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  • 20 1 TODAY Wednesday November 18, 2009 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking TODAY Wednesday November 18, 2009 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking
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  • 565 1  -  ALICIA WONG HOEYEEN NIE MM LEEON BILINGUALISM AND alicia@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE He listened to the opening speeches at the official launch of the Singapore Centre for Chinese Language, and then he remarked: "It is too Chinese an atmosphere." This seemed to sum up
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  • 411 1  -  ONGDAILIN dailin@mediacorp.com. sg SINGAPORE On Monday, Raffles Place Park was a sea of bright yellow. But overnight, the 1,000 sunflowers that had adorned the three grass plots there had been taken their disappearance costing Dover Park Hospice $5,000 in donations. The synthetic flowers, planted
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    • 555 2  -  LINYANQIN CPF LIFE SCHEME yanqin@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE He is one of 30,000 residents in Singapore who have made up their minds on how their Central Provident Fund money can best serve their retirement needs. For financial planner U Kyaw Zaw, 61, that would be a
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    • 473 3  -  NEOCHAICHIN chaichin@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE A hotel guest once called Ms Christine Kaelbel-Sheares at 2am, wanting to throw a party with bar service and a deejay for4o friends within half an hour. Another guest and his wife wanted to rent Elvis and Marilyn Monroe costumes for Halloween
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    • 365 3  -  LEONGWEEKEAT SM GOHTO BUSINESSES Republic can be more than just a good host weekeat@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The aim has been to make it the best home for Singaporeans. Post-crisis, Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong said Singapore needs to be "a good home" to companies
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    • 641 4 AFP AGENCIES CHINA-USTIES Despite differences, Hu and Obama stress cooperation on global issues BEIJING United States President Barack Obama and Chinese President Hu Jintao yesterday pledged to apply their joint political might to the world's toughest problems, but deep differences remained over trade, security and human rights.
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    • 761 6  -  NEOCHAICHIN NEOCHAICHIN LOWER CUSTOMER SATISFACTION Service standards have gone up: SRA mystery shopping survey chaichin@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Brickbats fly at frontline service staff especially foreigners whenever customer satisfaction levels for the retail sector see a dip. That's when Singapore Retailers Association (SRA) executive director Lau Chuen
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    • 172 8  -  LYNDA HONG SINGAPORE For the first time in a decade, the National Kidney Foundation (NKF) is in the red. In its latest fiscal year ending June, it saw a deficit of $900,000. The lack of donations and a dip in investment income were cited as reasons.
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    • 331 8 AGENCIES BANGLADESHI TWINS MELBOURNE Australian doctors successfully separated twin Bangladeshi girls after more than 24 hours of surgery yesterday, saying the two were "in great shape" but faced a difficult recovery. Two-year-old Trishna and Krishna who were joined at their heads, sharing blood vessels and brain tissue
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    • 231 8 SINGAPORE A magazine and its editor have been ordered to pay Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew over $400,000 for defamation. The High Court ordered the Review Publishing Company, publisher of the Far Eastern Economic Review {Feer), and
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    • 497 12  -  ANSLEYNG ALLEGED GANG-RAPE 17-year-old girl had been drinking heavily ansley@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE What was supposed to be a supper date turned into an ordeal for a 17-year-old girl, who was allegedly gang-raped by five young men. The girl, now 18, had agreed to have a meal with
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    • 339 12  -  SHAFFIQALKHATIB shaffiq@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Two men have been charged with attempting to obtain sexual favours in exchange for turning a blind eye on smoking offenders. Mohamed Rafi Abdul Alim, 32, was employed by Certis-Cisco Security and attached
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    • 423 13  -  ZULOTHMAN MCYS VOLUNTEER AWARDS zul@mediacorp.com. sg SINGAPORE Associate Professor Ann Wee's long and illustrious career as a social work pioneer was given due recognition yesterday she was one of two recipients of the inaugural Outstanding Lifetime Volunteer Award. Assoc Prof Wee, who started volunteering with the
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    • 150 13 SINGAPORE The Ren Ci Charity Show will make a comeback next year after a two-year hiatus. Ren Ci Hospital and Medicare Centre said the show with Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong as the Guest of Honour —will be telecast "live" on Channel U on
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    • 397 14  -  ANSLEYNG WORKPLACE DEATHS Separate worksite incidents had left 2 workers dead SINGAPORE Three people and a construction firm have been fined by a district court yesterday, for their roles in two separate worksite accidents in which two workers died. In the first case, Lin Tin
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    • 225 14 SINGAPORE If you haven't yet chipped in with a brick, you now have until Nov 30 to help the needy around you, with the deadline for the We Are One project extended. The project aims to raise $1 million, with the symbolic
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    • 564 15  -  SHAFFIQALKHATIB POLITICIAN'S WIFE Lawyer says Wu was not allowed to leave the house and her children were hit and constantly scolded shaffiq@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Her marriage, by her lawyer's account, was far from a blissful one. In fact, China national Wu Yun Yun, 26, was
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    • 558 16  -  ONG DAI LIN SCHOOLS AND COMPETITIONS More students sent for overseas competitions on social causes, design dailin@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE For 14-year-old Nur Shafiqa Amira, a one-week stint in Denmark with youth from all over the globe was a dream come true, after she spent six months
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    • 477 18  -  SRAMESH MANAGING OLDER WORKERS rameshs@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The proposed Employment Assistance Payment is not a form of welfare, said Manpower Minister Gan Kim Yong yesterday. Instead, the payment is meant to help workers who cannot be rehired as they seek employment in other places within three months
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    • SINGAPORE ROUNDUP
      • 97 18 The wife of a man who is being reimbursed for donating one of his kidneys to her was discharged on Monday. The man was the first kidney donor to applytothe National Kidney Foundation for reimbursement, after the latter created a $io-million fund to help donors
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      • 82 18 The body of the 18-year-old who drowned at East Coast on Sunday has been found. According to the police, the teen's body washed ashore at around the same location where he last went missing. He was pronounced dead at about 2.10am on Tuesday. On Sunday,
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    • 511 20  -  ESTHER NG ENVIRONMENTAL CODE OF PRACTICE estherng@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE You may soon be breathing in cleaner air in the office. And that big energy guzzler, the air conditioning, may become more efficient, too. That is the aim of two new environmental standards, introduced
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    • 187 22  - Oil at US$190 by 2030, unless RACHEL KELLY rachel@mediacorp.com. sg SINGAPORE World energy demand is expected to grow by some 40 per cent between 2007 and 2030, said the International Energy Agency (lEA) in its latest world energy outlook. And if global consumption and growth continues to expand at its
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    • 273 22 SINGAPORE-VIETNAM TIES Visiting PresidentTriet pitches Vietnam to 400 business executives here SINGAPORE Vietnam is a "rising star" in the Asia Pacific region, as Senior Minister S Jayakumar put it, with its GDP expected to grow an impressive 5.2 per cent this year despite the downturn. Which
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    • 325 24 THE DAILYTELEGRAPH LONDON Apple could soon force users of its products including iPods and iPhones to listen to compulsory advertising. A patent application filed in the United States suggests that the leading technology firm is considering introducing commercials in order to
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    • 374 24 AFP TRANSPARENCY INTERNATIONAL Says industrialised nations cannot be complacent BERLIN Graft watchdog Transparency International (TI) hit out at rich countries over shady banking practices as it published its annual rankings. "Corrupt money must not find safe haven. It is time to put an end
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    • 142 24 Fourth out of 180 countries last year, Singapore moved up one place this year to take joint third place with Sweden in this year's Corruption Perception Index (CPI) by Transparency International (Tl). However it retained last year's score of 9.2 after
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    • 199 26 BANGKOK Supporters of Thailand's ousted former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra's said yesterday they were planning a peaceful street protest later this month. The Red Shirts expect 1 million people to join the march to force the government to step down and call for elections before
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    • 266 26 AFP 191HBBB11 SYDNEY Catastrophic or Code Red warnings were declared for the first time in South Australia state yesterday, as a parching heatwave intensified over the country's south. Created in the wake of February's devastating Black Saturday firestorm, which killed 173 people, the
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    • 106 28 THE MALAYSIAN INSIDER The Malaysian Parliament was in uproar yesterday when Minister Nazri Aziz insisted that the Kelantan state government had no legal right to demand oil royalty payment. The Minister in the Prime Minister's Department explained that former Prime Minister Abdul
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    • 351 28 AFP PAKISTAN'S TALIBAN OFFENSIVE SARAROGHA Pakistan yesterday said that troops waging a major ground and air offensive against the Taliban have captured most towns once under rebel control in South Waziristan, a key district on the Afghan border. Pakistan dispatched 30,000 troops into battle on Oct 17,
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    • 196 28 THE MALAYSIAN INSIDER IPOH The parents of the three young girls who died after a bridge collapsed at a campsite in Perak will be filing a RMIOS million ($43.3 million) suit on Friday against nine parties, including Malaysia's education ministry, the bridge's
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    • 181 29 AFP TAIPEI The grandchildren of Chinese communist icon Mao Zedong and his arch rival Chiang Kai-shek met in Taiwan in a rare encounter mirroring warming ties between Beijing and Taipei, said the local China Times yesterday. Ms Kong Dongmei, believed to be the first
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    • 425 29 AP FIGHTING GLOBAL WARMING SEOUL South Korea announced its first greenhouse gas reduction target yesterday, pledging to cut emissions of carbon dioxide and other heattrapping gases by 4 per cent below 2005 levels by 2020. The announcement came amid dimming prospects for a
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    • 148 30 'AFP BANGKOK Cambodian officials yesterday allowed Thai diplomats to make their first visit to a Thai national held on charges of spying on former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra. Siwarak Chothipong, 31, an employee at the Cambodia Air Traffic Service, was arrested on Thursday
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    • 304 30 AFP AFTERTHE FLOODS... MANILA High-rise living has suddenly become more popular in Manila after killer storms caused massive flooding in the Philippine capital, property industry officials said yesterday. Businesses are also moving to higher ground to avoid a repeat of the devastation from recent
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    • 148 31 KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia's loansharks are turning to the popular social networking site, Facebook, to humiliate debtors and scare them into paying up. Their new modus operandi involves posting the debtor's identity, photographs, personal information and amount owed to the loansharks, Bernama news agency
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    • 394 31 AFP ENERGY NEEDS Controversy rages over long-debated power source HANOI Vietnam is expected to take a key step towards meeting its burgeoning appetite for electricity by paving the way for its first nuclear power plant, but debate is still raging over the controversial project.
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    • 86 31 AFP Sri Lanka yesterday released a banknote to mark the end of the country's 37-year separatist war, following the crushing of Tamil Tiger rebels in May, the central bank said. The first commemorative note in the 1,000-rupee ($l2) denomination was given to President
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    • EYE ON ASIA
      • 73 34 AFP CHINA The death toll in a massive landslide in north China rose to 23 yesterday, as rescuers battled through the night to clear debris in an apparently fruitless search for survivors. The landslide occurred early on Monday in Shanxi province's Zhongyang county, engulfing six
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      • 78 34 AFP MYANMAR At least 50 people are feared dead after a packed passenger ferry crashed into an oil barge in an area of Myanmar that was hit by a devastating cyclone last year, officials said yesterday. The accident happened late on Sunday when the
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    • 489 34 AFP DOMESTIC WASTE Residents frustrated as Beijing grapples with growing garbage crisis BEIJING Every night, Mrs Wang finds herself shuttered in her northwest Beijing apartment because of the stench from the nearby dump. "For at least one hour, we don't open our windows as the smell
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    • 222 35 AFP WASHINGTON A CNN correspondent said on Monday that she was detained by Chinese security guards in Shanghai for two hours for displaying a T-shirt on camera depicting United States President Barack Obama as Mao Zedong. Ms Emily Chang, a Beijingbased correspondent for the
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    • 311 35 AGENCIES OBAMAVISIT US President's actions in Japan spark criticism at home WASHINGTON Some conservative commentators seized on United States President Barack Obama's deep bow to Japan's Emperor Akihito in Tokyo over the weekend, accusing the US commander in chief of grovelling before a foreign leader. Mr
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    • 383 36 AGENCIES PIRACY Global action has forced pirates to Indian Ocean, says UN secretary-general UNITED NATIONS Intensified international action to tackle ship seizures off the Somali coast is forcing pirates into the Indian Ocean and more recently closer to the Seychelles, said secretary-general Ban Ki Moon in
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    • 600 40  -  DENNIS OVERBYE THENEWYORKTIMES POINTOFVIEW THE National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Nasa) said last week that the world was not ending at least any time soon. Last year, the European Centre for Nuclear Research said the same thing, which I guess is good news for those of us
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    • 188 42 AFP WASHINGTON The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) provides hundreds of millions to Pakistan's spy service, including payments for the capture or killing of wanted militants, reported the Los Angeles Times on Sunday. The ClA's financial support accounts for as much as onethird of the Inter-Services
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    • 442 42 THENEWYORKTIMES NUCLEAR INSPECTORS WASHINGTON International inspectors who gained access to Iran's newly-revealed underground nuclear enrichment plant voiced strong suspicions in a report on Monday that the country was concealing other atomic facilities. The report was the first independent account of what was contained in the
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    • 489 44 fl THE DAILYTELEGRAPH UK CLIMATE CHANGE Global warming, if not checked, will bring fatally erratic weather to Britain LONDON Heatwaves that kill thousands, tropical-style storms and widespread flooding could be regular features of Britain's climate within a generation if global warming is not checked,
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    • 176 45 AFP WASHINGTON The United States Agriculture Department (USDA) on Monday released bleak figures on the state of hunger in the United States, showing that more American families are having difficulty feeding their members. The annual Household Food Security report showed that last year, families
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    • 432 45 'AFP WORLD HUNGER UN summit fails to commit new funds to eradicate hunger ROME A United Nations summit on world hunger drew fire on Monday, even from the head of the UN food agency, for failing to pledge new funds or set a timetable to
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    • 178 46 AFP MADRID Spain and Greece launched vaccination campaigns against Influenza A (H1N1) on Monday, health officials in both countries said. The HINI virus has killed at least 90 people in Spain, while fewer than 10 people have died in Greece. Athens has for weeks
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    • 299 46 AGENCIES MAMMOGRAM STUDY WASHINGTON The United States health authorities issued guidelines on Monday that questioned the benefit of annual screening for breast cancer in women aged 40 to 49 and recommended only biennial mammograms for women over 50. Mammograms, self-breast examinations and clinical examinations are the three
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    • 257 46 AFP WASHINGTON Children who lack a normal fear response are more likely to commit crimes when they grow up, a study published on Monday in the American Journal of Psychiatry suggested. Researchers assessed the "fear conditioning" of nearly 1,800 three-year-olds by
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      • 101 48 THE DAILYTELEGRAPH Women should wear clothes that bare 40 per cent of their flesh to maximise their chances of attracting men, new research indicates. University of Leeds researchers took each arm to account for 10 per cent of the body, each leg for
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      • 89 48 AP What word sums up 2009? How about "unfriend"? That's the New Oxford American Dictionary's 2009 Word of theYear. It means to remove someone as a friend on a social networking website such as Facebook. Each year Oxford University Press tracks how the English
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    • 359 48 AFP VENDOR CONTRACTS Kuwaiti firm accused of elaborate scheme to overcharge United States military WASHINGTON A Kuwaiti firm with US$B.5 billion ($ll.B billion) in contracts to supply food to US troops in the Middle East has been indicted for fraud, accused of taking elaborate measures to
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    • 322 50 THE GUARDIAN LIBYAN LEADER'S VISIT Muammar Gaddafi seeks an unusual audience in Rome ROME When the hostess agency put out a call for attractive, well-dressed women, under the age of 35 and over 1.7m-tall, it was inundated with responses from hundreds of Roman women. Most thought they
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    • 289 52 THE GUARDIAN BRITISHTROOPS IN AFGHANISTAN LONDON British Prime Minister Gordon Brown (picture) on Monday raised the prospect of agreeing on a timetable for international withdrawal from Afghanistan, in a speech in which he claimed that almost half of Al Qaeda's leadership had been killed.
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    • 190 52 AFP KABUL The Afghan authorities and international forces are securing the capital Kabul against Taliban attacks expected to coincide with tomorrow's inauguration of President Hamid Karzai. The city's airport, controlled by Nato's International Security Assistance Force (Isaf) will close for the day. "There will be
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    • 321 53 AFP BRITISH FIELD MANUAL LONDON British soldiers should buy off potential Taliban recruits in Afghanistan with cash, according to a new army field manual published in a newspaper yesterday. Army commanders should also talk to Taliban insurgent leaders with "blood on
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    • 242 53 THE DAILYTELEGRAPH PARIS A decree banning women from wearing trousers in Paris is still technically in force, emerging on Monday, making the laissez-faire French capital theoretically stricter than Sudan in the fashion stakes. The rule, which bans women from dressing like men namely by
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    • 178 53 THE DAILYTELEGRAPH LONDON Terrorist suspects under British control orders have received more than £600,000 ($1.4 million) in taxpayers' money for items including household bills and telephone costs. Home Office figures published show that since April 2007, the department has spent £611,470 on
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    • 203 54 THE DAILYTELEGRAPH MADRID Chocoholics need no longer feel guilty about indulging in their favourite sweet treat a chocolate that helps people slim has been invented in Spain. The confectionary, called Lola, contains chemicals which suppress hunger, while still tasting as rich and satisfying
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    • 294 54 AP SARAH PALIN ON OPRAH CHICAGO Former Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin said in an interview with television host Oprah Winfrey that it is heartbreaking to see the road that Mr Levi Johnston, the father of her grandson, has taken and that the soon-to-be Playgirl
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      • 90 56 AP The United States army will conduct an internal investigation on whether it had missed warning signs about Major Nidal Malik Hasan, the man accused of killing 13 people in the Nov 5 shooting spree at Fort Hood, Texas The Wall Street Journal reported on Monday
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      • 72 56 AP A United Nations appeals court on Monday overturned the conviction of the former Rwandan President's brother-in-law, who had been sentenced to 20 years for organising a massacre that left about 1,000 dead during the 1994 genocide. The judge said serious errors had been made in Mr
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    • 372 56 AGENCIES PARIS BANK HEIST Suspect turns himself in; cash still missing PARIS A French armoured car driver suspected of stealing €11.6 million ($24 million) in cash has turned himself in to authorities in Monaco following a massive manhunt, police in France and Monaco said. Suspect
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    • 272 58  -  Jonathan Lim LEGAL ETHICS Letter from MY MOTHER is 65 years old and has been schizophrenic for a long time. Earlier this year, shortly after my father's death, I received a simple one-page lawyer letter addressed to me and mailed to the residence where my mother and
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    • 723 62  -  SHAMIR OSMAN INTERNATIONAL FOOTBALL Singapore boss Avramovic gives Thailand advance notice of Khairul threat ASIAN CUP, GROUP E QUALIFIER Thailand v Singapore Rajamangala Stadium, Bangkok 6.30pm (7.30pm Singapore time) Delayed telecast on Chs, 11.30pm shamir@mediacorp.com.sg BANGKOK In training sessions ahead of last Saturday's Group E Asian
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    • 332 62  -  SHAMIR OSMAN BANGKOK Thailand boss Bryan Robson called for Thai fans to turn up in force for today's Group E Asian Cup clash with Singapore at the Rajamangala Stadium, here in the capital of the Land of Smiles. And the fans have responded, with organisers
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    • 325 63  -  TANYO-HINN yohinn@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE S-League side Super Reds are set for a total overhaul. The Yishun-based Korean club, which joined Singapore's premier domestic football competition in 2007 as its seventh foreign side, are planning on becoming a local club, with the goal of
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    • 534 63  -  lAN DE COTTA MUAYTHAI Two world title fights and top-ranked exponents to headline Lion City Grand Prix ian@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Virach Suwanarat and Narinder Singh are hoping that two key events they are launching will put Singapore on the international muaythai map. First on their list are
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    • 174 63  -  TANYO-HINN SINGAPORE Bernice Lim remained on course for a spot in the quarter-finals of the 45th QubicaAMF Bowling World Cup in Malaysia. The 17-year-old Singaporean rolled 1,660 pinfalls fora 16-game total of 3,237 yesterday to go into today's final qualifying round in 18th spot
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    • 235 64 AFP PARIS Giovanni Trapattoni's (picture) defiance that the Republic of Ireland can qualify for the 2010 World Cup is being matched by Raymond Domenech's eagerness for his France side to go out and show their "superiority" in a winner-takes-all playoff clash at the Stade de
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    • 506 64 WORLDCUPQUALIFIERS Coach promises Bosnia will be ravenous and ready to attack Portugal in 2nd leg SARAJEVO Bosnia-Herzegovina coach Miroslav Blazevic pledged on Monday that his team would attack Portugal like "hungry wolves", in a bid to reach their first ever World Cup finals. The Bosnians lost
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    • 441 65 AGENCIES Effiga 2oog champ Button set to partner Hamilton at McLaren next season LONDON Jenson Button (picture) has agreed terms to join McLaren on a £6 million ($l4 million) a year deal and could sign his formal three-year contract to partner Lewis Hamilton in an all-British
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      • 132 65 'AFP The dream bout between Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather, two of the best current pound-for-pound fighters in boxing today, looks to be on. Within hours of Pacquiao's defeat of Miguel Cotto on Saturday for the World Boxing Organization welterweight title, his seventh in
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      • 144 65 'THE GUARDIAN Rafael Benitez said on Monday night that he would quit if Fernando Torres is sold against his will. Liverpool's £245 million ($570 million) debt has led to questions about whether their American owners, Tom Hicks and George Gillett, would be tempted to sell, even
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      • 65 65 DPA Germany'sTimo Glock has signed forthe new Formula 1 outfit Manor, the team said yesterday. Glock has agreed a two-year contract with the team with an option for a further year after racing for Toyota forthe last two seasons. The 27-year-old was a free agent
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    • 499 66 SPRINGSINGAPORE PRO-PACK MATERIALS SINGAPORE Pro-Pack Materials has grown from a one-man operation to a leader in clean room and electrostatic products with 13 offices around Asia. At the beginning of this year, it faced challenges brought on by the economic slow down and the shrinking
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    • 782 67 AGENCIES US ECONOMY Bernanke talks up dollar in rare remarks about the greenback NEW YORK The United States Federal Reserve will monitor the sliding US dollar even as it keeps interest rates at record lows to nurture the economic recovery, its chairman Ben Bernanke said on Monday.
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    • 184 69 DOWJONES HONG KONG The unemployment rate in Hong Kong fell marginally in the threemonth period ended October, but economists don't expect a major improvement in the coming months as external demand remains uncertain for the export-reliant territory. The jobless rate was 5.2 per cent in
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    • 326 69 AGENCIES JAPANESE ECONOMY TOKYO -Japan's Deputy Prime Minister Naoto Kan (picture) backpedalled yesterday from a figure of ¥2.7 trillion ($41.9 billion) for the government's upcoming extra budget, saying he decided not to set an upper limit for the time being. Mr Kan's remarks came after
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    • 176 69 BLOOMBERG HONG KONG Yuan forwards fell yesterday for a second day on signs that China was still favouring a stable exchange rate to help exports recover even as foreign pressure intensified. Chinese Vice Foreign Minister He Yafei said a stable yuan had
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      • 84 73 938LIVE CM Domain, a unit of Singapore Press Holdings, has won the tender for a new suburban shopping centre in Clementi with its $54i.g-million bid. The Housing and Development Board said it received a total of six bids for the 99-year leasehold site in
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      • 93 73 938LIVE Singapore-listed logistics provider CWT said it plans to expand its logistics capability with a new integrated logistics hub that may cost up to $100 million. The new CWT Logistics Hub 3, located atTanjong Penjuru, is scheduled for completion in 2011. It will add 830,
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    • 439 74 DOWJONES INTERNATIONAL BONDS SINGAPORE Temasek Holdings, the Singapore Government-owned investment company, returned to the international bond market for the second time this year to raise US$5OO million ($692 million) via a 30-year issue. Temasek priced its Nov 2039 bond on Monday at 99.029 to pay
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    • 244 75  -  TAN HUILENG huileng@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE A unit of Chinese conglomerate Sinohit has bought a 29-per-cent stake in Mainboard-listed marine supply firm Sinwa. The stake comes in two portions a 26.38-per-cent shareholding from Sinwa's executive chairman and CEO Mike Sim and his 91.4-per-cent owned investment firm Evenstar
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    • 406 75  -  CHEOWXINYI PROPOSED RECAPITALISATION PLAN cheowxinyi@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE New developments have emerged amid the clamour for unitholders support by Cambridge Industrial Trust (CIT) and MacarthurCook Industrial (MI) Reit overa proposed recapitalisation plan. In response to charges over its lack of concrete plans, CIT as part of its
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    • 259 75  -  CHEOWXINYI cheowxinyi@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Banking analysts are convinced the appointment of banking veteran Mr Peter Seah as director of DBS Group Holdings' will likely pave the way for him to succeed Mr Koh Boon Hwee as chairman. Considered "the elder statesman" of the
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    • 151 75  -  IRENECHAN SINGAPORE Homegrown private dental healthcare group, Q&M Dental Group, plans to raise net proceeds of $17.9 million through an initial public offering (IPO). It plans to list on the Mainboard and is offering 74 million new shares at 27 cents each. Established in 1996 by
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      • 43 76 40 cents I Buy CIMB keeps call; raises price target to 50 cents from 28 cents. Broker says completion of several acquisitions in fiscal FYO9 ended September will enable maker of beverage products to enlarge production capacity and tap into new markets.
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      • 71 76 $2.66 Sell Deutsche maintains rating and $2.08 price target, saying while commodity firm's almond orchard acquisition complements similar deal in Sept, purchase leads to sizable concentration in one country, one product. Adds high valuation already discounts positives. FROM BROKERAGE RESEARCH AND AGENCY REPORTS Disclaimer: Readers should seek independent financial
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      • 20 76 E Monday 2,783.85 A 2.08% Friday 2,727.23 Thursday 2,726.24 Wednesday 2,740.43 A 0.04% T 0.52% A 1.21%
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    • 535 76  -  TAN HUI LENG CAPITALAND MALLS ASIA Property giant offering 30 per cent of stake in CMA in the second-largest ever IPO here huileng@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Property giant CapitaLand is raising up to $2.8 billion from the listing of its Asian shopping mall unit, CapitaMalls Asia (CMA).
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    • 472 76  -  NG BAOYING baoying@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Singapore's key exports contracted for the 18th straight month falling by 6.1 per cent in October from a year ago. This was much weaker than market expectations of a 0.2-per-cent climb hurt by weak demand from the United States and European Union.
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    • 823 84 TRANSCRIPT COURTESY WARNER BROS IN CINEMAS The Informant! screenwriter Scott Z Burns on why white guys sitting down for lunch isn't lunch, it's a crime scene' STEVEN Soderbergh is responsible for some of the most diverse and daring movies of the last couple of decades. Practically every
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    • 173 85 THE GUARDIAN A ROLL call of British acting talent has been added to the cast list of The King's Speech, a drama about King George Vl's struggles to overcome his stammer. Already on board were Colin Firth as the reluctant monarch, who was pushed
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    • 170 85 THE DAILYTELEGRAPH ACTOR EDWARD WOODWARD DEAD AT 79 Edward Woodward, the veteran actor known for his roles in The Wicker Man and The Equalizer, has died. The 79-year-old had been suffering from various illnesses, including pneumonia, and died in hospital, his agent said in a statement praising
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    • 174 86 AGENCIES KINGS Of Leon drummer Nathan Followill has a queen. The 30-year-old rocker tied the knot with singer Jessie Baylin over the weekend. His bandmates brothers Caleb and Jared Followill and cousin Matthew Followill attended the wedding in Tennessee on Saturday. So did actress
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    • 809 90 THE NEWYORKTIMES PUBLISHED! Sarah Palin reveals her inner bookworm and takes potshots at McCain in her memoir Going Rogue GOING Rogue, the title of Sarah Palin's (picture) erratic new memoir, comes from a phrase used by a disgruntled McCain aide to describe her going off-message
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    • 353 96 THE GUARDIAN POP LIFE Is Robbie Williams back for good with Take That? ROBBIE Williams joined Take That on stage for a charity concert in London but stopped short of performing with his former band. Take That opened the Children In Need concert, organised by Gary Barlow,
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