The Straits Times, 25 December 2013

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    35 1 THE STRAITS TIMES SINCE 1845 WEDNE S D A Y DE C EMBER 2 5 2013 88 PAGES IN FIVE PARTS TO SUBSCRIBE: 6388-3838 www.sphsubscription.com.sg 90 cents A Singapore Press Holdings publication MCI (P) 050/02/2013
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    Lock icon MUSKETEERS (Ret)
    79 1 The masks and capes barely hide the pot bellies and silver hair, but these three retirees (above) are determined to make their superhero label stick by cycling from Bangkok to Singapore to help typhoon victims in the Philippines. The self-styled “Three Musketeers” aged between 65 and 73 are
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    Lock icon GIC buys London office stake for $3.5b
    326 1  -  By ALVIN FOO ECONOMICS CORRESPONDENT alfoo@sph.com.sg SINGAPORE investment firm GIC is buying a large stake in a mega office complex in London’s main financial district, in what is believed to be its biggest property foray in Europe. GIC is acquiring private equity firm
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    Lock icon First priority is to find cause of riot: PM Lee
    549 1  -  Broader issues such as social policies can be addressed later By GOH CHIN LIAN chinlian@sph.com.sg THE Committee of Inquiry investigating the Little India riot must first ascertain why the melee occurred, before broader issues of whether social and population policies
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  • TOP OF THE NEWS
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      Lock icon Riot: Officers recount encounter with mob
      491 2 / 3  -  Home Team officers relate first-hand accounts at meeting with PM Lee By GOH CHIN LIAN chinlian@sph.com.sg STANDING 1.6m and weighing no more than 55 kg, Lieutenant Tiffany Neo was a picture of composure yesterday as she related the riotous events on that fateful night
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      Lock icon Quash worker’s deportation order: Lawyer
      330 2 / 3  -  By LIM YAN LIANG yanliang@sph.com.sg ACTIVIST lawyer M. Ravi yesterday applied to the High Court to quash the deportation order of one of 57 foreign workers sent home for their involvement in the Dec 8 Little India riot. He is also asking for Mr Rajendran
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      Lock icon Late-night can of stout lands shop in trouble
      337 2 / 3  -  By WALTER SIM waltsim@sph.com.sg IT WAS after midnight on Sunday and the shutters to a 50-year-old family business were drawn. Madam Irene Yeo, 58, of Yeo Buan Heng Liquor Shop in Chander Road was inside, packing boxes and doing her accounts. Then
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      Lock icon Changi trying out ‘tap and go’ boarding
      499 2 / 3  -  Travellers go through gates in under 3 seconds using self-service machines By KARAMJIT KAUR AVIATION CORRESPONDENT karam@sph.com.sg IT IS as easy as tap and go. Travellers at Changi Airport are zipping through aircraft boarding gates in under three seconds with new self-service machines
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      Lock icon PM THANKS HOME TEAM OFFICERS
      128 2 / 3 Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong meeting Home Team officers who were involved in dealing with the Dec 8 Little India riot. Over breakfast yesterday at the Rochor Neighbourhood Police Centre, some recounted how they shielded a bus driver and his assistant and ushered them to
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    • THE NEWS IN 5 MINUTES
      • Article
        Lock icon Focus on riot cause first: PM
        46 4 THE Committee of Inquiry must first ascertain why the Little India riot occurred, said Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, before broader issues of whether social and population policies need to be re-thought can be addressed. TOP OF THE NEWS A1
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        Lock icon ‘Tap and go’ at Changi
        44 4 TRAVELLERS at Changi Airport can breeze through boarding gates in under three seconds with new self-service machines on trial at Terminal 2. They only need to scan their boarding passes to walk into aircraft. TOP OF THE NEWS A3
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      • WORLD
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          Lock icon Japan supplies ammo
          45 4 JAPAN supplied ammunition to South Korean troops serving in a United Nations peacekeeping mission in South Sudan, a first for Japan’s post-World War II Self-Defence Forces. The move is the latest by Japan to ease self-imposed constraints on its military. PAGE A9
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          Lock icon UN steps in
          71 4 INDIAN diplomat Devyani Khobragade may be inching closer to gaining diplomatic immunity as the United Nations has approved a request to transfer her to the Indian mission at the UN. The envoy is at the centre of a diplomatic spat between the United States and India. PAGE
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          Lock icon Egypt car bomb kills 14
          62 4 A CAR bomb tore through a police building in the Egyptian city of Mansoura yesterday, killing at least 14 people, in a bid to derail the country’s transition to democracy. It came a day after an Al-Qaeda-inspired group called on police and army personnel to
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          Lock icon Activist heiress changes name
          66 4 SINGHA Beer heiress Chitpas Bhirombhakdi was pressured by her family to change her last name to avert backlash against the clan and their brands due to her political views. Ms Chitpas, who wants to pursue a political career, has joined the protest movement in Bangkok. PAGE
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          Lock icon Japan looking up
          61 4 JAPAN has approved its biggest ever budget as an improving economy and a sales tax hike made room for more defence spending. It came on the day a government report dropped the word “deflation” for the first time in more than four years, saying the economy “is
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        Lock icon SEASON OF COMPASSION
        57 4 This Christmas season of goodwill and charitable thoughts has witnessed many instances of kind giving. Even those who suffered, as in Tacloban city after Typhoon Haiyan, found it in their hearts to share the little they had with relief workers. Singaporeans could use these examples as sources
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      • OPINION
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          Lock icon Building Asia’s new era
          67 4 AS THE year draws to a close, relations between China and Japan are more difficult, and pose bigger dangers to the rest of Asia, than at any time in the past 40 years. By Invitation columnist Hugh White calls for real statesmanship from leaders throughout Asia
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      • HOME
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          Lock icon HDB resale market
          71 4 NEXT year is set to be a quiet one for the Housing Board resale market similar to this year, said analysts. But activity may pick up in the second half of 2014 as lower prices and cash premiums will entice buyers into the market. PAGE B1 2014
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          Lock icon Wider use of mediation
          47 4 MEDIATION in criminal cases may not be as well-known as in family and civil cases but Criminal Case Resolution is catching on here, helping the courts save time and costs. In the 12 months to August, 207 hearing days were saved. PAGE B2
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      • MONEY
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          Lock icon Walking the good talk
          34 4 COMPANIES have long spoken about the need to support social causes and help the community but more are now backing their talk with hard cash and employee volunteerism. PAGE B10
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      • SPORT
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          Lock icon Sun’s ready to shine on
          57 4 SHE had left her return to the table tennis team open when taking a break to have a baby. But Singaporean Sun Beibei (above) resumed training four months after giving birth in June, and having shed nearly all the weight she put on during pregnancy.
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      • LIFE!
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          Lock icon Come make music
          46 4 AS PART of its 2014 season, volunteer ensemble Orchestra Of The Music Makers will invite amateur musicians to perform alongside it in a series of concerts called playwithOMM. The series kicks off next month with a performance of Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony. PAGE C10
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          Lock icon Cantopop stars wed
          72 4 CANTOPOP couple Sammi Cheng and Andy Hui have quietly tied the knot in Bali, after a 22-year entanglement, said Apple Daily. Cheng, 41, and Hui, 46, invited only family to the ceremony on Nov 30, and will throw a wedding party next year, reported the newspaper. PAGE
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          Lock icon Rhino sanctuary
          57 4 INDONESIA has built its first sanctuary for its rare Javan rhino, in the hope that it can pull the animal back from the brink of extinction. www.stasiareport.com It is thought that there are only about 50 Javan rhinos left in the world. Indonesia is hoping to stop their
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          Lock icon Here’s Eternality
          36 4 HE MIGHT be The Straits Times Communities’ top contributor but to many, what is particularly intriguing about him is his name Eternality Tan. Find out how he got this unusual name, and more. stcommunities.sg
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          Lock icon Dying wish comes true
          79 4 TWO years after her death, an American woman’s dying wish was fulfilled this holiday season. Mr David Schmitz, the husband of the late Brenda Schmitz, read the heartfelt letter his wife had sent to a US radio station’s Christmas Wish programme. Mrs Schmitz, who died of
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          Lock icon China's housing woes
          71 4 MR SUN Jiake, 60, and his wife have been living in a shanty town in the heart of Beijing’s central business district for the past 30 years. Houses in the shanty town are poorly equipped with no modern heating system or attached bathrooms. Mr Sun Jiake, 60,
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      Lock icon A season of hope for typhoon victims
      734 6  -  But reminders of death and losses remain as Tacloban marks Christmas By RAUL DANCEL IN TACLOBAN rdancel@sph.com.sg TACLOBAN is marking what may be its most bleak and yet at the same time most hopeful Christmas today. As the city of some 200,000 crawls
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      Lock icon Boy who lost 22 relatives: I just wish my family to be whole again
      911 6  -  RAUL DANCEL PALO (Leyte) Each day at dawn since the first Christmas vigil in the Philippines began two weeks ago, 12-year-old John Paul Madrigal has been marching up to a cemetery a few steps away from
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      Lock icon ‘All we want for Xmas is tarpaulin for a roof’
      668 6  -  By WONG KIM HOH SENIOR WRITER IN TACLOBAN kimhoh@sph.com.sg WHEN Arianne Joy Rafael landed at Tacloban airport on a flight from Manila last week, the six-month-old started babbling. Maybe she was glad to be home. Or maybe she just wanted
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      Lock icon ‘Superhero’ retirees to ride the storm
      638 7  -  Trio aim to cycle 2,000km to help typhoon victims By AMELIA TAN ameltan@sph.com.sg THEY donned masks, squeezed into tights and even strapped on capes to promote the longest ride of their lives: cycling over 2,000km from Bangkok to Singapore. Their mission is to save
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      Lock icon Racist tweet: Media firm sacks PR chief
      346 7  -  By JEREMY AU YONG US BUREAU CHIEF IN WASHINGTON jeremyau@sph.com.sg THE public relations head of a large online media firm was sacked over the weekend for a racist tweet, in an episode reminiscent of the 2012 Amy Cheong saga that whipped up a
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      Lock icon Parliament to sit on Jan 20
      24 7 PARLIAMENT will sit on Monday, Jan 20, at 1.30pm, the Office of the Clerk of Parliament said yesterday.
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  • WORLD
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      Lock icon Protesters shift focus to blocking poll process
      566 8  -  Supporters urged by Suthep to target registration sites nationwide PROTESTS IN THAILAND By NIRMAL GHOSH INDOCHINA BUREAU CHIEF IN BANGKOK nirmal@sph.com.sg ANTI-GOVERNMENT protesters in Bangkok, determined to derail the Feb 2 snap polls, are shifting focus to the registration of individual constituency candidates,
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      Lock icon Beer heiress activist to change her name
      398 8  -  NIRMAL GHOSH BANGKOK Ms Chitpas Bhirombhakdi, 27, contested on a Democrat Party ticket in a Bangkok constituency during the 2011 General Election and lost. Now she is back again under the banner of the self-styled People’s Democratic Reform Committee (PDRC) protest movement fighting
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    • Article
      Lock icon Train system collapses on technical failure
      189 8 BANGKOK Skytrain commuters in the Thai capital faced chaos and delay yesterday morning when a technical failure led to collapse of the train system. The eight-hour collapse since 3am yesterday was the first such malfunction of the Bangkok Mass Transit System (BTS) in 14
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      Lock icon A power struggle between old and new middle classes
      737 8  -  NEWS ANALYSIS By TAN HUI YEE THAILAND CORRESPONDENT IN BANGKOK tanhy@sph.com.sg LISTEN close enough to the talk in Bangkok and it would seem like Thailand is in the throes of yet another class war. Lined up on one side are royalists,
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      Lock icon Lawlessness flourishes in cyberspace
      872 12  -  Criminals see more opportunities as commercial activities move online CYBER SECURITY By JONATHAN EYAL EUROPE CORRESPONDENT jonathan.eyal@gmail.com LONDON It was tasteless, even gruesome, but very effective. Mobile phone owners in South Korea recently got a text message inviting them to click on an Internet link purporting
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      Lock icon Hackers eyeing smartphones
      444 12  -  By LESTER KONG MALAYSIA CORRESPONDENT IN KUALA LUMPUR lestkong@sph.com.sg F-SECURE’S malware detection laboratory looks like the command centre of a rocket launch. Multi-tiered banks of computers face a large screen on the ninth floor of a posh building in Bangsar, where analysts hunt malware and other intrusion
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      Lock icon Beware of these online scams
      275 12 Ransomware A form of online extortion. It can hijack access to the user’s computer and send a message demanding money to unlock it. Variations include sending online shoppers “delivery failure notifications” as if to say that a company tried to deliver a package but the
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      Lock icon China’s conmen find new prey
      423 12  -  By HO AI LI CHINA CORRESPONDENT IN BEIJING hoaili@sph.com.sg SCAMS and petty crime are a dime a dozen in Chinese society at large. Now they have also become increasingly common in the Chinese cyberspace. In one case in 2011, a man in Guangdong province was
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      Lock icon Indonesia tops chart for hacking
      456 12  -  By ZUBAIDAH NAZEER INDONESIA CORRESPONDENT IN JAKARTA zubaidah@sph.com.sg PEOPLE who clicked on the Finance Ministry’s Directorate General of Tax website recently were greeted by a white “pocong”, or ghost, on a blackened background and a line that said “thank you elze muahahahahah”. But the authorities
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      Lock icon Indian envoy closer to diplomatic immunity
      748 13  -  India’s request to move envoy to its mission in UN ‘approved’ By MELISSA SIM US CORRESPONDENT IN WASHINGTON simlinoi@sph.com.sg INDIAN diplomat Devyani Khobragade may be inching closer to gaining diplomatic immunity with United Nations officials quoted as saying India’s request to transfer her to
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    • WORLDBRIEFS
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        Lock icon Pardoned at last
        98 13 REUTERS LONDON Mathematician Alan Turing, who helped Britain win World War II by cracking Nazi Germany’s “unbreakable” Enigma code, was granted a rare royal pardon yesterday for a criminal conviction for homosexuality that led to his suicide in 1954. Dr Turing’s electromechanical machine, a forerunner of modern
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        Lock icon Snowden: Task done
        59 13 ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden said his “mission’s already accomplished” after revealing NS A secrets that have caused a reassessment of US surveillance policies. President Barack Obama hinted last week that he would consider some changes to the National Security Agency’s bulk collection
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      Lock icon Russian designer of AK-47 dies at 94
      713 14 Rifle’s ruggedness and simplicity made it the most popular firearm ASSOCIATED PRESS MOSCOW Mikhail Kalashnikov started out wanting to make farm equipment, but the harvest he reaped was one of blood as the designer of the AK-47 assault rifle, the world’s most popular
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      Lock icon New smartphone apps for booking cabs raise controversy
      869 14  -  By JONATHAN PEARLMAN FOR THE STRAITS TIMES IN SYDNEY jonathanmpearlman@gmail.com NEW smartphone apps for hiring taxis are radically altering the way cabs operate in Australia, allowing passengers to rate drivers and offer tips in advance to try to lure a taxi during
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      Lock icon Severe weather disrupts travel, power in Europe
      339 14 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE BLOOMBERG ASSOCIATED PRESS PARIS High winds and heavy rain battered parts of Europe on Monday, leaving at least two people dead and one man lost at sea off France, and disrupting travel just before Christmas. Across north and north-west France, about
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      Lock icon Pope visits predecessor for Christmas greeting
      316 14 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE VATICAN CITY Pope Francis visited his predecessor Benedict XVI for an informal Christmas greeting, as the Argentine pontiff prepared to celebrate his first Christmas as leader of the world’s Roman Catholics. Pope Francis met the 86-year-old Benedict in a former monastery building
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      Lock icon 14 dead in bomb attack on Egypt police building
      499 17 Govt accuses Muslim Brotherhood of terrorism AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE REUTERS MANSOURA A car bomb tore through a police building in an Egyptian city early yesterday, killing at least 14 people and wounding more than 100, an attack the authorities said was aimed
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      Lock icon Fancy a Lego car? Lots of assembly required
      250 17 REUTERS SYDNEY Imagine building a car from 500,000 pieces of Lego bricks. Then picture it being driven on the road. Two men showed they were not just toying with it when they came up with a real two-seater with a top speed
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      Lock icon Syrian govt using ‘barrel bombs’ in Aleppo air strikes
      492 17 WASHINGTON POST AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE BEIRUT Even as international powers are moving to destroy its chemical weapons, Syria’s government has turned to crude “barrel bombs” in a focused attack on the country’s largest city and surrounding towns, apparently looking to press its
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      Lock icon Japanese Cabinet nod for record budget
      543 18 Bigger cut for defence spending as economy improves, sales tax to rise AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE REUTERS TOKYO Japan approved its biggest ever budget yesterday, as an improving economy and a sales tax hike made room for more defence spending and the first step towards achieving
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      Lock icon Jakarta to ease foreign ownership curbs
      354 18 BLOOMBERG JAKARTA Indonesia will ease foreign ownership restrictions in airport and power projects to lure capital as the nation grapples with a current-account deficit that is sending the rupiah to its worst yearly drop since 2000. Foreigners may own as much as 49 per
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      Lock icon Strong US data further boosts Asia
      389 18 ASSOCIATED PRESS AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE TOKYO Asian markets extended gains yesterday after Wall Street rang up more records overnight and upbeat US spending data burnished the outlook for the global economy, with Japan’s Nikkei tapping a six-year closing high as the dollar renewed its upward
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        Lock icon Hyundai, Kia settle lawsuits
        117 18 BLOOMBERG LOS ANGELES Hyundai Motor and Kia Motors, affiliated South Korean vehicle makers, agreed to spend as much as US$395 million (S$500 million) to settle lawsuits brought by customers claiming the companies had overstated fuel-economy ratings. Hyundai’s US unit said in a statement on Monday that
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        Lock icon Fed plans change to lending laws
        58 18 BLOOMBERG WASHINGTON The US Federal Reserve is proposing changes required by the Dodd-Frank Act of 2010 to regulations governing its ability to extend emergency lending to struggling financial firms. The Fed will take comments until March 7 on its proposal, which meets a requirement
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      Lock icon Central banks to discuss easing debt limit
      350 18 WASHINGTON POST BRUSSELS Central bankers from around the world will meet next month to discuss whether to scale back their plans for a debt limit that banks say will force them to rein in lending. Bank of England governor Mark Carney has said
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    • ASIA
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        Lock icon Japan supplies ammo to S. Korean troops
        519 9 Such a move is a first since WWII; ammunition will help peacekeepers in S. Sudan AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE BLOOMBERG TOKYO Japan has supplied ammunition to South Korean troops serving in a United Nations peacekeeping mission in South Sudan, the Defence Ministry said yesterday, in
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      • ASIABRIEFS
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          Lock icon Milk powder smuggler jailed
          96 9 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE HONG KONG A Hong Kong court has jailed a 37-year-old woman, whose nationality is not disclosed, for smuggling baby formula the first time anybody has been sent to prison under a nine-month-old ban on taking more than 1.8kg of the item out of the
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          Lock icon Protest group leader nabbed
          76 9 THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK PETALING JAYA Mr Arun Safar, the leader of a group in Malaysia which protests against recent price hikes, has been arrested for planning a rally in Kuala Lumpur on Dec 31 which police described as a bid to overthrow the government. The
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          Lock icon Fund for factory victims
          54 9 ASSOCIATED PRESS DHAKA A compensation fund for victims of an April factory building collapse in Bangladesh that killed more than 1,100 people is being created. The fund, estimated at US$40 million (S$50.6 million), would compensate injured workers and dependants of those who died, according to the
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        Lock icon ANGER BUILDING OVER CHINA’S ‘KREMLIN’
        69 9 A new building that houses several government departments in the Mentougou district of Beijing. Local officials in the mostly rural suburb have built themselves a white-walled, gold-domed office complex resembling Moscow’s Kremlin, state media reported, prompting anger among Chinese who condemned the lavish project. The
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        Lock icon Debate over China’s plan for Antarctic expansion
        706 10  -  Increased activity in South Pole has many wondering about its intentions By KOR KIAN BENG CHINA BUREAU CHIEF IN BEIJING kianbeng@sph.com.sg ITS ACTIVITY around the North Pole may be grabbing international headlines but it is the South Pole that China is putting more
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        Lock icon China bans officials from joining or visiting private clubs
        295 10 REUTERS XINHUA BEIJING China’s ruling Communist Party has banned officials from joining or visiting private clubs, saying they are often used as venues for illicit deals or sexual liaisons, in the latest move to stamp out corruption. In a circular issued
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        1127 11  -  Thousands in ‘kampung Arab’ living a life in limbo By ZUBAIDAH NAZEER INDONESIA CORRESPONDENT IN JAKARTA zubaidah@sph.com.sg WITH a view overlooking Mount Salak and a cool breeze blowing, Madam Parveen kneads dough on the floor of the small house in Cisarua district,
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      459 19 THE Christmas season across the cultures is an invitation to excess parties, displays of finery, the gorging on food and drink, and lots of little packages changing hands. It has been so ever since Santa Claus was invented as a mascot for mass consumerism. But the dominant
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      1559 19  -  BY INVITATION The spat between Japan and China over the disputed Senkaku/Diaoyu islands has implications that go well beyond rival territorial claims. By HUGH WHITE FOR THE STRAITS TIMES stopinion@sph.com.sg The writer is professor of strategic studies at the Australian National University’s Strategic
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      1117 20  -  Adults can re-experience remembered events By KELLY LAMBERT Kelly Lambert is a professor of neuroscience at Randolph-Macon College and the author of The Lab Rat Chronicles: A Neuroscientist Reveals Life Lessons From The Planet’s Most Successful Mammals. NEW YORK TIMES ASHLAND (Virginia) I
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      893 20  -  By REBECCA SCHUMAN WASHINGTON POST THE Kansas Board of Regents, a nine-member governing body that controls six state universities and some 30 community and technical colleges, last week voted unanimously to approve a new policy that gives each institution’s “chief executive officer” discretion to
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      978 20  -  By TERRY TOWNSHEND FOR THE STRAITS TIMES stopinion@sph.com.sg The writer is head of policy at the Global Legislators Organisation IT IS not well known that Kazakhstan a nation whose land mass exceeds that of Western Europe and which boasts
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        277 21  -  Edmund Lam (Dr) Chief Executive Officer and Director Composers and Authors Society of Singapore MY ORGANISATION, the Composers and Authors Society of Singapore (a non-profit association of songwriters), together with the Singapore Prison Service (Cluster A), recently helped about 30 inmates embark on a
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        231 21  -  Peter Loon Seng Chee 2013 will probably not go down in history as one of the better years. The financial crises in Europe and the United States still weigh heavily on us. Natural disasters in the region and senseless shootings and bombings killed many.
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        170 21  -  Tricia Lee (Ms) Senior Manager, Corporate Communications SingTel WE THANK Mr Nicholas Aw for his feedback, support and understanding (“Lack of clarity in pay-TV contract”; Dec 14). SingTel stopped offering all old Barclays Premier League (BPL) subscription packs in April. Since late July,
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        Lock icon Bumpy ride on some roads
        241 21  -  Raymund Koh Joo Guan THE condition of our roads is getting worse (“Sinkhole appears in C’wealth Ave West”; yesterday). Besides sinkholes, many potholes and rough patches have appeared in recent months and were not promptly mended. I have written to the Land Transport Authority (LTA),
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          155 21  -  Mike Loh (Dr) THE difficulty in getting taxis is a black mark for Singapore, and independent developers have launched a slew of mobile apps to address this problem (“Independent apps drive up taxi booking success”; Monday). One app, GrabTaxi, works on a reward-based system, allowing
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          68 21  -  Koh Chee Peng WITH high car prices now, some people have switched to buying used cars while retaining their old registration numbers for sentimental reasons. The fee to retain a registration number for a new car is $100, but rises to $1,300 for a used
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          75 21  -  Malcolm Koh Head of Customer Service AIA Singapore WE THANK Madam Ho Whei Chern for her feedback (“Clarify insurance exclusion”; last Thursday). We are addressing her concerns. We will also assist with her queries to re-assess her daughter’s coverage, in line with the industry-wide practice on
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        347 22  -  CURBING WORKPLACE SEXUAL HARASSMENT Jolene Tan (Ms) Programmes and Communications Senior Manager Association of Women for Action and Research THE case of cyber-stalker Colin Mak Yew Loong shows the need for better legal protection against harassment (“Singaporean jailed for stalking US singer online”; last Saturday).
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          186 22 I EMBARKED on several voluntary activities during the school holidays. I helped out at the Standard Chartered Marathon Singapore. It was a heart-warming experience as the event was truly a celebration of the human spirit, with participants overcoming several odds to complete the run. I also distributed
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          103 22 ANIMAL-ASSISTED therapy is an alternative to traditional physiotherapy (“Dogs prove to be man’s best friend during therapy”; Dec 9). Traditional physiotherapy can be dull as it involves doing the same repetitive exercises. Animal-assisted therapy keeps the patient’s mind off his condition. It is a good stress
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        153 22  -  Lee Soo Boon (Ms) Assistant Director, Department of Pharmacy Singapore General Hospital How Choon How (Dr) (Dr) Clinic Director SingHealth Polyclinics Sengkang WE THANK Mr Stanislaus Marie Ee for his feedback (“Same jabs, different costs”; last Thursday). The amount paid by Mr
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        64 22 More letters on www.straitstimes.com 1. MS JULIANA ANG: Immigration Act protects Singaporeans. 2. MR PAUL YONG TECK CHONG: China far from belligerent. 3. MR FRANCIS CHENG: Grey areas in new phone listing rules. 4. SINGTEL: Various channels used to reach out to customers. 5. MR IVAN GOH: Allow
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      629 1  -  But lower prices, cash premiums expected to entice buyers in second half By JANICE HENG janiceh@sph.com.sg NEXT year is set to be a quiet one for the Housing Board resale market similar to 2013, which has seen the fewest deals in years,
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      663 2  -  In addition to saving costs and time, process helps reduce ‘trauma’ of trial By K.C. VIJAYAN SENIOR LAW CORRESPONDENT vijayan@sph.com.sg WHEN one of Mr Selva Naidu’s clients was charged with negligent driving leading to a pedestrian’s death, the case did not go to trial
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      310 2  -  By JOANNA SEOW joseow@sph.com.sg STARHUB’S fibre broadband service was down yesterday morning in various parts of Singapore, with some customers reporting they were unable to surf the Internet for at least two hours. StarHub posted on its Facebook page at around 10am yesterday: “We are
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      369 2  -  FENG ZENGKUN CYCLISTS in Aljunied are testing out a new ramp for pushing bicycles across overhead bridges. The Land Transport Authority (LTA) has installed the system on one bridge near the area’s MRT station and park connector network, and
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      433 5  -  By GURVEEN KAUR gurveenk@sph.com.sg STILL in her early teens, Samantha Ang Xuan Liu is already a budding entrepreneur. She decided she did not want to be a financial burden to her unemployed parents and so took matters into her own hands she started a blog
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      652 5  -  Teachers using apps to make lessons relevant, more interesting By LINETTE LAI linettel@sph.com.sg TABLET computers are increasingly regarded by many schools as a valuable teaching tool and now, even the discipline of physical education (PE) has embraced the trend. Using an app developed by
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      185 5  -  THERE is no need for a computer where a pen and paper would work as well. Instead, teachers should look at new technologies as a way to make learning more meaningful, according to an expert. A senior research scientist with the National Institute of Education, Dr Wong
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      Lock icon A smiling Suzy Doll to perk up donor appeal
      595 6  -  Cerebral Palsy Alliance among many charities jazzing up donation boxes By PRISCILLA GOY, JANICE TAI goyshiyi@sph.com.sg jantai@sph.com.sg THE sad-looking Suzy Doll in a blue dress is getting a new look after almost 30 years, in a bid to coax people to
      PHOTOS: CEREBRAL PALSY ALLIANCE SINGAPORE, ST FILE, SPCA  -  595 words
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      83 6 Visitors to the SEA Aquarium at Resorts World Sentosa taking snapshots of a diver who is dressed as Santa Claus ascending in the Coral Garden tank yesterday. The performance yesterday was part of the aquarium’s Christmas celebrations. Visitors to the aquarium can catch Santa
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      358 6  -  PRISCILLA GOY ON CHRISTMAS Eve yesterday, some wishes came true. About 100 children who benefit from The Straits Times School Pocket Money Fund (SPMF) were presented with gifts they had wished for by about 100 staff of Cerebos Pacific, the maker of Brand’s Essence of
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      Lock icon Sudden escalator stop ‘caused people to fall’
      212 8  -  By DAVID EE davidee@sph.com.sg THE incident at Orchard MRT station on Monday evening that led to four people getting injured was due to the escalator they were on suddenly halting, causing them to fall, the Land Transport Authority (LTA) said yesterday. The escalator
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      329 8  -  By KHUSHWANT SINGH khush@sph.com.sg THE mother charged with murdering her baby son, whose body was found in the waters off Bedok Jetty last month, will spend another two weeks undergoing further psychiatric assessment, a court decided yesterday. Lim Ann Nee, 44, was ordered last
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      Lock icon A new drill for shoulder surgery
      522 8  -  Implants not needed in tunnelling method to fix torn muscle, tendon By POON CHIAN HUI chpoon@sph.com.sg TEARING a shoulder muscle or tendon no longer means getting permanent implants to help keep the internal stitches in place. Since April, National University Hospital (NUH) has been
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      450 8  -  By YEO SAM JO yeosamjo@sph.com.sg THE younger sister of a cyclist who was killed in an accident last week has launched an appeal for eyewitnesses. The Straits Times understands that coffeeshop assistant Quek Chin Chong was cycling home from work along Thomson Road on
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      171 2 Why did the iPhone lead to suicides among Chinese workers? Find out in the new best-selling book When the Party Ends: China’s leaps and stumbles after the Beijing Olympics by Peh Shing Huei January Opening S M T W T F 10 9 8 7 6 5 17 16 15
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      443 2 CHRISTMAS PROMOTION Have yourself a very special Straits Times 2014 calendar! Go to photobank. com.sg and pick from thousands of pictures taken by our photojournalists. ceremony of the 117th IOC Session.Fireworks light up the night sky aroundthe Esplanade, as the 117th IOC Session gets off to a rousing start. Last
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      464 6 CHRISTMAS PROMOTION Have yourself a very special Straits Times 2014 calendar! Go to photobank.com.sg and pick from thousands of pictures taken by our photojournalists. ENJOY 25% DISCOUNT IF YOU SPEND $50 OR MORE! January 2014 A performer cheering while participating in the National Education Show 2 held at the Marina
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      1127 10  -  Culture of employee volunteerism very much alive and kicking By MOK FEI FEI feimok@sph.com.sg COMPANIES have long spoken about the need to support social causes and help the community but increasing numbers are now backing their talk with hard cash and employee volunteerism.
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      Lock icon GIC adds another jewel to real estate portfolio
      518 10 THE purchase by GIC of a 50 per cent stake in the Broadgate office complex in London adds another jewel to its portfolio of real estate trophies. The Singapore investment company already holds prominent assets such as the Seoul Finance Centre, the
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      Lock icon C&G to sell waste-to-energy business in China
      296 10  -  By RACHAEL BOON rachaelb@sph.com.sg LOCALLY listed C&G Environmental Protection Holdings will sell its waste-to-energy business in China for 1.85 billion yuan (S$386 million), the firm said. The move comes as the company, a waste-to-energy investor and operator, wants to focus on expanding in
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      424 11  -  Conducive environment can motivate staff and even retain them: HR experts By MOK FEI FEI feimok@sph.com.sg GOING to work can be a drudge for many people so it certainly does not help if your office is as drab and dreary as your mood. Human resource
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      263 11 FORGET run-of-the-mill, standardised desks or cubicles with high partitions at the office of property firm Ascendas. Its regional HQ is a model of efficient use of space. Take the two-storey cubes that function as workstations. Much like a bunk bed,
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      Lock icon Get your own ‘office cubicle on wheels’
      318 11 RICKETY modes of transport like trishaws seem to have no place at a high-tech firm like Cisco Systems Singapore but they have a role in the office. The trishaws spanking new and of modern design form part of Cisco’s unusual approach where staff
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      Lock icon Facilities galore for rest and recreation
      282 11 FOOD takes a central role amid the clean, modern-looking furnishings at the SAP Asia-Pacific Japan office at the Mapletree Business City in Pasir Panjang. There is an in-house cafe that serves a variety of food and drinks throughout the day and spacious pantries are
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      Lock icon Boardroom? This firm has a ‘not so bored room’
      253 11 IT’S almost a walk in the park when you step into the office of energy recruitment agency Spencer Ogden. Astroturf takes the place of carpets as the floor covering, helping to bring the outdoors into the office and establish a sporting
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      304 11 YOU would expect the office of Warner Music Singapore to be a bit out there, a bit edgy and you would not be disappointed. The modern, clean industrial-style look is paramount, featuring cement-rendered floors and walls to suggest the same vibe you
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      985 12  -  Security firm integrates own software with equipment to create new solutions COMPANIES By GRACE CHNG SENIOR CORRESPONDENT chngkeg@sph.com.sg PROTECTING buildings, equipment and other facilities these days is far less about fences and security guards, and more to do with high-tech digital policing. Singapore security firm
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      694 12  -  SME SPOTLIGHT By YASMINE YAHYA yasminey@sph.com.sg A NEW initiative is underway to prompt companies and consumers to change the way they think about good design. Design Business Chamber Singapore is driving the move by launching the country’s first Good Design Mark, which will be
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      483 13  -  Local index rises 0.36% as US markets rally to hit record highs BULLS AND BEARS By JONATHAN KWOK jonkwok@sph.com.sg WHAT better way to head into Christmas than a rising market, and the local bourse obliged yesterday to deliver to investors some welcome festive cheer. The
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        85 13 Points Change Mid Cap Small Cap Fledgling Catalist China China Top Maritime 715.38 532.98 847.26 1,052.98 221.95 196.80 277.76 4.41 2.06 5.42 14.39 0.49 0.97 0.38 Points Change 188.73 472.10 817.19 794.16 1,200.08 740.07 766.08 Basic materials Consumer goods Consumer serv Financials Health care Industrials Oil and
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        21 13 Stock trading volume 1.31 billion shares worth $426 million Up down Gainers: 212 Losers: 100 Unchanged: 481
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        58 13 *as of 3.30pm Yesterday’s close Index Change 257.99 23,179.55 15,889.33 2,001.59 2,092.91 1,034.79 1,838.56 Hang Seng Nikkei 225 Seoul Kospi Shanghai Comp Shenzhen Comp Bursa KLCI* 18.91 4.70 3.20 9.20 5.70 Yesterday’s close Index Change Jakarta Comp* SET Thailand* Sydney ASX 200 Monday’s close Dow Nasdaq 4,186.23 1,330.56
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        43 13 By Volume CENTS Vol Charisma Energy ................7.4 237,294,000 Vallianz Hldgs ...................18.3 160,940,000 Charisma Energy 7.4 237,294,000 Vallianz Hldgs 18.3 Rowsley W*****3 .............13.1 44,214,000 Charisma W*****3 ...............5 33,761,000 5.2 108,246,000 2.4 Thai Beverage ...................51.5 18,347,000 Mirach Energy ...................15.6 14,060,000 76,922,000 9 57,442^000
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        128 13 For a full list of SGX stocks, warrants and bonds, visit btstocks.asiaone.com TRANSACTION DATE: DEC 24,2013 Top Rises Dec 24 CENTS Lyxor Nasdaq100 10US 1428 26.6 1.5 (0) DBXT MSAsExJp 10US$ 3362 21.5 0.5 CIMBAsean40 100US$ 1008 16.5 1.3 DBXT CSI300 10US$ 717 10.1 1.1 DBXT S&P500
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        71 13 52-WEEK CURRENCY LAST 'VOL DAY GROSS NET M CAP HIGH LOW COMPANY TRADED SALE +OR-'000 HIGH LOW YIELD P/E $MIL COMPANY CORRENCY LAST TRADED SALE +0R'VOL '000 DAY GROSS HIGH LOW YIELD NET P/E 86 60 HPH Trust US$ US65.5 unch 4126 66 65 10.1 19.3
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        54 13 Dec 24 Against S$ Against US$ Currencies Bid Offer Bid Offer S$/US$ to one unit of foreign currency: Against US$ Bid Offer S$AJS$ to one unit of foreign currency: S$/US$ to 100 units of foreign currency: 1.1291 1.1306 0.8911 0.8916 1 1922 1.1935 0.9412 0.9409 ***** 1.7355
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      404 15 CHRISTMAS PROMOTION Have yourself a very special Straits Times 2014 calendar! Go to photobank.com.sg and pick from thousands of pictures taken by our photojournalists. 2014 ENJOY 25% DISCOUNT IF YOU SPEND $50 OR MORE! Kai Kai, a five-year -old male panda, will be in Singapore along with four-year-old female Jia
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      40 17 How did a Ferrari crash affect China’s politics? Find out in the new best-selling book When the Party Ends: China’s leaps and stumbles after the Beijing Olympics by Peh Shing Huei Get a copy now from leading bookstores and www.stpressbooks.com.sg
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      713 18 THE TIMES, LONDON AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE LONDON The headlock continues. Jose Mourinho had never lost to Arsene Wenger in nine previous meetings and he never looked like surrendering that grip on Monday. Deep defence, a hustling, frenetic midfield, a team set up to
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      452 15 James’ 38 points help them subdue Hawks for the ninth straight meeting ASSOCIATED PRESS MIAMI LeBron James scored 38 points, Michael Beasley made two free throws with 9.2 seconds left to put Miami Heat up for good, and they beat the Atlanta Hawks 121-119
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      456 15 ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK Lance Stephenson gave the home fans something to cheer, and that has not happened often in Brooklyn this season. And the way the Nets are going, it may not happen many more times. “I think it’s getting very close to
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      422 15 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE MELBOURNE Colourful England batsman Kevin Pietersen rebuffed suggestions yesterday that he might be next to quit international cricket after Graeme Swann’s shock exit and expressed “less than zero” interest in the spinner’s retirement saga. Pietersen, who notched his 100th
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      355 15 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE PARIS Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray open the 2014 tennis season in Abu Dhabi tomorrow, with Roger Federer hoping his absence is not an indicator of more misery ahead. World No. 1 Nadal provided the comeback story of 2013, winning
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      405 16 THE TIMES, LONDON LONDON David Moyes may step up his search for a new midfielder next month as Marouane Fellaini was ruled out for six weeks yesterday after undergoing surgery on his left wrist. The Belgium midfielder, who has endured a torrid time
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      699 16 ASSOCIATED PRESS LONDON With their six-figure weekly salaries, flashy cars, plush houses and supermodel wives and girlfriends, sympathy is usually in short supply when it comes to footballers in the lucrative English Premier League. Except, maybe, over the Christmas and New Year
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        84 16 KUALA LUMPUR Singapore’s reigning Sportsboy of the Year Keith Saw ended the year in style when he won the boys’ open title at the 14th Milo International Junior All Stars Bowling Championship in Sunway Mega Lanes. The 19-year-old emerged top of the pile
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        60 16 ASSOCIATED PRESS BERN (Switzerland) The Swiss Football Association has named Vladimir Petkovic as the next coach of the national team, starting July 1. The Lazio coach will succeed Ottmar Hitzfeld after the World Cup. The 50-year-old’s contract until the end of 2015 will be
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        60 16 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE MOSCOW Russian tennis star Nadia Petrova has pulled out of next month’s Australian Open following the death in a car accident of her mother, who was also an Olympic bronze medallist but in athletics. Also out of the season-opening Grand Slam in Melbourne
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        53 16 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE LONDON Spain’s world No. 236 tennis player Guillermo Olaso was banned for five years and fined US$25,000 (S$31,650) on Monday after being found guilty of match-fixing. The 25-year-old from Bilbao, who plays on lower-level circuits, was sanctioned on three charges under the Uniform
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      62 16 Basketball NBA Charlotte 111 Milwaukee 110 (OT), Cleveland 92 Detroit 115, Orlando 98 New York 103, Brooklyn 86 Indiana 103, Miami 121 Atlanta 119 (OT), Houston 104 Dallas 111, Memphis 104 Utah 94, San Antonio 112 Toronto 99, Denver 81 Golden State 89, Phoenix 117 LA Lakers 90, Sacramento
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      333 17 LONDON Days before the January transfer window opens, Brendan Rodgers’ Liverpool could hardly be in a better position to attract quality players to Anfield. Not only are they top of the Premier League, star man Luis Suarez recently inked a new 41/2-year deal. The
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      453 17 LONDON Ibrahim Toure might be playing in the Libyan Premier League with Al-Nasr, but he would be forgiven if his focus is on the English Premier League clash between Manchester City and Liverpool. After all, his two older brothers Liverpool defender Kolo, 32,
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      815 1 Tree stories Life! readers share family Christmas traditions C8&9 Finally married Sammi Cheng, Andy Hui wed in secret in Bali C14 WEDNESDAY, PART C Self-assured Lala Hsu not affected by talk of her weight C7 Oscar-winner Christian Bale lightens up American Hustle, while comic actor Ben Stiller gets serious for
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      110 5 Top 10 movies SINGAPORE 1. 47 Ronin 2. (1) The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug 3. Walking With Dinosaurs 4. (2) Frozen 5. (3) Firestorm 6. (4) The Hunger Games: Catching Fire 7. (6) Last Vegas 8. (5) Everybody’s Business 9. 12 Years A Slave 10. The Starving Games Information
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      614 7  -  Shuttlecocks and used false lashes are among souvenirs the Taiwanese singer-songwriter throws into the crowd Gwendolyn Ng When Taiwanese singer-songwriter Lala Hsu performs at a concert, she has a rock star’s habit of throwing souvenirs into the crowd. But instead of guitar picks and
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      460 7 Reuters New York From shooting down a helicopter to firefights, film director Peter Berg spared no details to recreate a tragic United States Navy Seals mission in Afghanistan in Lone Survivor, an unflinching account of one of the worst losses of life in
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      1355 8 ’Tis the season for a good-looking tree. 60 readers sent in photos of their Christmas trees, dressed up for the festive season. Life! picks 10 to ogle SOFT SPOT “My family loves to collect soft toys so we thought that it would be a good idea to
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      573 10  -  The Orchestra Of The Music Makers is inviting 50 amateurs to perform with it next month Lisabel Ting lting@sph.com.sg Amateur musicians who have always wanted to play in an orchestral setting can now perform with a full ensemble for a series of one-off
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      678 10  -  Leong Weng Kam Senior Writer Harry Chin Chun Wah was a founding member of the Singapore Watercolour Society in 1969 and a budding artist leading several art groups here in the late 1960s and early 1970s. He was known for his sketches in pen and
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      1103 11 Falling supply of cocoa and the trend of chocolates with higher cocoa content raise prices by as much as 40 per cent New York Times Switzerland A shortage of cocoa has led to higher prices for chocolate, at a time when emerging-market demand is
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        1115 2 / 3  -  Alison de Souza In New York David O. Russell has a fearsome reputation in Hollywood. While the director, 55, is beloved of critics and audiences, who have lapped up films such as Silver Linings Playbook (2012), The Fighter (2010) and Three Kings (1999), he has
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        1289 2 / 3  -  Christian Bale, who lost weight for previous roles, put on 20kg to play the pot-bellied conman in American Hustle Alison de Souza In New York stlife@sph.com.sg Aclose-up of Christian Bale’s pot belly in all its wobbly, hairy glory fills almost the entire screen during the first frames
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        1098 4  -  Like his character in The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty, actor Ben Stiller is a daydreamer too Boon Chan Chan Media Correspondent Media Correspondent In Sydney bchan@sph.com.sg It is the last scene of the film The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty, and actors Ben Stiller and Kristen
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        497 4 Actress Kristen Wiig is wearing an awkwardly short dress at the Australian premiere of The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty. And she is calling attention to it. Speaking to the audience at Sydney Entertainment Centre on Nov 21, she says: “Hi, I’m going to
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        505 5  -  Ben Stiller puts in a touch of comedy as Walter Mitty but the film does not shatter any limits John Lui johnlui@sph.com.sg Review Comedy-drama THE SECRET LIFE OF WALTER MITTY (PG) 115 minutes/Opens today/ The story: Walter Mitty (Ben Stiller) is a mousy man who
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        581 6  -  The veteran action hero’s Police Story 2013 has few action scenes and plot comes up short Boon Chan bchan@sph.com.sg Review Action thriller POLICE STORY 2013 (PG) 110 minutes/Now showing/ The story: China cop Zhong Wen (Jackie Chan) makes his way to a bar, where he is
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        434 14 Hong Kong Cantopop couple Sammi Cheng and Andy Hui have quietly tied the knot in Bali, after a 22-year entanglement, said Apple Daily. Cheng, 41, and Hui, 46, invited only family to the ceremony on Nov 30, and will throw a wedding party next year,
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        280 14 Walker to appear in Fast Furious 7 New York Times Reuters Los Angeles The show will go on: Fast Furious 7 will now arrive in cinemas in April 2015, a delay of nine months, following the death of Paul Walker, one of the movie’s stars. And he will appear in
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          75 14 Kate Winslet has named her newborn son Bear Winslet, her representative confirmed to People magazine. The baby was born to the actress and her husband Ned RocknRoll on Dec 7. A source told London’s The Sun that the couple “absolutely adore him and the name
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        Lock icon Recognising local video games
        550 2  -  Sherwin Loh sherwinl@sph.com.sg The first made-in-Singapore game I remember playing is Carnyvale Showtime, an elaborate puzzle game launched on Xbox Live Community Games for the Xbox 360 game console back in 2008. I do not think it is the first local game ever made, but it
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        145 2 facebook About Windows Phone getting a voice assistant and notification centre in the next update: Finally taking something from Android? We shall see how well it performs compared with the Android version. Mun Chee Hong I kinda hate what they have now. Nice refreshing change from iOS
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          Lock icon Google buys over robot-maker Boston Dynamics
          72 3 The robot-maker, which designs robots for the United States military, was purchased for an undisclosed sum. Boston Dynamics is known for robots that mimic animals it developed the Cheetah, the world’s fastest running robot. Led by former Android boss, Mr Andy Rubin, Google has
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          Lock icon LG launches 8-inch Android tablet
          70 3 Touted as the world’s first 8-inch tablet with a full-HD screen, the LG G Tablet 8.3 is available now at $438. The Wi-Fi-only device is at Gadget World retail outlets. It is powered by a quad-core processor from Qualcomm with 2GB of RAM and 16GB
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          Lock icon Apple updates Mail and Safari in OS X 10.9.1
          77 3 The first major update for Apple’s Mavericks operating system for Mac computers, OS X 10.9.1, can be downloaded automatically via the Mac App Store Updates tab. The update improves Gmail support for the built-in Mail app and makes the Smart Mailbox
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          Lock icon Sony PlayStation 4 now available in Singapore
          101 3 Sony launched its PlayStation 4 game console in Singapore at Wisma Atria shopping mall last Thursday. The first 30 buyers in the queue had pre-ordered the console and each received a PlayStation Vita TV along with a one-year membership to PlayStation Plus. The
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          Lock icon LG, Samsung to show off huge curved TVs at CES 2014
          118 4 Both South Korean companies have announced that they will show off their Ultra HD (UHD) curved TVs at next month’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada. Both products have a screen resolution of 5,120 x 2,160 pixels and
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          Lock icon ‘PSI Singapore’ tops Google search this year
          102 4 Local searches for information about the haze made “PSI Singapore” the top search term of the year among users in Singapore. They also searched for “N95 mask” and “PM 2.5”. Other popular search terms included “Little India riots” and the hacker activist group
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          Lock icon Apple Mac Pro available for order, ships in February
          112 4 Almost half a year after it was shown off at Apple’s annual WWDC conference for developers, the revamped Apple Mac Pro is finally available at the Apple Store. But it is estimated that first shipments to buyers will start only in
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          Lock icon Microsoft to appoint new CEO by early next year
          84 4 In a post on the company’s official blog, the board of directors announced that it expects to find a successor to CEO Steve Ballmer by the early part of next year. Mr Ballmer had announced in August that he would retire
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          Lock icon WhatsApp has over 400 million monthly users
          74 4  -  Compiled by Vincent Chang WhatsApp now has more than 400 million users who use it actively each month. The company said that it processes 32 billion messages and 500 million photos a day. The messaging app uses the Internet to let users send
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        Lock icon Homing in on games
        877 6 / 7  -  Home-grown games have come of age and Digital Life will launch a new award to recognise the best [MADE INI Oo Gin Lee ginlee@sph. com. sg The mobile game Puzzle Trooper has been downloaded more than 1.2 million times since June, when it debuted in the
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        Lock icon Ravenmark Mercenaries
        313 10 Developer: Witching Hour Studios Platforms: iOS and Android Free-to-play Selected as one of the top six Indie games of 2013 at the Apple App Store (Singapore), Ravenmark Mercenaries deserves kudos for daring to focus on deep strategy games when most of its rivals in the mobile arena stick
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        275 10 Developer: Ludochip Platforms: PC and Mac US$9.99 (S$12.30), via Steam Cubetractor, one of the first local titles to make it to the Steam store, is a retro-looking action puzzle game with plenty of oomph. Its 16-bit pixel-style graphics and simple arcade controls transport you back to the 1980s era
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        Lock icon Awakening: The Sunhook Spire
        283 10 Developer: Boomzap Entertainment Platforms: PC and Mac US$9.99 (S$ 12.30), via Big Fish Games One of the oldest game developer in Singapore, Boomzap has an eight-year-old history and more than 30 titles to its name. Since 2009, it has succeeded in carving out a niche in
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        Lock icon Pixel People
        295 8 / 9 Developer: Lambdamu Games Platform: iOS Free-to-play Another top-notch game from Singapore, Pixel People lets you play god by mixing and matching the DNA of people from different professions to discover new ones. Making use of retro pixel graphics, you start off with only a mayor and a mechanic.
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        274 8 / 9 Developer: Gumi Platforms: iOS and Android Free-to-play This match-three game is similar to Tower Of Saviours, in which you gather balls of the same colour to form an attack. Best described as a puzzle role-playing game, it requires you to assemble a team of soldiers with complementary skills
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        287 8 / 9 Developer: PD Design Studio Platform: PC US$9.90 or S$12.20 (PC at desura.com), S$12.98 (Mac via Apple App Store) What do you get when a rabbit with long ears comes home one night to find his house burnt down and his wife dead? A rabbit with long ears who
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        Lock icon Conquest Age
        302 8 / 9 Developer: Daylight Studios Platform: iOS Free-to-play Conquest Age is a massive game which puts you in the shoes of a lowly warrior who seeks to unify the warring nations in his era. When the game starts, you can choose to play an assassin, a desert warrior or a
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        Lock icon Heroes Of Honor
        353 6 / 7 Developer: Nonstop Games Platform: iOS Free-to-play If you like Clash Of Clans and Heroes Of Might And Magic, this could be the game you are waiting for. As in Clash Of Clans and games in this genre, this has a city-building phase during which you send your
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        303 6 / 7 Developer: Nubee Platforms: iOS and Android Free-to-play Monster Blade is one of the best mobile games I have ever played. It turns the simple premise of slaying monsters into a fun game that is also deep and has amazing visual appeal. As in Infinity Blade, you swipe your
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        Lock icon Brave Frontier
        326 6 / 7 Developer: Gumi Platforms: iOS and Android Free-to-play Fight your way through snow, mountains, forests and more in this role-playing game (RPG) that lets you lead an army of manga-style heroes. You can recruit dozens of different heroes, but take only five of them with you at any one
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        Lock icon Sony Cyber-shot DSC-RX10
        543 11  -  By Trevor Tan trevtan @sph. com. sg Many super-zoom or ultra-zoom digital compact cameras might have lenses with convenient focal length ranges from 24mm at their widest to 300 to 600mm. But even if they start with a big aperture, such as f/2.8, at the short end,
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        Lock icon Fujifilm X-E2
        525 11  -  By Trevor Tan Fujifilm’s X-series mirrorless flagship camera, X-Pro1, has a magnesium-alloy body with Fujifilm’s unique hybrid optical/electronic viewfinder. One tier below the flagship is the X-E1 with a smaller part-magnesium body and an electronic-only viewfinder. The new X-E2 is the successor to the X-E1. Major upgrades here
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        Lock icon Time check: 30 years and counting
        1368 12 / 13  -  TREVOR TAN travelled to Japan to the birthplace of the Casio G-Shock and was among the rare few foreign reporters to visit the flagship factory where the brand’s premium and other models are now made three decades on TREVOR TAN trevtan @sph.com. sg When
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        Lock icon Lenovo Miix 10
        534 14  -  By Vincent Chang vinchang@sph.com.sg The Lenovo Miix 10 is a Windows 8 tablet which missed the boat. Launched here in August, the Miix arrived before the latest quad-core Intel Atom (Bay Trail) processor, so the Miix uses an older Atom chip. It means that just months after
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        Lock icon Lenovo Yoga Tablet 10
        623 14  -  By Sherwin Loh sherwinl@sph.com.sg Lenovo is milking the word “Yoga” for all its worth. Like Samsung’s use of the word “Galaxy” and Apple’s appropriation of the letter “i” for branding and marketing, Lenovo wants this word to be synonymous with the brand. But unlike the other
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        Lock icon LG G Flex
        620 15  -  By Sherwin Loh sherwinl@sph. com. sg The idea of a curved screen or phone may seem novel to many, even though people are already used to curved landline phone handsets, sunglasses and toothbrushes. It is just much easier to produce a flat product rather than one that
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        Lock icon Asus Fonepad 7
        466 15  -  By Sherwin Loh Smartphone makers have had some success with increasing the screen size of mobile phones, pushing it all the way to 6.44 inches. But none have managed to do the opposite, of successfully transforming a tablet into a smartphone, although Asus and Samsung keep trying.
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        Lock icon Lenovo ThinkPad Yoga
        525 16  -  By Vincent Chang vinchang@sph.com.sg The ThinkPad Yoga is the third device in Lenovo’s current line-up to receive the Yoga branding after the Yoga Tablet and the Yoga 2 Pro ultrabook. The company appears to reserve the label for devices with multiple usage modes. Like the Yoga 2
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        Lock icon Apple MacBook Pro with Retina display 15.4-inch (Late 2013)
        666 16  -  By Trevor Tan trevtan @sph. com. sg The new 15.4-inch Apple MacBook Pro with Retina display looks the same as its older brother, with the same unibody aluminium chassis and even the same thickness (1.8cm) and weight (2.02kg). All the upgrades
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        Lock icon Puma Faas 600 S Glow
        423 17  -  By Trevor Tan trevtan @sph. com.sg I love to run at night. Not only is it cooler, but it is also the only time I am free to run. And I do not need to deal with other runners hogging the lanes. This is when
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        Lock icon iriverOn IF-M100
        463 17  -  By Trevor Tan The iriverOn IF-M100 is not just another Bluetooth stereo headset. It can also monitor your heart rate while you exercise. A biometric sensor on iriverOn’s right earbud measures heart rate by using an infrared lens and an accelerometer to detect blood flow and physical activity.
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        Lock icon Casio Exilim EX-10
        87 18 DIGITAL CAMERA $1,099 Casio’s flagship high-end prosumer compact camera packs a 1/1.7-inch 12-megapixel CMOS image sensor and a 28-112mm lens with big apertures from f/1.8 to f/2.5. It uses a tiltable 3.5-inch touchscreen display of 921,600 dots. The display can be tilted 180 degrees upwards, making this
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        Lock icon SinEoji PL500EW
        144 18 NETWORKING $79 Most HomePlug AV devices allow you to use your home powerline to stream the Internet from your router to a particular room where Wi-Fi reception is poor, via an Ethernet cable. If you want to use your tablet only in that room, you have not had
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        Lock icon Asus GTX 780 Ti DireciCU II
        91 18 GRAPHICS CARD $1,119 Avid gamers flush with cash may want to install the new Asus GTX 780 Ti DirectCU II graphics card in their gaming desktops. Powered by a Nvidia GeForce GTX 780 Ti graphics processing unit with 3GB of video memory, it has
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        Lock icon mPowerpad 2 Pro
        102 18 PORTABLE CHARGER $249 For those who love the outdoors, the new mPowerpad 2 Pro is one device to pack in your bag. Its solar panel captures solar energy quickly. An hour under the sun will give it enough juice to charge a smartphone. The Pro version has
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        Lock icon Pioneer SBX-N700 $499
        99 18  -  SPEAKER BAR By Trevor Tan The Pioneer SBX-N700 speaker bar system is fitted with Bluetooth connectivity that allows it to link up with any Bluetooth-enabled device. Its built-in Wi-Fi provides access to movies and music stored on your DLNA-certified devices connected to the home network. It supports
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        Lock icon Skechers GOrun Ride 2 – Nite Owl
        95 18 Skechers GOrun Ride 2 Nite Owl RUNNING SHOES $179 If you have a packed working schedule, the only time you may be able to go jogging is at night. Run with the new Skechers GOrun Ride 2 Nite Owl so you can be seen at night. It uses photoluminescent technology
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        Lock icon Target offers discount after being hacked
        916 19 Analysts say the US retailer handled the security breach poorly as customers learnt of the news from the media THE NEW YORK TIMES Scrambling to deal with consumer outrage over the theft of credit and debit card data from more than 40 million of
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        Lock icon Nick Tan’s Nexus 5
        690 20  -  By Vincent Chang I am definitely not retiring and I am still training,” said national swimmer Nick Tan, who did not take part in the recent SEA Games in Myanmar. “I am sitting out this year, having am sitting out this year, having been to the
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      314 5 MINI JCW CONVERTIBLE Feb 2013, 15,485km. Visit 280 Kampong Arang Rd or call Shawn Lim at 9846 5368 03/08 MITSUBISHI LANCE 1.6A, 1 owner, Best Buy for CNY, A1-cond, View to believe. Call Boon *****303 ***WEARNES PRE-OWNED GRANDIS 2.4L Sports Gear Jan 2010 $94K. X’mas hamper $500. 6430 4800. TURBO
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      314 5 CHEAP! 12/’06 MURANO 2.5A. Premium seats 20" s/rims new tyres cheap! High loan. *****453 09/2005 NISSAN LATIO For Sale. Good Condition. Test Drive To Believe. Call Now 8182 5505 for viewing. 12/’07 LATIO 1.5A. Silver. 1 owner. A1 cond. New road tax. $41.8K. Call 8321 8824 12/’06 LATIO 1.5A. 1
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      247 6 ***CHAMPION MOTORS FEB’12, SX4 Hatchback. Mileage, below *****km Good cond. Call 6631 1988 MID ’09 GRAND Vitara 2.0A 1 owner. 15K km/ yr. Agt svc. $67K neg! 9736-1899 11/’07 SWIFT 1.3M Off peak to pte. Low mileage. Black. Bucket seat. *****088 RARE! 6/’08 RED S w if t Sports 1.6
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      209 6 VELLFIRE 2.4 ZG Edition. With twin moonroof. Ready stock. High trade in avail. Call Ricky 9762 3411 ***WEARNES PRE-OWNED RAV4 2.4A Apr 2007 $53.5K. X’mas hamper worth $500. 6430 4800. CHRISTMAS SALE! 5/2009 Allion 1.5A. 1 Owner. Silver. Low Mileage. No Accident. Trade In Avail. *****443 8/2008 TOYOTA AXIO 1.5A
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      1078 7 Properties Classification Guide Residential Properties for Sale Houses for Sale 402 D01 Raffles PI/ Marina/ Chinatown 402 D02 Anson/Tg Pagar 402 D03 Queenstown/Tiong Bahru 402 D04 Sentosa/Telok Blangah 402 DOS Pasir Panjang/West Coast/ Clementi Town 402 D06 High Street/ North Bridge Rd 402 D07 Rochor/ Bugis/ Beach Rd 402 DOB
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      57 7 LIONEL LOO 1-6PM Sentosa 8400/9300 sqft. Best buy! New ID. Beautiful. Act fast! *****592 *****062 DTZ JEWEL IN FABER Hill. FH 1)SemiD 3401/3711sf $4.xM 7yrs. 5+1. Bright breezy. 2)Semi-d 5611/7111sf $5.7M 3)Bunglw 8600/5111sf Pool 4)Bunglw 8150/10Ksf. Pool Like new, designer decor 5+1. Ken Lim *****142 FABER TERRACE 2174 sqft. 3/
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      41 7 TAMAN MAS MERAH 3sty Corner Terr 2245/3600sf. Faber Terr 2145/3000sf FH. Ken Lim *****142 POWERFUL NEGOTIATORS 3 sty Semi-D 5+1. F’hold Elevated. Privacy. Move in. MRT. $3.Xm Jip *****000 CLUNY. TRY BEATING this!! ***** sf for $25.xm? Going gone! *****233 APPC
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      299 7 HEART OF ORCHARD! 1600 sqft Terrace, 3+1. Walk to Paragon. View Now! Many others avail! *****000 BIN TONG PK 20K sf. Beautiful land, quiet, attractive price/ Queen Astrid Pk 25K sf. Hill top/ Leedon Park ***** sf. Elevated. Call 9456-7348 Newsman. RIDOUT RD *****/ 8000 sf. Almost new. Modern, reno.
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      256 7 SUNSET. 1-STOREY, 6400 sf Orig,Regular. Rebuild/A&A Wide frontage. Must Sell! $8M neg *****655 Wendy HOW ABOUT A Bunglw near MRT? 999 yrs? Quiet area Wide frontage? Big *****/ 5000 sf. Irene 9787-3836. FH 3-STY BUNGLW Upp Bt Timah. Land 5713 sqft. Future MRT. Subdivision possible. Jerry *****070 MACPHERSON EST. NEAR
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      246 7 GOODMAN AREA BUNGLWS 5900 sqft, 6+1 rms, pool, lift. Very Attractive Price. Details *****000 YOUR RESORT HOME! SemiD 2900 sf, 5 ensuite, patio, roof terr. Elevated. 600m to MRT. Call *****000 ***GOODMAN GORGEOUS BUNGLW 7000 sqft 6+1 simply stylish unlike others Daniel 9842-2233 Reddot **ECG LANDED COLLECTION 59 Ceylon Road
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      237 7 SAT/SUN 2-5PM BRAND New Semi-D Sennett 3494 7500 sf Modern 5+1, Lift Lap Pool. 9692-5000 CK M.O.R.E DYNAMIC ALLIANCE New list! 2sty Semi-d off Bedok. MRT 3600sf $4.1xm 4+1. Sun 3-5pm. *****772 $13XX/ $7XX PSF King size FH 3½ sty semi-d 5000/ 9000 sf. Lifts, high ceiling, pool. View. Tim
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      189 7 SERANGOON GDN SEMI-D balinese style quality finish wide frontage 2800sf land Best price! call *****008 BEST PRICED CORNER terr. 3853 sqft. F’hold. S/sty. Wide frontage for rebuild. Surin vicinity! *****008 CORNER TERR $9XXpsf 3sty Florence Rd. 3736/ 3000sf 6rms, wide frontyard. Near Mrt.FH. Cheong *****888 S’GOON GARDEN DETACHED Land 4800
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      403 7 1-5PM. HILLVIEW S/STY inter terr, 3217/1000sf, 3 rm. FH. Movein.Face NE. $1050 psf. YP Soh 9853-9998 FH TERR Lentor Green. 5 bdrm. Land 2343 sf, unblocked view. 3 mins walk to future MRT. Beautiful address. Near good sch amenities. Tel 9625-6725. RARE! SINGLE STY. Semi-D. 1 Jln Telipok. 4722 sf.
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      142 8 EIGHT RIVERSUITES. CITY Fringe. Boon Keng MRT. 99-yr. 2rm fr 700sf. 3rm fr 936 sf. 4rm fr 1356 sf. PH/ Strata Hse. Ask fr $10xxpsf SCENIC HEIGHTS. FH. 1259 sf. 3+1 Mid flr. Facilities. NTUC/ Mkt. Asking $1.55M Victor 8299 7732 C&H URGENT D’LOTUS $12XXPSF Balestier, 3bdrms, 1066 sf. FH.
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      217 8 LA FIESTA, SENGKANG New Launch! Near MRT, Nan Chiau School. Limited 2/ 3/ 4/ 5 bdrms. *****924 THE PANORAMA. STARTING fr $6xxk. 1 2/2+study/ 3/ 3+study/4/ 5rm. Call now to register your interest. BISHAN PT 2rm 936sf. High flr unblock. Thomson Plaza Next to Ai Tong. Serious seller. Karen 8383-8743
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      242 8 THE DEW PENTHSE 3+2 High ceiling,100% move in. best facing, no west sun! 24 hr mkt/ MRT *****817 YEW MEI. NEW Listing! MRT 3+1 High flr. Pool views. Designer Decor. $838 psf only. Jennifer 9786 1768 *NEW 4 BDRM TreeHouse Blk 68. Jnr master/ balcony 1410sf. Windy Greenery quiet cheap
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      270 9 3’NG’ BLK 348 Brand new designer reno, walk in wardrobe, lift, MRT, Sat 12pm *****526 Sam 3’NG’ BLK 540. Val $388K. VTO. Mid flr. Near schs, shops, mkt. Serious seller. Irene Ho D65, 9878-9777 404 AVE 10. 3 NG 82 sqm,walking distance to a m e n i t i
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      240 9 D>00 edokHDB pts for Sale BedokHDB Apts for Sale BedokHDB Apts for Sale BedokHDB Apts for Sale BedokHDB Apts for Sale BedokHDB Apts for Sale T3 BUY IT-SELL IT- FIND IT GUIDE TO HDB TOWNS CLASS CODES WOODLANDS, YISHUf PUNGGO SENGKAN CHOA CHU NG PASIR mS/CHANGI TAMPINES^ ANGMOKIO OUGA SERANGOON
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      91 9 5A ST 23 Blk 213. High flr, unblocked, breezy. 1450 sf. Bishan Pk, Catholic High, Ai Tong.Jeffrey 9091 5656 BLK 223 EM Bt Batok, high flr, reno, mins to MRT/ West Mall/ amenities. Call Vincent *****979 DWG BLK 283 3’S’. Orig cond. 24-hr NTUC/ Mkt/ Hawker Ctr/ Sch. Val $305K.
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      91 9 LHG PROPERTIES-HDB Div 3-rm Blk 533. Lift flr. Best designer decor. Unblocked. Mins MRT/shop. *****366 PR/ALL RACES 3NG Blk 244 Bt Batok MRT/ Mkt. 4A Blk 395 Bt Gombak MRT, High Flr. Reno. 9025-6431 Mani VIEW BY APPT. 3’A’ 177, Bt Batok W Ave 8. #05, 73 sqm, windy, well
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      86 9 3’NG’ BLK 367 Windy. #03. F/reno. Mins to Gombak MRT/ eateries, shops and sch. 9678-8988 Sadi Agt 4A1 291B CORNER #09. Lift flr,Reno. Beautiful. 103sqm Unblock. Face South. Val $5K COV. Chan *****368 4’A’ CORNER BLK 206 Bt Batok St 21. High flr. Lift level. Mins to MRT/ West Mall.
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      95 9 BLK 138 JLN Bt Merah 3’I’ 59 sqm. High flr. Lift level. Reno. LUP paid. Val on the way. All races welcome! LOW COV 4’A’ 119C Kim Tian Val $645k. Spacious, move -in. MRT/ amenities. Bring cheque! Ginn 8533-3393 RARE 3’A’, BLK 108 Bukit Purmei, 807 sf. High flr. All
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      117 9 3’I’ UTILITY Blk 131 Jln Bt Merah. Upgraded lift paid. Reno. Low flr. Val $370K. VT0. Mahen 9009-0760 5-RM DELTA AVE blk 2 1313 sf, high flr, unblock view. Ask $850K. Prime location. Sean Lee *****270 www.dannyteo.com 8201-8787 Danny Teo All $0 or Below Valuation! All Can Contra $2 option!
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      226 9 BLK 177 LOMPANG rd. 4’A’ 90 sqm. New reno. 2 mins plaza. Future MRT. Below val. All race/ PRs. Call now! OPEN HSE! 176 L o m p a n g 4’A’ #7 101sqm. Val $485K Next to corner. Future MRT. 9855-5801 Wendy $0 COV! BLK 468 5 ’D&B’ 110sqm.
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      219 9 471 5’I’, CORNER unit. High flr. 122 sqm. $0 COV. Reno. Amenities. Any offer consider. Rayson 9666-9154 4’A’ 213 #3. Lift upgraded, paid. All races/ PR eligible. Reno. Move in. Mins MRT/ sch/ mall. Neo CS *****124 5’I’ 690A CCK Cres High flr. Bright, breezy, Reno. 110sqm. All races. Val
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      227 9 4A CORNER BLK 462. High flr. Good view. Unblocked. Bright. windy, squarish layout. Kelvin 9633-4883 PN EM 326 UBI Ave 1, 146sqm High/ Lift flr, Unblock, Mrt/ Amenities/ Maha Bodhi. All Races/PRs! Value $625K #17 3A BLK.32 Eunos Cres. flat. 5 mins MRT/ mkt. HDB Val $448K. Call S Abdullah
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      299 10 **3’NG’ BLK 126 High/ lift flr. 70 sqm/ 5-Rm corner Blk 452. 4 bdrm. 121 sqm. Near MRT. Eric 9818-1929 New Listing 5’I’ 437. A1 decor. Huge master rm. Sch/mall/ MRT. Val $545K. $$neg. Serious seller! Helena 9023-0609 BLK 107, JURONG E. 5’A’ 135 sqm, 4bdrm, NS facing. Reno. Move-in.
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      292 10 4’A’ BLK. 659D Jurong W. Low flr. Simple reno. Near MRT/ Jurong Pt/amenities Low Cash!! Can contra. 5’I’ 275A #06, PR eligible. Unblock. Coffeeshop Sch. Serious Seller Low Don’t miss! Neo CS 8161 7124 5’I’ 764, TOP floor corner Spacious, 128 sqm. Tip top cond. View to appreciate. Call 9794
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      317 10 5-RM BLK 628 Pasir Ris. 122 sqm. Low flr. 4-bdrms. Val $500k. Opp Elias Mall. Noorbani 9009-5400 4’A’ 160B $40K below Val! 5’I’ 128B LRT/ Plaza/ sch 5’I’ 116 high flr Unblock sch 5’I’ 651 Renovated Unblock EA 190 #12, $5K below Val! EA 111 High floor, 3+1 study. 5’I’
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      307 10 CORNER 5’I’ 357C. High flr, 4 spacious bdrm. Good layout MRT/Shops/Sun Plaza. Yeow Meng 9761-1623 EA. 507D WELLINGTON Urgent! Below val $555k. MRT. A1 Reno. Corner. 4 Balcony. Arvind *****064 NO COV. 425 Canberra 4A high flr/well kept/ unblock /windy. Near amenities/ sch. Connie *****332 5’I’ 484 HIGH flr Val
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      316 10 5I 158A. MALAY hse. Reno 5I 319C, Designer decor!! 5’I’ 206D High flr, corner. EA 122C, Reno. All races 5’I’ 225A HIGH flr, corner, 10 mins to MRT, near amenities. Move-in cond. Val $532K. Jane *****162 5’I’ 259A HIGH flr. Unblock Val $578K. 100% move in. 1 yr designer decor.
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      293 10 4A BLK 867 Tampines. 104 sqm Beautifully reno. Val $450k V.T.O. Amenities nearby. *****885 Umi. 5’I’ 230 TAMPINES. High flr. Exclusive. Well kept. Walk to future MRT. Val $535K. VTO. Kenneth 9764 9456 5RM CORNER BLK 859A 127sqm. All races. Val $550k. Future town hub St Hilda’s sch. 9030-6853 $0
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      322 10 5’I’ BLK 690D Mins to amenities. 110sqm. High flr.Well kept. All races/PRs eligible Serious seller. 9008-5875 610 WOODLANDS AVE 4. 5’I’ corner. High flr. Lift level. Renovated. Can contra. All races/ PR. Serious seller. 4NG 147, 91SQM Val $415K. High flr. Spacious. Grab! 3’NG’ 160 High Val $325K 4’A’ 860
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      255 10 VENTURA HGTS. 4650 sqft, 4 bdrm, 4-Sty, Roof Terr, Jacuzzi. 2 car lots. Mid Jan $9K neg. Maggie 9221-2111 GOOD LOCATION! 2 sty Semi-D at King’s Cl. 7 bdrms, built up 7000sf, quiet renovated, walk to MRT GCB THIRD AVE 20K sf. 6+1. Pool/Duchess Rd New Built 4.2K sf. 7
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      231 10 4-MIN TO NEX. 3-sty Semi-d 3300/ 5300 sqft. 5-rms. Spacious. Vacant. Tip top cond Leon Koh *****800 D21 listing can be found after D11 DALLA VALE SEMI-D Springleaf Ave 5+1/3260sf Facilities Security. Avail Immed. Patrick 9664 2772 $4K, 2 STY Semi-D Jln Kemuning. land 5000sf, spaciousgdn. 3+1. 9111-0033 BRAND NEW
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      299 10 1 BDRM BALCONY River Pl. Nice pool view. Furn. Spacious 818 sf. Immed. $4.2K only. www.*****676.com ALESANDREA 3 BDRM, high flr. P/furn, unblock, bright, windy, move in, immed. neg. Mahen 9009-0760 3+1 ANCHORAGE 1803 sqft. Brand new reno. Avail early ’Jan 2014. $5xxx. Jason *****662 SG condo RESORT LIVING Reflection
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