The Straits Times, 25 June 2012, Afternoon Edition

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    25 1 THE STRAITS TIMES SINCE 1845 M O ND A Y J UNE 2 5 201 90 cents A Singapore Press Holdings publication MICA (P) 002/02/2012
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    Lock icon RESPITE FROM THE HEAT
    82 1 HOME B7 Hot, hot, hot. For this boy, the fountain at a playground in Changi City Point shopping mall was a surefire way to beat the weekend heat. Temperatures in recent days climbed to 34 deg C, although the days have not been warmer than usual
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    Lock icon China achieves space and deep sea feats
    332 1  -  By PEH SHING HUEI CHINA BUREAU CHIEF shpeh@sph.com.sg BEIJING China literally went to the ends of the world, successfully completing its first manual docking in space and cracking the deepest depths of the global seabed on the same day. Amid a three-day break
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    Lock icon MIT benefits from S’pore collaboration
    60 1 PROFESSORS of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) are already seeing benefits from the American school’s collaboration with the Singapore University of Technology and Design, says Dr Susan Hockfield (below), the outgoing president of MIT, whose term saw the setting up of Singapore’s fourth university.
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    Lock icon CDCs to help seniors lead active lives
    554 1  -  Initiative aims to get them involved in helping themselves and others By GOH CHIN LIAN chinlian@sph.com.sg SINGAPORE’S Community Development Councils (CDCs) are making a renewed push to get more elderly folk involved in taking care of their own health and safety, as part
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      Lock icon Kampung spirit alive in Punggol South
      719 2/3  -  Acting minister praises residents’ willingness to help one another By PHUA MEI PIN mpphua@sph.com.sg RESIDENTS of Punggol South appear to be trying to keep the kampung spirit alive. Two coffee shops sell elderly customers subsidised 50-cent breakfasts. Others hire destitute residents of a nearby
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      Lock icon S’porean and 5 other divers saved after night at sea off Tioman
      426 2/3  -  By CAROLYN HONG MALAYSIA BUREAU CHIEF carolynh@sph.com.sg KUALA LUMPUR Six scuba divers, including a Singaporean man, who went missing overnight off Malaysia’s Tioman island were rescued yesterday by a passing tugboat. All six are safe and well after
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      Lock icon DESKJOB FORA LITTLE GIRL
      93 2/3 Seven-year-old Gui Xin Ru assembling a desk given out under the We Love Learning programme by the TanglinCairnhill division of Tanjong Pagar GRC. Her brother, Wen Jie, 13, was among 100 students from low-income families who received a desk and light donated by CapitaLand and Central
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          Lock icon 24 seek liver transplant
          57 4 THE number of patients waiting for a liver transplant has tripled over the last five years. There were 24 such patients on the waiting list last year, up from just nine in 2007. An average of seven patients died each year waiting for a liver transplant
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          55 4 THE photo posted by a Stomp content producer of a train allegedly running with one of its doors open has been found to be false. Singapore Press Holdings, which owns Stomp, sent a letter yesterday to SMRT apologising for the incident. The content producer was also
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          Lock icon KL summons envoy
          57 4 MALAYSIA is summoning Indonesia’s top envoy today to express concern over damage caused by demonstrators to its embassy in Jakarta following a dispute over a cultural dance. Some Indonesians accuse Malaysians of taking credit for the Tor-tor dance and Gordang Sambilan (nine drums), traditional arts of the
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          Lock icon ‘Chinese ship rams boat’
          52 4 THE Philippines has alleged that a Chinese vessel has rammed a local fishing boat near a disputed South China Sea shoal, killing one man. And Manila, meanwhile, raised eyebrows by opening a small kindergarten on an island that is also claimed by five other governments. L
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        Lock icon Go boldly into space, but jointly too
        45 4 OPINION CHINA exuberantly celebrated its first manned space docking last week. How much more impressive would the achievement be had it collaborated with others in space research, instead of playing catch-up to prove a point? L PAGE A20
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          Lock icon More Sri Lankan maids
          74 4 AT LEAST seven maid agents aim to bring in more Sri Lankan maids in the next few months to help counter the reduced supply from Indonesia. Sri Lanka is the fifth-biggest source of maids for Singapore after Indonesia, the Philippines, India and Myanmar. Agents expect employers
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          Lock icon ‘Eyes’ for SAF vehicles
          68 4 THE Singapore Armed Forces may install cameras and anti-collision alarm systems in its vehicles as early as next year to reduce road accidents and disputes over accidents. About 30 Land Rovers, trucks and minibuses are involved in a trial. A decision on whether to make the
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          Lock icon Hoteliers’ Olympic boon
          68 4 SINGAPORE-BASED hoteliers are doing brisk business in London, where rooms are in high demand for the period of the upcoming Olympic Games. The Ascott, Millennium Copthorne Hotels and Frasers Hospitality say that up to 95 per cent of their rooms are already booked, and they expect to
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          Lock icon Equinix’s expansion
          68 4 RISING usage of social media networks, demand for online content and a rise in e-commerce and online financial trading have prompted global data centre specialist Equinix to invest US$28.5 million (S$36 million) to expand its Singapore facility. The expansion is the last phase of a development that started
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      • SPORT
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          Lock icon Second win for Boonsak
          46 4 PHOTO: LIANHE ZAOBAO SINGAPORE is fast turning into a happy hunting ground for Thai shuttler Boonsak Ponsana (below). He won the Li-Ning Singapore Open for the second time yesterday, in what was his fourth appearance in the title match. L PAGE B20
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          Lock icon Spain booed despite win
          45 4 SPAIN’s negative approach during their Euro 2012 quarter-final victory over France has left fans far from thrilled. Spectators at the Donbass Arena in Donetsk whistled and booed the World Cup winners and European champions despite their 2-0 win. L PAGE B19
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      • LIFE!
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          Lock icon Take note of this rocker
          50 4 LEAD singer Dougy Mandagi of The Temper Trap (above) is Indonesia-born but often mistaken for a Filipino, Aboriginal and even Mongolian. He talks about how the London Hackney riots inspired one of the Australian indie band’s latest songs. L PAGE C3 PHOTO: UNIVERSAL MUSIC SINGAPORE
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          Lock icon A man in Joey’s life?
          43 4 THE Hong Kong gossip rags are abuzz. Singer Wilfred Lau has confirmed that he is dating singer Joey Yung. Yung was once rumoured to be seeing singer Denise Ho, who was also linked to Lau. L PAGE C12
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          Lock icon Golden moments
          52 4 IT WAS glam and gams on the red carpet on Saturday as Asian stars including Taiwan singer Jeannie Hsieh (right) attended the Golden Melody Awards in Taipei. Two Singaporeans singer Tanya Chua and composer Ricky Ho snagged prizes but S.H.E. and Mayday stole the show. L PAGE C10
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      • WHAT’S ONLINE
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          54 4 www.straitstimes.com www.facebook.com/ thestraitstimes twitter.com/stcom L Hougang resident’s offer to PM L Principal faces complaint over messages to ex-studentsQRcodegeneratedonhttp://qrcodelittleidiotbe L Second body at Marina.. Bay Sands is that of a tourist QR code generated on http://qrcode.littleidiot.be L Toa Payoh play area (above) named one of the world’s amazing
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          48 4 www.stomp.com.sg L SCDF personnel search for person who fell into water from Bedok Jetty L Another fight on public transport: Uncles trade blows over bus seats L Passer-by amazed by pack of wild boars seen near Lower Peirce Reservoir QR code generated on http://qrcode.littleidiot.be
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          34 4 www.razortv.com.sg L Skydive in Sydney L The Japanese doll look: Love it or hate it? L Girls! Protect yourselves (Safety tips forQRcodegeneratdonhp://qrcode.littleidio.be women Pt 1) Scan the code to get more info
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      Lock icon Editor-in-chief apologises to SMRT over Stomp picture
      715 6  -  By AMELIA TAN ameltan@sph.com.sg THE photograph that a content producer of citizen journalism website Stomp posted online, supposedly of an MRT train running with one set of its doors open, has been found to be false. On discovering this, Mr Patrick Daniel, editor-in-chief
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      Lock icon Islamic group’s Morsi wins Egypt polls
      476 6 But his election as President is unlikely to end standoff with generals NEW YORK TIMES CAIRO Election regulators named Mr Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood the winner of Egypt’s first competitive presidential election, handing the Islamic group a symbolic triumph and a new
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      Lock icon Number of patients waiting for liver transplant triples
      592 6  -  By MELISSA PANG melpang@sph.com.sg THE number of patients waiting for a liver transplant has nearly tripled over the last five years. There were 24 such patients on the waiting list last year, up from just nine in 2007, said the Health Ministry.
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      Lock icon President Tony Tan in Germany for visit
      484 6  -  By AARON LOW MUNICH President Tony Tan Keng Yam is in Germany for an official trip where he will be inducted into a select group of individuals honoured for their contributions to academia and research. Dr Tan will visit Munich and Berlin as
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  • WORLD
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      Lock icon Success for China in SPACE &SEA
      854 8  -  Taikonauts pull off docking procedure By PEH SHING HUEI CHINA BUREAU CHIEF days shpeh@sph.com.sg XINHUA BEIJING When astronaut Liu Wang was asked before blasting off how confident he was of achieving China’s first manual space docking, he replied: “One hundred per cent.” It was
      XINHUA; PHOTO: AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE; PHOTO: ASSOCIATED PRESS  -  854 words
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      Lock icon ‘Sea dragon’ dives below 7,000m mark
      253 8 XINHUA BEIJING The successful dive of a manned submersible to 7,000 m under the sea has raised China’s confidence in exploring yet greater oceanic depths, said the Chinese designers and operators of the vehicle. “I was thrilled and proud,” said Mr Liu Cigui, director
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    • ASIA
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        Lock icon Resource centres in Japan a boon for freelancers
        562 10  -  Local govts and industry groups offer advice, courses to the self-employed By KWAN WENG KIN JAPAN CORRESPONDENT wengkin@sph.com.sg TOKYO When Mr Huang Lijian, a freelance industrial designer, had questions about intellectual property rights, he headed to the local Soho Plaza. The Soho
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        Lock icon 3rd high-ranking official held in Guangdong graft crackdown
        348 10 BEIJING A former deputy mayor of Shenzhen has become the third high-ranking official in Guangdong to fall from grace in less than a week, in a crackdown targeting economic criminals. Two separate sources close to the Shenzhen government told the Sunday Morning
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        Lock icon A GAME THAT’S HARD TO TOP
        58 10 It is a game of balance and brawn as a man cracks his whip to spin a 668kg mammoth top in Wuhan city in central China’s Hubei province yesterday. Top spinning is one of the oldest games known in China, and is still played
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        Lock icon Jakarta governor polls hit by voter list uproar
        710 11  -  Critics say electoral rolls contain dubious names and multiple registrations By WAHYUDI SOERIAATMADJA INDONESIA CORRESPONDENT wahyudis@sph.com.sg JAKARTA Campaigning for Jakarta’s gubernatorial election next month began yesterday amid controversy over its electoral rolls, which have been found to contain dubious names. All five
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        Lock icon Protest at Pahang rare-earth plant
        265 11 THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE KUANTAN Hundreds of Malaysians yesterday staged a sit-in protest outside a controversial rareearth plant being built by an Australian mining company in the eastern state of Pahang. The protesters, including several senior opposition figures, are campaigning to stop the
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        Lock icon A SPLASH OF HOLY TRADITION
        51 12 Residents pouring water over a passing motorist during celebrations for the Feast of Saint John the Baptist in San Juan City, Metro Manila. They celebrated yesterday by dousing others with water in keeping with the holy tradition of baptism as performed by St John. PHOTO:
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        Lock icon Chinese ship ‘accidentally rams Philippine boat’
        672 12 One dead, says Manila as it opens school on disputed island ASSOCIATED PRESS AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE MANILA The Philippines has alleged that a Chinese vessel accidentally rammed a local fishing boat north of a disputed South China Sea shoal, killing one and leaving four others
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        Lock icon Four-day rescue bid fails as girl in well is found dead
        414 12 NEW DELHI A four-day rescue mission to save a young girl who had fallen down a dry well in India ended unsuccessfully when her body was brought out by emergency services. The efforts to save five-year-old Mahi Upadhyay were
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        Lock icon Another woman assaulted and robbed in KL mall
        406 13 KUALA LUMPUR Another woman was robbed and slashed on her head at the carpark of a mall here, media reports said yesterday, even as the latest Malaysian government statistics showed a steady drop in crime. The latest incident followed three similar crimes
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        Lock icon KL summons Jakarta envoy over attacks
        481 13  -  Malaysia can’t accept aggression against its interests in Indonesia, says minister By CAROLYN HONG MALAYSIA BUREAU CHIEF any carolynh@sph.com.sg KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia has summoned Indonesia’s acting ambassador Mulya Wirana to the Foreign Ministry today to express its concern over attacks on the Malaysian Embassy
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        Lock icon Malaysian cabbies get to operate own vehicles
        351 13 THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia’s taxi drivers will each be given individual licences within the next two years to run their own vehicles, instead of leasing them from companies, Prime Minister Najib Razak said yesterday. In what is seen as a
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        Lock icon RIDING CLOSER TO THE GODS
        63 13 A Balinese man walking across a fire during a Sanghyang jar an ritual dance at a temple in Kuta, Bali, last week. The ritual is performed by dancers who enter a trance and ride coconut palm hobbyhorses in and around a fire. Gods and ancestral
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        Lock icon Red shirts out in force
        627 14 Thaksin loyalists stage protest to call for judiciary to stay out of politics AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE REUTERS BANGKOK Tens of thousands of supporters of Thailand’s “red shirt” protest movement staged a mass rally in Bangkok amid renewed political tensions in the troubled kingdom. The red shirts,
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        Lock icon Ball in judge’s court with new PM
        480 14 REUTERS BLOOMBERG ISLAMABAD The next chapter in Pakistan’s political saga could start as early as this week. The Supreme Court holds on Wednesday its latest hearing in more than two years of legal wrangling aimed at forcing the government to reopen corruption proceedings
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        Lock icon Brain drain feared as Karzai urges education reform
        421 14 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE KABUL Afghan President Hamid Karzai has called for more foreign involvement in the country’s higher education system, but this risks exacerbating an already dangerous brain drain, analysts warn. With foreign forces set to leave Afghanistan by the end of 2014,
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      • ASIA BRIEFS
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          Lock icon S. Korea fines Philips unit
          92 14 REUTERS SEOUL South Korea’s antitrust watchdog said it had imposed US$1.3 million (S$1.7 million) in fines on the Korean unit of Dutch electronics giant Philips for preventing Korea’s online malls from offering discounted prices. The move is the government’s first punitive action against a foreign
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          Lock icon Fresh Aussie call for refugee deal
          99 14 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE SYDNEY Australia’s government renewed its call for a refugee swop deal with Malaysia after an asylum-seeker boat sank off remote Christmas Island, leaving up to about 90 people dead or unaccounted for. Foreign Minister Bob Carr told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation yesterday
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          Lock icon 2 killed, 100 hurt in China quake
          101 14 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE BEIJING A shallow earthquake hit a mountainous area of south-west China yesterday, killing at least two people and injuring around 100, Xinhua news agency reported. The US Geological Survey said the earthquake had a magnitude of 5.5 and struck the border
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          Lock icon Big poll win for Hun Sen’s party
          89 14 ASSOCIATED PRESS PHNOM PENH Cambodian election officials said Prime Minister Hun Sen’s ruling party had won an overwhelming victory in local elections. The National Election Committee announced final results yesterday from the June 3 polls showing that the ruling Cambodian People’s Party had
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      Lock icon Nato to meet over shooting of Turkish jet
      601 15 Turkey warns Syria, saying fighter was downed in international airspace AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE REUTERS DAMASCUS Nato said it will discuss Turkey’s accusation that Syria shot down one of its warplanes in international airspace, as Damascus suffered heavy losses and violence scaled new heights.
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      Lock icon US coach convicted of sex abuse
      331 15 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE BLOOMBERG PHILADELPHIA Pennsylvania State University could face a huge compensation bill after its former assistant football coach was convicted of 45 counts of child abuse, in a case that shocked the nation. Jerry Sandusky, 68, was found guilty of sexually abusing 10
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        Lock icon Canadian mall roof collapses
        105 15 ASSOCIATED PRESS ELLIOT LAKE (Canada) A roof partially collapsed at a busy shopping mall in Canada, prompting an evacuation and a search for anyone who might have been injured. A portion of the roof that served as a parking area crumbled on Saturday afternoon, exposing metal
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        Lock icon President’s ouster a ‘coup’
        123 15 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE ASUNCION Paraguay’s ousted president Fernando Lugo said he had accepted his “unjust” impeachment in the name of peace, but accused lawmakers of “dismissing democracy” with the snap move. He made an unexpected appearance at a street protest in the capital, Asuncion, calling upon some
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        Lock icon Call for 2nd Gatwick runway
        69 15 BLOOMBERG LONDON London’s Gatwick Airport will propose a second runway to make it a gateway to Asia and increase air capacity into the British capital, the Sunday Telegraph reported, citing the airport’s chief executive officer. Another runway at Gatwick would be less costly and problematic
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        Lock icon 4 Japanese on drug charges
        109 15 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE TEHERAN Four Japanese citizens have been arrested in Iran in the past three months on charges of trying to smuggle drugs out of the country, the head of the police’s anti-narcotics unit has said. General Ali Movayedi told a news conference that a
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        Lock icon Big storm approaches US
        108 15 REUTERS MIAMI Tropical Storm Debby is churning slowly towards the US Gulf Coast with 30kmh winds, and is expected to strengthen into a hurricane tomorrow night as it skirts the Louisiana coast and takes aim at Texas, the US National Hurricane Centre has said. Debby was
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      Lock icon GOING UP IN SMOKE
      186 16 People watching a fire rage out of control in Colorado Springs, the US on Saturday. Firefighters in Utah and Colorado states are struggling to contain raging wildfires stoked by high winds that have burned some 200 homes in Colorado, but said they would allow 2,500 people
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      Lock icon Most Americans against health reforms: Survey
      454 16 REUTERS WASHINGTON Most Americans oppose President Barack Obama’s health-care reform, even though they strongly support most of its provisions, a poll has shown. The results of the Reuters/Ipsos survey came as the Supreme Court is poised to make a ruling on whether the law
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      Lock icon Britain may scrap rent subsidy for young
      549 16 Having under-25s live with parents could save $4b a year, says Cameron REUTERS BLOOMBERG LONDON British Prime Minister David Cameron has proposed scrapping rent subsidies for Britons under age 25, in a newspaper interview that may heighten tensions with his Conservative Party’s Liberal
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      Lock icon Ecuador mulls over asylum for Assange
      177 16 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE SYDNEY Ecuador’s ambassador in Stockholm has been briefed by Swedish officials on the country’s judicial system, as the Latin American nation’s government mulls over whether to offer WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange asylum, the Swedish Justice Ministry said yesterday. Sweden, which has seen
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      Lock icon China funds flow to poorer Europe
      981 17  -  Struggling economies in the south-east welcome Chinese capital By PHIL CAIN FOR THE STRAITS TIMES phil.cain@vitalpublishing.com VIENNA The struggling economies of south-east Europe are handing China an opportunity to establish itself as a trusted player inside the European Union, while Chinese capital offers hope
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      Lock icon ‘China fund’ invests in Japan amid euro fears
      731 17 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE TOKYO Europe’s financial turmoil has seen the Chinese government quietly pour tens of billions of dollars into Japan’s stock market, analysts say, despite the neighbours’ lingering historical animosity. For years, the two Asian powerhouses have eyed each other suspiciously, with
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      Lock icon Greek PM to miss key EU summit
      545 18 He and finance minister, both ill, will be represented by foreign minister AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE ATHENS Greece’s newly elected prime minister and finance minister have both fallen ill causing them to miss a key European Union (EU) summit where they were expected to try
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      Lock icon Crisis-hit Nokia closing Finland plant
      671 18 REUTERS SALO (Finland) Nokia workers in Salo thought chief executive Stephen Elop signalled that their plant, Europe’s last major mobile phone factory, would survive when he visited in February, but last week he announced its closure anyway. This final chapter in Nokia’s long goodbye to
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    • MONEY BRIEFS
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        Lock icon Poultry group offers stake
        79 18 REUTERS PARIS The owner of debt-burdened French poultry group Doux, one of the world’s largest poultry exporters, is ready to sell a stake in the company to ensure its future, he said in an interview. Mr Charles Doux said he wanted to find the funds to
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        Lock icon New bank ‘fails to elect board’
        120 18 REUTERS DUBAI Oman’s Bank Nizwa, a new Islamic lender which sold shares to the public earlier this month, failed to elect a new board after it was unable to get the required quorum at a general meeting last week, said three sources familiar with
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        Lock icon Inflation in Vietnam eases
        77 18 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE HANOI Vietnamese inflation slowed to the weakest pace in a year in June, an official estimate has shown, mirroring slowing economic growth in the communist state. Consumer prices were up 6.9 per cent year-on-year, after increases of 8.34 per cent in May and 10.54
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      392 19 LONDON British high street stores are flocking to the sprawling, chaotic mega-city of Karachi, eager to cash in on a growing middle class with money to spend, ministers and business leaders told The Daily Telegraph. Debenhams is the latest household name to
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      435 9 Citibank unveils state-of-the-art citibank card security enhancements. Citibank Credit and ATM/Debit Cardmembers will be the first in Singapore, come 1 July 2012, to enjoy the highest level of ease and flexibility with the implementation of new card security enhancements. For added security, all new and replacement Citibank Credit and ATM/Debit
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      41 23 PUNCHLINES From the Community Development Council Auntie, would you like to do volunteer work? I am already doing this thing for years without pay. Which is...? Which is my children dumping their children on me so they can save on childcare!
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      120 2 Aljunied GRC MP Pritam Singh married Ms Lovleen Kaur Walia, 29, who runs Kri Art and Theatre company, yesterday. The couple met at a mutual friend’s function and have been going out for about 11/2 years, said Mr Singh, 35. Yesterday morning, some 300 people turned
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      262 2  -  JEBMYN CHOW BEDOK residents can look forward to a bigger and more airy hawker centre in two years’ time. The new facility, which will replace the existing one in Block 207 in New Upper Changi Road, will have a seating capacity of 1,040, up
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      177 4 Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong meeting student leaders from secondary schools and junior colleges yesterday at this year’s Singapore Youth Award. They are (above, from second left) National Junior College’s Kuah Shiann Yih and Michael Lee Dao Kang; Queensway Secondary’s Gladys
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        530 6 BUSINESS OWNERS: ANTI-ALCOHOL GROUP EXISTING eateries and outlets with liquor licences in Kampong Glam will continue to be allowed to sell alcohol. This comes six months after news broke about a group of business owners in the neighbourhood who had stepped
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        635 6 CAT LOVER: PHYLLIS AW THE animal lover who once housed as many as 700 cats under her roof wants to call it quits, amid the spiralling cost of caring for them. Ms Phyllis Aw said she has to be practical about her own
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      256 7 Temperatures have climbed to as high as 34 deg C in recent weeks, almost matching the hottest day here recorded in June 1985, when it hit 35 deg C. Straits Times photo journalists Alphonsus Chern, Ashleigh Sim, Joyce Fang and Seah Kwang Peng find out what people
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      54 3 You see more of your boss’s face than your wife’s. Maybe it’s time to look for a new job. A product of SPH, Singapore’s trusted media group. At stjobs.sg your ideal job isn’t hard to find. The STJobs App for iPhone and iPad is free and available for download on
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      694 8  -  Long distance cycling across the Causeway is for the initiated and Tourism Malaysia peddles hard to promote it Lim Yann Ling Cycling enthusiast Alan Grant, 45, loves riding his road bike for long journeys. The Scottish expatriate got hooked four years ago when he
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      361 4 Reuters New York George Washington’s personal copy of the United States Constitution and Bill of Rights sold for US$9.8 million (S$12.5 million) at auction on Friday, setting a record for an American book or historic document. Several bidders at Christie’s New York
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        138 12 London Artist Sam Taylor-Wood, 45, and actor Aaron Johnson, 22, have tied the knot. A statement last Friday from Public Eye Communications said the couple, who have two young children, married last Thursday the summer solstice in Somerset, south-west England. The statement said Taylor-Wood wore
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        627 2  -  BY EDITOR SERENE GOH EDITOR Aconscience the ability to tell right from wrong, and preference to do the former seems to be becoming less of a personal thing and more of a committee ruling. of the but in the Call it
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        456 2  -  BY DEBRA ANN FRANCISCO The editor’s comments about the importance of listening to one’s conscience rather than group think brings to mind poignant lines from the American novel To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee. In a moving conversation between the protagonist Atticus Finch and his children,
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        596 3  -  BY LINETTE LAI linettel@sph.com.sg Pretty soon, a walk about town might get you talking to a hawker, snapping a picture of a landmark or even taking a video of yourself interviewing a complete stranger. Using a program called Trail Shuttle, students are creating virtual
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        700 4 Sources: BBC News CNN.com The Straits Times THE NEWS The euro is used by 17 European countries. Their monetary systems and economies are so closely intertwined that problems in some countries can affect the others, and even affect countries all over the world. And
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        131 4 Agence France-Presse China recently took its first step towards launching its own space station by completing its first automatic space docking on a manned mission. The mission also hit another milestone: the country sent its first female astronaut into space. Astronaut Liu Yang (right) and her two crewmates took
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        110 4 The Straits Times India has started its first “food bank”, which will collect excess food from sources such as weddings and parties to feed the poor in a country that is home to nearly half of the world’s undernourished children. Set up by the Delhi government and the non-profit
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        158 5  -  BY TAN XING QI xqtan@sph.com.sg It has been said that when life throws you lemons, make lemonade. Setbacks and adversity proved no obstacles for two of this year’s Singapore Youth Award (SYA) winners. Mr Jovin Tan, 25, who has cerebral palsy, a condition which can cause physical
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        338 5 Despite his phobia of water, Mr Jovin Tan was determined to take up sailing. His reason? To escape from home. His father had a bad temper and used to make snide remarks about his disability. “It was hard for him to accept a son with a
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        280 5 Since the age of four, Dr Yeo Sze Ling has been living in darkness because she contracted glaucoma and lost her sight. But she soldiered on and attended a mainstream school, Bedok South Secondary School, after graduating from the Singapore School
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        722 6 / 7  -  SMEs are worried about new labour restrictions which will reduce the number of foreigners working here Compiled by EILEEN AUNG-THWIN Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are bracing themselves for a rough road ahead as the number of foreigners they can hire will be reduced from
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        404 6 / 7 Former Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) chief Peter Lim Sin Pang and former Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB) chief Ng Boon Gay were charged for obtaining sexual favours from female IT executives. INSIGHT Lim, 62, was charged on June 6 with 10 counts of
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        296 6 / 7 Singapore’s highly urbanised reputation belie a surprising wildlife problem: boars. Once thought to be extinct on the mainland, the boar population has been increasing in recent years. The National Parks Board (NParks) estimated that there are 100 wild boars in the Lower Pierce forested area
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        911 8 / 9 Moving pics, public dancing a stacking challenge IN gives you the low-down on what’s hot in your world this week IN YOUR SCHOOL BAG FELICIA LEOWXINYI, 16 Kranji Secondary School If what’s in your bag is a clue to your personality, Felicia’s stuff says she is conscientious and thrifty. After
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        1155 10 / 11  -  Getting grubby in the school garden has taught some of you the meaning of patience, resilience and hard work. Sheryl Quek reports Sheryl Quek sherquek@sph.com.sg cross the nation, students are working the ground and finding nothing sweeter than reaping what they sow. No fewer than 100
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        394 12 / 13  -  BY LINETTE LAI More than 100 aspiring young journalists visited the Singapore Press Holdings News Centre at Toa Payoh North for The Straits Times Media Club Camp this year. During the camp, held on May 29 and 30, students heard from
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        495 12 / 13  -  BY NICHOLAS LAM IN CROWDER During The Straits Times Media Club Camp, we witnessed how newspapers are produced: from the journalists’ staccato tapping on their keyboards to meet their deadlines, to the hum of ma- chines at the print centre in Jurong, where newspapers fly
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        419 14  -  Learn how to identify antitheses Lesson activity by MARDIANA ABU BAKAR An antithesis is a figure of speech which juxtaposes contrasting or irreconcilable ideas in balanced phrases or clauses to form a profound tension. The plural of the word is antitheses, and its adjective is
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        676 15 Lesson activity by MATT WINCHESTER In just over a month, the 2012 Summer Olympic games will begin, closely followed by the Paralympic games. London will become the only city to have hosted the modern games three times, having previously been given the honour in 1908 and
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        355 16 Turn to ‘8 questions with in the Life! section of The Straits Times today Lesson activity by SONIA SNG The word “Indie” is short for “independent”. They refer to many art groups that do not fall neatly into traditional categories or which experiment with alternative forms, including bands
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        834 17 TEACHER TELLS STUDENTS: YOU ARE NOT SPECIAL The Straits Times June 16 LESSON ACTIVITY BY SONIA SNG It took someone special to tell an entire cohort of graduating high schoolers the stark truth few wanted to hear that they were nothing special.
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        1269 18/19 Read excerpts of an article of a young Singapore doctor who recently conquered the highest mountain in the world Lesson activity by SHEILLA CLEMENT THE BOY WHO GREW UP TO CLIMB EVEREST The Sunday Times, June 10 (Key excerpts) The doctor, Dr Kumaran Rasappan, 27 L His
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        344 20  -  Tan Xing Qi rounds up the controversies of the Olympic Games Ton Xing Qi shameThegamesTnXingQiroundsupThe IN on Olympics been brought into disrepute. the a four-part stories, series of how have first the at Games In looks shameThegamesTnXingQiroundsupThe September terrorists On demanded another two the prisoners more shameThegamesTnXingQiroundsupThe
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