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Title Section29 2010-04-05 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 thinking29 words
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Article, Illustration967 2010-04-05 3 LEONG WEE KEAT - 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 walkaboutWEE TECK HIAN - 967 words
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Article, Illustration657 2010-04-05 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 someAGENCIES; AFP - 657 words
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Article, Illustration49 2010-04-05 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 NEWSASIACHANNEL NEWSASIA - 49 words
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430 2010-04-05 8 ONG DAI LIN - 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 to430 words
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379 2010-04-05 9 JOANNE CHAN - 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 notice379 words
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Article, Illustration436 2010-04-05 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 confrontationAGENCIES; AFP - 436 words
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Article, Illustration349 2010-04-05 11 S RAMESH - 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 AuthorityWEE TECK HIAN; WEETECK HIAN - 349 words
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Article250 2010-04-05 11 LIN JIAMEI - 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 sophisticated250 words
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Article, Illustration343 2010-04-05 13 ESTHER NG - 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.TODAY FILE PHOTO - 343 words
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217 2010-04-05 13 ESTHER NG - 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 Post217 words
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224 2010-04-05 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 a224 words
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182 2010-04-05 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 brought182 words
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Article, Illustration731 2010-04-05 15 ALICIA WONG - 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 someTODAY FILE PHOTO - 731 words
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Article, Illustration435 2010-04-05 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 afterAFP - 435 words
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Article110 2010-04-05 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 diedAP - 110 words
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Article125 2010-04-05 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 accusedAGENCIES - 125 words
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102 2010-04-05 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 unavailableAFP - 102 words
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115 2010-04-05 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 andAFP - 115 words
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121 2010-04-05 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 QueensAFP - 121 words
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Article, Illustration394 2010-04-05 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 DouglasAP; AFP - 394 words
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311 2010-04-05 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 ofAFP - 311 words
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Article181 2010-04-05 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 inAFP - 181 words
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Article153 2010-04-05 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 FSBAFP - 153 words
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314 2010-04-05 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 nuclearAFP - 314 words
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Article178 2010-04-05 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 withAFP - 178 words
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Article133 2010-04-05 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,AFP - 133 words
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Article521 2010-04-05 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 alsoAGENCIES - 521 words
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129 2010-04-05 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 agesAP - 129 words
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Article99 2010-04-05 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 heAFP - 99 words
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Article74 2010-04-05 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 toAFP - 74 words
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Article283 2010-04-05 23 Jason Ho - 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 on283 words
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Article59 2010-04-05 23 Chin KeeThou - 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 lobby59 words
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Article92 2010-04-05 23 M Lukshumayeh - 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 has92 words
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Article, Illustration163 2010-04-05 25 DR BILL MAIER - 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 that163 words
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Article254 2010-04-05 25 Mallika naguran - 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.254 words
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Article147 2010-04-05 25 Tan Chek Wee - 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 put147 words
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Article111 2010-04-05 25 Chua Kheng yeow - 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 were111 words
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Article, Illustration1109 2010-04-05 27 MAY SEAH - 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, we1,109 words
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197 2010-04-05 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 chiefAFP - 197 words
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Article, Illustration384 2010-04-05 29 MAYO MARTIN - 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, and384 words
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Article, Illustration184 2010-04-05 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)184 words
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Article, Illustration542 2010-04-05 31 MAYO MARTIN - 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-octane542 words
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Miscellaneous41 2010-04-05 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 uCliCk41 words
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Miscellaneous1206 2010-04-05 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 ajUma1,206 words
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Article, Illustration756 2010-04-05 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. RafaelAFP - 756 words
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Article288 2010-04-05 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 worldAFP - 288 words
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Article, Illustration576 2010-04-05 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 onAGENCIES; AFP - 576 words
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Article, Illustration309 2010-04-05 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 willAFP - 309 words
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Article, Illustration644 2010-04-05 37 TAN YO-HINN - 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 taking644 words
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261 2010-04-05 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 the261 words
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Article, Illustration672 2010-04-05 38 IAN DECOTTA - 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,AP - 672 words
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Article, Illustration343 2010-04-05 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 theIAN DECOTTA; PHOTO COURTESY OF ARO BRADLEY - 343 words
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Miscellaneous67 2010-04-05 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 was67 words
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Article50 2010-04-05 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.50 words
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Article58 2010-04-05 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,58 words
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Article63 2010-04-05 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 per63 words
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Article70 2010-04-05 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 USsi70 words
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Article490 2010-04-05 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 toAP - 490 words
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Article, Illustration453 2010-04-05 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 buyersAGENCIES; AFP - 453 words
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