The Straits Times, 27 December 2010

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    17 1 THE STRAITS TIMES. MICA(P)108/11/2010 MONDAY, DECEMBER 27 2010 A SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS PUBLICATION ESTABLISHED 1845 90 CENTS
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      Lock icon Win keep United on top
      51 1 MANCHESTER United beat Sunderland 2-0 last night to maintain their two-point lead in the English Premier League. Dimitar Berbatov’s brace put the Red Devils on 37 points, while Manchester City beat Newcastle 3-1. Third- and fourth-placed Arsenal and Chelsea face off today. L SPORT PAGE
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      Lock icon ‘Cops beat me repeatedly’
      61 1 A MALAYSIAN businessman claims that he was beaten up badly by policemen in several police stations after he was stopped at a roadblock while driving a car whose road tax had expired. He also says the police took thousands of ringgit in cash from him, after
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      Lock icon Seoul-Beijing security talks
      64 1 SOUTH Korea’s and China’s defence ministers are due to meet in Beijing in February. They will discuss hot security issues like the recent attack on the South’s Cheonan warship and on Yeonpyeong island. At the meeting, Seoul’s Mr Kim Kwan Jin is expected to pressure Beijing’s Mr
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      Lock icon Retailers’ ‘lemon law’ fears
      74 1 THE proposed lemon law, which will require retail stores to replace or repair a defective product, is making small retailers uneasy. They fear that the law, which is standard in most developed countries, will do more than empower the consumer. They are afraid that buyers, unhappy
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    Lock icon Boat sinks in Mersing; 3 S’poreans die
    853 1  -  BY GOH CHIN LIAN, KIMBERLY SPYKERMAN, HAZLIN HASSAN THREE Singaporeans died and two are still missing in the waters of Malaysia after a Christmas weekend fishing trip ended tragically. The five, together with 24 other pas- sengers, were making their way back to
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    Lock icon Wen calms price fears as China raises rates
    592 1 Rising inflation prompts another round of interest rate increases ASSOCIATED PRESS REUTERS NEW YORK TIMES AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE BEIJING: Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao tried yesterday to reassure the public about the government’s ability to control inflation, a day after interest rates were increased
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    Lock icon Britain plans to fine airports over disruptions
    645 1 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE ASSOCIATED PRESS REUTERS LONDON: As airports across Europe returned to near-normal service after the chaos of last week, Britain is mulling over a new law that could see airports heavily fined for disrupting passengers’ travel. If it is passed, the airport
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      90 1 Booming Bali’s woes Locals are feeling the heat from migrants WORLD, PAGE A16 Baby bro makes good Akashi’s Mervin Goh nearly walked out of family business WORLD, PAGES A10&11 Look back at 2010 LIFE! PAGE C4 BREAKING NEWS: www.straitstimes.com INTERACT: www.stomp.com.sg VIDEOS: www.razortv.com.sg NEWS TIPS: 1800-*****28 CALL 6388-3838 TO SUBSCRIBE
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        Lock icon The long arm of the law
        51 2 WE SAY The installation of the Council for Estate Agencies and its three-pronged strategy to raise standards in the industry is welcome. The Council’s bid to regulate, raise standards and educate both property buyers and sellers will yield benefits for all. L EDITORIAL PAGE
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      • Article
        Lock icon Why it didn’t happen
        39 2 COLUMNS Bernard Lee, deputy director of the Sim Kee Boon Institute for Financial Economics at the Singapore Management University, explains why many predictions made by top market strategists failed to materialise. L REVIEW PAGE A19
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        Lock icon Know what you’re buying
        42 2 It is crucial for investors of structured financial products to understand what they are buying and not just outsource decision-making to a financial adviser, or take investments at face value, says Goh Eng Yeow. L MONEY PAGE B14
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      • Article
        Lock icon Time to buck up, Lions
        39 2 OUR READER SAYS Football Association of Singapore president Zainudin Nordin’s decision to not name ill-disciplined national team players, and his nonchalance towards local football’s decline, are worrying, says Michael Ang. L FORUM PAGE A21
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        Lock icon ONLINE BLOGS
        16 2 www.straitstimes.com L Lee Siew Hua looks at how different talents can contribute to volunteerism.
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      Lock icon Opposition has no excuse not to do better at GE
      906 2  -  In its favour: Electoral and societal changes, more qualified recruits BY KOR KIAN BENG kianbeng@sph.com.sg THERE I was, seated in one corner of a hotel ballroom two weeks ago, watching six opposition leaders doing their best to prove that their
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      Lock icon US prepares for monster winter storm
      488 3 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON POST WASHINGTON: The US East Coast braced itself for a major winter storm yesterday, just as millions of Americans prepared to travel back home after visiting friends and family for Christmas celebrations. The National Weather Service issued winter storm
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      Lock icon Fog causes travel chaos across northern India
      228 3 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE XINHUA NEW DELHI: Thick winter fog disrupted travel across northern India yesterday, with international flights out of New Delhi’s main airport severely delayed and train schedules thrown into chaos. About 15 domestic flights were cancelled and 12 international ones delayed because
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      Lock icon Cops bashed me up: Malaysian businessman
      635 4 He claims he was beaten for refusing to hand over money; 2 cops arrested THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK PETALING JAYA: A Malaysian businessman has claimed that he was taken round several police stations and badly beaten up by police who also took RM13,000 (S$5,000)
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      Lock icon Behave at casinos or risk a ban
      509 5  -  Offences include theft, cheating, fighting BY HUANG LIJIE PLAY nice at the casino or you could be banned from entering even without an exclusion order. Casinos here have been declaring patrons who breach house rules persona non grata Latin for “an unwelcome person”
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      79 5  -  BY MUGILAN RAJASEGERAN PHOTOJOURNALIST It’s that golden time of the day when things start to wind down, people head home, and friends and family start getting together. Straits Times photographers show their take on that moment in the Prime pages every Monday entitled 6.39pm. A worker at a
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      Lock icon Christians brave threats to celebrate Christmas
      608 6 Explosions rock Nigeria and Philippines as Pope prays for peace AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK TIMES VATICAN CITY: Fresh attacks on Christians marred the Christmas holiday as Pope Benedict XVI led pleas by religious leaders for an end to persecution in Iraq and
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      Lock icon SIGHTING SANTA AROUND THE WORLD
      310 6 IT WAS a busy Christmas holiday for the plump man in red with wire glasses and a bushy white beard. From Thailand to Peru, Bethlehem to the West Bank, Santa has been making his way around the globe delivering Christmas cheer and a few tears
      PHOTOS: ASSOCIATED PRESS  -  310 words
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      Lock icon S. Korea to hold talks with China as it announces more drills
      486 6 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE SEOUL: Defence ministers of South Korea and China will hold a meeting in Beijing in February, a report said yesterday, amid high military tension following North Korea’s deadly attack on a border island. Mr Kim Kwan
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  • WORLD.
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      Lock icon Antique GOLD
      794 7  -  The Chinese are hungry to invest, and topping the list is yellow rosewood BY HO AI LI CHINA CORRESPONDENT hoaili@sph.com.sg BEIJING: What price a chair? Well, 62 million yuan (S$12 million), if you are talking about one dating back at least 400 years to the Ming Dynasty, which
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      Lock icon Cash-rich Chinese snap up imperial art at auctions
      456 7 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE PARIS: Chinese collectors with cash to burn dominated Paris auctions this month, displaying a ravenous appetite for pieces from the country’s imperial days with a focus as much on investment as nostalgia. Hotel Drouot, one of the French capital’s top
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      Lock icon WHAT’S ONLINE MOST READ, MOST COMMENTED ON AND MORE
      116 7 www.straitstimes.com MOST-READ ONLINE L Italian town cut up over ‘little China’ MOST COMMENTED ON L Beijing to set up car quota system. Says kjks: “In China, it is difficult and a lot more expensive to skirt around non-resident rules on home
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        Lock icon Pray, what would Confucius do?
        730 8 Scholars, groups voice concerns over plans for Christian church in Qufu, hometown of sage ASSOCIATED PRESS BEIJING: China’s officially atheist government wants to build a Christian church in the hometown of Confucius to help foster a relationship between the ancient philosophy and the country’s fastest-growing
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        Lock icon Winter wonderland
        43 8 Tourists delight in the magnificent sculptures that will be shown at the 27th Harbin International Ice and Snow Festival when it opens on Jan 5. The 100-plus activities planned include a film festival and a swimming tournament. PHOTOS: REUTERS PHOTOS: REUTERS
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        Lock icon Kan woos tiny opposition party with Cabinet posts
        372 8 REUTERS AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE TOKYO: Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan is leaning towards a Cabinet reshuffle before a Parliament session next month as he tries to woo a tiny opposition party into the coalition, the Nikkei daily has reported. The Premier has offered
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        Lock icon HK unlikely to swallow tougher shark’s fin rules
        572 8 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE HONG KONG: The United States Senate has toughened laws on shark finning, but that is unlikely to have much impact in Hong Kong, dubbed the “Grand Central Station” of the controversial trade, environmentalists say. Few places prize the gelatinous delicacy
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        Lock icon Failed rocket launch blasts India’s dream
        458 14 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE BANGALORE: The explosion of an Indian space rocket is likely to hit the country’s efforts to push further into the global market for launching commercial satellites, experts warned yesterday. The unmanned Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) blew up live on television last
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        Lock icon Most ‘oppose plan for KL mega-tower’
        557 14 Survey also finds dip in PM Najib’s popularity down 3 points to 69% AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK KUALA LUMPUR: Nearly two-thirds of Malaysians surveyed in a recent poll are against a plan to build a 100-storey mega-tower that has become a source
        AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE; THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK  -  557 words
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        Lock icon 43 killed by bomb at Pakistan food relief site
        453 14 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE KHAR (Pakistan): More than 80 people were killed in a suicide bombing of a World Food Programme project and a series of helicopter raids against militant camps in north-western Pakistan, officials said. A suicide bomber wearing a burqa, who
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        Lock icon Sales stall for world’s cheapest car
        540 14 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE NEW DELHI: India’s launch of the world’s cheapest car, the Nano, was expected to create a vast market segment in the nation of 1.2 billion people, but reality has fallen short of expectations. “We are at the gates offering a new form
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        Lock icon Thai ‘cyber patrols’ on witch-hunt for activists
        686 15  -  Establishment tracks down, charges netizens deemed critical of monarchy NEWS ANALYSIS BY NIRMAL GHOSH THAILAND CORRESPONDENT nirmal@sph.com.sg www.facebook.com/ST.Nirmal BANGKOK: Beneath the air of holiday-sea-son revelry in a country famous for its party spirit, a battle is being fought for control of opinion in
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        Lock icon Bali’s locals feel the heat from migrants
        1040 16  -  At least 25,000 flock to island each year, looking for jobs and a better life MEMO FROM JAKARTA BY LYNN LEE INDONESIA BUREAU CHIEF lynnlee@sph.com.sg UBUD (Bali): When tourism in Bali took a big hit after the 2002 terror bombings and during the
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        Lock icon Philippine air sector flies into an eventful year
        601 16  -  BY ALASTAIR MCINDOE PHILIPPINES CORRESPONDENT MANILA: Commercial aviation in the Philippines is heading for its biggest shake-up in over a decade, with coming “open skies” for foreign carriers to tourist destinations, and the entry of Asia’s biggest budget carrier into the domestic
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    • world.looking ahead to 2011
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        Lock icon FACES TO WATCH
        302 9 SARAH PALIN The biggest question in US politics next year is whether conservative politician Sarah Palin, 46, will run for the White House. The former vice-presidential candidate, now a television personality and best-selling author, has hinted that she might. If she runs, analysts believe she will win
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        Lock icon Smarter BUT NO SAFER
        1136 9  -  The age of ‘grand strategy’ returns and choices to be made on unsolved problems could transform the map of the world 2010 was a respite from the Great Recession. It was a poke in our ribs, reminding us not to take our safety for granted. Where
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        Lock icon Obama must do a Clinton
        791 9  -  COUNTRY WRAP: UNITED STATES BY CHUA CHIN HON US BUREAU CHIEF WASHINGTON: It is tempting to sum up the coming year in the United States in two words: déjà vu. Many of the dominant themes in the country’s politics, economy and world relations in 2011
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    • world.look back at 2010
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        Lock icon MAKING waves
        1396 10 / 11  -  You rejoiced with them, you hated their guts, you laughed out loud. Some were familiar faces, others you had never heard of before. These are the men and women who captured the headlines in 2010 and shaped our world. Nirmal Ghosh, Chua Chin Hon, Peh Shing Huei, Ben
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        Lock icon Wild WEATHER
        295 10 / 11 2010 was a year of extreme weather heatwaves, flooding, super-typhoons, blizzards and droughts. Mid-year, one weather system caused stifling heat in Russia while causing flooding in Pakistan that inundated an area of 160,580 km sq, about the size of Bangladesh. That single heat-and-storm system killed almost 17,000 people,
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        Lock icon DEA’s reach ‘goes further than drugs’
        831 17 Leaked cables offer glimpses of US drug agents balancing law enforcement, diplomacy WIKILEAKS NEW YORK TIMES AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE WASHINGTON: The US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has been transformed into a global intelligence organisation with a reach that extends far beyond narcotics, and an
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        Lock icon China ‘can’t get grip on military muscle’
        944 18 Beijing turns to Moscow for weapons systems, key arms technologies WASHINGTON POST MOSCOW: The Moscow Machine-Build-ing Enterprise Salyut has put up a massive Soviet-style poster advertising its need for skilled workers. The New Year’s party at the Chernyshev plant featured ballet dancers twirling
        WASHINGTON POST; Source: WASHINGTON POST; ST GRAPHICS  -  944 words
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        Lock icon Russia to buy two French warships
        340 18 WASHINGTON POST PARIS: After a long hesitation and arduous negotiations, Russia has decided to buy at least two of France’s advanced Mistral-class amphibious warships in an unprecedented military deal between Moscow and the West, the two nations said. The multimillion-dollar sale, announced jointly by
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        Lock icon Remembering the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami
        103 18 A woman and her granddaughter looking at a memorial showing how the 2004 tsunami swept a train off its tracks at an anniversary for victims in Peraliya, 90km south of Colombo, Sri Lanka yesterday. As countries around the Indian Ocean marked the disaster that
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      • IN BRIEF
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          Lock icon Anti-sub aircraft ‘delivered soon’
          71 18 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE TAIPEI: The first few of a dozen anti-submarine aircraft are set to go into service in Taiwan next year, local media reported yesterday. Washington agreed in 2007 to sell the refurbished P-3C Orion patrol aircraft, along with three non-operational machines for spares, and “the
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          Lock icon Netizens get cash for crime leads
          129 18 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE BEIJING: Police in China are offering cash and other rewards to encourage the country’s millions of Internet users to help solve criminal investigations, state media said. The authorities in the far-western region of Xinjiang this month posted a photo of a crime
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          Lock icon Bus crash: Death toll now 28
          107 18 BERNAMA IPOH: The gruesome bus accident along the Cameron Highlands road last Monday has claimed another life, bringing the total number of fatalities to 28. Police said Mr Darunee Songserm, 59, died in a hospital in Ipoh yesterday. The other victims were 25 Thais
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          Lock icon 14,000 flee Ivory Coast
          125 18 ASSOCIATED PRESS ABIDJAN (Ivory Coast): At least 14,000 people have fled the violence and political chaos in Ivory Coast, some walking for up to four days with little food to reach neighbouring Liberia, the United Nations refugee agency said. The UN has said at least 173
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          Lock icon Firefighters get ‘baby’ surprise
          145 18 ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES: Firefighters received an unusual Christmas delivery at a downtown station this year a baby. With a small bundle in her arms, a woman went to a station near the city’s Exposition Park last Friday, telling firefighters she wanted to give the child
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  • REVIEW & FORUM.
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      Lock icon The long arm of the law
      424 19 FOR the longest time, the real estate industry was unregulated, so much so that any Tom, Dick or Harry could jump in to become an agent, particularly when the property market was hot. The downside: Some consumers were fleeced and defrauded by unscrupulous agents
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      Lock icon Why market predictions for 2010 failed
      1852 19  -  BY BERNARD LEE FOR THE STRAITS TIMES The writer is deputy director of the Sim Kee Boon Institute for Financial Economics at the Singapore Management University. TOP market strategists are fond of publishing their market predictions at the beginning of each calendar year. One
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        Lock icon Scribes with their nibs on the pulse of life
        818 20  -  BY DAVID BROOKS NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE I TRY not to fall into a rut, but every Dec I give out Sidney Awards for the best magazine essays of the year, and every year it seems I give one to
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        Lock icon CO2: Killer of the marine realm
        941 20  -  BY MICHAEL RICHARDSON FOR THE STRAITS TIMES The writer is a visiting senior research fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. SINCE the industrial revolution began more than two centuries ago, the oceans have absorbed an estimated 500 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide.
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        Lock icon Australia joins US patrol for space junk
        792 20  -  BY ROBERT KARNIOL DEFENCE WRITER rkarniol@sph.com.sg AUSTRALIA will work together with the United States to gain a better understanding of the space environment after the two countries last month agreed to further expand their security relationship. Canberra and Washington have a longstanding military
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        Lock icon Indiscipline and failure
        350 21  -  SINGAPORE FOOTBALL Michael Ang FOOTBALL Association of Singapore (FAS) president Zainudin Nordin sees no need to name the errant players who disrespected their coach by ignoring curfew during the recent premier regional soccer tournament, the AFF Suzuki Cup (“Calling for calm”; Dec 17), playing cards late at
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      56 6 CONSERVATION CHAT with Wildlife Reserves Singapore Anenormousendangeredbabyelephant NightSafarihadreasontotrumpetincelebrationrecentlywiththebirthof anendangeredAsianelephant,thefirstinnineyears. Consideredlargeforanewbornat1.5timestheaveragesize,the151kg malecalfarrivedonNov23andisthefifthelephanttobebornatthepark.His mother,Nandong,isalsothemotheroftheprevioustwobabies–SangRaja, currentlyinCologneZoo,andnine-year-oldNightSafariresident,SangWira. ThebabyissiredbyChawang,theonlybullelephantinNightSafariand SingaporeZoo.Withthisbirth,WildlifeReservesSingapore(WRS),theparent companyofJurongBirdPark,NightSafari,SingaporeZooandtheupcomingRiver Safari,nowhas11pachyderms. Thecalfiscurrentlyoffexhibitbutvisitorscanlook forwardtoseeinghimsoon. WRS’successful captivebreeding programmehasseenmany hatchingsandbirthsof endangeredanimalssuch astheorientalpiedhornbill andMalayansunbear. PHOTO:WILDLIFE RESERVESSINGAPORE WIN A family pass for 2 adults and 2 children to the Night Safari Answerthefollowingquestion. TheAsianelephantisendangered. TRUE/FALSE Send your entries to corpcomms.szg@wrs.com.sg
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      301 9 LONDON: Ashley Cole has warned former club Arsenal that Chelsea are ready to fire, after finally getting all their key players back ahead of today’s derby. John Terry, Frank Lampard and Michael Essien are all back, with star midfielder Lampard set to start his first
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      600 9  -  BY RICHARD JOLLY BESIDES the obvious question of who will win is an equally intriguing query: Who need to win most? Is it Chelsea, the English Premier League champions who have not taken three points from a league game for almost seven weeks, are
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      276 9 REUTERS MILAN: Last season’s AC Milan coach Leonardo was named manager of city rivals Inter Milan on Friday in a move which stunned the football world despite the Italian game’s celebrated eccentricities. The Brazilian succeeds Rafael Benitez, who left the world, European and Italian champions on
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      532 9  -  FABIUS CHEN MALAYSIA took a huge step towards lifting their first AFF Suzuki Cup with a controversial 3-0 win over Indonesia at the Bukit Jalil Stadium in Kuala Lumpur last night. But K. Rajagopal’s side can expect a hostile reception when they arrive at
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      434 10 ASSOCIATED PRESS ORLANDO: The remoulded Magic are the National Basketball Association’s new streak-busters. Brandon Bass scored 21 points, Hedo Turkoglu had 15, and Orlando ended the Boston Celtics’ winning streak at 14 games with an 86-78 victory on Saturday for back-to-back wins
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      619 10 ASSOCIATED PRESS DUBAI: It was hardly a marquee moment in world sport. Curious crowds on a Middle Eastern beach watched horse-riders slicing a lemon with a sword and a cousin of croquet called woodball. Yet there was the president of the International
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        82 10 REUTERS BERLIN: Ukrainian brothers Vladimir and Vitali Klitschko, who hold four of the five world heavyweight boxing titles, promised on Saturday that a much-anticipated fight with World Boxing Association champion David Haye would take place next year. “We promise that a fight
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        75 10 ASSOCIATED PRESS LONDON: London 2012 organisers say two million people have registered for tickets to the Olympics. When tickets go on sale in March, 8.8 million seats will be available at prices ranging from £20 (S$40) for standard events to a symbolic £2,012 for
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        78 10 ASSOCIATED PRESS BUENOS AIRES: Football legend Diego Maradona says he is taking the president of the Argentine Football Association (AFA) to court, accusing Julio Grondona of spreading false information about his problems with drugs and alcohol. Maradona said in Friday’s edition of the
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      657 11 England dismiss home side cheaply and build lead in key Ashes Test THE TIMES, LONOON ASSOCIATED PRESS MELBOURNE: So Perth was an illusion. An inspired but fortuitous spell from Mitchell Johnson lifted Australia off the canvas there, but the respite has proved only temporary. After just one
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      399 11  -  BY LIN XINYI ON PAPER, 2011 might seem like a light year ahead for the Singapore table tennis team. They will not have to compete in back-to-back major Games like they did in October’s Commonwealth Games and the Asian Games a month
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      109 11 Basketball NBA New York 103 Chicago 95, Orlando 86 Boston 78, LA Lakers 80 Miami 96, Oklahoma 114 Denver 106, Golden State 109 Portland 102. Cricket 4th Ashes Test In Melbourne, 1st day: Australia 98 in 42.5 overs (J. Anderson 4-44, C. Tremlett 4-26, T. Bresnan 2-25). England 157-0
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      69 11 Prince Ali of Jordan (left), who is challenging South Korea’s Chung Mong Joon for Asia’s Fifa slot, saying he will
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      744 11  -  ARUNNER’S DIARY BY JEANETTE WANG jwang@sph.com.sg The writer is the associate editor of Shape, Singapore’s premier health, fitness, wellness and nutrition magazine for women WHEREVER Christopher McDougall goes, the debate over barefoot running which he sparked with Born To Run, his 2009 book
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      51 8 NOT JUST ABOUT OIL The cash-rich Middle East is the place to be for sporting events. B10 ENGLAND IN CONTROL England take iron grip on the Ashes after bowling out Australia. B11 J) L T Head to CATS FASTADS in The New Paper for education options! WATS BUY IT-SELL IT-FIND
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      117 9 SPORTS BETTING League I Home Team! Away Team e, Tue, 28/12/10 4.00am Other E Premier, E League Champ and A League matches are also on sale. For more details, please check Singapore Pools website. tl'Jl'] Draw No. 2600/2010 Draw Today. Monday, 27 December 2010 Group 1 Prize $650,000. Sales close
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    1181 12 “For to me,to live is Christ,and to die is gain.” Phil 1:21 CHANYUET MOEY Age:99 Beloved wife of the late Leong Man Pan Returned home to the Lord on 24 December 2010. Sons: Daughters-in-law: KwokThye Helen Choi Kwai Eng Kwok Onn Lim May Cheng KwokYan Leong Hung Leng Daughters: Son-in-law:
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      781 16  -  Circuit breakers, checks to keep new $250m trading engine in order S G X HI G H S PEED TR A DIN G BY GOH ENG YEOW SENIOR CORRESPONDENT engyeow@sph.com.sg THE Singapore Exchange (SGX) will be implementing a series of safeguards to ensure that snail-paced
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      117 16 www.straitstimes.com MOST-READ ONLINE L The $36 million house that wasn’t MOST COMMENTED ON L Banks’ credit card policy for elderly under fire. Says goodheavens: “Proof of regular income or collateral fixed deposits are a must for applications. Shares and unit trusts
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      492 13  -  Analysts coming up with slew of buy calls as data shows recovery on track MARKETS INSIGHT BY GOH ENG YEOW SENIOR CORRESPONDENT engyeow@sph.com.sg AS THE curtains draw on a tumultuous trading year this week, the bulls are hopeful that blue chips may get
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        96 13 Where S$ stands Dec 24 CHNG YR 2010 CLOSE FR Dec 23 S$ LOW S$ HIGH US$ 1.3015 +0.46 1.4219 1.2838 Euro 1.7092 -0.01 2.0153 1.6886 2.0139 +0.13 2.2831 2.0003 A$ 1.3065 +0.35 1.3101 1.1515 Yen* 1.5687 +0.36 1.6107 1.4467 Rupiah* 0.***** +0.46 0.***** 0.***** Dec 24 CHNG YR
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      229 13 Largest F&B Operator requires 1) Operations Executive 2) Operations Supervisor Only S’porean/ PR Min 1 year experience in F&B/ Restaurant/ Food Court Walk-in interview on 27 28 Dec 10 Sengkang Square #01-01 S’pore *****9 Tel 6489-4678 or Email sengkang@kopitiam.biz At Holland Village Now Hiring. SANDWICH ARTISTS `Pleasant friendly `No experience
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