Today, 30 December 2009, Afternoon Edition

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    20 1 TODAY Wednesday December 30, 2009 Www tod^i $et you thinking TODAY Wednesday December 30, 2009 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking
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      Lock icon US undone by 'systemic failure'
      663 1 AGENCIES AFTERNOON LATEST Obama wants explanation for lapse within 48 hours IILULU United States PresiObama yesterday blamed a :mic failure" in the nation's rity apparatus for the attemptbombing of a passenger jet i Christmas Day and vowed to lentify the problems and "deal /vith them
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  • NEWS
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      Lock icon Cut our nukes? Not till the other guy blinks, says Putin
      510 2 THE DAILYTELEGRAPH MOSCOW President Barack Obama's drive for the United States and Russia to agree cuts in nuclear weapons is under threat after Mr Vladimir Putin insisted the US abandons its missile shield before a final deal can be
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      A special little red dot
      326 2  -  HOEYEEN NIE MINISTER MENTOR MM Lee: S #pore must retain independent point of view SINGAPORE China may become an advanced world power in 50 years' time, but this does not mean Singapore will be squeezed out, Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew said. At a dialogue
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      Lock icon 'Twas a cold Christmas for these ladies
      324 2  -  NEOCHAICHIN chaichin@mediacorp.com.sg ANTARCTICA She is 20 kilometres from the Geographic South Pole and hours away from making history as the first Singaporean woman to ski there. As part of the Kaspersky Commonwealth Antarctic Expedition team, Ms Sophia Pang, 37, has not had a
      COMMONWEALTH EXPEDITION; COURTESY KASPERSKY  -  324 words
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      Asset that keeps growing
      626 3  -  ESTHER NG MAH BOWTAN INTERVIEW estherng@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE For those would-be flat buyers who hope property prices do not rise, National Development Minister Mah Bow Tan paints an alternative scenario. Would they prefer a fixed-price system, whereby home-owners, when they want to sell their Housing and Development
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      Electricity tariff to go up
      141 3 SINGAPORE The electricity tariff for households is set to increase by 5.4 per cent or 1.18 cents per kWh from January to March next year, SP Services said in a statement yesterday. The increase is due largely to higher energy cost brought on by higher
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      Lock icon Petrol prices up again
      74 3 SINGAPORE Pump prices here have gone up on the back of rising global oil prices. Shell was the first to raise prices by 4 cents on Monday afternoon, followed shortly by ExxonMobil which increased prices for some petrol grades. Yesterday morning, Caltex also followed suit, upping
      BLOOMBERG  -  74 words
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      Copyright law and the digital revolution
      479 4  -  ANSLEYNG RECORDTV VS MEDIACORP CASE High Court judge lays out grounds of judgment ansley@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Copyright laws in future may be "completely unrecognisable" from what you see today, noted a High Court judge who has spelt out the grounds of judgment for a case
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    • SINGAPORE ROUNDUP
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        Lock icon LIGHT GREY BERET FOR VISIBILITY
        103 4 Starting today, Public Transport Security Command (TransCom) officers will be donning a new light grey beret instead of the usual blue. The change will renderTransCom officers patrolling the crowded MRT stations and bus interchanges more visible. Transcom commissioned as an independent specialist unit within the
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        CONSTRUCTION FIRMS FINED
        104 4 Two construction firms have been taken to task for violating workplace safety. Xuyi Building Engineering was fined $60,000 for failing to take adequate steps to prevent falls at the Sentosa Cove construction site. A worker was injured after falling from a height on Oct 18. Ho Pak
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      2010: GOING BEYOND THE ECONOMY
      950 6  -  EUGENE TAN POINTOFVIEW Next year may well be one in which the economy will share the limelight with politics in Singapore THIS year was expected to be a year of economic doom and gloom. Yet, notwithstanding a few hard knocks, Singapore is likely to come
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      Ensuring a safe party
      602 8 NEWYEAR'S COUNTDOWN More than a quarter of a million people expected to turn up SINGAPORE It's that time of the year again when, with over 250,000 people expected to throng the Marina Bay area for the countdown bash, the police are taking steps to ensure a
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      Lock icon SANDS SKYPARK FINAL PIECE IN PLACE
      55 8 KOHMUI FONG The final piece of the Marina Bay Sands IR'sSkyParkwas put in place yesterday. Sitting some 200m in the air, the SkyPark will feature a public observation deck, landscaped gardens, outdoor pools and various F&B options. The Marina Bay Sands IR is slated
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      NTUC's Little Ones@Work scheme has been expanded
      243 8  -  WANG ENG ENG ASHA POPATLAL AND engeng@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE A year on, an initiative that opens up the workplace to children has attracted 40 companies. Little Ones@Work, where employees are encouraged to take their children to work on designated days, was launched to highlight
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    • Article
      Suspected robbers nabbed
      179 10 SINGAPORE The police have nabbed four youth, aged 17 and 18, for suspected involvement in robbery cases at Serangoon and Ang Mo Kio estates. On Dec 16, a 31-year-old woman was robbed by three youth at the void deck of Block 232A, Serangoon Avenue 3 at about
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      Lock icon He offered 'U-turn services'
      322 10  -  ANSLEYNG EX-ICA OFFICER'S BRIBERY CASE ansley@mediacorp.com. sg SINGAPORE For a small sum of money, a senior immigration officer provided "U-turn services" to certain foreigners re-entering Singapore. Female Chinese nationals who had just left Singapore would be told to queue at the booth manned by Mah Chin
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      Cisco officers have it rough with former sportsman
      311 10  -  ANSLEYNG SINGAPORE A former sportsman-turned-convicted match fixer is in court again, this time for hurting two Certis Cisco officers and hurling vulgarities at them at the airport. Wilson Raj Perumal, 44, pleaded guilty yesterday and was convicted for ramming his body against
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      460 11 fl I I I SWITCH TO M1 FOR BETTER VALUE, NETWORK AND GENUINE CUSTOMER SERVICE THAT YOU DESERVE www.ml.com.sg/blackberry Zm Jis\ Phone Promotions: Customers have a choice of either a Take3 contract or a 2-year handset contract for the above advertised phone offer. See www.ml.com.sg/take3 for full details on Take3.
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  • WORLD
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      Lock icon China executes Briton
      394 12 AFP, THE DAILYTELEGRAPH CONVICTED DRUGTRAFFICKER Brown blasts decision, Beijing defends use of capital punishment LONDON A Briton was executed by lethal injection in China yesterday for drug smuggling despite last-minute pleas for clemency. Prime Minister Gordon Brown said he was "appalled and disappointed" by the execution of
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      Lock icon MAN 'WAS DELUDED BY DREAMS OF POP STARDOM IN CHINA'
      266 12 AFP The British national executed in China yesterday, Akmal Shaikh (picture), was so delusional before his arrest that he thought he would find fame as a pop star in China, said his lawyers. Shaikh ran a mini-cab business in London
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      Lock icon Hospital loses against Indonesian Facebook mum
      268 12 AFP JAKARTA An Indonesian court yesterday threw out a hospital's criminal defamation case against a mother of two who sent emails to her friends complaining about a wrong diagnosis. Bank worker Prita Mulyasari, 32, broke into tears and the court erupted with applause as
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      Lock icon Leadership vacuum hampers security
      471 14 AGENCIES US INTERNAL SECURITY WASHINGTON Two federal agencies charged with keeping potential terrorists off aircraft and out of the United States have been without their top leaders for nearly a year. It took the Obama administration more than eight months to nominate anyone to lead the
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      Lock icon Terror suspect still in Yemen in December
      255 14 AGENCIES SANAA Yemen confirmed yesterday that Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, 23, who has been charged with trying to blow up a United States-bound airliner, was in Yemen earlier this month, after the local Al Qaeda branch claimed the attempted bombing. "He stayed in Yemen
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      Lock icon Clear benefits of see-through fish
      171 16 AFP CUTTING AWAY FROM DISSECTIONS TOKYO First came see-through frogs. Now Japanese researchers have produced goldfish whose beating hearts can be seen through translucent scales and skin. The creatures are part of efforts to reduce the need for dissections, which have become increasingly controversial, particularly
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    • GLOBAL ROUNDUP
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        Lock icon HMONG SAGA: THAIS BREACHED LAW, SAYS UN
        79 16 AFP Thailand has breached international law by forcing 158 recognised Hmong refugees, mainly children, back to Laos along with thousands of asylum-seekers, the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) said yesterday. The group, which had been held in a detention centre in Nong Khai for
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        Lock icon M'SIA FINES GAMBLERS FOR SONGBIRD FIGHTS
        90 16 AFP Malaysian courts have fined a total of 27 men for betting on a cage fight using popular songbirds, Oriental Magpie Robins, The Star reported yesterday. The men pleaded guilty to charges of cruelty to animals after admitting their involvement in the cage fight,
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        NOORDIN'S RELATIVES NAMED SUSPECTS
        93 16 Indonesian police have named Noordin Top's father-in-law and brother-in-law as suspects for allegedly hiding the terrorist while he was on the run from the authorities, the Jakarta Post reported yesterday. Police chief detective Ito Sumardi said that explosives had been found at Baridin Latiefs home in
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        Lock icon FIRST GAY MARRIAGE IN LATIN AMERICA
        101 16 AFP Two men from Argentina have become the first homosexuals to legally marry in Latin America, after the governor of southernmost Tierra del Fuego province allowed them to wed. Though the Argentine civil code does not recognise samesex marriages, a court had approved the
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      Lock icon Access denied
      406 18 AGENCIES INTERNET PORN IN INDIA DELHI It may have given the world the Kama Sutra, but it appears that India is not yet ready to be exposed to the delicate subject of sex on the Internet. An investigation by The Guardian newspaper has discovered that several Internet companies
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      Lock icon Pakistan mourns 43 killed in attack
      156 18 AFP KARACHI Pakistan's financial capital Karachi shut down yesterday to mourn its worst attack in two years and count the cost of rioting after a suicide bomber killed 43 people at a Shia Muslim procession. Security was tight as thousands of people gathered in
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      Lock icon Iran blames US, Britain
      268 20 AGENCIES IRANIAN DEMONSTRATIONS West accused of fomenting protests TEHRAN Iran is accusing Western countries of fomenting this week's violent protests in the capital and says it is summoning Britain's ambassador to file a complaint. Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast said yesterday the deadly clashes were the
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      Lock icon Israeli police arrest nuclear whistleblower Vanunu
      212 20 AGENCIES JERUSALEM Nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu was ordered to be put under house arrest yesterday after being charged with violating a condition of his 2004 release from an Israeli prison. Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said Vanunu met with "a number of foreigners", something he
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      Lock icon Big first year tires Obama
      562 24 AP PRESIDENTIAL FATIGUE WASHINGTON After a sleepless, overnight flight to Oslo to accept the Nobel Peace Prize earlier this month, President Barack Obama made a not altogether surprising admission. He was tired. Who could blame him? Mr Obama was on his ninth foreign trip to
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      Lock icon Broadcasters' woes could spell trouble for free TV
      230 24 AP NEW YORK For more than 60 years, United States television stations have broadcast news, sports and entertainment for free and made their money by showing commercials. That might not work much longer. The business model is unravelling at ABC, CBS, NBC
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      223 18 STATE OF KUWAIT MINISTRY OF HEALTH The Ministry of Health, State of Kuwait has the following opening for their Laboratory Department. SPECIALISTS IN HISTOPATHOLOGY CYTOLOGY Qualification: 1. Bachelor 2. Doctorate or its equivalent Experience: Total: 10 years experience since graduation 3 years in the speciality REGISTRARS IN CYTOLOGY Qualification: 1.
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      449 20 Ageing skin needs a helping hand. Ageing skin is sensitive to moisture and is also fragile to pressure, rubbing and shearing. Thus, consistent skincare is essential to help maintain better skin condition and the wellbeing of elderly, incontinent individuals. Here are some tips to prevent incontinence-related skin problems for your
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      Time for a tougher approach
      288 26  -  Philip Ang KILLER LITTER Letter from I REFER to the recent attention on killer litter. After tens of thousands of warning letters, the Housing and Development Board (HDB) prefers to continue with its soft approach. Must the cycle of another incident-followed-by-public relations continue? The HDB's
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      Golden opportunity for terminal at Golden Mile Complex
      175 26  -  John Tan Teck Yong Letter from I REFER to, "Boon Lay welcomes a cooler bus interchange" (Dec 28). I would like to suggest to the Land Transport Authority and relevant authorities that instead of spending money and resources tearing down the temporary
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      FOCUS® ON THE FAMILY
      138 28  -  DR BILL MAIER BY DOG BITES YOU say your dog's bark is worse than its bite? Well, that's probably true but don't take it for granted, especially around children. Nearly 60-per-cent of all dog bites in Australia happen to children. The majority of them occur at
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      Tweak this extra benefit
      285 28  -  James Ang ADDITIONAL HOUSING GRANT Letter from J I WAS fortunate to be eligible for the CPF Housing Grant in 2003 when I bought a Housing and Development Board (HDB) resale flat. I opted for the $40,000 grant due to its proximity to my mother's house.
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      More winners, fewer losers
      106 28  -  Lee Kok Lin Letter from LOTTERIES are an integral part of any society because human beings are basically greedy. However, the odds of winning are stacked heavily against the punters and the big prize winners are hugely outnumbered by the number of losers. One way to
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      When race does not matter
      119 28  -  M Lukshumayeh Letter from I REFER to the show Uthavikku Varalaama, which was telecast on Vasantham on Dec 28, and applaud the channel for its efforts to assist people in hardship like the two elderly men featured in the episode. The men, one 86 years
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      63 26 /V\=LJJJ-\CORP MediaCorp NewsHub TV Building, 2nd Floor, Caldecott Broadcast Centre, Andrew Rd, Singapore *****9 Tel *****6711 Fax *****352 med iacorpnewshub (a) media corp. com. sg Director DrChitra Rajaram General News TeoChia Leen Mustafa Shafawi, Ben Tan Bhagman Singh, Derrick Paulo Julia Ng, I meld a Saad Business News Melvin Yong
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      199 26 HAVE YOUR SAY. email voices@mediacorp.com.sg or visit www.todayonline.com/voices STATE OF KUWAIT MINISTRY OF HEALTH The Ministry of Health, State of Kuwait has the following opening for their Hospitals. SENIOR REGISTRARS (EV NEPHROLOGY) Qualification: 1. Bachelor 2. Doctorate or its equivalent Experience: Total: 6 years experience since graduation 3 years in
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      839 27 ELECTRICITY TARIFF REVISION SP Services reviews the electricity tariffs quarterly based on guidelines set by the Energy Market Authority (EMA). Electricity tariffs will increase by an average of 5.5% or 1.18 cents per kWh for the quarter 1 Jan to 31 Mar 10 due to higher fuel costs. For households,
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      686 40  -  lAN DE COTTA SINGAPORE SPORTS Sports Council lay down 12 conditions for release of funds to athletics body ian@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE A meeting between the Singapore Athletic Association (SAA) and Singapore Sports Council (SSC) to unlock funds frozen by the council ended in a
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      307 40  -  lAN DECOTTA SINGAPORE Despite missing out in the triple jump medals at the SEA Games held earlier this month in Laos, coach Valeri Obidko believes Stefan Tseng can still make an impression at next November's Asian Games at Guangzhou, China. But Tseng and long jumper
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      283 41 AGENCIES LAS VEGAS Nevada boxing officials are trying to end the dope test impasse threatening the Manny Pacquiao-Floyd Mayweather mega-fight, but their demand for immediate urine tests may not solve the problem. The Nevada State Athletic Commission said on Monday that
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      470 41 AGENCIES AFTERNOON LATEST ARIZONA Tiger Woods' affairs may have cost shareholders in some of his major corporate sponsors up to US$l2 billion ($16.9 billion) according to a study by US economists a figure he can contemplate in sex-addition rehabilitation clinic, according to online reports. Xl7online.com, quoting
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      408 41 THE DAILYTELEGRAPH NO $2B OFFER: REAL MADRID Real Madrid insist they have not received an offer from Manchester City owner Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan to buy out the Spanish club. Reports in Spain had suggested the Sheikh was set to offer €i billion ($2 billion) for
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      486 42 THE DAILYTELEGRAPH ENGLISH PREMIERSHIP Bolton Wanderers 2 Hull City 2 WOLVERHAMPTON Gary Megson no doubt views Ivan Klasnic as a blessing, a crucial component in his attempts to help Bolton avoid relegation. In hindsight, though, he may see him as a
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      157 42 THE DAILYTELEGRAPH LONDON Arsenal's need for a new striker has further intensified after Micklas Bendtner suffered a fresh injury setback that will rule him out for at least another three weeks. Bendtner suffered a groin problem against Tottenham at the :nd of October
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      620 43 AGENCIES ENGLISH FOOTBALL Former Chelsea boss Mourinho's making eyes at the Premiership again LONDON The hair is a little longer, the bags under the eyes a touch more pronounced, but the man in the Armani overcoat hasn't really changed. Former Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho, now
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        149 46 Titan Automatic is a premium collection that brings together technology and aesthetics. The watches, which range from $250 to $400, not only have automatic movement but are also loaded with technical features such as retrograde, chronographs and dual time. Titan Automatic comprises 13 styles and is
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        150 46 NanyangOptical's latest eyewear collections will be a cause for cheer among the kids. Those who loved the film The Revenge of the Fallen will be a fan ofthe Transformers line of eyewear, of which each model was subjected to careful design to be "transformable".
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        178 46 Planning for a healthy start to the New Year? Try including Naturel's organic pasta and brown rice in your meals! Exclusively sourced from the sunny fields of Apulia, Southern Italy, the durum wheat of which Naturel's Organic Pasta is made from, undergoes traditional slow grinding
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        162 46 Understanding how precious the little tots are, Kodomo has once again come up with another quality laundry detergent. The Rosemary Extracts in the new ExtraCare Baby Laundry Detergent protects your infant's clothes from malodour caused by bacteria. It is specially developed to wash babywear and diapers
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        120 46 Bird's nest has for centuries been touted for its beauty and health benefits. Horse Brand Bottled Bird's Nest lets you consume the dessert delicacy without having to cook it yourself. Available in ready-to-drink bottles, you have different flavours to choose from. The latest to be launched
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        155 46 Passing-on-love (Singapore) Cultural and Art Development Center will be presenting "Happiness Starts from Here International Arts and Cultural Exhibition" in Suntec City, from Dec 30 to Jan 3,10 am to 10pm daily. Various international exhibitions and a grand carnival will feature thousands of rare ancient
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        118 46 Everyone knows about the dairy goodness of milk. Goldlion has taken those healthy qualities a step further to introduce you Wearable milk! Yes, thanks to bioengineering technology, you're now able to put on socks that include Milk Protein Fibre. First, milk is dewatered
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        142 46 Being busy doesn't mean you have to forgo nourishmentwhileyouworkon meeting that deadline. Horlicks 3-in-1 Lite, a new offering by GlaxoSmithKline, ensures precisely that. This instant cereal drink has added dietary fibre called inulin, which helps maintain good intestinal health. It is also low in fat
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      789 48  -  MATTHEW LYNN POINTOFVIEW THE main thing investors need to know about the coming decade can be summed up in one of those pithy Twitter updates. Will it be good or bad for stocks? Everything else is extraneous. The answer? Good. A shortage of capital from
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        71 48 The United States Federal Reserve on Monday proposed the creation of a term deposit facility for banks to drain some of the more than US$l trillion ($1.4 trillion) in excess reserves from the banking system when policymakers decide to tighten monetary policy. Eligible institutions holding term deposits
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        87 48 AP Officials in China stole or misused 234.7 billion yuan ($48.2 billion) this year and 67 of them are currently under criminal investigation, according to state media reports yesterday citing the country's chief auditor, Mr Liu Jiayi. Investigators recovered 16.3 billion yuan following annual audits
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        125 48 DOWJONES South Korea's current account balance remained in the black for a 10th consecutive month in November, bringing the surplus in the first 11 months to a record high, as weak demand for goods at home pared imports of raw materials. Still, the surplus shrank
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      400 49  -  DESMONDWONG STOCK MARKET desmondwong@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Shares pulled off a sharp rebound in the Republic this year, with the benchmark STI finishing the year some 60 per cent higher despite being battered in the first quarter. Market experts expect the positive momentum to continue
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        88 49 Mainboard-listed offshore oil and gas group Swiber announced yesterday that it had won a contract worth US$75 million ($lO5 million) from an unidentified major oil company in South-east Asia. The deal is for Swiber to provide underwater inspection, repair and maintenance services of major offshore facilities.
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        90 49 Singapore-listed developerYuexiu Property says that one of its units acquired a plot of land in Guangdong's Zhongshan City last week through a public land auction for 544 million yuan or about $112 million. The plot of land, approved for residential and commercial use, has a
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          94 50 End of a winning streak Wall Street stocks closed lower in thin trading, ending a sixday winning streak even after fresh data showed rising consumer sentiment and home prices falling at a slower pace. The Dow fell 1.67 points (0.02 per cent) to 10,545.41, after rallying to a
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          64 50 World oil prices rose on expectations of a bigger drawdown of stockpiles in the US, where cold weather could boost demand for heating fuel. New York's main futures contract, light sweet crude for delivery in February, rose 10 US cents to settle at U5578.87 a barrel. London's Brent
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          66 50 Highest in a year European stocks hit 2009 highs in a burst of economic confidence at the end of a rollercoaster year for equities and as US house prices and consumer confidence data pointed to recovery. London's FTSE 100 index rose 0.65 per cent to hit 5,437.61, its
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        128 50 BLOOMBERG Morgan Stanley, the second-biggest securities firm in the United States, plans to defer at least 65 per cent of year-end bonuses for its top 30 executives to blunt criticism over outsize pay, a person familiar with the matter said. One-fifth ofthe deferred amount will be tied
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        444 50 BLOOMBERG AFTERNOON LATEST Consumer confidence in US up even as wage expectations fall WASHINGTON Confidence among consumers in the United States improved in December for a second month as Americans grew less concerned about the immediate future, pointing to an economy that will keep expanding into
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