Today, 23 April 2010

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    47 1 TODAY MICA (P) 160/10/2009 A PUBLICATION OFyi AEDIACORP NEWS HOTLINE 6822 2268 Friday April 23, 2010 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking TODAY MICA (P) 160/10/2009 A PublICAtIon of nEWS HotlInE 6822 2268 Friday april 23, 2010 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking april 23, 2010 a publication of
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      423 1 UOB CARDS. FOR THE LOVE OF UOB CHEF’S CREATION. NOW, 25 TOP CHEFS CREATE A MENU JUST FOR YOU. The UOB Chef’s Creation is now bigger than ever. Twenty fi ve of Singapore’s fi nest chefs have come together to create a menu exclusively for you. Just S$68++ for lunch
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  • Article
    MOE reviews safety of school sports
    634 2  -  judo teenager in icu is latest casualty in sports competition ONG DAI LIN dailin@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE As a Secondary 4 judoka became the latest casualty in a school sports competition with a head injury landing him in intensive care Education Minister Ng Eng Hen announced
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    Lock icon Batam dockworkers torch shipyard
    560 2  -  six employees hurt as thousands riot ZUL OT HMAN zul@mediacorp.com.sg BATAM Flames raged at a shipyard on Batam Island yesterday after angry Indonesian dock workers ran amok and set fire to offices and a warehouse. As the management staff of PT Drydocks World Graha hid in
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  • NEWS
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      Lock icon Five blasts rip through Bangkok
      242 5 AGENCIES BANGKOK At least five grenades exploded yesterday night near a massive encampment of anti-government protesters in Bangkok, killing one person and wounding at least 70, causing panic as people scrambled through the streets. Five grenades were fired into a crowd in the capital’s business
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      ‘Table manners’ have improved, but not graciousness on the go
      390 6  -  LIN JIAMEI jiamei@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE We are better now when it comes to clearing our plates at hawker centres but Singaporeans are still not showing enough courtesy on the roads. A survey conducted earlier this year by the Singapore Kindness Movement
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      Lock icon A chance meeting at the Vatican
      304 6 Fm George yeo discusses ionescu case with romanian counterpart VATICAN CITY Foreign Affairs Minister George Yeo has had a discussion on the Silviu Ionescu case with his Romanian counterpart. The Foreign Affairs Ministry (MFA) said the chance opportunity arose when Mr Yeo and Mr
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      Lock icon People’s Park fire: Storage rooms illegal, says SCDF
      270 7 LYNDA HONG SINGAPORE Wednesday’s blaze that caused a mass evacuation of People’s Park Complex began in a car park storeroom that a probe has revealed was, in fact, illegal. The Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) said the owner did not have SCDF
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      Mystery of the hammer solved but...
      393 7  -  it is still unclear who is responsible for Woodlands CC food poisoning NG JING YNG jingyng@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The obvious assumption was that whoever left the hammer found in a caterer’s freezer was the likely culprit for 45 people many of them children falling victim
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      Lock icon Can you guess what your guest needs?
      652 9  -  That’s a vital knack you can’t pick up overnight, our reporter discovers in one day as a concierge NEO CHAI CHIN Neo Chai ChiN chaichin@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Have you ever found yourself getting impatient with service staff who can’t seem to get you what
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      Lock icon UN RACISM EXPERT MEETS SINGAPORE SELF-HELP GROUPS
      181 11 ALICIA WONG The progress and challenges of ethnic and religious communities here, as well as how the Republic manages racial and religious harmony, was the focus yesterday of a fact-finding mission in Singapore. United Nations expert Githu Muigai (picture, right) met with members
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      Lock icon Japan backs Singapore's inclusion in the G20
      292 11  -  MICHIYO ISHIDA Channel NewsAsia Japan Bureau Chief michiyo@mediacorp.com.sg TOKYO Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama told visiting Singapore Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong yesterday that Japan backs Singapore’s inclusion in the Group of 20. Mr Hatoyama commended Singapore on its financial and economic development,
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      Companies have been split, but Sats staff want to enjoy all SIA benefits
      330 15 SINGAPORE Relations between Singapore Airlines (SIA) and the Singapore Airport Terminal Services Workers Union (Satswu) have hit a bumpy road again. This time, it is over the withdrawal of benefits Sats union members have enjoyed for years
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      Bank, taxi unions to merge
      416 15  -  S RAMESH rameshs@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The experience may be painful, but merging forces benefits unions by strengthening their resources and management expertise and so, the trend should continue, said NTUC secretary-general Lim Swee Say. Recent union mergers included those in the education and healthcare sectors in
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      Lock icon New US$100 note unveiled
      196 15 WASHINGTON It retains the traditional look of the greenback but the new design for the US$100 note, unveiled yesterday, comes with two new advanced counter-feit-deterrent security features. The blue 3D Security Ribbon on the front of the new note contains images of bells and 100s that
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      38 ARRESTED IN POLICE OPERATION AGAINST ONLINE VICE
      88 17 In an operation against online vice, officers from the Criminal Investigation Department and Central Police Division raided a hotel on Lavender St on Wednesday and arrested 38 suspects of various nationalities. Four were arrested underthe Misuse of Drugs Act while the rest
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      MAN WHO BROKE INTO MINI-MART CAUGHTON CCTV
      102 17 A 27-year-old man broke into a mini-mart at Jalan Papan and made off with about $1,000 in cash and over 400 phone cards with an estimated total value of $3,000. But he did not get far. The owner, who had closed his mini-mart
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      MISSING TUGBOAT AND BARGE RECOVERED
      202 17 A tugboat and barge that went missing while in the waters of Kuantan, Pahang, on Monday was found early yesterday morning. Their owner, Pan United, said the crew of nine on the tugboat all Indonesians are safe and now back in Singapore waters. The vessels
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      Lock icon OUT OF THE WOODS ...
      69 17 OUT OF THE WOODS in a three-hour operation from 10pm on wednesday to 1am yesterday, officers from the criminal investigation department and Jurong police division raided the forested area off bukit batok road and arrested 27 foreign nationals 21 men and six women of various nationalities, aged 22 to 51
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      GAMING AND ANIMATION SECTORS TO GET FUNDING BOOST FROM MDA
      118 17 Large-scale projects targeting the international market will get a funding boost from the Media Development Authority (MDA). The projects can range from multiplayer online games to films and next-generation digital media applications, MDA said at its annual Media Business Forum.
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      Lock icon More than an information centre for private school students
      351 17  -  HOE YEEN NIE yeennie@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The Council for Private Education (CPE) has set up a student services centre to provide information to prospective students on the options available to them, among other things. Under the Private Education Bill, private schools are
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      210 17 MEET ADAM KHOO THIS SATURDAY AND DISCOVER THE KEY TO SUCCESS FOR YOUR CHILD Success Learning System June Camp Filling Fast! Denise Lee 7 Am Gifted!' Graduate Turned her Cs and Ds to Straight As Former Choa Chu Kang Secondary School Student While scoring A is important, we realise that
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  • VOICES
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      Count your blessings
      770 19  -  BuDGET TAI TAI Times are hard, but Singaporeans shouldn’t grumble TABITHA WANG A friend recently lost his job. He had been working with the same firm for 20-odd years and had anticipated retiring from that company in a few years’ time. Instead, the bosses called him into
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      PHOTO JOURNEYS WITH Rosalyn lee
      454 21 Brought to you by It may be 987FM DJ Rosalyn Lee’s second time in Sydney but she was no less impressed. “I saw a very different side to Sydney. On the last trip, I spent most of my time hanging out with my friends in
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      POWER IN YOUR HANDS -VIVID SYDNEY
      84 21 JoinY.E.S. 93.3FM DJ Lin Peifen, 987FM DJ Rosalyn Lee, artiste Thomas Ong and Canon photography expert Jino Lee at the Power In Your Hands seminar as they share their photographic journey of Sydney, and travel photography tips. Participants stand a chance to win a
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      FOCUS ON THE FAMILY
      158 22  -  BY DR BILL MAIER OVERBEARING IN-LAWS Marriage is a difficult transition for everyone especially parents. That’s why almost all couples have at least some problems getting along with their in-laws. One friend remembers his wife’s mother taking him aside during their wedding rehearsal and trying to
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      No conflict of interest
      310 22  -  residents allowed to elect, remove en bloc sale committee members letter from Chong Wan yieng (Ms) Communications Head, Corporate Communications Ministry of Law MS FLORENCE Tan (“Conflict of interest?”, April 16) suggests that members of a management committee (MC) be disallowed from sitting on an en
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      The Aetos officer who made our day
      237 22  -  letter from Stanley Hagstrom I WANT to express my gratitude to the kind-hearted Aetos police officer at Changi Airport Terminal 1 on Tuesday at KLM-Air France’s check-in counter. My son, his wife and my six-month- old grandson had been visiting here since April
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  • COMMENT & ANALYSIS
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      The regulator needs more bite
      695 24  -  SGX can name and shame errant companies, but needs MAS or the law for stricter enforcement CONRAD RAJ conrad@mediacorp.com.sg The writer is the editor-at-large at Today. Running the compliance department of the Singapore Exchange (SGX) must be quite a frustrating job. It often appears that
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      Lock icon Corporate governance: Get starting point right
      1104 26  -  it doesn’t make sense for a majority of firms here to revamp boards to fit what is largely an imported standard loh Chee Kong The writer is a freelance correspondent for Today and the editor of business news website The Corporate Observer. Anyone reading
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      Lock icon Writing's on the wall in Hulu Selangor
      864 28  -  a landslide victory for either party in this crucial state could turn around their political fortunes OOi Kee Beng The writer is a Fellow at the Institute of South-east Asian Studies. His latest book is Pilot Studies for a New Penang (co-edited with
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      Lock icon Will Syria come in from the cold?
      945 32  -  The choice is between opening up its economy or retreating into its Baathist shell Kenan MorTan Will the recent rapprochement between the United States and Syria mark a new era in Syria’s international standing? Syria can hope for two major changes following the
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  • WORLD
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      Lock icon ‘Hillbillies get out’
      340 34 Angry Bangkok residents scuffle with Red shirts AGENCIES BANGKOK Anger among Bangkok residents mounted yesterday against anti-government protesters who have entrenched themselves in the capital’s commercial district, causing the closure of hotels and offices and disrupting incomes. A loose coalition opposed to the Red Shirts were planning
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      Lock icon Government MPs want Anwar to be censured
      244 34 AGENCIES KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian government lawmakers voted yesterday to censure opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim for alleging that the Prime Minister’s push for multiracial unity was modelled on an Israeli election campaign. A government motion urged that Mr Anwar be investigated for suggesting the
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    • Good fortune, bad fortune
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        Lock icon Yu Pengnian donates wealth
        210 35 AFP SHANGHAI A Chinese tycoon announced yesterday he was donating his fortune to charity in a gesture that has cemented the real estate magnate and hotelier’s position as China’s top philanthropist. Mr Yu Pengnian (picture), 88, told a news conference he was donating US$470 million ($645
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        Lock icon Ex-Gome boss on trial for graft
        193 35 AGENCIES BEIJING The former head of a top appliance chain who was once China’s richest person went on trial yesterday, nearly two years after being detained on charges including insider trading and bribery. Huang Guangyu (picture) built his Gome Electronics into China’s biggest appliance
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      Lock icon Unveiled in France
      183 35 AFP PARIS Muslim tourists in France will be forbidden to wear the full-face veil along with French residents under a government plan to ban the garment in public places, a minister said yesterday. “When you arrive in France, you respect the laws in force Everyone will have
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      Lock icon JAPAN PM'S FORMER AIDE HANDED SUSPENDED JAIL TERM
      110 36 AFP A Japanese court handed a suspended jail term yesterday to a former aide of Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama for falsifying fund-raising books to hide money from the Premier’s family fortune. The Tokyo District Court handed the suspended two-year prison term to
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      Lock icon NEW WARNINGS FORTOURISTS IN NEW DELHI
      102 36 AFP Australia and Britain yesterday warned tourists of the increased risk of militant attacks in New Delhi, joining Canada and the United States, which have urged foreigners to avoid parts of the Indian capital. The US said on Wednesday it had information of a
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      Lock icon SEOUL BELIEVES NORTH KOREA TORPEDOED NAVYSHIP: REPORT
      111 36 AFP South Korea’s military believes that a North Korean submarine launched a torpedo attack that sank a South Korean warship last month near their disputed sea border, Yonhap news agency said yesterday. The assessment was reported to the office of President Lee Myung
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      Lock icon Rare finds in the Heart of Borneo
      241 36 AFP KUALA LUMPUR Wildlife researchers said yesterday they have discovered around 120 new species on Borneo island, including a lungless frog (picture), the world’s longest insect and a slug that fires “love darts” at its mate. Conservation group WWF listed the new finds
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      Lock icon European airspace open ... almost
      185 36 European airspace open almost AGENCIES BRUSSELS Nearly all European airspace was open for business yesterday, with a normal quota of flights expected for the first time in a week, the continent’s air traffic control coordinator Eurocontrol announced. But the airspace over parts of Sweden was closed as shifting winds sent
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      Lock icon Luxury train derails, 3 dead
      258 38 AP emergency workers PRETORIA A luxury train filled with tourists, many of them Americans, sped downhill out of control before derailing in South Africa on Wednesday, killing a pregnant woman and two crew members and trapping passengers in the mangled coaches. Rail officials advised passengers
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      Lock icon Questions cloud Clegg’s funding
      372 38 AGENCIES LONDON The leader of Britain’s Liberal Democrats, Mr Nick Clegg, was accused of irregular funding arrangements yesterday just before party leaders met for the second pre-election television debate. The Daily Telegraph newspaper reported that Mr Clegg, whose strong showing in last week’s first televised clash
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      Lock icon ARROYO NAMES MANICURIST TO KEY POST, DRAWING SHARP CRITICISM
      143 38 AFP Philippine President Gloria Arroyo has named her manicurist to the board of a major government agency, her spokesman Gary Olivar said yesterday. The appointment of Ms Anita Carpon to the board of a body responsible for lending tens of millions
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      383 44 LOW LIN FHOONG SINGAPORE The Singapore Athletic Association (SAA) appointed him national throws coach in January 2004, and he was set to work with the likes of shot putter Luan Wei. But Ma Yongfeng said yesterday the China-born athlete displayed poor
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      86 44 In “Making a Splash” (April 22, 2010), Singapore Sports Council’s (SSC) Chief for Sports Facilities Group, Kenneth Hui, said the Bukit Panjang and Pasir Ris Sports Complexes are scheduled to open “midyear next year”, and “the year after”, respectively. This is wrong. The
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      590 44  -  FaS in talks for talented midfielder to go abroad, parents give blessings SHAMIR OSMAN shamir@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Once the youngest footballer to turn out for Singapore when he made his debut in 1979 at the age of 17 years, three months and two days, Fandi
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      89 46 Tickets forthe 2010 Youth Olympic Games Opening and Closing Ceremonies, to be held at The Float@Marina Bay, will be sold through a ballot-to-purchase system. Those who are interested can register for up to four tickets for each event at www.singapore2010.sg/tickets from 9am today until 11.59pm on
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      168 46 PHILIP GOH Japanese electronics giant Panasonic strengthened their support for the Olympic movement yesterday, lending their “eco ideas” to make the Aug 14-26 Youth Olympics a greener Games. Among the initiatives introduced on Earth Day were the redesigning of 13 recycling stations along Orchard Road to
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      449 46  -  Facilities set for makeover as youth olympics preparations enter final straight IAN DE COTTA ian@mediacorp.com.sg TODAY FILE PHOTO SINGAPORE Fewer sports facilities will be available to Singaporeans as preparations for the Youth Olympic Games enter the final phase. A total of 19 facilities ranging from
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      498 46 SHAMIR OSMAN Great eastern-yeo’s s-leaGue 2010 etoile FC vs saFFC Jalan Besar stadium, 7.30pm SINGAPORE The 21 Frenchmen stood in a blue huddle around their diminutive general yesterday morning. Their leader, dressed in red, went up to one of his players and
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      513 48 Bayern on course for treble despite ribery nightmare AGENCIES Champions league semi-Final, First leg Bayern munich 1 lyon 0 MUNICH It just keeps getting better and better for Arjen Robben, whose 69th-minute strike handed Bayern Munich a 1-0 first-leg victory over Lyon in their Champions League
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      437 48  -  Main Sponsor National Inter-Schools Netball Championships ADHE SARARIANY ANDI DJOHAR adhesara@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Twenty minutes after CHIJ Toa Payoh squeezed past defending champions Singapore Sports School in the ‘C’ Division national netball Final 23- 22, seniors from the two schools took to the court
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      399 50 club hope red card won’t rule striker out of champions league Final THE GUARDIAN MUNICH Bayern Munich are hoping Uefa will show leniency when a decision is made on Franck Ribery’s red card on Wednesday night (yesterday morning, Singapore time). The Frenchman was sent off
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      216 50 AGENCIES English prEmiErship hull 0 aston Villa 2 HULL Gabriel Agbonlahor and James Milner fired Aston Villa to a 2-0 victory at Hull on Wednesday (yesterday morning, Singapore time) to keep alive their slim chances of capturing fourth place in the Premier League, while pushing
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      360 53  -  Focus on energy, medical and environmental tech at new facility CHRIS HOWELLS christopherh@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Panasonic Electronic Devices is investing $20 million to expand its research and development (R&D) centre in Singapore. The facility at Bedok will develop system devices for environment, energy and medical electronics. This
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        71 53 hold $3.12 UOB KayHian downgrades from Buy and lowers the target price to $3.06 from $3.60, citing the expected erosion of market share in Singapore’s corporate data services space and intense competition facing its Indian associate Bharti. The house says telco’s dominance in corporate data services, which account for
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        61 53 hold $1.89 OCBC Investment Research downgrades from Buy on limited upside to its unchanged $1.93 target price, pegged at parity to RNAV. It suggests accumulating the stock in the $1.75 to $1.80 range and cites encouraging signs of growth, with CMT’s malls turning in positive rental reversion of
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        68 53 buy 34.5 cents DMG starts coverage with a 39 cents target price, based on 5.6X FY11 P/E. It calls the IT solutions firm “an undiscovered gem”, saying investors have yet to fully appreciate the uniqueness of its new product FluCard, which is able to wirelessly transfer digital content
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      549 53 Us president issues sharp call for reforms to avoid another crisis THE NEW YORK TIMES, AGENCIES NEW YORK United States President Barack Obama was set to warn yesterday (this morning, Singapore time) that the world’s biggest economy risks dooming itself to a repeat of the
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      560 55  -  Court of appeal upholds decision that land and building costs are capital in nature CONRAD RAJ editor-at-large conrad@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Raffles Town Club (RTC) has lost its case in the Court of Appeal to obtain tax deductions for the costs involved in leasing its land and
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      215 55 SINGAPORE Mainboard-listed insurer Great Eastern said yesterday that it will commence talks to acquire a Malaysian firm, The Pacific Insurance Berhad, after receiving a letter from the Malaysian central bank. Great Eastern said it will proceed after Bank Negara Malaysia indicated in a letter
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      273 56 JULIE QUEK SINGAPORE Citibank Singapore is beefing up its global transactions team as it is seeing a large number of Chinese companies setting up treasury centres here. Since January, the lender has hired about 75 new staff across Asia and
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      283 56 GEORGINA JOSEPH SINGAPORE The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) yesterday said it is planning to review the rules for the investment management industry. In a statement, MAS said it will launch a public consultation in two weeks. The move to enhance its regulatory regime
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      Prudential plans secondary listing on SGX
      256 56  -  JO-ANN HUANG joannhuang@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Prudential has announced plans to list on the Singapore Exchange (SGX) to complement its primary listing in Hong Kong. According to media reports, the secondary listing is part of the insurance firm’s strategy to attract investors to its massive US$21
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      146 56 The buoyant property market has propelled Keppel Corp’s first ~uarter net profit up 13 per cent to $322 million from a year ago. Profit from Keppel’s property division for the three months ended March 31 doubled to $152 million on the back of improved
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      165 56 SINGAPORE Singapore investment company Temasek Holdings is buying a 10-per-cent stake in South Korean biopharmaceutical firm Celltrion for US$187.5 million ($257.7 million). According to a filing with the Korea Exchange, Celltrion will issue some 12.3 million shares to Ion Investments, a subsidiary of
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      430 57 Deficit widens, fresh doubts over latest public finance figures AGENCIES BRUSSELS Greece plunged deeper into turmoil yesterday when new data showed a sharp widening of its 2009 deficit within a dismal set of figures for almost all European governments. The European Union also warned the
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      133 57 AGENCIES TOKYO Japan’s exports rose for a fourth straight month, jumping 43.5 per cent from a year earlier to ¥6 trillion ($88.5 billion), in March as a recovering global economy drove demand for the nation’s cars and gadgets, government data showed yesterday. Exports rose almost 53
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      171 57 AGENCIES TOKYO Japan is mulling new targets to reduce its public debt that is nearing 200 per cent of gross domestic product, The Wall Street Journal reported yesterday. Officials are considering Budget reduction plans as part of a fiscal reform Bill being prepared by Finance Minister
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      49 61 april 23, 2010 a publication of art me up: tang fu kuen on curating artist ming wong’s solo show. >> t4 tv times: s’pore takes centrestage at miptv 2010. >> t6 apple of your ipad: owners give the lowdown on its highlights. >> t12 DEMI try looking this good at
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    1263 62  -  MOVIES Demi Moore has shed her wild ways to re-emerge as a happy Hollywood mama Jennifer Steinhauer Jennifer features@mediacorp.com.sg THE NEW YORK TIMES THE biceps are smaller. The tabloid tales of excessive salary demands, followed by those of rural seclusion, have been replaced with a running
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      281 73 on mediacorp alien resurrection Channel 5, 10pm Two hundred years after ellen Ripley died trying to eliminate the Alien species, the Weyland-Yutani Corporation clones her from previous blood samples. But they aren’t interested in Ripley; they want the Alien queen inside her. When the queen’s secret is revealed, it exposes
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