The Straits Times, 11 January 2010

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    37 1 THE STRAITS TIMES MICA (P) 094/11/2009 MONDAY, JANUARY 11 2010 AS IN GA P O REPRE SS H O LDIN GS PUBLI CA TI O NE NE S T A BLI S HED1 8 45 90 CENTS
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      Lock icon Togo team going home
      34 1 TOGO’S national team will return home and not compete in Africa’s biggest soccer tournament, captain Emmanuel Adebayor said, after gunmen killed a squad coach and press officer in an ambush.
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      Lock icon Weekend homes in Johor
      33 1 SINGAPOREANS are snapping up private homes in Johor. They occupy at least 40 per cent of the homes at several private estates in the high-class resort region of Iskandar.
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      Lock icon ST journalist heads TNP
      39 1 THE New Paper has a new editor veteran Straits Times journalist Dominic Nathan. He takes over the paper after having spent 22 years at The Straits Times, where he was a reporter and news editor.
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      Lock icon Three more churches hit
      48 1 THREE more churches were attacked in Malaysia yesterday, including the first in East Malaysia, as thousands of Malaysian Christians attended weekly services amid tighter security. No one has claimed responsibility for the attacks. But the continued assault on churches keeps tensions in Malaysia high.
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      Lock icon Food prices on the rise
      39 1 THE costs of oil, rice and other essential commodities are already on the way up here no thanks to inflation. Analysts say price pressures will increase in the months ahead, outpacing the economic recovery.
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    Lock icon Moneylenders target HDB sellers
    626 1  -  By MELISSA SIM LICENSED moneylenders are changing tack, targeting HDB sellers in need of immediate cash. Rather than advertise the availability of personal loans to all and sundry, some specify that only those intending to sell their homes need apply. The reason: HDB owners will have
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    Lock icon China’s trade figures bounce back from crisis
    670 1 Country overtakes Germany to become world’s largest exporter REUTERS ASSOCIATED PRESS With additional information from the Financial Times and Wall Street Journal BEIJING: China’s December trade figures blew past expectations, providing fresh evidence of the vigour of its economy as it overtook Germany
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      408 1 Xtra special 20 years later, his hip furniture firm is tops Working hard for their money Football freeze Expect a tired English team for World Cup LIFE! PAGE C4 Singapore workers logged most hours among 13 countries MONEY, PAGE B16 SPORT, PAGE B10 BREAKING NEWS: www.straitstimes.com INTERACT: www.stomp.com.sg EMAIL: stomp@stomp.com.sg
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        69 2 WE SAY The likely state regulation of psychologists will bring an assurance of professional standards beyond what self-regulation has achieved. Potential for misrepresentation, client confidence breaches and other forms of malpractice has to be considered as the extent and scope of practice grow, although the profession’s
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        Lock icon The population dilemma
        27 2  -  COLUMNS Bruce Gale The population debate is taking centre stage again in Australia with many policy issues similar to those discussed in Singapore, says
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        Lock icon As goes January...
        33 2  -  Goh Eng Yeow With the Straits Times Index making gains three out of the five trading days last week, 2010 is likely to turn out as an optimistic year, says
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        Lock icon Ethnic information useful
        28 2  -  OUR READER SAYS Ng Ka Yen Racial classification should not be scrapped as there are many practical uses of ethnic data, says Ng Ka Yen.
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        16 2 www.straitstimes.com Grace Ng experiences spine-tingling winter in Beijing and lives to tell the tale.
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      1027 2  -  Home language is not always a barrier to learning Chinese By CLARISSA OON SENIOR POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT clare@sph.com.sg CHANGE is in the air for Chinese language tests and exams in Singapore’s schools, to cater to a growing group of students from predominantly Eng-lish-speaking homes. The unspoken assumption
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      Lock icon Togo team ordered home
      584 3 Footballers want to stay to play, but will respect govt’s recall ASSOCIATED PRESS REUTERS CABINDA (Angola): Togo’s soccer team withdrew from a continentwide tournament in Angola hours before yesterday’s opening match, reluctantly bowing to a retreat after its government accused the host of not protecting the
      ASSOCIATED PRESS; REUTERS; PHOTO: REUTERS  -  584 words
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      Lock icon Roads getting more costly to maintain
      724 6  -  Tunnels, expressways double bill for annual upkeep to $90m By CHRISTOPHER TAN SENIOR CORRESPONDENT christan@sph.com.sg SINGAPORE’S road network has grown by less than 10 per cent in the last decade, but the bill for maintaining it has more than doubled. Underground roads, in particular,
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      Lock icon Veteran ST journalist takes over as editor of TNP
      477 6 AFTER 22 years with The Straits Times, veteran journalist Dominic Nathan, 45, will be heading The New Paper from today. He replaces Mr Ivan Fernandez, 58, who has been TNP’s editor since 2000. Mr Fernandez will take a three-month break before
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      Lock icon More Singaporeans have weekend homes in Iskandar, Johor
      1300 4  -  Four in 10 residents in south Johor special zone are Singaporean By KIMBERLY SPYKERMAN, TEH JOO LIN kimspyke@sph.com.sg joolin@sph.com.sg AFTER a leisurely lunch on his patio, Mr Zulkifli Mansor can walk out to a putting green and practise a few strokes of
      ST PHOTO: DESMOND LIM; GRAPHICS: G. CHANDRADAS  -  1,300 words
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      162 5 2010 P fit ft f X sz w* l SP-. m r ft •nr WK 5* 9 n 39 Double Happiness in China The new Pan Pacific Suzhou, formerly the Sheraton Hotel Towers, opens today. Our latest Pan Pacific in China follows the opening of the new Pan Pacific Xiamen.
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      Lock icon 3 more attacks on Malaysian churches
      594 7  -  No one hurt in latest hits; Sunday services held amid tight security By TEO CHENG WEE REGIONAL CORRESPONDENT chengwee@sph.com.sg KUALA LUMPUR: Amid tightened security, Christians in Malaysia attended Sunday service yesterday the first since a recent spate of shocking assaults on local churches. Although
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      803 7  -  NEWS ANALYSIS By LESLIE LOPEZ SENIOR REGIONAL CORRESPONDENT ljlopez@sph.com.sg KUALA LUMPUR: In 1990, the Malaysian government headed by then-Premier Mahathir Mohamad quickly cooled the antiestablishment fever gripping the country by tapping a very emotive issue religion. Facing a serious challenge from an opposition alliance headed
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        Lock icon ‘Red shirts’ to protest over forest land
        457 8  -  Target of today’s rally is ex-premier for illegal land ownership By NIRMAL GHOSH THAILAND CORRESPONDENT nirmal@sph.com.sg BANGKOK: Hundreds of anti-govern-ment “red shirts” from the United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD) streamed last night to a site near Khao Yai National Park, some
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        558 9  -  Rejection after covert ‘application’ highlights the dearth of jobs for China’s middle-aged By SIM CHI YIN CHINA CORRESPONDENT simcy@sph.com.sg BEIJING: He might be a high-ranking politician, but Henan party boss Lu Zhangong had a problem landing a job as a media officer
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        107 9 At least seven people died and 14 others were injured in a highway pile-up involving 11 vehicles in central China, local traffic authorities said yesterday. The mishap was triggered at about 10pm on Saturday when a truck lost control on the icy Zhang’ao
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        Lock icon US$8,888,888 Chinese graduate’s hongbao for Yale
        406 9 NEW YORK: A graduate of Yale University from China has donated US$8,888,888 (S$12.4 million) to the college. Mr Zhang Lei, a successful investor who graduated from the Yale School of Management in 2002, made the “extraordinary and auspicious” gift to help build a new
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        Lock icon Ma blamed for KMT’s poor showing in polls
        698 10 / 11 His China-friendly policy failing to deliver benefits to Taiwan’s economy, analysts lawmakers say ASSOCIATED PRESS AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE TAIPEI: Lawmakers of the ruling Kuomintang (KMT) yesterday blamed the party’s second major electoral setback in as many months on President Ma Yingjeou’s failure to
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        Lock icon 6th HK acid attack: 30 hurt, man arrested
        318 10 / 11 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE HONG KONG: A man has been arrested following an acid attack that left 30 people injured, Hong Kong police said yesterday. It was the latest in a string of similar incidents that has terrorised the city. The suspect, who is
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        Lock icon Hooked on winter sports
        86 10 / 11 South Koreans fishing for trout through holes in a frozen river yesterday. The contest in Hwacheon, about 20km south of the Demilitarised Zone separating North and South Korea, is part of an annual ice festival which expects to see about one million people attending. This year’s
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        Lock icon China’s state radio to launch show on Aids
        297 10 / 11 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE XINHUA BEIJING: China’s top state-run radio network will launch a programme about Aids this week featuring HIV-positive hosts in the latest sign of a new official openness towards the disease. The one-hour weekly programme, Positive Talks, will air each Saturday
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        Lock icon Putting on the armour for elections
        794 12  -  Official start of Philippine polls season that’s likely to be tense and deadly By ALASTAIR MCINDOE PHILIPPINES CORRESPONDENT amcindoe@yahoo.com MANILA: In a large machine shop on the outskirts of Manila, workmen check the fit of a bullet-resistant front window on a gleaming black Ford
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        656 13  -  Website-cum-daily Politico makes money and impact MEMO FROM WASHINGTON By BHAGYASHREE GAREKAR US CORRESPONDENT bhagya@sph.com.sg WASHINGTON:It is typical for Mr Mike Allen to begin his daily newsletter as though he were addressing an extended family, whether announcing the promotion of a Congressional aide
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        Lock icon Senator to Obama: Sorry for racial comments
        531 14 Controversial words uttered during presidential race ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK TIMES WASHINGTON: US Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid has apologised for once predicting that President Barack Obama could become the country’s first black president because he was “lightskinned” and had “no Negro dialect,
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        Lock icon Behind-the-scenes look
        170 14 ASSOCIATED PRESS OTHER controversial details in the book Game Change which offered a behind-the-scenes look at the 2008 United States presidential campaign: Mr Barack Obama and running mate Joe Biden barely spoke, kept separate schedules and seldom campaigned together. The campaign kept Mr Biden off the nightly calls
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        493 15 Tensions rise between citizens and foreigners ASSOCIATED PRESS ROME: Bloody clashes between African migrants and residents in one of Italy’s poorest regions over the last few days have brought home a national dilemma: Many Italians do not want to pick crops in the south
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        Lock icon US officials ‘hid detainee abuse’
        182 15 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE NEW YORK TIMES WASHINGTON: Officials in the United States used their role as overseers of the country’s immigrant detention centres to cover up evidence of mistreatment and deflect scrutiny by the media, a leading newspaper has reported. Citing documents in its possession, The
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        Lock icon Europe debates full body scanners
        801 16  -  Efficiency, privacy and legal issues raised By JONATHAN EYAL STRAITS TIMES EUROPE BUREAU jonathan.eyal@gmail.com LONDON: The European Union’s counter-terrorism coordinator announced over the weekend that he supports plans to introduce full body scanners at airports throughout the continent. Reacting to the foiled terrorist attack on
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        Lock icon False bomb threat
        137 16 ASSOCIATED PRESS LONDON: Two men have been charged with making a false bomb threat and being drunk aboard a plane, British police said. Armed police officers pulled Robert George Fowles and Alexander Bain McGinn from an Emirates plane preparing for take-off to Dubai on Friday, after crew
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        Lock icon Base bomber ‘was about to be searched’
        279 16 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE WASHINGTON: CIA director Leon Panetta has revealed that a Jordanian doctor who killed seven agency operatives was about to be searched before he blew himself up at a United States military base in Afghanistan. “The individual was about to be searched
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        Lock icon Blind people shed light on migraines
        489 17 Study shows newly discovered cells in retina cause light to worsen headache AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE PARIS: A discovery among blind people has helped scientists resolve the mystery as to why light can make a migraine go from headache to head-splitter, according to a study published
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          Lock icon ‘Right to die’ woman dies
          128 17 ASSOCIATED PRESS SEOUL: A South Korean woman taken off life support in a landmark “right to die” case stopped breathing and was declared dead yesterday, nearly seven months after her respirator was removed. The family of the 77-year-old woman who had been in a vegetative
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          Lock icon Grenade attack on church
          110 17 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE ZAMBOANGA: A grenade went off yesterday outside a Catholic cathedral on a southern Philippine island, which has seen bloody Muslim extremist attacks in recent years, the military said. Unidentified men hurled the grenade before dawn in Jolo island’s capital town of Jolo, said anti-terrorism
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          Lock icon Party expels minister’s wife
          134 17 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE BELFAST: The disgraced politician wife of Northern Ireland’s First Minister Peter Robinson has been dumped by her party, sources said, as her husband faced calls to resign. Her husband’s Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) has terminated the membership of Mrs Iris Robinson, 60, over her
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          Lock icon Sheik cleared of charges
          160 17 ASSOCIATED PRESS AL AIN (United Arab Emirates): A member of the United Arab Emirates ruling family being tried in connection with the videotaped beating of an Afghan man was cleared of all charges yesterday. The tape surfaced last year in a United States lawsuit by Sheik
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        Lock icon Kite-flying event soars
        76 17 A kite flier showing off his giant red-and-white entry at the 20th international kite festival, which kicked off in Ahmedabad city in Gujarat, India, yesterday. The five-day Uttarayan festival on the Sabarmati riverfront attracted nearly 105 participants from 34 countries, as well as some 120 Indian participants.
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      490 7 WHAT’S ONLINE MOST READ, MOST COMMENTED ON AND MORE www.straitstimes.com MOST-READ ONLINE _Fourth Malaysian church attacked has become filled with Middle Easternstyle philosophy and low tolerance...” YOUR SAY _Lawmakers from Taiwan’s ruling Kuomintang have blamed the party’s second major electoral setback in a month on President Ma Ying-jeou’s policy of
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      152 9 MONEY TODAYS MONEY BACK GUARANTEE* MAKE SURE YOU SUCCEED The Education Business is in high Demand as Singapore positions herself to be a global education hub. CASH IN on Singapore government initiatives. ‘BOOMING $100 MILLION BUSINESS Extracted from SPH The Sunday Times, 20 Aug 2006 I Earn DURING progrc d
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      1440 10 / 11 w o r l d_r e g i o n a l w o r l d_r e g i o n a l Ma blamed for KMT’s poor showing in polls “Taiwanese people have doubts about whether Ecfa will hurt Taiwan’s sovereignty while the government has failed to win
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      1075 16 home.causes Recession tightens father’s ties with child I By Tan Weizhen AT LEAST one good thing has come out of the recession: Dads now have more time to spend with their families. The Centre for Fathering has seen so much demand for its father-and-child bonding camps that it has had
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      361 18 STATE regulation of psychologists, being proposed in talks between the Ministry of Health and the Singapore Psychological Society (SPS), will help assure professional standards beyond what selfregulation has achieved. Psychology is a young but growing specialty here. More people have trained in the field to meet
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      Lock icon The importance of Apec to the US
      918 18  -  By LEE KUAN YEW FORBES MAGAZINE AFTER 20 years and an apparent lack of results, sceptics question the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation’s relevance. But solutions to issues such as economic imbalances and climate change do not emerge just because world leaders travel halfway across
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      798 18  -  By OLADELE OGUNSEITAN The writer is professor of public health and of social ecology at the University of California, Irvine. PROJECT SYNDICATE ONE troy ounce (31g) of gold is now selling for approximately US$1,150 on the open market. The equivalent weight of platinum sells for US$1,450.
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        977 19  -  By MICHAEL RICHARDSON FOR THE STRAITS TIMES The writer is a visiting senior research fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. FOR a long time, energy-hun-gry Asia has watched in frustration as Russia, the world’s biggest producer of oil and natural
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        Lock icon Population target: Birth of a dilemma
        855 19  -  By BRUCE GALE SENIOR WRITER bruceg@sph.com.sg “POPULATE or perish” was a slogan many Australians took very seriously in the early decades of the 20th century. If the young nation did not increase its population, went the argument, it would not be able to defend
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        Lock icon A new horizon beckons
        763 19  -  UN PEACEKEEPING ROBERT KARNIOL DEFENCE WRITER rkarniol@sph.com.sg SPURRED a decade ago by the Brahimi Report, which proposed sweeping reforms aimed at strengthening and revitalising United Nations peace operations, this vital collective effort is seeing change, though challenges remain. The Panel on UN Peace Operations, an independent
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        274 20  -  Ng Junrong MCDONALD’S exclusion of the pig from its Chinese zodiac Doraemon collection has generated much displeasure, going by last Saturday’s report, “McDonald’s pulls pig toy”. Many viewed the episode negatively, but there are positives to it. First, while McDonald’s may have showed “a lack
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        221 20  -  Chua Kwan Ping Director, Finance and Development Division Ministry of Education IN HIS letter last Wednesday, “Rusty chairs, dirty toilets at school”, Mr Tng Kok Khim expressed his concern about the facilities at Kong Hwa School’s holding site. For major upgrading
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        294 20  -  Dr Chan Yuin Chew President, Dermatological Society of Singapore A/Prof Tan Suat Hoon Chairman, Chapter of Dermatologists, College of Physicians, Academy of Medicine Singapore Prof Roy Chan Kum Wah Director, National Skin Centre, Singapore WE REFER to last Thursday’s report, “CEO dies after cosmetic surgery”. It
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          219 20 Python no threat DSP PAUL TAY, assistant director, media relations, Public Affairs Department, Singapore Police Force: “I refer to last Monday’s letter by Mr Robert Shen, ‘Police just asked her to call the pest controllers. Aren’t they here to protect?’.
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          143 20 Yishun MRT station MS BERNADETTE LOW, manager, corporate marketing and communications, SMRT Corporation: “I refer to the letter by Mr Bryan Ong, ‘Track record’ (Dec 29), regarding train faults becoming too frequent. Our checks show there was no train fault at Yishun MRT station at
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      1303 1  -  There are 18 on the red notice alert, up from six in October 2008 By TEH JOO LIN joolin@sph.com.sg FUGITIVE lawyer David Rasif is featured on it. So was terrorist Mas Selamat Kastari until he was re-captured last year. More Singaporeans are appearing on the
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      108 1 www.straitstimes.com MOST-READ ONLINE CCTV caught MRT shooting MOST COMMENTED ON _Errant doctors, loan sharks under scrutiny. Says HeleneChua_2: “Many doctors give out sleeping pills so easily, they are almost like drug traffickers. In such cases, a censure and fine are too
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      284 2  -  Master sergeant was hit by van, then bus on New Year’s Eve in Taiwan By CAROLYN QUEK carolynq@sph.com.sg THE Singapore Armed Forces master sergeant who fell into a coma after a road accident in Taiwan was flown home yesterday and taken to the
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      258 3  -  LEOW SI WAN A MAN is feared to have drowned in the Kallang River even as search and rescue efforts continued through the night. At around 4.30pm yesterday, he was spotted struggling in the river at the Kallang Riverside Park, which is popular with
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      173 3  -  CAROLYN QUEK THE capsized tugboat Ocean Lark will be lifted out of the water soon, even as search-and-rescue operations for four of its missing crew members ran into Day 5 yesterday. The vessel sank early last Wednesday while on its way from
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      533 3  -  Tenant’s mum claims $100,000 loss after being locked out of unit By MAVIS TOH mavistoh@sph.com.sg A 56-YEAR-OLD woman locked out of her daughter’s rented Orchard Road apartment was let in only a week later and alleged that she then found her 20 gold
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      559 4  -  Privately built and run market and food centre may usher in similar facilities in HDB estates By APRIL CHONG aprilc@sph.com.sg SENGKANG’S first hawker centre and wet market officially opened yesterday. It scored a first on another front it is the first stand-alone market
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      336 4  -  LEOW SI WAN HAWKER representatives from five food centres in Queenstown have banded together to form a watch group to handle emergencies on their turf. They have gathered the necessary equipment and first-aid kits, stored these in “emergency kiosks” and received training in
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      527 5  -  Ruling group keeps control of assets; voters leave meeting after rivals clash By YEN FENG zengyan@sph.com.sg ROUND 2 of an ongoing fight for dominance in the Hainan Hwee Kuan got ugly yesterday. Ruling members of the Hainanese clan kept their control of
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      387 7  -  Admiralty Drive pilot project part of efforts to achieve 60% national recycling rate by 2012 MARIA ALMENOAR RESIDENTS in Admiralty Drive will have a recycling bin at every HDB block as part of a pilot project to get more people to recycle.
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      80 7 Some 100 youths including 23-year-old Brian Kek (right) took to the streets yesterday to persuade people to reduce their carbon footprints by taking public transport more. Through this campaign, the South West Community Development Council and SMRT hope to get more Singaporeans to use public transport
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      25 5 Straits Times artists give their take on recent local news events “Vandalism or PR stunt?” ST ILLUSTRATION ADAM LEE “Singapore banks back on hiring spree”
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      700 6  -  More companies in Singapore are applying for halal certification to tap into the growing demand for halal-certified products among Muslim customers BY ZACKARIA ABDUL RAHIM FRENCH hypermart Carrefour is the latest supermarket to open a dedicated section to sell food that is certified as halal
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      326 6 SINGAPORE Press Holdings (SPH) Chinese dailies Lianhe Zaobao, Lianhe Wanbao and Shin Min Daily News are partnering brewer Carlsberg to present a series of “Carlsberg Chinese New Year Lucky Roadshows" to be held across the island. There are five roadshows, the
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      259 6 FROM March 28, you can fly direct to Munich, Germany's third-largest city, on Singapore Airlines (SIA). The five-times-weekly flights will operate on the Singapore-Mu-nich-Manchester route, departing Singapore on Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays, on Boeing 777-300ER aircraft. Munich will be SIA’s second destination
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      233 6 FIVE years after it was launched in Singapore by Sincere Fine Watches as its exclusive distributor and retailer, CVSTOS will have its first boutique in Asia at Mandarin Gallery. Located on the first floor of the Mandarin Gallery, which opened its doors last
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      270 6  -  BY GAYLE QUAH LAST year was a rollercoaster year that brought more frowns than smiles, but 2010 looks to be of a sunnier disposition, according to Ask OCBC, a quarterly magazine published by OCBC Bank. Featured in the latest issue, which is distributed with
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        55 6 dwells Bio-Magnetic Air Reflexology soles feature patented Air Accupressure Massage pad with 35-40 accupressure points to help massage your soles as you walk. There are also six-poles bio-magnets to help balance the body's static electricity, magnetic field and positive and negative ions. Available at dwell outlets at a
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        55 6 The Bonjour Butterscotch Loaf comes with a buttery aroma and is packed with creamy butterscotch bits in every slice. Soft and fluffy with a cake-like texture, it is delicious on its own or can be toasted and served with plain vanilla ice-cream. Available at major supermarkets and selected
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        45 6 Healtheries Odourless Garlic, Vitamin C, Zinc and Echinacea with Olive Leaf has been specially formulated to help build the body’s resistance against colds and flu all-year round. The tablets can be taken daily with food. Each bottle of 60 tablets retails at $21.30.
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        58 6 The Bio-essence Bio Multi-Effect BB Cream SPF25/PA++ is not just any blemish balm cream. It is actually an 8-in-l cream as it not only acts as a sun block, concealer, and moisturiser, it also helps to repair, whiten and nourish the skin, reduce wrinkles and lines and control
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        50 6 Lam Soon has added Organic Pasta to its Naturel range of products, which includes cooking oils, margarine, spreads and organic brown rice. Naturel’s Organic Pasta (spaghetti, angel hair, penne, fusilli and macaroni) is made from 100 per cent Italian durum wheat, which is synonymous with quality Italian pasta.
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        46 6 Ysnore is a combination of all-natu-ral homeopathic tinctures manufactured in the United States. Now available in Singapore, the Ysnore Anti-Snoring Nose Drops 5ml bottle retails at $27.50 while the Ysnore Anti-Snoring Nasal Spray 10ml bottle retails at $41.50. Visit www.ysnore. com.sg for more information.
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      98 9 EPL players at African Cup of Nations Algeria: Kamel Ghilas (Hull City), Nadir Belhadj (Portsmouth), Hassan Yebda (Portsmouth) Cameroon: Alex Song (Arsenal), Andre Bikey (Burnley) Gabon: Daniel Cousin (Hull) Ghana: Michael Essien (Chelsea), Richard Kingson (Wigan) Ivory Coast: Emmanuel Eboue (Arsenal), Didier Drogba (left, Chelsea),
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      194 9 www.straitstimes.com.sg MOST-READ ONLINE STORIES _Man United, Birmingham draw Roddick wins Brisbane International Togo players decide to play MOST COMMENTED ON Down to the wire Said Eagle2004: “It is easy to blame the Lions for not showing more mental strength. But how
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      812 9 THE TIMES, LONDON CABINDA (Angola): When Chelsea star Didier Drogba leads his Ivory Coast side out against Burkina Faso today in the African Cup of Nations, it will be under a blanket of fear. The match in the troubled oil-rich
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      602 9 THE TIMES, LONDON EMMANUEL ADEBAYOR Club: Manchester City. Position: Striker. Caps: 38. Goals: 16. Joined City from Arsenal for £25 million (S$56 million) last July “We saw military people dressed like they were going to war and it was a little bit of a
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      847 10 THE TIMES, LONDON CABINDA (Angola): The passenger jet began its descent over Luanda airport. Then it rose again, sharply. The athletes on board stopped their banter and looked at each other, puzzled. They could not land for a while, the players of Zimbabwe’s national
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      650 10 He criticises Clattenburg for double standards in ‘soft’ dismissal of player AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE LONDON: Alex Ferguson gave the increasingly obligatory rant against the referee, after an own goal saved Manchester United in a 1-1 Premier League draw at Birmingham City on Saturday. The manager railed against
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      422 10 THE TIMES, LONDON LONDON: As temperatures again plummeted below zero across Britain, so did England’s chances of taking a well-rested squad to this summer’s World Cup. Fabio Capello is a self-confessed Anglophile but if this cold snap continues, he may find himself cursing Britain’s weather and
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      343 10 LONDON: Rafael Benitez has revealed the extent of Liverpool’s financial worries by conceding, for the first time, that he is not certain the club would reject a “silly money” bid for Fernando Torres. That will further strain relations between Liverpool’s American owners
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      549 11 Davydenko stuns Nadal and underlines his Grand Slam credentials REUTERS DOHA: Nikolay Davydenko has emphatically carried his form from the old year into the new, underlining that his first Grand Slam title is long overdue. Six weeks after the Russian lifted the winner’s trophy at the
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      418 11 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE ASSOCIATED PRESS BRISBANE: Andy Roddick held off a magnificent fightback from Radek Stepanek to claim a 7-6 (7-2), 7-6 (9-7) win in the Brisbane International final yesterday. Stepanek saved six match points in the second-set tie-breaker before serving a double fault
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      357 11 REUTERS LONDON: Usain Bolt is set to deal a major blow to October’s Commonwealth Games by pulling out. The Olympic and world champion in the 100 metres, 200m and 4x100m relay, as well as the triple world record holder, wants to focus instead on the
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        73 11 BLOOMBERG NEWS LONDON: Beckham Brand, the company created to exploit the image rights of football star David Beckham and his wife Victoria, posted a 60 per cent increase in profit after his first season with Los Angeles Galaxy. Beckham Brand’s net income for the year
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        82 11 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE DETROIT: Ben Gordon scored the 10 millionth point in National Basketball Association history on Saturday with a jump shot with 3min 51sec left in the first half of Detroit’s 94-104 loss to Philadelphia. He came off the bench to score 20 points, but
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        98 11 LONDON:West Ham’s owners look set to sell the English Premier League football club before the end of the month, reported The Independent. At least two rival bidders are “at an advanced stage of the due diligence process”. One group comprises the former Birmingham
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        47 11 REUTERS JOHANNESBURG: South Africa have withdrawn Pakistan-born leg-spinner Imran Tahir for Thursday’s fourth and final cricket Test against England, because his permanent resident papers “have not come through yet”. Tahir, 30, married a South African woman and became a naturalised citizen last year.
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      457 12  -  Feng falls to China’s Ding in semi-finals of Pro Tour Grand Finals By LIN XINYI linxinyi@sph.com.sg IT WAS a case of deja vu for Singapore paddler Feng Tianwei at the US$365,000 (S$509,000) International Table Tennis Federation Pro Tour Grand Finals in Macau yesterday. The
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      352 12  -  By CHAN U-GENE IT HAS been a promising start to the new year for Singapore sailing. Over the weekend, the nation’s sailors claimed top honours in two different competitions in Adelaide, Australia. Yesterday, the Republic’s Optimist girls dominated the top three positions at the International
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      434 12 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE BANGKOK: World No. 7 Henrik Stenson holed the winning putt as Europe regained the Royal Trophy with a dramatic 81/2-71/2 victory over Asia at Thailand’s Amata Spring Country Club yesterday. The experienced Swedish golfer, who has played in the last two Ryder Cups,
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      231 12 REUTERS KAPALUA (Hawaii): US Open golf champion Lucas Glover maintained his composure to fend off a charging Geoff Ogilvy and cling on to a slender one-shot lead after Saturday’s third round of the SBS Championship. Three ahead at the start of a blustery day at
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      101 12 Today Football English Premier League: Manchester City v Blackburn (Live, Ch27 Ch304, tomorrow, 3.55am). African Nations Cup: Malawi v Algeria (9.40pm), Ivory Coast v Burkina Faso (11.55pm) Live, Ch27. Ghana v Togo (Live, Ch118, tomorrow, 2.30am). Golf SBS C’ship: Day 4 (Live, Ch26 Ch304, 7am). Tomorrow Football
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      43 12 Kenenisa Bekele, the Ethiopian 5,000m and 10,000m Olympic champion, after suffering a rare defeat in the 9km Edinburgh cross-country race on Saturday. Kenyans Joseph Ebuya, Titus Mbishei and Eliud Kipchoge swept the podium places ahead of him
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      595 12 Basketball NBA Charlotte 89 Memphis 87, Orlando 113 Atlanta 81, Detroit 94 Philadelphia 104, Chicago 110 Minnesota 96, Oklahoma City 108 Indiana 102, Dallas 93 Utah 111, Houston 105 NY Knicks 96, Sacramento 102 Denver 100. Cricket Tri-nations series In Dhaka: Sri Lanka 213 (K. Sangakkara 68, S. Randiv
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      46 9 ANOTHER REF RANT Alex Ferguson may be in more trouble after he criticises referee. B10 END OF THE ROAD China’s Ding Ning knocks out Feng Tianwei at ITTF Pro Tour Grand Finals. B12 SETTING THE STAGE Singapore’s sailors have started the year with a bang. B12
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      20 9 RUSSIAN VICTORY Nikolay Davydenko defeats Rafael Nadal to win ATP Qatar Open. B11 All that hype shot to pieces, B10
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      45 16 NEXT BIG THING COMMODITIES? What's behind the renewed buying in commodities which has driven prices to new highs? We also look at a Singapore-listed commodity player cruising below the radar mm •fc m 'SC: im M e Today in The Business Times A publication of
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      661 18  -  Policymakers under pressure as signs of inflation emerge By FIONA CHAN fiochan@sph.com.sg ECONOMIC growth has yet to make it back to a firm footing, but policymakers in Asia are already being confronted with another emerging challenge: inflation. Oil prices have been
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      264 18 REUTERS TOKYO: Delta Air Lines and American Airlines will not be invited to invest in Japan Airlines (JAL) until after a new management has been put in place, if ever, a person familiar with the matter has said. The government has sounded out Mr
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      105 18 www.straitstimes.com MOST-READ ONLINE US borrowing dives MOST COMMENTED ON _Resale HDB flat prices hit new high. Says solisticeleo: “In the long run, the supply of HDB flats could be continuously increased by tearing down the older estates and rebuilding with newer,
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      490 15  -  Sime Darby relinquishing brand after 27 years to Wearnes Automotive By CHRISTOPHER TAN SENIOR CORRESPONDENT christan@sph.com.sg NEW year, new home. Listed multi-fran-chise motor group Wearnes Automotive will soon be adding a new brand to its growing stable in 2010: Land Rover. The Indian-owned
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      941 17  -  It won’t be gloom this year if the first month is anything to go by CAI JIN By GOH ENG YEOW SENIOR CORRESPONDENT engyeow@sph.com.sg Cai Jin runs every Monday and covers financial matters and corporate governance issues that can affect investors. The two
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          1034 14 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS A unit trust or investment-linked insurance policy qualifies for inclusion under the CPF Investment Scheme if it has: a three-year track record, top quartile performance, a sales charge not exceeding 3 per cent and an expense ratio that is lower than the median of existing funds in
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        319 14  -  By DAWN ZENG KEPPEL Integrated Engineering (KIE), a unit of Keppel Corp, has won two contracts worth a total of US$53 million (S$74 million) for waste-to-energy projects in China. The deals are being done through KIE’s environmental engineering arm, Keppel Seghers Belgium. The
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          60 16 Reto Marx: Appointed UBS’ managing director of the ultra-high net worth country team head based in Singapore. Mr Marx, 38, has 17 years of experience in the wealth management industry and most recently served as head of South-east Asia in Bank Sarasin-Rabo (Asia). He also managed
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          47 16 Wong Wing Kien: Named president of asset management by Pacific Star Group. Mr Wong, 49, has spent more than 20 years in construction, project consultancy, property development and real estate investment. He previously served as the group chief operating officer at Surbana Corporation.
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          72 16 Chan Kum Ee: Appointed group president (designate) at Jade Technologies. Mr Chan is expected to bring his diverse corporate experience in marketing and distribution management to grow its venture into the titanium dioxide business, both organically and, where suitable opportunities arise, by way of joint venture
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          61 16 Ned Phillips: Appointed chief executive of Chi-East, a joint venture between Chi-X and the Singapore Exchange (SGX). Prior to this posting, Mr Phillips, 42, was most recently the CEO of BlocSec, an Asia-based crossing network. Chi-East said last Wednesday that Mr Phillips has lived and worked in
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          53 16 Paul Lim: Named Standard Chartered’s head of financial institutions, origination client coverage, for wholesale banking here. Mr Lim, 44, moved from Citibank, where he was head of global banking in Thailand. He has more than 17 years of corporate banking experience in various areas, including treasury
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        1002 16  -  They top international poll of 13 economies; MOM’s figure is 45.9 hours a week for 2008 By DICKSON LI dicksonl@sph.com.sg SINGAPORE’S workers continue to lead the pack when it comes to the number of hours they put in at work, according to a
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      355 1 8 Questions With... Taiwanese singersongwriter Crowd Lu C3 Retro rock show The art of flirting David Tao pays homage to 1960s music Couples make out at museum C6 C5 Xtra Designs is Singapore’s oldest designer furniture retailer, set up 20 years ago by Lim Choon Hong. TAY SUAN CHIANG talks
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      281 2 Leap into a new e ahead in 2010 this short span, be quick to fish that ten out of your pocket feel like velve PROVEN RESULTS FIGHT SKIN DAMAGE WITH Repair blemishes, pimples, scars marks 3 Ma Before process Lighten pigmentation, freckles melasma v Before skin revolution Revitalise dull aging
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      113 3 SHINAGAWA LAS IK centre V n' M //Jr 1 SJ ft mi r SKfikw r v you? the blade-free method V' Is LASIK for you? An informative talk by Dr. Lee Sao Bing Medical Director :A i Agenda LASIK is it for you? INTRALASE Wavefront what it is and how
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      578 7 Two Chinese films withdrawn from Palm Springs film fest in protest of screening of Tibet and Dalai Lama documentary New York Times Los Angeles In celebrity wattage and as a showcase of cinema, the Palm Springs International Film Festival has not garnered the attention
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      392 7  -  chang tou liang review concert THE ECSTASY OF INSPIRATION Singapore Symphony Orchestra Last Saturday, Esplanade Concert Hall The Singapore Symphony Orchestra’s first concert of the year was allRussian, with four works from the first half of the 19th century. The curtain-raiser was the most modern-sounding. Stravinsky’s
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        826 2  -  Money No Enough director Tay Teck Lock replaces late film-maker Yasmin Ahmad in movie about the teen triathlete boon chan media correspondent bchan@sph.com.sg The director of Money No Enough, the highest grossing Singapore-made movie to date, is ready for his follow-up, more than 10 years
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        971 3  -  The Taiwanese singersongwriter, who is known for his love of breakfast, is an accidental musician 8QUESTIONSWITH...CrowdLu boon chan media correspondent bchan@sph.com.sg The sophomore slump is a dreaded syndrome that has afflicted countless musicians over the years. Often, it seems, the more celebrated the debut, the bigger the
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        2234 4  -  the monday interview with Lim Choon Hong With just 20 chairs 20 years ago, Xtra has become a leading designer furniture store tay suan chiang taysc@sph.com.sg The man who helped up the hip quotient of living rooms here had barely enough cash to buy furniture to
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        572 5  -  David Tao trots out Western pops, but crowd saves biggest cheers for his Mandarin hits boon chan media correspondent bchan@sph.com.sg review concert DAVID TAO IN SPACE THE TALK ROCK SHOW Singapore Indoor Stadium Last Friday Singer-songwriter David Tao was happy to show his age at
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        107 6 ‘I used to hide the fact that I did not know the difference between net and gross profits’ Billionaire Richard Branson (right) when asked if he has lied at work ‘Lately, every movie is at least 20 minutes too long. It used to be that if
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        627 6  -  The heat is on for a tongue-in-cheek installation at the Singapore Art Museum kezia toh keziatoh@sph.com.sg A lit signpost outside the Singapore Art Museum reads in bold letters: “Flirting Point”. It is surrounded by four benches, presumably for couples to make out on. No wonder it is
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        504 6  -  lin wenjian Economists describe stock markets as being bullish or bearish. Perhaps there is a third way of thinking about the recovering economy: friendly tigerish. This year’s Lunar Tiger Coin collection by The Singapore Mint features the animal in kinder, gentler poses. In 1998 and 1986,
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        671 8 Single female singers look set to eclipse indie bands, continuing the ‘Gaga effect’ of last year Reuters London No two lists are the same, but as pop pundits gaze into their crystal balls at the start of a new decade, it is single female
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        424 8 Reuters Los Angeles American Idol judge Randy Jackson said last Friday that he did not know whether fellow panellist Simon Cowell (right) would be leaving the show but fevered speculation on his future was a distraction from the TV singing contest’s mission
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        619 10 Associated Press LosAngeles Nearly seven months after Michael Jackson’s death stunned the world, the official investigation is edging towards conclusion. Prosecutors are prepared to seek an indictment of his doctor on a charge of involuntary manslaughter, according to the Associated Press. The fate of
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        187 10 Associated Press Montreal Canadian police said last Friday that it was wrong for one of their officers to whisk actress Halle Berry, her boyfriend and their baby through airport security at Montreal’s Trudeau airport. A constable decided to let the couple pass a long line
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          73 10 There were cross-dressers, geeks and at least one girl trying to look like Cecilia Cheung (right). About 200 aspiring comedians showed up for an open casting call in Hong Kong last Saturday for Stephen Chow’s The King Of Comedy 2, which the superstar announced in a
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          73 10 Former Friends star Matt LeBlanc is returning to television in a quirky comic spoof of the TV business. Episodes is about a fictional hit British comedy that is turned into an American sitcom in which LeBlanc is chosen to play the lead in place of
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          49 10 Art Clokey, creator of the cartoonish Gumby, died in his sleep last Friday at his Californian home, at age 88. His whimsical green clay TV character, invented in the 1950s, and horse pal Pokey became popular in the 1960s and remain favourites among young and old.
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          65 10 The home of superheroes including Spider-Man and the X-Men sued one of its most successful artists last Friday to retain the rights to the lucrative characters. The federal lawsuit filed in Manhattan by Marvel Worldwide Inc asks a judge to invalidate 45 notices sent by
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      87 8 When you’re at the movies, we want you to send us photos of yourself with your instant reviews. Stand next to the poster of the movie you’ve watched, strike a pose and let your fingers do the rating. One to five fingers one for really poor and five if the
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      618 8 CATHAY CINEPLEXES THE CATHAY 2 Handy Road, Levels 5 Et 6 DID YOU HEAR ABOUT THE MORGANS?* 12.10pm, 2.40, 5.00, 7.20, 9.40pm CIRQUE DU FREAK:THE VAMPIRE’S ASSISTANT* 1.00pm, 3.10, 5.20, 7.35, 9.50pm INVICTUS* 2.00pm, 4.35, 7.10, 9.45pm OLD DOGS* 12.05pm, 3.10,5.05,9.20pm THE TREASURE HUNTER* 12.45pm, 2.50, 5.00, 7.10pm AVATAR* (in
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      356 8 Ilk 1900 912 1234 www.qv.com.sg m.gv.com.sg VISA mAhn'A'.* SHERLOCK HOLMES 4 12.50 3.50 6.50 9.50pm DID YOU HEAR ABOUT THE MORGANS?* 4 11.50am 2.15 4.40 7.05 9.30pm THE TREASURE HUNTER* 4+ MAND 12.00 1.45 2.25 4.00 4.50 7.00 7.15 9.40pm AVATAR 3D* 11.00am 2.30 6.00 9.30pm MOTHERHOOD* 4 < 12.50
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      641 8 HAW ORGANISATION 85 Years Of Entertaining The World 6738 0555 LIDO SHAW HOUSE LEVEL 5 AVATAR 11:30am, 1:45pm, 3:00 5:00,8:15,9:30 DID YOU HEAR ABOUT THE MORGANS? (CS)* 10:30am, 11:45,12:45, 2:00, 3:00, 4:30, 7:15, 9:30 CIRQUE DU FREAK: THE VAMPIRE'S ASSISTANT (CS)* 10:30am, 2:30pm, 7:10, 9:20 INVICTUS 10:40am, 4:00pm, 6:45, 9:30
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      3419 9 must watch free to air channel 5 SUPERMAN RETURNS Channel 5, Part 1 at 7.30pm, Part 2 at 10.30pm AM 6.00 Entertainment Tonight (V) 6.30 Primetime Morning (V) 9.30 The Ellen DeGeneres Show 7 (V)10.30 The Oprah Winfrey Show 23 (V)/11.30 Jamie At Home (IE) PM 12.00 The Rachael Ray
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      172 1 THINKING IS IN MONDAY 11/01/10 NO JOKE! Cartoonist dodges killer. MICA (P) 094/11/2009 p6 HOME BASE Nomadic school finally settles down. p7 BACKPACKERS BEWARE! How to avoid travel pitfalls. DJs ‘fess up Teen about they why p10 can’t get into wait to clubs. p4&5 111 v.; \5 T E S
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        256 2 Town councils have declared war on killer litter household items that become deadly missiles when they fall or are thrown from a height. In a serious accident last month, a man was hurt when a flower pot, thrown out of a window of an HDB flat,
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        93 2 Children of parents of two different races will now have more choice when it comes to thinking about their own race. A new rule says that they can choose the race of either parent. Before, they had to take their father’s race. Their own race will be
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        124 2 Pedestrians have been scratching their heads over a footbridge spanning Victoria Street that is supposed to link two teen haunts, Bugis Junction and Iluma. The problem is that it doesn’t quite do that. Shoppers using the bridge from the Iluma have to get to ground level via
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        421 3 Some drugs can make you think, see or hear things that aren’t really there. Some illegal drugs can change your mood and cause hallucinations in other words, they can make you think, see, feel or hear things that are not really there, even although you
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        413 6 Reuters BBC News The Times of London THE FACE Mr Westergaard was at his home in Aarhus, Denmark, looking after his five-year-old granddaughter when a man, armed with an axe and a knife, broke into his house to try and kill him. The 75-year-old has been
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        60 6 Sydney Morning Herald More than 1,000 people have been ordered to leave their homes in Coonamble, a remote town in the state of New South Wales, because of danger- ous floods caused by days of heavy rain. Many residents are, however, refusing to evacuate despite the danger.The reason? They
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        68 6 BBC News At least 93 people are dead after a man blew himself up at a volleyball match in Lakki Marwat. Among the dead were children and the elderly, who were y watching the match when the bomber drove his car onto the field. This is the latest in
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        68 6 BBC News They may be loud and smelly, but the 1,700 or so sealions that lived at Pier 39 in San Francisco were one of the city’s attractions. And when they began disappearing last month, no one knew why. But after large groups were spotted further north, in Oregon,
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        434 7  -  River Valley High School must be one of the most nomadic secondary schools in Singapore. Since its founding in 1956, it has moved seven times. MOU ZONGXIAO looks at how it finally found a home. MOU ZONGXIAO INTERACT! Tell us about your school’s move. Did you take
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        168 8 / 9  -  BY LIM JIA AN MUCH as you wanted it not to, the school year has begun, and you know what that means. School is not nearly as traumatic as getting there on time for some of you. To prevent blood from spilling, we’ve
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        312 8 / 9  -  BY LAI SIYING There are many cool events to kick off the new decade with. Here are our picks. 1 UNIVERSAL STUDIOS Everybody scream! The global theme park will finally open its doors this year and the rides are being tested now. I believe
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