Today, 5 April 2010, Afternoon Edition

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  • 29 1 TODAY Monday April 5, 2010 www.todayonline.com we set you TODAY MICA (P) 160/10/2009 A PublICAtIon of nEWS HotlInE 6822 2268 Monday April 5, 2010 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking
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  • 967 3  -  LEONG WEE KEAT weekeat@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE At the next General Election, the incumbent People’s Action Party (PAP) team in a ward not contested since 1997 could face a combined opposition force one anchored by a veteran and a newcomer. After their first joint walkabout
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  • 657 3 EAStEr SundAy two top bishops condemn Church’s role in covering up for predator priests AGENCIES VATICAN CITY Pope Benedict XVI kept mum on paedophile priest scandals rocking the Roman Catholic Church during his Easter mass on Sunday, but other top church leaders were less reserved some
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    • 31 3 6333 9886 MEDHCORP ADVERTISING ENQUIRIES Today is taking part in the IFRA International Newspaper Colors Quality Club 2010-2012 for print quality. This colour patch is part of the entry requirements. 19
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  • NEWS
    • 49 6 a golf tournament organised by singapore pools yesterday to help raise money for the president’s Challenge was teed off by senior Minister goh Chok Tong. The afternoon on the greens of the orchid Country Club raised about $222,000 for charity. Channel newsasia CHANNEL NEWSASIA
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    • 430 8  -  HiT and rUn diploMaT ONG DAI LIN dailin@mediacorp.com. sg SINGAPORE This week, Singapore will finally hear the Romanian government’s official position on the hit-and-run accidents involving its suspended diplomat Dr Silviu Ionescu. This will be conveyed by Mr Aurelian Neagu, the Romanian Ambassador to
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    • 379 9  -  SUnTeC CiTy deal JOANNE CHAN joannechan@mediacorp.com. sg SINGAPORE City Harvest Church (CHC) has sought to clear the air with its 33,000 members for keeping mum over a multi-million dollar deal to co-own Suntec Singapore International Convention and Exhibition Centre. In a two-page notice
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    • 436 9 AGENCIES BANGKOK Thousands of anti-government demonstrators, facing threats of arrest, announced Sunday they would end their occupation of the Thai capital’s commercial core but would continue their protest in another location in the city. The decision appeared to head off a confrontation
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    • 349 11  -  CirCle line S RAMESH rameshs@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE When nine more stations along the Circle Line open two Saturdays from now, on April 17, it should bump up ridership on the line by at least five times to nearly 200,000 a day, according to the Land Transport Authority
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    • 250 11  - WATCH OUT, TICKET CHEATS LIN JIAMEI On occasion, a passenger will try to get a free ride, sneaking past the ticket gantries by walking very close to the person in front. SMRT is now hot on the trail of such ticket cheats, with a new gantry that has more sophisticated
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    • 343 13  -  no proGraMME, buT ESTHER NG estherng@mediacorp.com.sg THEY are one of the few batches of new citizens who will not get to experience the Singapore Citizenship Journey (SCJ), the one-and-a-half day mandatory programme for new citizens which will roll out in the second half of the year.
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    • 217 13  -  ESTHER NG He is the busy managing director of a software bundling company, yet Dutchman and Singapore PR Stijn Welkers, who came here in 1999, finds time to serve as a volunteer police officer at the Toa Payoh Neighbourhood Police Post
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    • 224 13 THE men two Frenchmen and a Spaniard entered Singapore on social visit passes and visited the casino at Resorts World Sentosa several times. On March 26, however, one of the three men committed “past-posting” at the roulette table, or cheating by placing a
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    • 182 13 THE police have arrested three people believed to be behind at least 15 cases of motor vehicle thefts in estates like Hougang, Yishun, Punggol and Tampines. A rash of motor vehicle thefts in the housing estate carparks between March and April were brought
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    • 731 15  -  SoCial WorKErS They fear losing staff to govt-funded programmes if they cannot match pay ALICIA WONG alicia@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE In principle, it’s a good thing raise the pay of social workers to retain them. In practice, welfare organisations worry it could lead to some
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    • 194 9 THE OBSTETRICS GYNAECOLOGY CENTRE m 4 The Obstetrics Gynaecology Centre (TOGC) caters to the wellness of women treating each woman as an individual with unique needs of body and mind. For every momentous stage of your life, TOGC is here for you with its comprehensive range of obstetrical and gynaecological
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    • 176 10 When we harness the power of technology and design, there is no limit to/what we can accomplish. =111 =ffi=a >33= r SINGAPORE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND DESIGN Established in collaboration with MIT Application closes on 8 April 2010. Apply at admissions.sutd.edu.sg Remember when wind was only used to power ships?
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    • 268 11 Preview on 16th April 2010 at 7.30 pm Lancaster Global MBA "The programme is a continual eye-opener." Ian Huggins "With this programme you're encouraged to be critical about what you are learning, and to give your opinion of whether you agree or not. We're taught not to take things at
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  • WORLD
    • 435 17 BaGHdad suicide car BoMBs dozens killed in latest surge of violence AFP BAGHDAD Three suicide car bombs targeting the Iranian and Egyptian embassies rocked Baghdad yesterday, killing at least 30 people in a surge of violence as Iraqis struggle to form a government four weeks after
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    • GLOBAL ROUNDUP
      • 110 17 AP A Malaysian woman and her pregnant daughter have died from H1N1 but the baby born to the younger woman is free of the virus. Health Minister LiowTiong Lai said the 54-year-old woman died of diabetes complications in hospital on Wednesday. Her 29-year-old daughter died
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      • 125 17 AGENCIES Dubai’s appeal court upheld a onemonth prison sentence on Sunday against a British couple for kissing in public in the Muslim emirate, their lawyer Khalaf Al Hosani said. The Britons had been on bail since their arrest in November last year, when an Emirati woman accused
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    • GLOBAL ROUNDUP
      • 102 19 AFP A city in China issued new rules yesterday on disposing of dead babies after the corpses of 21 infants were found dumped in a river. Underthe regulations the local government will pay for cremations of infants if the parents are unavailable
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      • 115 19 AFP Mr Kim Jong Il has hosted a dinner party for China’s new ambassador to North Korea, Mr Liu Hongcai, amid reports the reclusive leader was set to visit Beijing. The dinner on Saturday was attended by top North Korean military and
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      • 121 19 AFP A 12-year-old New York schoolgirl who was arrested and handcuffed for doodling on her classroom desk is suing police for US$1 million ($1.4 million), a report said on Saturday. The incident took place in February at Junior High School 190 in the Queens
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    • 394 19 Great Barrier reef oil Spill AP BRISBANE A coal-carrying ship that ran aground and was leaking oil on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef was in danger of breaking apart, officials said yesterday. The Chinese coal carrier Shen Neng 1 (picture) ran aground late on Saturday on Douglas
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    • 311 19 AFP HUAHIN (Thailand) South-east Asian nations on the shrinking lower Mekong River began talks with China yesterday amid fears that its dams are further depleting the waterway. A Chinese delegation was due to hold talks in the Thai coastal town of
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    • 181 20 TWo KorEaS AFP SEOUL North Korea accused South Korea’s military of opening fire yesterday towards its side of the tense land border, in what it termed a “grave armed provocation”. It said the South’s military fired 90 mm recoilless guns towards a civil police post in
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    • 153 20 AFP MOSCOW—An explosive device placed on a railway line derailed a goods train early yesterday in the troubled North Caucasus region of Dagestan, Russian news agencies reported. At 3.50am local time, an explosive device blew up on Makhachkala rail line, a spokesman for the FSB
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    • 314 21 nUCLEaR DiSaRMaMEnT MEETinG AFP TEHRAN Iran said yesterday it will host a nuclear disarmament conference this month to be attended by China, which has been resisting new sanctions against Tehran over its atomic ambitions. “This is an international conference and Iran, which advocates nuclear
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    • 178 21 AFP SYDNEY Australian scientists are working towards creating a living, full-thickness replacement skin for burn victims and hope to begin animal trials later this year. Research is underway to reproduce in the laboratory fully-functioning skin for transplant which could transform the lives of those left with
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    • 133 21 AFP PARIS Thalidomide, the sedative blamed for tragic birth defects half a century ago, treated a rare inherited blood disorder, according to lab experiments reported on Sunday. Around one person in 10,000 has a disorder called hereditary haemorrhagic telangiectasia, or HHT, which causes frequent, hard-to-treat nosebleeds. French doctors,
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    • 521 22 afghan politics AGENCIES WASHINGTON Afghan President Hamid Karzai has slammed Western backers for the second time in a week, accusing the United States of interference, The Wall Street Journal reported yesterday. In a private meeting with up to 70 Afghan lawmakers on Saturday, Mr Karzai also
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      • 129 22 AP Two men and three teens were charged on Saturday in the United States with gang-raping a seven-year-old girl who was sold by her 15-year-old stepsister during a party. Those arrested were Gregory Joseph Leary, 20, Timear Lewis, 19, and boys ages
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      • 99 22 AFP One of the Philippines’ richest and most powerful men has quit an academic post after admitting that a March 27 speech he delivered had copied from speeches by Harry Potter author J K Rowling and United States leader Barack Obama. Manuel Pangilinan said he
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      • 74 22 AFP South African President Jacob Zuma called yesterday for calm, following the murder of white supremacist leader Eugene Terre’Blanche, 69, as his party vowed to avenge the killing. The leader of the extremist Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging, whose supporters wear a swastika-like symbol, was hacked to
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    • 123 20 Same, same... w m ■r. k', r but different Made different. Grown different. NTUC Income started as a cooperative where people, quite simply, came before profits. With a commitment to make insurance affordable and accessible to all Singaporeans, we grew. Stronger and more resilient, weathering crises along the way. Today
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    • 183 22 PLAZA by the park 3 I r > -V r. M W> V r i x D5SSE 4 WITH MIN.$3 IN A c r»c/-ciDT A SINGLE RECEIPT a any food STALL AN OFFER SO SWEET... HOV/ CAN YOU RESIST HANO COLD CHENG VN G *S> *>\ C Rediscover your favourite
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  • voices
    • 283 23  -  FIre saFeTy Tenants light joss paper, clutter industrial building Letter from Jason Ho FIRES in Singapore industrial estates can result in massive damage and the possible loss of life. A recent example of this was a fire in a factory unit in the Bukit Batok Industrial Estate on
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    • 59 23  -  SHORT TAKES Letter from Chin KeeThou I applaud POSB for converting theToa Payoh North Branch to a 24-hour banking lobby. However, the cheque deposit machine was out of service at 6am last Monday and on Tuesday morning. Of what good is a 24-hour banking lobby
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    • 92 23  - Positive move but Letter from M Lukshumayeh I REFER to “Annulled bankruptcy orders go offline” (April 1). It is heartening to note that the Insolvency and Public Trustee’s Office would no longer make available online information on annulled bankruptcy orders, in recognition that the annulment of a bankruptcy order has
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    • 163 25  -  BY DR BILL MAIER AN ORGANISED TODDLER You say your toddler’s room is bursting with toys, shoes and books? I’d say it’s time for a crash course in organisation! Teach your children how to organise while they’re still young, and you’ll be developing a skill that
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    • 254 25  -  rECrEaTIOnal FISHInG rubbish is also trapped by these nets, making the cleaners’ jobs a risky and difficult one. The nets also trap other marine animals such as turtles and iguanas. letter from Mallika naguran RECREATIONAL fishing has become very popular along the Kallang canal.
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    • 147 25  -  letter from Tan Chek Wee LAST Thursday, a friend sms-ed that her group, which cares for stray dogs, paid more than $500 in “fines” to the Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority (AVA) to save a dog that had been caught and was to be put
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    • 111 25  -  letter from Chua Kheng yeow I WENT to watch Kidnapper at the Golden Village cinema in Jurong Point last Saturday. A grandmother, mother and her two sons sat behind me. The women started a “live commentary” about the movie. When I turned around, they argued that they were
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    • 336 23 Have your say. email voices@mediacorp.com.sg or visit www.todayonline.com/voices Stories always make for better souvenirs. Bringing home an unforgettable experience has never been easier, especially with our attractive promotional fares. Simply book your journey at silkair.com, or with SilkAir's appointed agents, by 16 April 2010. |Hf W JSYJV cr 14 vJftV.
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    • 349 24 WORLD St FDA cleared to treat pustular pimples only at 100% Clinically Proven Effective treatment for non-responders to topicals, orals lasers First to Change The Optical Characteristic of the skin Up to 7x Faster Than Conventional Laser Systems First Clinically Proven NO PAIN Treatments 5x More Efficient and Greater Safety
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    • 22 25 SWISSES MADE LGORDANZA™ SINGAPORE Memories may fade one day, A.lgordan%a Diamond encapsulates memories forever Ashes To Diamonds A Jewel To Remember www.algordanza.sg
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    • 51 26 "On October 6 th the entire world blacked out for 2 minutes and 17 seconds Humanity was given a glimpse into the near future and life will never be the same again..." Tonight 10pm Watch it first in Asia, exclusively on Channel 5 xinmsn.com/5 /^AEDIACORP r R h ome ome
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  • plus TELEVISION
    • 1109 27  -  THE BOOZE IS OUTTHERE Sex, booze and self-loathing oh, my! But don’t worry, David Duchovny says his show is all good, clean fun MAY SEAH may@mediacorp.com.sg DAVID Duchovny is mildly shocked that there will be so much rampant Californication going on in family-friendly Singapore. Starting tonight, we
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    • 197 29 AFP ICONOCLASTIC R&B singer Erykah Badu is expected to receive a disorderly conduct citation for stripping naked in her new video at the Dallas, Texas plaza where former United States President John F Kennedy was assassinated. Dallas police deputy chief
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    • 384 29  -  pErForManCE art Kites, chairs, pianos and ‘nice’ things at this year’s Future of imagination MAYO MARTIN mayo@mediacorp.com.sg FOR this year’s Future of Imagination (FOI) performance art event, which kicks off on Wednesday, expect a bit of kiteflying, stacking of chairs, “deconstructing” an actual piano, and
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    • 184 30 TAUFIK Batisah scored big at the inaugural anugeraHitz.sg on Saturday night by bagging awards for Best Artiste, Best Composer and Best Album. Themed “Rock Nation”, the awards show organised by MediaCorp’s Suria, Warna 94.2FM and Ria 89.7FM, and the Composers and Authors Society of Singapore (Compass)
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    • 542 31  -  thEatrE rEviEW thE tEMpESt Sam Mendes whips up a world-weary version for world-weary times MAYO MARTIN mayo@mediacorp.com. sg THERE’S a circle of sand in the middle of the stage. You could say it’s the proverbial eye-of-the-storm that’s the perfect arena for the verbal jousts and high-octane
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    • 41 28 The fuTure is here (again) 24 suDOku plus DifficulTY rATing: YesTerDAY’s sOluTiOn hOw TO plAY The rules are easy. Fill in the grid so that every row, every column, and every 3x3 box contains the digits 1 through 9. CopyrighT uCliCk
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  • Page 32 Miscellaneous
    • 1206 32 oN medIacorp oN medIacorp FLaSH Forward Channel 5,10pm Aaron delves deeper into why the blackops Jericho unit is after his daughter, Mark continues to question Lloyd about a phone conversation that took place during their flash-forwards, and Zoey tries everything in her power to change Demetri’s fate. Here comeS ajUma
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  • sports
    • 756 34 Another bad day at the office EngLish FootbaLL Draw puts Liverpool’s Champions league hopes in further doubt AFP EngLish PrEmiEr LEaguE Birmingham 1 Liverpool 1 BIRMINGHAM Liverpool’s challenge for a Champions League place suffered another setback as Liam Ridgewell’s goal gave Birmingham a 1-1 draw at St Andrew’s yesterday. Rafael
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    • 288 34 AFP AUGUSTA Tiger Woods will face his first extended public questioning over a devastating sex scandal today (tomorrow morning, Singapore time) in what looks set to be a dramatic start to a tension-packed comeback week of golf at the Masters. Reporters from around the world
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    • 576 35 English fooTball fuming ferguson lambasts officials for United’s defeat AGENCIES English prEMiErship Manchester United 1 Chelsea 2 LONDON Sir Alex Ferguson says the fate of the English Premier League title is now in Chelsea’s hands after Manchester United’s 1 -2 defeat to the Blues on
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    • 309 35 LONDON Arsene Wenger (picture) has confessed for the first time that his future with Arsenal depends on his young side’s ability to win silverware. Wenger confirmed he will open talks with the club on a new deal this summer, but acknowledged: “My own future will
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    • 644 37  -  yoUTH olyMpic GaMeS US swimmers will be here for youth olympics, assures Fina chief TAN YO-HINN yohinn@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Swimmers from the United States could be in the thick of action at the inaugural Youth Olympic Games here after all, six months after saying they won’t be taking
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    • 261 37 SINGAPORE Standing on the starting blocks in Vientiane, Laos, amid the roar of the 2,000-capacity crowd, SEA Games debutant Clement Lim admitted to feeling a tad intimidated by the noise last December. But the 17-year-old made the experience count, as he propelled the
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    • 672 38  -  Motor raCinG He powers red Bull to a one-two finish at Malaysian Grand prix as favourites wilt IAN DECOTTA ian@mediacorp.com.sg SEPANG Formula 1 circuit designer Hermann Tilke was perspiring buckets in the sweltering heat before the Malaysian Grand Prix yesterday and wondered if it would rain,
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    • 343 38 IAN DECOTTA SEPANG For the first time since the inaugural Malaysian Grand Prix in 1999, fans got to hear the Singapore national anthem twice in the span of two days at the Sepang International Circuit, thanks to Singapore-based teenager Richard Bradley. Competing in the
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  • Page 35 Miscellaneous
    • 67 35 SPORTS ON TV TODAY 10.30pm IPL Deccan v Rajasthan, Ch 11 ToMorroW 12.10am Football Nottingham Forest v Cardiff City, Ch 115 2.40am Football Newcastle Utd v Sheffield Utd, Ch 115 SPORTS ON RADIO 6.35am-11.35pm SportsZone Minutes Hourly Sports updates live on 938Live victory against a resilient Wolves team.” It was
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  • Page 38 Miscellaneous
    • 48 38 p YA Always play with care. responsibiyf Do not bet illeqally. Towards Community No person under the age of 18 years shall be Purpose and Benefit allowed to purchase a ticket or to claim any prize. POOLS Visit our website at www.singaporepools.com.sg RCB Reg No: *****0202G SINGAPORE m
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  • 794 39  -  takinG charGE succeed JOHN BITTLESTON John Bittleston mentors people in Business, Career and their personal lives at www.TerrificMentors.com. succeed@mediacorp.com.sg A FRIEND reacted to my use of the word “power” the other day by saying “power corrupts”. Lots of people think like that, and there is plenty of
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  • Article, Illustration
    304 39  -  thE EcOnOmics Of intEGritY anna bErnasEk When you pour yourself a glass of milk, do you ever think it might not be safe to drink? Of course not, says journalist Anna Bernasek, as you trust that the fifteen people who handled it before it reached your refrigerator all
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    • STOCK CALLS
      • 50 43 $8.86 Buy Stock rose 1.7 per cent at $8.87, tracking broad market uptick, but still trailing Singapore tech sector peers. Recent underperformance due largely to investors’ penchant for lower-priced, underlooked tech stocks in past weeks, in line with recent runup by penny shares, small caps in broad market.
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      • 58 43 $0.87 |Hold OCBC Investment Research cuts target price to $0.86 from $1.02, based on lower P/B valuation peg of 1.0X vs 1.2X previously, to reflect several past quarters of earnings disappointment. Keeps Hold call. Says while crane company poised to benefit from pick-up in infrastructure projects in region,
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      • 63 43 $0.31 Buy OSK starts with $0.375 target price, based on 20X FY2011 price to earnings. Says Indonesia-based palm oil company undervalued at current levels, is potential “multi-bag-ger” for investors with 5-to 10-year investment horizon. Expects fresh fruit bunch production to grow at rate of 19.4 to 34.5 per
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      • 70 43 S-DAYSTI CLOSING 1 FRI CLOSED Thursday 2,943.02 A 1.92W Wednesday 2,887.46 1.57% Tuesday 2,933.39 A 0.25% Monday 2,929.14 a 0.79% MARKETS CLOSE 1 Hang Seng Closed Nikkei 11,286.09 A 0.37% Shanghai 3,157.96 A 0 33 5eoul 1,723.49 A 0.25% Mumbai Closed Malaysia 1,335-94 A 0-46% FOREIGN EXCHANGE USsi
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    • Article, Illustration
      12 43 apple’s ipad tablet computers finally hit uS stores. page B3
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    • 542 43  -  KpMg SurVey reSultS JO-ANN HUANG joannhuang@mediacorp.com. sg SINGAPORE Singapore companies are receiving a higher number of queries involving tax matters from the Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore, according to the latest global survey on companies by accountancy firm KPMG. The survey, conducted in 2009, polled 890
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    • 278 43 MILLET ENRIQUEZ SINGAPORE Mainboardlisted Ban Joo and Company is positioning itself for a slice of Indonesia’s telecommunications industry, with the purchase of Multi Skies Nusantra Limited (MSN) for about $30.5 million last week. MSN, incorporated in Hong Kong in January this year, builds,
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    • 717 42  -  poinT oF VieW CONRAD RAJ editor- at-large conrad@ mediacorp.com. sg FOR the shipping companies that call at PSA International’s 28 ports around the world, the Singapore port operator’s earnings and revenue for the last financial year, which were announced on Saturday, would be enviable. With a
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    • 490 41 CUrrenCy poliCieS Treasury Secretary prefers meetings to advance US position to China AP WASHINGTON United States Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner says he is delaying a report to Congress on currency policies amid calls from some lawmakers that it should cite China as a currency manipulator harmful to
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    • 453 41 AGENCIES NEW YORK Consumers eager to get their hands on Apple’s iPad tablet computer hit US stores when it went on sale on Saturday, rivalling the frenzy seen when the iPhone went on sale in 2007. Many of the buyers
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    • 33 43 FroM BroKerage reSearCH and agenCy reportS disclaimer: readers should seek independent financial advice before making any investment decision. today cannot be held liable for any consequence arising from the use of this information.
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