 4.00 ForbesTop2oHipHopCash 10.30 America's Got Talent IV Suria, 9.30pm Channel BDm 93° The Rachael Ray Show 111
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    • 631 51  -  SHAMIR OSMAN SINGAPORE FOOTBALL Wilkinson's goal sinks Koreans, as Avramovic applauds overall performance HO CHI MINH CITY INTERNATIONAL TOURNAMENT Singapore 1 Korean University Selection o shamir@mediacorp.com.sg HO CHI MINH CITY The tournament was intended to be an opportunity for coach Radojko Avramovic to assess
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    • 391 52  -  TANYO-HINN Aussie eyes third win at Sentosa, but some big names are in the way yohinn@mediacorp.com. sg SINGAPORE The upcoming Barclays Singapore Open golf championship could be the biggest yet, with Australian stars Geoff Ogilvy and two-time winner Adam Scott the latest to join an already stellar
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    • 644 53 THE DAILYTELEGRAPH AFTERNOON LATEST UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE GROUP E Liverpool 1 Lyon 2 LIVERPOOL Running on empty, Liverpool are running out of players, energy and ideas. The pressure certainly mounted on manager Rafa Benitez last night when his team succumbed to modest French visitors,
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    • 336 53  -  TANYO-HINN SINGAPORE The sponsorship pie in sports is growing, and the Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports (MCYS) and the Singapore Sports Council (SSC) will continue supporting efforts to attract private sector sponsors. While events like SSC's CEO Networking Session help to spread the
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    • 162 53 THE GUARDIAN MOSCOW Sir Alex Ferguson last night revealed the depth of his anger at being charged by the Football Association for comments about the referee Alan Wiley when he stomped out of a Uefa press conference. The Manchester United manager was this week
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    • 686 54 .AFP AFTERNOON LATEST UEFACHAMPIONS LEAGUEGROUP F Barcelona 1 Rubin Kazan 2 BARCELONA The reigning champions suffered their first European defeat in 10 months, falling to a shock 2-1 home loss at the hands of Rubin Kazan last night. Russian champions Rubin produced the biggest win in
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    • 181 54 AFP ALKMAAR Arsenal were forced to settle for a 1-1 draw against AZAlkmaar in as the Dutch champions snatched a last-gasp equaliser. Arsene Wenger's side were within seconds of securing their third successive Group H victory after Cesc Fabregas's first half goal. But David Mendes Da
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    • SPORTS ROUNDUP
      • 102 55 Philadelphia rallied in the ninth inning to beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 5-4 on Monday (yesterday morning, Singapore time) and move within one victory of a return to the World Series. With two outs in the bottom of the ninth, Jimmy Rollins (picture) lined a two-run double
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      • 106 55 AFP Former Renault chief Flavio Briatore's legal action challenging the life ban he received from the FIA for his role in the Nelson Piquet Jr crashgate affair will be heard on Nov 24. Briatore is hoping that the High Court in Paris will quash
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      • 89 55 AFP Chinese women weightlifters have surpassed 10 world records at the China National Games, but their performances will not go down as new global marks because the competition is not international. The Chinese women smashed existing world marks in four weight divisions in
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    • 333 56 AGENCIES 2010 WORLD CUP FINALS Next year's World Cup hosts don't have a coach JOHANNESBURG While South Africa reeled from the news yesterday that Joel Santana had quit as coach, reports emerged that the man who guided Brazil to their 1994 World Cup triumph could make
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    • 527 57 AGENCIES FORMULAi The vßig Bear as Button calls him, is already plotting team's defence of their two titles LONDON Every sport has its gurus. Sir Alex Ferguson in football, Vince Lombardi in American football and Phil Jackson in basketball. Having just landed his
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    • 192 56 Give Me 5 Minutes And I Can PREDICT Your Financial Future "The Secret Psychology of Wealth" 13th~15th November 2009 (Fri-Sun) m 9am~9pm (Daily) I Singapore Expo, Hall 2 Rl^^^^Hl N HH| lff^3BS26BE) I jttk'w^ Most of us were never taught how to win the money game and if we I
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    • 412 58  -  TANHUI LENG ANTI-DATA LEAKAGE huileng@mediacorp.com.sg IF YOU think reformatting your hard disk before you dispose of your computer is enough to clear all personal data, you are seriously mistaken. Ironically, concerns about losing crucial data has driven experts to develop sophisticated recovery processes so
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    • 598 59 THENEWYORKTIMES CRASH COURSE BY ALL accounts, the economy is improving slowly. That lack of speed means you and your staff may still have more time on your hands than you would like. Would it make sense to use some of it to cold call? That
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    • 472 60 BLOOMBERG US ECONOMY WASHINGTON The United States government on Monday rolled out a programme to bolster the fragile real estate market by allowing state housing agencies to borrow funds from the Treasury Department. The initiative is intended to temporarily provide credit and liquidity to state
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    • 235 61 qasdfs BEIJING Bank of China vice-president Zhu Mm (picture) has resigned from the commercial lender to become a deputy governor at the People's Bank of China (PBOC), the country's central bank, amid speculation that he is set to take
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    • 398 61 WORLD ECONOMY IMF says developed nations must rein in budgets, mulls more insurance-like facilities MEXICO CITY Advanced economies need to put their budgets on a sustainable course to confront the challenges of widening fiscal deficits, the second-highest ranking official at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said. "The
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    • 650 62  -  ALEXBERENSON THENEWYORKTIMES BLOOMBERG POINTOFVIEW THE most precious commodity on Wall Street is information, and savvy players will do almost anything for it. Some investment funds canvass doctors to scout out blockbuster drugs. Others pay meteorologists to forecast weather that will affect the price of oil and
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      • 85 63 BLOOMBERG Pfizer said yesterday its third-quarter profit rose 26 per cent to US$2.BB billion ($4 billion) from US$2.2B billion in the corresponding period a year earlier, despite revenue declining three per cent to US$ll.6 billion. Pfizer, the world's biggest drug maker, completed its US$6B billion
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      • 85 63 AP Deutsche Bank said yesterday it had signed a preliminary agreement with the Dutch Ministry of Finance on its pre-viously-announced deal to buy part of ABN Amro Bank's Netherlands-based commercial banking operations. Frankfurt-based Deutsche had announced in July 2008 that it intended to
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      • 85 63 BLOOMBERG Switzerland-based Adecco, the world's largest supplier of temporary workers, has agreed to buy MPS Group for about US$l.3 billion ($l.B billion) to expand its staffing business worldwide. Florida-based MPS Group recorded revenues of €1.5 billion ($3.1 billion) in 2008. Companies such as Adecco are
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    • 304 63 AGENCIES US-CHINA Beijing slaps tariffs on nylon imports ahead of Obama visit BEIJING China has imposed tariffs of up to 36 per cent on some imported nylon products to protect its domestic industry from suspected dumping in Beijing's latest manoeuvre amid a widening trade dispute with the
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    • 122 63 AFP SHANGHAI China's Great Wall Motor has launched legal action against Italian car-maker Fiat for allegedly sneaking into its factory and stealing business secrets, the Chinese company's lawyer said yesterday. Great Wall filed a lawsuit with China's Shijiazhuang Intermediate People's Court, claiming Fiat secretly took pictures
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      • 138 64 Most Singaporeans would never get the chance to experience the exhilaration of seeing a half-tonne grizzly bear in its natural habitat, but now, people of all ages can get closer than ever to some of the planet's most magnificent predators. The fourth and
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      • 108 64 CAREER-CUM-COURSE BRIEFING FOR MICE EVENTS AND F&B MANAGEMENT Embark on an 8-month part-time Workforce Skills Qualifications (WSQ) Diploma in Tourism (specialising in MICE and events), or a WSQ Diploma in F&B management to kick-start your career in the tourism and F&B industry. The programmes are offered by the University of
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      • 125 64 Homegrown watch marque 25 Hours kicked off its year-long campaign from August this year till the last day of August next year, to celebrate everybody's birthday. In partnership with nine specially-chosen merchants, freebies and discounts from Donut Empire, X Box,
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      • 117 64 Bottom Slim brings its unique brand of slimming to the eastern suburbs, with the opening of a new outlet in Parkway Parade For lucky residents in the vicinity, there is no longer any need to travel downtown to enjoy the Bottom Slim experience. To celebrate the
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      • 102 64 Half of Singapore's men and a third of women consume more cholesterol than the recommended limit. Many of us suffer from unhealthy blood lipids without even knowing. This could lead to obstruction and even total blockage of the blood supply to the heart.
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      • 123 64 Good news for everyone looking to buy electronics and household items from major brands at rock-bottom, wholesale prices. The first Home Electronics Wholesale Expo Sale will be held from Oct 23 to 25 at the Singapore Expo, Hall 58, from 11
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    • 570 65 BLOOMBERG TEMASEK HOLDINGS Investors leap at lower-risk 10-year notes offering SINGAPORE Temasek Holdings, Singapore's governmentowned investment company, sold US$l.5 billion ($2.08 billion) of 10-year bonds in its first offering in four years, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. The 4.3 per cent debt was priced at 99.775
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    • 181 65 938 LIVE SINGAPORE Mainboard-listed Memstar Technology announced yesterday that it is spending 500 million yuan ($lOl.B million) to form a new entity in China. The manufacturer of products for water treatment services has entered into an agreement with Shenyang Water Group
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    • 127 66 938 LIVE SINGAPORE There's a shortage of cost accountants and cost controllers in Singapore's pharmaceutical sector, according to human resource consultancy Robert Walters' latest update on the health care market here. Due to the increased number of companies opening manufacturing facilities in Singapore, said
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    • 404 66  -  NG BAOYING SIZE MATTERS baoying@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Demand for "shoe box"sized housing may not be sustainable in the long-term, said property developer Koh Brothers. As a result, the Mainboardlisted firm said most property developers may not rush in to offer more of such units just
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    • 324 67  -  TAN HUI LENG REITS huileng@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Despite the improving economy and the upbeat showing in the property sector, investment banking and stock broking group Nomura Singapore said that it remains cautious about the prospects of local Real Estate Investment Trusts (Reits). In its latest research report dated Oct
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      • 73 67 938 LIVE Mainboard-listed investment trading firm United International Securities posted a profit of $5.65 million in the third quarter, up significantly from the $137,000 earned in the same period last year. Forthe first nine months of this year, UIS made a net profit aftertax of $14.9
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      • 86 67 938 LIVE Mainboard-listed construction firm Lum Chang said yesterday it has clinched a $46.5 million contract to construct 10 industrial blocks spread across some 45,600 sq m of land area at Tuas South Avenue 1. It was awarded the construction project by Dril-Quip Asia Pacific. The
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    • 88 62 Public Lecture Sponsored By Auston Research Centre Venue: October 23,2009 from 2 to 4 pm At Auston Institue Of Management &Technology (AIMT), 61 -63 New Bridge Road, Singapore *****7. Limited seats enquiry snowflaketech@pacificnetsg (65) *****729 ByProfessorZang-HeeCho Neurosoence Research Institute GachonUnhrersityofmedidneandSdence,lncheon,Korea Slideshow: Demonstration of prototype 3-ball pole-tennis sets as neurotherapeutic exercisers.
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    • 107 67 RJU.ROO6 POK\)T (VMUMLY MAU. &t Eating donuts, fixing up a hamster cage and finding book titles, these are just some H examples of the challenges participating families had to complete at the Jurong Point m Family Mall Race over the weekend. Winning A families took home fabulous cruise holidays and
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