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  • 41 1 TODAY MICA (P) 057/10/2010 A PUBLICATION OF NEWS HOTLINE 6822 2268 Friday February 18, 2011 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking AFTERNOON EDITION MICA (P) 057/10/2010 A PUBLICATION OF NEWS HOTLINE 6822 2268 Friday February 18, 2011 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking
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  • 964 1  -  TEO XUANWEI xuanwei@mediacorp.com.sg TEO XUANWEI TEO XUANWEI xuanwei@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE He has seen enough, after 10 “remarkable” months, to want to expand his US$5.7-billion (S$7.3-billion) empire here. Such is the confidence Mr Sheldon G Adelson has in
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  • 581 1  -  Monetary Authority revises inflation forecast for the year to between 3 and 4 per cent MAY WONG maywong@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —The choking inflation will ease in the second half of the year but not before hitting highs of 5 to 6 per cent in the
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    • 33 1 CHANNEL NEWSASIA’S COVERAGE OF BUDGET 2011 3pm The Finance Minister’s speech ‘live’ from Parliament. 8pm A forum with the Finance Minister and business leaders. 10pm A special one-hour news bulletin analysing the Budget.
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  • 599 1 BLOOMBERG PARIS Group of 20 policymakers, at odds over smoothing over global economic imbalances, confront a new threat as higher inflation ripples from emerging markets to advanced economies. A report of greater-than-expected United States inflation yesterday followed a jump in the European
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  • NEWS
    • 304 2  -  TEO XUANWEI SINGAPORE A fantastic husband, an incredible father and a marvellous grandfather. That was how Ms Regina Santamaria remembered her father, chef Santi Santamaria, 53, who collapsed in the kitchen of his restaurant at Marina Bay Sands (MBS) and died of a heart attack on
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    • 371 2  -  HETTY MUSFIRAH hetty@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Archaeological finds from the 9th-century Tang Dynasty, hundreds of rare treasures previously never seen outside Mongolia; these are some of the artefacts that will be on show at Singapore’s latest iconic structure. The ArtScience Museum (picture) at Marina Bay Sands built in the
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    • 220 2  -  NEO CHAI CHIN Stressed out business travellers and casino patrons can now call on a psychiatrist twice a week at the newly-open medical centre at Marina Bay Sands. Psychiatry is among the suite of services offered by MW
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    • 240 4 A group of 350 senior citizens from 11 different charity and grassroots organisations were invited by MediaCorp yesterday to enjoy an afternoon of shopping at Great World City. They were also treated to a
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    • 469 4 AGENCIES MANAMA (Bahrain) Army patrols and tanks locked down the capital of this tiny Gulf kingdom yesterday after riot police swinging clubs and firing tear gas smashed into demonstrators, many of them sleeping, in a pre-dawn assault that uprooted a protest camp set
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    • 427 4 AFTERNOON LATEST AP CAIRO Libyan protesters seeking to oust longtime leader Muammar Gaddafi defied a crackdown and took to the streets in five cities yesterday on what activists have dubbed a “day of rage”, amid reports at least 20 demonstrators have been killed in
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    • 76 6 The lunch time crowd at Raffles Place was greeted by the sight of 20 women decked out in sunglasses, identical white trench coats, red hats and matching stiletto heels. The gimmick was part of the publicity for Covert Affairs, which premiered on DIVA Universal (StarHub Channel 552)
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    • 357 6  -  S RAMESH rameshs@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE When Finance Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam delivers the Budget this afternoon, observers will be looking out for more antidotes to the Singapore economy’s Achilles Heel: Productivity. Citing a S$250 million fund made available in last year’s Budget to boost productivity in
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    • 194 6  -  S RAMESH SINGAPORE What new strategies does the Government plan to pursue in order to boost Singapore’s fertility rate? That is the question that will be raised by the Member of Parliament for Bishan-Toa Payoh GRC, Mr Hri Kumar Nair, in Parliament today. The Total
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    • 304 8  -  NNG JING YNG jingyng@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE American businessman Kamari Kenyada Charlton pleaded guilty to five charges of receiving money through phone scams yesterday. Charges against Charlton, 37, were amended yesterday in the Subordinate Courts to that of dishonestly receiving stolen property. He faces
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    • 241 8  -  NG JING YNG SINGAPORE A former lecturer of a private school who showed three students the questions for an upcoming exam for a fee was fined $14,000 yesterday. Isabelle Krishnan, 38, received S$450 each from three international students and showed them the
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    • 126 8 Police have arrested a 46-year-old Chinese man in connection with the murder of a woman, who was found dead with stab wounds in the chest in a flat in Jurong on Wednesday. The arrest came less than 36 hours after her body was found
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    • 220 10  -  S RAMESH SINGAPORE Indonesia has given its commitment that it will ratify the Asean Haze Agreement this year, according to Minister for the Environment and Water Resources Yaacob Ibrahim yesterday. Dr Yaacob was speaking at a press conference at the end of the 11th
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    • 292 10  -  WAYNE CHAN, CHEOW XIN YI waynechan@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The cyber wellness movement in Singapore has moved down the age chain, with community service providers seeing a surge in primary schools signing up for their programmes to educate their students about the pitfalls of the
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    • 531 12  -  ONG DAI LIN dailin@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE They did not plan to start a family halfway around the globe from home. But when the newly-weds from Armenia received an offer three years ago to come and teach music in Singapore, they accepted it. Fast forward to
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    • 347 12  -  ONG DAI LIN SINGAPORE A change in the approach that the People’s Action Party (PAP) town councils had been taking since the ’80s when awarding cleaning contracts has led to higher wages for the cleaners employed. With employee skills training
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    • 261 9 Be the first to get Maroon 5 tickets with OCBC Cards. Concert Date 25 Apr 2011 Venue Singapore Indoor Stadium Ticket Prices S$75 S$185 (Excludes SISTIC fee) For more details and to book tickets, visit www.sistic.com or call 6348 5555. OCBC Cardmembers' Exclusive: Enjoy priority booking" from 18 24 Feb
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  • VOICES
    • 393 14  -  5 benefits to having children that may make other concerns pale in significance Letter from Dr Lee Hock Seng A SURVEY by advocacy group I Love Children found that only 3 per cent of respondents said that having children is a top priority (“Having children not top
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    • 137 14  -  to the child’s age? LETTER FROM TAN SWEECHOO TAN SWEE CHOO Being a working mother of two teenagers, I employ a foreign domestic helper to help me with my household chores. My job entails long hours, which makes it daunting for me to work
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    • 173 16  -  LETTER FROM TAN KIN LIAN I welcome the Government’s move to introduce a data protection law. I suggest that the law should pay particular attention to the following activities: Marketing by calls to mobile phones and marketing of dubious products. Marketing by calls to mobile
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    • 249 16  -  Letter from Sheo S Rai Assistant Director Corporate and Marketing Communication Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore WE REFER to the letter from Mr Ong Tiong Leng “More 2G base stations than 3G?” (Feb 1). There are currently at least 4.7 million 3G subscriptions
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    • 359 16  -  Letter from Helen Lim Deputy Director, Media Relations Land Transport Authority WE THANK Mr Lucas Png for his letter and the opportunity to explain about the provision of traffic lights and how they operate (“Roundabouts, a way to save money, time and fuel”, Feb
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    650 17 The Canon PIXMA MG6170 is a sleek all-in-one printer that is a cinch to use Brought to you by “I’m a bit of a printer idiot,” Michelle Tng confessed with a laugh. “I tend to buy the cheapest printer because I feel that they are less complicated.” As
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    • 1023 18  -  Without leadership or cooperation, it’s an unstable equilibrium for global prosperity and security NOURIEL ROUBINI Nouriel Roubini is chairman ofRoubini Global Economics, Professor of Economics at NYU’s Stern School of Business, and co-author of Crisis Economics: A Crash Course in the Future of Finance. This column
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    • 953 20  -  A reminder to investors: Focusing on the biggest emerging powers isn’t always best WILLIAM PESEK William Pesek is a Bloomberg News columnist. The opinions expressed are his own. BLOOMBERG Is anyone else a bit BRIC-ed out? Hey, I completely get the importance of
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    • 1018 22  -  PETER SINGER Peter Singer is Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University and Laureate Professor at the University of Melbourne. His most recent book is The Life You Can Save. PROJECT SYNDICATE Many years ago, my wife and I were driving somewhere
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  • WORLD
    • 276 24 AP HA LONG BAY (Vietnam) An anchored boat packed with sleeping travellers sank early yesterday in Vietnam’s scenic Ha Long Bay, killing 12 people from nine countries in the deadliest tour boat accident since the country opened to foreign visitors 25
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    • 405 24 REUTERS BANGKOK Thailand will call elections before June, Deputy Prime Minister Suthep Thuagsuban said yesterday, providing the clearest time frame to date for the first test of support for the government in the polarised country. The coming elections are the most important in a decade, offering
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    • 253 24 BLOOMBERG TEHRAN Iran is arranging with Egyptian officials to have two of its warships use the Suez Canal, Iranian state-run Press TV said. The Suez Canal Authority said after the report that no Iranian naval vessels had been granted permission to
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    • 337 26 THE NEW YORK TIMES WASHINGTON United States President Barack Obama ordered his advisers last August to produce a secret report on unrest in the Arab world, which concluded that without sweeping political changes, countries from Bahrain to Yemen were ripe for popular
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    • 277 26 REUTERS WASHINGTON Top American intelligence officials, facing criticism in Congress, on Wednesday defended their agencies’ reporting on the recent upheavals in Tunisia and Egypt but pledged to do better in the future. “Specific triggers for how and when instability would lead
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    • 337 28 REUTERS SEOUL Satellite images show North Korea has likely completed a second long-range missile launchpad, an expert said yesterday, amid United States concerns that Pyongyang’s ballistic missile programme is fast becoming a direct threat. The launchpad is more sophisticated than the country’s first
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    • 126 28 AP A top member of Myanmar’s junta was appointed head of the country’s new Election Commission yesterday, a lawmaker said, as the military continued to consolidate its grip on power after widely condemned elections. Mr Tin Aye was a lieutenant-general and the sixth-ranking
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    • 269 28 REUTERS OTTAWA The Canadian government was hit by an unprecedented cyber attack from Chinese-based computers last month that penetrated two key economic ministries, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp (CBC) reported on Wednesday. The CBC cited sources as saying the hackers broke into
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    • 143 34 REUTERS India’s government is not in talks with Research in Motion (RIM) over access to the Canadian company’s BlackBerry services. Instead, the government is talking with operators on gaining access, Home Secretary G K Pillai said yesterday. RIM has insisted that
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    • 316 34 AP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia has scrapped plans to build a coal-fired power plant near a Borneo wildlife reserve, a move environmentalists praised yesterday as a landmark effort to curtail projects that threaten rainforests teeming with endangered animals. Mr Musa Aman, the Chief Minister
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    • 324 36 REUTERS BEIJING China aims to expand its medical coverage to include 90 per cent of its urban population by the end of this year, China’s State Council, the cabinet, said yesterday, in an effort to strengthen the country’s weak
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    • 363 36 THE NEW YORK TIMES BEIJING Sallying forth into the ancient battleground of extramarital affairs, China's top court appears poised to side with wronged wives against philandering husbands and greedy mistresses. Under a draft interpretation of China's
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    • 316 37 REUTERS NEW YORK The cancer drug Avastin, known generically as bevacizumab, could help prevent blindness in premature babies born before their eyes have developed completely, the same condition that affected singer Stevie Wonder, according to a United States study. About 50,000 people
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    • 122 37 Conservationists have had a rare glimpse of a 2m-long leatherback (like the one in the picture) the world’s most endangered sea turtle together with dozens of eggs in western Indonesia. Mr Khairul Amra, a member of a local conservation group, said yesterday that the
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    • 231 37 AP CHICAGO Almost 10,000 infants and toddlers are hurt in crib and playpen accidents each year, according to the first nationwide analysis of emergency room treatment for these injuries. Most injuries were from falls infants between the ages of
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    • 188 38 AP TOKYO Lonely astronauts on the International Space Station may soon be getting an android friend from Japan. And, for the folks back home, it will tweet. Japan’s space agency, JAXA, is considering putting a talking humanoid robot on the International Space
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    • 442 38 THE NEW YORK TIMES YORKTOWN HEIGHTS (New York) In the end, the humans surrendered meekly. Facing certain defeat at the hands of a room-sized IBM computer on Wednesday evening, Mr Ken Jennings, famous for winning 74 games in a row on TV quiz show
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  • SPORTS
    • 658 40 After chasing shadows for long spells, Arsenal stun Barcelona with two quick sucker punches AGENCIES LONDON With a thrilling comeback, Arsenal beat the most-admired team in the world. But the Gunners’ 2-1 win over Barcelona in their first leg, last 16 Champions
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    • 296 40 AP LONDON Arsenal and England say they are ready to build their teams around Jack Wilshere, and the gifted teenage midfielder showed just why with a stunning individual display against Barcelona. Up against the formidable midfield trio of Xavi, Andres Iniesta and
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    • 336 44 AGENCIES LONDON Gennaro Gattuso’s agent has claimed that Tottenham Hotspur assistant manager Joe Jordan insulted the AC Milan captain during the Italian side’s 1-0 Champions League defeat on Tuesday. Gattuso grabbed Jordan by the throat during the match, then head-butted the former Milan striker
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    • 610 44 Little Crawley dream of FA Cup fairy tale at United’s expense AP CRAWLEY They are both nicknamed the “Red Devils” and both have fiery Scotsmen as their managers. That is where the similarities between Manchester United and Crawley Town end. The gulf between the two
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    • 847 48  -  Tao Li collects biggest reward for her 2010 Asian Games success LOW LIN FHOONG linfhoong@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE She may have been somewhat unhappy (see box), but there is no doubt it has been a grand few days for swimming queen Tao Li. Last week, she was
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    • 285 48  -  LOW LIN FHOONG SINGAPORE She may have pocketed $300,000 from the Multi-Million Dollar Awards Programme last night for her exploits at the Asian Games in Guangzhou last year, but Tao Li is hoping to cash in another S$50,000 bonus. The 21-year-old had clocked
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    • 557 50  -  Some local club bosses feel football experience here different compared to Indonesia SHAMIR OSMAN shamir@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Baihakki Khaizan and Shahril Ishak are the first Singaporean footballers to sign up for the fledgling Indonesian Premier League (LPI). They follow big names like Indonesian poster-boy Irfan Bachdim and
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    • 283 50  -  IAN DE COTTA ian@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Singapore’s former No 1 badminton player, Ronald Susilo, retired last year to begin a career as a coach. He opened the Ronald Susilo Badminton Academy at his alma mater, Anglo-Chinese School (Independent) last May. Today, he also coaches
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    • 237 50  -  SHAMIR OSMAN SINGAPORE The new guard at Etoile FC do not seem to possess the sublime technique of some of their predecessors in the championship-winning team. The slick movement and the uncanny ability to rile up crowds was also missing, when the reigning Great Eastern-Yeo’s
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    • 328 50  -  LOW LIN FHOONG SINGAPORE Fans have snapped up more than 2,700 platinum (8-day) and gold (3day) packages for the 2011 Mission Foods World Netball Championships, which will be held at the 10,000-capacity Singapore Indoor Stadium from July 3 to 10. More than
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    • 227 52 AP NEW DELHI India’s in-form team have raised the hopes of this cricket-mad country as it prepares to co-host the World Cup, hoping desperately to land the title for the first time in nearly 30 years. India have won the tournament
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    • 763 52 Bryant and Co go into break on the back of a three-game losing streak Bryant and Co go into break on the back of a three-game losing streak AP AP CLEVELAND Kobe Bryant put on a black backpack and left
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    • 228 52 AP AFTERNOON BRUSSELS Chalk up another giant victory for Britain’s regular folks. The glorious months of World Cup or European Championship soccer, when dozens of games are followed with rabid enthusiasm across the continent, will stay on free TV, not cable. In
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  • PROPERTY
    • 394 7 REUTERS BEIJING Economists yesterday welcomed reforms of China’s system for reporting property price data, saying the changes would improve on previous methods that severely underestimated inflation in the housing sector in the world’s second-larg-est economy. The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) announced this
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    • 301 7 AGENCIES AMSTERDAM The ING Group is selling most of its real estate investment management business for more than US$1 billion (S$1.3 billion) in two separate deals and use the proceeds to repay aid it received from the Dutch government during the
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    • 348 7 REUTERS LONDON Fast-growing Asia and Latin America are expected to see commercial property rents and values rise in the first quarter of the year, while the hard-hit United States market is showing signs of recovery, according to a survey by The Royal
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    • 469 6 DOW JONES SINGAPORE Singapore’s listed property developers are likely to post mixed results for the October-to-December quarter but the main focus of attention is likely to be how measures designed to cool the domestic property market will affect their outlook, with tightening in China
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    • 305 6 AGENCIES SINGAPORE Singapore-based shopping mall developer and operator CapitaMalls Asia yesterday said fourth-quarter net profit fell 15.2 per cent due to lower contributions after the divestment of several properties earlier last year. Net profit for the quarter ended Dec 31 fell to S$144.0 million
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    • 134 6 SINGAPORE Loft Stevens is Oxley Holdings’ latest residential offering, after the successful launch of Loft Holland. Located at 68 Stevens Road, Loft Stevens comprises one block of 44 apartment units, with sizes ranging from 355 sq ft to 1,130 sq ft. There are a total of 19
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    • 838 5  -  COMMENTARY COLIN TAN property@mediacorp.com.sg Colin Tan is Head, Research Consultancy at Chesterton Suntec International. The news headlines this week about developer’s home sales for last month were almost comical, doing little justice to the actual reports that followed. Unfortunately, people remember the headlines and not
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    • 635 3  -  CONRAD RAJ editor-at-large conrad@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE One more firm has found that Singapore is the place to be in to take advantage of the Asian growth story. Britain’s Aureos Capital has decided to use the island as its hub to grow its Asian business
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    • 138 3 REUTERS Satyam Computer Services has agreed to pay US$125 million (S$160 million) to settle American shareholder litigation arising from an accounting fraud that in 2009 turned into India’s biggest corporate scandal. Mr Ramalinga Raju, the outsourcing company’s founder and former chairman, shocked investors in January
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    • 346 1 SINGAPORE Private property developer Far East Organization (FEO) has appointed Mr Lucas Chow as an executive director. The appointment, effective Aug 1, will see Mr Chow providing strategic counsel to FEO chief executive officer Philip Ng on new business growth and brand
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    • 84 1 DOW JONES THURSDAY CLOSE 3,082.83 (-0.38%) Shares here ended lower yesterday after the Government cut 4Q GDP growth and flagged higher inflation. Losers outpaced gainers 248 to 211 on 1.14 billion shares. DOW JONES Wednesday Tuesday Monday Friday 3,094.72 3,080.66 3,104.42 3,077.27 p q p q 0.46% 0.77% 0.88%
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    • 30 1 HANG SENG Ç Ç 23,301.84 (+0.63%) Ç Ç Ç NIKKEI 10,836.64 (+0.26%) SHANGHAI 2,926.96 (+0.10%) AUSTRALIA 4,938.44 Ç (+0.17%) MUMBAI 18,506.82 (+1.13%) È MALAYSIA 1,508.56 (+0.15%) SEOUL 1,977.22 (-0.60%)
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    • 13 1 OIL Ç US$85.15 Ç Ç (+0.19%) GOLD US$1,380.40 (+0.39%) SILVER US$30.74 (+0.36%)
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    • 29 1 US$1 £1 €1 ¥100 A$1 RM1 Rp10,000 HK$100 RMB100 RS100 1.278 2.062 1.733 1.530 1.281 0.420 1.438 16.39 19.41 2.816 All figures correct as at 9pm last night
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    • STOCK CALLS
      • 53 1 Buy $1.06 UOB KayHian initiates coverage on the palm oil refiner with a $1.28 price target, based on 12X 2012F P/E, a 30-per-cent discount from Mewah’s purer upstream peers. Says Mewah is a “niche and efficient” downstream player that can achieve significant economies of scale with its strategically located
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      • 68 1 Buy 82.5 cents DMG maintains its rating and $1.20 price target, pegged to 20X FY11 P/E, amid uncertainty over China’s railway sector after the dismissal of the country’s Railways Minister for a “severe violation of discipline”. House says after weekly decline, the share price of the aluminium alloy maker
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      • 70 1 Buy $14.20 Kim Eng maintains rating and $18.90 price target, pegged at 1.6X P/B, after SIA announced January load factors of 78.1 and 61.4 per cent for passenger and cargo, respectively. Says that “while load factors remain satisfactory, our primary concerns at this juncture are a potential flattening of
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    • 347 1  -  Non-electronic exports up 31% on-year; electronics expected to be growth driver MILLET ENRIQUEZ emelita@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Singapore’s nonoil domestic exports (NODX) grew 21 per cent year-on-year in January. Data released yesterday by trade agency IE Singapore showed shipment of Singapore-made goods both electronic and nonelectronic rose
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    • 185 1  -  STELLA LEE SINGAPORE Gold prices are expected to get a further boost this year after hitting a 10-year high last year, the World Gold Council (WGC) said yesterday. Prices surged to a record US$1,421 an ounce in November last year
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    • 369 1 REUTERS WASHINGTON/NEW YORK United States bank regulators conceded some flaws in plans to force banks to cut billions of dollars in debit card processing fees, raising the prospect that the Federal Reserve might soften its stance. The comments made yesterday marked a small
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    • 56 1 THURSDAY CLOSE 12,318.14 (+0.24%) Wednesday 12,288.17 p 0.50% Tuesday 12,226.64 q 0.34% Monday 12,268.19 q 0.04% Friday 12,273.26 p 0.36% NYSETOP 5 BYVOLUME NAME VOL PRICE CHANGE Citigroup 303.3m $4.94 p 0.82% Bank of America 103.0m $14.81 q 0.20% Cisco Systems 88.9m $18.68 p 0.54% NVIDIA 86.6m $25.68 p
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    • 21 1 Ç FTSE100 6,087.38 (+0.03%) DAX È Ç 7,405.51 (+0.03%) CAC40 4,152.31 (+0.03%) ATX È È 2,979.00 (-0.62%) OSE 491.09 (-0.77%)
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    • 13 1 OIL US$86.36 (+1.60%) Ç Ç GOLD US$1,384.70 (+0.70%) Ç COPPER US$451.70 (+0.77%)
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    • 29 1 All figures correct as at 8am this morning US$1 $1.276 US$1 £0.618 US$1 €0.735 US$1 ¥83.319 US$1 A$0.988 US$1 HK$7.787 US$1 C$0.984 US$1 RM3.048 US$1 RMB6.587 US$1 RS45.340
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    • OVERNIGHT
      • 125 1 Stocks pull higher on strong manufacturing report Stocks finished higher yesterday after a strong manufacturing report overshadowed a bigger than expected rise in the number of people applying for unemployment benefits. The Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia said its index of manufacturing in the mid-Atlantic region nearly doubled
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      • 138 1 Crude oil volatility declines Oil options volatility decreased as the underlying futures rose for a second day on a narrowing spread between New York- and Londontraded crude. Implied volatility for at-the-money options expiring in April, a measure of expected price swings in futures and a gauge of options prices,
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    • 365 1 BLOOMBERG NEW YORK Treasuries gained amid tension in the Middle East after initial claims for unemployment insurance increased in the latest week in a sign that improvement in the United States labour market will take time. Ten-year note yields fell to the lowest in
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    • 208 1 REUTERS PARIS China's central bank governor Zhou Xiaochuan said yesterday that Beijing will decide the pace of the appreciation of the yuan on its own and would not take into account pressure from other countries. Ahead of a meeting of G20 finance
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  • ARTS
    • 540 2  -  Genghis Khan and company open at Marina Bay Sands museum MAYO MARTIN mayo@mediacorp.com.sg A NEW new museum joins the ranks of Singapore’s attractions tomorrow. And for its opening salvo, the new ArtScience Museum at Marina Bay Sands (MBS) is playing host to three simultaneous blockbuster exhibitions.
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  • ENTERTAINMENT
    • 507 4  -  According to Covert Affair’s Piper Perabo and Christopher Gorham, breaking stuff and making out are all in a day’s work May Seah may@mediacorp.com.sg IFTHERE is one thing you learn about the American Central Intelligence Agency through the drama Covert Affairs, it’s that the CIA hires all sorts
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    • 454 5  -  Local rock outfit The Cheating Sons wants to tell stories about life in Singapore Kevin Mathews features@mediacorp.com.sg NOT many people enjoy being accused of cheating. Let alone insist on it. “We were speaking to people about our musical ambitions and everyone would be encouraging but when you
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    • Article, Illustration
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    • 657 8  - Best man worst job Oh boy, Prince Harry’s planning his brother’s royal stag night.This should be fun Max Davidson features@mediacorp.com.sg THE DAILY TELEGRAPH HAS anyone thought this through? Prince Harry, it was announced, will be best man at his brother’s wedding. It is a break with tradition, we are told,
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    • 295 10 ON MEDIACORP AMERICAN GLADIATORS II Channel 5, 8.30pm Four of the strongest and fastest contenders return for a shot at the finals. Newlywed Ally has shown what she’s made of by setting a new Eliminator record; can she now outpace the energetic mother of three they call Major Payne? Iraq
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    • 617 10 6.00AM Video Zonkers 6.30 Prime Time Morning 9.30 Real Strange (Viewer Discretion Advised) 10.00 Style By Jury 10.30 Heartland Getaways II 11.00 Slurp! 11.30 Jamie At Home II NOON House And Home VII 12.30PM Knock First 1.00 Shiver 2.00 Whacked Out Sports 2.30 Wheel Of Fortune CHANNEL 6.00AM Friends Next
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    • 205 10 ON MEDIACORP DOLPHINS:THE WILD SIDE okto, 9pm For most of us, the name dolphin brings to mind the beloved bottlenose the friendly Flipper of television. But the popular image obscures the fascinating and complex truth about dolphins. Far from cute, cuddly playthings, they are wild animals. Intelligent and sometimes friendly,
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  • THINGS TO DO
    • 300 11 1 Notes From America This Singapore Symphony Orchestra concert, with conductor Yu Long and pianist Nelson Goerner, includes Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro, K. 492: Overture and Piano Concerto No 24 In C Minor, K. 491, and Dvorak’s Symphony No 9 In E Minor, Op. 95 ‘From
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  • TECH
    • 455 12 Mobile World Congress reveals the ambitions of leading phone BLOOMBERG SAMSUNG and Sony Ericsson kicked off a parade of product unveilings at Barcelona’s Mobile World Congress with smartphones and tablets on Google’s Android software. The South Korean company rolled out an updated Galaxy S smartphone and
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      172 13  -  SITE OF THE WEEK HAZWAN NORLY DO YOU reminisce about the games you used to play on ancient consoles, where you roam around heavily pixelised universes to a backdrop of 8-bit music? Then check out pixeljam.com. The site features a charming pixel- themed layout, replete with cartoon clouds. Click
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    • 167 13 LG Optimus 3D The lowdown: Record and view 3D images with this new smartphone without special glasses. Availability: Second quarter of the year HTC Flyer The lowdown: The first tablet with HTC Sense offers features for both work and
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    • 655 14  -  How the iPad has changed the way I read COMMENTARY Hedirman Supian hedirman@mediacorp.com.sg PRINT is far from dead.You can tote around a newspaper, magazine or novel and won’t need to worry that it’ll run out of batteries or get a dent. It’s funny but we also associate printed
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    • 177 14 BLACKBERRY APP OF THE WEEK IF MEETING people is part of your job, you are not a stranger to business cards. You would also be familiar with how troublesome it is to sift through dozens of them just to find the right contact. Here’s a BlackBerry
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    • 359 15  -  LAPTOP REVIEW: LENOVO IDEAPAD U260 HAZWAN NORLY THE Lenovo IdeaPad U260 is for those who appreciate beauty rather than brawn. At first glance, the U260 seems like it could pose a challenge to Apple’s MacBook Air. It felt really light in my hands, weighing in at just
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    • 123 15  -  MAY CHUA SINGAPOREAN youth are not apprehensive about sharing information about themselves online, according to a survey conducted by Singapore Polytechnic. A total of 33.6 per cent of respondents revealed genuine personal information to strangers, with more than half of the total number
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