Today, 23 February 2012, Afternoon Edition

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  • 62 1 Today MICA (P) 031/10/2011 A PUBLICATION OF NEWS HOTLINE 6822 2268 Thursday February 23, 2012 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking TODAY MICA (P) 031/10/2011 A PUBLICATION OF NEWS HOTLINE 6822 2268 Thursday February 23, 2012 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking AFTERNOON EDITION TODAY MICA (P) 031/10/2011 A PUBLICATION OF NEWS
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    • 722 2 HSBC^ Women's Champions HSBC The world's best female golfers are in town for the HSBC Women's Champions! 'Asia's Major' returns to Singapore later this month with yet another stellar line-up of champion golfers. Battling it out on the course will be current World Number One Yani Tseng and 2011 title
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  • 495 1  -  TEO XUANWEI xuanwei@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The Workers’ Party (WP) has formed a committee to prepare for a by-election in Hougang, after its erstwhile MP Yaw Shin Leong informed the Clerk of Parliament that he would not be challenging or appealing against his expulsion from the
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  • 655 1  -  NG JING YNG jingyng@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The number of hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD) cases here has breached epidemic levels, with an apparently earlier onset this year, compared to years past. According to the Ministry of Health’s latest statistics, there were 815 HFMD cases between Feb 12
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  • 495 1  -  TEO XUANWEI xuanwei@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The Workers’ Party (WP) has formed a committee to prepare for a by-election in Hougang, after its erstwhile MP Yaw Shin Leong informed the Clerk of Parliament that he would not be challenging or appealing against his expulsion from the
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  • 655 1  -  NG JING YNG jingyng@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The number of hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD) cases here has breached epidemic levels, with an apparently earlier onset this year, compared to years past. According to the Ministry of Health’s latest statistics, there were 815 HFMD cases between Feb 12
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  • HOT NEWS
    • 422 2 AGENCIES AFTERNOON LATEST SINGAPORE In a letter published today to The Straits Times Forum page, Press Secretary to the Emeritus Senior Minister Foo Kok Jwee said Workers’ Party (WP) chief Low Thia Kiang’s comparison of the 1992 by-election in Marine Parade
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    • 316 2  -  THOMAS CHO SINGAPORE Foreign lenders with retail banking operations in Singapore are out in force to draw customers with higher-than-usual interest rates for fixed deposits. Last month, the Australia and New Zealand Banking Group introduced a step-up deposit offering an increasing interest rate with
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    • 218 2 AGENCIES KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia’s inflation slowed to a one-year low in January, giving the central bank room to extend a pause in monetary policy tightening as the faltering global economy threatens growth. Consumer prices rose 2.7 per cent from a year earlier after climbing 3
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    • 389 2 BLOOMBERG SHANGHAI Shanghai eased home purchase restrictions to allow a broader pool of buyers to purchase a second property in China’s financial centre, the Shanghai Securities News reported yesterday. The city loosened its definition of locals to allow residence permit holders
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    • 612 3 AGENCIES CANBERRA Australian Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd resigned yesterday, saying he could no longer work with Prime Minister Julia Gillard, stoking speculation he will challenge her for the leadership and plunging the government into a new crisis. Ms Gillard’s minority government has sunk in
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    • 392 6  -  AMIR HUSSAIN hussainsamir@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Affordable psychological and counselling services may be just a short distance away for students and residents in the western part of the island. For a nominal fee of S$30 an hour, the public can seek help at
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    • 330 6 The downside for older mums Giving birth later may raise risk of depression: Study THE GUARDIAN VANCOUVER Women who have children later in life may face a higher risk of depression than younger mothers, according to research that drew on a health survey of thousands of Canadian women. In the
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    • 345 8 AGENCIES SINGAPORE The Republic has moved up one place on the 2011-2012 World Press Freedom Index and is now ranked 135, after the last index was released in 2010. The index, compiled by Reporters Without Borders, involved 179 nations. Malaysia, meanwhile, has moved
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  • COMMENT&ANALYSIS
    • 765 10  -  CONRAD RAJ conrad@mediacorp.com.sg Conrad Raj is Today’s editor-at-large. Last Sunday, two days after the Budget announcement, I reached the 65th year of my life. I went through Finance Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam’s list of “goodies”. Plenty this year went to older Singaporeans and the lower-income
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    • 1144 12  -  The West’s tactics won’t work, because of a faulty understanding of what has gone wrong there ALEX DE WAAL Alex de Waal is executive director of the World Peace Foundation at the Fletcher School, Tufts University. THE NEW YORK TIMES Prime Minister David Cameron of
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    • 870 14  -  WILLIAM PESEK Tokyo-based William Pesek is a Bloomberg View columnist. BLOOMBERG Mark Zuckerberg is pulling off a feat bigger than becoming the world’s richest 20-something: Thriving in the cyber age even before “friending” the most populous nation and biggest Internet market. Facebook’s
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  • VOICES
    • 360 16  -  Letter from Jedidiah Clarice Tan THE recent cases involving educators with immoral proclivities are a worry. We may theorise about how important our teacher selection processes are, but a flawless pro­cess is a pipe dream. We know that inter­view processes are, at best, contrived.
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    • 58 16 It was reported in “Eircom says earnings fall, cuts forecasts” (Feb 22) that ST Telemedia is seeking a buyer for Irish telecoms group Eircom and had hired Morgan Stanley Co International to handle the deal. This is incorrect. Eircom, and not ST Telemedia, is seeking a buyer and had
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    • 303 18  -  Letter from Lina Chiam Non-Constituency Member of Parliament, Singapore People’s Party I REFER to the letter “Cheap foreign labour: Who’s responsible?” (Feb 22) and thank the reader for the response. I support the observation that foreign labour has become part and
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    • 375 18  -  I SAY Shaik Kadir The writer is a retired teacher. Anew civic centre that will showcase Malay arts and culture will be built at the site of the now-defunct Malay Village in Geylang Serai. A naming competition for the centre was held
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    • 387 18  -  Letter from Claire Chua Director (Corporate Communications), Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore WE REFER to Mr Tan Kin Lian’s letter “Let all purchases be GST-deductible to help smaller companies” (Feb 20). We wish to explain the Goods and Services Tax mechanism and to
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    • 130 18  -  LETTER FROM THAM SIONG TUCK I mostly agree with the letter “Reduced parking should bring be nefits to commuters” (Feb 7). But I disagree that taxis should come without Certificates of Entitlement. This would lead to abuse, as many cabbies
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 300 20  -  WAYNE CHAN SINGAPORE Certificate of Entitlement (COE) premiums rose across the board at the close of bidding at 4pm yesterday, with premiums for commercial vehicles hitting another new high. The COE for commercial vehicles crossed the S$50,000 mark for the first
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    • 381 20  -  TEO XUANWEI xuanwei@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Even as it welcomed several help measures for certain population segments announced during the Government’s Budget last week, the Singapore Democratic Party (SDP) spoke out at what it deemed was an increasingly populist approach. At a press conference to present its
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    • 154 22 CHANNEL NEWSASIA To encourage Singaporeans to learn and use Mandarin daily, the Promote Mandarin Council has organised a competition invi­ting participants to submit crea­tive works that depict the use of Mandarin in daily life. Participants should
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    • 273 22 SINGAPORE Despite the uncertainties in the global economy, some financial leaders in Singapore still plan to add finance, accounting and banking staff in the first half of the year. A survey of 300 finance chief financial officers (CFOs) and finance directors
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    • 191 22 CHANNEL NEWSASIA SINGAPORE Instructors at the five polytechnics and the Institute of Technical Education will be getting a boost in professional development through a new partnership with Cisco to provide them with training and hands-on experience in technology. Fields to be covered
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    • 170 24  -  CLAIRE HUANG A former youth programme coordinator has been jailed 20 months for sexual contact with a minor. The 31-year-old man committed the act on Dec 27, 2010, at his house in Jurong. The girl, 14, cannot be named to
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    • 127 24 A 22-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of outraging the modesty of a nine-year-old boy inside the men’s toilet of a shopping mall along Rivervale Crescent on Sunday. The man was caught four hours after a police report was made at
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    • 73 24 CHANNEL NEWSASIA A former manager at the BreadTalk bakery chain has been charged with criminal breach of trust. Or Zhi Xian, 24, was accused of misappropriating cash amounting to S$14,539 between Jan 7 and 18 this year. He allegedly committed the offence at a
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    • 462 24 CHANNEL NEWSASIA SINGAPORE The first of the group involved in the Downtown East killing has pleaded guilty. Jason Chew Wei Beng, 21, admitted to three charges yesterday. The prosecution is proceeding on two of the three charges rioting and voluntarily causing hurt. Chew admitted
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  • WORLD
    • 574 28 AGENCIES BANGKOK The mysterious stickers found posted along a route in the Thai capital definitely belonged to a group of suspected terrorists believed to be involved in last week’s bombings in Bangkok, according to police. Fifty-six stickers, marked with the Arabic word “sejeal”, have
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    • 245 30 AP VIENNA The United Nations nuclear agency yesterday acknowledged its renewed failure in trying to probe suspicions that Tehran has worked secretly on atomic arms, in a statement issued shortly after an Iranian general warned of a pre-emptive strike against any
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    • 77 30 Security forces yesterday stormed a prison on Indonesia’s resort island of Bali after rioting inmates temporarily took control of the facility, setting fires and throwing rocks at guards. The violence erupted on Tuesday night at the Kerobokan prison following the stabbing of an inmate.
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    • 331 32 AP YANGON Gongs chimed as thousands of people in ceremonial costumes walked barefoot yesterday through the marble walkways of Myanmar’s most sacred Buddhist shrine in an annual festival that was banned for more than 20 years under the former military government.
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    • 244 32 THE NEW YORK TIMES SEOUL South Korean President Lee Myung Bak yesterday urged China to follow “international norms” in its treatment of North Korean refugees, as his government shifted to a more aggressive diplomatic effort to press China not to arrest and repatriate
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    • 232 32 AP BEIJING The United States and North Korea will reopen nuclear talks today that will provide a glimpse into where Pyongyang’s opaque government is heading after longtime leader Kim Jong Il’s death and test its readiness to dismantle nuclear programmes for much-needed aid.
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    • 285 33 AGENCIES KABUL At least four people have died after Afghan police opened fire yesterday to disperse thousands of anti-American protesters rioting for a second day over the burning of Muslim holy books at a military base in Kabul. Thirty others were wounded in the
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    • 234 33 THE GUARDIAN LONDON Britain is vulnerable to “space weather” events the result of changes in solar activity and the government is not doing enough to combat its potentially devastating impact, a cross-party group of Members of Parliament has warned. The likelihood of a severe
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    • 236 33 AP NEW YORK A global coalition against censorship is needed to protect online journalists and bloggers who are being targeted by repressive governments, a leading advocacy group said on Tuesday. At least 46 journalists died around the world last year, the Committee to Protect Journalists
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    • 124 34 AP French far right leader Marine Le Pen (picture) lost a legal battle on Tuesday in her bid to run for President, with the Constitutional Court ruling that her backers’ names must be made public. Current rules say that anyone wishing to run
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    • 265 34 REUTERS TOKYO An Olympus Corp executive found dead in India in an apparent suicide is likely to have had no link to the Japanese endoscope maker’s accounting scandal, a company spokeswoman said yesterday. MrTsutomu Omori, 49, head of the firm’s medical
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    • 263 35 THE NEW YORK TIMES NEW YORK Large glass bottles of desiccated shark’s fins grace the upper shelves of nearly every convenience store and grocery in Manhattan’s Chinatown, bearing price tags from US$100 (S$126) to more than US$500 per pound (450g). But on Tuesday, following the
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    • 51 35 A team of biologists led by University of Delhi professor Sathyabhama Das Biju (picture) has found a new family of amphibians called chikilidae. Chikilidae are endemic to India but have ancient links to Africa. Their discovery gives evidence that India is a hotbed of amphibian life. AP
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    • 115 35 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH New laws in France will make it compulsory for all cars on French roads to carry a portable breathtesting kit starting July 1. Anyone caught without the equipment will face an €11 (S$18) fine. Using the kits, motorists can
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    • 103 35 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH French feminists have scored a major victory in their fight to have the term “mademoiselle” outlawed as sexist after the Prime Minister’s office issued a decree banning it in official forms. Ministers and regional state prefects have been asked to ensure
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    • 163 35 BLOOMBERG Women who are hospitalised for a heart attack are less likely to experience chest pain and are more likely to die than men the same age, researchers said. The analysis published in the Journal of the American Medical Association
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  • BUSINESS
    • 214 36 BLOOMBERG SINGAPORE Wilmar International, the world’s largest palm-oil processing company, said yesterday that its fourth-quarter net profit rose 56.9 per cent on-year to US$500 million (S$629 million) largely due to improved performances of its oilseeds and grains business, and contributions from its new sugar segment.
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    • 114 36 AGENCIES Neptune Orient Lines (NOL) plans to cut costs by US$500 million (S$629 million) this year and increase freight rates after posting its largest quarterly loss in a decade. NOL reported a fourth quarter net loss of US$320 million, compared with a net
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    • 190 36  -  LINETTE LIM Hyflux said yesterday its net profit fell 40 per cent to S$53.03 million last year on lower revenue, due to projects in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region nearing completion, the impact of Arab Spring on new contracts, and a
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    • 139 36 The Monetary Authority of Singapore is seeking feedback on a proposal to extend the MAS Corporate Governance (CG) Framework, which comprises both regulations and guidelines, to all direct insurers and reinsurers incorporated in Singapore. CG Regulations are currently applicable to only the significant insurers,
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    • 102 38  -  AVELYN NG Singapore is to see 1,000 new jobs created over the next three years, following a plan by the United Kingdom’s OCS Group to set up its regional aviation hub here. OCS, which is the UK’s largest privately owned facilities management
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    • 99 38 Singapore-listed Ezion Holdings said yesterday fourth-quarter net profit fell 23.7 per cent on-year to US$10.49 million (S$13.2 million). Revenue for the three months ended December decreased 22.9 per cent to US$27.3 million as contribution from non-recurring and nonchartering income was lower. Full-year
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    • 74 38 DOW JONES CapitaCommercial Trust said yesterday that it is buying the Twenty Anson office tower in Tanjong Pagar for S$430 million. The real estate investment trust will fund the acquisition with its existing cash and bank facilities, it said. It is paying
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    • 176 38 DOW JONES SINGAPORE Genting Singapore posted yesterday a fourth-quar-ter net profit of S$262 million compared with a S$150.3-million loss a year earlier, thanks to higher earnings from its integrated resort, as well as lower impairment losses and taxes. Genting Singapore, which runs one
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    • 102 38  -  AVELYN NG Singapore is to see 1,000 new jobs created over the next three years, following a plan by the United Kingdom’s OCS Group to set up its regional aviation hub here. OCS, which is the UK’s largest privately owned facilities management
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    • 100 38 AGENCIES Singapore-listed Ezion Holdings said yesterday fourth-quarter net profit fell 23.7 per cent on-year to US$10.49 million (S$13.2 million). Revenue for the three months ended December decreased 22.9 per cent to US$27.3 million as contribution from non-recurring and nonchartering income was lower.
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    • 74 38 DOW JONES CapitaCommercial Trust said yesterday that it is buying the Twenty Anson office tower in Tanjong Pagar for S$430 million. The real estate investment trust will fund the acquisition with its existing cash and bank facilities, it said. It is paying
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    • 176 38 DOW JONES SINGAPORE Genting Singapore posted yesterday a fourth-quar-ter net profit of S$262 million compared with a S$150.3-million loss a year earlier, thanks to higher earnings from its integrated resort, as well as lower impairment losses and taxes. Genting Singapore, which runs one
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      54 38 WEDNESDAY CLOSE 12,938.70 (-0.21%) A Tuesday 12,965.70 p 0.12% Monday UNCH Friday 12,949.90 p 0.35% Thursday 12,904.10 p 0.96% NYSE TOP 5 BY VOLUME NAME VOL PRICE CHANGE Bank of America 226.0m $7.95 q~1.97% Ford Motor 43.1m $12.28 q 2.00% General Electric 40.3m $19.39 q~0.10% Citigroup 37.9m $32.36 q~3.00%
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    • 26 39 UN They may lack the training now, but they’ve got the heart. Singapore’s first football reality show. PREMIERING 14 MARCH WEDNESDAY 8PM xinmsn.com/firstxi Official Radio Station
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    • 177 40 AGENCIES Facebook’s censorship rules are more liberal towards gore than nudity said The Daily Telegraph. An obtained file said to cut “obvious sexual activity, even if naked parts are hidden” but “excessive blood” and “deep flesh wounds are okay”, as “long as no insides are showing”. Megaupload’s founder
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    • 167 40 REUTERS HELSINKI Nokia will next week unveil a new, cheaper smartphone using Microsoft’s Windows Phone software, targeting a wider market for its new range of smartphones, two sources close to the company said. Cheaper phones are the key for Nokia and Microsoft in their
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    • 348 40 REUTERS TORONTO Research In Motion gave its PlayBook tablet computer the ability to handle email as easily as a BlackBerry does, with new software that eliminates a shortcoming that has throttled sales since the PlayBook launched last April. Before the software update, which
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    • 634 44  -  PAMELA KOH pamelakoh@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE While their peers raced to build Internet-related businesses, the co-creators of I Heart Board Games went back to the basics. In mid-2009, Mr Andrew Chia, 28, and Ms Marjorie Van Der Straaten, 31, decided to pursue their shared passion for board games
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    • 601 46 Villas-Boas’ controversial team selection sees Chelsea self-destruct against rampant Napoli AGENCIES NAPLES For all his outward confidence, Andre Villas-Boas could be forgiven for wondering how much longer a man with Roman Abramovich’s lack of tolerance is prepared to stand by him when the evidence of
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    • 303 46 AP LONDON Chelsea captain John Terry will undergo knee surgery and be out for up to six weeks, dealing a further blow to the team’s faltering season but relieving England of a potential selection headache. Terry has not played for more than three
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    • 63 46 Andre Villas-Boas has suffered more embarrassment after confirming a teamsheet leaked to Italian paper Gazzetta Dello Sport was genuine. The sheet oddly featured John Terry, Frank Lampard, Ashley Cole and Michael Essien none of whom were in the Chelsea starting XI. It was handed to the paper
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    • 644 46 Manchester City hit four against Porto to seal Europa League progress THE GUARDIAN MANCHESTER There was merriment as well as a little achievement. A surge of three goals in the last quarter of an hour swept Manchester City into the last 16 of the Europa
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    • 514 46 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH BASEL —Valentin Stocker scored four minutes from time to give Basel a famous 1-0 victory over Bundesliga giants Bayern Munich in the first leg of their Champions League clash at St Jakob-Park. Stocker was left unmarked to slot the ball between
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    • 233 46 THE GUARDIAN A stoppage-time goal from André Ayew gave Marseille a 1-0 win over Internazionale in the first leg of their Champions League last-16 tie at the Stade Vélodrome. Ayew broke the deadlock with a glancing header in the third minute of time
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    • 491 48 AGENCIES MOSCOW—Just when it seemed that Real Madrid’s work in Russia was done, Pontus Wernbloom volleyed in an injury-time goal for CSKA Moscow to secure an unlikely 1-1 draw in their Champions League last-16 first leg. When the shock subsides, Jose Mourinho may reflect that
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    • 396 48 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH MANCHESTER Carlos Tevez (picture) will be considered for a firstteam return at Manchester City by manager Roberto Mancini after issuing a “sincere and unreserved” apology for his recent behaviour and abandoning his appeal against a £1.2 million (S$2.3
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    • 740 50 Tiger Woods has been improving but not winning, and it’s all because he isn’t putting like he used to THE NEW YORK TIMES MARANA The emphatic fist pump after a clutch putt used to be Tiger Woods’ signature on another masterpiece. But the putts that once
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    • 654 52  -  Taiwanese the new face of women’s golf after sparkling 2011 LOW LIN FHOONG linfhoong@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE All eyes at the Tanah Merah Country Club will be on Yani Tseng (picture) where the Taiwanese sensation will begin her title quest at the US$1.4 million (S$1.76 million) HSBC
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    • 119 52 ‘A kiss on the hand may be quite continental But diamonds are a girl’s best friend...’ so cooed Marilyn Monroe in the 1953 movie, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. That sentiment would not have been out of place last night at the Raffles Hotel which hosted
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    • 266 52 SINGAPORE Issey Nakajima did it in 2006 when he moved from the Albirex Niigata side in the Great Eastern-Yeo’s S-League to Danish first division side Vejle Boldklub. Six years on, another Albirex alumnus Taisuke Akiyoshi (picture) has followed the same path by signing for a top
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    • 403 53 Start of India’s Premier Soccer League delayed due to numerous undisclosed problems THE DAILY TELEGRAPH DELHI Robbie Fowler, Robert Pires and Hernan Crespo will have to wait for their big Indian payday after West Bengal’s new Premier Soccer League (PLS) was postponed. The PLS,
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    • 455 53  -  LOW LIN FHOONG linfhoong@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE It is two days to the start of the 2012 FairPrice Foundation Netball Super League (NSL) and fans can expect new faces to line up for the six teams Mighty Mannas, M1 Starfish, Nike Marlins, Blaze Dolphins, Bedok Kings Vipers
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    • 124 48 SPORTS FIXTURES E League Champ Home Team Derby Away Team Leicester Match KickOff (Singapore date/time) Fri, 24/02/12 3.45am For fixtures of all UE Europe, German, A League and International Football, please visit Singapore Pools website. LIVE TELECAST AT LIVEWIRE(MARINA BAY SANDS RESORTS WORLD SENTOSA) UE Europe UE Europe Valencia Manchester
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        1224 2  -  Writing heals the tarts f®r actress (and aaStarJ Jeanette Iw MAY SEAH may@mediacorp.com.sg JEANETTE Aw’s book may not be a tell-all, but it sure says quite a lot. Other than the few revelations that have gotten the gossip pages buzzing, like her previously-secret breast cancer scare and her
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      • 525 4  -  James May and Richard Hammond on who’s the boss at Top Gear. Psst, it’s not Jeremy Clarkson May Seah may@mediacorp.com.sg TRANSCRIPT COURTESY OF BBC KNOWLEDGE. EVEN if you’re not an automobile or motoring enthusiast, there is nothing like Top Gear to rev up your spirits.That’s because
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      • 814 5  -  Evanescence singer Amy Lee on writing cool music and security guards from hell Christopher Toh christophertoh@mediacorp.com.sg ONSTAGE,Amy Lee, the singer of American rock band Evanescence, is a sexy siren when she belts out the band’s hits. On the telephone, Lee is chatty and warm as she talks about
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      • 533 6 Triumphant night ends with acceptance speech cut short THE DAILY TELEGRAPH THE 23-year-old from Tottenham won best British female and best album for 21. She accepted the album award from George Michael and earned a standing ovation as she said: “Nothing makes me prouder than coming
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      • 989 7  -  Sotheby’s to sell one of Edvard Munch’s celebrated works Carol Vogel feature s@mediacorp.com.sg THE NEW YORK TIMES IT HAS adorned everything from mugs and T-shirts to key chains, inflatable dolls and iPad covers. Now a version of Edvard Munch’s celebrated work, The Scream
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      • 517 8  -  Bring a picnic mat for this play you’re going to the beach Mayo Martin mayo@mediacorp.com.sg IMAGINE being on Palawan Beach in Sentosa along with 29 different folks all with “something” to say, sitting on picnic mats and watching a nice sunset to boot. Is it an
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        637 9  -  The strongest brand on display at London Fashion Week was the city itself Jess Cartner-Morley feature s@mediacorp.com.sg THE GUARDIAN THIS week, Stella McCartney and Sarah Burton arrived on a catwalk previously ruled by Burberry, and yet it felt more like a celebration than a contest, because the strongest
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        937 10  -  Climbing Mount Kenya in five days was tough but the frightening part was singing for the Kikuyu porters Nicky Holford feature s@mediacorp.com.sg THE DAILY TELEGRAPH IT WAS 2.30am and I could see my breath in the cold air as I struggled to put on thermals in the warmth
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        344 12 How to spend S$ 101 (you big spender, you) in a day TRAVEL 101 ANNE of Green Gables! Yep, Prince Edward Island is the fabled setting of the books and Charlottetown is the capital of the province. It’s every bit as picturesque and quaint as it sounds. It’s also
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        241 12 Travel deals and steals Fly to Helsinki from S$1,065 In conjunction with the NATAS Fair, Finnair is offering promotional airfares to more than 50 destinations, which also include Milan for S$ 1,098, Paris for S$ 1, 128 and Barcelona for S$ 1,087. It also flies to more exotic
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    • 850 14  -  Ch’ng Poh Tiong on pairing Italian wine with Asian cuisine Brought to you by Ch’ng Poh Tiong One of the most remarkable phenomena in the wine world has to do with Italian wine. This occurrence, bordering on blinding myopia, is not confined to
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      • 97 15 The Esplanade Tunnel has been dressed up with Jamal Penjweny’s photographs, which were taken in Iraq. Through his works, Penjweny seeks to give the people of Iraq a chance to regain their dignity and to let them jump beyond the settings of their lives. He photographs men,
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      • 118 15 Don’t miss this children’s charity art exhibition, which displays works by children aged sixto 12. Revolving around the theme of “My Favourite check out these pieces created using a range of mixed media such as oil paintings, photographs, collages and sketches, which allows
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      • 120 15 Taking place in a poor Javanese village in the mid ‘60s, Sang Penari is a love story about Rasus, a young military officer and a dancer Srintil. As the village elders believe that Srintil is bestowed with magical powers which will lead them to prosperity through
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      • 71 15 Rachael Yamagata Live! Don’t miss American singersongwriter Rachael Yamagata in her much-anticipated return here for a one-night-only concert. Best known for her debut album, Happenstance, which spawned hits like Under My Skin and Be Be Your Love, Yamagata is also well-known for her bluesy vocals. This time, she will be
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      • 92 15 Watch as the very best in women’s golf battle it out for the sought-after ‘Champion of Champions’ title and a prize purse of US$1.4 million (S$1.76 million) atthe fifth edition of the HSBC Women’s Champions. Expectto seethe likes of superstars Michelle Wie, Paula Creamer and current
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      • 97 15 UPCOMING The Steinway Gallery Singapore is on the huntforyoung pianists aged 17 and belowto take part in the Singapore Steinway Youth Piano Competition. In this inaugural presentation of the competition here, one participant will be chosen to represent Singapore atthe Steinway Youth Piano Regional Finals, and
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