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    30 1 TODAY Friday April 2, 2010 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking TODAY MICA (P) 160/10/2009 A PublICAtIon of nEWS HotlInE 6822 2268 friday April 2, 2010 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking
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    Lock icon Foreget school, play tennis: STA’s $500,000 offer
    501 3  -  TODAY wishes all our readers a Happy Easter. We will be back on Monday. EWAN MAH ewan@mediacorp.com. sg SINGAPORE If your child is aged between 12 and 14, and so passionate about tennis you are willing to forgo the next three years of
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    A sign of buyer resistance?
    476 3  -  HDb rESAlE PrICES CoV and prices up, but by lower margin ESTHER NG estherng@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Prices of HDB resale flats have been climbing for three quarters, the last two at more than 3 per cent each. Now, the rate of growth has slowed to 2.7
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    AGC levies 13 charges against Ionescu
    512 3 SINGAPORE Following the State Coroner’s verdict that he was the driver of the car in two hit-and-run accidents, the Attor-ney-General’s Chambers (AGC) is filing 13 charges against former Romanian diplomat Dr Silviu Ionescu, including that of causing death by a rash act. In a
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  • NEWS
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      Lock icon Private property prices resist cooling measures
      302 4 MILLET ENRIQUEZ SINGAPORE The red-hot private homes market continued to resist cooling measures introduced by the Government, registering another quarter of price growth, as some have forecasted. Flash estimates yesterday by the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) show the price index of private residential property
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      THIRD EC SITE SOON FOR TENDER
      199 4 An estimated 465 executive condominium (EC) units will be on the market soon. A land parcel for EC development will be put up for tender in two weeks by the Housing Board. The plot, in Sengkang East Avenue and Buangkok Drive, is on the
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      Lock icon Unclean food stall? The fine is double
      181 4  -  HETTY MUSFIRAH SINGAPORE Stallholders who flout food hygiene rules face higher composition fines that took effect yesterday. Some 65 National Environment Agency (NEA) office were deployed to check that standards were up to mark, looking out for things like whether stallholders wore gloves,
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      Lock icon She 'escapes caning' but...
      313 5 MOdEl CaUGHT driNKiNG BEEr Kartika unhappy with community service, would rather be caned AFP KUALA LUMPUR A Malaysian Muslim woman who faced caning for drinking beer has reportedly had her sentence commuted to doing community service but she would rather undergo her original punishment. Kartika Sari
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      Lock icon Tom Jones cancels show again, to fans' disappointment
      369 5 CHRISTOPHER TOH SINGAPORE Just hours before fans were to make up for their postponed date with Welsh crooner Tom Jones last night, the second blow fell. The 69-year-old sex bomb, who last Friday had to abort a show at Resorts World Sentosa
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      Lock icon Acquittal overturned for Singapore Democratic Party five
      388 5 TEO XUANWEI SINGAPORE The High Court has reversed the acquittal of five opposition figures for holding a procession without a permit in September 2007. The case involving Singapore Democratic Party chairman Gandhi Ambalam, assistant secretary-general John Tan, central executive committee member Chee Siok
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      Lock icon SAF GETS NEW CHIEF OF DEFENCE FORCE
      78 6 the singapore armed Forces (saF) yesterday welcomed majorGeneral Neo Kian hong (right) as its new Chief of defence Force at a Change of Command parade at the safti military institute. he received the symbol of command from the outgoing Chief of defence Force,
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      Lock icon Former actor Mark Chow fined $6,000 for molestation
      267 6  -  SHAFFIQ ALKHATIB SINGAPORE Former television actor, Mark Chow Yee Sze (picture) has been fined $6,000 for molesting a woman about three years ago. Chow, 30, was found guilty of the offence last month. He could have been sentenced to up to two
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      Cheaper shots at the doc's
      323 6  -  Flu VaCCiNEs ALICIA WONG alicia@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE If you have not gotten your H1N1 vaccination, you can do so soon at possibly a lower price. Or, you can get it as part of a new all-in-one shot to protect against three strains of flu. In his
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      Engaging dads through kids' schools, online community
      232 6  -  JEREMY KOH SINGAPORE To get more fathers involved in their children’s lives, the Dads for Life movement will do more to build a community of schools with active father engagement. Dr Vivian Balakrishnan, Minister for Community Development, Youth and Sports who officially launched
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      First youth inter-faith confidence circle set up in Geylang Serai
      278 6  -  ANDRE YEO SINGAPORE The youth have lost the human touch, one MP was told, because they spend so much time behind the computer. So when they are exposed to wrong information, they might make things worse by spreading it. To
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      Four top lawyers set up new firm
      278 6  -  ONG DAI LIN SINGAPORE Two months after their highly publicised split from Harry Elias Partnership, four top lawyers have joined forces to set up their own law firm. Inca Law, established last month and headed by Mr Shashi Nathan, Mr Latiff Ibrahim, Mr
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      Man charged with falsely accusing NEA officers
      161 9 SINGAPORE A contract supervisor with a manpower supply company has been charged in court with giving false information to the National Environment Agency (NEA). Sinnayah Suppiah, 53, who was originally accused of littering, had submitted an appeal to the NEA on July 10
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    • SINGAPORE ROUNDUP
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      228 10 ENERGISE REJUVENATE CELEBRATE INSPIRE Take living to a new height Indulge in the shopping experience of the year at the 50plus Expo 2010, where lots of fun activities, exciting performances and great giveaways await! w orthS$i5 Lessons Demos plus EXPO SUNTEC SINGAPORE HALL401-404 3-4 April 2010 11am-9pm (Sat),10am-8pm (Sun) 50plus
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  • WORLD
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      Lock icon THAT PAROCHIAL FEELING
      726 11 pOinT OF VieW OOi Kee Beng The writer is a Fellow at the institute of South-east asian Studies. THE shocking and defiant statement made recently by Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin that he identified himself more with his race than his nationality reveals the difficulties that
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      Lock icon Nothing wrong with being a Malay first: PM Najib
      242 11 THE MALAYSIAN INSIDER PUTRAJAYA Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak (picture) yesterday defended his deputy’s declaration that he considered himself “a Malay first”, and only then a Malaysian, saying it was not a contradiction. Deputy Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin said on Wednesday
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      Lock icon China is ready: US
      577 13 iran sancTions AGENCIES NEW YORK The United States heralded a potential breakthrough in bringing China to the table on Iran sanctions as Tehran’s chief nuclear negotiator arrived yesterday for talks in Beijing. China has veto power in the United Nations Security Council, and changing its position
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      Lock icon Thai tourism workers planning rallies
      258 13 AFP BANGKOK Thai tourism industry workers are planning peaceful rallies seeking an end to mass “Red Shirt” anti-government protests that have scared away many foreign visitors, organisers said yesterday. The demonstrations, which are expected to draw about 1,000 people, are set to begin today in
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      Lock icon ROBOWAITER
      72 13 a robot waiter and restaurant owner lapassarada Thanapanth hold trays of food at a Japanese robot restaurant in Bangkok. at Thailand’s first Japanese robot restaurant, where all the serving waiters are robots, customers order their food on a touchscreen display and the robot waiter will whizz into action. The
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      Lock icon US teen sold stepsister, 7, for party sex
      230 13 AP TRENTON (New Jersey) A 15-year-old American girl set up her seven-year-old stepsister to have sex with as many as seven men and boys at a weekend party near their home and also accepted money for herself, police said. Trenton police Captain
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    • GLOBAL ROUNDUP
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        PROJECT BIDDERS MUST SIGN 'GRAFT-FREE' DECLARATION
        101 13 Bidders of Malaysian government projects have to sign declaration letters pledging their commitment to ensure projects awarded are “graft-free”, Prime Minister Najib Razak said yesterday. “They will also be required to enter into an agreement which contains an anti-corruption clause in government procurement. This
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        Lock icon WORLD RAISES $13.55 BILLION FOR QUAKE-HIT HAITI
        105 13 AFP International donors have pledged some US$9.9 billion ($13.55 billion) to help shell-shocked Haiti recover from January’s devastating earthquake. The pledge from some 50 donors on Wednesday includes US$5.3 billion for the next two years, far in excess of the US$3.8 billion sought
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      Lock icon Russian President wants more 'cruel' measures
      387 17 Fighting terror AGENCIES MOSCOW President Dmitry Medvedev yesterday urged more “cruel” anti-terror measures as he made a surprise visit to the vio-lence-wracked region of Dagestan. His visit came as the funerals of the 39 people killed in Monday’s metro suicide bombings were being held
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      Lock icon Sex scandal 'a test for Pope and the church'
      371 17 AP VATICAN CITY Pope Benedict XVI (picture) sees the priestly sex scandal as a “test for him and the church”, his spokesman said, as bishops around Europe used Holy Week’s solemn call for penitence to pledge transparency in dealing with the
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      Lock icon India starts biometric census
      219 17 AGENCIES NEW DELHI India started counting its 1.2 billion population yesterday for a new census that will gather biometric data for the first time. The census will see 2.5 million staff fan out armed with satellite maps to biometric data on every person aged over 15.
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      Lock icon India pledges to give every child an education
      279 17 AFP NEW DELHI India launched a landmark education programme yesterday that makes schooling compulsory for an estimated 10 million impoverished children who are currently outside the system. All states in the world’s second most populous nation must now provide free schooling for
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      Policies are set by schools
      399 19  -  PrIorITy PosTING any decision to change affiliation policies must be made by school boards Letter from Wong siew Hoong Director of Schools, Ministry of Education WE REFER to the letter, “Not really Catholic, and it’s a shame”, by Ms Geraldine Chay (March 30). The placement
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      FOCUS® ON THE FAMILY
      217 21  -  BY DR JAMES DOBSON COST OF BEING A PARENT Considering how expensive and difficult it is to be a good parent, many people wonder these days why anyone would want to even have children. I’m reminded of a woman whom I met a few years ago.
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      Think of the elderly, too
      365 21  -  review oF CroSS-Country routeS ‘Bus-swapping’ will be tough on S’pore’s ageing population letter from irene lim I STRONGLY agree with Ms Rachel Yang (“Why I like my long bus rides”, March 31). I also prefer to ride on the bus than the MRT, especially on
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      There has to be a cleaner way to... clean
      118 21  -  letter from Jumali Sayuti WHEN I patronise hawker centres and food courts, it kills my appetite when the cleaners come round with their mobile stations to clean up after the diners. These contain leftovers, dirty plates, cleaning cloths and a bucket
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      Why not require COE purchase before you can buy a car?
      266 21  -  letter from Johnnie Chia WITH the recent tweaks to the COE quota, the prices of cars have risen. I have a couple of suggestions to help take some of the frustration out of the equation for potential car buyers.
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      118 19 Have your say. email voices@mediacorp.com.sg or visit www.todayonline.com/voices n 2010 PARENTS'SEMINAR Register online at www.sst.edu.sg/register2010. For more information, call 6571 7201 or email us at outreach@sst.edu.sg. Please register early as seats are limited. PARE yITS'S MINAR Choose any one of the sessions: 10 April 2010 (Saturday) A. 8.30 10.30am B.
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  • plus THE ARTS
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      Lock icon The naked truth
      671 29  -  lOCal THEaTrE pangdemonium to announce its arrival with a big bang MAYO MARTIN mayo@mediacorp.com. sg rAISE your hands: Who wants to watch live, nude... men? No, this is not a return season of The Chippendales. These men we’re talking about are ordinary blokes who could be your
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      Lock icon Real American Stories not so real?
      379 29 AP SArAH Palin’s new TV special, Real American Stories may not be so real, said rapper L L Cool J. In a Twitter posting on Tuesday, the entertainer wrote that Fox News, which airs the show, “lifted an old interview I gave in 2008
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      A look at Marine life
      571 31  -  The Pacific New HBO mini-series follows the US Marines during World WarTwo GENEVIEVE LOH IN LOS ANGELES genevieveloh@mediacorp.com.sg WHEN it comes to re-telling the brutalities of war, there is no sparing of expense, especially when you’ve got Tom Hanks, Steven Spielberg and Gary Goetzman in
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      Lock icon 'Sam Mendes makes my bones ache'
      584 33  -  ShaKeSpeareaN SheNaNiGaNS The Tempest’s cast on the Oscar-winning director’s tough love MAY SEAH may@mediacorp.com. sg FOR a dead white guy, William Shakespeare sure wields a whole lot of power. But for the staging of his play The Tempest at least, there’s a tougher dude
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      A bleating riot
      394 35  -  Movie review The Men who STare aT GoaTS GENEVIEVE LOH genevieveloh@mediacorp.com. sg THE men in this movie really do stare at goats (to telepathically stop their hearts). That alone should be reason enough to watch Grant Heslov’s riotous docu-comedy, based on the 2004 United States military expose
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      This Man catches your eye, breaks your heart
      353 36  -  MOvie review a SingLe Man GENEVIEVE LOH IT’S obvious that fashion world’s golden boy model-turned-design-er Tom Ford is trying incredibly hard with his directorial debut. Watching A Single Man with its meticulously arranged, overtly gorgeous visuals is like flipping through a scrupulously
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      Lock icon Doherty's ex-band Libertines reform
      181 36 aFP LONDON British rock star Pete Doherty’s old band The Libertines confirmed they had reformed and played together for the first time in six years on Wednesday. The band recorded two albums before splitting in 2004 over Doherty’s erratic behaviour but will be performing sets at
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      Lock icon Courteney the Cougar
      519 37  -  Today eXClUSiVe Courteney Cox on younger men, older men and Monica MAY SEAH IN LOS ANGELES may@mediacorp.com. sg WHEN Courteney Cox walked onto the set of her sitcom Cougar Town, everyone sat up a little straighter and looked a little sharper. Sure, the former Friend is a
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      1066 38 ON medIaCOrp S-LeaGue 2010 (LIVe) Etoile FCVS Balestier Khalsa Channel 5, 7.25pm Enjoy football with Singapore’s professional league. This week, French flair takes on the Tigers of Balestier when Etoile FC clash with Balestier Khalsa. BaNGed up aBrOad Venezuela okto, 10pm Jim and Paul, two teenagers from Leicester, agree to
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      635 39 euroPeAn FooTBALL Arsenal played off the park but their resilience gives Wenger reason to believe AGENCIES ChAmPions LeAGue quArTer-FinAL, FirsT LeG Arsenal 2 Barcelona 2 LONDON Comprehensively outplayed in front of their own fans at the Emirates, down two goals against the European champions Barcelona, Arsenal clawed
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      429 40 european Football inter Milan grab slim lead as Mourinho bats eyelids again AGENCIES ChaMpions league quarter-Finals, First leg Inter Milan 1 CSKA Moscow 0 MILAN Inter Milan will take a slender lead to the Luzhniki Stadium next Tuesday after beating CSKA Moscow 1-0 at the
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      243 40 AGENCIES MANCHESTER England and Manchester United striker Wayne Rooney (picture) has suffered “minor ligament damage” and a scan of his injured ankle showed no fracture, his club said yesterday. The results of the scan appear to suggest Rooney should be able to play in this year’s
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      675 41  -  Motor raCing ‘rain master’ Schumacher excited at the very real prospect of rain on Sunday IAN DE COTTA AT SEPANG ian@mediacorp.com. sg SEPANG Even after a three-year lay-off, Michael Schumacher is still one of the “bigs” in the Formula 1 paddock. It hardly matters
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      405 41  -  TANYO-HINN yohinn@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE For equestrian riders, the bond between them and their horses is special. That is why the equestrian competition at the inaugural 2010 Youth Olympic Games, to be held here from Aug 14-26, will pose
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      193 39 SPORTS ON TV TODAY 1pm Golf LPGA Kraft Nabisco Championship, Ch 26 7.25pm Football S-League: Etoile vs Balestier Khalsa, Ch 27 10.30pm Cricket I PL: Kings Xi Punjab vs Royal Challengers Bangalore, Ch 111 TOMORROW 7.40pm Football BPL: Manchester United vs Chelsea, Ch 27 9.55pm Football BPL: Arsenal vs Wolves,
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      522 43 iPaD DeBut AP SEATTLE People who lined up to buy the first iPhone knew what they were paying hundreds of dollars for: A new mobile phone that promised to be better. Apple’s newest gadget, the iPad tablet computer, falls into a category that’s foreign to
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      289 43  - Wear your Halo for a sound that's pure enough HeaDPHone Review Halo HeaDPHoneS TREVOR TAN SOMETIMES the simplest ideas are the best ones. Like combining a pair of headphones with a headband which is what you get with the Halo Headphones. You have to manually insert the pair of headphones
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      469 43  -  PC Game Review Silent HunteR 5: Battle of tHe atlantiC TREVOR TAN Silent Hunter, the submarine simulation game series, has a history stretching all the way back to 1996. In this fifth instalment, Silent Hunter 5: Battle of the Atlantic, puts you as the commander of a
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      141 45 orchardcentral It s party time! And, we are announcing our very first OC Girl of the month. Featuring a swanky and chic fashion parade to tie-in with the Singapore Fashion Festival 2010, these girls will be the highlight tonight. The OC Girl for April will win $2,500 worth of prizes
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        68 44 $3.26 Outperform CIMB upgrades from Underperform and raises the target price to $3.62 from $2.98 after increasing the FY10-12 earnings estimates by 2 to 3 per cent to reflect the latest $1 billion engine maintenance contract from Jet Airways. The house notes the contract brings the order book
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        48 44 65 cents Buy CIMB upgrades from Hold and raises the target price to 78 cents from 50 cents, implying 6.3X FY11 P/E, citing the food and beverage group’s strong dairy sales and earnings track record. The house forecasts two-year earnings CAGR of 26 per cent over FY11-12.
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      170 44 AP LONDON A Singaporean has become the first person ever to be extradited from overseas to face insider dealing charges in the United Kingdom, said Britain’s financial services authority. Helmy Omar Sa’aid, 33, was ordered to be held in prison custody at a
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      240 44  -  JULIE QUEK juliequek@mediacorp.com. sg SINGAPORE Cache Logistics Trust (CLT) expects to raise $417.2 million from its initial public offering which was launched yesterday the first logistics real estate investment trust (Reit) to be listed after a two-and-a-half-year hiatus. CLT, which is a joint real
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      206 45 DOW JONES NEWSWIRES SINGAPORE Temasek Holdings has underscored its confidence in the mining industry with a latest deal to buy subscription receipts from a Canadian global mining firm. A unit of Singapore investment firm Temasek will buy about US$490 million ($685 million) of
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      172 45 AGENCIES SINGAPORE Societe Generale (SocGen), France’s second-largest bank by market value, is probing “anomalies” discovered in a client account overseen by one of its private bankers in Singapore. The bank didn’t comment on the amount of client funds affected. A Monetary Authority of Singapore spokesperson
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        81 46 BLOOMBERG Australia’s trade deficit widened more than expected in February as miners imported heavy equipment needed to increase production in order to meet surging Chinese demand for commodities. The shortfall swelled to A$1.9 billion ($2.4 billion) from A$1.1 billion in January, the statistics bureau said yesterday.
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        69 46 AFP Indonesia’s stock market struck an all-time high yesterday as the benchmark reached 2,831.24 points in mid-afternoon trade. “This has happened because many listed companies showed solid financial reports in 2009,” Bhakti Securities analyst Reza Nugraha said. The Jakarta Composite Index’s previous high was 2,830.26
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