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  • 20 1 TODAY MICA (P) 031/10/2011 A PUBLICATION OF NEWS HOTLINE 6822 2268 Wednesday February 1, 2012 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking
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  • 517 1 SINGAPORE Amid continuing global economic uncertainty, Singapore’s services and manufacturing sectors have reported pessimistic business outlooks for the first half of the year. More firms in the services sector are expecting business conditions to worsen from now to June, with a net-weighted
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  • 756 1  -  However, layoffs increased substantially in the last three months, MOM says SAIFULBAHRI ISMAIL saifulbahri@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The unemployment rate here declined to a 14-year low in 2011, as employment growth remained strong with 121,300 jobs created last year. Layoffs, however, “increased substantially” in the
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  • 208 1 The uncertain global outlook and the possibility of an economic slowdown may well be “a good opportunity” for Singapore to make some structural adjustments and position itself when the economy recovers, said Minister of State for ManpowerTan Chuan-Jin. Writing on the Ministry of Manpower
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    • 212 2 ktw Gifted/ Success Learning System P ADAM KHOO LEARNING TECHNOLOGIES GROUP WHAT'S WRONG WITH MY CHILD? There's nothing wrong! Your child has the potential to excel in school. They just need the right attitude and skills! I used to score low grades until Sec 4, but after I attended the
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  • HOT NEWS
    • 417 3  -  SUMITA SREEDHARAN sumitas@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Would the increase in university intake and the coming fourth university dilute the quality of a degree? This was a concern undergraduates raised to Education Minister Heng Swee Keat last night during an inaugural ministerial forum organised by
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    • 149 3 SINGAPORE Households will see an increase of 1.3 per cent in gas tariffs from today, owing to higher fuel costs. The increase in the average town gas bill for households will range from 13 cents a month for one-room Housing and Development Board (HDB)
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    • 516 4  -  Sentence enhanced from 1-week detention to 5 weeks in jail TEO XUANWEI xuanwei@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE A High Court judge sent a road rage offender to jail for five weeks yesterday after pro­secutors appealed against his origi­nal sentence of a one­week short detention order.
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    • 305 4 AGENCIES UNITED NATIONS A senior Russian diplomat warned yes­terday that a draft United Nations resolution demanding that Sy­rian President Bashar Assad step aside is a “path to civil war”, as Syrian troops crushed pockets of resistance by rebel soldiers on the outskirts of Damascus.
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    • 233 6 BLOOMBERG TOKYO Japan has suspended imports of Australian poultry products after the detection of low pathogenic avian influenza on two duck farms in Victoria state. The measure is aimed at preventing the disease from entering Japan, the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry
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    • 555 6 REUTERS FRANKFURT Singapore Airlines (SIA) has found cracks in the wings of all six of the Airbus A-380s on which it carried out mandatory inspections, but a senior pilot has reassured the public over the superjumbo’s safety. The discovery of more instances
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    • 172 8 AGENCIES NILAI (Malaysia) A petrol station ma­nager was robbed of about RM200,000 (S$82,000) by four men on the North­South Expressway near the Nilai rest and recrea­tion area on Monday morning. Police said the victim was on his way to a bank
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    • 403 8 THE MALAYSIAN INSIDER KUALA LUMPUR A purported photo­graph of a membership price list for one of Malaysia’s most prestigious golf clubs, showing different rates for different ethnic groups, has triggered an outcry and char­ges of racism since it was posted
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  • COMMENT&ANALYSIS
    • 883 10  -  Trade, not threats, seems to work better with Taiwan YURIKO KOIKE Yuriko Koike is Japan’s former Minister of Defence and National Security Adviser. PROJECT SYNDICATE China’s behaviour during the recent presidential election in Taiwan demonstrates that its lead­ers have learnt some lessons, if only the hard
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    • 630 12  -  Investors’ reaction to announcement of new CEO is no barometer of his future performance JAMES M CITRIN James M Citrin co-leads Spencer Stuart’s North American board and CEO succession practice and is a co-author of You Need a Leader Now What? In considering
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    • 802 14  -  ALAN COWELL Alan Cowell is Paris senior correspondent for The New York Times. THE NEW YORK TIMES At a time when Europe’s future seems so murkily ill-defined, when people fret about pay cheques and their abrupt disappearance, a jittery currency and suffocating debt,
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    • 158 10 vV I received 4 University offers to read for a law degree based on my provisional results at Stansfield College!” i Michael James Anstey was accepted by University of Manchester, York University, Exeter University and Brown University (US), based on Stansfield’s provisional results and recommendation by our faculty. Michael is
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  • VOICES
    • 349 16  -  Letter from James Ang IT HAS been communicated many times over the years that the Government is not in favour of providing too much financial assistance in the social service arena, so as not to develop a “crutch” mentality. It is a prudent approach, with the
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    • 137 16  -  LETTER FROM YEO SIOK PENG I support Mr Paul Chan’s call for “Why most homes should be excluded from AV amendments” (Jan 28). For nearly two decades, my husband and I slogged, scrimped and sacrificed to pay for our house. We
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    • 135 17  -  Letter from Ng Leng Leng WHEN I signed up for SingTel’s Internet plan in June, I was told that I would need to top up only S$10 a month to upgrade the plan to tap the Next Generation Nationwide Broadband Network (NGNBN).
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    • 209 17  -  Letter from Daniel Yew Sing Chye I REFER to Mr Leow Zi Xiang’s letter “Does money really buy clean government?” (Jan 27). Based solely on the premise that other nations ranked around Singapore in Transparency International’s rankings pay their leaders a fraction of
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    • 174 17  -  Letter from Goh Kai Urn SINCE May, I have noticed the inconsistency of fares on bus services 79 and 143. On Aug 16, I brought this up to the Land Transport Authority, along with a list of all the instances of discrepancy in my
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    • 101 17  - BUDGET AIRLINES BUDGET EXPECTATIONS? LETTER FROM YEO SHUAN CHEE I have flown only once on a budget airline and, yes, it was delayed for almost an hour. More people are posting their complaints online about their poor experiences. Just like the Land Transport Authority would fine transport operators for service
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    • 142 18  -  Letter from Colin Ong Tau Shien TO REFRESH my Singapore general knowledge, I visited Sentosa’s award-winning Images of Singapore last week and was surprised it was quite deserted, though there was a crowd of tourists taking pictures of the Flower Festival outside. As I viewed the
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    • 488 18  -  I SAY Cheryl Looi The writer is waiting for junior college to commence. I refer to Mr Liew Kai Khiun’s I Say piece “Parents should be discouraged from driving children to school” (Jan 25). I was lucky enough that my father drove me
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    • 136 16 have your say email your letters to voices@mediacorp.com.sg join the community www.todayonline.com/voices I am amore. I am more. Leap out, spirit-free. Challenges are lesser than what they seem. I can do all things, iloveFitl 2012 1 in celebration of .WessMSports loinilv organisec Saturday, 24 March 2012 Sunday, 25 March 2012
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 179 20 CHANNEL NEWSASIA A day after Singapore and Myanmar signalled plans to strengthen bilateral cooperation and increase people-to-people exchanges, Myanmar Education Minister Mya Aye toured Singapore schools. More exchanges and collaboration between both countries, in the area of education are expected, with
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    • 246 20  -  MONICA KOTWANI SINGAPORE A Singapore Permanent Resident was yesterday fined S$50,000 for operating as an unlicensed employment agent. De Luna Noriza Dancel, 30, is the first unlicensed employment agent to be convicted as the principal offender under the revised Employment Agencies Act,
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    • 316 21  -  NG JING YNG jingyng@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Road accidents resulting in injury and death fell to a five-year low last year, but motorcyclists remained a cause for concern. According to Traffic Police statistics released yesterday, motorcyclists and their pillion riders accounted for about half of the fatalities
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    • 205 21 CHANNEL NEWSASIA SINGAPORE Do you know of a teacher who is particularly dedicated and inspiring? Members of the public can now nominate outstanding educators for this year’s President’s Award for Teachers. Now into its 15th year, the award was introduced to recognise excellent
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    • 475 22  -  An NUS vice-president suggests we create our own quality of life index ESTHER NG estherng@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The Republic should devise its own index that measures the quality of life, as many of such indices available are culturally specific and may not adequately capture the happiness and
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    • 336 23 CHANNEL NEWSASIA SINGAPORE An 18-year-old was yesterday put on probation for 21 months for forcing his female friend to perform oral sex on him. Both the teenager and victim were in Secondary 3 when he committed the offence
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    • 205 23 CHANNEL NEWSASIA SINGAPORE A Peruvian woman was yesterdayjailed 15 months for theft and credit card fraud during her multiple one-week visits to Singapore. Maria Elena Tello Espinoza (picture), 45, made away with more than S$8,800 in cash and valuables between
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    • 161 23 CHANNEL NEWSASIA SINGAPORE Accountant Gerard Ee has been re-appointed chairman of the Public Transport Council for a further two years. The Ministry of Transport said in a statement yesterday that Transport Minister Lui Tuck Yew has appointed 16 members to the council for
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    • 242 23 THINK SUCCESS. THINK MDIS. A, h) All of us who professionally use the mass media are the shapers of society. JJ -William Bernbach MDIS School of Media Communications Success with a drei! Think mi Oklahoma City University 1 Ranked Top Tier of America's Best Colleges (Western Regional Universities) by the
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  • WORLD
    • 328 24 AGENCIES TOKYO United Nations nuclear experts have endorsed stress tests designed to show that Japanese nuclear plants could withstand a repeat of last year’s quake and tsunami, as the government campaigns to restart idled reactors and avoid a summer power crunch. The government, though,
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    • 215 24 BLOOMBERG BEIJING China’s Premier Wen Jiabao has said people should be allowed to criticise their leaders, echoing similar pledges he has made in the past. China should “create conditions allowing the people to criticise the government”, Mr Wen said, according
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    • 180 24 REUTERS BEIJING Chinese prosecutors cited a poem and messages sent on Skype against a dissident who stood trial yesterday in the eastern city of Hangzhou, in the latest case highlighting the Communist Party’s drive to silence political challengers. Veteran activist Zhu Yufu was charged
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    • 402 25 AGENCIES TAIPEI Taiwan reshuffled its Cabinet yesterday following the ruling party’s re-election in presidential and legislative elections, appointing as leader a finance expert as it looks to steer its export-led economy through a global slowdown. The Cabinet will be led by Premier Sean
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    • 137 25 REUTERS Several kindergartens in the northern Chinese province of Shanxi are charging parents 1,200 yuan (S$238) for a palmreading test that they claim can predict their toddlers’ intelligence and potential, the staterun Xinhua news agency said. According to a 2011 Shanxi government report, the
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    • 112 25 AP A senior official in Chinese-ruled Tibet is ordering heightened security in Buddhist monasteries and along key roadways as the government tries to prevent protests that erupted in neighbouring Tibetan communities from spreading. Mr Qi Zhala, the Communist Party secretary of Lhasa, the
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    • 239 26 AGENCIES CHICAGO The composer of the Rocky III anthem Eye of the Tiger is suing Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich to stop him from using the song at campaign events. The federal lawsuit was filed on Monday in
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    • 133 26 AP A woman who was barred from running for a city council seat in Arizona because she does not speak English proficiently has appealed against the judge’s ruling to the state’s highest court. The case has brought international attention to the Arizona border city
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    • 114 26 AP A former Massachusetts dentist was sentenced to one year in jail on Monday for using paper clips instead of stainless steel posts in root canals. Michael Clair pleaded guilty earlier last month to a list of charges, including assault and
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    • 82 27 A man walking past graffiti in a poor Athens neighbourhood yesterday. Poverty has visibly increased on the streets of the capital of 4 million, where people huddle in sleeping bags in empty alleys and can be seen rummaging through garbage containers for food or scraps of metal
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    • 357 27 REUTERS LONDON The world is running out of time to make sure there is enough food, water and energy to meet the needs of a rapidly growing population and to avoid sending up to three billion people into poverty, a United Nations
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    • 104 27 REUTERS An Afghan killed his wife for giving birth to a third daughter rather than the son he hoped for, the police in Afghanistan’s northern Kunduz province said on Monday. The victim, 28, known by the one name of Storai, was
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    • 156 27 AP CHICAGO A nuclear reactor at a northern Illinois plant was shut down after losing power and steam was being vented to reduce pressure and cool it, Exelon Nuclear officials said. Unit 2 at Byron Generating Station, about 153km north-west of Chicago, shut
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    • 167 30 THE NEW YORK TIMES MEXICO CITY A drought that of­ficials call the most severe since the government began keeping records 71 years ago has left two million peo­ple without access to water and, cou­pled with a cold snap, has devastated cropland in nearly
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    • 329 30 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH MADRID Spain’s capital launched its bid to host the Olympic Games in 2020 on Monday, unveiling a logo that has sparked controversy and left many Spaniards confused. The design purportedly consists of the letter M for Madrid and the number
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    • 145 30 AP THE HAGUE (Netherlands) The Dutch Supreme Court has ruled that forcing a 13­year­old boy to relinquish a virtual mask and amulet in an online game amounted to real­world theft. The court confirmed yes­terday that a boy who threat­ened the 13­year­old with a knife
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    • 258 31 AP WEST PALM BEACH (Florida) A burgeoning population of huge pythons appears to be wiping out large numbers of raccoons, opossums, bobcats and other mammals in the Everglades, a US study has found. The study, co-authored by Dr John Willson, a research scientist at Virginia
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    • 222 31 THE NEW YORK TIMES NEW YORK A new study in the United States of women between the ages of 18 and 44 has found that drinking coffee and other caffeinated beverages can briefly alter levels of oestrogen. But the effect varies by race. In
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    • 178 31 REUTERS Just cleared airport security and in need of a little deep breathing and stretching relaxation? San Francisco Airport has opened what it calls a first-of-its-kind yoga room. While it is not quite a mountaintop in Tibet, airport officials say the low
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    • 130 30 Problem Gambling Forum 2012 NATIONAL ADDICTIONS MANAGEMENT SERVICE Do you feel overwhelmed and powerless to help a problem gambler in your family? Families with a problem gambler often experience sadness, anger, resentment, stress and depression. Learn how to step out of the shadow of problem gambling, reclaim your lives, and
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  • BUSINESS
    • 106 32 DOW JONES Mapletree Commercial Trust said yesterday its third-quar-ter distribution per unit was 1.428 Singapore cents, beating its own forecast of 1.237 Singapore cents mainly due to higher-than-expected revenue from itsVivoCity property. Gross revenue for the three months ended December was S$49.7 million,
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    • 251 32  -  AVELYN NG avelynngsy@mediacorp.com.sg AGENCIES SINGAPORE The chief of Singapore’s central bank suggested yesterday that Asian countries may boost their contributions to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), as the region stands to be hurt if problems in the euro zone worsen. “Asia will
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      60 32 TUESDAY CLOSE 2,906.69 (+0.64%) Monday 2,888.29 q 0.96% Friday 2,916.26 p 0.75% Thursday 2,894.43 p 0.10% Wednesday 2,891.64 p 1.48% WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 1, 2012 TOP 5 BY VOLUME NAME VOL PRICE CHANGE UniFiber 439,820 S$0.074 p 64.44% GMG 229,605 S$0.138 p 13.11% AdvSCT 188,509 S$0.046 p 58.62% TopGlobal
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    • 30 32 HANG SENG Ç 20,390.49 (+1.14%) NIKKEI 8,802.51 (+0.11%) Ç Ç È Ç Ç SHANGHAI 2,292.61 (+0.33%) AUSTRALIA 4,262.70 (+0.51%) MUMBAI 17,193.55 (+1.96%) MALAYSIA 1,521.29 (+0.51%) SEOUL Ç 1,955.79 (+0.79%)
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    • 113 32 STOCK CALL Tiger Airways S$0.695 OCBC downgrades from Hold, cuts price target to S$0.60 from S$0.65. Tiger has reported its third consecutive quarterly loss and warned of a possible “significant” annual loss due to problems with its Australian operation and soaring fuel prices. OCBC said Tiger’s net loss was
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    • 62 32 OCBC Bank’s senior management and its SME customers celebrated Chinese New Year at Resorts World Sentosa last night. Posing with the dragon are (from left) OCBC’s global head of Global Corporate Bank Samuel Tsien, chairman Cheong Choong Kong, CEO David Conner and global head of
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    • 86 32 SIA Engineering, the aircraft maintenance unit of Singapore Airlines, said third-quarter profit rose 5.3 per cent from a year earlierto S$63.5 million. Revenueforthe three months ended December increased 12.6 per cent on-year to S$303.4 million, mainly due to higher fleet management programme income and
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    • 86 32 REUTERS Total bank lending in Singapore rose 1.1 per cent in December to S$420.4 billion from a month earlier, central bank data showed yesterday. On a yearly basis, bank lending rose 30.3 per cent. Housing loans to consumers were up at S$131.1 billion in
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    • 190 34 SINGAPORE Two freehold residential sites in Balestier are up for collective sale by tender, with a potential yield of nearly 200 homes. The sites, located along Kim Keat Lane and Kim Keat Close, have a gross plot ratio of 2.8 and an
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    • 283 34 AGENCIES BRUSSELS Investors participating in a deal to slash Greece’s massive debt face an overall loss on their bond holdings of more than 70 per cent, people involved in the negotiations said yesterday. One source said the loss was the result of
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    • 253 34  -  SIM PING KHUAN SINGAPORE The major train disruptions in December will hit the SMRT’s profitability, the company said yesterday as it added that the search for a new chief executive was continuing. At the SMRT’s third-quarter financial results briefing yesterday, chief financial officer
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    • 595 40  -  Singapore’s most prolific striker gives his take on the LionsXII and their goal-scoring problems DAN GUEN CHIN deputy sports editor danguenchin@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Four goals in five matches, and not to mention, one of them came courtesy of a Kuala Lumpur own goal during the LionsXII’s 2-1
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    • 254 40  -  IAN DE COTTA The LionsXII could be without the services of two key players defender Safuwan Baharuddin and midfielder Shahdan Sulaiman when they face Selangor in the Malaysian Super League at the Bukit Jalil Stadium next Wednesday. The 20-year old Safuwan hurt his ankle
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    • 541 41  -  S-League chief’s top priority is to put together a management team of directors IAN DE COTTA ian@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The Football Association of Singapore are not in a hurry to fill the gap left by the resignation of deputy chief executive officer (CEO) Johan
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    • 617 42  -  Aussie Pocket Rocket relishes new mentor role as he prepares to retire PHILIP GOH philipgoh@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE He has thrilled cycling fans on the world stage, and counts winning the green jersey for sprinters at the 2002 Tour de France as his most memorable achievement, but
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    • 179 42  -  PHILIP GOH SINGAPORE Mixed martial arts (MMA) returns to Singapore on March 31 with the ONE Fighting Championship’s third fight night which will feature two main events. International light heavyweight champion Renato “Babalu” Sobral is set to meet kickboxing world champion Melvin Manhoef in
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    • 507 43  -  Koh will represent Singapore in what may be last edition of the HSBC Women’s Champions competition TANYO-HINN yohinn@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE A decision on whether HSBC will continue as title sponsor of the HSBC Women’s Champions golf championship in Singapore is expected about two months after this
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    • 192 44 THE GUARDIAN MANCHESTER Carlos Tevez (picture) has appealed to the Premier League against the fine of six weeks’ wages imposed by Manchester City for his continuing absence. City imposed the fine after finding Tevez guilty of gross misconduct on Dec 22. Tevez
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    • 463 44 AGENCIES LONDON Manchester United’s prodigiously gifted midfielder Ravel Morrison (picture) was close to signing with West Ham United yesterday. Newcastle had an offer rejected by United earlier this month while Bolton had a bid accepted, only for the player to turn down
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    • 63 1 ARTS MUSIC MOVIES TELEVISION WINE DINE STYLE DESIGN HEALTH TECH TRAVEL CARS MEET THE MAN WHO’LL BEAT CLOONEY AND PITT AT THE OSCARS T4 WHICH JUDGE JUST GOT FIRED FROM X FACTOR? T5 TECH THE SMRTCONNECT APP IS GOOD BUT NOT GOOD ENOUGH T8 FEBRUARY 1, 2012 A PUBLICATION OF
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      • 1317 2  -  Nine of the world’s 10 tallest buildings are now in Asia and Hollywood wants to jump off all of them Steve Rose feature s@mediacorp.com.sg THE GUARDIAN AERIAL shots over Manhattan’s forest of skyscrapers.Yellow cabs crawling like ants through the city grid.The hero stands on a ledge 20
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      • 463 4 Who exactly is French hero and Screen Actors Guild best actor Jean Dujardin? THE GUARDIAN HE MAY be charming in The Artist, but the Oscar hopeful is loved in France for his scathing sendups and his brilliance at moving between the deadpan and madcap. Don’t
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      • 189 5 REUTERS MADONNA on Monday announced plans to build 10 new schools in Malawi with a new partner after mismanagement forced the pop star to scrap her first project there last year. The singer, who has adopted two children from the impoverished southern African
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      • 86 5 AP OSCAR-WINNING actress Shirley Maclaine (picture) is joining Britain’s popular television series Downton Abbey. The 77-year-old will join the cast when they start filming next month. She will play the mother of Lady Grantham, portrayed by Elizabeth McGovern, in the third season of the hit
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      • 178 5 AP NICOLE Scherzinger and Steve Jones are out of The X Factor. A Fox spokeswoman said on Monday that the judge and host will not return for the show’s second season. No other details were provided. Jones, a British TV personality, called his departure
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        106 6  -  GENEVIEVE LOH ARGO: It was a plan so incredible, it’s tailor-made for the movies. At the height of the 1979 Iran hostage crisis, artist-turned-CIA technical officerTony Mendez pulled off a stunning ploy when he helped six American diplomats in the Canadian Embassy in Tehran escape by disguising them
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      • 341 6  -  MOVIE REVIEW: UNDERWORLD AWAKENING M18, 88MIN GENEVIEVE LOH SIX years on, the original death-dealer is back, having not aged a day and looking as sexy as ever in that ultra tight, ultra slinky, black leather catsuit. After taking a break from the third Underworld film the
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      • 151 7  -  GENEVIEVE LOH MOVIE buffs who missed the earlier screenings of the Oscar-nominated films can do a last-minute catch up before the end of today. Now showing at the Cathay Cineplexes for the second time are four films up for glory: Best-Picture nominees The Artist
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      • 440 7  -  MOVIE REVIEW: CHRONICLE PG13, 83MIN GENEVIEVE LOH IT IS the latest superhero movie, told in the popular but gimmicky foundfootage” genre, that has fast been picking up hype on the blogosphere.And guess what? Chronicle could well be the big sleeper hit of
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      • 1042 8  -  IPHONEAPP REVIEW: SMRTCONNECT June Yang juneyang@mediacorp.com.sg IF THERE isn’t already a set of rules for releasing smartphone applications, there should be. And the No 1 rule on the list should probably read: Don’t rush to put out an app before it’s ready. Although the
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      • 290 9  -  RYHAN MOHD YAZID IN THE hope of replicating the success of their original 7-inch tablet, Samsung recently unveiled the Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus. The Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus has only had minor tweaks to its exterior, though it is 2mm thinner than its
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    • THINGS TO DO
      • 66 10 Six countries competing for one championship. Be part of this sporting experience and watch the skill, emotion, passion and excitement played out on court. Supportthe Singapore Slingers in their home games as they compete againstteams from Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and
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      • 98 10 Nic Lee, former member of local rock-band Mi Lu Bing, performs popular hits as well as new songs from his upcoming solo album. Today’s showcase will be “deconstructed”, with Lee singing in an intimate acoustic setting. He will rock the house with a full live
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      • 62 10 Drop by the Toa Payoh Public Library to admire the handiwork of the members of Origami Singapore. Featuring intricate paperfolds, this exhibition is held to celebrate the club’s oneyear anniversary of holding workshops at the library, in conjunction with its 38th anniversary. Until Feb 29,
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      • 73 10 Master Plan Solo Exhibition by Jason Wee Check out local artist Jason Wee’s first solo exhibition in three years. A site-specific installation which reflects his views on our over-planned city, Master Plan is an abstract model of a city which transforms the Chan Hampe Galleries into a claustrophobic forest of
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      • 98 10 One Hundred Years of Solitude 10.0 Cultural Revolution Inspired by the Nobel Prizewinning novel by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude, this show features 12 of Singapore’s most acclaimed emerging Chinese theatre artists. Part of the Huayi Chinese Festival of Arts, the production is an examination of the
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      • UPCOMING
        • 96 10 Celebrate Valentine’s Day and Friendship Day by the bay atthis inaugural event. Join performers such as Jones Shi Kang Jun,Wu Jia Hui, Micappella and more as they bring down the house in a night concert. Before that, catch a special segmentfeaturing a Manhuntvarietyshowand a dance
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        • 90 10 Still missing the days when boybands were the hottest thing? Catch three of the bestselling bands, Blue, A1 and the founding member of 98 Degrees, Jeff Timmons as they cometogetherfora rare triplebill concert. Expect easy-on-the-ears pop music, and
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    • 73 11 ON MEDIACORP WEDNESDAY NIGHT MOVIE: DEATH RACE (PG13-Violence) Channel~5, ~10pm Ex-con~Jensen~Ames~is~forced~by~the~warden~of~a~ notorious~prison~to~compete~in~the~post-industrial~world’s~ most~popular~sport: ~A~car~race~in~which~inmates~must~ brutalise~and~kill~one~another~on~the~road~to~victory. MONSTER FISH: DANGER DOWN UNDER okto, ~9pm Dr~Zeb~Hogan~finds~out~why~an~aquatic~Australian~ icon, ~the~Murray~Cod, ~has~virtually~disappeared~from~its~ namesake~waterway~—~the~Murray~River. ON~SINGTEL~MIO~TV ON AIR Astro~Ria~(mio~ TV~Ch~34), Premieres~ Feb~1, ~Every~ Wednesday, ~9pm In~this~hosting~ reality~show~ searching~for~the~ next~generation~ of~TV~anchors~ and~radio~ announcers, 14~young~and~ fresh~talents~ are~nurtured~in~intensive~courses~with~practical~ training~to~master~the~skills~to~become~the~best~ in~the~business. ~Hosted~by~Haji~Aznil~Haji~Nawawi~
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    • 373 11 ~6.00AM~ Films~&~Stars~Asia~ ~6.30~ AM~Live!~ ~9.00~ The~Ellen~DeGeneres~~ Show~IX~ ~10.00~ The~Dr~Oz~Show~ ~11.00~ Multisport~M7~Adventure~ Series~ ~11.30~ Great~Ideas~From~JML~ ~12.30PM~ Lifeline~II~ ~1.00~ Fighting~Spiders~ ~6.00AM~ Frontline~ ~6.30~ Stars. ~Beat~It!~ ~7.00~ Good~Morning~Singapore~ ~10.00~ The~Unforgettable~Memory~ ~NOON~ Sizzling~Woks~III~ ~12.30AM~ My~Star~Guide~VI~ ~1.00~ News~8~At~One~ ~1.30~ Chinese~Folklore~ ~2.00~ See~The~World~ CHANNEL ~2.00~ Covert~Affairs~ ~3.00~ The~Dr~Oz~Show~ ~4.00~ The~Ellen~DeGeneres~~ Show~IX~ ~5.00~ Don’t~Forget~The~Lyrics~IV~ ~6.00~ India: ~A~Love~Story~
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    • 67 11 ON MEDIACORP SCARLET HEART Channel~8, ~7pm Ruoxi~learns~that~the~Eighth~Prince~has~been~shot~ by~an~arrow~and~pays~him~a~visit~late~at~night. The~ Eight~Prince~is~touch~to~see~that~Ruoxi~is~very~ concerned~about~him. HELLO DOCTOR Vasantham, ~9pm Prevention~is~better~than~cure. ~With~that~in~mind, ~the~ new~season~of~Hello Doctor ~will~incorporate~segments~ on~lifestyle~changes. This~popular~health~info-education~ programme~will~engage~and~educate~viewers~on~making~ changes~to~their~lifestyles~in~order~to~improve~their~ health~and~quality~of~life. ON~STARHUB~CABLE~TV HOW TO BE A GENTLEMAN AXN~Beyond~(StarHub~TV~Ch~525), ~10.55pm Inspired~by~the~book~of~the~same~name~by~John~ Bridges, ~this~is~a~comedy~about~the~unlikely~ friendship~between~a~traditional, ~uptight~columnist~ and~an~unrefined~personal~trainer. The~book~is~a~ series~of~witty, ~how-to~tips~on~common~courtesy~ and~skills~real~men~ought~to~develop. ONE BORN EVERY MINUTE (New Season)
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