Today, 14 October 2011, Afternoon Edition

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    21 2 AFTERNOON EDITION MICA (P) 057/10/2010 A PUBLICATION OF NEWS HOTLINE 6822 2268 Friday October 14, 2011 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking
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    Lock icon MTI cuts growth forecast
    470 2 GDP up 5.9% on-year in Q3, but slowdown looms BLOOMBERG SINGAPORE The Ministry of Trade and Industry (MTI) cut Singapore’s economic growth forecast for this year and predicted a further slowdown in expansion next year as the global outlook weakens, prompting the central bank to ease
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    Lock icon MAS to loosen monetary policy
    160 2 REUTERS SINGAPORE The Monetary Authority of Singapore this morning loosened monetary policy by slowing the pace at which it will let its currency appreciate, the central bank said, sending the currency sharply higher. “MAS will continue with the policy of a modest and gradual appreciation
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  • HOT NEWS
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      Lock icon MONITOR FLOOD VIA LOCAL NEWS SOURCES: MFA
      136 3 CHANNEL NEWSASIA The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) has advised those planning to travel to Thailand to monitor local news on the flood situation there and to take precautions for their personal safety. In a notice posted on its website, the MFA asked
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      Lock icon Bangkok races against time as waters close in
      353 3 Flood barriers in three vulnerable locations nearly completed AGENCIES BANGKOK Workers and soldiers raced to build defensive walls and dredge canals around inner Bangkok yesterday as floodwaters, which have covered about a third of Thailand in the country’s worst floods in decades,
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      Lock icon Bali shaken by earthquake
      240 3 AGENCIES BALI A magnitude 6.1 earthquake jolted Indonesia’s popular resort island of Bali yesterday, injuring more than 50 people and sending others fleeing from their hotels and houses in panic. Ceilings caved in at two high schools and several ancient Hindu temples were damaged, with stones
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      DO NOT BE ‘MISLED’ INTO ATTENDING RAFFLES PLACE PROTEST: POLICE
      169 4 While a Facebook page has been set up to gather supporters to occupy Raffles Place tomorrow (Oct 15) in the vein of the “Occupy Wall Street” protests in New York the police have issued a statement urging the public not
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      Police Coast Guard was 'grossly overcharged': Auditor-General
      617 4  -  ONG DAI LIN dailin@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The latest audit by the Auditor-General’s Office (AGO) has found “pervasive” lapses in two projects undertaken by the Police Coast Guard (PCG), resulting in the department “being grossly overcharged and making large payments for materials before delivery”. The
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      Lock icon Aussie watchdog backs SIA-Virgin alliance
      181 6 DOW JONES SINGAPORE —Australia’s competition watchdog has indicated in a draft decision that it intends to approve a proposed alliance between Singapore Airlines and Virgin Australia. In a statement yesterday, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) said it expects the alliance to result in
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      Lock icon Aussie govt may force end to Qantas strike
      394 6 REUTERS CANBERRA The Australian government said yesterday that it could force an end to a bitter dispute between unions and Qantas Airways after the airline warned it will ground aircraft and cut around 100 domestic flights a week due to rolling industrial
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      Lock icon Radiation hot spot linked to bottles in Tokyo house
      309 6 AGENCIES TOKYO Japanese officials investigating a small radiation hotspot in Tokyo have tracked down its source to old bottles stored in an empty house. Tokyo’s Setagaya city council had detected radioactivity exceeding that of an evacuation area about 40km from the
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      Lock icon Indon militant gets eight years
      309 8 AGENCIES JAKARTA An Indonesian militant was sentenced yesterday to eight years in prison for helping set up a terrorist cell plotting attacks on Western hotels and embassies in the capital. Abu Tholut (picture) is among more than 120 alleged members of “Tanzim Al Qaeda in
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      Lock icon 'Understand constitutional position on AG's role'
      768 8  -  TANYA FONG tanyafong@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE There is a need for clear understanding of the constitutional position on the Attorney-General’s Chambers’ (AGC) roles that of being the Public Prosecutor and the Government’s lawyer, said Law Minister K Shanmugam. Noting that there is sometimes “a lack of
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      No ads in newspapers, via SMS, leaflets
      555 10  -  Licensed moneylenders to see more restrictions on advertising rules TEO XUANWEI xuanwei@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE From next month, licensed moneylenders will be barred from advertising in newspapers, or via SMS and leaflets. Their advertising will instead be restricted to business and consumer directories such as
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      Lock icon Singapore's millionaires club expands but dark days ahead
      373 14 AGENCIES HONG KONG Hong Kong posted the fastest pace of growth globally in the number of new millionaires for the second consecutive year with a 33 per cent jump last year, as Singapore saw its number of millionaires rise 21.3 per cent
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      Lock icon Australia scraps refugee swap deal
      312 14 REUTERS CANBERRA The Australian government abandoned a refugee-swap deal with Malaysia yesterday and said it would now process asylum seekers on Australian soil, in a major policy change that heads off an embarrassing defeat in Parliament. A day after she celebrated passing landmark carbon tax
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      NTUC gears up for leadership change
      238 16  -  DYLAN LOH dylanloh@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The National Trades Union Congress (NTUC) is gearing up for leadership renewal. President John De Payva and a few senior members within NTUC’s ranks will not seek re-election into the Central Committee, their top decision-making body. The move came after
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      World more vulnerable to food-borne diseases: WHO
      335 16  -  VIMITA MOHANDAS vimita@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE While the world’s economies may be handicapped by the global downturn, it is critical that resources are not diverted away from enhancing the World Health Organization’s (WHO) abilities to respond to threats, said Health Minister Gan Kim Yong. The
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      THAI GIRL IN TRAIN ACCIDENT SEEKS S$4M
      159 16 Thai teenager Nitcharee Peneakchanasak, who lost both her legs in a train accident in April, is seeking from SMRT at least S$4 million in compensation, said her lawyers yesterday. Earlier reports had said that her father, Mr Kittanesh Peneakchanasak, was suing SMRT for
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      10 3 AUSSIE GOVT MAY FORCE END TO QANTAS STRIKE PAGE 6
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  • PARLIAMENT
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      Lock icon ECB has done all it can: Trichet
      306 4 REUTERS WASHINGTON —The European Central Bank has reached the limits of what it can do to support financial markets and it is now up to governments to grapple with a stubborn debt crisis, the ECB’s outgoing president, Mr Jean-Claude Trichet (picture), said. His
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      Lock icon Fitch downgrades UBS, others may follow
      302 4 REUTERS AFTERNOON LATEST NEW YORK Fitch Ratings downgraded UBS yesterday and placed seven other United States and European banks on credit watch negative, citing challenges in the economy and financial markets, as well as the impact of new regulations. The ratings agency lowered UBS’s
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      Lock icon Spain's rating slashed
      184 4 BLOOMBERG MADRID Spain had its credit rating cut one level by Standard Poor’s, which cited a likely deterioration of the nation’s bank assets and weaker economic growth prospects that will keep unemployment elevated. S&P lowered its rating to AA- from AA, the company said in a statement,
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  • COMMENT&ANALYSIS
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      Lock icon To Asia, the IMF no longer matters
      993 18  -  The fund has become redundant as a financial crisis fireman and must remake itself if it is to be relevant again HO SENG CHEE Ho Seng Chee is council member of the Singapore Institute of International Affairs and worked at the IMF for
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      Lock icon A stand-by programme for the euro zone?
      1071 20  -  There’s a way the IMF can start taking the lead in managing the crisis, instead of holding up the rear RAGHURAM RAJAN Raghuram Rajan is Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago’s Booth School and author of Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures
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      Lock icon Why Americans should learn to love the yuan
      811 22  -  DAVID PILLING David Pilling is FT’s Asia editor. THE FINANCIAL TIMES LIMITED Until recently, few workers in America, Europe or Japan spent much time worrying about why they earned 10,20 or even 30 times what a Chinese worker did. What was it
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      Lock icon The comfort of courtesy
      792 25  -  KUMIKO MAKIHARA Kumiko Makihara is a writer and translator who moved from Tokyo to New THE NEW YORK TIMES The woman at the lost baggage counter at the Portland, Oregon, airport took down my information matter-of-factly and told me my luggage would be delivered overnight. The
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  • VOICES
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      Overcrowding should be the least of our long-term worries
      417 26  -  Letter from Ng Ya Ken WHEN he opened Parliament on Monday, President Tony Tan urged Singaporeans to prevent a new fault line from forming between those born here and new immigrants. A prerequisite to tackling this issue is that Singaporeans have
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      Lock icon It is not that Singaporeans are choosy about their jobs
      376 29  -  Letter from Philip Kwek THE bottom 20 per cent of working Singaporeans saw their pay stagnate over the last 10 years, according to the Manpower Ministry’s latest report. I hazard to guess that not only had wages stagnated but, for
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      Why are taxis placed in Category A for COE bids?
      144 29  -  Letter from Dave Yap ALTHOUGH I do not own a car or aspire to own one, why are taxis placed in the same Category A as cars (1600 and below) when it comes to bidding for the Certificate of Entitlement
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      CONSIDER ALLOWING MOTORISTS TO PAY OUTSTANDING ERP CHARGES WITHIN 24 HOURS AND WITHOUT FEE
      133 29  -  up to 24 hours later. LETTER FROM MAHINDERSINGH MAHINDER SINGH MANY of us motorists pass through an ERP gantry and sometimes forget to insert a cashcard or insert one with insufficient monetary value in it. Within
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      No quota but learners should be prepared for road tests
      208 30  -  Letter from William Goh Assistant Director, Media Relations (Covering), Public Affairs Department, Singapore Police Force I REFER to Mr Neil Wilkinson’s letter “Quota for road tests?” (Oct 3). Traffic Police do not limit the number of passing candidates for the
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      BANKS SHOULD IMPROVE ON WAY OF COMMUNICATING OVER PHONE
      171 30  -  LETTER FROM DANNY G TAN I often receive calls from local banks. The caller always identifies himself as an employee of a certain bank and asks me to verify my account details before going into the reason for the call. To
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      DOES THE NAKED TRUTH HURT?
      114 30  -  LETTER FROM DANIEL CHAN WAI PIEW After the ruckus over the Orchard Road billboard, there is another urgent question of how much is to be revealed in advertisements. I am referring to ad displays in which companies put up attractive pictures with the caption “picture
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      Lock icon More attractions being planned to rejuvenate S'pore landscape
      204 30  -  Letter from Ranita Sundra Director for Attractions, Dining Retail, Singapore Tourism Board I REFER to Mr Mike Chan’s letter “A theme park expansion?” (Sept 30) and thank him for sharing his views. It is important that Singapore continues to offer a diversity
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      People with mental illness can also lead productive lives
      316 30  -  Letter from Liu I-Chun THE heartfelt commentary “The tricky business of talking about mental illness” (Oct 10) by Associate Professor Chong Siow Ann prompts me to share the inspiring story of Dr Marsha M Linehan. She is a 68-year-old American therapist
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  • SINGAPORE
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      11 recommendations to tackle climate change
      334 32  -  ESTHER NG SINGAPORE Free public transport during certain hours, quarterly food, electricity and water rationing, and farmers’ markets in housing estates are some recommendations the Singapore Environment Council (SEC) has made to NCCS 2012, the National Climate Change Secretariat’s public consultation exercise. Top on
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      Lock icon Largest single seizure of heroin since 2008
      232 32 SINGAPORE The Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB) has seized 8.5kg of heroin the highest single seizure of the drug since 2008 estimated to be worth more than S$1.27 million. CNB officers also seized a Singa-pore-registered car and arrested two people in an operation that
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      UPGRADING WORK FOR MRT STATIONS
      95 32 Commuters can expect new station entrances equipped with fare gates and ticketing machines at the Clementi, Commonwealth and Queenstown MRT stations. The LandTransport Authority (LTA) said each station will also have an additional pedestrian link bridge to pavements on both sides of the roads. Work
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      More high-tech start-ups but ...
      292 34 More high-tech start-ups but SINGAPORE While the start-up scene in Singapore has been growing healthily, the lack of funding and the low level of R&D collaboration with external partners are holding some firms back, said Deputy Prime Minister Teo Chee Hean. Sharing findings from a survey commissioned by the National
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      Lock icon MediaCorp wins ComChest awards
      300 34  -  OLIVIA SIONG SINGAPORE More organisations are putting in concerted efforts to raise funds for the Community Chest of Singapore through a series of events over a longer campaign period, instead of organising one-off events, raising record amounts in the process. These organisations were recognised yesterday at
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      Lock icon SENIOR CITIZENS GET FREE EYE SCREENING ON WORLD SIGHT DAY
      147 34 CHANNEL NEWSASIA To mark World Sight Day yesterday, some 250 Singapore senior citizens on public assistance had their eyes screened for free. They were screened for common eye problems by the optometry departments of NgeeAnn Polytechnic, Singapore Polytechnic and Manchester
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      Lock icon 21 ARRESTED IN RAIDS ON ILLEGAL BETTING ACTIVITIES
      166 36 CHANNEL NEWSASIA Twenty-one people have been arrested in an islandwide operation targeting illegal betting activities. Simultaneous raids were conducted in Serangoon, Yishun, Choa Chu Kang, West Coast, Bukit Batok, Bukit Panjang and Sembawang on Wednesday. About S$250,000 in cash, 25 mobile phones,
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      Green tyres could save motorists s$254 a year
      372 36  -  ESTHER NG estherng@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Drivers here are not making informed choices when selecting tyres, even though 144 million litres of fuel annually can be saved if all cars here were fitted with eco-friendly tyres, saving each car owner S$254 a year. A
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      378 38 REUTERS NEW YORK Raj Rajaratnam (picture), a self-made hedge fund tycoon convicted in the biggest Wall Street trading scandal in a generation, was ordered yesterday to serve 11 years in prison one of the longest sentences on record in an insider-trading case
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      291 38 REUTERS SEOUL Two high-profile South Korean women politicians kicked off a campaign yesterday to pick the Mayor of Seoul, which analysts see as a litmus test of support for parliamentary and presidential elections next year. It could also mark a departure
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      112 38 AP The Paris prosecutor’s office has dropped an investigation into a French writer’s claim that Dominique Strauss-Kahn tried to rape her for lack of sufficient proof. The prosecutor’s office said yesterday that Strauss-Kahn admitted to sexual aggression against writerTristane Banon but that it is too late
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      379 43 AGENCIES DUBAI Saudi Arabia is considering “decisive steps” over an alleged Iranian plot to assassinate its ambassador in Washington, according to a statement carried by the state news agency SPA. The statement, issued in Arabic and English late on Wednesday, condemned what
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      86 43 Greek health workers rallied outside parliament in Athens yesterday, joining a 48-hour general strike. Around the capital, public transport ground to a halt and protesters tried to prevent the collection of a new property tax by occupying the power company’s billing offices. The strikes and the takeover
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      125 43 AGENCIES An American missile strike killed a member of the militant Haqqani network yesterday in north-western Pakistan, striking a group that Washington claims is the No 1 threat in Afghanistan and is supported by Pakistani security forces, local intelligence officials said. Two other
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      116 43 THE MALAYSIAN INSIDER The Malaysian government promised yesterday that buildings on Jalan Sultan will not be demolished to make way for the Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) project, but stopped short of guaranteeing that prime land in the capital will stay
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      323 44 AP PUNAKHA (Bhutan) The king of the tiny Himalayan nation of Bhutan married his commoner bride yesterday in an ancient Buddhist ceremony at the country’s most sacred monastery fortress. King Jigme Khesar Namgyal Wangchuck, wearing the raven crown, came down from his golden throne in
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      238 44 REUTERS LONDON A 300-year-old ban on heirs to the British throne marrying Roman Catholics will be overturned and discrimination against royal daughters removed under reforms proposed on Wednesday by Prime Minister David Cameron. Mr Cameron has written to the leaders of the 15 other
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      405 46 AGENCIES SIRTE (Libya) Libya’s National Transitional Council (NTC) said yesterday that reports that Colonel Muammar Gaddafi’s son Mutassim was captured in Sirte are untrue and his whereabouts are unknown. “There is absolutely no evidence that Mutassim is in custody in any of our battalions
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      237 46 AGENCIES ROME Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi appealed for his political survival yesterday, telling Parliament that his government is the only credible alternative to help guide the country through the growing sovereign debt crisis. Mr Berlusconi’s three-and-a-half-year-old government faces a confidence vote today
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      165 46 AGENCIES BlackBerry services buzzed back to life around the world last night, after a three-day outage that interrupted email messages and Internet services for millions of customers. Research In Motion (RIM), the maker of the phones, said the company was flushing through stalled messages. Some
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      345 48 AP SEAL BEACH (California) A gunman opened fire in a busy hair salon on Wednesday, killing eight people and critically wounding another while leaving bodies scattered throughout the business in a normally sedate Southern California beach community. The gunman then stepped
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      128 48 AGENCIES Iran acknowledged on Wednesday that its plans to send a live monkey into space last month has failed. Seen as a first step towards launching a man into space, Iran’s attempt was the latest advance in a missile and space programme that has
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      THREE-YEAR-OLD’S ARM TORN OFF BY WASHING MACHINE
      209 50 A British toddler helping his mother with the laundry had his arm ripped off by a washing machine in a freak accident. Three-year-old Lewis, from Chesire, opened the door of the front loading machine during a cycle. But instead of stopping automatically, the
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      123 50 THE GUARDIAN British Petroleum (BP) and its partners on the doomed Deepwater Horizon oil rig face fines of up to US$45 million (S$57.6 million) after receiving formal notice of a series of safety violations leading up to the Gulf
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      Lock icon FRENCH TEACHER SELF-IMMOLATES DURING RECESS
      93 50 AP France’s Education Minister says a high school math teacher in southern France sprayed herself with a flammable product and set herself alight in the school yard during recreation. Mr Luc Chatel said the motives behind the incident, which took place early yesterday in the
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      359 50 AGENCIES TAURANGA A cargo ship that has already spilled hundreds of tonnes of oil stayed perched on a New Zealand reef yesterday while salvage crews were undecided on whether the remaining fuel could be pumped from the vessel before it breaks up. Rescue
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      Lock icon New stem cell method can replace liver cells with skin cells
      275 52 AGENCIES LONDON A genetic fault responsible for a fatal liver condition has been completely corrected by British scientists in a stem cell experiment which could bring patient-specific treatments closer to reality. The scientists from the University of Cambridge and
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      190 52 It's a bird, it's a plane no, it's Superfan REUTERS CALAMBA CITY (Philippines) Filipino designer Herbert Chavez (picture) has taken his love for Superman up, up and away, undergoing cosmetic surgery to look like the Man of Steel. “Superman is my idol. I want to look like him,” said Mr
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      245 52 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH Fragments of 700-year-old DNA from the bug responsible for the Black Death have been pulled from the teeth of four plague victims buried in east London. Scientists used the degraded strands to reconstruct the entire genetic code of the
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      124 52 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH A series of tests on Indian fruits, including Himalayan apples and pomegranates, bananas from the south, grapes from Maharashtra, found the guava exotic in Europe but a poor man’s fruit in India to be the ultimate superfood with the highest concentration of antioxidants
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      Lock icon Public toilets to ease Everest's waste problem?
      308 54 THE GUARDIAN KATHMANDU A Nepali environmental group is petitioning the government in Kathmandu to put portable toilets on the top of the world Everest base camp as part of a new management plan for the high-altitude region. The environmental group, Eco Himal, argues
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      153 54 AP Influential British magazine Art Review has named Mr Ai Weiwei (picture) of China as its most powerful artist of 2011. Ai’s fame soared after he was arrested in April and held for 81 days amid a crackdown on dissidents, lawyers, and government
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      271 54 AGENCIES LONDON Danes are the most satisfied with the quality of their life, according to an influential economic think-tank’s attempt to examine how happy humans are. In a survey that covered 40 countries, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development found that Danes rated
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      289 56  -  YVONNE CHAN SINGAPORE A possible resolution to Europe’s debt crisis at the end of the month has given some cheer to Asian investors. The MSCI’s Asia Pacific Index climbed 1.5 per cent yesterday, following six consecutive days of gains a far cry from the
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      289 56  -  AVELYN NG avelynngsy@mediacorp.com.sg WITH AGENCIES SINGAPORE Confidence levels among Singapore’s traders registered the steepest decline in a semi-annual index of trade companies, according to a report by HSBC. HSBC’s Trade Confidence Index, which surveys the outlook of importers and exporters globally, fell to 105 in
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      298 62 REUTERS BRATISLAVA The euro zone could fall back into recession and the European Central Bank (ECB) will discuss cutting interest rates at its policy meeting next month, ECB policymakers said yesterday. ECB governing council member Erkki Liikanen stressed, however, that the
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      222 62 SINGAPORE The overall business outlook of small- and medi-um-sized enterprises (SME) has turned south for the next two quarters, according to a survey by the Singapore Business Federation (SBF) and DP Information Group. Amid economic uncertainties, the overall business outlook of SMEs has moved
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      204 62 CCT's Q3 distributable income falls 7.8 SINGAPORE CapitaCommercial Trust (CCT), an office landlord partly owned by CapitaLand, reported yesterday a distributable income of S$51.9 million for the third quarter, down 7.8 per cent from the same period last year. This is due to lower rental income following the sale of
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      58 64 THURSDAY CLOSE 11,478.10 (-0.35%) Wednesday 11,518.80 p 0.90% Tuesday 11,416.30 q 0.15% Monday 11,433.20 p 2.97% Friday 11,103.10 q 0.18% NYSETOP 5 BY VOLUME NAME VOL PRICE CHANGE Bank of America 226.2m $6.22 q 5.47% Sprint Nextel 98.2m $2.78 p 8.17% JPMorgan Chase 77.9m $31.60 q 4.82% Citigroup 62.7m
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      14 64 È FTSE100 5,403.38 H DAX È È DAX 5,914.84 (-1.33%) CAC40 3,186.94 (-1.33%)
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        47 64 Three-day rally snapped The Dow and S&P 500 slipped after JPMorgan’s earnings and China’s soft trade data revived worries about the impact of slower growth on profits, putting an end to three straight days of gains. US Ç NASDAQ 2,620.24 (+0.60%) S&P500 1,203.66 (-0.30%) È
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        38 64 Six-day rally snapped Brent crude snapped six sessions of gains, trading down 25 US cents to US$111.11 after data showed further declines in oil demand from China. US crude fell US$1.34 to close at US$84.23 a barrel.
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      453 64 Search giant’s ad revenue thus far unaffected by global uncertainty THE NEW YORK TIMES AFTERNOON LATEST SAN FRANCISCO Google has been spooking shareholders by charging ahead with high-priced acquisitions and new businesses. But its third-quarter earnings, announced yesterday, provided some comfort that its central business, search advertising,
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      126 64 REUTERS JPMorgan Chase’s quarterly earnings fell 25 per cent, excluding an accounting gain, as European financial turmoil reduced demand for securities underwriting and acquisition advice by 31 per cent. These were the first results for the third quarter from a major United States
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      112 64 AGENCIES Zynga, the online-game developer that is planning an initial public offering, filed to list its shares on the Nasdaq Stock Market, home to Apple, Google and Microsoft. By listing on the Nasdaq, the gaming startup bucks a recent trend of young Internet companies listing on
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      84 58 Packed with the goodness of real fruit juice and calcium from yoghurt with live probiotic cultures, Marigold 0% Fat Yoghurt Drink promotes a healthy digestive system. Now, with every purchase of two packets of 1 -litre Marigold 0% Fat Yoghurt Drink, you’ll
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      76 58 Formulated with plant extracts, Biolyn Scalp Balancing Serum protects hair follicles, controls oil sebum and nourishes hair with vital nutrients. It also strengthens the roots and stimulates hair. Results vary depending on individuals. Comes in a 60ml pump bottle (S$68) and a new 35ml travel size (S$28).
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      A TASTE OF HOKKAIDO
      116 58 If you’ve got a yen for Japanese food, head down to Triple Three restaurant at Mandarin Orchard to enjoy a taste of Hokkaido. Enjoy a sumptuous buffet featuring a spread of 128 dishes and 10 live food stations. Awaken your tastebuds with Hokkaido delicacies including Shirotsubu
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      THE WINNING SHOT
      79 58 In the recent TopShots Powered by Canon contest, six images were shortlisted from Canon’s on-air contest on 987FM. Today readers were invited to vote for their favourite sports image. Photographer William Lee, using a Canon EOS 7D, won for his picture of a diver in action. He
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      74 58 Enjoy a refreshing bath with Dettol’s High Performance For Men range. Created exclusively for men, the range of body wash products provides deep-cleansing, invigorating freshness and a masculine scent to boot. For a fresh take, try the Extreme shower gel and for a boost
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      TREATS FROM DOWN UNDER, BY THE POOL
      73 58 The Singapore Marriott Hotel’s Pool Grill presents the De Bortoli Wines menu sumptuous dishes prepared by chefs using the freshest ingredients. The menu changes weekly and features signature chefs’ dishes such as wagyu beef breasola, handmade potato gnocchi and King George whiting fillets.
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      81 58 More than 700 people attended the launch of the NTUC FairPrice Walk for Rice South East. About 2,800 bowls of rice were raised at the event. FairPrice donates one bowl of rice for every 100m walked. It aims to raise 500,000 bowls of rice for 7,000
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      VERY FIRST MOTHER’S MILK
      81 58 Did you know that colostrum is the milk secreted by cows within the first three days of calving? Originating from New Zealand, Ripple Colostrum Milk Powder helps boost immunity and growth development. What’s more, it helps benefit bone and joint health, and improves muscle mass. Ripple
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      392 66 THE GUARDIAN CANBERRA An Australian court has temporarily banned Samsung from selling its new Galaxy tablet computer in the country. This presents another setback for the South Korean electronics company in a global patent battle with Apple, which accuses it of slavishly copying the iPad
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      262 66 AGENCIES Sony is recalling 1.6 million Bravia flat-panel TVs sold worldwide since 2007 because a faulty component may cause them to melt or catch fire. It is recalling the liquid-crys-tal display TVs after an incident in September which a customer noticed
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      738 68  - Foreign ownership rules: When the Government intervenes COMMENTARY COLIN TAN property@ Colin Tan is head of research and consultancy at Chesterton Suntec International. The issue of foreign ownership of private residential properties has been a fairly hot topic of debate for newspaper readers recently. Sensational news reports on foreigners buying
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      597 70  -  COMMENTARY AILEEN HAN Aileen Han is country manager for E&O Property (Singapore), part of the E&O Finally! After a long wait since your Sale and Purchase Agreement (SPA) signing, your property in Malaysia is ready for handover by the developer. Here are some
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      416 72 With all that’s gone on, Rooney’s mental strength will be severely tested AGENCIES LONDON England striker Wayne Rooney (picture) has been given a three-match international ban for his sending-off against Montenegro last Friday, UEFA said on Thursday. The ban, imposed by UEFA’s disciplinary
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      374 72 REUTERS KRAKOW Ireland, whose only appearance at a European Championship came back in 1988, were given a huge boost yesterday in their bid to reach next year’s finals when they were drawn to play Estonia in the twolegged
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      177 72 REUTERS YEREVAN Armenia have filed an official protest to UEFA over what they believe were wrong decisions by the referee in their Euro 2012 qualifying defeat by Ireland in Dublin, the Armenian FA (FFA) announced yesterday. Armenia needed to win their final Group B qualifier to finish
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      Lock icon Andre Villas-Boas backs new stadium plans
      354 74 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH LONDON Andre Villas-Boas (picture) yesterday suggested leaving Stamford Bridge would eventually be viewed as a good decision for a brand new 60,000-seat stadium. Chelsea manager VillasBoas backed the club’s bid to repurchase the freehold of their current home, which has been
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      555 74 Argentine striker refuses to apologise despite face-to-face meeting at Man City manager Mancini’s house THE GUARDIAN AFTERNOON LATEST LONDON Roberto Mancini has taken the extraordinary step of instigating peace talks with Carlos Tevez by inviting him to his house for a clear-the-air meeting
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      Lock icon Henry: I took a gamble hiring Dalglish
      262 74 AGENCIES LONDON Liverpool owner John W Henry said that he was concerned about Kenny Dalglish’s return to football management and that he had initially wanted to keep Roy Hodgson to revive the club’s ailing fortunes. Henry was worried about appointing Dalglish in January,
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      510 76  -  Hopes of another SEA Games silver for 4x100m relay men take a hit as Elfi is still down LOW LIN FHOONG linfhoong@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The men’s 4x100m quartet of Gary Yeo, Muhammad Elfi Mustapa, Lee Cheng Wei and Muhd Amirudin Jamal had targeted a second successive
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      500 76  -  SHAMIR OSMAN SINGAPORE The Jalan Besar pitch looked like a wide open field of endless green at times this year, when the Courts Young Lions went about their training sessions. There have been instances when as few
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      219 76  -  LOW LIN FHOONG SINGAPORE The International Federation of Netball Associations (IFNA) emerged winners at the International Sports Event Management Awards (ISEM) 2011 in London on Wednesday night, after clinching the Brand Presentation award for the 2011 Mission Foods World Netball Championships, which was hosted in Singapore from
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      594 78 Veteran French star Harinordoquy says they will have to raise their game to reach final AGENCIES 2011 RUGBY WORLD CUP, SEMI-FINAL France vs Wales AUCKLAND Only eight months ago, Wales were on an eight-match winless streak, their worst run in eight years. But
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      464 78 AP NEW YORK Commissioner David Stern said his “gut” tells him there will be no NBA basketball on Christmas without a labour agreement by Tuesday. That day, when owners and players are scheduled to meet with a federal mediator, is
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      48 74 [pLAYA Always play with care. [responsibly] Do not bet illegally. No person under the age of 18 years shall be allowed to purchase a ticket or to claim any prize. For details, visit www.singaporepools.com.sg or call 6786 6688 Towards Community Purpose and Benefit SINGAPORE RGB Reg No: *****0202G
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      48 1 ARTS MUSIC MOVIES TELEVISION WINE DINE STYLE DESIGN HEALTH TECH TRAVEL CARS CHEF FERRAN ADRIA’S NEW BOOK IS FINALLY OUT T2 CARS: THE AUDI A6 IS A COOL REV-ELATION T14 OCTOBER 14, 2011 A PUBLICATION OF GIVE ‘EM A TOAST! THE KNOLLS AT CAPELLA IS A DEFINITE MUST-TRY
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      978 2  -  Famed for his extravagant culinary innovations, Ferran Adria has written a recipe book of family meals. But you will still need a nitrous oxide siphon for some of them Joanna Moorhead features@mediacorp.com.sg THE GUARDIAN FERRAN Adria is a world-famous chef whose wild genius in the kitchen is often
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      500 4  -  From hawker stall to trendy cafe,Wok Barrel holds the new secret to restaurant success FOOD REVIEW ANNETTE TAN WOK Barrel is the kind of culinary success story that Singaporean foodies love to celebrate. A hawker, popular for her nasi lemak, trades her stall in Maxwell Market for
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      Lock icon This round’s on ... Harry Grover
      497 4  - This round’s on Harry Grover Boozy conversations about what makes people smile DON MENDOZA HE JOINS an enduring glut of professionals who have traded comfy careers behind a desk for the relentless toils of running an independent food service business. In this Australian import’s case, it’s because of a unique
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      546 6  -  Amidst a leafy tropical setting,The Knolls serves an elegant menu of mostly Mediterranean delights FOOD REVIEW ANNETTE TAN WEEKENDS may see a flurry of staycationers at the beautifully verdant Capella Singapore, but on weekdays, the sprawling property feels almost deserted save for its staff. And I say
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      Lock icon Mini baked organic egg cocotte with iberico ham
      445 8  -  Chef Gan shows us how to make a simple, decadent breakfast RECIPE: CLEVER CASSEROLES DON MENDOZA GORDON Grill has been a popular destination for fans of fine steak and quality continental cuisine for generations. And its executive chef Gan Swee Lai has
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      285 6 Become an international jetsetter with Jetstar! Based in Singapore Jetstar Airways, a Qantas Group airline, is continuing to expand its Singapore hub. Jetstar was the first long-haul, low fares airline to commence flying from Singapore. We currently fly from a number of Australian cities to destinations in the Asia region,
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      196 8 if team SINGAPORE Pride Performance Perseverance Every sacrifice is worth it. The fun of bowling got me into the game. But it was my love for the sport that kept me in it. To improve my accuracy, I forced myself to change my bowling style, even if that meant being
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      347 10 FBI charges man in Hollywood celebrity hacking case REUTERS FEDERAL officials on Wednesday arrested a 35-year-old Florida man and charged him with 26 counts of cyberrelated crimes against Hollywood stars following an 11-month federal probe dubbed “Operation Hackerazzi”. Victims included actresses Scarlett Johansson, Mila Kunis
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      279 10 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH BEYONCE Knowles has strongly denied suggestions that she is wearing a fake baby bump. Rumours have been circulating since the singer who is married to the rapper Jay-Z appeared on an interview on Australian television, in which her bump appeared
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      452 14  -  BMW’s ConnectedDrive technologies promise to make its future cars smarter and safer Daryl Lee Daryl Lee in Munich, Germany features@mediacorp.com.sg FROM the brick-sized mobile phones of the ’80s to the small-enough-to-fit-in-your-pocket smartphones, the evolution of technology has been an exciting one. BMW intends to pull off a
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      341 14  -  Suzuki is the first to roll out live traffic updates into a satnav system to make life on the road easier JULIAN LOW The future of satellite navigation in Singapore has been revealed to us. While current systems bark instructions on where to turn,
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      377 15  -  Audi’s A6 is superb in top trim, but the less expensive variant shows it’s no flash in the pan CAR REVIEW DERRYN WONG AUDI calls theA6 its “game-changer”, since it’s meant to take the fight straight to BMW and Mercedes-Benz.The brand with four-rings has traditionally done
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