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  • 45 1 TODAY MICA (P) 160/10/2009 A PUBLICATION OF NEWS HOTLINE 6822 Friday May 28, 2010 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking TODAY MICA (P) 160/10/2009 A PUBLICATION OF NEWS HOTLINE 6822 2268 Friday May 28, 2010 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking MAY 28, 2010 A PUBLICATION OF
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    • 247 3 THE GREAT SINGAPORE SALE AT OG www.og.com.sg 1 28 May till 13 Jun 20 STOREWIDE 20% off Most brands regular priced items 20% off. Exclusions Apply. Participating price-controlled items given rebate voucher in lieu of discount. Discount not applicable to purchase of OG gift vouchers and pre-discounted items. Check in-store
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  • 355 2  -  Original sentence was ‘manifestly excessive’, says Justice Tay SHAFFIQ ALKHATIB shaffiq@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The founder of Ren Ci Hospital, Ming Yi, has had his 10-month jail sentence reduced to six months. But his former aide, 35-year-old Raymond Yeung, had his appeal dismissed and will have to
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  • 551 2  -  This, and a one-off top up of $300 NG JING YING jingyng@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The last two times Singapore emerged from a recession, the Government’s economic growth forecasts ranged from 0 to 4 per cent. This time, gross domestic product is expected
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    • 71 2 iTODAY on iPhone For the latest news updates on the go. Download the latest version of the application from your device's App store. Today wishes all Buddhists a Happy Vesak Day Today EXCLUSIVE Sports 36 LIONS MAYTRAIN WITH SPURS FAS HEAD TO WHITE HART LANETO SIGN MOU COMMENT&ANALYSIS IT’S ABOUT
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  • NEWS
    • 338 4 SINGAPORE The High Court yesterday found Mr Kevin Lew Chee Fai, the former chief financial officer of WBL Corporation Limited, guilty of insider trading in what was the first civil penalty court case here. The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) had initiated the lawsuit under
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    • 517 4  -  Water quality unaffected despite oil spill seeping into some drains, says PUB HETTY MUSFIRAH hetty@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE As patches of oil drifted further inland appearing in some drains and canals along the East Coast following the oil slick which hit Singapore’s shoreline on Wednesday PUB, the
      PHOTOS: DON WONG, AFP  -  517 words
    • 235 5 LIANG KAIXIN AND EVELYN CHOO He presented his credentials to President S R Nathan yesterday (picture), but Mr Wei Wei China’s new Ambassador to Singapore has already been working on major events to be held in October. One of his first missions is to
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    • 269 5  -  CHRIS HOWELLS christopherh@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Retailers are optimistic that receipts from this year’s Great Singapore Sale (GSS) are likely to exceed last year’s $5.3 billion collection. According to the Singapore Retailers Association, retailers are hoping for a 5-per-cent rise in sales compared to last year.
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    • 525 5 Pyongyang responds by scrapping accord with AGENCIES SEOUL In a major show of force, South Korean warships fired guns and dropped anti-submarine bombs during a large-scale military exercise yesterday, despite warnings by North Korea that the drill would bring the peninsula to the
      AGENCIES; AFP  -  525 words
    • 648 6 Health Minister hopes confession will serve as a ‘life-saving reminder’ to others SINGAPORE He has spoken to many patients in denial when confronted with an illness. But faced with the same situation himself, Health Minister Khaw Boon Wan fell into the same
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    • 568 6  -  Industry summit participants on attracting young, tech-savvy travellers NEO CHAI CHIN chaichin@mediacorp.com.sg BEIJING Seeing a mature person in charge at a hotel or travel company was traditionally a reassuring sight. But with mobile and social technologies accelerating and new travel patterns emerging, industry insiders
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    • 161 8 Visitors to Singapore’s Changi Airport can now take off on a different flight sensation with the opening yesterday of the tallest slide in Singapore or in any airport around the world. At 12m tall, The Slide@T3 is the height of four standard basketball goals
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    • 339 8  -  It's 12 months in prison for ONG DAI LIN dailin@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE A woman who was found guilty earlier this month of poisoning her husband with arsenic, collapsed in the dock after receiving a 12-month jail term yesterday. When Community Court Judge Ng Peng Hong
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    • 130 8 LIN JIAMEI A man who ran up more than $10,000 in gambling debts was caught trying to smuggle a woman in his car boot through Woodlands Checkpoint. The 58-year-old Singaporean tried to do so at about 6am on Wednesday, in a grey
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    • 187 8 ONG DAI LIN Former groupfinancialcontrollerofJELCorporation (Holdings) Alex Ng Soon Heng was sentenced to 10 months’ jail for conspiring to inflate the company’s profits for the financial year of 2006. In early 2006, one of JEL’s major suppliers had announced its withdrawal from
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    • 228 8 The High Court yesterday ruled in favour of OCBC Bank against an elderly woman who had sued the bank for freezing her bank accounts containing about $8.9 million. But the outcome would not have mattered to
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    • 366 10  -  S’pore Environment Council organising first G1 race in lead up to Formula 1 NG JING YNG jingyng@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Come September, it will not only be high-powered Formula 1 cars competing against one another at the Marina Bay racing circuit. In the first race of its
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    • 87 10 The Red Bull Art of Can competition drew almost 70 entries, including Flight for Freedom unicorn sculpture by Drusilla Ng, Owl by Koh Wen Ning and Zhang Rui’s Red Merlion (all pictured), which was crafted out of 388 silver-and-blue cans of Red Bull. The top three winners
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    • 70 10 The Manpower Ministry has uncovered over 850 safety violations at worksites during a series of inspections islandwide. The operation, which took place over the past five weeks and covered nearly 1,000 worksites, saw some 16 stop-work orders issued and fines of up to $200,000 handed
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    • 57 10 Five youths between the ages of 17 and 21 have been arrested for a robbery that took place last August. The suspects had waylaid two victims who were on their way home after supper, and assaulted them before running away with a handbag. They will
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    • 113 10 LIN JIAMEI From June 1, patients at community hospitals and day rehabilitation centres will enjoy more out-of-pocket savings when paying for treatments, thanks to higher Medisave withdrawal limits. As announced in March by the Ministry of Health, the withdrawal limit at community hospitals
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    • 241 11 > \T. MMO** DISCOVER THE POWER IN YOU Can looking fabulous and conquering the stage be that simple? Just ask Sylvia Ratonel. She did it last year by winning the nation's heart at Singapore Idol. And with some help from Maybelline New York, she's making everyone take notice of her
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  • VOICES
    • 282 12  -  Why should new account holders be offered better rates than a bank’s existing customers? Letter from Leong Sze Hian I HAVE recently seen advertisements from a local bank offering up to 0.7 per cent total interest per annum on its savings accounts. Existing account holders with an account
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    • 216 12  -  Letter from Tay Ai Cheng Director Senior Director Public Library Services Group National Library Board WE REFER to Mr Goh Kian Huat’s letter “Check out this better process” (May 25) and thank him for bringing the matter to our attention.
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    • 257 14  -  BY DR JAMES DOBSON NO, NO, NO, YES! “No, you can’t go out. No, you can’t have a cookie. No, you can’t use the telephone. And no, you can’t go to Susie’s house!” No, no, no, no. How many times each day do we use that
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    • 292 14  -  Letter from David Boey THE report “Two, not one SAF personnel shot” (May 26) underlines why prompt reporting of Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) training incidents is needed to sustain public support for, and confidence in, National Service. Two SAF personnel were shot by
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    • 161 14  -  Letter from Colonel Darius Lim Director Public Affairs, Ministry of Defence SEVERAL readers have given feedback on the report “Two, not one SAF personnel, shot” (May 26). The Singapore Armed Forces’ immediate priority following any incident is to attend to the needs
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  • COMMENT&ANALYSIS
    • 857 16 What will happen to airport’s hub status if ground handler’s exit affects charges? LIANG DINGZI When Swissport closed shop at Changi Airport on April 1 last year, budget carrier Tiger Airways sued the ground handler for breach of contract and won. Tiger alleged
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    • 863 18  -  NICHOLAS D KRISTOF The writer is a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner. THE NEW YORK TIMES We finally have a case where the Roman Catholic Church hierarchy is responding forcefully and speedily to allegations of wrongdoing. But the target isn’t a paedophile priest. Rather, it’s a nun
      THE NEW YORK TIMES; © 2010 JOSH HANER/THE NEW YORK TIMES  -  863 words
    • 1033 20 MICHAEL SCHWIRTZ AND DYLAN LOEB MCCLAIN THE NEW YORK TIMES Without warning, guards sent by a senior Kremlin adviser took over an elegant pre-revolutionary mansion in an upscale neighbourhood of Moscow here last week. The tenants were told to leave immediately. The Russian
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    • 67 18 Capital 95.8FM PSLE Congress 2010 9-11 June 2010, Wed Fri 8.30am 6pm From time management and speed reading skills to memory and revision techniques, the three-day congress is packed with engaging talks and interactive activities to help parents prepare their children forthe all important year-end examination. rV /yjote I rrfC-d//
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  • WORLD
    • 277 22 AGENCIES BANGKOK Thai authorities said they will request Interpol’s co-operation to arrest fugitive former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra (picture) on terrorism charges in connection with recent deadly protests. Deputy Prime Minister Suthep Thaugsuban said they want any country that knows of Thaksin’s whereabouts to
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    • 227 22 THE MALAYSIAN INSIDER KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia will be bankrupt by 2019 if it does not begin to cut subsidies for petrol, electricity, food and other staples which cost the government RM74 billion ($31.6 billion) last year, Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Idris Jala said
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    • 205 22 AFP Another employee of Apple manufacturer Foxconn, fell to his death on Wednesday, hours after the Taiwanese company urged workers to sign contracts promising not to kill themselves at the company’s plant in Shenzhen, southern China. This is the 11th apparent suicide
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    • 265 22 AGENCIES Malaysian Prime MinisterNajib Razaksaidyesterday that the supreme council of Malaysia’s ruling party, Umno, backed the government’s decision to relocate theTanjong Pagar railway station to Woodlands by July 1 next year. “My explanation was accepted by the supreme council and they are of the view
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    • 415 28 Bilateral tensions remain but India, China sign new AP BEIJING Indian President Pratibha Patil will seek to soothe trade disputes and recent border tensions in meetings with Chinese leaders in Beijing. Ms Patil is the first Indian head of state in a decade to visit
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    • 257 28 AFP HEFEI A 60-year-old retiree has become the oldest woman in China to give birth, bearing twins after becoming pregnant via in-vitro fertilisation. The woman, only referred to by her pseudonym Cheng Lin, gave birth to the two baby girls prematurely on Tuesday in Hefei,
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    • 163 28 AFP OSLO Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said on Wednesday he would introduce a two-year moratorium on deforestation, a large source of income for his country which also contributes heavily to global warming. The decision was part of a deal reached with Norway,
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    • 163 28 AFP The parents of a two-year-old boy seen smoking a cigarette in a clip that was posted on YouTube are to be investigated, Indonesian officials said yesterday, after the video drew worldwide attention. The video shows the chubby toddler laughing and
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    • 101 28 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH The retirement age in Britain could reach 70 or beyond under radical plans to link the state pension to life expectancy. Secretary of State forWork and Pensions Iain Duncan Smith suggested that a formal mechanism be introduced, pegging the state retirement age rise
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    • 90 28 AP Greece’s biggest phone company says it accidentally cut off the Prime Minister’s home line in a mix-up over an unpaid bill —the day the country faced a crucial debt repayment deadline. OTEtelecomssays MrGeorge Papandreou was left without a home landline from May
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    • 197 30 AFP BUENOS AIRES A former beauty queen and lingerie model has been arrested in the Argentine capital over international drug-trafficking charges after months on the run from police. Colombian model Angie Sanclemente Valencia (picture), 30, was accused of heading a smuggling operation that
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    • 126 30 AFP ISLAMABAD Pakistan has restored access to the popular YouTube website but 1,200 web pages remained blocked yesterday as a row about “blasphemous” content on the Internet rumbled into a second week. “YouTube has been unblocked but the links to sacrilegious content would remain inaccessible
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    • 391 30 Strategy change follows attacks, near-misses AFP WASHINGTON United States President Barack Obama’s administration unveiled a new security strategy yesterday that placed the focus on homegrown extremists and stepped back from the Bush era’s “war on terror” terminology. Following a spate of attacks or near
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    • Article, Illustration
      86 30 Officials in Russia say seven people died on Wednesday in a terrorist bombing in Stavropol, a city on the northern edge of the Caucasus. A bomb hidden in a juice carton went off near a cultural centre as locals were gathering for the performance of a renowned
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    • 187 30 AGENCIES LONDON Britain’s new coalition government has revealed the planned size of its nuclear weapons stockpile for the first time, saying that it will not exceed 225 warheads. Officials have said before that the country has 160 warheads that are operational; that is,
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    • 221 36 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH A cancer patient in Britain is to be forced to undergo life-saving treatment against her wishes after a landmark ruling by a judge. Doctors will be allowed to forcibly sedate the 55-year-old woman, who has learning difficulties, and take
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    • 175 36 AGENCIES Tourists will be able to visit the underground part of the Colosseum, where gladiators prepared for fights and lions and tigers were caged before entertaining a bloodthirsty public. Afterseveral months of workto make the area safe, officials said on Wednesday that the public
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    • 475 36 Space so full of junk, a satellite collision could destroy communications THE DAILY TELEGRAPH WASHINGTON Space is so littered with debris that a single collision between satellites could set off an “uncontrolled chain reaction” capable of destroying the communications network on Earth, a Pentagon report has warned.
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    • 245 36 AGENCIES LOUISIANA Although BP has began pumping heavy mud into the leaking well in the Gulf of Mexico, engineers said they would not know till at least this afternoon if the latest remedy was having some success. If the risky procedure,
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    • 186 36 THE NEW YORK TIMES Forget about American Idol. It was BP’s Web-only reality show live video of the oil spill from the floor of the Gulf of Mexico that had people fixated on their screens on Wednesday. And the episode “Top Kill”
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  • SPORTS
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      540 38  -  TODAY EXCLUSIVE FAS-Spurs tie-up offers new opportunities for players and coaches IAN DE COTTA ian@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Singapore football is set to tap into the expertise and experience of English Premiership side Tottenham Hotspur to take the local game to the next level. MediaCorp can confirm that a team
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    • 442 38 AP PARIS French Open matches involving Rafael Nadal and Serena Williams were postponed yesterday after rain delayed the start of play for more than four hours. The covers finally came off the courts at mid-afternoon, and officials hoped to complete much of the schedule,
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    • 572 39  -  Singapore’s women paddlers on course for another stirring run LOW LIN FHOONG linfhoong@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE It has been a good week in Moscow for the Singapore women’s team of Feng Tianwei, Li Jiawei, Wang Yuegu, Sun Beibei and Yu Mengyu, who finished at the top
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    • 359 39  -  RHB SINGAPORE CUP 2010 PRELIMINARY ROUND Phnom Penh Crown v Etoile FC Jalan Besar Stadium, 7.30pm SHAMIR OSMAN shamir@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Phnom Penh Crown became the first Cambodian football team to make it past the preliminary stage of any competition last year, coasting to the quarterfinals
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    • 59 39 To mark the start of this year’s RHB Singapore Cup, fans who snap a picture of the RHB Singapore Cup Bus (131) or Comfort Taxis with their mobile phones or cameras will be able to enter for free for the match today just by
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    • 278 40 AFP ORLANDO The Orlando Magic again fended off elimination in the National Basketball Association (NBA) playoffs on Wednesday (yesterday morning, Singapore time), beating Boston 113-92 to force a game six in the Eastern Conference finals. “We just all believe,” guard Jameer Nelson said after
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    • 394 40 But impatient Real want quick success, ready to splurge $33 million to bring Mourinho to the Bernabeu AGENCIES MADRID A bitter Manuel Pellegrini said yesterday he had expected Real Madrid to fire him after a difficult season, and the Chilean coach is leaving the Spanish
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    • 221 40 LOW LIN FHOONG SINGAPORE The inaugural Youth Olympic Games theme song Everyone will get its first airing this Sunday on MediaCorp’s Channel 5. Written by Singaporean record producer and composer Ken Lim, the 3min 46sec song and music video features five singers
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    • 295 41 Trio’s inclusion takes number of Singapore athletes at the inaugural Games to 103 LOW LIN FHOONG SINGAPORE The wait is finally over for basketball, handball and volleyball. The trio were given the green light by the Singapore National Olympic Council
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    • 738 41 Spanish striker hopes to regain his lethal firing form at World Cup in June AFP MADRID He has not played a single game since early last month, when he underwent knee surgery to repair cartilage torn in a Europa League match against Benfica.
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  • Page 39 Miscellaneous
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    • 78 40 SPORTS BETTING Turkey Race MOTOR RACING Qualifying Final Sat, 29/05/10 7.00pm Sun, 30/05/10 8.00pm LIVE TELECAST AT LIVEWIRE(RWS) SPORTSBUZZ@PARADIZ Singapore Cup Phnom Penh FC j Etoile FC j Fri, 28/05/10 7.30pm A VA Always olav with care. SWGAP0RE [pLAY© Always play with core. [responeibiyi Do not bet illegalty. No person
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  • PROPERTY
    • 643 50  -  COMMENTARY Just how big is the Government’s largest land release? COLIN TAN Colin Tan is Head, Research and Consultancy, Chesterton Suntec International. Responding to the strong demand for private housing and land for private residential developments, the Ministry of National Development last week
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      107 50 Cassia View is a freehold refurbished condominium along Guillemard Road within the Kallang/Paya Lebar development area. It has 72 three-bedroom units and penthouses. Each unit is like new, complete with branded bathroom fixtures, designer kitchen cabinets and appliances. The entire estate and its common areas will also be
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  • MARKETBUZZ
    • 217 49 Courts, a leading retailer of electrical, IT products and furniture, kicks off the soccer season with knockout deals. You will be spoilt for choice on the range of TVs on offer, with something to meet every criteria and budget. The widest range
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    • 102 49 Can’t get enough of Cola-Cola? Good news for the girls popular lip gloss brand Lip Smackers has made a refreshing partnership with The Cola-Cola Company to bring you a sweet new range of lip gloss that not only moisturises but tastes exactly like your favourite
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    • 116 49 The best-selling diamond in Singapore now has a place to call home. Opened last month, the Destinée boutique is located in The Paragon and features various pieces under the coveted Belgium-based Destinée marquee. A unique feature of Destinée diamonds is that the pointed ends capture light
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    • 114 49 Our teeth are exposed daily to many things that damage the tooth surface, such as acidic and junk food, which create an environment that enhances demineralisation. The loss of minerals is said to be something that will happen over time, no matter how well
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    • 162 49 The next time you visit Watsons, you’ll find a bigger selection of beauty and lifestyle products, thanks to the launch of their house brand collection. Consisting more than 400 items three-quarters of which are beauty-related products recreating your favourite spa experience with the Watsons house
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    • 150 49 Edition after edition, Seiko’s Criteria series has continually set the standards for watch-making and measuring time. The 13th generation Criteria Chronograph series is no different. Boasting a sleek style, the watch endorsed by debonair Hong Kong star Daniel Wu is accurate to the 1 /20th of
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    • 125 49 If your spouse is keeping you awake with his or her thunderous snoring every night, then anti-snoring product YSnore might make it easier for the both of you to overcome this issue. A United States-patented product, YSnore is a nasal homeopathic remedy that is said to
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    • 190 47 INTERIOR DESIGN CHEW DESIGNING YOUR FUTURE Log on to our newly revamped website: www.chewinterior.com Great Singapore Sale I starts now t© Q M> CHEW N iV. W The latest Chew Interior Design magazine is out now! Come and check out our latest 2010/11 Interior Design collection! Visit our showrooms now
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  • BUSINESS
    • 360 46 AGENCIES BEIJING The agency that manages China’s US$2.5 trillion ($3.5 trillion) in foreign reserves yesterday denied a news report that it was reviewing its holdings of euro zone debt and voiced confidence Europe would restore financial stability. The statement by the State
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    • 85 46 THURSDAY CLOSE 2,739.70 (+1.62%) Wednesday 2,696.02 p 1.71% Tuesday 2,650.61 q 2.69% Monday 2,723.87 p 0.84% Friday 2,701.20 q 1.90% TOP 5 BYVOLUME NAME VOL PRICE CHANGE Genting SP 223,251 1.020 p 2.00% GoldenAgr 103,392 0.505 p 2.02% Abterra 51,946 0.050 UNCH Noble Grp 38,637 1.740 p 2.35% Yangzijiang
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    • 30 46 HANG SENG Ç 19,431.37 (+1.22%) NIKKEI 9,639.72 (+1.23%) Ç Ç SHANGHAI 2,655.92 (+1.15%) AUSTRALIA Ç 4,379.17 (+1.67%) MUMBAI 16,666.40 (+1.70%) Ç MALAYSIA 1,269.16 (+1.62%) Ç Ç SEOUL 1,607.50 (+1.60%)
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    • 12 46 OIL US$73.60 (+2.92%) Ç È GOLD US$1,214.10 (-0.10%) COFFEE US$1,338 (+0.30%)
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    • 29 46 US$1 $1.401 £1 $2.040 €1 $1.723 ¥100 $1.547 A$1 $1.178 RM1 $0.425 Rp10,000 $1.511 HK$100 $17.98 RMB100 $20.50 RS100 $2.961 All figures correct as at 9pm last night
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    • STOCK CALLS
      • 46 46 $1.46 Outperform CIMB initiates coverage with a $1.89 target price. It notes the logistics company has spent the past five years breaking into the synthetic rubber market, sorting out box-production partners, while its large bulk container fleet has “now entrenched barriers to entry” for competition.
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      • 63 46 $2.68 Hold Phillip Securities starts coverage with a $2.87 target price. It says the expected increase in tourism traffic in Singapore will directly benefit company’s aviation business, while also boosting its food business via catering opportunities for events such as Youth Olympic Games and F1 Grand Prix. But the
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      • 64 46 $1.16 Overweight JPMorgan starts coverage with a $1.45 target price, based on a 10 per cent discount from fair value derived from discounted cashflow valuation. It says the company is well positioned in China’s fragmented vegetable cultivation and processing sector, given its diversified product portfolio, cost advantage stemming
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    • 525 46  -  MILLET ENRIQUEZ emelita@mediacorp.com.sg KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia’s government investment holding arm, Khazanah Nasional Berhad, has made a partial offer of $1.18 billion to hold a 51.5 per cent interest in Parkway Holdings. Khazanah, through its Integrated Healthcare Holdings firm, is hoping to increase its current 23-per-cent stake
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    • 253 47  -  EPHRAIM SEOW ephraimseow@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Developer Far East Organization has won its 6th Fiabci Prix d’Excellence award. The annual award honours world-class developments for demonstrating excellence in all aspects of their creation. This year, Far East won the award in the Office Category
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    • 96 47 Catalist-listed Chasen Holdings has posted a full-year net profit of $6.5 million, up 67 per cent from the previous year. Revenue for the financial year ended March 31 rose 35 per cent to $74.2 million from a year ago. The company attributed the
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    • 120 47 Singapore-listed Chinese property developer Pan Hong has reported a full-year net profit of $35.4 million. This reverses the loss of $7.6 million incurred in the previous reporting period. Pan Hong changed its financial year end from Dec 31 to March 31 in
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    • 103 47 Business receipts in the Singapore services sector rose 8.8 per cent year-on-year in the first quarter, according to data released by the Department of Statistics. All service industries experienced positive growth, led by the financial and insurance industry with higher turnover of 17 per cent.
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    • 183 47  -  JO-ANN HUANG joannhuang@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE CapitaCommercial Trust (CCT) will be forking out $92 million to spruce up its Grade-A office property at Six Battery Road (picture) on expectations of rising demand for high-end office space. CCT said Six Battery Road will be enhanced
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    • 377 48 BLOOMBERG KUALA LUMPUR Sime Darby, the world’s biggest listed palm oil producer, has posted its first quarterly loss in more than a decade after cost overruns prompted the Malaysian company to remove its chief executive officer. Sime yesterday reported a third-quarter net loss of RM308.6
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    • 277 48 DOW JONES WASHINGTON The United States economy grew briskly in the first quarter, but the pace was a little weaker than originally thought, according to the government, which yesterday revised consumer and business spending downwards. Gross domestic product increased by a 3-per-cent annual rate in January
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    • 205 48 AGENCIES TOKYO Japan’s exports rose 40.4 per cent in April from the same month a year earlier on strong overseas demand for cars, registering the fifth straight month of increase and giving its export-led economic recovery a forceful nudge. The brisk exports totalling nearly ¥5.9 trillion
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    • 262 48 AGENCIES The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has moved closer to creating a single source of consolidated market data after the agency faced challenges collecting information from multiple trading venues in its investigation of the May 6 stock plunge. SEC commissioners
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    • 188 48 Early adopters who managed to get their hands on the 3G version of Apple’s iPad can soon use it with microSIM cards available from the three local telcos. StarHub and M1 will start to offer the
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    • 39 46 A $92 MILLION MAKEOVER PAGE B2 FROM BROKERAGE RESEARCH AND AGENCY REPORTS Disclaimer: Readers should seek independent financial advice before making any investment decision. Today cannot be held liable for any consequence arising from the use of this information.
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    • 33 49 MAY 28, 2010 A PUBLICATION OF T8 CHILDREN’S ARTS GOES LEGIT. >> T2 PRINCE OF PERSIA’S GEMMA ARTERTON IS ‘AN IDIOT’. >> T7 APP OF THE WEEK: DRIVESAFE.LY IS YOUR SECRETARY AT THE WHEEL. >> T12
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  • 1469 50  - LOOK, MA,IT'S ART ARTS With growing audiences, sophistication and credibility, is the children’s arts and theatre scene cooler than ever before? MAYO MARTIN mayo@mediacorp.com.sg THERE is a ginormous bunny at the Singapore Art Museum’s (SAM) 8Q wing. Until July, this inflatable cutesy wootsy thing will most likely be the museum’s
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  • ENTERTAINMENT
    • 512 54 Being a Wiggle is hard work but it’s all worth it say these rock stars for kids CHRISTOPHER TOH IT HAS taken them seven years to reschedule, but The Wiggles are finally coming to Singapore. They were originally booked to perform in 2003, when Sars got
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    • 639 55  -  Gemma Arterton is still coming to grips with fame Christopher Toh in London Christopher christophertoh@mediacorp.com.sg IF YOU’VE read the buzz online, 2010 might be the year of Gemma Arterton. After all, the British beauty has three movies out Clash OfThe Titans, The Disappearance Of Alice Creed,
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    • 88 56 >> www.todayonline.com/blogs Poparazzi: What do American Idol, Mika, the Coronas and Tokio Hotel have in common? The Abang Of The Airwaves explains (But it’s nothing, really). For Art’s Sake!: Shakespeare for kids, “paintings” in the theatre and Nijinsky going Thai the RAT updates you on
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    • 628 56 Ratings are down as Simon Cowell exits. Is it all over for American Idol without its precious Mr Nasty? AT THE end of an American Idol season called boring and absurd by critics, the departure of Simon Cowell from the judges’ table is likely to trump
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    • 120 57 AP THE new American Idol is Lee DeWyze, a 24-year-old paint store clerk who overcame his shyness and prevailed over soulful Crystal Bowersox in the singing contest’s ninth season. Although Bowersox, also 24, drew higher marks from the judges for her perfor- mance this week,
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    • 312 57 THE NEW YORK TIMES On one hand, he is “able to captivate an audience in a way that no one has replicated”, said The Hollywood Reporter, which named him the most powerful person in reality TV. On the other, as Rice noted last week, the Idol
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  • Page 56 Miscellaneous
    • 464 56 THE FINAL CHAPTER "THE FOLKS AT FAR FARAWAY SAVED THE BEST FOR LAST" "OGRE-RIFIC 3-D FUN" JEANMARIETAN.SPH THE NEW PAPER FIRST r 's s i? J s *■13 331 AW 0 (•.AIMISA I IOIV I WWW S I Entertaining The World C 6738 0555 &GG (SsS'SO 85 Years Of Entertaining
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  • Page 57 Miscellaneous
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  • Page 58 Miscellaneous
    • 1042 58 ON MEDIACORP ON MEDIACORP HOLIDAY MOVIE: KING KONG Channel 5, 10pm CHANNEL Phnom Penh Crown FC vs Etoile FC (Live) 9.30 News 5 Tonight 10.00 Holiday Movie: King Kong 2.00AM Holiday Movie: Attack Of The Sabretooth 4.00 Holiday Movie: Brothers Grimm CHANNEL 5 1.00PM Holiday Movie: Recess: School’s Out 3.00
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  • 259 59 THINGS TO DO 1 The Taming OfThe Shrew by William Shakespeare A classic battle of the sexes by the Stage Club. Date: Till tomorrow Time: 7.30pm; extra 2.30pm show tomorrow Venue: DBS Arts Centre, 20 Merbau Rd, Robertson Quay Tickets: $37 from Sistic Enquiries: www.stageclub.com 2Soorya Global
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    • 34 59 SUDOKUplus DIFFICULTY RATING: HOW TO PLAY The rules are easy. Fill in the grid so that every row, every column, and every 3x3 box contains the digits 1 through 9. COPYRIGHT UCLICK YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION
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  • TECH
    • 481 60  -  MOBILE DEVELOPER SPOTLIGHT: TOUCH DIMENSIONS Hedirman Supian hedirman@mediacorp.com.sg STARTED by National University of Singapore undergraduate Travis Ho and game developer Jeffrey Jiang last September,Touch Dimensions develops games centred around “natural user interfaces”. “We’re looking at things that are more natural to play with, such as touchscreens
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    • 130 60 HEDIRMAN SUPIAN The proliferation of smartphones is powering the growth of mobile games. Now, enterprising local game developers will be able to get more help to tap into this lucrative market. Last month, the Media Development Authority (MDA) announced that it has earmarked $20
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    • 305 60 DriveSafe.ly (BlackBerry, Android) MAY CHUA ARE you constantly tempted to check incoming messages, even when you’re at the wheel? Here’s a free application that aims to prevent any accidents that might occur from this dangerous habit. DriveSafe.ly reads out any text messages or emails (in a
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    • 600 62  -  COMMENTARY Why do we have to choose one over the other when they could co-exist? Sim Cheng Kai chengkai@mediacorp.com.sg ON PAPER, it sounds flawless. Digital distribution: An exciting way for content publishers to deliver their wares made on a molecular level out of 0s and 1s
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      466 62 XBOX 360 GAME REVIEW: JUST CAUSE 2 NIZAM ALI IF YOU love games that involve freedom on a large playground, you can’t go wrong with Just Cause 2. Springing back from its lukewarm 2006 debut, this sequel has turned many heads. And if there’s one word to describe
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    • 212 63 MAY CHUA SINGAPORE will be the first country to get Samsung’s new Android 2.1 smartphone Galaxy S. The handset sports a four-inch capacitative touchscreen in a slim 9.9mm candy bar shell. The display uses Samsung’s Super AMOLED technology it’s the second phone to
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    • Article, Illustration
      327 63 SMART PHONE REVIEW: MOTOROLA BACKFLIP HEDIRMAN SUPIAN A SMARTPHONE that bends over backwards for you that should have been the tagline for Motorola’s latest handset, the Android-based Backflip ($788, exclusively available at SingTel). Indeed, it’s quite a unique animal of a smartphone. It’s designed like a clamshell phone,
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    • 455 63 XBOX 360 GAME REVIEW: SPLINTER CELL CONVICTION NIZAM ALI SPLINTER Cell, the free-running action adventure game based on espionage and stealth, has finally returned after about three years from its last release with its fifth instalment Splinter Cell Conviction. Conviction retains some of its
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    • 115 63 MAY CHUA Duffelup.com THEY say getting there is half the fun, but not always. Sometimes, organising that dream vacation can drive one up the wall. So, why not grab a username and password, download the Duffel bookmarklet, and simplify your planning process? This trip organiser tool
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