Today, 25 November 2011, Afternoon Edition

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  • 40 1 TODAY MICA (P) 031/10/2011 A PUBLICATION OF NEWS HOTLINE 6822 Friday November 25, 2011 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking AFTERNOON EDITION MICA (P) 031/10/2011 A PUBLICATION OF NEWS HOTLINE 6822 2268 Friday November 25, 2011 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking
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  • 521 1 AGENCIES STRASBOURG An inaugural meeting between newly-installed Italian Premier Mario Monti and the leaders of France and Germany failed to yield the desired outcome that the markets had hoped for: A consensus on a greater role for the European Central Bank (ECB) in solving
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  • 596 1  -  ESTHER NG estherng@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Civil servants will get a 0.75 month bonus in addition to their annual 13th month payout at the end of next month, the Public Service Division (PSD) announced yesterday. This takes their variable payment for the year to 2.25 months
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    • 7 1 SHOCK EXIT FOR RAFAEL NADAL SPORTS PAGE
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    • 70 1 4,200 BTO FLATS LAUNCHED HOT NEWS 3 HOT NEWS 4 PSLE RESULTS A PROUD DAY FOR THESE PARENTS COMMENT&ANALYSIS BEN BLAND VIETNAM UNDER ECONOMIC STRAIN 18 ANDREW S REYNOLDS EGYPT’S DOOMED ELECTION 20 GRACE SEGRAN DANGERS ON THE HORIZON FOR CHINA 21 NEW YORK TIMES EDITORIAL WHAT IT MEANS TO
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  • HOT NEWS
    • 342 2 AGENCIES TOKYO Rating agency Standard and Poor’s (S&P) yesterday said Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda’s administration had not made progress in tackling the public debt burden, an indication it might be preparing to lower the nation’s sovereign grade. “Japan’s finances are getting worse
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    • 376 2 AP LISBON Portugal’s credit rating was downgraded to junk status yesterday just as a general strike virtually shut down public services and mass transit systems. Fitch, one of the three leading credit rating agencies, blamed Portugal’s “large fiscal
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    • 432 2 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH SHANGHAI While governments in the West fret about their dire finances, Chinese bureaucrats are facing the opposite problem: How to spend as much as 4.5 trillion yuan (S$926 billion) before January. With China’s financial year
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    • 333 3 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH LONDON Women’s pay in Britain will overtake that of men’s within a decade if current trends in the labour market continue, new figures from the Government show. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said that the “gender pay gap”
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    • 189 3 SINGAPORE The Housing and Development Board (HDB) yesterday launched 4,200 new flats in seven Build-To-Order (BTO) projects. The projects are in Bedok, Bukit Panjang, Hougang, Punggol and Yishun and come after the HDB’s bumper crop of 8,200 new flats offered two months ago. This round,
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    • 546 4 Rising dementia opens Asia's elderly to abuse, fraud often by family REUTERS HONG KONG Thin, frail and slightly demented, 83-year-old Yuk Po approached social workers for help after learning that her daughter had invested her life savings in Lehman Brothers’ minibonds, the notorious financial instruments that went bust in late
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    • 527 4  -  Top student for this year’s PSLE from Rulang Primary School scores an aggregate of 283 SUMITA SREEDHARAN, YU PEI FERN sumitas@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE One parent quit her high-fly-ing banking job to coach her daughter for the Primary School Leaving Examination (PSLE). Another parent presumably with
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    • 245 4  -  YU PEI FERN A total of 45,261 students sat for the PSLE this year, with 97.4 per cent or 44,106 pupils doing well enough to move on to secondary school. This year’s top student, Yasmin Ziqin Mohamed Yousoof from Rulang Primary School,
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    • 727 6  -  Chinese national recounts call out of the blue, pledge in blood and tattoo of lover TEO XUANWEI xuanwei@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Learning that she was a married woman whom he also suspected of seeing other men while they were dating did not snuff out his
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    • 407 8 AGENCIES SINGAPORE The provisional liquidators of brokerage MF Global Singapore have taken control of more than US$180 million (S$235.7 million) of customer funds out of a total of US$309 million maintained in financial institutions here and overseas, and are
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    • 719 8  -  Football chief Zainudin tackles criticism of SEA Games showing, S-League SHAMIR OSMAN shamir@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Football chief Zainudin Nordin had promised that by Nov 4, the details of what he called S-League version 2.0 would be released. He assured S-League clubs that by Nov
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    • 424 10 AGENCIES YANGON The Myanmar Parliament has passed a Bill that allows citizens to protest peacefully, the latest in a series of reforms since a civilian government took power in March. The Bill will require demonstrators to inform the authorities about their assembly “five
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    • 421 10 THE MALAYSIAN INSIDER KUALA LUMPUR Prime Minister Najib Razak received cheers in Malaysia’s Parliament yesterday as he moved to show the sincerity of his government’s promise of reforms. Mr Najib lifted three security Acts the 1966 Emergency proclamation
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    • 180 12 AP CANBERRA A healthy eight-month-old foetus was accidentally terminated in an Australian hospital after medical staff mistook him for his sick twin, the Herald Sun newspaper reported yesterday. The mother had decided to abort one of the twin boys on medical advice after learning
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    • 241 12  -  ESTHER NG SINGAPORE Five of the 10 modelling agencies fined this week by the Competition Commission of Singapore (CCS) for price-fixing are considering an appeal against the decision. Bees Work Casting, Diva Models, Impact Studio, Looque Models Singapore and Quest Model Management said
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    • 458 14 REUTERS SINGAPORE Nigeria, Indonesia and North Korea have the world’s highest rates of deforestation while China and the United States, the top two greenhouse gas polluters, have the lowest, a global ranking released yesterday shows. Growing demand for food and biofuels, rising populations,
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    • 177 14 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH An area of forest equal to Germany, Italy and Austria combined could be lost forever if Brazil’s Senate approves new laws on land clearance to be voted on within days, conservationists warned on Wednesday. Deforestation
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    • 183 16 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH LONDON Allowing children to be picky eaters could make them more prone to allergies later in life, scientists have warned. Three large studies are under way at King’s College London and Cambridge University in the United Kingdom, and Duke University
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    • 293 16 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH LONDON Three of Britain’s Olympic canoeists have introduced an “ultra-potent” secret ingredient to their diet to boost their training: A spoonful of honey. Jon Schofield, Liam Heath and Rachel Cawthorn are testing the honey as part
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  • COMMENT&ANALYSIS
    • 1723 18  -  Deep-seated problems, overlooked by investors in boom years, have moved into focus while new ones arise BEN BLAND Ben Bland is the FT’s Vietnam correspondent. THE FINANCIAL TIMES LIMITED Schooled in the arts of Marxist-Leninist political discipline, Vietnam’s communist rulers do not usually air their dirty
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    • 848 20  -  The rules virtually guarantee the new Parliament won’t reflect the people’s votes ANDREW S REYNOLDS Andrew S Reynolds is an associate professor of political science at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. THE NEW YORK TIMES Egypt, the largest and most important country to overthrow its
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    • 812 21  -  Grain, oil and finance present a triple threat, says Chinese economist David Li Daokui GRACE SEGRAN By all accounts, the Chinese economy is thriving. While America and Europe continue to struggle with debt and unemployment, China is moving from strength to strength. Still, Chinese
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    • 662 22 According to the Heritage Foundation, the typical poor household has roughly 14 of 30 amenities. In other words, how hard can things be if you have a refrigerator, air-conditioner, coffee maker, cellphone and other stuff? The rankings ignore the fact that
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    • 826 24  -  NICHOLAS D KRISTOF Nicholas D Kristofis a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner. THE NEW YORK TIMES It is pretty easy to conclude that the world is spinning down the toilet. So let me be contrary and offer a reason to be grateful this Thanksgiving. Despite the gloomy
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  • VOICES
    • 512 26  -  I SAY George Quek George Quek, 35, has been supporting the Lions since 1990. Any fan would be disappointed when his team is knocked out of the qualifying stages of the World Cup. But I also believe that a real football fan would
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    • 85 26  -  LETTER FROM PAUL ANTONY FERNANDEZ Two years ago, I asked “Why no Tamil on POSB ATMs?” (Nov 11, 2009) to serve this community, especially workers from India who do not have a basic understanding of English, which often results in unnecessary, long queues. May I ask
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    • 151 26  -  LETTER FROM JIMMY HO KWOK HOONG I refer to the report “Most lowincome families will not ask for help: Halimah” (Nov 23). I have doubts over the survey showing that 60 per cent of these families preferred to be self-suffi-cient than to
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    • 261 28  -  Letter from Lalitha Perera THIS is to clarify the report “Broadcast veteran Ananda Perera dies” (Sept 30) on the cause of my beloved husband’s demise. He was deemed to have died of pneumonia. In May, he underwent a second lobectomy due to a cancerous
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    • 377 28  -  Letter from Sivakkumaran Govindasamy THE report “Bedok Reservoir deaths reflect copycat behaviour: Balakrishnan” (Nov 22) brings attention to a bigger issue: The cost of and accessibility to trained professionals for those facing mental problems. Stress levels in Singapore have increased. A
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    • 133 28  -  LETTER FROM ARTHUR LIM The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) should clip the wings of irresponsible bloggers, who should have their photos published to send a message that the Internet is not a tool to stir up religious sentiments. While communities here
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    • 115 26 have your say email your letters to voices@mediacorp.com.sg join the community www.todayonline.com/voices VOICES ONLINE No country can overhaul its entire national team within a few months. Now that the younger ones have proven their capabilities in our national colours, I am sure they will form the core of the Lions
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    • 5 26 >> S-LEAGUE FOOTBALLERS NOT GOOD ENOUGH
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  • Page 26 Miscellaneous
    • 57 26 VOICES ON RADIO Fans have been disappointed by Singapore’s performances in the World Cup Asian qualifiers and the SEA Games. What will it take for the Lions to succeed in the continent? A new head coach? More funding? Tune in to TalkBack on 938Live from 8.15am to 8.45am today. Call
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 263 30  -  New campaign to get coffeeshop patrons to be more considerate WAYNE CHAN SINGAPORE In a bid to improve the state of cleanliness at coffeeshop toilets, the Public Hygiene Council has launched a campaign hoping to make patrons “care”. It unveiled a set of new
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    • 243 30 SINGAPORE The Boys’ Brigade Share-a-Gift (BBSG) main gift box is moving out of Orchard Road to AMK Hub. “For the first time in 24 years, we are moving the main gift box into the heartland this year, with the sole purpose of
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    • 227 32  -  ALVINA SOH SINGAPORE A 52-year-old man who violently robbed 11 elderly people of nearly S$12,000 was sentenced yesterday to seven years of preventive detention. Lim Choon Gui was charged with 11 counts of snatch theft and robbery involving victims who were between
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    • 330 32  -  CAROLYN QUEK carolynquek@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Former National Solidarity Party (NSP) secre-tary-general Goh Meng Seng is not closing the door just yet on the next General Election (GE). Instead, he is planning to devote the foreseeable future to strengthening Opposition policy formulation. The 41-year-old,
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    • 135 32 CHANNEL NEWSASIA The National University of Singapore (NUS) and JTC Corporation have set up a new joint research centre to promote innovative and sustainable industrial infrastructure solutions in Singapore. An agreement was signed yesterday for the new NUSJTC Industrial Infrastructure Innovation Centre
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    • 153 36 CHANNEL NEWSASIA SINGAPORE A 15-year-old student who was involved in several cases of outraging and insulting the modesty of girls in Bukit Batok was yesterday sentenced to 24 months’ probation. This includes a year’s probation in a boys’ home. The teenager, who turned up
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    • 427 36  -  WITH ADDITIONAL REPORTING BY S RAMESH S RAMESH AGENCIES SINGAPORE Budget airline Jetstar Airways yesterday began daily flights between Beijing and Singapore, becoming the first low-cost carrier to fly to the Chinese capital from Changi International Airport. Jetstar, a unit
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    • 166 36 CHANNEL NEWSASIA SINGAPORE Nominations have opened for the Singapore Youth Award (SYA) 2012, which for the first time will be category-free. The National Youth Council said it is removing the categories this time to recognise youth who have demonstrated excellence in any professional discipline
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  • WORLD
    • 196 38 BLOOMBERG BEIJING Thousands of workers in southern China went on strike in the last week to demand higher pay and better treatment, disrupting work at companies including one that supplies equipment to IBM and Apple. In Shenzhen, 1,000 workers went on strike on
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    • 156 38 AGENCIES KUALA LUMPUR The floods in northern Malaysia claimed their third victim on Wednesday night, as the number of residents evacuated more than doubled yesterday morning. The latest victim, 14-year-old Ali Amar, was discovered at about 10.30pm on Wednesday several metres from where he was
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    • 286 38 AP BEIJING One of the architects behind the busiest airport in Asia said yesterday that substandard materials or installation not design flaws are likely to be blamed for wind blowing parts of the roof off Beijing’s three-year-old Terminal 3. The airport is
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    • 269 40 AP SEOUL North Korea yesterday threatened to turn Seoul’s Presidential Palace office into a “sea of fire”, stepping up its rhetoric one day after South Korea conducted largescale military drills near a front-line island attacked by North Korea last year. On Wednesday,
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    • 85 40 AP The nurse accused of starting a fire at a Sydney nursing home faces eight counts of murder. The Sydney Morning Herald reported that prosecutors yesterday added four murder counts against Roger Dean, who worked at the Quakers Hill Nursing Home. Four
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    • 97 40 AGENCIES The Philippine Supreme Court has ordered vast sugarcane plantation lands owned by President Benigno Aquino III’s relatives to be distributed to thousands of farmers under a government land reform programme. It said the 4,500-hectare Hacienda Luisita in northern Tarlac province
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    • 125 40 AP CANBERRA Australia’s Parliament elected an opposition lawmaker as its new House of Representatives Speaker yesterday, an unprecedented move that actually strengthens Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s tenuous grip on power. The election of Mr Peter Slipper quickly followed the surprise resignation of Speaker Harry Jenkins,
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    • 168 42 AP Yemen President Ali Abdullah Saleh’s agreement to step down failed to end the violence yesterday as security forces killed five protesters demanding that the ousted leader be put on trial for past crimes, ranging from corruption to bloodshed
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    • 348 42 THE NEW YORK TIMES CAIRO Egyptian generals yesterday offered an unusual apology for the killings of protesters in Tahrir Square, the iconic landmark of the country’s revolution, but rejected the demonstrators’ demands for an immediate end to military rule. As
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    • 159 42 AP A man slapped India’s Agriculture Minister in the face yesterday, apparently to draw attention to rising food prices and corruption. Mr Sharad Pawar was talking to reporters at a political function when the man attacked him. Television news reports said the
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    • 408 47 AGENCIES LONDON Harry Potter author J K Rowling and British actress Sienna Miller told an inquiry into British media practices yesterday how they and their families felt threatened by the media intrusion into their lives. Ms Miller, whose phone-hack-ing lawsuit against News Corporation
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    • 231 47 AP MILLERSBURG (Ohio) The leader of a breakaway Amish group and six other men have been arrested in eastern Ohio in the United States on hate crime charges following attacks on Amish men and women that involved cutting their hair. Cutting the
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    • 252 48 AGENCIES MOSCOW Russia threatened on Wednesday to deploy missiles to target the United States missile shield in Europe if Washington fails to assuage Moscow’s concerns about its plans, a harsh warning that reflected deep cracks in US-Russian ties despite President Barack
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    • 188 48 AGENCIES VALOGNES (France) French anti-nuclear activists scuffled with the police in Normandy on Wednesday as they tried to hold up a train transporting radioactive waste processed by nuclear producer Areva to a storage site in Germany. Several hundred protesters tried to occupy the
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    • 114 50 AP Clearly enjoying himself, United States President Barack Obama spared the lives of two turkeys on Wednesday, the day before Thanksgiving, and took a dig at the White House press corps. After pardoning the lucky turkeys Liberty (picture) and Peace in the
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    • 323 50 AP CHICAGO Undeterred by costlier petrol and airfare, millions of Americans set out on Wednesday to see friends and family in what is expected to be the nation’s busiest Thanksgiving weekend since the financial meltdown more than three years ago. Many people
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    • 206 52 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH The sports shoe firm adidas is to sell its trainers for US$1 (S$1.30) a pair throughout rural India to capitalise on the country’s soaring population. The German sports giant believes the rise of India’s 1.1
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    • 139 52 SHE’S FAKING IT TO KEEP YOU AROUND THE DAILY TELEGRAPH Scientists have concluded that women fake orgasms because they are worried that their lover will be unfaithful, and that the more often a female fakes her sexual climax, the more successful she is in keeping her man. Researchers in the
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    • 275 54  -  AVELYN NG avelynngsy@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Maybank Group, Malaysia’s largest lender by assets, said yesterday it plans to expand the workforce of its newly acquired investment banking unit by 10 per cent per annum over the next five years. The move is in line with
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    • 273 54  -  LYNDA HONG SINGAPORE In the climate of warming political relations between Singapore and Malaysia, companies in both countries should find opportunities to expand collaboration in manufacturing and services, Singapore Trade and Industry Minister Lim Hng Kiang urged yesterday. “For businesses in
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    • 119 54 The tender for a 99-year leasehold residential site in Chestnut Avenue received 12 bids at the close yesterday, with the top offer from SP Setia International (S) at S$180 million, according to Urban Redevelopment Authority data. The property services company is a Singapore-based unit
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    • 163 54 BLOOMBERG Genting Bhd, which controls Asia’s second-largest casino company by market value, said third-quarter profit fell 22 per cent to 597.2 million ringgit (S$244.8 million), after booking a one-time gain during the same period a year earlier. Revenue climbed 32 per cent to 5.1
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    • 202 58 REUTERS BEIJING Growth in China’s factory output is likely to fall slightly to between 12 and 13 per cent next year due to weakening global demand, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) said yesterday. Annual industrial output in the world’s second-largest economy
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    • 56 58 THURSDAY CLOSE 11,257.50 UNCH Wednesday 11,257.50 q 2.05% Tuesday 11,493.70 q 0.46% Monday 11,547.30 q 2.11% Friday 11,796.20 p 0.22% NYSE TOP 5 BY VOLUME NAME VOL PRICE CHANGE Bank of America 263.5m $5.14 UNCH General Electric 66.1m $14.73 UNCH Citigroup 60.4m $23.51 UNCH Ford Motor 44.8m $9.83 UNCH
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    • 241 58 REUTERS The country’s blue-chip ended lower for the ninth consecutive session yesterday, marking its worst run since January 2003, after Germany reiterated its opposition to the use of euro bonds or monetary tools to help solve the euro zone’s debt crisis. Following
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    • 146 56 Earlier this month, SingTel Mio TV held a Global Hokkien Singing Competition audition at the SingTel Comcentre Theatrette. More than 100 hopefuls turned up for the auditions with the youngest contestant just five years of age. In the end, three contestants were chosen 23-year-old Jayden Chew,
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    • 159 56 The Nescafe Frappe 100 hours Movie Indulgence was held at nex Atrium level 1 from Nov 9 to Nov 13.The challenge? Be the last person standing in a 100-hour movie marathon and win S$10,000. Despite the gruelling challenge, Adam Bin Kamis (fifth from left),
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    • 350 60 AGENCIES NEW YORK Samsung’s new advertisement is causing an online storm as it takes a deliberate dig at fans of Apple’s iPhone 4S. The advert shows people in queues around what looks like a launch of a new Apple mobile phone. As the ad begins,
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    • 309 60 THE NEW YORK TIMES The ’20s notion of a “hemline index”, in which economist George Taylor posited that skirt lengths rise and fall in relation to the economy, suggests that fashion is socially determined. In a modern twist, a report about the height of
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    • 754 62  -  COMMENTARY COLIN TAN property@ mediacorp.com.sg Colin Tan is head of research and consultancy at Chesterton Suntec International. It has been a decade since real estate investment trusts (REITs) made their appearance on the Singapore bourse, but it appears many investors are still grappling
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    • 814 64  -  FAS has failed to address two key targets and it has to make up for lost time COMMENTARY LEONARD THOMAS leonard@mediacorp.com.sg Leonard Thomas is sports editor at Today. Over the last few years, the Football Association of Singapore (FAS) has said, on more than one
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    • 299 65 AP HAIKOU (China) Australia took the lead in the first round of the World Cup yesterday after shooting an 11-under 61, finishing two strokes ahead of tournament favourites Rory McIlroy and Graeme McDowell representing Ireland. Richard Green and Brendon Jones totalled
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    • 404 65 Tendulkar edges closer to a magical mark as Dravid completes his milestone REUTERS MUMBAI Sachin Tendulkar (picture) was on course for his 100th international century, while Rahul Dravid completed a milestone to lead India’s strong reply in the third and final test against the West Indies
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    • 249 65 REUTERS LONDON Robert Kubica’s manager has accused Renault of twisting the Formula 1 driver’s words over his lack of fitness for the start of the 2012 season, and has indicated the Pole could join another team next year. Renault said on Wednesday that Kubica
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    • 240 66 REUTERS SAO PAULO After escaping armed robbers while leaving Interlagos last year, McLaren’s Jenson Button suffered a different kind of hold up when he tried to get in to the Brazilian Formula One circuit yesterday. The McLaren driver told Reuters that
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    • 655 66 Tsonga defeats the world No 2 to secure a spot in the semi-finals AGENCIES AFTERNOON LATEST LONDON Rafael Nadal was eliminated from the ATP World Tour Finals yesterday (this morning, Singapore time) after being outgunned by an inspired Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in an
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    • 238 67 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH LONDON Chelsea have revived a plan to build a new stadium inside the iconic Battersea Power Station in south London. The scheme was originally mooted when Roman Abramovich first acquired the Premier League club in 2003 but will now
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    • 236 68 THE GUARDIAN LONDON Chelsea will seek to continue reshaping their squad during January’s transfer window, with the club’s hierarchy hoping Andre Villas-Boas will oversee the changes having steered the team out of their slump. Faith in the Portuguese manager is retained by
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    • 595 68 Serie A champions see Argentine as solution to their striking woes THE DAILY TELEGRAPH AFTERNOON LATEST LONDON Carlos Tevez appears set to sign for AC Milan in the January transfer window after the Italian club finally opened negotiations yesterday It is understood that Tevez’s adviser Kia
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    • 264 68 THE GUARDIAN LONDON Kenny Dalglish has warned his out-of-favour Liverpool players that he will not be afraid to buy replacements if their attitude to being dropped alters. Dalglish began last Sunday’s 2-1 victory at Chelsea with three of his biggest signings
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    • 1309 2 Thanksgiving happens this weekend and Christmas is around the corner. Are you ready for all that feasting? THE NEW YORK TIMES ASK Crazy Legs Conti, a professional eater, what he thinks of your average Thanksgiving feaster, and you can almost hear him choke. “I call
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    • 506 8  -  At the new Annam, comforting homespun fare is served in a beautiful dining room and at ritzy prices FOOD REVIEWS ANNETTE TAN THE latest restaurant in Les Amis’ evergrowing stable is Annam, a high-end Vietnamese eatery that boasts all the right elements. Beautifully modelled after a colonial
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    • 563 8  -  Finally, young British chefTim Ross-Watson has his name in lights at his new Garden Of Eden ANNETTE TAN BRITISH chefTim Ross-Watson has been in Singapore for over three years. Yet despite his impressive resume, which lists work at some of England’s finest establishments, he has pretty
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      • 54 12 Harley-Davidson will, fittingly, be riding in support of the Singapore Cancer Society (SCS) and the global “Movember” movement, which aims to spread awareness about cancers that specifically affect men. A convoy ride will be held to the Movember Gala Party at Zouk on Nov 26.Tickets cost S$
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