Today, 13 April 2010, Afternoon Edition

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  • 648 1 Army chief calls for dissolution of Parliament Election Commission calls for dissolution of PIVTs Democrat Party AGENCIES BANGKOK—Just days after violent clashes left 21 people dead, two developments yesterday suggested that a “silent coup” is already underway, one that could see embattled Prime Minister Abhisit
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  • 398 1 He stepped down last Saturday after a twoyear term as Singapore’s Attorney-General (AG). In an interview with leonG Wee keat, Professor Walter Woon gets candid. There’s a perception, from your time as a Nominated MP, that you’ve always
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  • NEWS
    • 253 3  -  SAIFULBAHRI ISMAIL The violent turn of events in Thailand overthe weekend is hurting tourism and driving visitors away from the capital, Bangkok. It’s also affecting corporate travel, with some travel agents here saying that they have seen a rise of up to
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    • 258 3 AGENCIES Thai shares tumbled yesterday after fatal clashes between soldiers and protesters in the capital prompted foreign investors to extend their biggest sale of the nation’s equities in two months, while the baht struggled despite gains in other Asian currencies. The Stock Exchange of Thailand
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    • 501 3  -  HETTY MUSFIRAH hetty@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The Malay community faces a shortage of Malay experts to address problems within it, such as dysfunctional families and the drug situation, and move it forward. And while for now, non-Malay experts have been rendering assistance
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    • 456 4  -  ONG DAI LIN dailin@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The only hawker centre managed by the National Environment Agency (NEA) in the two Opposition wards has been selected for upgrading. And while the move has set some wondering about a “vote for upgrading” ploy, a political analyst
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    • 200 4 GENEVIEVE LOH IN CANNES Mda, FreeManTleMedia launch aniMaTion Fund Singapore’s Media Development Authority yesterday launched the International Animation Fund at annual media trade market MIPTV 2010. In partnership with FremantleMedia Enterprises the producer of American Idol the fund invites applications from all over the world
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    • 717 5  -  LEONG WEE KEAT weekeat@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE He might have spent nine years as the Republic’s envoy to several European states, but the last two as the Attorney-General (AG) felt “the longest” of his life. It was not a
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    • 279 5 LEONG WEE KEAT SINGAPORE Getting good people to join the AttorneyGeneral’s Chambers (AGC), rather than securing criminal convictions, was the most difficult part of his job, Professor Walter Woon said. “And I’m not just talking about money (to attract them), but appreciation. I
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    • 334 8  -  LOW LIN FHOONG linfhoong@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE China-born shot putter Luan Wei who was dropped by the Singapore Athletic Association (SAA) for below-par performances in 2004 took the witness stand yesterday to offer his version of the promises made to him and his parents by the
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    • 370 8 Proper display, lighting and wide aisles also essential for customer safety SINGAPORE During the evening peak period and festive season, these grocery havens get uncomfortably crowded, and there have been occasional complaints that product displays and promotional counters are increasingly squeezing the space for human
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    • 150 8 SINGAPORE Customers stranded by the closure of the Wax in the City beauty chain can now continue receiving treatment at 21 companies with a total of more than 60 outlets that have banded under The Spa Beauty and Wellness Alliance. The alliance started
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    • 387 10 Businessman yo Kian Peng takes former brother-in-law to court TEO XUANWEI SINGAPORE A successful businessman has sued his former brother-in-law over almost $2.09 million of alleged debt. Mr Yo Kian Peng, a 65-year-old selfmade millionaire, is alleging that the sum is the
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    • 546 10  -  TEO XUANWEI xu anwei@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Why did each man claim that the other was obsessive and caused him fear? How did American exchange student Scott Jared Monat die of a drug overdose in his hostel? Did a friend, the last to see him alive in
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    • 161 10 TEO XUANWEI He had grilled the man who last saw his son, Scott Jared Monat, alive when the latter took the stand over whether Scott got drugs from him or why he was in Scott’s hostel that night. The inquest into
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    • 280 12  -  This is a significant milestone as it signals employer recognition and opens up more pathways and opportunities for workers. S RAMESH rameshs@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Small- and medium-sized enterprises will get more money to send their staff for productivity training. At the Manpower Ministry’s (MOM)
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    • 241 12  -  DYLAN LOH SINGAPORE How many Singaporeans know exactly what to do in the event of a terrorist attack near them? According to a National Security Awareness Survey last year, less than half of those polled knew the practical steps to take. This showed that the level
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    • 149 12 More than 250 people have been arrested in the past few days for various criminal offences. The arrests came following a multi-agen-cy operation led by the Criminal Investigation Department (CID), which began on April 8 and ended yesterday morning. A total of 287 people
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    • 136 12  -  JOANNE CHAN The Chinese Arts Channel has chosen Singapore as its launch pad into the global market. Chairman Wang Ping said Singapore’s comprehensive infrastructure and easy access to the global market make it an ideal base for the company’s international
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    • 130 12 Four home-grown stars have come together for the first time to record a song tailored forthe Singapore Pavilion at the World Expo 2010 in the Chinese city of Shanghai. The four J J Lin, Stephanie Sun, Tanya Chua and A-do will
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    • 71 12 Justice Chao HickTin has been reappointed the Singapore Supreme Court’s Judge of Appeal. He was sworn in by President S R Nathan at the Istana yesterday. Beginning his career as a State Counsel in the Attorney-General’s Chambers in 1967, he
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    • 138 8 PREMIUM l_Asik SuRCjERy Clii\ic V i tf. (M ■r p Forum by Associate Professor Leonard Ang Medical Director Cornea Refractive Surgery Fellowship, Singapore Harvard Medical School, USA Cornea Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania, USA Cornea, Refractive Surgery Stem Cell Treatment Fellowship, Kyoto, Japan Dates: 16 Apr 2010 (Fri) 7:00pm 6 May
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    • 298 12 MASTER THE 6 STEPS TOWARDS ACHIEVING THE LIFE YOU WANT THIS YEAR LEROY Certified Specialis Q a\ .1 6 Essential Success Strategies You Must Learn! 1. DESIGN A POWERFUL LIFE PLAN Do you know where you will be in 5 years' time? Most people never achieve what they want because
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  • VOICES
    • 490 14  -  For all the gripes about high COVs, no one complains when they’re selling Letter from Lulu See Sunday’s inaugural episode of Singapore Talking the new live talk show shown at 10.30pm on MediaCorp Channel 5 saw MP Lim Wee Kiak (Sembawang GRC), PropNex CEO Mohamed Ismail
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    • 260 14  -  When you sell a flat, you still have to buy another Letter from Tong Jee Cheng THERE has been a lot of discussion recently about HDB flats being affordable, and how they are valuable assets and profitable investments. I’m just the typical Singaporean who
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    • 181 16  -  BY DR JAMES DOBSON RAISE YOUR CHILD’S IQ According to Dr Burton White at Harvard University, there are six factors that contribute to the intellectual capacity of a child, three of which were discussed in yesterday’s column. Now for the rest of the list It was
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    • 137 16  -  letter from Chin KeeThou THE lift upgrading programme at Block 238 and 239 in Toa Payoh is nearing completion. But some areas need further evaluation: The walls of the lift chutes on the originally lift-landing floors were covered with tiles. These were more durable compared to
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    • 80 16 In our report “Doubt raised over United Fibre System’s viability” (April 9), we reported that Unifiber’s net loss was US$74 million for the financial year ended Dec 31. This is incorrect. The company’s net loss is US$55.07 million. The report also said that the company’s net current position is
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    • 300 16  -  I SAY Gilbert Goh Many people I know have been retrenched this year even as the economy emerges from last year’s recession. For fear of losing face, many have difficulty telling their family members that they have been axed. Some even lie to their spouses
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  • COMMENT @ ANALYSIS
    • 917 17  -  The bill from China's massive stimulus is coming and a stronger yuan will help The most worrying 15 of all? Failure to rein in local-government spending may push inflation to 15 per cent by 2012, says Mr Victor Shih, an economist at
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    • 765 18  -  Parties set out to groom the next generation of leaders RIZAL SUKMA Many believe that Indonesian politics in the run-up to the 2014 general election would be dominated by new faces. Veteran politicians of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono’s generation would begin to lose their dominance. For
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    • 1220 19 The low uptake of vaccination for H1N1 was raised as a cause for concern. Maybe, it was suggested, this had been the only active way in which people could register their opposition to the way the episode had been managed. The writer is Senior
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  • WORLD
    • 335 20 AP SEOUL South Korea has arrested one of its citizens for spying, alleging he worked with the North Korea military to kidnap defectors from the country and the activists who helped them flee, an official said yesterday. The 55-year-old, who was taken into custody on Thursday
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    • 352 20 To keep nukes out of terrorist hands AGENCIES WASHINGTON President Barack Obama (picture) and leaders from 47 countries started work yesterday on a battle plan to keep nuclear weapons out of terrorist hands. Confronting what he calls the “single biggest threat to US security”, Mr Obama is looking for global
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    • 200 20 AGENCIES United States President Barack Obama and Chinese President Hu Jintao will seek to narrow differences over currency, trade and Iran in a meeting that may overshadow the nuclear summit. Observers said the session could be the most important among Mr Obama’s individual meetings before
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    • 371 22 Opposition blasts M'sian DPM's comments on inter-faith body THE MALAYSIAN INSIDER HULU SELANGOR Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin said yesterday that the inter-faith panel recently set up by the Cabinet consisted only of “small fry”, in a bid to calm fears expressed by right-wing
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    • 282 22 BLOOMBERG JAKARTA Indonesian lawmaker Mukhamad Misbakhun, who helped start an inquiry into the 2008 bailout of Bank Century, was named yesterday as a suspect in a criminal case involving the lender, a police spokesman said. PT Selalang Prima Internasional, a company owned by Mr Misbakhun,
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    • 221 22 AFP BANDA ACEH Indonesian police killed a suspected terrorist and arrested four others during two raids in Aceh province yesterday. Aceh police identified the man killed during a raid on a house in Aceh Besar district as Enal Tao, 38. He was
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    • 336 22 AGENCIES KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia’s Home Minister yesterday said there were no obstacles to Thailand’s top criminal forensics expert testifying at an inquest into the death of an opposition aide. Dr Pornthip Rojanasunand (picture), who heads the Thai Central Institute of Forensic Science,
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    • 174 22 THE MALAYSIAN INSIDER KUALA LUMPUR Opposition lawmaker Tony Pua wants to know why the Ministry of Defence spent RM27.5 million ($11.9 million) on women’s shoes for its staff. According to the government’s MyProcurement portal, the contract was awarded to Syarikat Visi Footwear for
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    • 102 23 AP Detained Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi was taken briefly to a hospital for a heart check-up, a government official said yesterday. It was not clear what prompted the apparently unscheduled check-up on Sunday but hospital staff said they saw Ms Suu
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    • 97 23 AGENCIES An Australian state leader yesterday vowed to sharply increase penalties on ships causing oil spills, after a vessel ran aground and leaked fuel oil on the Great Barrier Reef more than a week ago. Queensland Premier Anna Bligh said the maximum penalty for
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    • 209 23 AFP TAIPEI Taiwan has unveiled the first images of a high-tech missile corvette (picture) specifically designed to counter the threat of China acquiring an aircraft carrier, officials and media said yesterday. A computerised graphic of the 1,000-tonne “carrier killer”, which has so far been
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    • 171 23 AFP SEOUL South Korea yesterday announced tougher rules to combat Internet gaming addiction including a “fatigue system” encouraging players to switch off. The announcement follows deaths blamed on the addiction, including the case of a couple accused of letting their baby starve while
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    • 161 24 AP TEYIT Kyrgyzstan’s deposed President K~r~an~e~~ ~a~~iye~~ yesterday rallied s~pporters in his ho~e ~~illage, testing his a~ility to ~o~nt resistance to the opposition forces that dro~~e hi~ o~t of the capital last wee~~. As a~o~t 500 people gathered in his nati~~e ~~illage of Teyit, Mr Al~
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    • 274 24 Labour unveils manifesto; vows to cut deficit, repair economy AFP BIRMINGHAM ~ritish Pri~e Minister Gordon ~rown ~n~ ~~eiled his party’s election ~anifesto yesterday, see~~ing to seize ~ac~~ the initiati~~e after a first wee~~ of ca~paign~ ing do~inated ~y econo~ic sq~a~~ling. The
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    • 197 24 AGENCIES BELFAST A dissident gro~p opposed to the Northern Ire~ land peace process detonated a ~o~~ o~tside the headq~arters of ~ritain’s MI5 do~estic sec~~ rity agency in Northern Ireland yesterday. Police said the attac~~ ~y the Real IRA appeared ti~ed to ~nder~ine
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    • 247 25 Leading atheists are exploring legal options to try Benedict XVI in Britain THE GUARDIAN LONDON Prominent British atheists Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens are paying lawyers to investigate the possibility of prosecuting the Pope for crimes against humanity, their solicitor confirmed on Sunday. Last
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    • 460 25 AFP WARSAW Europe united with Poland in grief yesterday over the plane disaster that killed the country’s President and dozens of other top political and military officials, as relatives of other victims waited to identify the remains. Government officials have met to plan the funerals, which
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    • 139 25 AGENCIES ROME A landslide threw a passenger train off the tracks in mountains near the northern Italian city of Bolzano yesterday, killing at least seven and injuring about 25. The front passenger car of the regional train was destroyed, its windows shattered. Two
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    • 222 25 Energy-saving bulbs affect cable TV set-top boxes THE DAILY TELE GRAPH LONDON Energy-saving light bulbs can interfere with television sets, causing them to randomly change channels and switch on and off, leading manufacturer Philips Electronics has admitted. Ever since old style incandescent
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  • SPORTS
    • 686 26 After the fuss over Tiger's return, Mickelson's the name on everyone's lips Mi~ke~~o~~ ~ad~~’~ bee~~ ig~~ored, bu~ ~e ~ad ~er~ai~~~y bee~~ over~ooked. He wa~~~’~ a~o~~e, be~au~e ~~e dra~a ~urrou~~di~~g ~iger’~ ~o~eba~k over~~adowed ~~e e~~~ire week a~ Augu~~a. AGENCIES AUGUSTA (Georgia) ~~e~a~~~e~~i~~~a~~~ “~oa~~”
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    • 388 26 AGENCIES AUGUSTA (Georgia) A~ ~ea~~ o~~e ~~i~~g abou~ ~iger Wood~ (pi~~ure) ~a~~~’~ ~~a~~ged: He ~~i~~ doe~~~’~ ~ave ~o p~ay ~i~ be~~ go~f ~o ge~ i~~~o ~o~~~e~~~io~~ a~ a ~ajor. Wood~ proved ~~a~ wi~~ o~~e of ~~e ~o~~ Jeky~~-a~~d-Hyde weeke~~d~ of ~i~ ~areer a~ ~~e 74~~ Ma~~er~.
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    • 561 27 Grant defies the odds to guide troubled Pompey to the FA Cup Final AGENCIES FA Cup semi-FinAl tottenham 0 portsmouth 2 LONDON It’ll be top against bottom, prince against pauper, when cash-rich Premiership leaders Chelsea take on Portsmouth, the team rooted to the foot of
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    • 369 27 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH LONDON Harsh words seem to surround John Terry this season Martin O’Neill being the latest to launch into an unrestrained attack on him but the defender revealed that there had been a frank exchange between the Chelsea players following their recent slump.
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    • 487 28  -  As Elizabeth prepares for Youth Olympics, her father and AAS squabble TAN YO-HINN yohinn@mediacorp.com.sg TOday exclusive SINGAPORE She is regarded as one of Singapore’s brightest young archers. But Elizabeth Cheok’s bid for a place in the Republic’s team for the inaugural Youth Olympic Games, which will
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    • 601 28 SINGAPORE Ten years ago, the Singapore Badminton Association (SBA) took up the challenge thrown down by then-Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong and targeted qualification for the 2012 Thomas Cup finals. Li Li made history in 2002 when she became the first Singapore shuttler
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  • Page 26 Miscellaneous
    • 98 26 yoUr sPorting Fix Football toMorroW 1.55am dutch league AZ Alkmaar v FC Twente Enschede (StarHub Ch 116) 2.25am ePl Chelsea v Bolton (StarHub Ch 27) 2.40am scotland Celtic v M’well (StarHub Ch 115) 3.00am la liga Getafe v Villarreal (StarHub Ch 22) tennis 4.30pm atP World Tour 1000 Monte Carlo
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  • 565 29  -  IMPACT The secret of our success is to give readers more of what they want PETERYEO peteryeo@mediacorp.com.sg AMERICAN journalist and editor Herbert Bayard Swope once said: “The secret of a successful newspaper is to take one story each day and bang the hell out of it.
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  • BUSINESS
    • 283 33 BLOOMBERG SINGAPORE New Century Shipbuilding plans to raise as much as $1.5 billion in the biggest initial public offering (IPO) by a Chinese company in Singapore, said two people with direct knowledge of the matter. New Century, based in Jingjiang in south-eastern
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    • 109 33 BLOOMBERG BEIJING China Petroleum and Chemical Corp (Sinopec), Asia’s biggest refiner, plans to buy ConocoPhillips’s stake in oil sands producer Syncrude Canada in a deal that may be worth as much as US$4 billion ($5.6 billion), a person familiar with the matter told Bloomberg yesterday.
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    • 91 33 AGENCIES MoNday close 2,977.17 (+0.17%) tuesday 2,975.51 p 0.24% Wednesday 2,988.10 p 0.42% thursday 2,963.19 q 0.83% Friday 2,971.97 p 0.30% top 5 By VoluMe NaMe Vol price chaNge cache 149,350 0.955 uNch gMg 132,774 0.240 p 6.7% yangzijiang 80,949 1.330 p 7.3% costcocorp 72,719 1.650 p 9.3% topglobal
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    • 30 33 haNg seNg 22,138.17 (-0.32%) È Ç NiKKei È 11,251.90 (+0.42%) shaNghai 3,129.26 (-0.51%) australia 4,984.27 (+0.73%) Ç MuMBai 17,853.00 (-0.45%) È Malaysia 1,339.61 (+0.42%) Ç È seoul 1,710.30 (-0.82%)
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    • 13 33 oil us$84.70 (-0.3%) È Ç gold us$1,163.80 (+0.2%) platiNuM us$1,732.40 (+0.3%) Ç
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    • 29 33 us$1 $1.391 £1 $2.146 €1 $1.891 ¥100 $1.487 a$1 $1.291 rM1 $0.433 rp1,000 $0.154 hK$100 $17.93 rMB100 $20.39 rs100 $3.128 all figures correct as at 9pm last night
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    • STOCK CALLS
      • 69 33 Buy 73 cents Kim Eng Securities starts coverage with a 99-cents target price, pegged at 11X FY11 P/E. The house expects earnings to double by FY12 from US$28.1-million ($39 million) profit in FY09 as it expands its fleet and embarks on new Mid-East oilfield projects. It notes Falcon
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      • 68 33 Neutral $2.34 DMG starts coverage with a $2.08 target price, saying current valuation is unattractive as the stock is trading at 12.1X FY11 P/E versus average 11.1X for its Indonesian peers. It expects FY10 earnings to fall 26 per cent to US$99 million due to lower average
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      • 53 33 hold $2.41 DBS Vickers downgrades from Buy and trims target price to $2.62 from $2.75 after lowering fiscal FY10 net profit forecast by 14 per cent to reflect lower fiscal Q2’10 earnings. The house says that “at current price levels, we believe that most of the positives have
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    • 529 33  -  DBS CEO shares his outlook for 2010 MILLET ENRIQUEZ emelita@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE—Expect more tightening measures to take place as policy makers rein-in on asset bubbles that are forming in the hot property markets of Singapore, Hong Kong and Shanghai. This was the view shared by DBS Group
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    • 93 32 Mainboard-listed CapitaMalls Asia said it has established a $2-billion Euro-Medium Term Note Programme which will be unconditionally guaranteed by the company. Net proceeds from the issuance will be used to refinance existing borrowings, to fund investments and for general working capital. CMA said
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    • 100 32 Mainboard-listed Midas Holdings said its Chinese joint venture company, Nanjing Puzhen Rail Transport, has been awarded a US$69.5 million ($96.6 million) contract to supply metro train sets in Suzhou. The company, 32.5-per-cent owned by Midas, will deliver 25 metro train
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    • 109 32 M1 has signalled that it plans to challenge the space carved out by its competitors in the fixed voice and broadband space. It changed its name from MobileOne to M1 to reflect its ambitions to be a full-service telecommunications company offering fixed and mobile
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    • 96 32 JO-ANN HUANG Catalist-listed steel goods producerSapphire Corporation is undergoing restructuring that will result in the company holding a direct 9.2-per-cent stake in a Hong Kong-listed iron ore company China Vanadium TitanoMagnetite Mining Company (China VTM). The restructuring will also free up its shares worth $175
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    • 433 32  -  US-Asean FTAtops S'pore trade bodies' wishlist as PM Lee visits America MAYWONG maywong@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Singapore should encourage the United States to have more trade with South-east Asia, now that the economic crisis is over. That is the message the business community is hoping that Prime
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    • 221 32 SINGAPORE Cache Logistics Trust (CLT), the first pure logistics real estate investment trust (Reit) to be launched in two-and-a-half years, had a robust debut on the Singapore Exchange (SGX) yesterday. The counter ended its first trading day at 95.5 cents, up 8.5 per
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    • 386 32 MILLET ENRIQUEZ SINGAPORE Analysts are upbeat that Singapore’s gross domestic product will likely grow between 11 per cent and 12 per cent on-year in the first quarter this year when the Ministry of Trade and Industry announces its advance first quarter GDP
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    • 488 31 But economists warn aid deal won’t boost growth THE GUARDIAN, AGENCIES BRUSSELS Greece’s rescue package from the European Union (EU) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has staved off the immediate risk of default and given a boost to the euro, but it will do
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    • 216 31 Dubai World debt restructuring creditors to respond in weeks AGENCIES DUBAI Dubai World’s creditors will respond to a proposal to restructure about US$25 billion ($34.8 billion) in debt “within weeks”, Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank’s (ADCB) chief executive Ala’a Eraiqat said yesterday. ADCB is assessing the implications of Dubai World’s proposals
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    • 111 31 AGENCIES China’s foreign exchange reserves surged to a record US$2.447 trillion ($3.4 trillion) at the end of March, from US$2.399 trillion at the end of December, the central bank said yesterday. The reserves the world’s largest grew 25.25 per cent from US$1.954 trillion a year
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    • 227 31 AGENCIES SHANGHAI New loans issued by Chinese banks fell to 510.7 billion yuan ($104 billion) in March, the central bank said yesterday, suggesting that Beijing’s efforts to curb lending and prevent overheating the economy could be working. The figure was lower than the
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    • 204 31 AGENCIES HONG KONG Two employees of Bank of China’s Hong Kong subsidiary have been charged in connection with sales of financial products linked to collapsed Wall Street investment bank Lehman Brothers. The two employees were charged under Hong Kong securities laws, Beijingbased
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    • 652 30  -  The pictures tell the story in this partnership HE PEIWEN hepeiwen@mediacorp.com.sg A picture speaks a thousand words, and that’s the premise of canon Singapore and tourism New South Wales’ collaboration, which is also supported by Singapore Airlines. Y.E.S. 93.3FM DJ Lin peifen, 987FM DJ rosalyn Lee, artiste
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    • 196 30 Start the reading habit young take your kids to a supermarket tAKiNG along your young ones along when you’re buying groceries is now an educational experience. Ntuc Fairprice, Nestle and the National Library Board have designed the “Amazing Spoonful of Stories”, a concept that promotes a healthy
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  • ARTS
    • 1391 38  -  Singapore’s visual arts scene is booming but are local galleries ignoring our homegrown artists? MAYO MARTIN mayo@mediacorp.com.sg MAYO MARTIN In SIngapore’S visual arts scene, there is no bigger name right now than video artist Ming Wong. after his acclaimed exhibition at last year’s Venice Biennale, Wong has
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    • 257 39 THEATRE Liao Zhai Rocks! You still have time to catch The Theatre Practice’s Mandarin period rock musical based on The Strange Tales Of Liao Zhai. Until April 18, 8pm, Drama Centre Theatre. With 2.30pm weekend matinees.Tickets at $19 to $69 from Sistic Memory This multi-media dance theatre piece from
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    • 614 40  -  Hossan Leong’s love affair with Paris endures partly because he hasn’t stepped on dog poo yet Mayo Martin mayo@mediacorp.com.sg HOSSAN Leong has been to Paris many times, which makes him the perfect person to play the main character in Sing’Theatre’s new musical revue, A Singaporean In Paris.
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    • 116 41 AP HIP-SHAKINg Colombian pop star Shakira is meeting with Haitian earthquake survivors living in makeshift camps and she says she is searching for suitable land to build a school for needy children. Arriving Sunday, the singer waved to onlookers and greeted infants living on a Haitian
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    • 467 41 Cuckoo Birds bridges the gap between Singapore and Malaysia theatre MAYO MARTIN More, please. That’s Jo Kukathas’ request regarding collaborations between Singapore and Malaysian theatre groups. The Malaysian actress is one of the performers in Cuckoo Birds, a co-produc-tion between Singapore’s Cake Theatrical Productions and Kuala Lumpur’s
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    • 664 42  -  Three Rivers star Daniel Henney said some other things, too, but we weren’t really paying attention May Seah may@mediacorp.com.sg OKAY, so I knew I was supposed to be asking Daniel Henney about his latest TV show. But the Korean-American actor is so gorgeous, it was
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    • 196 43 AP MeinHARDT Raabe, who played the Munchkin coroner in The Wizard Of Oz and proclaimed in the movie that the Wicked Witch Of The east was “really most sincerely dead,” has died. He was 94. His caregiver, cindy Bosnyak, said Raabe pronounced RAH’-bee died Friday
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    • 165 43 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH DOn’T look now but Lady Gaga isn’t just taking a break from sex, she has also turned activist. The singer renowned for her eccentric outfits and comments has reportedly backed a campaign in support of global HiV and Aids projects and says her
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    • 155 43 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH Ricky Wilson, the lead singer of pop band the kaiser chiefs, will appear in a scene with Daniel Radcliffe and Rupert Grint in the second instalment of Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows. The frontman, a big fan of the series of
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    • 604 44 The Fab Four go from possible Satanists to ‘precious jewels’ of pop music THE DAILY TELEGRAPH AT THE height of their fame,The Beatles enraged the Roman Catholic Church by famously declaring they were bigger than Jesus. Their enthusiastic pursuit of the sex, drugs and rock ’n’
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    • 764 46 Agent Provocateur founder Joe Corre says goodbye to his punk rock dad, Malcolm McLaren THE GUARDIAN PEOPLE have so many stories to tell about my dad, and some of them are not the nicest, but even his detractors would have to admit that he changed
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    • 733 47 Francis Bacon exhibit shows how crucial photographs were to the artist THE DAILY TELEGRAPH Though he was primarily a painter of the human figure, Francis Bacon never drew from the nude, rarely worked from life, and painted directly onto the canvas without first making preliminary studies or using
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    573 49 THINGS TO DO 1 Mosaic Series Jamie Cullum Jamie Cullum, UK’s best-selling jazz singer, is in Singapore for another highenergy performance. Date: Today Time: 7.30pm Venue: Esplanade Concert Hall Tickets: $40 to 150 from Sistic Enquiries: www.esplanade.com 2 L’enfer (Hell) An intense and riveting drama about the
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    • 146 51  -  EVELINE GAN ears are ‘self-cleaning’ ASA child, I would lay my head on my great-granny’s lap and let her clean my ears with a ear pick. Getting rid of all that dirt would help me “hear well”, she rationalised. According to DrYuen Heng Wai, a consultant at Changi
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    • 920 52  -  Overuse or misuse of your voice can lead to its loss Eveline Gan eveline@mediacorp.com.sg LIKE most people, primary school teacher Jeraldine Goh never gave her vocal cords a second thought, even though they are a prime asset in her job.That is, until she almost lost her
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