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ZURICH – Swiss bank UBS AG, under pressure at home to give up on hefty bonus schemes in the face of its poor performance, said on Monday it will introduce a more transparent pay system for top executives. The bank, which is struggling in the sub-prime crisis and whose shares slumped to a new all-time [...]

SINGAPORE – The Encarta World English Dictionary defines ‘capitulate’ as ‘surrender, especially under specified conditions; consent or yield: to give in to an argument, request, pressure or something unavoidable’. It also defines ‘capitulation’ as ‘a giving up of resistance’. Much has been made of the selling of the past year, with some observers believing that [...]