Today, 20 February 2012

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  • 40 1 Today MICA (P) 031/10/2011 A PUBLICATION OF NEWS HOTLINE 6822 2268 Monday February 20, 2012 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking TODAY MICA (P) 031/10/2011 A PUBLICATION OF NEWS HOTLINE 6822 2268 Monday February 20, 2012 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking
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    • 703 1 ITS NOT TV IT'S HBO.® V AN HBO ORIGINAL SERIES "AN ORCHESTRA OF COLORFUL CHARACTERS” DUSTIN HOFFMAN -LOS ANGELES TIMES FROM ACCLAIMED DOCTOR AND THE CREATOR OF DEADWOODMICHAEL MANN DAVID MILCH CHANCE "SMART AND v; AMBITIOUS SERIES' v -THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER NEW SERIES PREMIERE MONDAY FEB 20 ON HBO (STARHUB
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    • 114 2 IT’S NOT TV IT’S HBO.' Leave nothing to chance. Luck takes a provocative look at the world of horse racing: the owners, gamblers, jockeys and the diverse gaming industry players. Stars award-winning actors Dustin Hoffman and Nick Nolte. ■jt m P > 7 FR LAI MED DIR HA NEWSE ES
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  • 721 1  - It’s not about the money Solutions to fertility woes could focus on the workplace, given limited impact of Baby Bonus Scheme TAN WEIZHEN, NG JING YNG weizhen@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Money, it seems, has had little or no impact in getting Singaporeans to have more babies: Almost S$2 billion in Baby Bonuses
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  • 564 1  -  NG JING YNG jingyng@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Four days after sociopolitical website Temasek Review Emeritus (TRE) editor Richard Wan made a first public appearance at a social media forum, he was served a lawyer’s letter yesterday by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong for
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  • HOT NEWS
    • 518 2 AGENCIES TEHRAN Iran announced yesterday that it had stopped selling crude oil to British and French companies, in a move that may put further pressure on the price of oil amid heightening political tensions. The price of Brent crude the benchmark for oil
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    • 536 2 AGENCIES BEIJING Japan and China agreed yesterday they will jointly respond to any funding request from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), which is looking to more than double the size of its war chest to help countries deal with the euro zone
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    • 189 2 AGENCIES Greece’s Cabinet has approved a final set of austerity measures sought by the European Union and International Monetary Fund as a condition for a €130-billion (S$215-billion) rescue package, raising the chances of a deal this week to avert a chaotic
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    • 495 3  -  TANYO-HINN yohinn@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE National bowler Remy Ong, a former world champion, yesterday became the target of outrage after allegations that he had hit a dog in his Porsche Boxster and driven off without stopping to render assistance. A picture showing the injured dog
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    • 294 3  -  HETTY MUSFIRAH SINGAPORE The feedback on Singapore’s Budget 2012 has been largely positive based on early input received by Government portal REACH, its chairman Amy Khor said. Speaking to Channel NewsAsia on the sidelines of a community event yesterday, Dr Khor said that many
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    • 467 3  -  TAN WEIZHEN weizhen@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Instead of being admitted to a nursing home, seniors who live alone may look forward to ageing with greater dignity living independently within the community and with assistance as and when needed. A pilot project dubbed
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    • 435 4 Al Shabaab, which aims to turn Somalia into a hardline Syariah state, views British Muslims as prized assets because they are literate, motivated and have access to cash. THE DAILY TELEGRAPH LONDON Dozens of radicalised British Muslims are being trained
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    • 473 4 AP JAKARTA A top Indonesian terror suspect captured in the Pakistani town where Osama bin Laden was later killed insists he was unaware of the Al Qaeda leader’s presence there, according to the video of his interrogation obtained by The Associated
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    • 361 6 AGENCIES HONG KONG More than half of the people in Hong Kong say Mr Henry Tang, the front-runner to be the city’s next leader, should end his election campaign because of a scandal over an illegal addition to one of his homes,
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    • 548 6 AP NEWARK (New Jersey) After all the testimonials from relatives and friends, the songs from legends and pop stars, the preaching and even laughter, the raw emotion of Whitney Houston’s funeral came down to just one moment: The sound of her own
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  • COMMENT&ANALYSIS
    • 858 8  -  In short, the ‘default’ position should be that a by-election should be automatic, although there is no hard and fast rule on the timing. EUGENE K BTAN Eugene K B Tan is assistant professor of law at the Singapore Management University School of Law, and
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    • 879 10  -  MICHELLE DAMMON LOYALKA Michelle Dammon Loyalka, a journalist who lives in Beijing, is the author of Eating Bitterness: Stories from the Frontlines of China’s Great Urban Migration. THE NEW YORK TIMES When China’s Vice-President Xi Jinping visited the White House on Tuesday, President Barack Obama
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    • 850 12  -  Someone with a conviction for change and the ability to bring it about ARVIND SUBRAMANIAN, DEVESH KAPUR Devesh Kapur is co-author of the official history of the World Bank. Arvind Subramanian is a senior fellow jointly at the Peterson Institute for International Economics and
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  • VOICES
    • 441 14  -  Letter from Sandra Leonardi I REFER to this year’s Government Budget. As a small food-and-beverage business owner, I have been facing a hiring problem. Locals, especially, seem to avoid service industry jobs that may require long working hours. They want jobs with higher pay
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    • 238 15  -  Letter from Tan Kin Lian I APPRECIATE the Budget payout of up to S$5,000 to small companies to offset higher business costs, especially the simple approach to determine eligibility for this grant. Could the Finance Minister consider another measure that would
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    • 134 15  -  Letter from Rene Yap Bin Ping THIS year’s Budget is claimed to be an inclusive one, but it left out a group of Singaporeans who have contributed strongly and silently to Singapore’s growth: Singles. While the less privileged, small and medium enterprises and the chronically
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    • 317 15  -  Letter from Francis Zhan Chief executive, Association of Management Corporations in Singapore WE REFER to Ms Julia Ng’s letter “What retirement living should be” (Feb 18). We agree that studio apartments for retirees are the antithesis of active ageing, as residents usually have
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    • 255 14 have your say email your letters to voices@mediacorp.com.sg join the community www.todayonline.com/voices In SilkAir’s world, great destinations come with great fares. ipni i!f j s t s a v. Mi r” f i 1*1 Jf Wuhan: From its picturesque hilltop location, Yellow Crane Tower offers a bird’s-eye view ef the
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 354 16 SINGAPORE Eating out while staying healthy got a little easier with the launch of the “Healthier Coffeeshop” campaign yesterday. In partnership with Bukit Batok East Constituency, the Health Promotion Board (HPB) has transformed Food King Coffee House at Block 233, Bukit Batok East Avenue 5, into
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    • 182 16  -  SAIFULBAHRI ISMAIL A record crowd of about 100,000 people turned up at the Singapore Airshow over the weekend and organisers pledged an even better show in 2014. Tickets were snapped up by about 10am yesterday, just half an hour after gates were opened
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    • 393 17  -  NG JING YNG jingyng@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The catalyst for more solo creative projects to mushroom could be more “unplanned and unregulated” spaces, according to National University of Singapore (NUS) sociologist Ho Kong Chong. In a paper which he shared during a creativity symposium organised by NUS,
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    • 127 17 CHANNEL NEWSASIA Two 14-year-old suspects were arrested on Saturday for loanshark harassment, the police said in a statement yesterday. The police were alerted to a case of loanshark harassment around Serangoon Avenue 4. However, the suspects were no longer at the scene when officers
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    • 116 17 The largest dog adoption drive which took place at East Coast Park over the weekend saw almost 8,500 visitors, organisers said. The two-day National Geographic Channel Free Pet Shop ended yesterday. It featured 80 dogs for adoption. The first-of-its-kind collaboration across the
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  • WORLD
    • 454 18 North’s threat comes on eve of South’s planned war games today PYONGYANG North Korea will launch “merciless” strikes if South Korea goes through with live-fire drills near their disputed sea border planned for today, a North Korean officer said yesterday, amid persistent tension on the divided
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    • 147 18 AP Chinese police have detained a Tibetan writer in a western county recently hit by anti-government protests, an overseas Tibetan news service reported, as China’s crackdown against persisting unrest spreads. More than 20 police took Mr Gangkye Drubpa Kyab from his home in Serthar
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    • 140 18 AP A New Delhi court agreed on Saturday to try admitted American terrorist David Headley and eight others for allegedly carrying out the deadly 2008 attacks in Mumbai, local media reported. The court’s decision allows Indian
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    • 340 19 BLOOMBERG CANBERRA Australian Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd, backed by a Labor lawmaker to challenge Prime Minister Julia Gillard as leader, says he has changed his autocratic style, increasing speculation he will bid for a comeback. “You learn from your mistakes
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    • 243 19 AP YANGON A dissident monk who helped lead Myanmar’s 2007 anti-government uprising is facing fresh legal action, state media reported yesterday. Shin Gambira is facing charges of “squatting” illegally in a governmentsealed monastery and breaking into two others, the state-run New Light
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    • 169 19 BLOOMBERG About 300 demonstrators marched in Hong Kong yesterday to protest against a government proposal that may allow mainland Chinese to drive their cars into the territory. The demonstrators, who were escorted by the police as they walked from the Causeway Bay shopping district
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    • 184 20 AGENCIES Lawyers representing survivors of the capsized Costa Concordia cruise ship are demanding new drug tests on the ship’s captain after traces of cocaine were found on a sample of his hair. But pathologists note that it is not proof that Francesco
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    • 358 20 THE GUARDIAN LONDON Thousands of patients in Britain may have been misdiagnosed by doctors at a National Health Service (NHS) hospital, whistle-blowers have warned. A review of biopsies carried out at the Bristol Royal Infirmary (BRI) indicates that almost 7,000 serious
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    • 229 21 AGENCIES A Swede has been dug out alive after being snowed-in with no food fortwo months in his car on a forest track, the police and local media reported on Saturday. The 45-year-old was found on Friday, emaciated and too weak
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    • 378 21 THE OBSERVER MOSCOW Russia is pinning its future on transforming 400 hectares of nondescript farmland about 30km west of the Kremlin into a base camp for the next generation of Mark Zuckerbergs. By 2015 these desolate fields will be transformed into
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    • 107 21 BLOOMBERG French President Nicolas Sarkozy has narrowed Socialist rival Francois Hollande’s lead in the run up to elections in April, a poll has shown. Backing for Mr Sarkozy gained 0.5 points to 26 per cent since Feb 5, while support for Mr Hollande slipped
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    • 583 22 AP RIO DE JANEIRO It is the typical tale of doomed carnival romance: Boy spots girl in the sweaty crush of a street party. Moments later, they are locked in a passionate embrace. Then the crowd surges
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    • 262 23 THE GUARDIAN LONDON Fasting for regular periods could help protect the brain against degenerative illnesses, according to American scientists. Researchers at the National Institute on Ageing in Baltimore in the United States said they had found evidence which shows that
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    • 118 23 Mr John Glenn, the first American to orbit the Earth, joined the surviving veterans of NASA’s Project Mercury on Saturday in celebrating the 50th anniversary of his historic orbital flight. Mr Glenn, 90, thanked the approximately 125 retired Mercury workers, now in their 70s and 80s,
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    • 311 23 AP WASHINGTON Leaked documents from a prominent United States conservative think tank show how it sought to teach schoolchildren scepticism about global warming and planned other behind-the-scenes tactics using millions of dollars in donations from big corporate names. More than US$14 million (S$17.6
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  • BUSINESS
    • 347 24 AGENCIES BEIJING China has lowered its growth target from this year, which will help ease pressures on the economy, Vice-President Xi Jinping said in a written interview with the Irish Times, the state-run Xinhua News Agency reported yesterday. “From this year on, we
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    • WEEKLY ROUNDUP (FEB 13 TO 17)
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        51 24 FRIDAY CLOSE 3,000.59 (+0.79%) THEWEEKAHEAD Asian stocks are likely to begin the week stronger, adding to last week’s gains after figures showing an improving United States economy and progress on a bailout for Greece. Thursday 2,977.20 q 1.14% Wednesday 3,011.68 p 0.81% Tuesday 2,987.41 p 0.37% Monday 2,976.34 p
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      • 30 24 HANG SENG 21,491.62 (+3.4%) Ç NIKKEI 9,384.17 (+4.9%) Ç Ç Ç SHANGHAI 2,357.18 (+0.2%) Ç AUSTRALIA 4,195.90 (+1.2%) MUMBAI 18,289.35 (+3.0%) MALAYSIA Ç Ç 1,557.15 (+0.3%) SEOUL 2,023.47 (+1.5%)
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      • 106 24 STOCK CALL Hold S$3.08 Kim Eng downgrades from Buy, cuts target price to S$2.95 from S$3.51. While it offers long-term benefits, costs from the mobiledevice content build-up and subscriber acquisition are set to remain high, hurting margins, house says. “While we do not expect any positive catalysts in the
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    • 435 26 For HSBC, which is deposit funded as opposed to wholesale funded, the charging structure being discussed which would add 200 basis points on to the cost of the loans is believed to be unworkable. THE DAILY TELEGRAPH LONDON HSBC is considering walking
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    • 226 26 AP BERLIN A union representing ground workers at Germany’s Frankfurt airport announced yesterday that they will go on strike for 24 hours from today, a move that is set to lead to hundreds of flight cancellations. The air traffic controllers’ union GdF said the
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    • 186 27 Airline has cut up to 32 flights a day BLOOMBERG NEW DELHI Kingfisher Airlines, the Indian carrier controlled by billionaire Vijay Mallya, has cut more services as it struggles with a cash shortage and wider losses. As many as 32 flights a day were cancelled
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    • 194 27 Other bidders reportedly include IntercontinentalExchange, CME Group, NYSE Euronext, and Singapore Exchange. AGENCIES HONG KONG Hong Kong Exchanges Clearing has reportedly bid for the London Metal Exchange in an attempt to diversify into commodities trading. The bourse had put in a “high
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    • 140 27 REUTERS KHOBAR (Saudi Arabia) Saudi Aramco Asia, a subsidiary of oil giant Saudi Aramco, has signed an initial deal with Indonesia’s state energy firm, Pertamina, to look into building a refining and petrochemical project in Indonesia, Aramco said. Aramco has said a refinery in
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  • DIGITAL
    • 344 28 AGENCIES Apple has asked European Union regulators to step in and settle a technology patent dispute between the company and Motorola Mobility, said Reuters citing Motorola Mobility. THe move came after regulators on both sides of the Atlantic said they would intervene to prevent companies from gouging rivals
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    • 521 28 Two thirds of people in UK suffer from nomophobia, or the fear of being without their phone, says new study THE DAILY TELEGRAPH LONDON Researchers have found 66 per cent of the English are terrified of being without their phone, and the younger they are the
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    • 261 29 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH LONDON Around half of the world’s 7,000 languages are expected to have disappeared from use by the end of the century. They are threatened by cultural changes, ethnic shame and government repression. But technology is allowing many languages to increase audience by
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    • 261 29 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH Google tracked the Web-browsing habits of millions of iPhone users without their consent, it has been revealed. The search giant wrote programming code that circumvented the Apple iPhone’s default privacy settings and allowed it to monitor iPhone behaviour just as it
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  • SPORTS
    • 459 30 AGENCIES LONDON There are fewer more daunting away venues than the Stadio San Paolo in Naples to negotiate, and to make things even tougher, Andre Villas-Boas’ (picture) Chelsea career will depend on the scoreline after 90 minutes in the
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    • 441 30 Arsene Wenger: He remains defiant, calls for team unity THE GUARDIAN LONDON —Arsenal look destined for a seventh successive season without a major trophy when they fell to Sunderland in the FA Cup fifth round on Saturday as Arsene Wenger (picture) found himself caught in
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    • 209 31 AP Top-ranked Yani Tseng successfully defended her LPGAThailand title for her 13th LPGA Tour victory, with birdies on the final two holes Sunday to hold off playing partner Ai Miyazato by a stroke. The 23-year-old Taiwanese star shot a 6-under 66 to finish at 19-under 269
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    • 370 31 REUTERS ENGLISH FA CUP 5TH ROUND Stevenage 0 Tottenham 0 LONDON This season’s FA Cup favourites Tottenham Hotspur were held to a 0-0 draw at third-tier Stevenage yesterday, while last term’s runners-up Stoke City reached the quarterfinals after prevailing 2-0 in another tricky-looking game
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    • 591 32  -  Lions coach Avramovic says he will only decide his starting XI for Iraq after the friendly IAN DE COTTA ian@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE As part of his plan to rebuild the national football team, Singapore coach Radojko Avramovic has included a number of young players,
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    • 327 32 REUTERS MUNICH Police yesterday detained British heavyweight boxer Dereck Chisora following his brawl with former WBA champion David Haye at a post-fight press conference on Saturday night. The incident occurred during a news conference after Ukrainian Vitali Klitschko retained his WBC heavyweight belt,
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    • 224 32  -  IAN DE COTTA SINGAPORE Brunei outfit DPMM’s stock rose last night when they defeated eight-time champions SAFFC 2-1 in the 2012 Great Eastern-Yeo’s S-League at the Chua Chu Kang Stadium. Goals from Basiru Osman in the 17th minute and Shah Razen 10 minutes from time
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    • 395 33 REUTERS PACIFIC PALISADES Phil Mickelson played some audacious golf but stayed on track for a second consecutive PGA Tour victory by ending Saturday’s third round of the Northern Trust Open in a tie for the lead. Winner of last week’s Pebble Beach National Pro-Am, the
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