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  • 39 1 TODAY MICA (P) 057/10/2010 A PUBLICATION OF NEWS HOTLINE 6822 Monday May 30, 2011 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking TODAY MICA (P) 057/10/2010 A PUBLICATION OF NEWS HOTLINE 6822 2268 Monday May 30, 2011 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking
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    • 156 1 BOOK NOW! www.rwsentosa.com 6577 8888 (rJo^Ccl S E N T O S A SINGAPORE A MILLION MOMENTS. ONE WORLD. SINGAPORE GRAND OPENING MAY 28™ 2011 Universal Studios Singapore CELEBRATED ITS GRAND OPENING f. IN TRUE HOLLYWOOD STYLE 1 vr +4 •i t wm\ :MJ S •Cfr i T Cfl% IJIH
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  • 503 1  -  S RAMESH rameshs@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Citing the criticism levelled at grassroots activists in the aftermath of the recent General Election (GE), Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong yesterday defended the work of the activists who had given “their honest feedback, which unfortunately we sometimes failed
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  • 828 1  -  TEO XUANWEI xuanwei@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Even as National Development Minister Khaw Boon Wan announced yesterday that “tens of thousands” of rental flats will be built to ease the pent-up demand, Members of Parliament (MPs) reiterated the perennial call for the eligibility criteria for the Public
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  • HOT NEWS
    • 244 2  -  NG JING YNG SINGAPORE Given the current sentiment among the electorate, Singaporeans might prefer a President who is not so closely linked to the People’s Action Party (PAP), retired minister Lim Boon Heng said yesterday when
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    • 534 3  -  NG JING YNG jingyng@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The challenge ahead is not only to engage the online community but to present official information online in “a better way”, the new Information, Communications and the Arts Minister said yesterday. While the Government
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    • 373 3  -  NG JING YNG SINGAPORE There may have been broad engagement with the Malay community but the next step is deeper and more targeted engagement with various groups within it, Minister-in-charge of Muslim Affairs Yaacob Ibrahim said yesterday.
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    • Article, Illustration
      69 4 Today held a roadshow at ION Orchard yesterday to promote its newest offering: Today on Sunday. The roadshow was hosted by DJ Yasminne Cheng of Class95. Three more roadshows are planned over the next three Sundays from noon to 2pm: On June 5 at Jurong Point, June 12
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    • 662 4  - MPs: No conflict of interest CHEOW XIN YI cheowxinyi@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE They are general managers accountable for the day-to-day administrative functions of town councils. Some of them are also employees of managing agents who win contracts from the town councils to service the estate. This arrangement known to occur in at
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    • 426 4  -  WAYNE CHAN SINGAPORE The South West District has seen a 24.8-per-cent increase in dengue cases in the first four months of this year defying the overall trend of a decline in the number of such cases in the country. The district, which
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    • 405 6 AGENCIES HONG KONG The city’s air pollution reached “very high” levels at all three of its roadsidemonitoring stations for the fourth straight day, prompting the government to issue a health alert. The Air Pollution Index was 179 in Central, 186 in Mong Kok and
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    • 287 6 THE MALAYSIAN INSIDER PADANG SERAI Muslims in Malaysia should avoid consuming a brand of beer claimed to be halal as it contains more alcohol than is permitted, a minister in the Prime Minister’s Office said. Mr Jamil Khir Baharom said that despite
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    • 623 8  -  NG JING YNG jingyng@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE She is the first appointment holder to be pregnant while in political office. Senior Parliamentary Secretary (Law and Education) Sim Ann (picture), 36, is expecting her third child and is due to deliver at the end
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    • 446 8  -  S RAMESH rameshs@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE One week after being sworn into Cabinet, Major-General (NS) Chan Chun Sing is tapping on Facebook for ideas to meet challenges in his two new portfolios. As Acting Minister for Community Development, Youth and Sports, MG (NS) Chan
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    • 299 10  -  TEO XUANWEI SINGAPORE Stiff competition posed by foreigners is a reality youths entering the workforce today have to face in a globalised world. But Singaporeans have little cause for concern if they have the “right attitude”, National Development Minister Khaw Boon Wan
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    • 423 10  -  NG JING YNG SINGAPORE The newlycreated role at the People’s Association (PA) special adviser to the chairman came after retired minister Lim Boon Heng wanted to see through a key change in the organisation: From being event-centric to people-centric. And the former
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    • 122 7 S E N T O S A SINGAPORE A MILLION MOMENTS. ONE WORLD. si ngapore GRAND OPENING MAY 28 th 2011 Congratulations Universal Studios Singapore on your Grand Opening! liil in naaiii M \y mmmsm. m m ft r% m mm m m j Jurassic Park and Jurassic Park Rapids
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    • 178 11 C S E N T O S A SINGAPORE A MILLION MOMENTS. ONE WORLD. SI NGAPORE GRAND OPENING MAY 28™ 2011 Congratulations UNIVERSAL STUDIOS SINGAPORE on your Grand Opening! M s, M fTv mm *y '.m •-H if SP 'r Ms aSSti■Mil M ill' y>*Sb- I’&J Jurassic Park and Jurassic
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  • COMMENT&ANALYSIS
    • 796 12  -  There is reason for efforts towards an Asian Monetary Fund to gather momentum HANK LIM, SIMON TAY Hank Lim is a senior research fellow and Simon Tay chairman of the Singapore Institute of International Affairs. The spectacular resignation of Dominique Strauss-Kahn as managing director
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    • 803 14  -  DAVID LEO David Leo is an aviation veteran and published Singapore Airlines (SIA) certainly sprang a surprise when it announced it was establishing a budget long-haul carrier by next year something its erstwhile leaders would not have dreamed of. They had, in fact,
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    • 739 16 BLOOMBERG BLOOMBERG EDITORIAL The Israeli and Palestinian governments say they are committed to negotiations to resolve their conflict. United States President Barack Obama insists there must be progress in the peace process. In reality, there is no such process. The US special envoy
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    • 853 17  -  THOMAS FRIEDMAN Thomas Friedman has won three Pulitzer Prizes, the most recent in 2002 for commentary. THE NEW YORK TIMES Ihad some time to kill at the Cairo airport so I rummaged through the “Egyptian Treasures” shop. I didn’t care much for the
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    • 822 19  -  NICHOLAS D KRISTOF Nicholas D Kristof is a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner. NEW YORK TIMES I first visited Kolkata, better known as Calcutta, in 1982 as a backpacking law student. I stayed at a hostel in the Howrah slums and regretted that
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    • 566 14 Seats Are Limited For The Below Events! To register, visit www.e2i.com.sg/pd Get Ahead Stay Ahead! Be future-ready with portable and deep PMET skills. PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT EVENTS IN JUNE NETWORKING SESSION FOR HUMAN RESOURCE PROFESSIONALS 2 June, 3.30pm 5.30pm Attract, Engage and Retain beyond Compensation. Human Resource Managers and Executives are
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  • VOICES
    • 489 20  -  Letter from Matthew Yap I REFER to the report that the Land Transport Authority (LTA) is looking into the possibility of implementing a new Electronic Road Pricing (ERP) system (May 25). I would like to share my views on the issue of traffic congestion that
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    • 186 22  -  Letter from Huang Lifen IN A country where many mothers are also full-time employees, a childcare system that works for busy parents is very important. There are two issues that I would like to highlight. First, parents have to pick up their
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    • 474 22  -  Letter from Faris Basharahil Director, Social Creatives I REFER to the report “Government should tap into energy of youth” (May 21), in which Major-General (NS) Chan Chun Sing, Acting Minister for Community Development, Youth and Sports, said: “I have a wild idea, Will
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    • 269 22  -  Letter from Alexander Voon SINCE the General Election, a lot of talk has been about caring for the elderly, but what about the disabled? The Transport Ministry could look into transportation policies which disadvantage both the able and the disabled. First,
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    • 97 20 have your say email your letters to voices@mediacorp.com.sg join the community www.todayonline.com/voices 0/ Teo Kian Nguan Associate Producer I (Content Creation) am i i Gladys Ow Producer (English News) —if I Hetty Musfirah A Khamid Reporter (NewsHub) Lim Hwa Meng Assistant Vice President a (Technologies) y ll M~DIACORP Be in
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 217 24  -  SARA GROSSE SINGAPORE The two-month Great Singapore Sale (GSS) kicked off over the weekend and the ringing cash registers have been music to retailers’ ears. On the third day yesterday, shoppers were out in force hoping to cash in on a good bargain. “I
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    • 40 24 TRIPPIN’ THE LIGHT FANTASTIC Pedestrians walk past the artwork Jellight of Pascal Petitjean and Aamer Taher from Singapore during the Vivid festival in central Sydney. Vivid Sydney, a festival of light, music and ideas, will run until June 13. REUTERS
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    • 184 24  -  S RAMESH SINGAPORE The story of one community in Singapore has officially become part of the cultural heritage landscape here, with the opening of the Nagore Dargah Indian Muslim Heritage Centre yesterday. President S R Nathan opened the centre in Telok Ayer Street, which features
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    • 237 25  -  SABRINA CHAN SINGAPORE A bit of monkey business and a lot of hard work helped a Temasek Polytechnic veterinary technology graduate secure a place in the National University of Singapore’s School of Dentistry. Last week, Chen Xiangluan (picture), 20, became the first diploma-holder outside
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    • 270 25 SINGAPORE The work to engage the public has begun for two new political office holders in the Ministry of Defence. For Minister of State for Defence and Education Lawrence Wong, whose first audience comprised students from junior colleges, integrated programme schools and polytechnics, his
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    • 159 26  -  SHARON SEE SINGAPORE More than 700 people here raised over S$80,000 yesterday for hungry children in Cambodia, at a walk organised by global logistics company TNT Express, in partnership with the United Nations World Food Programme. Participants of “Walk the World”, the ninth
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  • WORLD
    • 267 28 AP BEIJING An explosion at a bus company killed an employee and injured at least two others in central China on Saturday, state media reported, the same day a blast went off at a chemical plant in eastern China. The explosion tore
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    • 340 28 AP KABUL A Taliban suicide bomber wearing a police uniform blew himself up inside a heavily guarded compound as top Afghan and international officials were leaving a meeting, killing two senior Afghan police commanders and wounding the German general who commands
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    • 217 28 REUTERS ROME Italians voted in local election run-offs yesterday where Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s centre-right coalition risks humiliating defeat in his home town of Milan for the first time in nearly 20 years. Nearly 6 million voters are eligible to cast ballots in
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    • 270 30 THE GUARDIAN LONDON Britain is training Saudi Arabia’s national guard the elite security force deployed during the recent protests in Bahrain in public order enforcement measures and the use of sniper rifles. The revelation has outraged human rights groups, which point
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    • 86 30 Syrian security forces killed at least two anti-government protesters yesterday in a town near the central city of Homs during a 10th week of unrest against the government of President Bashar Al Assad. The demonstrators were killed in the town of Rastan, Al Jazeera news channel
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    • 231 30 AGENCIES SANAA Islamist gunmen occupied government buildings in the Yemeni coastal city of Zanjibar, amid claims that groups such as Al Qaeda are exploiting unrest caused by anti-government protests. There were conflicting reports on the affiliation of the gunmen. Mr Tarek Al Shami,
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    • 330 32 REUTERS LONDON Cucumbers imported from Spain are believed to be a possible source of an E coli outbreak in Germany, which has infected more than 270 people and killed at least five, European health experts said on Saturday. German officials said on Thursday that
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    • 106 32 Thousands of milk fish were found floating on fish farms in a lake near Taal volcano south of Manila yesterday. About 500,000 kg of fish, worth more than 50 million pesos (S$1.4 million), were seen floating in the water, a local mayor said. An initial investigation showed
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    • 131 32 AP For the first time, UNICEF is publicising what drug-makers are charging it for vaccines. As the world’s biggest buyer of lifesaving immunisations, it aims to spark price competition in the face of rising costs. On Friday, UNICEF posted on its website the
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    • 107 32 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee next year will be celebrated with a nationwide Sunday lunch to mark the monarch’s 60 years on the throne. Buckingham Palace is to launch the Big Jubilee Lunch, encouraging people across the country to invite their
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    • 113 32 AGENCIES A four-year-old boy was mauled to death by a family dog as he and his two brothers played in a bedroom of their apartment in Brooklyn’s Brownsville section, the authorities said on Saturday. The police said Jayelin Graham suffered “multiple bite
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    • 254 32 THE NEW YORK TIMES KUALA LUMPUR In an attempt to revive flagging interest in women’s badminton as the 2012 London Olympics approach, officials governing the sport have decided that its female athletes need to appear more womanly. To create a more “attractive presentation”, the
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    • 242 32 AGENCIES WASHINGTON United States agencies have offered assistance to Lockheed Martin, the world’s largest defence contractor, which suffered what it called a “tenacious” cyberattack on its computer networks on May 21. The Department of Homeland Security “is aware of a cyber incident impacting” Lockheed
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    • 243 31 Faye Wong 2011 Concert Tour 29 October 2011, Singapore Priority booking and ticket discounts. Only with OCBC Cards. Don't miss out tickets are limited! Apply for an OCBC Card today and be the first to get tickets to catch Faye Wong live. What's more, enjoy BX OCBC$* on your ticket
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  • BUSINESS
    • 530 34  -  Sea view frontage, rectangle-shaped land plot give it en bloc edge JO-ANN HUANG joannhuang@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Pine Grove and Laguna Park (picture) are currently the two most expensive en bloc properties up for sale, costing about S$1.7 billion and S$1.33 billion respectively.
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    • 176 36  -  STELLA LEE Home-grown restaurant chain Tung Lok Restaurants has posted has a net profit of S$4 million for the year ended March 31. This is a staggering jump of more than five-fold from S$700,000 recorded last year,
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    • 289 36  -  LINETTE LIM linettelim@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE With volatile oil prices and dwindling supplies of fossil fuels, observers are putting their bets on renewable energy. This includes solar and wind energy, as well as bio-fuels. Market players here say Singaporean consumers can expect solar energy, for example, to be
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    • WEEKLY ROUNDUP (MAY 23 TO 27)
      • 44 36 FRIDAY CLOSE +3,135.52 (+0.38%) Thursday 3,123.70 p 0.16% Wednesday 3,118.65 p 0.18% Tuesday 3,113.09 p 0.08% Monday 3,110.48 q 1.83% THEWEEKAHEAD The STI looks likely to drop this week along with Asian markets, as the European debt crisis continues to plague trading sentiment.
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      • 29 36 HANG SENG 23,118.07 (-0.35%) È È NIKKEI 9,521.94 2.709.95 SHANGHAI È È È 2,709.95 18,266.10 Ç AUSTRALIA 4,684.00 (+0.50%) MUMBAI 18,266.10 (-0.53%) MALAYSIA 1,548.69 (+0.50%) SEOUL 2,100.24 (-0.53%)
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      • 75 36 STOCK CALLS Hold s$1.31 DBS Vickers downgrades Biosensors to Hold from Buy and raises its target price to S$1.40 from S$1.35. The house says FY11 earnings came in above its expectation, arising from better gross margins and lower operating expenses versus its forecasts, with FY11 gross margin at 77
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  • DIGITAL
    • 783 38 THE NEW YORK TIMES NEW YORK On the Web, we often see what we like and like what we see. Whether we know it or not, the Internet creates personalised e-comfort zones for each one of us. Give a thumbs up to a
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  • SPORTS
    • 581 40 REUTERS CHAMPIONS LEAGUE FINAL Barcelona 3 Man United 1 LONDON If Barcelona coach Pep Guardiola needed any reminding how good his team were in the Champions League Final on Saturday against Manchester United, then he should have listened in on Sir Alex Ferguson’s post-match
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    • 548 41 AGENCIES LONDON —As the minutes ticked down to the end of the match, one of the many television cameras at Wembley Stadium focused on Manchester United boss Sir Alex Ferguson and his hands in particular. The 69-year-old’s palms were shivering as the temperatures cooled
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    • 392 42 AP ZURICH Fifa ethics committee hearing yesterday found Asian football chief Mohamed bin Hammam (picture) has a case to answer over accusations alleging bribery hours after withdrawing his challenge to incumbent Sepp Blatter in the presidential election. Bin Hammam had
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    • 443 42 REUTERS FORMULA 1 Monaco Grand Prix MONACO It looks like there is no stopping reigning world champion Sebastian Vettel, who took his fifth victory in six races when he won an incident-strewn Monaco Grand Prix thriller for Red
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    • 392 6 Stevie Nicks shares songwriting stories at starry birthday concert REUTERS AT A packed Wiltern Theater in Los Angeles where the audience included Lindsey Buckingham, Mick Fleetwood, Reese Witherspoon and Andy Garcia, Stevie Nicks took advantage of a rare night in which musicians who worked on her
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