Today, 26 November 2009

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    20 1 TODAY Thursday November 26, 2009 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking TODAY Thursday November 26, 2009 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking
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    S'poreans keen on getting jabbed for both HINI and seasonal flu
    726 1  -  ALICIA WONG alida@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Even as Singaporeans are signing up for HINI vaccinations, demand for the seasonal flu jab has also spiked with some clinics reporting up to double the usual demand. The increase is believed to come from
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    Look for a 'better fit'
    600 1  -  LOHCHEEKONG SINGAPORE COMPETITIVENESS REPORT Rather than aim for scientific breakthroughs, sell knowledge: Researchers cheekong@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The buzz words "innovation" and "productivity" have long been bandied about, in Singapore's relentless quest to stay ahead. Now it turns out the key to this could lie in fundamentally
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      127 1 J "S Ai /-ft) I Thesame I VQ\ |^(Hl| 9°odnessMICA (P) 160/10/2009 A PUBLICATION OF /A=DIACORP NEWS HOTLINE 6822 2268 Ifltlllii:t?patltn 5 Today you wiN witness the beautiful I till VI g. transformation of Dutch Lady Milk's packaging as it incorporates its new look. Its sleek and jP|l s" attractive
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  • NEWS
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      Lock icon New shopping option coming to Johor
      334 2 AGENCIES TOP BRANDS AT BOTTOM DOLLAR Centre is the first Chelsea outlet mall in Asean region NEW YORK The throngs of Singaporeans who cross the Causeway will soon have another attraction to head for. The "world-class premium factory outlet" that had been reported to
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      Lock icon Body found near Geylang
      476 3  -  TEOXUANWEI MISSING CHILD 31-year-old man to be charged today with murder xuanwei@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The decomposed body of a six-year-old boy, who had gone missing since last Wednesday, was found near his home in Kallang Bahru yesterday morning. Muhammad Nor Rashidy Rahmat's body, stuffed in a trolley
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      Lock icon Inequality will be a more pressing challenge
      316 4  -  LOHCHEE KONG SINGAPORE COMPETITIVENESS REPORT SINGAPORE With an income gap already wider than that in the "vast majority of other advanced economies", inequality in Singapore will likely grow and strain its "cohesive social model", warned the compilers of the Singapore Competitiveness Report. "The
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      Transport courses at new institute
      128 6 SINGAPORE A new accredited educational institution has been launched to offer training programmes to those looking to join the public transport industry. The SMRT Institute will develop and deliver transport related multi-discipli-nary training programmes. It is aimed at serving as a resource to transport operators,
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      Set commission, scope of work?
      506 6  -  TAN HUI LENG REAL ESTATE INDUSTRY These are among several suggestions for new regulatory framework huileng@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE A property seller signs a commission agreement to pay the property agent 2 per cent on the deal but later complains to the Singapore Accredited Estate Agencies (SAEA),
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      Society for Physically Disabled needs $2.8m
      436 8 CHARITY SHOWS Donations down 30 per cent, while awareness has not improved significantly SINGAPORE Donations to help the disabled have been flagging. And despite concerted efforts to raise awareness, the way Singaporeans view people with disabilities still has not improved significantly in the last
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      Lock icon Hazy conditions disrupt air travel in China
      327 8 AGENCIES BEIJING Poor visibility delayed about 280 domestic and international flights serving Beijing yesterday, the capital's airport said, following several days of heavy air pollution. The flight woes underline China's environmental problems ahead of a global summit next month on climate change. Visibility
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      Lock icon The Arroyo connection
      487 10 AGENCIES MASSACRE INTHE PHILIPPINES Police name political ally as prime suspect COTABATO A political ally of Philippine President Gloria Arroyo has been named as the prime suspect in an electionlinked massacre that left nearly 60 people dead. "According to the initial reports, those who were abducted and
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      Lock icon Protests too close to King's birthday
      499 12 AGENCIES CANCELLED DEMONSTRATION Investors relieved over aborted march by the Red Shirts BANGKOK Thai supporters of fugitive former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra yesterday called off rallies due to start this weekend, after he said the protests were too close to the king's birthday. The
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      NKF'S INVESTMENTS ARE ABSOLUTELY SAFE, SAYS CHAIRMAN
      209 15 The National Kidney Foundation (NKF)'s investments are placed with two major fund managers that provide capital protection and third-party bank guarantees, making them "absolutely safe", said chairman Gerard Ec yesterday. He gave this assurance when asked about NKF having to dip into its
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      Lock icon He urged wife to go for surgery
      456 15  -  NEOCHAICHIN REIMBURSED DONORTRANSPLANT chaichin@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE In 13 years of marriage, MrTeo Eng Hong has never given his wife a rose. But recently the store clerk gave her something much better his kidney. MrTeo, 51, is the first organ donor to be reimbursed under
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      GIVE YOUR TEXT BOOKS A SECOND HOME
      147 16 It's the end of the school year, and for students and parents wondering what to do with used textbooks, they can drop them off at any NTUC Fair Price outlet. Although the project is into its 27th year, it is having a slow
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      Lock icon Multi-tasking in the loo
      388 16 PFIZER SMOKING POLL SINGAPORE One in five smokers here have smoked, or would do so, in a public toilet. Why? "To save time by multi-tasking in the toilet" or because public toilets were "the most convenient place to smoke", were the most common reasons given in
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      Open verdict on worker's water tank death
      205 18  -  SHAFFIQALKHATIB SINGAPORE A State Coroner has recorded an open verdict on the death of a foreign worker found lying at the bottom of a water tank of a tanker berthed at Keppel Shipyard on the Aug 15 last year. This was because of
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      Did she jump?
      305 18  -  SHAFFIQALKHATIB TEEN'S DEATH SINGAPORE The family members of a 17-year-old girl who fell to her death from Block 519, Bedok North Aye 1, said she had given no sign of wanting to commit suicide. Ms Candice Goh Hui Vi, they claimed, had a low tolerance for pain
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      POWER IN YOUR HANDS
      461 19 PHOTO JOURNEYS WITH U^ In Jino Lee's opinion, the new Canon Power Shot S9O is a "truly superb point-and-shoot camera''According to the experienced photographer, what he values most in his cameras is the image quality they yield and reliability. The Canon Power Shot S9O scores high
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      Quick wit foils scam
      313 20 KIDNAP CHEATS SINGAPORE A quick-thinking bank teller and a remittance centre helped foil a kidnap scam attempt to cheat a 55-year-old housewife of $30,000. On Monday, the victim got a call at home from a man with a heavy Chinese accent. He claimed her son had
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  • WORLD
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      PM meets Mandelson
      124 22  -  IMELDASAAD LONDON Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong met the United Kingdom's First Secretary of State and Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, Lord Peter Mandelson in London yesterday. Both men discussed issues related to the financial crisis and the banking sector. And following Singapore's recent
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      SM reaffirms ties with Laos
      143 22  -  HOEYEEN NIE VIENTIANE Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong, who is in Laos for an official visit, called on the country's President Choummaly Sayasone yesterday. Both leaders reaffirmed the close bilateral relations between Singapore and Laos. In particular, Mr Choummaly expressed appreciation for Singapore's technical help.
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      Another SAF team for Oruzgan
      247 22 OVERSEAS MISSIONS 13-man team to provide medical support to security forces, locals SINGAPORE On the heels of other successful deployments to Afghanistan, the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) will next month send a 13-man medical team to a field hospital in Tarin Kowt, Oruzgan, for a
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      Instant messaging — boon or bane?
      149 23  - Instant messaging boon or bane? SAIFULBAHRI ISMAIL SINGAPORE Half of respondents in a local poll by Windows Live Messenger say they use instant messaging at work, and close to 60 per cent think such programmes raise productivity. Mr Barry Tan, 28, works in the finance sector and uses instant messaging
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      Lock icon COURTS LENDS A HANDTOWE ARE ONE PROJECT
      137 23  -  EVELYN CHOO; It is less than a week to the finale of the 'We Are One' project, and organisers are rallying help from some very able students. Pre-schoolers from the Modern Montessori International School are adding the final touches to their latest project
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      A dose of reality for trainee policemen
      252 23  -  SATISH CHENEY SINGAPORE When it comes to training, the men in blue are now getting a dose of reality television only it is more real and stressful. Police officer training has taken on a new dimension as trainees will now have to undergo
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      A reel way to learn
      367 24 SINGAPORE FILM-MAKERS 20 to get the chance to hone their skills on site SINGAPORE They are the world's largest television and film studios, where blockbusters like The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor and The Forbidden Kingdom were made. And soon, some Singapore film-makers will
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      Lock icon Obama toasts 'indispensable' India
      466 26 AFP US-INDIATIES US President to build future of security and prosperity'with India's Prime Minister WASHINGTON United States President Barack Obama on Tuesday threw the biggest party of his presidency for Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, hailing the world's largest democracy as "indispensable" and pledging to work
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      Lock icon Obama expected to promise up to 35,000 more troops
      182 26 THE GUARDIAN WASHINGTON United States President Barack Obama vowed on Tuesday to "finish the job" in Afghanistan, as it became clear that he is poised to announce early next week the deployment of up to 35,000 more troops to the troubled
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      Lock icon Hindraf members on hunger strike
      188 28 THE MALAYSIAN INSIDER KUALA LUMPUR About two dozen Hindu Rights Action Force (Hindraf) supporters gathered in Kuala Lumpur yesterday (picture) to take part in a hunger strike to mark the second anniversary of Hindraf s mass rally. Yesterday, two years ago, about 30,000 Indians took
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      Lock icon VP dismisses bailout concerns
      282 28 AFP 6.7 TRILLION RUPIAH LIFELINE JAKARTA Indonesia's VicePresident denied yesterday any wrongdoing in a contentious bank bailout at the centre of the country's latest corruption scandal. Mr Boediono, the former head of the central bank said he stood by the decision to authorise the 6.7-trillion-rupiah ($9BO
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      Lock icon 7 charged in Pakistan
      180 30 .AFP MUMBAI ATTACKS ISLAMABAD A Pakistani court yesterday charged seven suspects in connection with the Mumbai attacks that killed 166 people one year ago, a defence lawyer said. The men were indicted at an anti-ter-rorism court in a high security prison in the city of Rawalpindi
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      Lock icon Anwar wins libel suit against newspaper
      130 30 AP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim won a defamation suit yesterday against a government-linked newspaper over an article that he said portrayed him as untrustworthy. Mr Anwar sued the New Straits Times over a 2002 article titled "Anwar's link to US lobbyist",
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      Lock icon Operation no longer a snip
      336 34 'AFP SEXCHANGE BANGKOK Punlop Tongchai is awake for the entire two hours it takes to be turned into a woman on the operating table of a sex change clinic, realising a childhood dream. The 27-year-old Thai cabaret dancer chats to nurses throughout the ordeal under
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      Lock icon Official charged with closing Guantanamo quits
      176 40 THE NEWYORKTIMES WASHINGTON The United States Defense Department official in charge of closing the military prison at Guantanamo Bay has resigned after only seven months, the Pentagon said on Tuesday. Mr Phillip Carter, who was named Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defence for detainee policy
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      Lock icon No broadcasts unless they win
      325 40 THE DAILYTELEGRAPH N KOREA'S WORLD CUP EXPERIENCE LONDON North Korean leader Kirn Jong II has banned the World Cup from being shown in his country unless they win. The Supreme Leader has ordered state-run television not to broadcast live games, and to only screen highlights
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      Lock icon Coconut crackdown
      267 42 AFP RIO BEACH BAN RIO DE JANEIRO One of the enduring images of Rio's beaches coconuts opened to yield their sweet water is about to become a thing of the past under a new clean-up campaign by the authorities. The environment secretariat of the host city of the
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      Lock icon The spy who messed up
      253 45 AFP SECRET SERVICE JERUSALEM An apprentice spy for Israel's once vaunted Mossad overseas intelligence service was arrested by rank and file police during an abortive training exercise in the country's metropolis of Tel Aviv. "Let's hope the Mossad is more effective abroad," commented Israel's commercial
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      Lock icon Japan to send HINI experts to Canada
      200 45 AFP TOKYO Japan plans to send a team of health experts to Canada to investigate allergic reactions to Influenza A (H1N1) vaccinations from GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), a government official said yesterday. Japan has ordered doses of GSK-made vaccinations for 37 million people, a shipment
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      Lock icon Santas press for HINI vaccinations
      218 45 AP CONCORD (New Hampshire) Forget cookies and milk. Santa wants the Influenza A (H1N1) vaccine. Many of America's Santas want to be given priority for the vaccine and not just because of those runny-nosed kids. There's also the not-so-little matter of that round belly. Research
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      Lock icon Italy PM s amazing' stamina
      314 46 THE DAILYTELEGRAPH D'ADDARIO'S NEW BOOK ROME Miss Patrizia D'Addario, the prostitute who claims to have slept with Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, has told in her book of her amazement at the 73-year-old Prime Minister's stamina. In an explosive book, which went on sale in
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      Breed passion, medals will follow
      492 50  -  Roland Ang KokSiang A DEARTH OF LOCAL SPORTING TALENT? Letter from I REFER to the letters "How to save football" and "Sorry, foreign talent is still the way to go" (Nov 24). I disagree with both writers on the need to aggressively import top-class players
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      164 52  -  Sharon Chan Letter from Asst Director (Central Nature Reserve), National Parks Board WE REFER to the letter, "Monkeys outside reservoir area" (Nov 23). Mr Chin Kee Thou suggests that tree pruning and construction work at Macßitchie have driven monkeys into housing estates. From our observations, the
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      Satisfied? Then why are more buying cars?
      221 52  -  Ooi Chun How PUBLICTRANSPORT Letter from USER satisfaction in Singapore's public transport system rose from 84 per cent in 2006 to 89.5 per cent last year, according to the Household Interview Travel Survey 2008 released last month. Yet public transport's share of trips
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      Train fares based on 'most logical route': SMRT
      156 52  -  Bernadette Low Letter from Manager, Corporate Marketing and Communications, SMRT Corporation I REFER to the letter "Rationale behind fare pricing unclear" by MrJohnTeo (Nov9). All public transport fares are regulated by the Public Transport Council. In Singapore, train fares are calculated based
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      FOCUS ON THE FAMILY
      192 54  -  DR JAMES DOBSON BY.... BEES AND FLIES: AN EXPERIMENT I recently heard about an experiment in which 12 bees were placed in a jar in a darkened room. A light was beamed through the bottom of the glass, and then the top lid was removed. Instinctively,
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      239 54  -  Chee Kheng Chye LIFTUPGRADING PROGRAMME Letter from Deputy Director (Upgrading Programmes Management) Housing and Development Board (HDB) WE THANK Mr Ryman Lim for his feedback on the newly-upgraded lifts (picture) at Block 340 Clementi Aye 5 ("Not wheelchairfriendly at all", Nov 5). The
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      238 54  -  Chan-Wong Jee Choo Lily Letter from Deputy Director (Policy and Property) Housing and Development Board (HDB) WE REFER to "A home to call your own" (Nov 9) by Mr Conrad Raj and the letter "Too many risks" (Nov 12) by Ms Elise Lee. Mr
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      Lock icon A dark day for Liverpool
      376 56 AGENCIES EUROPEAN FOOTBALL Reds look for silver lining after early European exit as Benitez gets club's backing CHAMPIONS LEAGUE, GROUP E Debrecen o Liverpool i BUDAPEST Liverpool's supporters were defiant until the bitter end, hoping against hope for news of a miracle in Florence that
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      Lock icon Former Liaoning coaches held in China
      111 56 AFP BEIJING Police in Liaoning province have detained at least 16 people in a crackdown on organised gambling in football, Xinhua reported yesterday. They include club managers Wang Kin and Ding Zhe, who were linked to a 2007 match-fixing scandal that led to the
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      Lock icon KEEP YOUR HEAD, REDS
      380 57  -  DAVID NGIAU POINTOFVIEW Sacking Benitez is the worst thing Liverpool could do right now deputy sports editor david@mediacorp.com.sg ANFIELD will despair. There will be no more midweek European nights featuring storied sides like Barcelona, AC Milan, Bayern Munich, Juventus and Real Madrid. Not for the current
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      Lock icon Bullish Barca, impotent Inter
      487 58 AGENCIES EUROPEAN FOOTBALL Defending champs top Group F with classy win CHAMPIONS LEAGUE, GROUP F Barcelona 2 Inter Milan o BARCELONA No Lionel Messi, no Zlatan Ibrahimovic, no problem. As the final whistle went on Tuesday night (yesterday morning, Singapore time), the nerves that had gripped
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      Mardan, Lam look to women paddlers for inspiration
      297 59 SINGAPORE Since its inception in 1953, Singapore's best finish at the World Cup of golf was in 1984, when Lim Swee Wah and Lim Kian Tiong finished joint-lOth. That is a record Lam Chih Bing and Mardan Mamat will aim to improve
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      Parker cracks 50m breaststroke mark again
      187 59  -  TANYO-HINN SINGAPORE National swimmer Parker Lam has lowered the Singapore record in the men's 50m breaststroke yet again. The 20-year-old clocked 28.035 ec yesterday to win the final at the ongoing Asian Swimming Championships in Foshan, China, re-writing the previous mark of 28.085, which
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      99 57 SPORTS ON TV RADIO TODAY 1.30 am NFL Packers v Lions, Ch 117 Bam NHL MapieLeafs v am nis World Tour Finals, Ch 22 Lightning, Ch 117 NFL Raiders v Cowboys, 10.30 am NHL Kings v Oilers, Ch 117 Ch 117 11.45 am Golf Omega Mission Hills 9am NFL Giants
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      70 59 Italian Cup Palermo Reggina Fri, 27/11/09 3.30 am A League Central Coast Perth Glory Fri, 27/11/09 5.00pm German League matches are also on sale. For more details, please check Singapore Pools webs He. IpLAYrt Always play with care. SfjGWORE [responsibly Do not bet illegally. Totuards Comrnunit NopersonundertheageoflByearsshallbe rurpoxmdßoicnt allowed to
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      491 60  -  ROBIN BATCHELOR THE NEW ENERGY SECTOR THE new energy sector continues to benefit from government-mandated growth targets which aim to combat climate change and promote energy security. Despite this support, new energy equities continue to be affected by broader market volatility, as well as the
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      190 60 c I j— SINGAPORE EXPO .f > I I t />v HALLS 5,6, FOYER 2 YOUR DIGITAL PLAYGROUND 26 -29 November 2009 \2^) cBOOQ 11am-9pm FREE ADMISSION Singapore's Longest Running Consumer IT Exhibition since 1988 www.sitex.com.sg A @°™f Tech Lucky Dip "All I Want for %£"T^ V'moQ" nraui 19 For
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      Lock icon Bailout rethink
      387 62 AP US BANKING WASHINGTON Big United States banks are roaring back. At crisis' edge last year, they are repaying ahead of schedule billions of dollars dumped into their vaults to rescue them. With large bets on bonds, commodities and exotic financial products, big banks are reporting third-quarter profits.
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      Lock icon Smallest fall in a year
      410 67 BLOOMBERG JAPAN EXPORTS TOKYO —Japan's exports fell at the slowest pace in a year last month as worldwide government spending boosted demand, sustaining the economic recovery. Shipments abroad slid 23.2 per cent from a year earlier, compared with a 30.6-per-cent decline in September, the Finance
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      Lock icon 6.4 billion yuan share sale planned
      353 68 BLOOMBERG CHINASHIPBUILDING BEIJING China Shipbuilding Industry, the nation's largest maker of vessel equipment, plans to raise at least 6.4 billion yuan ($1.3 billion) selling shares as China tries to pare its reliance on Japanese and Korean marine engines. The company will use the Shanghai
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      Lock icon Nomura fined for derivatives breach
      198 68 BLOOMBERG TOKYO The United Kingdom unit of Nomura Holdings, Japan's largest brokerage, was fined £1.75 million ($4 million) yesterday by the Financial Services Authority in London for falling short of expected standards in valuing financial instruments in its international equity derivative business. So-called mis-marking in
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      A new manager for Global Investments
      272 71  -  JONATHAN PEERIS CORPORATE SHAKEUP jonathanpeeris@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Shareholders of Mainboardlisted Global Investments yesterday supported the proposal of the company's independent directors to appoint ST Asset Management, a unit of investment firm Temasek Holdings, as the new manager of the trust. ST Asset Management will replace
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      Fund to start trading on SGX
      263 71 SINGAPORE UOB Asset Management and China Securities Index said its United SSE 50 China Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) will be listed on the Singapore Exchange (SGX) from today. The performance of the ETF will now track the Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE) 50 Index, which
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        SGX, TAIWAN MARKET SIGN MOU
        70 71 Singapore Exchange (SGX) and Taiwan's GreTai Securities Market have agreed to work together to develop their respective capital markets. Both sides have signed an MoLJ to foster greater communication between both exchanges through various areas, including staff exchange, training and the sharing of information related
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        PLOT UP FOR SALE
        85 71 The Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) has released for sale a site at Kaki Bukit Avenue 4 for industrial development. Developers interested in purchasing the site can now apply to URA for it to be put up for tender. The land parcel at Kaki Bukit Avenue 4
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      Lock icon Manufacturing output likely up
      141 73 DOWJONES SINGAPORE ECONOMY SINGAPORE Singapore's manufacturing output likely rose in October from a year earlier as the pharmaceutical sector reversed its heavy output contraction from the previous month. A median forecast of a Dow Jones Newswires poll of seven economists tips output to have risen 6.3
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      Crane specialist Hiap Tong plans IPO
      218 73 SINGAPORE Home-grown hydraulic mobile crane specialist, Hiap Tong Group, plans to raise net proceeds of $7.9 million in an initial public offering here. The firm plans to list on SGX's Catalist board and it's offering 38 million new shares at 26 cents each. Established
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      Keppel O&M secures 2 contracts worth about $165 million
      297 73 SINGAPORE Keppel Offshore and Marine has secured two contracts worth about $165 million, won through its subsidiaries. The first project, secured by Keppel Shipyard from repeat customer Petrobras Netherlands, is for the pre-conversion of a floating production storage and offloading vessel.
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        26 74 Buy $2.11 DBS Vickers keeps call, raises price target to $2.77 after increasing FY2OIO-11 earnings forecasts, applying higher valuation metrics to reflect improved earnings visibility.
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        JARDINE STRATEGIC
        74 74 Overweight U5517.96 HSBC starts call with U5522.00 price target. Expects HK-based conglomerate's property, retail business to benefit from Hong Kong's economic rebound. Notes group's 27 per cent annualised shareholder return, 18 per cent EPS CAGR over past 10 years. FROM BROKERAGE RESEARCH AND AGENCY REPORTS Disclaimer: Readers should
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        20 74 E Tuesday Monday Friday 2,779-98 2,797.88 2,716.54 T 0.64% A 1.32% A 0.10% Thursday 2,758-79 A 0.50%
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