Today, 8 November 2011

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  • 21 1 TODAY MICA (P) 031/10/2011 A PUBLICATION OF /M=DIACORP NEWS HOTLINE 6822 2268 Tuesday November 8, 2011 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking
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  • 567 1  -  NG JING YNG jingyng@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The Health Ministry (MOH) will be working with the Assisi Hospice one of Singapore’s oldest hospices to boost its capacity and develop it into a centre for palliative care training, as it prepares to release a National Strategy
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  • 549 1 Gold at six-week high as investors seek safe haven AGENCIES LONDON United States and European shares seesawed in the early hours of trading yesterday on Italy’s borrowing costs easing and rumours over the fate of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, while Asian stocks closed slightly
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    • 597 1 rnOeum C/osert.. ..i- V rx-M^ KS r!a£i National strategy on palliative care expected soon NG JING YNG jingyng@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The Health Ministry (MOH) will be working with the Assisi Hospice one of Singapore’s oldest hospices to boost its capacity and develop it into a centre for palliative care training, as
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  • HOT NEWS
    • 251 2 AGENCIES ATHENS The leaders of Greece’s two biggest political parties were in talks last night to choose the head of a new interim government, after reaching a historic power-sharing deal to accept a massive financial rescue package and prevent imminent bankruptcy. Socialist Prime
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    • 308 3 AGENCIES ROME Pressure is mounting on Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi (picture) to resign so a new government could pass the economic reforms Italy needs to avoid financial disaster, as the country’s borrowing rates spiked yesterday and talk of early elections
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    • 423 3 REUTERS TOKYO The Tokyo Stock Exchange and the Osaka Securities Exchange are in the final stages of talks to merge with the aim of combining forces towards the end of next year, the Nikkei newspaper reported yesterday, a merger that
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    • 295 4  - Carnival has a message for seniors CAROLYN QUEK carolynquek@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE You can grow old gracefully and actively this was the message to seniors at an Active Agers Carnival held yesterday morning at Ang Mo Kio Town Garden West. The first-such event to be jointly organised by the citizens’ consultative committees
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    • 520 6  -  NG JING YNG jingyng@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE When you and your classmates pass a foreign worker on the street and they start teasing the worker disrespectfully, should you say something about it? This is one example of a real-life case study that
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    • 606 8 AP BEIJING Thousands of people have sent more than 5.3 million yuan (S$1 million) to Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei, some tossing cash folded into paper aeroplanes over his gate, to help him pay a tax bill they see
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    • 256 8 HANOI Police have arrested a taxi driver a week after he overcharged by 40 times two Singaporean delegates to the 80th Interpol General Assembly meeting here. The driver works for the Phu Gia taxi company, but the police have not revealed his identity,
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    • 372 9 AGENCIES SYDNEY Qantas Airways and union workers met yesterday for their first negotiating session since the Australian airline grounded its entire fleet late last month over a bitter labour dispute. Mr Steve Purvinas, secretary of the Australian Licensed Aircraft Engineers Association, said Qantas
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    • 566 10 AGENCIES BANGKOK Floodwaters from Thailand’s flood-ravaged central heartland pushed farther into Bangkok yesterday, as residents of long-submerged provinces north of the capital started to rebuild their lives. The water slowly advancing through Bangkok’s northern and western neighbourhoods is threatening the
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  • COMMENT&ANALYSIS
    • 978 12  - Summitry proves irrelevant again WOLFGANG MUNCHAU Wolfgang Munchau is an associate editor of the Financial Times, where he writes a weekly column about the European Union and the European economy. THE FINANCIAL TIMES LIMITED The Group of 20 leading nations comprises the most powerful people on the planet. There is
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    • 846 14  -  Fracking for fossil fuels is not a dream come true; solar, on the other hand, is now cost-effective PAUL KRUGMAN Paul Krugman is professor of economics and international affairs at Princeton University. He received the Nobel Prize in Economics in THE NEW YORK TIMES For decades
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    • 793 16  -  A Feed in Tariff could mean higher electricity prices now, but it could pay off in the long DENNIS POSADAS Dennis Posadas is an author, tech columnist and consultant who blogs about clean energy issues. For many countries, the means to encourage a shift
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    • 236 12 i 0 informatics Touch the Future. OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY Top 40 UK University in Computer Sciences IT UK Guardian, Good University Guide 2012 The Best Modern University for 1 years in a row The Sunday Times, Good University 2011 91% of its graduates were employed within 6 months Bachelor of
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  • VOICES
    • 509 18  -  Letter from Chia Hern Keng I REFER to reports last week about another body being found in Bedok Reservoir, shortly before an inter-religious prayer ceremony was held there. The reports said it was the sixth body found in the reservoir since June. As many residents,
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    • 540 18 One man’s care and concern impressed Indian national Natarajan Manimaran so much that he decided to make Singapore his home SINGAPORE, MY HOME It was a stranger’s kind assistance, especially one from a different race, that will forever be etched in Natarajan Manimaran’s and his
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    • 219 20  -  LETTER FROM YEE KOK KEONG As a regular train commuter, I can see that there may be insufficient room for certain commuters during peak hours. I boarded the train at Commonwealth during the peak hour one day. There was a
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    • 372 20  -  Letter from Ivan Eio MR GARY Chan, in his letter “Ensure priority passengers get seats” (Nov 4), is right that public transport providers and their staff are responsible for the proper exercise of the duty of care. This would refer to non-negli-gence in
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    • 372 20  -  Letter from Poh Hui Jie I REFER to the letter “Ensuring priority passengers get seats” (Nov 4) and its simplistic solutions to the problem of priority passengers not getting seats. One suggestion was for transport operators to be held liable for accidents if
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 798 22  -  Some tenants acknowledge the need for a facelift but others may have to give up doing business TAN WEIZHEN weizhen@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE At the 25-year-old Kitchener Complex, numerous hardware stores jostle with the odd provision or coffee shop in a tumble of tired-looking businesses. Elderly
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    • 187 24  -  OLIVIA SIONG Singapore’s first Healing Garden (picture), home to some 500 species of plants with healing properties, will open its toxic plants section for guided tours in the first quarter of next year. Currently closed to the public, it contains about
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    • 268 24  -  JOANNE CHAN joannechan@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE While Singapore is located in the tropics, it does not always enjoy clear skies, making it a challenge for traditional solar panels to generate solar power efficiently. Hence, the Housing and Development Board (HDB) will be testing a more
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    • 272 25  -  NG PUAY LENG, WAYNE CHAN SINGAPORE The authorities have said that it is not possible to conserve every former school in Singapore, despite a Facebook campaign to “Save Old School” started by some alumni of Methodist Girls’ School, after plans were announced
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    • 167 25  -  LIP KWOK WAI With residents responding positively to a scheme giving them more say in the maintenance of public parks, the National Parks Board will be expanding the scheme to include another 60 parks by June next year. Launched in May 2008,
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    • 181 25  -  NG LIAN CHEONG Seven construction sites have violated new rules on construction noise pollution, by which sites cannot carry out works within 150m of residential areas on Sundays and public holidays. The new rules apply to all projects which started from September this
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  • WORLD
    • 328 26 AP HONG KONG Pro-Beijing parties in Hong Kong trounced the opposition as voters in the Chinese territory expressed discontent with pro-democratic parties in local elections that may predict the outcome of more important polls next year. Results from Sunday’s poll were released
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    • 156 26 A lone member of the Occupy Atlanta movement is arrested by members of the Atlanta Police Department at Woodruff Park early on Monday, Nov. 7, 2011 in Atlanta. The group was trying to reoccupy the park they had been encamped in for the second night in a
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    • 233 26 AP ISLAMABAD Pakistan revealed yesterday that it is training 8,000 additional people to protect the country’s nuclear arsenal, which the United States fears could be vulnerable to theft by militants. Those fears were heightened by a recent US magazine article that quoted unnamed Pakistani
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    • 243 28 AP LAGOS United States officials warned after a weekend of violence and fear that luxury hotels frequented by foreigners and Nigeria’s elite may be bombed by a radical Muslim sect as the death toll from attacks in the country’s north-east rose
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    • 182 28 AP PARIS A defiant and smiling Carlos the Jackal (picture), one of the most dreaded terror masterminds of the Cold War, went on trial again yesterday this time over four deadly attacks in France nearly three decades ago. The 62-year-old Venezuelan,
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    • 128 30 AGENCIES An All Nippon Airways Boeing 787 Dreamliner had to make a second landing attempt in Japan on Sunday, after a problem forced the pilot to manually deploy the main landing gear. The first glitch to affect a Dreamliner comes less than two weeks
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    • 135 30 AP Hundreds of foreign trekkers stranded up to a week left the Mount Everest region yesterday as fog and mist lifted and flights resumed at the area’s only airport. Some 20 flights took off from Lukla airport in the morning and more
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    • 255 30 AGENCIES MOSCOW Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has warned that military action against Iran would be a “very serious mistake fraught with unpredictable consequences” and said diplomacy was the only way to solve the standoff over Iran’s nuclear programme. His comments came after
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    • 183 32 REUTERS China took the Olympic flame up Mount Everest in 2008 but the summit of Snowdon, 1,085m above sea level, will mark the highest point of the torch relay for next year’s London Games. What Britain lacks in
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    • 88 32 Ms Ivian Sarcos, 21, of Venezuela was crowned Miss World 2011 at a glittering beauty pageant in London on Sunday as about 200 feminists held a demonstration outside the venue at Earls Court. The human resources graduate works for a broadcasting company and says her
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    • 212 32 AP NEW YORK It can be a malicious rumour whispered in the hallway, a lewd photo arriving by mobile phone, hands groping where they should not. Added up, it’s an epidemic student-on-student sexual harassment that is pervasive in America’s middle schools and
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  • BUSINESS
    • 304 34 REUTERS HONOLULU United States goals of establishing regional free trade and an environmental policy at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit are useful but too ambitious for some developing nations, China said yesterday, days before President Hu Jintao heads to Hawaii for
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    • 187 34 CHANNEL NEWSASIA BANGKOK Insurance companies face payouts related to record flooding in Thailand totalling a minimum of US$5 billion (S$6.3 billion), according to Aon Benfield, the world’s biggest reinsurance broker. That is half a billion dollars more than estimated by Thailand’s Office of
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    • 192 34 BLOOMBERG Reech Aim Group, the European alternative asset management group founded by Mr Christophe Reech, plans to expand its business in Asia after opening an office in Singapore and starting a new hedge fund focused on the region. The London-based company
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    • 336 36 REUTERS JAKARTA Indonesia posted steady growth of 6.5 per cent in the third quarter on buoyant domestic spending and private investment, and it showed few signs of slowing despite a weakening global economy. Annual growth in the thirdquarter was slightly lower than
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    • 19 36 MONDAY CLOSED Friday 2,848.24 p 1.36% Thursday 2,810.04 q 0.87% Wednesday 2,834.75 p 1.63% Tuesday 2,789.35 q 2.33%
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    • 25 36 HANG SENG 19,677.89 (-0.83%) NIKKEI 8,767.09 (-0.39%) È È SHANGHAI 2,509.80 4,335-3° AUSTRALIA È 4,335.30 Closed MUMBAI Closed MALAYSIA Closed SEOUL È 1,919.10 (-0.48%)
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    • 50 36 STOCK CALLS BUY S$1.41 DBS Vickers Securities maintains Hyflux at Buy, but lowers target to S$1.78 from S$2.07. House says Hyflux’s third-quarter results were “significantly below expectations” but expects earnings momentum to improve in the fourth quarter. It maintains Buy in view of decent upside and positive long-term prospects.
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  • DIGITAL
    • 363 37 REUTERS SHANGHAI Groupon’s Chinese daily deals business Gaopeng said yesterday it had sold counterfeit luxury watches by accident and will compensate its irate buyers in its latest struggle in expanding in the potentially lucrative market. The joint venture between Groupon and China’s top Internet
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    • 154 37 AGENCIES Swedish telecom equipment maker Ericsson is forecasting a tenfold increase in mobile data traffic over the next five years. Mobile broadband subscriptions will reach almost five billion in 2016, up from the expected 900 million by the end of the year,
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  • SPORTS
    • 709 38  -  Pavkovic talks up his charges, but team’s lack of pace and inability to create chances a huge worry SHAMIR OSMAN shamir@mediacorp.com.sg 2011 SEA GAMES, FOOTBALL, GROUP A Malaysia 0 Singapore 0 JAKARTA He walked into the room brow furrowed, lips pursed, looking far from
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    • 332 39  -  TAN YO-HINN SINGAPORE It will be one of the smallest sailing regattas in the history of the SEA Games, but the competition is set to be intense. In a phone interview from Jakarta last night, Singapore team manager Chung Pei Ming told Today that there
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    • 470 39  -  Former sprint star says there is pressure on the athletes but SAA target is realistic IAN DE COTTA ian@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE It has been 34 years since Canagasabai Kunalan starred in his final SEA Games. In 1977 in Kuala Lumpur, he bagged a
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    • 309 39  -  LOW LIN FHOONG SINGAPORE Sprinter Calvin Kang will fill the fourth spot in the men’s 4x100m relay team, as the quartet aim to defend their silver medal at the 2011 SEA Games, which will be jointly hosted in Jakarta and Palembang from
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      • 434 40  -  Zach Ong, 21, swimming, Singapore Management University business student, Competing in third SEA Games (2007, 2009), SEA Games medal record: Four golds (100m 200m backstroke, men’s 4x100m freestyle 4x200m freestyle), one bronze (100m backstroke) We continue our feature on the athletes who could strike gold for
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      • 392 41 Ruth Ng, 25, fencing, senior executive, Business Planning, Singapore Sports Institute, Competing in fifth SEA Games (2001, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2011) SEA Games medal record: Two golds (women’s team foil 2005, 2007), one bronze (women’s individual foil 2003) HER athletic career started on the badminton court.
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    • 149 41 JAKARTA The Indonesian government will give a Rp200 million (S$28,415) bonus to every local athlete who wins a gold medal at the 26th SEA Games. Indonesia will host the 2011 SEA Games in the capital Jakarta and Palembang from Nov 11 to 22. Antara
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    • 310 43 Redknapp’s down, but his team are climbing AGENCIES LONDON Tottenham Hotspur beat Fulham 3-1 on Sunday to send their 64-year-old manager Harry Redknapp the perfect get-well card after he underwent a minor procedure to unblock coronary arteries. Goals from Gareth Bale, Aaron Lennon and Jermain Defoe handed Tottenham
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    • 132 43 REUTERS LONDON British police are investigating a threatening letter sent to QPR defender Anton Ferdinand, who is involved in a race row with Chelsea and England soccer captain John Terry. A spokesman for the Metropolitan Police confirmed that officers were called after the letter, which reportedly
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    • 1039 2  -  Young, foolish and happy isn’t just the title for Pixie Lott’s new album CHRISTOPHER TOH christophertoh@mediacorp.com.sg BACK in 2009, a teenager from Britain with the moniker Pixie Lott made the headlines when she released a song called Mama Do. It hit No 1 in
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    • 352 4  -  US rockers The National brought the house down with a sing-along CONCERT REVIEW CHRISTOPHER TOH IN ANY concert, we’re always waiting for the grand finale, the big blow out to end the gig. But American rockers The National didn’t need such chicanery on Sunday night at the Esplanade
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    • 406 4 Lady Gaga steals show at MTV Europe Awards again REUTERS LADY Gaga stole the show at the MTV Europe Music Awards in Belfast on Sunday, scooping four prizes and going one better than 2010 when she also led the field with three. The flamboyant 25-year-old New Yorker won best female,
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      • 140 6  -  KEVIN MATHEWS Visually, Andrew Cohen (aka Mayer Hawthorne) could be mistaken for Weezer’s Rivers Cuomo, what with his horn- rimmed glasses and pasty white skin, but he produces some of the finest blue-eyed soul heard in a long time. Musically, Hawthorne hearkens back to
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    • 546 9 THE NEW YORK TIMES SOME women who drink to their health may want to reconsider. A new study has found that women who routinely have even small amounts of alcohol, as few as three drinks a week, have an elevated risk
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    • 155 11 ON MEDIACORP RAIL THRILL Channel 8, 8pm Both hosts will visit Poland in this episode. SAJ KUMAR Vasantham, 9pm Expect nothing but laughter and banter in this new series, Saj and Kumar. Fashion, food, hobbies, health, travel are some of the many themes that will be covered weekly. Hosts Sajini
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