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  • 39 1 TODAY MICA (P) 057/10/2010 A PUBLICATION OF NEWS HOTLINE 6822 Friday January 21, 2011 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking TODAY MICA (P) 057/10/2010 A PUBLICATION OF NEWS HOTLINE 6822 2268 Friday January 21, 2011 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking
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  • NEWS
    • 486 2  - One token to link them all CHEOW XIN YI cheowxinyi@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE In a few months, a single device could be used for online banking transactions as well as Internet services by brokerages and Government agencies. Yesterday, the Infocomm Development Authority (IDA) of Singapore announced the appointment of Assurity Trusted Solutions
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    • 243 2  -  CHEOW XIN YI The Monetary Authority of Singapore is now pushing for brokerages to implement 2FA for online trading, four years after all Internet banking systems are expected to do so. In a statement to MediaCorp, a MAS spokesperson said the financial regulator
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    • 132 2 More than 42 million passengers passed through Changi Airport last year a record. Changi Airport Group (CAG) said the figure was a 13-per-cent increase over 2009. It also surpassed the previous annual record of 37.7 million passenger movements recorded in 2008. CAG said
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    • 417 3  -  CHRISTOPHER HOWELLS christopherh@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Growing affluence across Asia means banks in Singapore are expected to beef up their wealth and investment management teams this year, according to recruitment consultancy Robert Walters. Despite rising staff costs, the prospects of profit growth from
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    • 278 3  -  SAIFULBAHRI ISMAIL It’s the time of the year again when some firms pay out their bonuses. And this is also the time when employers are expecting staff to leave and eyeing potential replacements. A survey released yesterday by
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    • 369 4  -  But construction could adversely affect prices of nearby residences in short term LYNDA HONG, HETTY MUSFIRAH lyndahong@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Completion of the NorthSouth Expressway (NSE) could see property prices of some homes go up as a result of the added convenience for residents. But analysts noted
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    • 188 4 SINGAPORE The Government is contributing US$20,000 ($25,600) in aid to floodstricken Sri Lanka, the Singapore Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) said in a statement yesterday. Floods and mudslides in Sri Lanka over the past several days have reportedly killed 40 people and left hundreds
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    • 374 6  -  JOANNE CHAN joannechan@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Lauding the role of the Institute of Technical Education (ITE), Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong observed that many skilled technical jobs, unlike knowledgebased work, cannot be outsourced to emerging countries. And such jobs which include mechanics, plumbers and cooks will have
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    • 170 6  -  ONG DAI LIN SINGAPORE The Casino Regulatory Authority of Singapore (CRA) is working with mathematicians to better understand the gaming industry. It will be collaborating with the National University of Singapore (NUS) Department of Mathematics and Department of Statistics and Applied Probability to
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    • 318 6  -  SARA GROSSE SINGAPORE —The workplace fatality rate in Singapore has fallen to a new low of 2.2 per 100,000 workers, last year, from 2.9 in 2009. But the Manpower Ministry (MOM) is not letting up in its campaign to make the
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    • 320 8  -  SHAFFIQ ALKHATIB shaffiq@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE A 36-year-old man has been jailed for five weeks after stealing 19 PUB manhole covers worth nearly $4,000. Abdul Rahim Ramli was also convicted of performing a rash act as his theft left gaping holes on road surfaces which endangered the
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    • 371 8  -  TEO XUANWEI SINGAPORE Could Opposition supporter Yap Keng Ho be mounting a bid in the upcoming General Elections (GE)? Yap, 49, who is often seen at the Singapore Democratic Party’s (SDP) activities, dropped a hint yesterday when the High Court upheld his conviction and
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    • 678 10  -  CHEOW XIN YI cheowxinyi@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The broad strokes were set last year for what Finance Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam had called a “national comprehensive effort” to more than double Singapore’s productivity rate in the next decade to between 2 and 3 per cent annually.
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    • 308 10  -  NEO CHAI CHIN SINGAPORE Radio frequency glitches could be the cause of some failed transit card topups experienced by commuters here, Transitlink has disclosed. Transitlink had told MediaCorp last month that commuters could have removed their transit cards from the machines before
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    • 253 12  -  TANYA FONG SINGAPORE Law firms here must embrace change, discard the culture of ranking partners by seniority, and share profits equitably as well as seek out fresh talent to stay competitive locally and overseas. This was Chief Justice Chan
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    • 336 12  -  TEO XUANWEI xuanwei@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE In their 12 years of marriage, she has never allowed him to go out at night without her permission. His daily routine revolved around taking their son to and from school, going for his martial
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    • 146 14  -  MOGANA PILLAY SINGAPORE Hindu devotees celebrated Thaipusam with an annual 4km procession that kicked off at midnight on Wednesday. Close to 10,000 participants took part in the day-long festival which ended yesterday evening. The procession made its way from Serangoon Road Sri Srinivasa Perumal Temple to the
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    • 244 14  -  SHAFFIQ ALKHATIB shaffiq@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Three Filipino maids and a Singaporean woman, accused of being involved in loansharking activities, faced additional charges in court yesterday. Melanie Jacalan Munar, 28, and her employer, Koh Suat Lay, 47, now face seven charges each.
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    • 255 8 ADAM KHOO LEARNING TECHNOLOGIES GROUP T WORKSHOP BASED ON ADAM KHOO’S NATIONAL BEST-SELLERS Sacral* of Self-Made WEALTHt JACADEMV IS 2011 A GOOD YEAR TO BE IN THE STOCK MARKET? In early 2009, in his book ‘Profit From the Panic’ (Borders #1 Best-Seller), Adam Khoo correctly predicted that a stock market
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  • VOICES
    • 286 16  -  Letter from Jacinta Lee I NOTE that the Government’s recent measures are aimed at putting an end to speculation and cooling the property market. I ask the authorities to also look into curbing the “condo raiders” who buy into old condominiums such as mine which
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    • 208 16  -  Letter from Helen Lim Deputy Director, Media Relations Land Transport Authority WE refer to the letter “Overcharged and under-refunded”, by Mr Jun Wang (Jan 15). Mr Wang indicated that he was refunded only 4 cents for journeys made from Tampines Ave 5 to Jalan Besar on
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    • 376 20  -  Letter from Jacelyn Heng President, House Rabbit Society of Singapore I REFER to the letter by Ms Kay Mohlman to Today, “Stop gimmick for rabbits’ sake” (Jan 15). We applaud Ms Kay for voicing her concerns that a few major pet stores in Singapore are
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    • 112 20  -  LETTER FROM SANDRA JAYANDRAN I read thatthe new North-South Expressway being built will result in the land acquisition of several properties in the Marymount area, one of them being the old Marymount Convent premises. Can nothing be done to save this building? Already, too many
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  • COMMENT&ANALYSIS
    • 1109 22  -  Important that Singaporeans get more time to know candidates aspiring to be their head of state EUGENE K BTAN Eugene KB Tan is assistant professor of law at the Singapore Management University School of Law. Much of the focus thus far in Singapore’s political arena
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    • 982 24  -  It will not be a proselytising power like the US, but it will seek a tributary system insisting on respect DAVID PILLING David Pilling is the Asia editor of the Financial Times. THE FINANCIAL TIMES LIMITED No one would still accuse
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    • 879 26  - Outrage over porn overshadows worse obscenity corruption WILLIAM PESEK William Pesek is a Bloomberg News columnist. The opinions expressed are his own. BLOOMBERG If you want to know what is afoot in Indonesia, solid clues can be found in buoyant retail sales, property prices and stock valuations. For an even
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  • WORLD
    • 249 28 THE MALAYSIAN INSIDER KUALA LUMPUR A columnist with Utusan Malaysia has called on his government to take steps to improve military defence, warning that Singapore will “eat” Malaysia if they fail to do so. Dr Ridhuan Tee Abdullah, a senior lecturer at the
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    • 389 28 On the trail of illicit cash outflows AGENCIES KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia is among the top 5 developing countries which registered the highest illicit financial outflows in the last decade, according to a ground-breaking report by Washington-based financial watchdog Global Financial Integrity (GFI). Such outflows from Malaysia tripled to US$68.2 billion
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    • 412 29 REUTERS CHICAGO United States President Barack Obama joked on Wednesday that Chinese President Hu Jintao was brave to visit Mr Obama’s hometown of Chicago in January the temperature will drop to -17°C this week, with brutal winds. Of all the garden spots in the United
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    • 221 29 BLOOMBERG PENNSYLVANIA WikiLeaks, condemned by the United States government for posting secret data leaked by insiders, may have used music and photo-sharing networks to obtain and publish classified documents, according to a computer security firm. Tiversa Inc, a company based in Cranberry Township, Pennsylvania, has
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    • 489 30 Ranks last among IT giants in transparency AGENCIES LONDON Apple is more secretive about its supply chain in China than almost all of its IT rivals, according to a new report by anti-pollution activists who accuse the company’s products of degrading the environment and poisoning
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    • 175 30 REUTERS A Chinese firm has signed a letter of intent to invest US$2 billion ($2.6 billion) in a North Korean industrial zone, the Wall Street Journal reported yesterday, despite pleas by Washington for Beijing to apply more pressure on its ally. The letter
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    • 180 32 REUTERS RIO DE JANEIRO At least 207 people are still missing after Brazil’s worst landslides in decades, authorities said on Wednesday, as the death toll from the disaster in a scenic mountain region reached 741. The list of missing people released by the
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    • 340 32 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH LONDON Prejudice against Muslims has become widespread and is seen by many as normal and uncontroversial in Britain, Conservative Party co-chairman Baroness Warsi said yesterday. The Minister without Portfolio also warned that describing Muslims as either “moderate” or “extremist” fosters growing
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    • 398 34 THE GUARDIAN NEW YORK The language is not the sort we are used to hearing from United States President Barack Obama. “Jesus Christ, do they expect you to be castrated by this job?” the President barks after he has been caught on camera
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    • 113 34 AGENCIES All ministers in Tunisia’s interim government, who belonged to the ruling RCD party, yesterday quit the party to distance themselves from the country’s deposed leader Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. The ministers will, however, retain their seats in the new unity Cabinet. Thousands
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    • 178 42 THE NEW YORK TIMES An abortion doctor who served minority and immigrant women in his clinic in Philadelphia was charged with multiple counts of murder on Wednesday in the deaths of a woman and seven newborn babies whose spinal cords
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    • 396 42 UK to shake up national curriculum which has ‘failed a THE DAILY TELEGRAPH LONDON Children in England will be expected to learn about the country’s kings and queens, read great works of literature and master mental arithmetic under the biggest shake-up of the national curriculum
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    • 229 44 Driving 3 hours at a stretch Driving drunk: Study THE DAILY TELEGRAPH LONDON Driving for more than three hours without a break at night is the equivalent of being drunk behind the wheel, claims a new study. Even two hours of motorway driving in the dark can affect performance so
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    • 164 44 THE GUARDIAN TOKYO AJapanese entertainment company has combined men’s obsession with video games with their perennial inability to aim straight to create a range of distractions in selected Tokyo urinals (picture). Sega has installed the Toylets in male lavatories at four bars and
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    • 169 44 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH LONDON An ingredient often used to make curry could provide a cure for the common cold, it has been claimed. Fenugreek has been used by mothers for centuries to stimulate the production of breast milk during pregnancy and
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  • SPORTS
    • 553 46  -  Dinner will raise funds for former athletes, could help weightlifter after wife’s illness TAN YO-HINN yohinn@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE They belong to different eras. But on May 9, Singapore’s athletes who have represented the nation at the Olympic Games will be recognised at a
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    • 151 46 REUTERS BERNE FIFA has quashed talk of a winter World Cup in 2022, saying it has no plans to change the international calendar and that any switch of dates would have to be proposed by the Qatari hosts. Qatar has already said it
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    • 311 46  -  TAN YO-HINN SINGAPORE Office workers dreaming of getting behind the wheel for a race are in for a treat. From May, corporate teams can do battle at the inaugural OCBC Corporate Karting Challenge 2011 at Kartright Speedway. Located at Jurong and featuring
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    • 155 46  -  LOW LIN FHOONG SINGAPORE Golf caddies will once again be in the limelight at the 2011 HSBC Women’s Champions, which will be held at Tanah Merah Country club from Feb 24 to 27. The tournament will see the return of the bib design contest for the
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    • 390 52 AP MELBOURNE If Rafael Nadal (picture) is getting nervous as he eases closer to winning his fourth consecutive Grand Slam, he sure isn’t showing it. After his 6-2, 6-1, 6-1 win in the Australian Open yesterday over American qualifier Ryan Sweeting,
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    • 616 52  -  Sports agency sets template to win fans back, starting with Young Lions SHAMIR OSMAN shamir@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Imagine a group of friends decked out in Young Lions shirts stepping out of Lavender MRT station on Saturday afternoon on Feb 12, joined on the short walk to Jalan
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    • 247 52 SINGAPORE After recent events, the friendly between Singapore’s under-21 team and their Malaysian counterparts on Monday at Jalan Besar Stadium will be a little more tasty. While Malaysia won the ASEAN championship for the first time last month, the Lions suffered the ignominy of
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    • 552 54 Funds available, says owner, as he prepares Dalglish to expect offer of permanent appointment AGENCIES ANFIELD Liverpool are close to signing Uruguay forward Luis Suarez (picture), despite the insistence of his club, Ajax, that only an “ab- surd amount of money” would tempt them to sell
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    • 308 54 AGENCIES LONDON Arsene Wenger (picture) claimed Arsenal displayed their hunger for silverware by emerging from a hostile Elland Road with a 3-1 FA Cup third-round replay victory against Leeds. A fourth-round tie at home to League One side Huddersfield Town awaits Wenger’s team later this
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    • 312 54 AGENCIES DOHA Six teams that made it to the Asian Cup quarter-finals four years ago have progressed to the last eight again, showing little shift in power at the tournament. The only surprise absentee is three-time champion and 2007 runner-up Saudi Arabia. Instead, the
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  • PROPERTY
    • 865 19  -  JO-ANN HUANG joannhuang@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Once living in the shadow of their inner-city and city fringe cousins, suburban residential properties are now stepping out on their own with some of these properties located in more remote areas only accessible by feeder buses and light rail transit
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    • 206 19 SINGAPORE The Housing and Development Board is launching today the tender for three 99-year leasehold residential sites under the Government Land Sales Programme for the first half of this year. The first site, at Bishan Street 14, has an area of almost 12,000 sq
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    • 403 13  -  KU SWEE YONG, IPA SINGAPORE In a survey conducted at property blog www.propwise.sg, 66 per cent of the 269 respondents believe that the latest round of cooling measures by the Government is sufficiently harsh to prevent a property market bubble in Singapore,
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    • 783 13  -  COMMENTARY COLIN TAN property@mediacorp.com.sg Colin Tan is Head, Research Consultancy at Chesterton Suntec International. Government measures are most effective when they are unexpected. That was why I concluded last week that the single most effective move was not the measures themselves but the timing
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    • 682 10  -  COMMENTARY CONRAD RAJ conrad@mediacorp.com.sg Conrad Raj is editor-at-large with While the Government has to act to prevent the property market from getting beyond the reach of most Singaporeans, I am however not very comfortable that the latest steps announced last week are the best
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    • 1489 9  -  COMMENTARY KU SWEE YONG property@mediacorp.com.sg Ku Swee Yong is the founder of real estate agency International Property Advisor (IPA), which provides services to high-net-worth individuals. When the latest property measures were unveiled on Jan 13, it took most market watchers by surprise, mainly because we
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    • 148 13 {y informatics Informatics has been appointed as one of the centres to administer the examinations for RES and is the exclusive centre for REA. Informatics is one of the largest private education institute in Asia, awarded with 4 years EduTrust Award for its academic excellence. Booked Your RES I REA
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  • BUSINESS
    • 119 3 The Thai-based rubber processing company, Sri Trang Agro-Industry, said yesterday it planned to raise up to $448 million through a dual listing on the Singapore Exchange (SGX). It is offering 280 million shares at a maximum offer price of $1.60 each. Some 14 million
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    • 140 3 ST Engineering said yesterday its aerospace arm clinched about $320 million worth of new maintenance contracts in the fourth quarter of last year. Ranging from three to 12 months, these contracts will be carried out at ST Aerospace’s facilities in
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    • 226 3  -  CHRISTOPHER HOWELLS The Securities Investors Association of Singapore (SIAS) has been awarded the Gold Standard for Good Governance by Public Affairs Asia. “Investors will now be more encouraged to invest in Singapore to know that the investor body is pushing for greater corporate
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    • 139 3 CapitaMallTrust (CMT) said yesterday its fourth-quarter distribution per unit (DPU) fell 1.4 per cent on-year to 2.36 cents. Distributable income in the quarter also fell by 1.4 per cent on-year to $75.4 million, even as net property income for the three-month period increased 5.7
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    • 157 3 K-REIT Asia said yesterday it would distribute 6.37 cents per unit (DPU) for its full year ended December, up 20.6 per cent from a year ago. The commercial property investor said its distributable income for the year amounted to $85.6 million, up 21.4 per
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    • 411 2  -  MILLET ENRIQUEZ emelita@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Singapore companies are now in expansion mode and many are targeting overseas markets. IE Singapore said goods exported by Singapore-based firms rose 22 per cent to $479 billion for the whole of last year. Services provided in overseas
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    • 205 2  -  JO-ANN HUANG SINGAPORE Regent Court, a freehold residential property at Serangoon Road, has been put up for sale via tender by its marketing agent Cushman Wakefield. The property has a land area of 38,857 sq ft and is zoned for high-rise residential development of up
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    • 319 1 AGENCIES HONG KONG Lawmakers in Hong Kong will grill government officials next month on why the city lost out to Singapore in Hutchison Whampoa’s plan to list a multi-billion-dollar trust, the South China Morning Post reported yesterday. Hutchison’s sale of Chinese port
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    • 51 1 THURSDAY CLOSE 3,205.48 (-1.13%) Wednesday Tuesday Monday Friday 3,241.96 3,249.58 3,236.75 3,245.96 q p q q 0.23% 0.34% 0.28% 0.30% TOP 5 BYVOLUME NAME V0L micE CHANGE GoldenAgr 250,831 0.740 2.63% Contel 150,470 0.050 23.08% FirstRes 136,297 O LTi •JH 9.94% Genting SP 81,702 2.160 1.37% BerlianLaju 56,392 0.055
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    • 29 1 HANG SENG È È 24,003.70 (-1.70%) È È Ç NIKKEI 10,437.31 (-1.13%) SHANGHAI 2,677.65 (-2.92%) AUSTRALIA 4,783.68 (-1.05%) MUMBAI 19,046.54 (+0.36% È MALAYSIA Closed (unch) SEOUL 2,106.66 (-0.43%)
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    • 20 1 US$1 £1 €1 ¥100 A$1 RM1 Rp10,000 HK$100 RMB100 RS100 1.282 2.047 1.725 1.558 1.287 0.420 1.415 16.48 19.47
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    • STOCK CALLS
      • 70 1 Buy $19.34 RBS keeps rating and raises the target price to $23.00 from $22.00. Says UOB’s management was too conservative going into 2010, lagging both DBS and OCBC on loan growth, but management recently adopted a more aggressive stance and loan growth could match its peers in FY11. The
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      • 67 1 Buy $10.00 RBS upgrades from “Hold” and raises the target price to $12.00 from $11.00. The house says it continues to like OCBC “mainly for its diverse earnings drivers,” including the recent acquisition of ING Private Bank; the insurance business, which continues to grow strongly and offers an additional
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    • 441 1 And stock markets in Asia fizzle amid fears of more anti-inflation moves AGENCIES SHANGHAI China’s economy accelerated in the last quarter of 2010 to expand a blockbuster 10.3 per cent for the year as its leaders struggled to keep growth on an even keel while cooling
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    • 269 1 IN OUR PROPERTY SECTION INTERNATIONAL PROPERTY ADVISOR RESTORING SANITY TO PROPERTY PRICES B9 CONRAD RAJ PAY MORE ATTENTION TO RAISING SUPPLY B10 CHESTERTON SUNTEC INTERNATIONAL WILL COOLING MEASURES WORK THIS TIME? B13 FROM BROKERAGE RESEARCH AND AGENCY REPORTS Disclaimer: Readers should seek independent financial advice before making any investment decision.
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    • 35 2 Today is published by MediaCorp Press Ltd, Caldecott Broadcast Centre, Annex Building, Level 1, Andrew Road, Singapore *****9 Tel: 6333 3888. Printed by KHL Printing Co Pte Ltd, 57, Loyang Drive, Singapore *****8. Tel: *****222
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    • 45 1 JANUARY 21, 2011 A PUBLICATION OF MORE CELEBRITIES ARE REPRODUCING THE OLD-FASHIONED WAY: WITH CASH. T2 HELLO, KITTY! ANNE HATHAWAY IS NOLAN’S CATWOMAN. T6 ANDY LAU WAS TOO ‘HOT’ TO PLAY NICE. T10 GADGET REVIEW: THE iTWIN MIGHT SAVE YOUR JOB. Artwork: Ng Boon Chew
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  • ENTERTAINMENT
    • 989 2  -  A thoroughly cynical view of celebrity adoption and surrogacy Judith Woods features@mediacorp.com.sg THE DAILY TELEGRAPH WHO could fail to feel uplifted on an emotional thermal of joy by the latest glorious concordance of celebrity and reproductive science revealed this week? First there was Elton John’s new surrogate baby,
      THE DAILY TELEGRAPH; Photos: AP, Reuters; AP  -  989 words
    • 263 6 REUTERS ANNE Hathaway has nabbed the coveted female lead opposite Christian Bale in The Dark Knight Rises. Said director Christopher Nolan in a statement: “I am thrilled to have the opportunity to work with Anne Hathaway, who will be a fantastic addition to
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    • Article, Illustration
      567 8  -  German star Til Schweiger on living with a Rabbit GENEVIEVE LOH GERMAN rom-com Rabbit Without Ears was the surprise German hit which raked in a whopping US$78 million 100 million) to make it the country’s biggest film of 2008. No surprise why writer-director-actor Til Schweiger is
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    • 225 10  -  GENEVIEVE LOH WHEN Andy Lau decided to do Shaolin director Benny Chan’s blockbuster update of the 1982 kung fu classic Shaolin Temple he “hadn’t even seen the script”. Lau took it on readily because he was looking forward to working with the veteran director 21 years after their
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      471 12  -  Carmen’s Sophie Fournier talks about her freedom-loving ways May Seah may@mediacorp.com.sg CARMEN is a perennial opera favourite everybody loves the passionate story of the beautiful and tempestuous gypsy girl who flits between two lovers and dies tragically in a crime of passion. But for French mezzo-soprano Sophie
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    • 364 14  - Tea and sympathy and comedy THEATRE REVIEW: THE GURU OF CHAI May Seah may@mediacorp.com.sg THE moment you step into the theatre to watch The Guru Of Chai, you are confronted with a character who promises to solve all your problems a meaningless existence, loneliness, painful urination and help you reach
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    • 623 16  -  Influential Filipino artist Chabet finally gets his first show outside Manila at the age of 73 Mayo Martin mayo@mediacorp.com.sg A BASKETBALL goal post assembled from a tree trunk and a neon tube in the shape of a hoop ring. A sea of blue plywood boards propped up at
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    • 356 2 How TO BE A MILLIONAIRE, THE STORE WAY (Extracted from The' Straits Times 21 July 2007) A capable person has hopes of joining the ranks of the top earners and become a millionaire. Parents should remember this reality and not neglect their children's education. This World Class Business Mentorship Program
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