Today, 7 August 2011

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1 1 Today
  • 12 1 TODAY on Sunday INCORPORATING INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY August 7, 2011 www.todayonline.com MICA(P) 199/02/2011
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    • 671 1 ‘TOUGH RIDE OF SLOW GROWTH, THE OCCASIONAL RECESSION’ hot news 12 WORLD REACTS AS US LOSES AAA RATING hot news 13 THIS 26-YEAR-OLD SHUTTERBUG GETS INTERNATIONAL EXPOSURE face in the crowd 10 $Hey,bigspendertthepeoplewhochalkupoverS50,amonthontheircreditcards–ndwhomthebanksareallouttowosundayspecial2 FINDING THEIR PLACE IN THE WORLD FJ BENJAMIN CEO WANTS TO CONQUER THE WORLD the st regis
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    • 339 2 TOP-END CARDS AT A GLANCE: HOW THEY STACK UP Date launched Qualifying criteria Annual fee (if any) Special features privileges services Citibank ULTIMA Oct 2010 Minimum investible assets-under-management (AUM) of S$5 million. By invitation only S$3,888 Customised credit limit according to spending and needs Dedicated lifestyle manager for each individual
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  • 1780 3  -  The number of big spenders who casually charge S$50,000 to their credit cards is growing. And banks are battling for their custom with concierge services that arrange everything from ‘spy training’ in London to French chateau stays sundayspecial cheow xin yi todayonsunday@mediacorp.com.sg Dr Frank Cintamani has charged
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  • 503 4  -  CHEOW XIN YI TO GET a sense of why Frank Cintamani chalks up the credit card bills that he does, look at the titles on his namecard: Group publisher of Beaumont Publishing, Founder of Fide Living (interior design and construction), Group
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  • 779 5  -  Being flown around the world to buff the toenails of royalty: Just another day for celebrity pedicurist Bastien Gonzalez thefinerlife chan seet fun todayonsunday@mediacorp.com.sg Scalpels and a dentist’s drill are tools of the trade for pedicurist Bastien Gonzalez and the 38-year-old has used them
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  • 122 5 Dry your feet and toes thoroughly after bathing to prevent fungal development. Choose shoes that adapt to your feet and apply talcum powder on your feet to absorb perspiration and reduce friction, which can lead to calluses. Moisturise and massage your feet every night, ensuring
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  • 1351 6 Nash Benjamin, CEO of Singapore’s most famous fashion retailer, tells editor-at-large Conrad Raj about the FJ Benjamin journey from Lanvin to Rodeo Drive to Guess? and the plans to conquer the globe with its house brand, Raoul the Eli Manasseh Benjamin, better known as Nash, is
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  • 854 8  -  parenttoparent douglas foo todayonsunday@mediacorp.com.sg Douglas Foo is the CEO ofSakae Holdings and a member of the National Family Council. My wife and I chose names that begin with “D-O” for our boys, to convey our hope that they would do great things and
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  • 1088 10  -  How does a young Singaporean photographer still in school get himself noticed in Europe, Asia and the US? faceinthecrowd phylicia lee We are sitting at an open-air café at his alma mater, the Nanyang Technology University, and Tristan Cai remarks to a campus official on the
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  • Page 12 Miscellaneous
  • HOT NEWS
    • 602 12  -  DPMTharman on how Singapore can brace for slow growth, recessions in world CHEOW XIN YI cheowxinyi@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Deputy Prime Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam has braced Singaporeans for a “tough ride of slow growth and occasional recessions” in the next three to four years in
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    • 160 12 The turmoil in the financial markets is a “reminder of the important custodial powers” of the President in protecting Singapore’s past reserves, said presidential hopeful DrTonyTan in a Facebook post yesterday, adding that the downgrading of the United States credit rating will
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    • 450 13 AGENCIES NEW YORK World leaders moved to play down the impact of the United States losing its top-tier AAA rating from Standard and Poor’s (S&P), saying the move which had been expected for some time will not affect their
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    • 218 13 AGENCIES China roundly condemned the United States for its “debt addiction” and “shortsighted” political wrangling and said the world needed a new stable global reserve currency. In a harsh commentary by the official Xinhua news agency yesterday, China urged the
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    • 432 14 SINGAPORE A day after Minister for Law K Shanmugam noted that the Elected President can act and speak only on the advice of the Cabinet, presidential hopeful Tan Kin Lian said he thought this interpretation of the Constitution was “too
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    • 97 14 Six presidential hopefuls had submitted their applications to obtain a Certificate of Eligibility to contest the Presidential Election, as of yesterday’s 1pm deadline. They are former Deputy Prime Minister DrTonyTan; former Member of Parliament DrTan Cheng Bock; former chief executive officer of NTUC Income MrTan Kin Lian;
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    • 146 14 AGENCIES BEIJING More than 200,000 coastal residents in Zhejiang have been evacuated and thousands of ships were called back to shore yesterday as Typhoon Muifa bore down on the country after battering the Philippines, Taiwan and Japan. Xinhua reported more than 200,000 people have
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    • 71 14 A 1941 Ford Mercury Convertible which was assembled at the Ford Motor Factory in Singapore before World War II. It is one of the 40 vintage cars that will be on display at Memories at Old Ford Factory in celebration of Motoring Heritage Day
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    • 101 14 BLOOMBERG Prime Minister Naoto Kan yesterday re-iterat-ed a pledge last week to cut nuclear-power use, and said the “safety myth” of nuclear power should be reconsidered, at atomic-bombed Hiroshima’s first commemorative ceremony since the Fukushima nuclear disaster in March.
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    • 265 15  -  VIMITA MOHANDAS vimita@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —While social media is “very powerful in amplifying voices of people who are most articulate” in using this medium, it can also be a drawback, noted Deputy Prime Minister Teo Chee Hean. “One negativity I
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    • 120 15  -  LYNDA HONG An estimated 1,400 jobs in childcare services will be created inthe next three years with the rollout of more childcare centres, said Acting Minister for Community Development, Youth and Sports (MCYS) Chan Chun Sing. He officially launched two
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    • 126 15 The Ministry for National Development has launched an online feedback portal to gather views from the public regarding pet ownership and stray management, Minister of State for National Development Tan Chuan-Jin revealed on his Facebook page yesterday. Recognising that public sentiment is split
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    • 113 15 AP Syria’s Foreign Minister promised that free parliamentary elections would be held by the end of the year, even as the Syrian military continues to crush the anti-regime uprising in the country. Meanwhile, the six gulf nations of the Gulf Cooperation Council broke their
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    • 92 15 MALAYSIAN INSIDER State-owned Malaysia Airlines (MAS) will swap shares with AirAsia Asia’s largest budget carrier —this week in a deal that will stop the ailing national carrier from plunging any further into the red. AirAsia CEO Tony Fernandes will get a 20 per cent
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    • 71 15 A 51-year-old man died after being involved in a back-alley fight. The police received a call at 11.27pm on Friday about a fight in progress at Lorong 11 Geylang. The victim and another 47-year-old man were found injured and taken to Tan Tock Seng Hospital. The
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  • SPORTS
    • 539 16 Mancini concedes that his team are not good enough to win the Premiership title AGENCIES MANCHESTER Roberto Mancini goes into the Community Shield today warning that Manchester City can forget about knocking neighbours United off their perch and winning the Premier League unless the
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    • 379 18 AGENCIES AKRON Victory may be lost at the Bridgestone Invitational for Tiger Woods, but the game’s former world No 1 has found something far more significant than a winner’s cheque a semblance of the player he used to be. Woods struggled for consistency
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    • 417 18 All Blacks display brutal defence as they tear Aussies apart in Tri-Nations REUTERS AUCKLAND Many would inevitably see the Tri-Nations clash between New Zealand and Australia as a preview of the World Cup final, and the All Blacks left no one
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    • 285 19  -  PHILIP GOH SINGAPORE They led the Omega Mission Hills World Cup Asian Qualifying from the first day and yesterday at the Seri Selangor Golf Club on the outskirts of Kuala Lumpur, Mardan Mamat and Lam Chih Bing proved yet again why they
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  • Page 21 Miscellaneous
    • 1154 21 SUNDAY TV ONE LEG KICKING okto, 10pm A group of underdogs form an amateur football team to play in a fictional local league. The prize for the winners: A trip to the 2002 World Cup Finals. Gurmit Singh plays widower Tai Po, who has two young children. The rest of
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  • Page 22 Miscellaneous
    • 1922 22 TV LISTINGS MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY CHANNEL CHANNEL CHANNEL 6.00AM Planet’s Funniest Animals VIII 6.30 AM Live! 9.00 The Martha Stewart Show VI 10.00 The Doctors 11.00 Films Stars Asia 11.30 Asian Eat List NOON Under One Roof V 12.30PM Chemistry 1.00 Triple Nine II 2.00 The Middleman
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  • Page 23 Miscellaneous
    • 1920 23 3.00PM Anjaraipetti II 3.30 Sathy Leelavathi 4.00 Take It Easy Vazhkai II 4.30 Mythilli 5.00 Nijangal 5.30 Primary Six 6.00 Vasantham Star 7.00 Gokulathil Seethai 7.30 Ethiroli 8.00 NDP Message 2011 8.30 Tamil Seithi 9.00 Thulluvatho Elamei 9.30 Uncle Taxi IV 10.00 Oru Kaithiyin Diary (PG 13 Mature) 10.30 Star
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  • ARTS & STYLES
    • 724 16  -  By TERRENCE RAFFERTY el)c?s>Ut JJork Stines The evolution of species takes place over millennia. Pop-culture franchises just don’t have that kind of time. Rupert Wyatt’s “Rise of the Planet of the Apes,” opening worldwide in August, is the seventh film about the
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    • 739 16  -  By BEN RATLIFF £Ik ?frut JJork Elmcs The sound of a long sustain on a vibraphone, whether one note or many, is one of mankind’s great creations. This is an instrument that produces almost a physical representation of sound; especially with the
      £Ik ?frut JJork Elmcs; JIM NEWBERRY  -  739 words
    • 942 15  -  By PATRICK HEALY el)c iScUr Jlork Ehncs LONDON There is life after Broadway. As the budgets of New York shows have grown $10 million to $15 million is standard so too has the financial incentive to fix flops. Germany, the Netherlands and Japan are
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    • 560 15  -  By GUY TREBAY Slje iXctu Jlork Ehncs Of beautiful people Cuba has many. Any visitor to the island or its satellite country, Miami, knows that. But a classless Communist regime officially has no tolerance for privileged classes, social elites, specially anointed
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  • SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY: GADGETS
    • 760 14  -  By PETER WAYNER Sljc Jfau Jlork Stmcs Russ Maschmeyer doesn’t have anything against old-fashioned musical instruments. He just thinks they’re a bit hard to play. In his work as a graduate student at the School of Visual Arts in New York, he created one from
      Sljc Jfau Jlork Stmcs; CHRISTOPHER CANNON  -  760 words
    • 528 14  -  By GIA KOURLAS Sljc Jfau Jlork Stmcs Dances for an iPhone began the way most dances don’t: with an injury. But Richard Daniels, who at various times has worked as an arts administrator, a producer and a choreographer, was
      Sljc Jfau Jlork Stmcs; TONY CENICOLA/THE NEW YORK TIMES  -  528 words
    • 663 13  -  eSSay DAVID POGUE SljeJfctu JJork Etwcs Few people buy wireless speakers. Ira Fagan, owner of a home theater installation company in Fairfield, Connecticut, puts it like this: “Unless your wireless speakers cost $10,000, they’ll sound like a cordless phone.” Aperion Audio wants to change
      SljeJfctu JJork Etwcs; STUART GOLDENBERG  -  663 words
    • 709 13  -  By MATT RICHTEL and VERNE G. KOPYTOFF EljcJCcUt fjork eimcs SAN FRANCISCO Pockets and purses are slowly being emptied of one of civilization’s most enduring tools: the key. It’s being replaced by the cellphone. New technology lets smartphones unlock hotel, office and house
      EljcJCcUt fjork eimcs; JIM WILSON/THE NEW YORK TIMES  -  709 words


  • MONEY & BUSINESS
    • 1251 12  -  By JIM YARDLEY and VIKAS BAJAJ Jfrtu JJork Ehncs MUNDRA, India India is increasingly turning to the private sector to deliver the electricity needed to maintain rapid economic growth into the future. The country’s economy is growing at more than 8
      Jfrtu JJork Ehncs; RUTH FREMSON/THE NEW YORK TIMES; THE NEW YORK TIMES  -  1,251 words
    • 867 11  -  By KENNETH CHANG Sljc Jfrur Jlork Simcs Now that the last space shuttle has landed back on Earth, a new generation of space entrepreneurs would like to whip up excitement about the prospect of returning to the Moon. Spurred by a
      Sljc Jfrur Jlork Simcs; KEITH SRAK0CIC/ASS0C1ATED PRESS  -  867 words
    • 688 11  -  By KEVIN ROOSE Sljc Jfrur Jlork Simcs When Matt Levine, a vice president at Goldman Sachs, announced in May that he was leaving his job to become a full-time writer for Dealbreaker, a satirical blog that covers the finance industry, a few colleagues
      Sljc Jfrur Jlork Simcs; JIM WILSON/THE NEW YORK TIMES  -  688 words


  • PERSONALITIES
    • 708 10  -  olivia wilde By BROOKS BARNES eljcJsVut jjork elm css LOS ANGELES —Olivia Wilde is not your typical starlet clone. Her parents, prominent journalists, helped her get her first Hollywood job in 2002 at a casting agency, with the aim of squelching her interest
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    • 722 10  -  giles duley By C. J. CHIVERS Stjc jjork elmcii LONDON Giles Duley recalls the moment after he stepped on a hidden bomb while covering an American and Afghan infantry patrol in Afghanistan. Mr. Duley, an independent photographer, felt a flash of heat
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  • WORLD TRENDS
    • 804 8  -  By LIZ ALDERMAN EI)c?CcUt Jlork Smncs PISA, Italy Six years ago, the Swedish retail giant Ikea planned a 60-million-euro megastore just a few kilometers from where the Tower of Pisa leans into the earth. Backers said the huge construction project, new roads and wave
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    • 793 8  -  By CELIA W. DUGGER E(k JfrUf JSork Smncs ARUA, Uganda Jennifer Anguko was slowly bleeding to death right in the maternity ward of a major public hospital. No doctor examined Ms. Anguko, the mother of three children, for 12 hours. Her husband, Valente
      E(k JfrUf JSork Smncs; PHOTOGRAPHS BY TADEJ ZNIDARCIC FORTHENEWYORKTIMES  -  793 words
    • 838 6  -  By ETHAN BRONNER SlK Jfrtu Jlork Ehncs TEL AVIV Skittish at first, then wide-eyed with delight, the women and girls entered the sea, smiling, splashing and then joining hands. Most had never seen the sea before. They were Palestinians from the southern
      SlK Jfrtu Jlork Ehncs; RINA CASTELNUOVO FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES  -  838 words
    • 668 6  -  By JACK HEALY ®1)C Jfctu Jlork Ehncs HERAT, Afghanistan—The two teenagers met inside an ice cream factory through darting glances before roll call, murmured hellos as supervisors looked away and, finally, a phone number folded up and tossed discreetly onto the workroom floor. It
      ®1)C Jfctu Jlork Ehncs; LYNSEY ADDARIO FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES  -  668 words
    • 748 4  -  By CHOE SANG-HUN El)c JfcUt JJork Eimcs SEOUL, South Korea “If anyone could be a marine, I’d never have joined.” That is the slogan of South Korea’s Marine Corps, and it reveals much about the force’s sense of its elite status; it is a
      El)c JfcUt JJork Eimcs; CHUNG SUNG-JUN/GETTY IMAGES  -  748 words
    • 549 4  -  By SUZANNE DALEY El)c JfcUt Jlork Simcs GIVERNY, France James Priest stood on a footbridge overlooking the lush Japanese-style lagoon at the bottom of Claude Monet’s garden, pleased with what he saw. It was here that Monet painted the water lily series that hangs
      El)c JfcUt Jlork Simcs; WILLIAM DANIELS FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES  -  549 words
    • 634 3  -  By KEN BELSON Sljc iNVut Jlork Slmes IWAKI, Japan Kiyoko Okoshi had a simple goal when she spent about $625 for a dosimeter: she missed her daughter and grandsons and wanted them to come home. Local officials kept telling her that their
      Sljc iNVut Jlork Slmes; KO SASAKI FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES  -  634 words
    • 739 3  -  news analysis By ANTHONY SHADID el)e Jfctu Jlork Slmes ISTANBUL Fifty years ago, when a populist prime minister tangled with the Turkish military, he ended up on the gallows. This time, the rivalry climaxed with most of Turkey’s military command resigning simultaneously. As Turks grappled with
      el)e Jfctu Jlork Slmes; ASSOCIATED PRESS  -  739 words
    • 802 2  -  intelligence/roger ROGER COHEN Sljc Jfcto JElork ®tme$ Paris Fear is perhaps the most potent political tool. It gets the blood pumping. It unites the tribe against the designated enemy. It is a virus that can morph into a plague. I saw it at work in 1992
      Sljc Jfcto JElork ®tme$; ELIZABETH FLORES/THE STAR TRIBUNE, VIA ASSOCIATED PRESS  -  802 words
    • 629 2  -  By TIM ARANGO elKiNhu JElork Siwc0 BAGHDAD —At a roadside station here, where buses bound for Syrialeave dozens of times a week, the space between two troubled nations is measured by notions of prosperity and security. “Here it is very hot
      elKiNhu JElork Siwc0; JOSEPH SYWENKYJ FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES  -  629 words



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  • 649 1  -  LENS TOM BRADY ®Ik 2s*rtu JJ ork (Ernes The rise of electronic books has changed more than just reading habits. Kindles and Nooks have changed the publishing business, and the business of teaching people how to get into the business of publishing is adapting too. A six-week course
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  • 939 1  -  Judicious Spending Cuts May Help Foster New Growth By CATHERINE RAMPELL The New York Times A HAPPy soLuTIoN To the debt troubles plaguing so many nations today does exist in theory. It’s called economic growth. No need to raise taxes. Just get the economy growing
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