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  • 29 1 TODAY Monday January 25, 2010 www.todayonline.com we set you TODAY Monday January 25, 2010 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking MICA (P) 160/10/2009 A PublICAtIon of nEWS HotlInE 6822 2268
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  • 53 3 2osama bin laden has claimed responsibility for the botched Christmas Day bombing of a United States plane and said strikes on US targets will continue. B2It makes sense for Singtel to cash out, at least partly, its stake in Optus while the going is still good, says
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  • 634 3  -  SM goH on MAnPoWEr Productivity must double for economy to grow 3 to 4 per cent, as foreign worker growth slows LEONG WEE KEAT weekeat@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Service staff here could take a leaf or two from their European counterparts’ book, when it comes to
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  • 289 3  -  CHRISTOPHER TOH IT IS time once again to celebrate that beautiful creature we call the Singapore Woman. Organised by Today, the nomination process for the third instalment of The Singapore Woman Award is well under way. Previous winners were the late Molly Lee,
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    • 36 3 6333 9888 MEDIACORP ADVERTISING ENQUIRIES TODAY is taking part in the IFRA International TODAYistakingpartintheIFRATODAY in the IFRA International Newspaper Color Quality Club 2010-2012 for print quality and this colour patch is part of the entry requirement
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    • 17 3 International $7,067,034 for rEn CI back after two years, charity show far exceeds its target. Page 4
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  • NEWS
    • 482 5 raiSed tHreat LeVeL uS, uK look out for women believed to have been trained by yemeni group LONDON Al Qaeda terror cells have trained a group of female suicide bombers to attack Western targets, United States officials have warned, with details that emerged soon after British
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    • 382 5  -  LEONG WEE KEAT SINGAPORE While he “will be happier” if young and able people join the ruling People’s Action Party (PAP), Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong welcomed the recent additions to the Opposition’s ranks. Speaking to reporters yesterday after a community event, Mr
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    • 157 7 AGENCIES These latest revelations follow the decision by the Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre to raise the UK’s threat state, after briefings to the Prime Minister by the heads of the security services MI5, MI6 and Government Communication Headquarters (GCHQ), and a meeting of the government’s Cobra emergency committee. Whitehall
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    • 348 7 AP Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden’s (picture) audio message yesterday, claiming responsibility for the Christmas Day airline bombing attempt in Detroit, suggests that he wants to show he remains in direct command of the terrorist group’s branches around the world
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    • 471 7 AFP COLOMBO Tension increased yesterday ahead of Sri Lanka’s fiercely-contested presidential election tomorrow, after the opposition accused the ruling regime of preparing a state-backed coup. Sri Lanka’s President also suffered a major defection when the matriarch of his party
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    • 447 8 rEn CI CHarITy SHoW Charity raises $7,067,034, far exceeding its target SINGAPORE Gone were the stunts and after the charity had spent two years rebuilding itself following a scandal the Ren Ci Charity Show returned last night surpassing the $4 million target it
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    • 736 10  -  forEIGn worKEr ISSuES It’s against the law but firms cite poaching, theft, security bond as reasons to hold on to documents ESTHER NG estherng@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The law says foreign workers should have their passports returned to them and, last year, two employment agencies were fined for
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    • SINGAPORE ROUNDUP
      • 127 10 Muscular men with a heart among them some Singapore Calendar Guys put in time and effort yesterday at a charity car wash event to raise awareness of heart disease and stroke as the No 1 cause of death among Singapore women. They were taking part in
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      • 84 10 King Letsie III of Lesotho is on a state visit to Singapore from today until Wednesday at the invitation of President S R Nathan. During his visit, he will attend a state banquet in his honour as well as having an orchid named
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    • 542 12  -  rEMarriaGE and cHildrEn HETTY MUSFIRAH hetty @mediacorp.com.sg BEFORE Nirwati Mohd Yassin remarried, she introduced her new husband to her two children, aged seven and nine. The 43-year-old divorcee was concerned about their feelings towards her remarriage and wanted them to get to know their stepfather
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    • 214 12 WANG ENG ENG TO complement the national goal of cutting carbon emission by up to 11 per cent, the South West Community Development Council has launched several green goals with the help of energy firm Chevron. They launched the South West CarbonBuster Roadmap yesterday. It
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    • 206 14 Singapore’S Haitian reLief teaM DYLAN LOH SINGAPORE To visible signs of relief, volunteers from social enterprise group CityCare part of the group’s first team sent to help disaster victims returned from Haiti yesterday. Of the eight team members, five returned, while the rest remained there
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    • 82 14 SoMe 274 adventure racers ran, cycled, climbed and kayaked their way through a 51km course in the western part of Singapore at the Safra aVventura 2010 yesterday. to up the challenge and fun, organisers this year prepared several obstacles for the participants, who had to
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    • 188 14 MAGGIECHONG AND EVELYN CHOO SINGAPORE Competition during the next General Election (GE) will be welcome, according to Health Minister Khaw Boon Wan. It is good that more young and better educated people are entering politics, he said, when asked of the opposition parties’ recruitment drive. “It doesn’t
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    • 176 11 mm® Singapore (lime W Orcl)estra%~^\ SCO Opening Gala and Y.E.S. 93.3FM 20 th Anniversary Rhapsodies of Spring 2010 29 Jan (Fri), 8pm 30 Jan (Sat), 8pm Huayi Chinese Festival of Arts 2010 Yue Opera in Concert "Dream of the Red Chamber" 27 Feb (Sat), 7.30pm From Rhapsody to Capriccio 3
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    • 91 12 NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information Master's Programmes by Coursework MSc in Information Studies MSc in Information Systems MSc in Knowledge Management Master of Mass Communication c [We e Kim vv ee Ration Application is Now Open for August 2010 Intake Application website: admissions.ntu.edu.sg/graduate/coursework/pages/default.aspx Closing
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  • WORLD
    • 248 16 uS-oWnEd IndonESIan MInE AP JAKARTA Gunmen attacked a convoy near the world’s largest gold mine in Papua yesterday, wounding at least seven people, including a foreigner, Indonesian police said in the latest in a string of attacks on the United States-owned mine. The convoy of two
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    • 172 16 AFP JAKARTA Indonesian police said yesterday they were questioning five witnesses over an arson attack on a Christian “place of prayer” on Sumatra. About 10 Muslims had allegedly torched the wooden house and another belonging to a priest in Barumun district last Friday, said
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    • 273 16 AFP PREAH VIHEAR Cambodian and Thai troops exchanged fire near a disputed border temple yesterday the latest in a string of gun battles between the countries since last year, military officials said. Both sides denied responsibility for starting the skirmish, in which
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    • 180 18 AFP WASHINGTON Some groups are calling on the United States to challenge China’s “firewall” before the World Trade Organization, as a bilateral row over cyberattacks on Google adds to trade tensions. As President Barack Obama awaits answers from Beijing on the
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    • 392 18 appeal letter AP BEIJING Four senior Communist Party officials known for their liberal views are pushing for the release of an imprisoned Chinese dissident who had issued a daring call for political reform, one of the group said yesterday. The four have signed
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    • 278 19 Hirsi ali criticises ‘appeasement’ of radical Muslims AFP JAIPUR Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the Somali-born former Dutch lawmaker threatened with death for her outspoken criticism of Islam, yesterday accused the world’s liberal democracies of appeasing radical Muslims. Ms Ali, who since
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    • 136 19 AP SEOUL North Korea threatened South Korea with war yesterday after Seoul warned it would launch a pre-emptive strike if the North was preparing a nuclear attack the latest in a battle of rhetoric despite signs of improved cooperation across the militarised
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    • 175 19 AP TOKYO Voters in Nago, Okinawa, went to the polls yesterday to choose their next mayor and the results could affect the future of an American military base and even US-Japan relations. Nago is where Washington and Tokyo agreed in 2006 to move
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    • 175 21 deferMent of ballot AFP KABUL Afghanistan postponed parliamentary polls for four months yesterday, days ahead of crunch talks on the war-torn nation in London, saying it was unsafe to go ahead amid a spiralling Taliban insurgency. The announcement, five months after the presidential election descended into
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    • GLOBAL ROUNDUP
      • 103 21 AP A Russian-made Iranian passenger plane (picture) carrying 157 passengers and 13 crew crash landed in northeastern Iran yesterday injuring at least 46 people. Iran’s civil aviation spokesman, Mr Reza Jafarzadeh, said no one was killed in the accident. The plane caught fire
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      • 92 21 AFP A special prayer service for better relations between Australia and India following a series of violent attacks on Indian students drew hundreds of churchgoers yesterday. The service in Melbourne was prompted by the unsolved stabbing murder of Mr Nitin Garg, 21, from Punjab
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      • 104 21 AP China’s Minister of Public Security warned police to prepare for any possible emergencies or terrorist attacks during the upcoming World Expo in Shanghai, state reported yesterday. The expo is to start on May 1 and will run for six
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      • 86 21 AP A Saudi judge says a teenager will receive 90 lashes and spend two years in prison as punishment for assaulting a teacher at her school. The teenager could be spared with a pardon from King Abdullah. Amnesty International says the girl is 13
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    • 404 22 HaITI QuaKE survIvor AFP PORT-AU-PRINCE Rescuers pulled a man alive from the rubble on Saturday, 11 days after Haiti’s devastating earthquake, raising hopes of finding more survivors even after the government called off search efforts. Mr Wismond Exantus (picture), 25, said he survived his ordeal
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    • 382 24 Sanaa’S water criSiS AFP SANAA Impoverished Yemen is reeling under the threat of Al Qaeda, northern Shiite rebels and southern secessionists, but a lack of water is putting its ancient capital at even greater risk, experts say. Within a decade, Sanaa could become the
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    • 370 24 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH MOSCOW—Tatyana Yumasheva, daughter of Mr Boris Yeltsin, is ruffling feathers in Russia with her blog. Ms Yumasheva, 50, was the “Lady Rasputin” who wielded huge and unaccountable power from behind her father’s tottering throne for years. And, in what may be the opening
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    • 182 26 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH PARIS Solar energy collected in space and beamed back to Earth using laser could soon be used to power homes and electric vehicles under a project by European space engineers. Engineers at EADS Astrium, Europe’s largest space company, now
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    • 556 26 RaDIaTIOn TREaTMEnT Its complexity has created new avenues for error THE NEW YORK TIMES NEW YORK As Scott JeromeParks, 43, lay dying in 2007, he clung to this wish that his fatal radiation overdose, which left him deaf, struggling to see, unable to swallow, burned, his
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  • voices
    • 209 28  -  Hr MaNaGers Letter from Jeffrey Law Lee Beng AS A former human resource (HR) practitioner, I read with concern “Wanted: More EQ” (Jan 22).It appears that there is a lack of professionalism today among most HR managers, who are more concerned about profits, productivity, industrial matters and the
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    • 116 28 We refer to “It does not add up” (Jan 11) in which it was reported that a worker received 577 days of medical leave from Changi General Hospital for a fractured left thumb. This is incorrect. Medical leave was given because the worker fell from height and sustained spinal
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    • 108 28  -  Letter from rick Lim say Kiong AFTER working in the HR industry for 12 years, I have to agree there is a lack of formal HR education among many such pro- fessionals (“Wanted: More EQ”, Jan 22). A significant number of
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    • 315 30  -  LIFT uPgradIng PrograMMe Letter from Tan yew Ping Head, Sims Drive Branch Office Housing Administration Department Housing and Development Board WE REFER to “Besides the lifts, upgrade the upkeep” (Jan 13). Block 271 Queens Street is undergoing the Lift Upgrading Programme (LUP). While LUP works
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    • 151 30  -  BY DR BILL MAIER THE ADOPTION OPTION Are adopted kids more likely to rebel? A lot of families are afraid to adopt because they’ve heard horror stories of adopted children turning rebellious, and then later asking to find their “real” parents. It’s true that adopted kids
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    • 161 30  -  Letter from Jason Lim Heng yap FOR the past two weeks, I have been trying to find information on how I can make a donation to help the victims in Haiti but I cannot seem to find any. The
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  • plus TELEVISION
    • 1197 32  -  THE ICE QuEEn SPEaKETH rui En’s latest warm fuzzy role brings us back to her ‘cold, serious’ personality really meh? MAY SEAH may@mediacorp.com.sg THIS is going to be a very serious story. That’s because it’s all about Rui En, who is a very, very
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    • 529 35 SaG aWardS AFP LOS ANGELES Quentin Tarantino’s bloody World War II revenge flick Inglourious Basterds won the top honour at the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards here on Saturday. The SAG Awards are key indicators of possible Oscars contenders. After being overlooked in favour of science
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    • 70 35 ELEVEN films from Singapore have been officially selected for screening at the 39th Rotterdam International Film Festival, the curtain for which goes up on Wednesday. The record number of films include two feature-length works by Sherman Ong, namely Flooding in the Time of Drought and Memories
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    • 622 36  -  neW on TV Brandon McMillan will make your nights wild. Literally. MAY SEAH may@mediacorp.com. sg BRANDON McMillan is one of those manly men who trigger your animal instincts. He hosts a wildlife series called Night, in which he bravely stalks wild, dangerous creatures in the dark.
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    • Article, Illustration
      309 37  -  Tan LI yI Veteran Chinese radio personality set to leave after over a decade CHRISTOPHER TOH SOMEONE once said that change is the only constant in life. For MediaCorp Radio, that adage could not be truer, as yet more change occurs. After last week’s announcement of radio deejay
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  • Page 34 Miscellaneous
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  • Page 37 Miscellaneous
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  • Page 38 Miscellaneous
    • 1181 38 oN MedIaCorp CHaNNeL deSIGNed by LoVe Channel NewsAsia, 8.31pm 11.31pm oN MedIaCorp Learn the story behind China’s famous “love ladder”, a 6000-step ode to love carved out by a husband for his wife in 2001. LIfe TraNSforMerS II Channel 8, 8pm A family of 3 staying in a 3-room-flat, a
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  • sports
    • 582 39  -  2010 youth olyMpIC GaMeS Country launches global scholarship for teens to study at Sports School IAN DE COTTA ian@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE With 201 days to go before the Youth Olympic Games (YOG), organisers yesterday revealed details of a scholarship programme that will be inaugural hosts Singapore’s
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    • 450 39 IAN DE COTTA SINGAPORE Tired of propping up the Great Eastern-Yeo’s S-League over the last two years, Balestier Khalsa have brought in a fresh quartet of foreign signings and hired former National Football Academy coach Salim Moin to assist Nasaruddin Abdul Jalil. Vice-chairman and
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    • 582 40  -  EnGLISH FooTBaLL Stoke consign arsenal to the Fa Cup scrap heap FA CUP Stoke 3 Arsenal 1 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH LONDON There was no dream return for Sol Campbell. Instead, having re-signed for Arsenal at the age of 35, the central defender was glaringly at fault
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    • 394 40 AGENCIES Fa CuP Tottenham 2 Leeds 2 LONDON With two goals against Premiership side Tottenham Hotspurs on Saturday (yesterday morning, Singapore time) that earned Leeds United a replay in the FA Cup, Jermaine Beckford’s stock has taken another rise, putting him in the
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    • 544 42 english Football united boss wants ex-star out of Wednesday’s Carling Cup return leg AGENCIES LONDON Manchester United boss Alex Ferguson, who took his team to the top of the English Premiership table over the weekend with a 4-0 rout of Hull, is tightening the screws ahead
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    • 614 42 AGENCIES LONDON England and Manchester United striker Wayne Rooney celebrated the first four-goal haul of his career as he helped send the Red Devils back to the top of the Barclays Premier League. And now, the 24-year-old says he is aiming to beat his record of
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    • 530 43 auSTraLIan oPEn nadal, Murray book enticing quarter-final date AFP MELBOURNE Defending champion Rafael Nadal and Andy Murray tamed the two biggest servers in tennis yesterday to set up a high-voltage quarter-final at the Australian Open. On a day of upsets, when the tournament ended for US Open
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    • 254 43 AFP MELBOURNE History-making Zheng Jie (picture) is confident two Chinese players can make the semi-finals of the Australian Open, further boosting the sport’s image in the world’s most populous nation. The 26-year-old world No 35 made the bold claim after beating 31st seeded Ukrainian Alona Bondarenko
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    • 242 43 AFP MELBOURNE Justine Henin (picture) was all class as she reached the Australian Open quarter-finals on a day when Dinara Safina withdrew injured and Svetlana Kuznetsova crashed out to Nadia Petrova. Henin continued her amazing comeback when she outplayed fellow Belgian Yanina Wickmayer 7-6
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    • 467 44 aFrICa CuP oF naTIonS But Egypt are confident, having come through group stage with a perfect AFP BENGUELA (Angola) Without a doubt, the quarter-final to watch at Angola 2010 would be the Cameroon versus Egypt match today (tonight, Singapore time), a replay of the
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    • 68 42 SPORTS BETTING E Premier and E League Champ matches are also on sale. For more details, please check Singapore Pools website. |pLAy3) Always play with care. [responsibiyy Do not bet illegally. No person under the age of 18 years shall be allowed to purchase a ticket or to claim any
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      37 51 With consumerism thriving in Beijing, China is expected to further clamp down on rampant lending in the months ahead and possibly even raise interest rates to prevent its blistering economy from overheating, analysts said. AFP
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    • 474 51  -  Full-yEAr rESultS Analysts expect share prices of local conglomerates to rise AZHAR KHALID azhark@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Local conglomerates are expected to unveil higher full-year net profits as they release their 2009 financial results in the coming weeks. Analysts are also upbeat about the prospects of these multi-industry companies
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    • 263 51  -  MILLET ENRIQUEZ emelita@mediacorp.com. sg SINGAPORE Gold ended 2009 on a high note and it looks set to continue its ascent this year. The improving economic conditions coupled with concerns over price stability and inflation may propel gold prices higher this year, said the
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    • 537 50  -  POINT OF VIEW It makes sense for SingTel to cash out partly on Optus shares now CONRAD RAJ editor- at-large conrad@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Reports that Singapore Telecommunications (SingTel), the largest telecoms services provider in Asia outside Japan and China, is planning to sell or list part
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    • 179 50 BLOOMBERG NEW YORK The United States economy probably grew in the closing months of last year at the fastest pace in almost four years as factories stepped up production and companies purchased new equipment, economists said ahead of reports due for release this week.
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    • 206 48 AGENCIES WASHINGTON All indications are that embattledFederal~eserve chairman Ben Bernanke is likely to get Senate support for another term. The vote is coming up this week and a White House official disclosed that President Obama has been busy galvanising support among Senate leaders. Already four
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    • 346 48 aSIan BanKS AFP HONG KONG Plans by United States’ President Barack Obama to curb risk-taking by banks are unlikely to adversely affect Asia’s risk-averse financial institutions. Analysts said the proposed measures, which aim to roll back corporate excesses and limit dangerous risk-taking
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    • 300 48 AP SAN FRANCISCO Google co-founders Mr Larry Page and Mr Sergey Brin are relinquishing some of their control over the Internet search leader with the sale of 10 million shares worth US$5.5 billion ($7.7 billion) at current prices. Under a plan, the longtime
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