Today, 5 November 2011

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1 12 Today
  • 17 1 TODAY on Saturday www.todayonline.com November 5, 2011 A PUBLICATION OF NEWS HOTLINE 6822 2268 MICA (P) 200/02/2011
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  • 504 1 AGENCIES CANNES Leaders of the world’s 20 most powerful economies failed to agree on how to increase the firepower of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to help stem the European debt crisis even as they acknowledged its resources should be boosted. The
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  • 794 1  -  LOH CHEE KONG news editor cheekong@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Even as Europe tries to drag itself out of its debt trap through belttightening measures, it has to, at the same time, mull over how it can spur growth. “Growth has to be
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  • HOT NEWS
    • 407 2 AGENCIES WASHINGTON Employers in the United States added fewer-than-expected workers to their payrolls last month, making only a small dent in the high unemployment rate in the world’s largest economy. The US economy created 80,000 jobs last month, with the
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    • 380 2 BLOOMBERG ATHENS Greek politicians are trying to map out a plan to put in place a new government to ratify last week’s European Union bailout agreement as Prime Minister George Papandreou struggles to keep his majority in Parliament. With Mr Papandreou facing
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    • 410 2 AGENCIES CANNES Governments from the Group of 20 (G-20) economies will work together to combat cross-border tax evasion under an agreement approved yesterday, which supporters say could raise tens of billions of dollars at a time when indebted nations are scrambling
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    • 651 3  -  Ex-deputy director jailed 22 years, while former manager gets 15 years TANYA FONG tanyafong@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —The two former Singapore Land Authority (SLA) employees who masterminded one of the Republic’s largest public sector frauds were punished by the law yesterday. Koh Seah Wee, 41, a former SLA
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    • 370 3  -  Two existing strains evolve into possibly more aggressive TAN WEIZHEN weizhen@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE A new and possibly more aggressive strain of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) has surfaced here, evolving from two existing strains. The recombinant strain AE-B was discovered by researchers from the Department
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    • 365 4  -  ESTHER NG SINGAPORE If the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) had its way, animal abusers would be hit with heftier fines and jail terms, among other penalties. The move to review the Animals and Birds Act
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    • 389 4 AGENCIES SYDNEY A Qantas Airways flight diverted to Dubai landed safely yesterday after a problem forced the shutdown of one of the superjumbo jet’s four engines, while the airline’s chief executive was grilled by Australian lawmakers about his shock decision last
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    • 300 4  -  WAYNE CHAN waynechan@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE What happens if kids are in charge of the news? What if you could choose the outcome of a sitcom you’re watching? These are just some possibilities that could be made available to audiences through MediaCorp’s S$5 million Content Innovation
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    • 319 6 More than one in three polled by Nielsen had watched videos, movies or TV online in the past week SINGAPORE A growing number of people here are turning to multiple screens, including computers, smartphones and tablets, for their daily and weekly dose of media
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    • 320 6 CHANNEL NEWSASIA SINGAPORE Weekly television viewership has gone up, according to Nielsen Media Index Report. Free-to-air television viewership in the last week has retained the lion’s share of viewers at 91.6 per cent across all channels. But daily viewership has gone down
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    • 178 6 SINGAPORE The Chinese-language I-weekly remains the most read weekly entertainment magazine, reaching out to 4.7 per cent of the adult population, according to Nielsen’s Media Index Report. FHM saw a 4 per cent increase in readership, while Style magazine has
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    • 604 6 Online, smartphone and tablet editions see a sharp spike in readership SINGAPORE Today has once again maintained its position as Singapore’s secondmost read newspaper, across all languages, according to the latest Nielsen’s Media Index Report released yesterday. The survey of4,696
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    • 129 3 AUSTRALIAN Property EXPO in Singapore Coming to SINGAPORE CONRAD CENTENNIAL SINGAPORE HOTEL, TWO TEMASEK BOULEVARD NOVEMBER 10th to 13th NEW Information Sessions Discover how to buy, lease and manage an Australian property Ideal for anyone interested in investing in Australia 2007/0539A Parents of children studying in Australia Number: Bank Australian
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  • COMMENT&ANALYSIS
    • 1093 8  -  Either region embraces a multilateral structure of peace, or it becomes constrained by a system of military alliances YURIKO KOIKE Yuriko Koike is Japan’s former Minister of Defence and National Security Adviser. PROJECT SYNDICATE Despite the relentless shift of global economic might to Asia, and
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    • 840 10  -  The extreme concentration of income in the top 0.1 per cent is incompatible with real democracy PAUL KRUGMAN Paul Krugman is professor of economics and international affairs at Princeton University. He received the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2008. THE NEW YORK TIMES Inequality is back in
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    • 817 12  - Iran and the bomb it's time to act Obama’s softly-softly approach has not worked, and now Tehran is on the verge of getting nuclear arms CON COUGHLIN Con Coughlin, the Telegraph’s executive foreign editor, is a world-renowned expert on the Middle East and Islamic terrorism. THE DAILY TELEGRAPH Ever since
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    • 24 12 COMMENTARY ONLINE David Leo What’s in a name, ‘Scoop’... Karin Olsson Julian Assange goes from hero to zero AVAILABLEATTODAYONLINE.COM OR ON OUR MOBILE APPS
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  • VOICES
    • 465 14  -  Letter from Chua Soo Kiat I REFER to recent reports on the bankruptcy of MF Global, which should not be taken lightly by both retail investors and the regulator here. While the story is still unfolding, it is timely to highlight the inherent counterparty
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    • 138 14  -  LETTER FROM JEFFREY LAW LEE BENG I refer to the report “Nominations open for NMPs” (Nov 2). Given our fast-ageing population, there will be issues concerning the elderly in areas of employment, public transport, healthcare and housing. There should be avenues to
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    • 159 14  -  LETTER FROM ELIANE LUTHI POIRIER The letter “Double standards in vice control?” (Nov 4) reinforces the widespread myth that girls prostitute themselves voluntarily. The writer seems to believe thatyoung women from Thailand, Vietnam and the Philippines voluntarily enter Singapore expressly to carry out vice.
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    • 141 15  -  Letter from Adnan Suppiah Muniandy I REFER to the letter “Remove unfair taxes, and help reduce cost of living” (Nov 1). On the topic of water consumption, I cannot understand why the Government charges for the number of sanitary appliances in a home.
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    • 335 15  -  I SAY Leonard Loo Kok Swee The writer is studying computer science and economics at an overseas university. Ladies, hold your horses. Kindly let me explain why National Service can be beneficial for both you and Singapore. I propose a six-month NS in
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    • 206 14 have your say email your letters to voices@mediacorp.com.sg join the community www.todayonline.com/voices BRITISH AIRWAYS m Terms and Conditions: Sale ends 21 Nov 2011, unless sold out prior. Subject to availability. Return Economy Airfares from Singapore are inclusive of taxes and surcharges. Prices are correct as at 14 Oct 2011 but
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 438 18  - Keeping older workers healthy ONG DAI LIN dailin@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —A health corner where workers can measure their blood pressure and weight. Weekly Monday morning exercises for them to keep fit. Investment in machinery to ease workers’ burden of carrying heavy cartons. These are some of the measures that corrugated box
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    • 246 18  -  ONG DAI LIN Out of the 410 new recruits that the National Environment Agency (NEA) hired in the past financial year, 29 per cent were aged 50 and above. Ms Gloria Chin, director of its human resource division,
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    • 142 18 CHANNEL NEWSASIA SINGAPORE Kitchener Complex, near Lavender MRT Station, will be the latest Housing and Development Board (HDB) commercial building to receive a fresh lease of life. The HDB said it will give the 25-year-old complex an extensive makeover to transform it into a new lifestyle
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    • 542 20  - Awards for voluntary work TANYA FONG tanyafong@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Although his voluntary work for the last 35 years was mainly “behind the scenes”, the impact was no less extraordinary. Seeing a former inmate receiving a Prime Minister’s Book Prize and knowing that one of them made it to law school overseas
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    • 303 20  -  DYLAN GOH SINGAPORE Future and existing buildings will need to be equipped for broadband and mobile connectivity. This will be after the Infocomm Development Authority publishes new building codes in the first half of next year. Before the codes are finalised and published, however,
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    • 144 20 For the second time in a week, SingTel’s fibre services have experienced intermittent interruptions. Some callers to MediaCorp’s News hotline yesterday complained about their Internet access on SingTel’s service. When contacted yesterday, a SingTel spokesperson said it was investigating the cause of the problem,
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  • WORLD
    • 301 22 AGENCIES BANGKOK Thailand’s record floods encroached deeper into the capital yesterday, swamping a major intersection in the northern edge of the city centre and threatening the underground subway system. The water from the country’s worst flooding in more than half a century was filling
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    • 147 22 BANGKOK POST Two major wildlife bodies in Thailand are investigating whether reports that deadly mambas are on the loose around Bangkok are a hoax. The claim that the venomous green mambas, one of Africa’s deadliest snakes, had escaped from a house in a floodhit
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    • 226 22 AGENCIES JOHOR BARU With one-third of neighbouring Thailand inundated and the north-east monsoon beginning, Malaysia is bracing for its worst floods in decades. National Security Council (NSC) secretary Mohamed Thajudeen Abdul Wahab said on Thursday that preparations began as early as July, with
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    • 206 23 REUTERS BEIJING China urged Iran yesterday to show flexibility over its controversial nuclear programme and warned that the use of force to resolve the issue was the last thing the Middle East needed at the moment. The United States, Britain and France
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    • 215 23 AGENCIES United States intelligence officials have accused China and Russia of systematically stealing American high-tech data for their national economic gain. US officials and cybersecurity experts said the US must openly confront China and Russia in a broad diplomatic push to combat
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    • 164 23 AGENCIES Japan’s government yesterday allocated ¥900 billion (S$14.63 billion) of public money to help a utility decontaminate its tsunamidamaged nuclear power plant and dismantle the reactors. The aid, which comes from the fund made up of all Japanese nuclear plant operators and the
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    • 114 23 AP Rescuers pulled seven injured miners to the surface yesterday and were trying to reach 50 others trapped after a cave-in at the coal mine, state media reported. Four miners were killed when the cave-in blasted rock into the mine shaft
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    • 135 24 AGENCIES MOSCOW A six-man international crew of researchers (picture) yesterday wrapped up a gruelling 520-day isolation simulation meant to simulate a return flight to Mars. Pale but smiling, the all-male crew of three Russians, a Frenchman, an Italian-Colombian and a Chinese emerged from the facility, a network of
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    • 221 24 AGENCIES BEIJING A hospital in China’s Guangdong province has suspended four medical workers for mistakenly diagnosing a stillbirth and disposing of a baby who was still alive, Chinese state media said yesterday. Health authorities in Guangdong province have launched an investigation into the incident
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    • 125 24 AP Police in eastern China have busted a human trafficking ring involving poor migrant couples who were selling their babies, a state-run newspaper reported yesterday. Police in Shandong province’s Zoucheng city found last month that 17 infants had been sold to Chinese buyers, the
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    • 147 24 AP A three-year-old girl comforted herself with a teddy bear and ate leftovers from the refrigerator for two days after her mother died unexpectedly in their home in Wellington, New Zealand. The girl’s uncle, Mr Pete Silbery, said the family last spoke
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    • 77 25 i WEEKEND HALL OFAWESOMENESS An event for the whole fomil/this school holido/s. t 4 t ii i *Y *>V*» •I 4' V 4 V/fcv- l; m 4 V A I i 4 7 V V H v' V v V s A Some so/ fairies onl/ appear in fair/ tales.
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  • SCIENCE
    • 540 26 THE NEW YORK TIMES NEW YORK In a potentially fundamental advance, researchers have opened up a novel approach to combating the effects of ageing with the discovery that a special category of cells, known as senescent cells, are bad actors
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    • 233 26 THE GUARDIAN LONDON It looks like something out of a slightly unhinged cartoon artist’s imagination long snout, dagger-like canines and a powerful set of muscles with which to chew its insect food. However, Cronopio dentiacutus is no Warner Brothers creation but a small
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    • 411 26 AP WASHINGTON The global output of heat-trapping carbon dioxide jumped by the biggest amount on record, the United States Department of Energy calculated, a sign of how feeble the world’s efforts are at slowing man-made global warming. The new
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  • BUSINESS
    • 51 27 FRIDAY CLOSE 2,848.24 (+1.36%) Thursday 2,810.04 q 0.87% Wednesday 2,834.75 p 1.63% Tuesday 2,789.35 q 2.33% Monday 2,855.77 q 1.72% TOP 5 BY VOLUME NAME VOL PRICE CHANGE Golden Agr 66,560 s$0.655q 1.504% Genting SP 65,386 s$1.725 p 1.77% Mewah 47,761 s$0.465p9.412% Noble Grp 44,972 s$1.565p2.288% S i2i 40,624
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    • 26 27 Ç HANG SENG 19,842.79 (+3.12%) Ç Ç Ç Ç Ç NIKKEI 8,801.40 (+1.86%) SHANGHAI 2,528.29 (+0.81%) AUSTRALIA 4,281.10 (+2.62%) MUMBAI 17,562.61 (+0.46%) MALAYSIA 1,477.51 (+1.04%)
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    • 91 27 STOCK CALL Hold s$11.28 Deutsche Bank keeps its Hold call on SIA, and lowers its target to S$ 10.80 from S$13.20. House notes SIA’s 49 per cent on-year decline in second-quarter fiscal 2012 net profit and cuts its *****014 net profit forecasts by 32 per cent, 41 per cent
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    • 83 27 DOW JONES Singapore-listed Perennial China Retail Trust said yesterday it plans to acquire a 50-per-cent stake in the Chengdu Longemont Shopping Mall Development in China for about 2.28 billion yuan (S$456 million). The mall, expected to start operations in the third quarter of
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    • 100 27 REUTERS Singapore Technologies Engineering said yesterday its net profit edged up slightly by 3 per cent on-year to S$133.8 million in the third quarter. This was partly due to the write-back of allowance for inventory obsolescence as a result of a group-wide industry
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    • 256 27 SINGAPORE The Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) has rejected the only bid submitted by the subsidiaries of UOL Group and Singapore Land for a commercial site at Sims Avenue Tanjong Katong Road because the price is too low. UOL Venture Investments and SL
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    • 78 27 DOW JONES Sembcorp Industries said yesterday that its third-quarter net profit fell 8.9 per cent due to higher expenses and a one-time gain reported by the group’s marine unit a year earlier. Its net profit declined to S$222.4 million from S$244.1 million a
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    • 76 27 DOW JONES Singapore-listed Yanlord Land Group said yesterday that it is acquiring a 50 per cent stake in Shanghai Renpin Property Development Co for about 1.66 billion yuan (S$332 million). The deal is part of Yanlord’s move to form a joint
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    • 161 27 REUTERS MF Global’s operations in Asia and Australia have received nearly 40 credible offers and a sale is expected to be agreed by the weekend, the provisional liquidator for the brokerage’s Hong Kong unit said yesterday. Mr Patrick Cowley, a principal
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    • 129 27 BLOOMBERG Bharti Airtel, India’s largest mobilephone operator, said it may raise up to US$1 billion (S$1.26 billion) from an overseas bond sale to pare borrowing costs after reporting its lowest quarterly profit in more than four years. The New Delhi-based
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  • MARKETBUZZ
    • 383 28 For the upcoming school holidays, take your children to okto’s Weekend Hall Of Awesomeness (WHOA!). The Max Pavilion at the Singapore Expo will be transformed into one huge carnival to feature a live show arena and playground. Here are some things your children can look
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    • 123 28 SEIKO has been creating innovative timepieces since its inception in 1881 when Mr Kintaro Hattori founded SEIKO at Kyobashai, Tokyo. Today, SEIKO has become one of the most well-known brands in watchmaking, having created many world’s firsts. To celebrate its 130th anniversary, SEIKO
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    • 163 28 Haagen-Daz’s new premium range of ice cream Secret Sensations contains a hidden surprise that will heighten your ice cream experience. In the heart of each tub of rich creamy ice cream, you’ll find a soft liquid filling, giving you a burst of delightful sweetness. It is this
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    • 103 28 The Manhattan FISH MARKET at Plaza Singapura has reopened its doors. Apart from its stylish New York City-inspired setting, the restaurant has added new items to the menu such as Crab-o Olio Pasta, Manhattan Fish ‘n’ Chips (Cod), corn salad and cheese fries. There is also
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  • PERSONAL FINANCE
    • 933 29  -  COMMENTARY SHRIKANT BHAT Shrikant Bhat is head of wealth management at Citibank Singapore. With markets swinging about as they do these days, it is natural for some investors to focus on spotting winners and try to pick the perfect entry and exit points. But growing
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  • SPORTS
    • 726 30  -  Serb not surprised he’s leading Singapore into battle for the much-cherished football gold PHILIP GOH philipgoh@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Not many fans have heard of Slobodan Pavkovic (picture). The 55-year-old was appointed technical director of the Football Association of Singapore (FAS) in March, 2008. He was named coach
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    • 616 31  -  No centralised ‘Singapore House’, as SSC spread Games services across Jakarta and Palembang TAN YO-HINN yohinn@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE At the 2009 SEA Games in Vientiane, Laos, Team Singapore’s 192 athletes enjoyed facilities and services provided by the sports science and sports medicine team from the Singapore
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    • 594 32  -  Aussie legend starts his comeback with a steady swim as Le Clos sends out a warning LOW LIN FHOONG linfhoong@mediacorp.com.sg SWIMMING 2011 Fina/Arena Swimming World Cup SINGAPORE At around 7.30 last night, approximately 1,600 fans witnessed sports history when Ian Thorpe exploded out of the
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    • 410 32  -  LOW LIN FHOONG SINGAPORE It was her first competitive swim after taking on a new coach, Ian Turner, in September, and many were keen to see how Singapore star Tao Li (picture) would fare against potential rivals at next year’s Olympics.
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