Today, 19 July 2010, Afternoon Edition

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2 53 Today
  • 27 2 AFTERNOON EDITION TODAY MICA (P) 160/10/2009 A PUBLICATION OF NEWS HOTLINE 6822 2268 Monday July 19, 2010 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking JULY 19, 2010 A PUBLICATION
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  • 603 2  -  Mica’s Lui to speak with Mewr privately SATISH CHENEY satishkumar@mediacorp.com.sg ADDITIONAL REPORTING BY ALICIA WONG AND DYLAN LOH COMMENT&ANALYSIS NOURIEL ROUBINI GET READY FOR A DOUBLE DIP 12 THOMAS L FRIEDMAN CAN WETALK JUST A LITTLE? 14 CONRAD RAJ IS ITTOO LATE FOR A SETTLEMENT? 15 SINGAPORE
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  • 526 2 Top foreign policy official visits disputed territory, calls for easing of blockade THE NEWYORK TIMES JERUSALEM The European Union’s top foreign policy official visited Gaza yesterday and called for further pressure on Israel to allow freer movement of people and goods out of the Palestinian
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  • NEWS
    • 395 3  -  British journalist investigated for criminal defamation, other offences TEO XUANWEI xuanwei@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE A British journalist, whose new book about the death penalty in Singapore was recently pulled off the shelves here, was arrested in his hotel room yesterday morning. In response to media queries, the police confirmed
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    • 616 4  -  COMMENTARY LEONG WEE KEAT weekeat@mediacorp.com.sg They have hit parts of Singapore pretty much unannounced over the past month, the latest of these striking on Saturday at around 4am, entering homes, shops and buildings like a thief in the night. This, however, is no
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    • 213 6 AP AFTERNOON LATEST NEW ORLEANS A United States federal official says scientists are concerned about a seep and possible methane near BP’s busted oil well in the Gulf of Mexico. Both could be signs there are leaks in the well, which has
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    • 92 6 Firefighters wash blood off the streets of Kabul yesterday after a suicide bomber slipped through the Afghan capital’s tight security ring, killing three civilians and injuring 45 others near a busy market, two days before an international conference hosting representatives from about 60 nations. An American
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    • 353 8 EVELYN CHOO SINGAPORE While it is important that the community accept and accommodate intra-town cycling as part of their commuting culture, public education is key to ensure its success, said Senior Parliamentary Secretary for Community Development, Youth and Sports Teo Ser Luck. Opening the Tampines
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    • 775 8  -  Cost for National Day dinner can exceed $10,000 ALICIA WONG alicia@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE In weeks to come, community clubs across Singapore will be holding one of their most expensive events the National Day dinner. At some CCs, these are events that draw
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    • 284 10 SHARON SEE SINGAPORE Promoting social harmony and helping the less fortunate these were the objectives of a free community carnival at Dhoby Ghaut Green yesterday. A particularly riveting moment was when 1,380 grassroots volunteers came together in a record-set-ting mass percussion
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    • 109 10 Eggs imported from Malaysia will cost one cent more each from today, and local egg farms are also looking to adjust their prices. This comes after the Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority suspended the sale of eggs produced by N
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    • 78 10 An 18-hour islandwide raid conducted by the police at the weekend netted 188 people for criminal activities. The raids which started on Friday evening saw 35 men and 153 women arrested for offences such as gang-relat-ed activities, immigration offences, illegal employment, peddling of contraband cigarettes,
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    • 86 10 A Singaporean tourist was killed and eight others were injured when the van they were travelling in skidded on the North-South Expressway near Ipoh on Saturday. Bernama news agency, quoting state traffic police chief Superintendant Wan Abdullah Ishak, said the victim, 63-year-old Benny Goh, died on
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  • VOICES
    • 336 12 In our rush to fill positions, firms must ensure new foreign hires are properly trained Letter from Yee Jenn Jong THE death and injuries caused by the crane that smashed into the upper deck of a bus along Chai Chee Road (“One killed as bus, lorry
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    • 321 13 Making economic growth more broad-based a key challenge Letter from Chong Lee Ming THE Singapore economy grew by more than 25 per cent in the first half of this year compared to the second half of last year. An ordinary person would notice a
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    • 136 13 Letter from Joseph Lim SINGAPORE will host the inaugural Youth Olympic Games (YOG) from Aug 14 to 26. I understand the Ministry of Education (MOE) has bought around 80,000 tickets, and it said schools may adjust school-based assessments or curriculum time so that these are
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    • 118 13 Letterfrom DerrickTan I REFER to the letter, “Animal cruelty in its various guises” (July 16), by Daryl Yong. He suggested the recent uproar over the act of animal cruelty by an anonymous woman is “the height of hypocrisy”, as many of us eat meat and
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    • 1181 12 have your say email your letters to voices@mediacorp.com.sg join the community www.todayonline.com/voices STRESS AND WORKING FROM HOME PART 2 OF 2 By Mr. Kirby Chua (Singapore Registered Psychologist) When you treat your work as integral to your life, you will have to love your work. Stress is multiplied when one
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  • COMMENT&ANALYSIS
    • 1116 14  -  The global slowdown will accelerate in the second half and policymakers are running out of tools NOURIEL ROUBINI PROJECT SYNDICATE The global economy, artificially boosted since the recession of 2008-2009 by massive monetary and fiscal stimulus and financial bailouts, is headed towards a sharp
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    • 917 16  -  THOMAS L FRIEDMAN The writer has won three Pulitzer Prizes, the most recent in 2002 for commentary. THE NEW YORK TIMES On July 7, CNN fired its senior editor of Middle East affairs Octavia Nasr after she published a Twitter message saying, “Sad to
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    • 748 17  -  CONRAD RAJ conrad@mediacorp.com.sg The writer is editor-at-large at Today. In a week, Malaysian sovereign wealth fund Khazanah Nasional, which is locked in a battle with India’s Fortis Healthcare for control of Parkway Holdings, will have to make known what
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  • WORLD
    • 186 18 AGENCIES KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian police have detained a terror suspect under the Internal Security Act for allegedly recruiting students for Jemaah Islamiyah (JI), local media reported yesterday. Mohamad Fadzullah Abdul Razak, 28, was arrested on Thursday after he returned from Thailand, police special task force chief
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    • 297 18 One dead, a dozen missing after tropical storm hits Vietnam AGENCIES HANOI At least one person was killed and a dozen others reported missing as tropical storm Conson hit Vietnam, officials said yesterday. Six fishermen remained missing after their boat sank as they sought shelter in the
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    • 369 18 AFP HANOI Foreign ministers of the Association of South-East Asian Nations (Asean) shared “deep concern” about the sinking of a South Korean warship, says a draft document. “We expressed deep concern over the sinking of (the) ship Cheonan and the rising
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    • 445 19 Latest opinion poll shows Julia Gillard’s government level with opposition after narrow lead earlier AGENCIES SYDNEY Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard was hit by a surprise drop in opinion polls yesterday as a “knife-edge” election season started with taunts over her controversial rise
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    • 245 20 AFP BEIJING Workers were scrambling to contain a huge oil slick from seeping further into the Yellow Sea yesterday after an explosion at an oil storage port in Dalian city in north-east China, state media said. China Central Television reported that
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    • 359 20 AGENCIES ISLAMABAD United States Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton yesterday began a South Asia tour aimed at refining the goals of the nearly nine-year-old war in Afghanistan and pushing neighbouring nations to work together in the fight against Al Qaeda and
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    • 179 21 PETALING JAYA The Malaysian police are feeling blue over the colour of their uniform, which they say is too similar to those of customs officials, private security guards and even officials who issue parking summonses. They are now calling for the dark-blue
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    • 108 21 AGENCIES Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou yesterday approved the resignation of the judicial chief following a bribery scandal involving three judges and a prosecutor, a spokesman said. Mr Lai In-jaw, president of the Judicial Yuan, came under fire after the scandal surfaced last week, with
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    • 112 21 AFP Malaysian police have smashed a child-trafficking racket and rescued eight children and babies, an official said yesterday. Police also detained 16 suspects, including four Indonesian women, in a sting operation after an Indonesian woman was nabbed on Monday when she tried to sell
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    • 113 21 AFP Police in north-western China detained a mine owner yesterday after 28 workers died in his colliery following a pit fire, the latest in a series of deadly mining accidents, state press said. All 28 miners were killed in the colliery
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    • 120 21 AFP A daughter of exiled Uighur leader Rebiya Kadeer arrived in Taipei yesterday in a trip that risks stirring the anger of China. The visit by Ms Raela Tosh, the third daughter of Ms Kadeer, came after Taipei barred her mother from visiting the
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    • 229 22 AFP TEHRAN An Iranian scientist, who returned home last week after he had been held by American agents for more than a year, has said that they had pressed him to agree to be exchanged in a “spy” swap for
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    • 265 22 Minister says ban would be AGENCIES LONDON Britain will not follow France by introducing a law banning women from wearing the burqa, the Immigration Minister has ruled. Mr Damian Green said such a move would be “rather un-British” and run contrary to the conventions of
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    • 347 22 AGENCIES JOHANNESBURG Mr Nelson Mandela, South Africa’s first black President, turned 92 yesterday, as the world celebrated the first international day in his honour. Global leaders and ordinary people in South Africa and abroad committed to devoting 67 minutes of their time to community
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    • 153 22 THE NEW YORK TIMES Police have arrested a second batch of suspects in connection with the July 11 terrorist attacks in Uganda’s capital that killed 76 people, and they said suicide bombers were probably involved. Al Shabab, an insurgent group in Somalia, claimed responsibility
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    • 36 23 Tourists playing with mud during the Boryeong Mud Festival on Daecheon Beach in Boryeong, south of Seoul yesterday. The 13th annual mud festival features mud wrestling, mud sliding and a mud king contest. AP
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    • 440 23 AFP BERLIN Germany revelled in its multicultural national team at the World Cup earlier this month, but still has a long way to go in its labour market, according to the sponsors of a radical new trial hiring scheme. Later this year,
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    • 161 23 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH LONDON Psychologists have proven that men really are worse at multitasking than women, although it does depend on the task. Researchers from the University of Hertfordshire gave 50 male and 50 female students eight minutes to perform three tasks at the
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  • SPORTS
    • 682 25 Little-known British Open winner Oosthuizen the best of a rich S African crop AFP AFTERNOON LATEST ST ANDREWS (Scotland) An outrageous 200-1 long shot he might have been, but looking back, all the omens were there this week for Louis Oosthuizen to play the best
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    • 260 25 THE GUARDIAN ST ANDREWS (Scotland) —There was to be no third title for Tiger Woods on the Old Course. No 15th major nailed at the home of golf. After another day of drudgery on the links, he holed out from three feet on the final green
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    • 289 25 FA raided on corruption charges, league AFP BAGHDAD Soldiers raided the Iraqi Football Association (IFA) offices on Sunday, less than a week before IFA elections to be overseen by world football’s governing body Fifa, an IFA official said. Around 20 soldiers arrived at the head offices
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    • 629 26  - Now, for that elusive 420 crown S’pore one of the favourites at this week’s 420 world championships TANYO-HINN yohinn@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Singapore has, over the past few years, produced sailors who’ve brought home 14 world titles. They include Colin Cheng’s 2006 Laser 4.7 crown, Darren Choy’s back-to-back wins in 2009 and
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    • 273 26 AFP PARIS World No 1 Serena Williams will miss three hardcourt tournaments in the build-up to her US Open defence after she stepped on glass at a restaurant. Williams will miss the WTA Tour events in Istanbul, Cincinnati, and Montreal while
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    • Article, Illustration
      72 28 The New York Yankees, rocked by the deaths of owner George Steinbrenner known as ‘The Boss’ both for his success at the helm and reputation for ruthlessness and longtime Yankee Stadium announcer Bob Sheppard, paid tribute to both in an emotional pre-game ceremony over the weekend. Many former
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    • 189 28 Clubs from Manchester to Madrid on the alert AGENCIES BERLIN Werder Bremen are ready to listen to offers for their German international playmaker, Mesut Ozil, the club’s sporting director Klaus Allofs admitted yesterday. The German first division side had been hoping to extend the 21-year-old’s contract but
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    • 527 28 England lacked an on-form finisher, says Houllier AGENCIES AGENCIES AFTERNOON LATEST LONDON Gerard Houllier, the former Liverpool manager, believes Wayne Rooney’s poor World Cup explains England’s abysmal performance in South Africa. Houllier, technical director of the French Football Federation, insisted England’s stars failed to deliver and singled out
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    • 568 29 Chelsea boss Ancelotti warns Mourinho against poaching his left-back Ashley Cole THE DAILY TELEGRAPH LONDON Chelsea manager Carlo Ancelotti is adamant Ashley Cole will remain at the club following rumours of a proposed £30-million ($63.2-million) move to Real Madrid. Jose Mourinho, the new Real
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    • 428 29 If Cesc goes, c’est la vie Henry says he would understand if Fabregas heads back to Barca AGENCIES LONDON Thierry Henry has said he would understand if Arsenal captain Cesc Fabregas returns to Barcelona this summer. Spain international Fabregas has consistently been linked with a move back to the club
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    • 347 29 AFP HONG KONG Birmingham City endured an awkward afternoon in a hot and sticky Hong Kong yesterday, labouring to a 3-2 win in the opening game of their Far East tour. In an uneventful first quarter of what was a typically disjointed
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  • 629 30 Brought to you by team SINGAPORE Chan Seet Fun National archer Abdul Dayyan Jaffar does not mind the “sacrifices” he is making now as he is set on winning a medal at the YOG Last year had been a good year for national archer
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    • 525 35 EYE MARKET ONTHE Time to ‘call’ on Singapore stocks As the US grapples with new economic data that suggests the market may be slipping after its recent recovery, Singapore’s outlook has been more optimistic. Our economic data points to a resilient and recovering economy. A report released last Wednesday by
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  • BUSINESS BUSINESS
    • 253 31 STI FRIDAY CLOSE +2,957.72 (+0.48%) Thursday 2,943.55 q 0.31% Wednesday 2,952.81 p 0.82% Tuesday 2,928.70 p 0.12% Monday 2,825.32 p 0.28% THE WEEK AHEAD The S’pore market is expected to be volatile amid concerns the US recovery is losing momentum and as global indicators
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    • 629 31  -  MILLET ENRIQUEZ emelita@mediacorp.com.sg MILLET ENRIQUEZ emelita@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Investors on the lookout for some gems in Singapore-list-ed stocks will likely find them in the property and technology sectors. Analysts said some counters in these sectors are
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    • 317 31 BLOOMBERG WASHINGTON The United States’ housing market fell last month as construction and purchases dropped, amid a slew of signs that the country’s economic recovery is losing steam. Treasury two-year note yields fell to a record low as reports showed that consumer confidence had
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    • 265 32 Thursday 10,359.31 q 0.07% Wednesday 10,366.72 p 0.04% Tuesday 10,363.02 p 1.44% Monday 10,216.27 p 0.18% Friday 10,198.03 p 0.58% DOW FRIDAY CLOSE THE WEEK THAT WAS It was a rough start to earnings season. Stocks fell off a cliff on Friday after a
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    • 277 32 AGENCIES LONDON The former chief executive of Prudential, Mr Mark Tucker (picture), is to be named as the new boss of AIA, the Asian insurer that is part of American firm AIG. The appointment is an unexpected twist in a long-running saga,
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    • 376 34 AGENCIES FARNBOROUGH Boeing’s highly anticipated, and long-delayed, 787 jetliner made its international debut yesterday, landing in England as the star attraction at the Farnborough International Air Show. The airliner, the first passenger jet to be built largely from lightweight and environmentallyfriendly composite materials, is the first
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    • 204 34 JULIE QUEK SINGAPORE Precision engineering services provider Rokko Holdings plans to recommend an interim dividend for its first half of 2010 to reward shareholders for their continued support. In an exchange filing on Saturday, the firm said its board is exploring the recommendation
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    • 139 34 SINGAPORE Mainboardlisted First Ship Lease Trust (FSL) said that its vessel Nika I was released on Saturday after a banker’s guarantee of US$2.8 million ($3.8 million) was provided as security. Nika I had been detained in Qingdao, China, by Singa-pore-based Daxin Petroleum for alleged non-payment of bunkers
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    • 652 35 AFP TAIPEI The launch this year of must-have gadgets such as the iPad, the iPhone 4 and a host of other smartphones, tablet computers and 3D televisions is draining the Asian market dry of electronic components. An iPad is sold
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    • 422 36 New move to protect investors from unscrupulous brokers AFP HONG KONG Hong Kong’s hardnosed financial regulators are adding a new weapon to their arsenal in the battle to protect investors from unscrupulous stockbrokers: Old ladies and pregnant women. The Securities and Futures
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    • 273 36 More than enough beans bought to fill five Titanics THE DAILY TELEGRAPH LONDON Even Willy Wonka might struggle to use this much chocolate. On Friday, somebody bought 241,000 tonnes of cocoa beans. The £658-million ($1.38-bil-lion) purchase was enough to move the entire global
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