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Title Section40 2011-07-27 1 TODAY MICA (P) 057/10/2010 A PUBLICATION OF NEWS HOTLINE 6822 Wednesday July 27, 2011 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking AFTERNOON EDITION MICA (P) 057/10/2010 A PUBLICATION OF NEWS HOTLINE 6822 2268 Wednesday July 27, 2011 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking40 words
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Article, Illustration678 2011-07-27 1 TAN WEIZHEN - TAN WEIZHEN weizhen@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Radio listeners usually identify their favourite deejays by their distinctive voices but, as radio comes of age, expect the medium to become more visual and personalised soon, said MediaCorp chief executive officer Shaun Seow at aPHOTO BY WEE TECK HIAN; PHOTOS BY WEE TECK HIAN - 678 words
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Article592 2011-07-27 1 ONG DAI LIN - Samaritans of Singapore reports increase in hotline calls related to debts, gambling ONG DAI LIN dailin@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE More people are calling the Samaritans of Singapore (SOS), an organisation dedicated to suicide prevention, about loan sharks and gambling problems, even as suicide rates fell last year592 words
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HOT NEWS
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Article, Illustration537 2011-07-27 2 CAROLYN QUEK - CAROLYN QUEK carolynquek@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE A couple were just seconds away from stepping into their Tampines flat late on Monday when they were repeatedly slashed in a vicious attack that left a trail of broken flower pots and blood smeared along the corridor (picture). ForPHOTO BY OOI BOON KEONG - 537 words
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Article, Illustration597 2011-07-27 3 AGENCIES WASHINGTON Rival Democratic and Republican plans to raise the United States government’s borrowing ability have thrust Congress into a standoff, just one week away from a potentially devastating debt crisis. President Barack Obama made a lastditch call for compromise on Monday, butAGENCIES; REUTERS - 597 words
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Article, Illustration598 2011-07-27 4 AGENCIES OSLO A lawyer acting for the anti-Muslim extremist who carried out the massacre in Norway portrayed his client yesterday as possibly “insane”, a drug user who believed himself to be in a war that would be understood only byAGENCIES; REUTERS - 598 words
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Article, Illustration282 2011-07-27 4 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH OSLO The father of the Norwegian mass killer, Anders Behring Breivik, said that his son should have turned the gun on himself. Mr Jens Breivik (picture), a retired diplomat who served at the country’s London embassy, said thatTHE DAILY TELEGRAPH; AP - 282 words
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Article, Illustration90 2011-07-27 8 DPM TEO HOSTS CHINESE VICE PREMIER Chinese VicePremier Wang Qishan, who is in Singapore for a three-day visit, was hosted to a dinner by Deputy Prime Minister Teo Chee Hean at the ShangriLa Hotel yesterday evening. This is his second official trip here. Mr Wang and other senior officials willPHOTO BY ERNEST CHUA - 90 words
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398 2011-07-27 8 THE NEW YORK TIMES BEIJING New regulations that require bars, restaurants, hotels and bookstores to install costly Web monitoring software are prompting many businesses to cut Internet access and sending a chill through the capital’s game-playing, Web-grazing literatiTHE NEW YORK TIMES - 398 words
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Article, Illustration206 2011-07-27 10 CHANNEL NEWSASIA SINGAPORE The majority of hawkers here kept the prices of their food and drinks steady over the last three months. According to the Hawker Food Price Survey commissioned by the Retail Price Watch Group, almost 94 per cent did so.CHANNEL NEWSASIA; TODAY FILE PHOTO - 206 words
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245 2011-07-27 12 NG JING YNG - NG JING YNG SINGAPORE The Central Business District (CBD) here is the most expensive place in South-east Asia to park a car, according to a report which looks at parking rates in global commercial areas. It costs a driver an average245 words
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423 2011-07-27 12 WAYNE CHAN - WAYNE CHAN waynechan@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE With transnational crime changing tremendously in nature and reach, it is time for ASEAN to “sharpen the sword” and take the fight to the syndicates on the ground, said Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Home423 words
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COMMENT&ANALYSIS
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Article, Illustration922 2011-07-27 14 MIKE MULLEN - Real trust has to start somewhere and it shouldn’t be subject to shifting political winds MIKE MULLEN Mike Mullen, a Navy admiral, is the chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff. THE NEW YORK TIMES The military relationship between the United States andTHE NEW YORK TIMES; REUTERS - 922 words
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Article800 2011-07-27 16 RUSSELL JACOBY - We prefer to imagine threats as emanating from foreigners but the greatest violence emerges from within a society RUSSELL JACOBY Russell Jacoby, a historian at the University of California, Los Angeles, is the author of Bloodlust: On the Roots of Violence From Cain and Abel toTHE NEW YORK TIMES - 800 words
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Article, Illustration1463 2011-07-27 18 CON COUGHLIN - As David Petraeus retires from the US army to become CIA director, he assesses the Afghan campaign CON COUGHLIN Con Coughlin, The Daily Telegraph’s executive foreign editor, is a world-renowned expert on the Middle East and Islamic terrorism. THE DAILY TELEGRAPH ForTHE DAILY TELEGRAPH; BLOOMBERG - 1,463 words
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VOICES
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373 2011-07-27 22 Kwan Jin Yao - To home in on pre-school learning Letter from Kwan Jin Yao THE importance of having a quality preschool education cannot be understated, as explained in the article “Fewer enter Pri 1 without pre-school education” (July 22). Beyond reducing the number of children who lack pre-school education, it is imperative for373 words
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160 2011-07-27 23 STEVEN NEO - LETTER FROM STEVEN NEO WHAT Anders Behring Breivik, 32, did in Oslo was cruel and barbaric. It was reported that he wanted to represent a section of the Norwegian population who believe that the country’s immigration policies are too lax, so much so that160 words
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296 2011-07-27 23 Yeo Kia Thye - Letter from Yeo Kia Thye Senior vice-president, airport operations Changi Airport Group WE REFER to Mr Terrence Teo’s “Lost and found? Not again (July 20) and apologise for the inconvenience that he had experienced. We were unable to contact MrTeo for more296 words
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199 2011-07-27 23 EFFANDI ABDUL MUTALIB - LETTER FROM EFFANDI ABDUL MUTALIB There are now a number of registered moneylenders, with genuine office addresses, and others who provide only phone contact information. Due to some financial constraints, I borrowed from a couple of them and wasfortunate to deal with one199 words
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SINGAPORE
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Article183 2011-07-27 24 CHANNEL NEWSASIA SINGAPORE The Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) said it is looking to extend the requirement of having in-house Company Emergency Response Teams (CERT) to public and industrial buildings by next year. It is proposing that the requirement cover public and industrial buildings whichCHANNEL NEWSASIA - 183 words
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329 2011-07-27 24 ESTHER NG - ESTHER NG estherng@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE His email has been hacked but presidential hopeful Tan Jee Say is taking it in his stride. An email, purportedly originating from Mr Tan’s Yahoo account, was sent to various recipients claiming that he needed a loan because329 words
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Article, Illustration315 2011-07-27 27 LYNDA HONG - LYNDA HONG lyndahong@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The Nanyang Technological University (NTU) is exploring the possibility of testbedding a new type of solar cells with Singbridge in Guangzhou Knowledge City in China. NTU Deputy President and Provost, Professor Freddy Boey, told MediaCorp thatPHOTO BY SYAFIQAH HAMID - 315 words
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288 2011-07-27 27 SINGAPORE The number of homes found to have been breeding mosquitoes in the first seven months of this year has more than doubled, compared to the same period in 2005 the last major dengue outbreak here. The National Environment Agency (NEA) found288 words
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Article, Illustration321 2011-07-27 28 TEO XUANWEI - TEO XUANWEI xuanwei@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE It started off as a quarrel over a minor incident in a karaoke lounge but escalated into a fight, which saw a man being fatally stabbed with an ice-pick. Yesterday, businessman David How Kim Fwee (picture), 65,321 words
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Article, Illustration243 2011-07-27 28 SINGAPORE Police are looking for this man (picture) to help with investigations into a series of flat rental scams reported at Block 123, Rivervale Drive. According to the police, his name is Dennis Ang Beng Kiat. He is in243 words
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WORLD
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Article, Illustration362 2011-07-27 32 REUTERS BEIJING China’s Rail Minister, facing public outrage over Saturday’s deadly train crash, has ordered a twomonth safety review of railway operations and apologised for the accident which killed 39 people, state media reported yesterday. Internet users have flooded websites and microblogs with angry comments followingREUTERS; AP - 362 words
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173 2011-07-27 32 SYDNEY The Australian government has welcomed reports that alleged terrorist Umar Patek is set to be handed over to Indonesia to face trial in relation to the 2002 Bali bombings. Patek, the alleged mastermind of the nightclub bombings which killed 202 people,173 words
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192 2011-07-27 32 REUTERS Chinese scientists aim to complete the world’s deepest dive in a manned submersible next year by going to 7,000m beneath the sea after a successful test dive in the Pacific Ocean, state news agency Xinhua reported yesterday. TheREUTERS - 192 words
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Article, Illustration230 2011-07-27 33 REUTERS MANILA Ten people died and five fishermen were missing in the central Philippines as storm Nock-Ten battered the main island of Luzon, suspending schools and grounding domestic flights and ferries, local officials said yesterday. The weather bureau raised storm alert levels in nearly 30REUTERS - 230 words
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108 2011-07-27 33 Indonesia’s Transportation Ministry said yesterday that Jakarta’s Soekarno-Hatta International Airport will undergo a Rp 11.7 trillion (S$1.66 billion) overhaul. Director general of aviation transportation Herry Bhakti Gumay told Detik.com that the construction will start next year and will be entirely funded by stateowned airport operator108 words
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362 2011-07-27 33 AGENCIES TOKYO Unpopular Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan said yesterday the time was not right to call a snap election for parliament’s lower House, a move that may sow political confusion in a country struggling with a nuclear crisis and aAGENCIES - 362 words
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156 2011-07-27 33 AP A left-wing political party has filed a fourth plunder complaint against former President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo since she left office last year. Anti-corruption prosecutors have not yet decided to file formal charges against Mrs Arroyo in the other complaints. Her lawyer Raul Lambino dismissedAP - 156 words
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Article, Illustration197 2011-07-27 34 AGENCIES Fans, friends and relatives of Amy Winehouse held a private funeral for the troubled singer yesterday. A convoy of vehicles, many with tinted windows, drew up at the Edgwarebury Cemetery in north London ahead of a private service. Kelly Osbourne (picture),AGENCIES; AP - 197 words
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126 2011-07-27 34 AP KATHMANDU —Nepal’s official media says that police have arrested a man suspected of having links to the triple bomb blasts in Mumbai. The blasts, which occurred earlier this month, killed 20 people. The government-run Gorkhapatra newspaper said yesterday thatAP - 126 words
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285 2011-07-27 34 REUTERS WASHINGTON The United States military vowed on Monday to press ahead with surveillance flights near China despite opposition from Beijing after reports emerged that Chinese jets crossed a boundary with Taiwan to pursue a US spy plane. AdmiralREUTERS - 285 words
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Article, Illustration383 2011-07-27 36 THE NEW YORK TIMES NEW YORK —The decision by the hotel housekeeper who accused Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sexual assault to go public this week could hint that her legal team thinks that prosecutors are close to abandoning the case. Lawyers not involvedTHE NEW YORK TIMES; AP - 383 words
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212 2011-07-27 37 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH ROME Hackers linked to Anonymous claim to have breached security at the government agency responsible for protecting vital computer networks in Italy. The hackers posted a trove of apparently confidential documents online and claimed much more was to come fromTHE DAILY TELEGRAPH - 212 words
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495 2011-07-27 37 THE GUARDIAN LONDON Students with purple ties are gifted and talented. All the children at Crown Woods college in Greenwich, south London, know that. They are taught in separate colourcoordinated buildings, play in fenced-off areas and eat lunch at separate times. AtTHE GUARDIAN - 495 words
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Article, Illustration401 2011-07-27 38 THE NEW YORK TIMES NEW YORK Soon after Ms Seemona Sumasar started dating Jerry Ramrattan, she had an inkling that something might be wrong. He said he was a police detective but never seemed to go to work. He seemed obsessed withTHE NEW YORK TIMES - 401 words
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Article, Illustration478 2011-07-27 39 THE NEW YORK TIMES PUNE (India) When Mr Ranjit Date returned to India 20 years ago after earning a doctorate in robotics from an American university, he had hoped to help automate factory assembly lines in his home country. His company, Precision Automation and RoboticsTHE NEW YORK TIMES - 478 words
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170 2011-07-27 39 REUTERS China blocked a Hong Kong Catholic priest and rights activist from entering the mainland last week, in what he said may have been a show of unhappiness with the Vatican for excommunicating two bishops recently ordained by Beijing. InREUTERS - 170 words
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Article, Illustration357 2011-07-27 40 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH NAIROBI —The number of Somalis needing urgent food aid has jumped by 1 million people and children are the worst affected, according to the United Nations’ (UN) children’s charity, UNICEF. Yesterday, the UN World Food Program began airlifting food intoTHE DAILY TELEGRAPH; AP - 357 words
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Article, Illustration528 2011-07-27 41 THE NEW YORK TIMES LONDON It was the political scoop of the year, a damning, serialised expose in The Daily Telegraph about how British politicians were abusing their parliamentary expense accounts to pay for things like moat-cleaning and wisteriatrimming. The articles inTHE NEW YORK TIMES; AP - 528 words
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181 2011-07-27 41 REUTERS The British journalist whose dogged reporting helped uncover phone hacking that has rocked media giant News Corp and its chairman Rupert Murdoch has agreed to write a book about the scandal, his publisher said on Monday. Mr Nick Davies, aREUTERS - 181 words
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330 2011-07-27 42 REUTERS MOSCOW Russia will boost spending to nearly S$12 billion a year in its North Caucasus region over the next 14 years to try to end an insurgency and boost development, a newspaper reported yesterday. Kommersant said the Ministry ofREUTERS - 330 words
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Article, Illustration226 2011-07-27 42 AP WASHINGTON United States representative David Wu (picture) of Oregon was pressured to leave Congress sooner rather than later after the House Democratic leader sought an investigation into a young woman’s allegation that she had an unwanted sexual encounter with him.AP - 226 words
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331 2011-07-27 43 REUTERS NEW YORK Despite being well-ed-ucated, ambitious and driven, AsianAmericans often feel excluded from corporate America and hit a bamboo ceiling that prevents them from reaching top jobs, a new study showed. Asian-Americans account for fewer than 2 per cent of Fortune 500 CEOsREUTERS - 331 words
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Article, Illustration277 2011-07-27 43 AP GRENOBLE (France) Scientists will find a long-sought theoretical particle or rule out that it exists by the end of next year, the director of the world’s largest atom smasher predicted on Monday. Mr Rolf Heuer, director of the European particle physics laboratory nearAP - 277 words
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349 2011-07-27 44 THE GUARDIAN ISTANBUL The Arab spring is fuelling a Turkish summer as Saudis, Kuwaitis and other tourists from the Gulf states who would have previously spent summers in Syria or Egypt look further north. Figures from the Turkish Ministry of Culture and TourismTHE GUARDIAN - 349 words
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Article, Illustration262 2011-07-27 44 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH LONDON The 33 miners rescued in Chile last October, after spending 69 days trapped 600 metres underground, are to have their astonishing story of survival made into a Hollywood film. The men have sold the film rights to the producer responsibleTHE DAILY TELEGRAPH; PHOTOS: REUTERS, THE NEW YORK TIMES - 262 words
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Article, Illustration372 2011-07-27 45 THE NEW YORK TIMES NEW YORK One of the most prominent advertising spaces in Times Square is soon to be occupied by a Chinese brand. Xinhua, the news agency operated by the Chinese government, is leasing a giant sign on 2 Times Square,THE NEW YORK TIMES - 372 words
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196 2011-07-27 45 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH Hollywood film director Steven Spielberg has been fined for mooring his boat too close to a beach in the Italian island of Sardinia. But for a man with an estimated fortune of US$3 billion, it will be a dropTHE DAILY TELEGRAPH - 196 words
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129 2011-07-27 45 AP Two Australian police officers used pepper spray to fight off a rogue kangaroo yesterday. The kangaroo had attacked an elderly woman in her backyard in an Outback town. Kangaroos rarely attack humans. Senior-Sgt Stephen Perkins, head of police in the Queensland stateAP - 129 words
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297 2011-07-27 46 AGENCIES ZURICH Swiss banking giant UBS, in which the Government of Singapore Investment Corp (GIC) is the largest shareholder, will slash jobs and review the future of its fixed income business after the under-performing unit hit second-quarter profit and forced it toAGENCIES - 297 words
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Article, Illustration325 2011-07-27 46 After April-May contraction, analysts expect growth to gain AGENCIES SINGAPORE The Republic’s manufacturing output rebounded in June after two straight months of contraction and analysts expect growth to gain traction in the second half of the year. A swing in the highly volatile pharmaceuticals output and aAGENCIES; BLOOMBERG - 325 words
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Article251 2011-07-27 47 SINGAPORE Foreign direct investment (FDI) into Singapore more than doubled to US$39 billion (S$47 billion) last year from 2009, putting the Republic in ninth place globally for such inflows last year, according to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)’s World Investment Report 2011.251 words
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124 2011-07-27 47 Frasers Centrepoint Trust (FCT) has posted a distribution per unit (DPU) of 1.95 Singapore cents for the third quarter ended June, down 5.8 per cent from the same period a year ago. The trust said gross revenue declined 11.1 per cent to S$27.3124 words
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Article58 2011-07-27 47 TUESDAY CLOSE 12,501.30 (-0.73%) Monday 12,592.80 q 0.70% Friday 12,681.20 q 0.34% Thursday 12,724.40 q 0.12% Wednesday 12,571.90 q 0.12% NYSETOP5 BYVOLUME NAME VOL PRICE CHANGE Bank of America 120.5m $10.00 q 0.10% Ford Motor 108.6m $12.94 q 1.75% Sprint Nextel 76.7m $5.18 p 0.58% General Electric 67.6m $18.5658 words
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Article99 2011-07-27 47 OVERNIGHT Debt issues stall Wall St The stalemate in debt talks dragged down stocks for a second day yesterday, and light volume showed investors remained reluctant to make bets despite another round of healthy earnings. Declining issues solidly outpaced advancing ones, even though major averages showed mostly modest99 words
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Article13 2011-07-27 47 Ç FTSE100 5,929.73 (+0.08%) Ç DAX È 7,349.45 (+0.07%) CAC40 3,787.88 (-0.66%)13 words
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169 2011-07-27 48 MILLET ENRIQUEZ - MILLET ENRIQUEZ SINGAPORE SATS reported yesterday a 4.1 per cent on-year decline in its net profit to S$42.5 million for the first quarter ended June due to higher expenditure. Revenue had registered a 22.1 per cent on-year rise to S$466.5 million on169 words
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174 2011-07-27 48 STELLA LEE - STELLA LEE stellalee@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Singapore and Tianjin yesterday signed 10 memorandums of understanding (MOUs) at the 4th SingaporeTianjin Economic and Trade Council (STETC) meeting to promote collaboration between the two cities. The Singapore Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Sinotel Technologies and Tianjin174 words
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156 2011-07-27 48 LINETTE LIM - LINETTE LIM Mapletree Industrial Trust (MIT) said yesterday its net property income for the first quarter ended June rose 13.6 per cent on-year to s$38.24 million on better occupancy and rental rates. Distributable income to unit holders increased 16.8 per cent on-year to156 words
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Article135 2011-07-27 48 MILLET ENRIQUEZ - MILLET ENRIQUEZ Shares of Catalist-listed Malacca Trust rose 43.2 per cent from its issue price to close at s$0.315 on its trading debut yesterday, when it was the most actively traded counter with some 76 million shares changing hands. This values the Indonesiabased financial services135 words
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332 2011-07-27 50 AGENCIES MUMBAI India’s central bank stunned investors by raising interest rates by 50 basis points yesterday, showing unexpected resolve in fighting persistently high inflation despite slowing growth in Asia’s third-largest economy and uncertainty about global demand. The Reserve Bank of IndiaAGENCIES - 332 words
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243 2011-07-27 51 AGENCIES BEIJING Japan’s Nissan Motor plans to nearly double its annual sales in China to 2.3 million vehicles by the end of 2015, the company said yesterday, as it accelerates its expansion in the world’s largest auto marketAGENCIES - 243 words
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318 2011-07-27 51 AGENCIES ATHENS Procedures for a voluntary swap of privately-held Greek government bonds for longer maturity paper will start next month, Greece’s Deputy Finance Minister said yesterday. Greece’s private sector creditors will take a 21 per cent loss on their bond holdings as partAGENCIES - 318 words
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194 2011-07-27 51 AGENCIES SHANGHAI China’s Sinohydro Group, builder of the Three Gorges dam, plans to raise 17.3 billion yuan (S$3.2 billion) in what could be the mainland’s biggest initial public offering this year. The Chinese equity market has been dominated by smaller issues so farAGENCIES - 194 words
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Article, Illustration324 2011-07-27 52 THE GUARDIAN BEIJING Fake Apple retail stores are not limited to Kunming in China, as identified last week by an American blogger living there: Similar fakes exist in countries from Croatia to Venezuela, according to readers who have contacted her. Two of the five fake AppleTHE GUARDIAN; PHOTO COURTESY APPLE - 324 words
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143 2011-07-27 52 THE GUARDIAN There’s still no date for the launch of the Facebook iPad app, but Canadian engineering student Mr Marvin Bernal spotted a hole in the latest update of the Facebook iPhone app that revealed what the iPad version will look like. SeeminglyTHE GUARDIAN - 143 words
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151 2011-07-27 52 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH A tweet from tweetbox360, the official PR account for the Xbox 360, urged Amy Winehouse fans to remember the singer by buying her album, Back to Black, from Microsoft’s Zune store. However, the tweet immediately met with criticism from Twitter usersTHE DAILY TELEGRAPH - 151 words
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Miscellaneous116 2011-07-27 55 THE SENSATION FROM JAPAN Establish Events Presents I I T Undoubtedly one of the world’s finest shows on offer... yy i i i 1 The Herald ART OF DRUM TOUR V IB I r. v > n j rv:i ST n <7 I 1 3 SEPTEMBER ESPLANADE THEATRE BUY YOUR116 words
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Article, Illustration601 2011-07-27 56 LEONARD THOMAS - The Lions know what awaits them tomorrow despite the relaxed atmosphere in KL LEONARD THOMAS sports editor leonard@mediacorp.com.sg KUALA LUMPUR There was little hint of a fierce battle looming here yesterday, until someone helpfully offered a priceless nugget of information that 85,000 tickets had beenPHOTO BY DON WONG - 601 words
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328 2011-07-27 56 SHAMIR OSMAN - SHAMIR OSMAN KUALA LUMPUR There was bite in attack and menace in the midfield, but against Malaysia last Saturday, the Lions showed a distinct feebleness in their new-look backline that will be put through yet another stern test tomorrow. Singapore take a328 words
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Article, Illustration700 2011-07-27 57 SHAMIR OSMAN - The question is, which Malaysia will turn up SHAMIR OSMAN shamir@mediacorp.com.sg KUALA LUMPUR Safee Sali is dead certain that Malaysia can overcome the two-goal deficit from the first leg, to vanquish Singapore and write this Tigers’ side even deeper into the annals of Malaysian football. And there areAP - 700 words
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Article, Illustration567 2011-07-27 58 IAN DE COTTA - Three Lions, two Cubs stand out from current crop as top football agent Mendes hunts for local talent IAN DE COTTA ian@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE National midfielder Hariss Harun, goalkeeper Izwan Mahbud and defender Safuwan Baharudin, and Lion City Cup players Adam Swandi and Hanafi567 words
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Article, Illustration397 2011-07-27 58 PHILIP GOH - PHILIP GOH SUPHANBURI Four goals from striker Andin powered the Singapore Sports School (SSP) to an 8-0 bashing of Yala Sports School yesterday at the 14th Thailand Sports School Games. The quarter-final win in the under-14 football competition means SSP earned a shot atPHOTO COURTESY SINGAPORE SPORTS SCHOOL - 397 words
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Article, Illustration540 2011-07-27 59 LOW LIN FHOONG - And world No 1 David hopes she’d still be playing, nine years down the LOW LIN FHOONG linfhoong@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Eight sports squash, karate, baseball, roller sports, softball, sport climbing, wakeboarding and wushu will be jostling for a spot on the 28-sport programme for the 2020PHOTO BY DON WONG - 540 words
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219 2011-07-27 59 LOW LIN FHOONG - LOW LIN FHOONG A bigger purse could be on offer at next year’s CIMB Singapore Women’s Squash Masters, with event organisers looking to upgrade its status from Gold 45 to that of World Series Gold, increasing the current purse from US$53,500 (s$64,339) to at219 words
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146 2011-07-27 60 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH The agent of Alberto Aquilani claims a deal is in place with Liverpool to take the midfielder to Seria A club Fiorentina. The 27-year-old Italy international, a £17-million (S$33.6-million) signing from Roma in 2009, appears surplus to requirements at Anfield andTHE DAILY TELEGRAPH - 146 words
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149 2011-07-27 60 REUTERS Wealthy Malaga have made their ninth signing of the close season by luring Spain midfielder Santi Cazorla from La Liga rivals Villarreal, the clubs said yesterday. Neither team published financial details of the deal but local media reported that Malaga had agreed toREUTERS - 149 words
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Article, Illustration721 2011-07-27 60 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH AFTERNOON LATEST MANCHESTER Sergio Aguero flew out of Buenos Aires last night bound for the Premier League after Manchester City agreed a club record £35-million (S$69-million) fee with Atlético Madrid for the forward. The player is expected to holdTHE DAILY TELEGRAPH; GETTY IMAGES - 721 words
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Article, Illustration583 2011-07-27 61 Villas-Boas has to surpass the ‘Special One’ to stay at Chelsea, says Cech THE GUARDIAN LONDON New Chelsea coach Andre Villas-Boas (picture) has some huge boots to fill, as the spectre of the “Special One” still looms large at Stamford Bridge. Goalkeeper Petr Cech has admitted thatTHE GUARDIAN; GETTY IMAGES - 583 words
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