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  • 30 1 TODAY MICA (P) 160/10/2009 A PUBLICATION OF/A=E»ACORP NEWS HOTLINE 6822 2268 Monday November i, 2009 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking TODAY Monday November i, 2009 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking
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    216 1 4 Nine months into Barack Obama's presidency, signs of disappointment are starting to surface in some quarters. But, nine months is too early to judge his presidency, says The Observer's Keith Richburg. 6 President S R Nathan presents this year's National Day Awards to some 400 recipients.
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  • 763 1  -  LEONGWEEKEAT ANNUAL CONVENTION PM Lee reveals that promising candidates have been found weekeat@mediacorp.com. sg SINGAPORE Last year, he told party cadres to look at the political renewal in the People's Action Party if they want to know when the elections are coming. Yesterday, PAP secretary-general Lee
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  • 214 1  -  LOWLINFHOONG linfhoong@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Youth football coach and former Singapore international David Sivalingam died in hospital last night after collapsing at a charity game. The 51-year-old National Football Academy Under-14 coach, who was coach of the Asian Youth Games and Youth Olympics teams, was playing a
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    • 250 2  -  LEONGWEEKEATv HOEYEENNIE SINGAPORE Yesterday may have been the "first run" of the party employing new media on a large scale but it could work into the People's Action Party (PAP) machinery come future General Elections (GE). Mr Zaqy Mohamad, Young PAP vicechairman and
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    • 177 2 LEONGWEEKEAT SINGAPORE A People's Action Party activist residing in Potong Pasir for 25 years remarked yesterday that the ward was "being abandoned" after the party's defeat there at the last General Election in 2006. PAP candidate Sitoh Yih Pin lost to incumbent Chiam
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    • 747 3  -  LEONGWEEKEAT PAP ACTIVISTS weekeat@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The cost of living, affordability of public housing, immigration and integration policies as well as re-employment of older workers these are the burning issues on the ground, as activists from the People's Action Party saw it. And with the middle class and middleaged
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    • 642 4  -  KEITH RICHBURG THEOBSERVER POINTOFVIEW BEFORE he was elected President on Nov 4 last year, Mr Barack Obama, in The Audacity of Hope described himself as "a blank screen on which people of vastly different political stripes project their own views. "I am bound to
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    • 119 4 I. DPA BANGKOK US President Barack Obama plans to invite the 10 leaders of the Association of South-East Asian Nations (Asean) to Washington next year to further strengthen ties with the region, media reports said yesterday. "Kurt Campbell, the assistant state secretary for East Asia and
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    • 520 4  -  SEBASTIAN SMITH AFP POINTOFVIEW REPUBLICANS are looking to wound President Barack Obama's Democrats on Tuesday in three closely-fought elections seen as barometers of a vital battle for Congress in 2010. In the governor's race in Virginia where Mr Obama caused a sensation last year by becoming
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    • 122 6  -  001 BOON KEONG After 33 hours and a storm on Saturday evening, the 400 participants in this year's MediaCorp Subaru Impreza WRX Challenge have fallen to 131 as of 10pm on Sunday. Ninety-nine were men and 32 were women. Of the foreign participants from the seven
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    • 148 6 NATIONAL DAY AWARDS SINGAPORE President S R Nathan presented this year's National Day Awards to some 400 recipients at the University Cultural Centre last night. Top honours this year the Distinguished Service Order went to Group chairman of PSA International Fock Siew Wah who helms one of the
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    • 111 6 SINGAPORE Microsoft staged a Rock 'n' Roll concert and carnival at the Chinese Garden on Saturday and raised $270,000 for the President's Challenge. The money increases the amount that Microsoft has pledged to enable and equip people with disabilities with IT skills to $1.23
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    • SINGAPORE ROUNDUP
      • 134 8 Frontline staff in the clock and watch trade in Singapore will soon be equipped with the specialist knowledge that they need about products to improve their service. The Singapore Clock and Watch Trade Association (SCWTA) is upgrading skill and customer service training
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      • 120 8 Nanyang Venture 11, a car built and raced by Nanyang Technological University (NTU) students, has claimed 12th place in the World Solar Challenge, one of the harshest solar car races in the world. Thirty-one solar cars from around the world started the 3,000-kilometre race from
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    • 247 8 SINGAPORE Pasir Ris became the first above-ground MRT station to have half-height platform screen doors when they went into operation at the station yesterday. Such doors are meant to enhance commuter safety at above-ground stations and to prevent people from falling onto
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    • 406 8  -  NEOCHAICHIN EATING INTRAINS Steep drop in number of offenders caught after the first month chaichin@mediacorp.com. sg SINGAPORE It's been three months since train operator SMRT stepped up checks on commuters eating and drinking on trains, and the numbers caught each month have fallen dramatically. From a
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      • 80 10 AFP Afghanistan yesterday ordered the closure of all schools for three weeks after recording its first death of Influenza A (HiNi), the country's Education Minister said. "In order to safeguard the health of all Afghans all public and private schools will be shut for three
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      • 108 10 AFP The Australian authorities yesterday offered help to extinguish a fire which broke out on a leaking oil rig that has been pumping thousands of barrels of oil into the Timor Sea for months. Energy Minister Martin Ferguson directed the National Offshore
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    • 243 10 AP KUALA LUMPUR Pakistan's armed forces hope to rout Taliban militants in the rugged mountainous region along the border with Afghanistan before winter sets in by late next month, said the country's Foreign Minister Makhdoom Shah Mahmood Qureshi. Pakistan launched an
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    • 526 10 AGENCIES AFGHAN RUN-OFF ELECTION KABUL Challenger Abdullah Abdullah yesterday pulled out of Afghanistan's run-off election, plunging the war-torn country into fresh political turmoil less than a week before the contest. His move effectively hands a new term to President Hamid Karzai but potentially damages the government's credibility.
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    • 349 11 AP AFGHANCOPPER MINE WASHINGTON At a former Al Qaeda stronghold south-east of the Afghan capital, a stateowned Chinese company is at work on a US$3 billion ($4 billion) mine project to tap one of the world's largest unexploited copper reserves, a potential financial
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    • 230 11 AP KOROR (Palau) Six Chinese Muslims newly released from Guantanamo Bay were excited yesterday as they traded life behind bars for rooms with ocean views in the tiny Pacific nation of Palau, which agreed to a United States request to
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    • 183 11 THE DAILYTELEGRAPH BEIJING A naked man who climbed out of a window and hid on the ledge to escape his lover's furious husband has been caught on camera. Mr Sun Meng has been given the cold shoulder by his community after the
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      • 78 12 AFP The decomposed bodies of six unidentified women were found in the Cleveland, Ohio, home of a convicted rapist who was arrested on Saturday, the coroner said. Cuyahoga County coroner Frank Miller added that most of the victims found at the home of registered
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      • 119 12 THE SUNDAYTELEGRAPH The health of the Lockerbie bomber has "not deteriorated" since his release from prison three months ago despite doctors' assessments that he would have died by now. The disclosure will likely reignitethe row over the release of Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi
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      • 96 12 Three of the 11 passengers on a speedboat died as their vessel drifted in the Sulawesi Sea for eight days, Bernama news agency reported yesterday. The boat had run out of fuel on its planned route fromSabahtoTawiTawi in the Philippines afterthe compass failed.
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    • 423 12 AP CHINA'S EDUCATION MINISTER BEIJING China's legislature has removed the country's unpopular education minister amid a corruption scandal in a city he used to oversee and widespread public dissatisfaction with the education system. The executive committee of the national legislature dismissed Mr Zhou Ji (picture) on Saturday
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    • 196 12 AP BEIJING China will set the future direction of its burgeoning ties with Africa at a multi-national forum in Egypt this month, Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi said yesterday. Prime Minister Wen Jiabao plans to attend the Nov 8-9 Forum on China-Africa Cooperation in the
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    • 212 14 AFP SEOUL The United States and its ally South Korea have drawn up a contingency plan to cope with emergencies in North Korea, including a possible regime change there, a report said yesterday. "Operational Plan (Oplan) 5029" was completed by Seoul
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      • 94 14 AP Eleven people are dead after a train slammed into a truck at an unmanned railway crossing in northern India. The police say nearly two dozen others were injured in yesterday's accident. Police official A Padmaja says the truck was taking Hindu pilgrims
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      • 71 14 AP Eight people died and four were injured after a bus filled with pilgrims heading to a sacred grave site collided head-on with a truck on Indonesia's Java island. The Detik.com news portal reported that the collision yesterday occurred inTuban, a district in East Java.
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    • 93 14 AP United States President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama marked Halloween on Saturday by doling out presidential M&Ms and dried fruit mixes to more than 2,000 trick-or-treaters. Dressed as superheroes, pirates, fairies and skeletons, the children turned up with their parents from Maryland, Virginia
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    • 378 14 AGENCIES TYPHOON MIRINAE At least 20 dead in and around Manila, storm hurtles to Vietnam MANILA A tropical storm roared toward Vietnam yesterday after battering the Philippine capital and surrounding provinces, leaving at least 20 people dead in a region still soggy from three recent storms. Typhoon
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    • 321 15 AFP TAIWAN'S TERMINALLY ILL TAIPEI The eulogies, the songs, the crying and the hugging make David Tseng's funeral virtually indistinguishable from any other in Taiwan except that he is still alive. Mr Tseng is only 25 but he is wheel-chair-bound and in the terminal stage of
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    • 88 15 AFP Japanese television host Haruna Ai was crowned the world's most beautiful transsexual at a pageant in the Thai beach resort of Pattaya on Saturday. The runners-up were Karngsadal Wongdusadeekul of Thailand and Daniela Marques of Brazil. Haruna Ai, who beat off stiff competition from 20
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    • 191 15 AGENCIES YANGON Myanmar's junta has burnt more than US$2O million ($2B million) worth of drugs seized during a recent campaign against ethnic rebel forces in the remote north-east near the Chinese border, state media said yesterday. Police said it was the biggest drug seizure in
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    • 311 16  - Owner gets bill for more than 1,000 Chiang MingYu MISSING MOBILE PHONE Letter from A FRIEND of mine either lost or had her mobile phone (registered in her husband's name) stolen. The finder (or thief) chalked up more than $1,000 in calls to Vietnam before SingTel called the next day
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    • 178 16  -  Farah Abdul Rahim Letter from Director, Corporate Communications Ministry of Manpower WE REFER to "Make it a must for local staff, too" (Oct 27) by Mr Leong Sze Hian on medical insurance for workers. Singaporeans enjoy substantial government healthcare subsidies at polyclinics and up to
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    • 160 18  -  DR BILL MAIER BY HELPING KIDS MOVE Moving can be tough on kids, but there's a lot you can do to soften the blow. Today's mobile society is requiring more and more families to uproot and make a move. Author Susan Miller has some good suggestions
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    • 356 18  -  Lionel De Souza MOTORISED BICYCLES Letter from I REFER to "Pedal on the safe side with your motorised bicycle" (Oct 30). With various models of motorised bicycles on our roads today, I am of the opinion that it is now too little, too late for the Land
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    • 113 18  -  Leona Lo Letter from IT IS with bemusement that I observed the young and impressionable in Singapore slavishly aping American/Celtic culture by donning witches' hats and superhero costumes on Halloween. How many of them really understand the origins of Halloween? Why not
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        1049 20  -  GENEVIEVE LOH I told David Gan to give me an Hjncle' hairstyle. And David told me: %l don't know how to do ugly hair lah!' It ain't easy pulling off an authentic 'uncle' look, as Hanwei found out KINGS OFTHE HILL genevieveloh@mediacorp.com.sg MediaCorp TV Channel 8 leading man
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    • 159 24 AFP LONDON Irish boyband Boyzone will record a new album as a tribute to band member Stephen Gately who died earlier this month aged 33, they said yesterday. Gately died of natural causes after suffering from fluid in his lungs on Oct 10 at his
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    • 378 24  -  CHRISTOPHERTOH NATIONAL HERITAGE BOARD Fly Entertainment chief Irene Ang joins seven others to be part of the NHB christophertoh@mediacorp.com.sg CAN you picture Irene Ang as a member of the National Heritage Board (NHB)? Well, yes. The comedienne, better known for playing
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    • 828 26  -  SHAMIR OSMAN BARCLAYS SINGAPORE OPEN 2009 After a hot wet and truly tough three days, the Englishman seals the deal at Sentosa shamir@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE lan Poulter (picture) has been testy all week. Maybe it was the searing heat and muggy conditions that enveloped Sentosa's
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    • 520 27  -  SHAMIR OSMAN SINGAPORE FOOTBALL Geylang players can still make their case for a spot against Thai outfit next Sunday GREAT EASTERN-YEO'S S-LEAGUE 2009 Gombak United v Geylang United Jurong West Stadium, 7.45pm shamir@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Geylang United sit in sixth spot in the 11-team Great Eastern-Yeo's
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    • 326 27 AP PHILADELPHIA Whether he is the focus of paparazzi with actress-girlfriend Kate Hudson or the subject of photographs for his baseball skills, cameras of all kinds truly love Alex Rodriguez (picture). Now the New York Yankees'star slugger has an extra reason to love them back.
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    • 255 27 SINGAPORE Leah Malot didn't panic when Anna Thompson took the lead early on in the Great Eastern Women 10K run at the Padang yesterday. The Kenyan bided her time, reeling in the Aussie slowly until the duo were neck and neck for the
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      410 28 ABU DHABI GRAND PRIX Red Bull's German star seals second spot after Hamilton stalls ABU DHABI Red Bull ace Sebastian Vettel (picture) won the inaugural Abu Dhabi Grand Prix yesterday, with team-mate Mark Webber hanging on for second to give the team a onetwo finish in the final
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    • 143 28 SINGAPORE The Singapore Slingers continued their winning ways in the Asean Basketball League when they blitzed Indonesia's Satria Muda BritAma 96-72 in front of around 2,000 fans at the Singapore Indoor Stadium yesterday. The Slingers were all business right from tip-off, blowing open the
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    • 504 29 AGENCIES ENGLISH FOOTBALL After last week's heroics, Reds crash again, face desperate midweek clash LONDON Liverpool seemed set to finally get their season on track, after an all-action triumph over reigning English champions and rivals Manchester United. One week on, Liverpool manager Rafa Benitez is facing
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    • 345 29 AFP MANCHESTER Over the last couple of weeks, Manchester United boss Sir Alex Ferguson has had to face numerous questions over the form of his side. The Red Devils bounced back from their defeat to archrivals Liverpool last Sunday with a 2-0
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    • 188 29 AGENCIES LONDON The World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) may pursue a case against Andre Agassi after the American revealed that his father Mike Agassi asked him to take the drug speed before a tournament and that he took it. The suggestion that Agassi may
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    • 150 29 AGENCIES BEIJING In an explosive new book, Yuan Weimin, 70, China's former Minister of Sports, has accused Chinese International Olympic Committee (IOC) member He Zhenliang of seeking to torpedo a secret vote over Beijing's bid to host the 2008 Games. Yuan laid out the accusation in his
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    • 137 30 Mr. Mohamed Malik Acting Associate Dean M Business Law, TMC Academy 18 November 2009, 7pnrr Capitol Centre Level 3 Synopsis Entrepreneurs have ideas and dreams. However, the path to realising that dream is often fraught with legal and other resource constraints. 1 To achieve success, transforming your dreams into a
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    • 570 33  -  WILLIAM PESEK BLOOMBERG POINTOFVIEW Women say more about economies than money does Following the money often gets you to the bottom of a story. Following the economic experience of women may offer more insights. Women make up half of the globe's population, and prosperity and competitiveness are
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    • 176 33 AP BEIJING China's manufacturing sector expanded for the eighth straight month in October, pointing to further signs that the recovering economy is on firmer ground, a survey by an industry group said yesterday. The state-sanctioned China Federation of Logistics and Purchasing said its
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    • 126 34 bLUUMbtKt. CHINA WARNS OF WORLD SLUMP 1F... Chinese Commerce Minister Chen Deming warned against withdrawing economic stimulus measures, citing the risk of another world slump. "There are increasing signs that the global economy is heading in a positive direction, but there are still many uncertainties," Mr Chen said
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    • 687 34 THENEWYORKTIMES MADOFF SCANDAL Ponzi scammer tells investigators their lapses helped his scheme thrive WASHINGTON Nobody was more surprised that the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) did not discover Bernard Madoffs (picture) enormous Ponzi scheme years ago than Madoff himself. After all, it would
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    • 294 34 SINGAPORE Despite the recovering economy, Nomura believes that the prospects for Asian port and container shipping sector remains subdued, analysts Jim Wong and Andrew Lee said in a report. Citing a slow and gradual recovery, Nomura said international trade is
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    • 148 35 AFP With spending on luxury goods down, luxury brands are looking far beyond the chic avenues of New York, London or Paris for revenue. The new names on the lips of luxury professionals are far less familiar Almaty, Shenzhen, Ulan Bator respectively, the commercial
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    • 83 35 AFP Vietnam has started building a major US$3.6 billion ($5 billion) international container port in central Khanh Hoa province to boost regional economic development, state media said. When completed in 2020, the Van Phong port will have 42 wharves and be capable of handling up
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    • 40 35 BLOOMBERG Dayen Environmental, provider of engineering services to the water-treatment industry, used $1.76 million in disbursements from Oct 3 to Oct 30 to cover administrative, capital and project-related expenses, it said in a statement to SGX yesterday.
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    • STOCK CALLS
      • 53 36 29 cents I Buy DBS Vickers upgrades from "Hold", raises price target to 47 cents from 20 cents after increasing FYO9-10 earnings forecasts by 67 to 71 per cent, rolling over valuation to FYIO based on 11X P/E. Cites better-than-expected Q3 '09 performance. Expects profits from build-operate-transfer projects
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    • 99 36 FRASERS CENTREPOINT MALLS Frasers Centrepoint Malls on Saturday unveiled its 'neighbourhood mall' concept with the opening of YewTee Point by Member of Parliament for Hong Kah GRCYeoCheowTong (left). Unlike city or suburban malls, neighbourhood malls are more 'intimately-sized' to serve the needs of its community, said Frasers
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    • 412 36 AP AVOIDING A COLLAPSE Hundreds of branches to go on sale in next few years LONDON The Royal Bank of Scotland, Northern Rock and Lloyds Banking Group are to sell off as many as 700 branches in the next few years in exchange for
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    • 308 36  -  TAN HUI LENG SINGAPORE The competitive home loans market has triggered off another creative spark with HSBC launching a package that is linked to the equity market. HSBC claims that the mortgage product is the first in the market. Under the mortgage scheme, customers can potentially
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