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Tuesday 9th February, 2010

  • SingTel posts 24 percent rise in quarterly profit

    Singapore News.Net

    Singapore, Feb 9 (DPA) Singapore Telecommunications Ltd (SingTel), South-East Asia's biggest phone company, said Tuesday that net profit for its third quarter rose 24 percent from a year ago on the back of steady growth in its home market and Australia.

  • Singapore tourism drops 4.3 per cent, hotels take hit

    Earth Times

    Singapore - Tourist arrivals in Singapore fell 4.3 per cent in 2009 to 9.7 million, the city-state's tourism board said Tuesday. Hotels were hit hard as visitors stayed away due to the economic recess...

  • Fortune tellers: Year of Tiger isn't Tiger's year

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    HONG KONG – It's the Year of the Tiger, but Chinese fortune tellers say it'll be a rough patch for the world's most famous one: disgraced golfer Tiger Woods. Other predictions: trying times for...

  • UMC January sales more than double year earlier

    Yahoo!

    TAIPEI, Feb 9 - UMC <2303.TW>, the world's No.2 contract chipmaker, said on Tuesday that its sales in January rose 172 percent from a year earlier. United Microelectronics Corp <UMC.N&gt...

  • Singapore's 2009 tourist arrival down 4.3 pct y/y

    Yahoo!

    SINGAPORE, Feb 9 - The number of visitors to Singapore fell by 4.3 percent last year to 9.7 million, driving the revenue from the sector down 19.2 percent to S$12.4 billion , the country's tou...

  • ICA foils cigarette smuggling attempt

    Yahoo!

    SINGAPORE: Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA) officers foiled a cigarette smuggling attempt at the Tuas Checkpoint last Friday. 8,349 cartons of duty&mdash;unpaid cigarettes were found hidde...

  • SingTel Beats Estimates on Gains in Singapore, Indonesian Unit

    BusinessWeek

    Feb. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Singapore Telecommunications Ltd., Southeast Asia&rsquo;s largest phone company, posted profit and sales that beat analysts&rsquo; estimates after gaining mobile customers at hom...

  • Singapore denounces pastor for ridiculing Buddhists

    Yahoo!

    SINGAPORE, Feb 9 - Singapore has warned a Christian pastor that his online videos are offensive to Buddhists and Taoists, underlining the city-state's concerns that religion is a potential faultli...

  • ITE students learn finer points of coffee making

    Yahoo!

    SINGAPORE: Some 120 Institute of Technical Education (ITE) students will be taught the finer points of coffee making under a five&mdash;year collaboration between the institute and Boncafe Internation...

  • Singapore trounces Christian minister on jokes about Buddhism

    Earth Times

    Singapore - The Singapore government has trounced the leader of a Christian church after internet video clips showing the minister making jokes about Buddhism caused a chorus of outrage in the multira...

  • RPT-GLOBAL MARKETS-Asian shares struggle, euro wins respite

    Yahoo!

    * Shanghai, Seoul gain, MSCI ex Japan mixed * Japan, Australia fall as euro debt woes, Wall St weigh * Euro firms as markets pause for EU economic summit By Charlotte Cooper TOKYO, Feb 9 - Asian s...

  • BUY OR SELL-Cheap Indian telcos worth a call?

    Yahoo!

    * Bharti, Reliance Comms only BSE-30 stocks to fall in 2009 * Heavy call tariff cuts squeezing margins * Oct-Dec results show bruises; but better than expected By Devidutta Tripathy and Ami Shah N...

  • India GMR Infra in PE talks to raise $322 mln-paper

    Yahoo!

    MUMBAI, Feb 9 - Indian conglomerate GMR Infrastructure <GMRI.BO> is in advanced talks with private equity firms to raise about 15 billion rupees for its power unit, the Economic Times reported, ...

  • ComfortDelGro to start S$3 surcharge for taxis from Resorts World Sentosa

    Yahoo!

    SINGAPORE: Taking a cab from Resorts World Sentosa (RWS) will become more expensive. ComfortDelGro will impose a S$3 location surcharge for all taxi trips starting from the integrated resort. In...

  • Singapore's SingTel posts 24-per-cent rise in quarterly profit

    Earth Times

    Singapore - Singapore Telecommunications Ltd (SingTel), South-East Asia's biggest phone company, said Tuesday that net profit for its third quarter rose 24 per cent from a year ago on the back of stea...

  • Motor Racing: F1 tickets for Singapore Grand Prix to go on sale from Mar

    Channel News Asia

    SINGAPORE: Tickets for this year's Formula One Grand Prix will go on sale from next month. Race promoter, Singapore GP, said some 65,000 three-day general admission tickets will be available. These ti...

  • Lured by easy money, more teens break the law

    Yahoo!

    SINGAPORE: In their search for a quick buck, more youth are turning to illegal money activities. This was reflected by the huge jump in the number of teenagers arrested for offences related to unlice...

  • Bird&mdash;ringing for a better understanding

    Yahoo!

    SINGAPORE: On his round last October to check the mist nets in the Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve (SBWR), he spotted a black and yellow bird stuck in one of the nets. Assistant conservation officer Ram...

  • Chinese commerce chamer celebrates CNY

    Asia One

    THE Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce & Industry is celebrating the festive season with its annual Chinese New Year gathering on Sunday at its Hill Street auditorium. Senior Minister and Coor...

  • Train and bus services extended for chingay

    Asia One

    SMRT will be extending its train and bus services during the Chingay Parade next Friday and Saturday to serve those returning home after the event. The last eastbound, westbound and northbound trains...

  • Defence minister took part in security conference

    Asia One

    MINISTER for Defence Teo Chee Hean attended the 46th Munich Security Conference, which ended on Sunday. Some 300 policymakers from over 50 countries attended, the Ministry of Defence said in a press ...

  • Turning plastic waste to sutures

    Asia One

    BY JAKE CHNG WASTE plastic bottles and bags can be converted to biodegradable surgical threads, in two to three years' time, using a process developed here. This could potentially halve the amou...

  • Aware bows out of sex education for now

    Asia One

    By Irene Tham In the latest twist in the long-running saga over sexuality education, the Association of Women for Action and Research (Aware) says that it will not offer its programme to schools for ...

  • Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of ATIC Issues Notice of Further Extension of Preference Share Offer for GLOBALFOUNDRIES Singapore Convertible Redeemable Preference Shares to 17 August 2010

    Earth Times

    ") in the capital of GLOBALFOUNDRIES Singapore Pte. Ltd. (previously known as Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing Ltd. and converted to a private limited company on 15 January 2010) (the "

  • Basketball: Slingers&rsquo; forward Wai Sian still in ICU after training accident

    Yahoo!

    SINGAPORE: Lim Wai Sian&rsquo;s family has only one wish this Lunar New Year. Dad Lim Lai What, mum Tan Lai Ngoh and elder brother Lim Peng Thian want the basketball player to spend the holidays at h...

  • Australia tightens skilled migration rules

    Yahoo!

    CANBERRA, Australia &ndash; Australia tightened its migration rules Monday in favor of English speakers and professionals, saying the country has been attracting too many hairdressers and cooks and to...

  • MRT escalators fixed every 10 years

    Asia One

    IREFER to Mr David Kwok Ng Kan's letter, "Fix MRT escalators station by station" (my paper, Feb 2). SMRT has in place an overhaul programme for all station escalators to enhance their r...

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