The Straits Times, 14 February 2010

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    23 1 the sunday times SjSl A SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS PUBLICATION 90 cents FEBRUARY 14, 2010 80 PAGES IN THREE PARTS MICA (P) 095/11 /2009
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    Lock icon Don’t trivialise beliefs of others: SM Goh
    730 1  -  Singaporeans are free to profess any faith and promote their religions, but they must do so responsibly Kor Kian Beng kianbeng@sph.com. sg Singaporeans are free to practise and promote their religions, but must do so responsibly and without trivialising the religious beliefs of
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    Lock icon Winter Games tragedy
    243 1 AFP AP Reuters Vancouver (British Columbia) A Georgian luger died in a horrific crash on a training run last Friday (10am yesterday Singapore time), just hours before the Winter Games’ official opening. Nodar Kumaritashvili, 21, was making his final practice slide when he lost control at more
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      154 1 Franklin Heng: LIPOSUCTION punctured his INTESTINES PRIME PAGE4 The PRIVATE LIFE of Tiger Woods THINK PAGE30 TONY FERNANDES: Maverick or visionary? SPORT PAGE39 How to invest like a TIGER this year INVEST PAGE25 The GENERAL’S WIFE steps into the fight WORLD PAGE18 Weight loss through ACUPUNCTURE is it any good?
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      68 1 LEE WEI LING: Singaporeans don’t need to feel CULTURALLY INFERIOR TEH JOO LIN: I grew up in a RENTAL FLAT and, no, you don’t have to fear people like me HOMEPAGE8 THINK PAGE33 SANDRA LEONG taste-tests the SPICIEST DISH in town and ends up at A&E LIFESTYLE PAGE20 ILLUSTRATION: PAUL
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      Lock icon US leads major attack on Taleban
      530 2 US, Nato forces and Afghans team up in biggest offensive on militants’ stronghold Washington Post NYT AP Camp Leatherneck (Afghanistan) Thousands of US Marines and Afghan soldiers travelling in helicopters and mine-resistant vehicles began punching into a key Taleban stronghold in southern Afghanistan early
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      Lock icon Toyota’s troubles in US piling up
      493 2 AFP Reuters Bloomberg Tokyo Toyota’s woes in the United States continue to mount. The carmaker has announced that it plans to recall about 8,000 Tacoma pickup trucks to inspect their front driveshaft and will suspend production of two hybrids the Sai sedan and Lexus
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      Lock icon What it should have been
      50 2 In our story “Banks going all out to woo SMEs” yesterday, we wrongly quoted a DBS spokesmanas sayingthat thebank’s clients event would be held at the indoor theatre at Resorts World Sentosa, which seats 150,000. The theatre seats 1,500. We are sorry for the error.
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      Lock icon Indonesia’s new visa rule sparks outcry
      605 3  -  Scrapping of 7-day US$10 pass makes weekend travel to Batam, Bintan pricier Lynn Lee Indonesia Correspondent In Jakarta lynnlee@sph.com. sg Resort developers and tour agents who market tour packages for Batam and Bintan islands are crying foul over Jakarta’s sudden decision to change its
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      Lock icon Female don charged over college shootings
      715 3 AFP AP AP New Vork Times Huntsville (Alabama) A female Harvard-trained biology professor has been charged with murder in the shooting deaths of three colleagues on campus. The authorities say Amy Bishop, a 42-year-old instructor and researcher at the University of Alabama’s Huntsville campus,
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      Lock icon Google hopes to remain in China
      263 3 New York Times AFP Long Beach (California) Google co-founder Sergey Brin says he still hopes to find a way to continue operating in China, in his first public comments about the company’s fallout with the Chinese government. “I want to find a way to
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      Lock icon Checkpoint jams ease off this year
      310 4  -  Jamie Ee Wen Wei, Sumita Sreedharan There was the expected traffic jam yesterday at both the Woodlands and Tuas checkpoints, but nothing like the notorious snarls that used to plague the two crossings every Chinese New Year. The reason: The longer holiday stretch. With
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      Lock icon CEO died from tears in intestine
      355 4  -  Franklin Heng’s death certificate shows he had punctures in his intestines due to liposuction Francis Chan franchan @sph. com.sg Property head honcho Franklin Heng died from punctures to his intestines sustained during liposuction surgery last December. The 44-year-old’s death certificate, obtained by The Sunday
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      90 2 Dr Goh Seng Heng (Since 1984) PIMPLES, PORES, PIGMENTATION Chairman/Medical Director MBBS (Singapore) M Sc (Med Sci) In Dermatology (Glasgow, UK) 1984 Fellow American Academy of Dermatology (USA) 1987 Life Member, Dermatological Society of Singapore (2007) Perfect Skin Solutions By Lasers and Cosmeceuticals A" ft r < 0 K LASER
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    • [ special report: rental flat neighbors ]
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        Lock icon Are rental flats that bad?
        1737 6  -  The Sunday Times speaks to residents of such flats and their neighbours to get a clearer picture Irene Tham itham@sph.com. sg Additional reporting by Sumita Sreedharan First, you are knocked over by the smell of urine. The stench of faeces follows. This is not a
        ST PHOTO: ALPHONSUS CHERN; ST PHOTO: CHEW SENG KIM  -  1,737 words
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        Lock icon Blocked view is residents’ main gripe
        687 6  -  Shuli Sudderuddin, Debby Kwong It is a room with a view, but not for long, fears housewife Ho Sock Lian, 60. Not when a block of rental flats comes up on a vacant plot of land across from her block, obscuring her view of
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        Lock icon ‘No right to make demands on HDB’
        604 8  -  No link between presence of rental flats and crime rate, say MPs, experts Irene Tham, Shuli Sudderuddin itham@sph.com.sg shulis@sph.com.sg On another plot of land. Eight storeys instead of 14. Build a condominium instead. Some Singaporeans are dishing out such orders to the HDB
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        Lock icon A festive reunion away from home
        608 8  -  Teh Joo Lin As reunion meals go, this one has that extra warm glow: 40 workers from China and 150 Singaporean elderly folk tossing lohei as one big family. The workers, for various reasons, were not going home to China this festive season. Ms
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        Lock icon I was a rental block kid
        984 8  -  Teh Joo Lin joolin@sph.com.sg For the first 10 years of my life, I lived in a one-room flat in Bedok North that could be likened to a shoebox. My sister and I slept on mattresses squeezed between the front door and the kitchen. A
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        Lock icon A cruise treat for 53 senior citizens
        409 8  -  Shuli Sudderuddin Madam Poh Pek Chin was somewhat nervous when invited to go on a cruise. Will I get seasick, asked the 64-year-old first-timer. Now, back after the trip last week, she has not stopped talking excitedly about it. She, and 52 other
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      Lock icon Bosses giving mothers ‘labour pains’
      980 10  -  While pregnant staff have better legal rights now, claiming them may not be easy Irene Tham Mrs Chan has no regrets about starting a family. But she is stopping at two. The 36-year-old, who did not want to give her full name for fear of
      ST PHOTO: CAROLINE CHIA; ST PHOTO: ONG WEE JIN  -  980 words
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      Lock icon A car recall need not be bad news
      679 12  -  While latest exercise from Toyota is over faults, others may be to improve reliability Leonard Lim limze@sph.com.sg Additional reporting by Debby Kwong Car recalls. They may seem like two dreaded words these recent weeks, but it is not always about bad news.
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      Lock icon Wheels stolen from vehicle in carpark
      458 12  -  Shuli Sudderuddin Senior systems analyst Raymond Lee could not believe his eyes when he got to his car at a multistorey carpark to drive to work last month. There was his one-year-old Mitsubishi Lancer with its back tyres missing, and the car propped up
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      Lock icon 9th-century dhow may dock at RWS
      1113 13  -  Replica of ancient ship may be housed at integrated resort’s maritime museum Jamie Ee Wen Wei jamieee@sph.com.sg The Sultan of Oman’s recent gift of an 18m-long sewn-plank ship to Singapore may have found a home in the upcoming maritime museum in Resorts World Sentosa
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      Lock icon NTUC theme park due for a facelift?
      591 15  -  Operator says it fills a niche affordable fun for locals but some visitors want new thrills Irene Tham itham@sph.com.sg Additional reporting by Sumita reporting Sreedharan With Universal Studios Singapore at Sentosa officially opening early next month, is Escape Theme Park (ETP) at Pasir
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      Lock icon Sites of 6 new primary schools
      439 15  -  Goh Chin Lian Six new primary schools are slated to open in such places as Bukit Merah and Bukit Panjang in January 2013. They are among 11 new primary schools to be built over the next few years, as part of a plan to
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      Lock icon No textbook for this science class
      813 16  -  MOE exploring use of interactive digital textbooks for Normal (T) classes Goh Chin Lian chinlian@sph.com.sg It’s lesson time, but none of the students has a textbook at hand. Instead, they are all using digital “interactive textbooks”. The secondary students are playing a computer game
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      355 7 ROARING INTO THE YEAR OF THE TIGER What better way to greet the Lunar New Year than with Singapore's very own iconic golden lager, Tiger Beer? This year, Tiger Beer honours the Year of the Tiger with renewed hope and blessings of good fortune, prosperity and good health with a
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      23 7 www.tigerbeer.com.sg 9 IN THE YEAR OF THE TIGER, MAY YOUR GLASS ALWAYS BE FULL. N W Tfder i I ft ider ENJOY WINNING
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      874 9 YOUR ASTROLOGICAL ANALYSIS FOR 2010 2010 marks the year of the Golden Tiger that occurs only once in every 60 years, making it a truly auspicious one that symbolises good fortune for one and all. 9 t Tiger (1914,1926,1938,1950,1962.1974,1986,1998) Tigers may face a few challenges in 2010, but this is
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      23 9 www.tigerbeer.com.sg 9 IN THE YEAR OF THE TIGER, MAY YOUR GLASS ALWAYS BE FULL. N W Tfder i I ft ider ENJOY WINNING
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      194 10 Honda Odyssey. Singapore's coolest family car now comes with a 5 year unlimited mileage warranty. It's fuel efficient. Thanks to its powerful yet economical 2.4L i-VTEC engine the Odyssey uses only 8.9L/100km! making it the most fuel efficient vehicle in its class. It has maximum safety. Safety is always a
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      113 15 m YEAR m ♦n» SPRING SALE 2010 III JOHN LITTLE John Little wishes you and your family A PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR! We're closed today but will open from 12noon tomorrow, with final reductions 8c additional 20% off storewide*. See you in-store! Glial Exclusion list applies. Check in-store for more details.
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      574 17 S E N T O S A SINGAPORE CONGRATULATIONS TO SINGAPORE'S FIRST INTEGRATED RESORT &*nni i VA [M'iH RyaKHr fv >• A -i.:- WTijf iMfiM '-s ®E II ■mft a» 1G B? m W m mm «a I e m sra > Ht ?a 4i < //>■■ J m w.
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  • world
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      Lock icon Fonseka’s wife rebuts allegations
      902 18  -  She claims it all began when war ended and Rajapaksas’ hangers-on sowed distrust Ravi Velloor South Asia Bureau Chief velloor@sph.com. sg Colombo In the courtyard of the rented bungalow in Colombo’s Queens Avenue, Jerfy, a two-year-old Dalmatian, howls for his master, General Sarath Fonseka. He is
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    • IN BRIEF
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        Lock icon Bosses ‘covered up mistake’
        203 18 AP Santiago (Chile) An engraver fired by Chile’s mint for an error that led to the release of 1.5 million coins featuring the country of “CHIIE” said his bosses deliberately covered up the mistake. The error showed up on Chilean 50-peso (13 Singapore cents) pieces issued
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        Lock icon Malaysian submarine cannot dive
        137 18 Bernama Malacca The technical fault in Malaysia’s first submarine, the KD Tunku Abdul Rahman, that prevents it from diving, is a minor hitch that will not interfere with its operations and can be rectified by its builders. Defence Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi said: “We have a
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        Lock icon Counterfeits market manager held
        84 18 Reuters Beijing Chinese police have arrested the former general manager of the Silk Market in Beijing, notorious for selling counterfeits of well-known brands, state media said yesterday. Wang Zilin was detained “for allegedly selling counterfeit goods with registered trademarks, including Louis Vuitton bags”, state news agency
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        Lock icon Chinese pandas for Tokyo zoo
        117 18 AP Tokyo Japanese panda fans will be able to see the endangered animals in Tokyo next year for the first time since 2008, after the city reached an agreement to pay US$950,000 (S$1.3 million) a year to borrow a pair from China, officials said. Ling
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        Lock icon Violence spreads in campuses
        169 18 AFP Dhaka Campus politics has always been a serious business in Bangladesh, but now the deaths of four students at universities over the past 10 days have forced the government to step in. The wave of killings began on Feb 2 at Dhaka University when third
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        Lock icon A modern take on opera
        122 18 AP New York Talk about modern opera. Mr Nico Muhly, a 28-year-old composer based in New York, has been commissioned to create a fictionalised account of a British teenager who used the Internet in an attempt to arrange his own murder in 2003. Given the
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      Lock icon Rajapaksa allays concerns
      147 18 AFP Colombo Sri Lanka’s President said yesterday there was no reason for concern over the arrest and detention of former army chief and defeated presidential candidate Sarath Fonseka. President Mahinda Rajapaksa has promised “due process” will be followed in dealing with General Fonseka, the President’s website said.
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      Lock icon 27 hours to get home
      1702 20  -  The Sunday Times follows one migrant worker’s journey to be reunited with her family during Chinese New Year CHINESE NEW YEAR EXODUS Sim Chi Yin China Correspondent In Wuwei County (Anhui) simcy@sph.com.sg BLOOMBERG AFP All that stood between migrant worker Hu Xiaofei and home now
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      Lock icon McQueen’s death a big blow for London fashion
      417 22 Industry doubts if anyone can fill shoes of Britain’s star designer AP London Yes, there are other big names: Vivienne Westwood, Stella McCartney and Paul Smith come to mind. But the sudden death of Alexander McQueen leaves a gaping hole at the
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      Lock icon Parts of Jakarta left underwater
      180 22 FLASH FLOODS Jakarta Floodwaters submerged many homes in Jakarta yesterday as heavy rains lashed the Indonesian capital, but prior warnings from the government prevented a full-blown crisis. At least three areas in Jakarta experienced floods as the result of heavy rain and mudslides in the
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      Lock icon Freak deluge for Sydney
      199 22 AFP Sydney Flash floods hit parts of Sydney after the heaviest rainfall in a decade, officials said yesterday. The wild storm, in which 100mm of rain fell in an hour in some parts of the city, felled trees and caused widespread blackouts. It turned some parts
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      Lock icon Gain in US retail sales a good sign
      523 24 Figures bode well for first-quarter economic growth, despite slight dip earlier this month Reuters AFP Washington Sales at US retailers were unexpectedly strong last month, suggesting consumers were feeling a little more comfortable to spend, and improving prospects for first-quarter economic growth.
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      Lock icon Buffett bandwagon attracts millions more investors
      421 24 Reuters New York Mr Warren Buffett’s train has left the station, and millions of investors are joining him for the ride. The billionaire investor’s Berkshire Hathaway last Friday completed its roughly US$26.4 billion (S$37.3 billion) purchase of Burlington Northern Santa Fe, issuing new stock
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      Lock icon Wall St seeks cues on Greek crisis
      277 24 Reuters AP New York US stocks could struggle to make headway this week if a meeting of European finance ministers fails to reassure markets that they can contain Greece’s debt problems. Greece’s financing problems have focused investors’ attention on the growing mountain of
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      165 18 S RAJARATNAM SCHOOL OF INTERNATIONAL STUDIES RSIS Masters Programmes with enlightenment comes power... At RSIS you are at the centre of Asia's rise What knowledge and skills do you need in a changing global environment? Who can you meet to expand your influence? Why do you need to learn in
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      489 19 S E N T O S A SINGAPORE CONGRATULATIONS ON ANOTHER MILESTONE THE OPENING OF SINGAPORE'S FIRST CASINO ■J?" vmmmgmMM* lllTl 11,1 yini 'WWw i w +1 %»r .4 m -■it if f*. ABUNDANT DINING OPTION Choose from an array of cuisine options from any of the 9 outlets at
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      77 22 We are open tomorrow! k up to WiUviffl:: STOREWIDE Apply for your BHG Platinum Pp'sh RphptP For details, visit Udol I I ICUdLC www.dbs.com/sg/personal/cards/bhg/Pages/ for BHG Cardmembers default.aspx 0 /O Visa Card today! BE HERE FOR GOOD THINGS! BHC BUCIS Bugis Junction BHG BISHAN Junction 8 BHC TAMPINES Century Square
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      505 22 Weather Vane Cloudy Storms Amsterdam San Francisco Seoul Wellington Showers Clear Bali Istanbul Johannesburg Sydney Buenos Aires Melbourne Shenzhen Taipei Barcelona Rio de Janeiro Cairo Miami Singapore Showers with thunder mainly over southern and western Singapore in the afternoon. Today: Outlook: 33 Monday: Afternoon showers with thunder. Tuesday: Afternoon showers
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      314 23 IN OUCHICPF A NEWSLETTER OF THE CPF BOARD ISSUE NO. 2 FEBRUARY 2010 S\deat7 V o—r 8=: ■p My children gave we an Ang Uao -for life. Wow] You mean an Ang £>ao every month? r n Yes, except for the Chinese New Year month. 4 co<s this month, my
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      73 24 HYUNDAI WISHES YOU HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR! THANK YOU FOR MAKING US THE TOP SELLING SEDAN IN 2009!' 1 3 a > V 4 SnrrmfE* ruaon <H> HYUflDHI www.komoco.com.sg SHOWROOMS (OPEN DAILY 9AM 8PM) ALEXANDRA BUKIT TIMAH 6475 8888 6462 1771 DEALERS: RTMT MOTOR (UBI) 6280 1919 ORIENT CREDIT (PAYA
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  • invest
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      Lock icon Be bold but agile, just like the Tiger
      1444 25  -  Lorna Tan Senior Correspondent lorna@sph.com.sg The Tiger year that starts today can be a double-edged sword for investors: For all the optimism, power and determination it symbolises, there is also a tinge of fear. Investors have plenty to learn from both the
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    • [ me & my money ]
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        Lock icon Apprentice star set up investment firm at 18
        1440 26  -  At 13, he noticed poor fathers watched TV after work, while rich ones read The Wall Street Journal Lorna Tan Senior Correspondent lorna@sph.com.sg In 1995, when he was 18 and still in school, Mr James Sun set up his first investment firm
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    • [ property ]
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        Lock icon Home is where the schools are
        660 27  -  More expat schools in suburbs may push up rents in areas like Districts 17-19 Harsha Jethnani harshamj@sph.com.sg The growing presence of international schools in suburban areas may lead to a pickup in private suburban rents this year. Expatriates with families could choose to relocate
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        Lock icon Staying put in a hotel
        277 27  -  MY SPACE Shuli Sudderuddin Marketing communications manager Lena Chew tells Shuli Sudderuddin how a simple change in flooring made her home feel more cosy. Ms Lena Chew, 32 Marketing communications manager Lives in a 1,917 sq ft, four-bed-room condominium in Newton ?Lives with herhusband,Mr Rayner
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    • [ small change ]
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        Lock icon Love me, love my money habits
        893 28  -  Romance aside, talking about financial issues is also important for a healthy relationship Lorna Tan Senior Correspondent lorna@sph.com.sg It is Valentine’s Day today. A day of romance, roses, wining and dining. While the soft aspects of a relationship are important, let us not be
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        Lock icon Er, what is the S&P 500?
        196 28  -  FINANCIAL QUOTIENT Lorna Tan Where do you see this? In investment articles and on websites. What does it mean? The index was first published in 1957 by credit rating firm Standard Poor’s (S&P). The index includes 500 leading firms in various industries of the
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      1141 29  -  Company posts record profits for 2009 and is set to raise its brand recognition even more Lee Jun Bok leejunbok1@gmail.com While its rivals in Japan and the United States are singing the blues, South Korea’s Hyundai Motor is whistling a happy tune, after
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      2512 30  -  Tiger’s self-imposed retreat will likely see him emerging stronger and hungrier on the greens Jaime Diaz Iwill never forget the sound of Tida Woods’ voice piercing through the recording of the 911 call of Nov 27 last year at the start of her son’s public nightmare. As
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      1409 31  -  Auxiliary police officers from private firms have become a critical part of security forces Teh Joo Lin joolin@sph.com. sg When Singapore hosted the South-east Asia Games in 1993, police officers took care of the crowd and access control when the Games torch was
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      308 32 EDITORIAL Only 30 couples are known to be tying the knot today, down from 221 last year. It is a 10-year low for Valentine’s Day weddings. Records from the Registry of Marriages show that of the marrying couples, only half are Chinese. Last year more than three-quarters
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      148 32 BLOGOSPHERE Pastor apologises for insensitive comments on Buddhism It’s heartening to read that Pastor Rony Tan of Lighthouse Evangelism Church has made a personal apology to representatives from the Buddhist and Taoist faiths for his insensitive and offensive comments. From time to time I read of racist comments in online
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      173 32 QUOTES OF THE WEEK “When I saw him, he looked very sorry and remorseful frankly, he looked terrible.” Tan Thiam Lye, Taoist Federation chairman, on Pastor RONY TAN, LighthouseEvangelism church leader, who had to apologise to Buddhists and Taoists for making making disparaging remarks about their religion in video clips
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        Lock icon No EDB proposal on new tax breaks for hybrid cars
        193 32  -  Kelvin Wong Programme Director, Urban Solutions Singapore Economic Development Board I refer to last Monday’s report, “Tax breaks to pave way for greener cars: EDB proposes big rebates to encourage plug-in hybrids”. The Economic Development Board (EDB) does not advocate
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        205 32  -  John Lewis Taylor At first glance, one certainly sympathises with Ms Josephine Chia when she described her predicament last Sunday in her letter, “Single PR can’t buy resale HDB flat”. But there is another side to her complaint. Until 1959, Ms Chia would have
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        176 32  -  Teo Wai Lee (Ms) I refer to last Sunday’s letter, “Single PR can’t buy resale HDB flat”. I sympathise with her. I’m also a single PR and will be 40 next year. I have been living in Singapore for the past 10 years. I have
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        399 32  -  Phil Choong I refer to Mr Leonard Lim’s “Nuclearoption” articlelast Sunday.Singapore’s carbon footprint is reportedly 27.9 tonnes of CO2 (tCO2) per capita (or 15.2 tCO2 per capita, if marine bunkering is excluded). Today, Singapore has more than 10,000 MW of generating capacity for
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        230 32  -  Wong Mun Yong I agree with those who hold a negative view of the way post offices are run today more like retail outlets than post offices. The core purpose of a post office is to run a postal service. If it wants
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        266 32  -  Yong Hsin Ann (Ms) Last Sunday’s report, “Flash a DBS or POSB card to skip queue”, reminded me of the long queue I was in at the Simpang Bedok post office two months ago. There were 13 people ahead of me. It was around
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        68 32  -  Pham Quoc Trung I refer to Sunday’s article, “More bikes stolen, thefts more brazen”. The authorities can help by installing CCTV cameras at bicycle parking places near MRT stations and at bus stops, in addition to HDB areas. As it is, CCTVs are
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      364 33  - EX LIBRIS Extracted by Lim Han Sen Extracted by Lim Han Sen from the National Library Board (NLB). Each week, we publish an extract from a book that is topical or of general interest. Globalisation Laid Bare takes a long hard look at the impact of international trade on businesses
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      1150 33  -  It will take time but Singaporeans have the ability to forge an identity unique to us Lee Wei Ling The writer is director of the National Neuroscience Institute. I circulated the draft of my article Handling The Influence Of The West, which was published
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      Lock icon A Valentine to singlehood
      718 33  -  [THE EX-PAT FILES] Rupali Karekar The writer is an assistant to the editor on the Straits Times Foreign Desk. She has lived in Singapore for the last 2 1 /2 years. For the second consecutive year, I will be in Singapore during Valentine’s Day alone. This
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      385 33 STREETVIEW “It fosters interpersonal relations, which these days have been undermined due to our touch-and-go lifestyle.” ASSISTANT PROFESSOR MICHAEL TAN, from Nanyang Technological University’s school of art, design and media, on how observing Chinese New Year traditions ties the Chinese to their roots. This year, the festival coincides with Valentine’s
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      1414 34  -  Chua Hian Hou, Tan Weizhen chuahh@sph.com.sg tanwz@sph.com.sg Technopreneur Chandrasekar Rathakrishnan has been widely painted as a villain after news of his very public falling out with erstwhile ally, prominent American blogger Michael Arrington, broke in November. That really, really hurts, said the 29-year-old Singaporean.
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      297 34 HEADLINERS Sheik Alauddin Mohideen Food poisoning ‘not intentional’ Last Wednesday, the coroner found that while Mr Alauddin’s rojak stall in Geylang Serai was unhygienic at the time when a fatal food poisoning case occurred, the incident was not a deliberate act. Two women died in April last year after eating
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      1067 34  -  Annual event since 1987 very much a part of the lunar new year landscape here today Leong Weng Kam Senior Writer wengkam@sph.com.sg The first time Member of Parliament Liang Eng Hwa joined in the River Hongbao festivities on the banks of the Singapore River
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      64 30 jl L Get your news this lunar New Year from 7am onwards. 1 st Day of Lunar New Year (14 February 2010) The Sunday Times Berita Minggu Tamil Murasu 2 nd Day of Lunar New Year (15 February 2010) Tamil Murasu The New Paper Shin Min Daily News Lianhe Wanbao
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      473 31 CHINESE MlGRAND prize/ S8)888CASH CONSOLATION PRIZES] £$288 cash] (10 WINNERS) i I Usher in fortune prosperity with a roaring start to the Chinese New Year! i15JFEB}20;i0E 14 FEB 2010 -SUNDAY Choa Chu Kang 10.30am Parkway Parade 1.00pm IMM 11.30am yivoGitVi- 2.00pm Turf City 12.30pm Sembawang "3.00pm Pioneer Mall 1.30pm Tampines33:45pm
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      59 32 Send your letters to the Forum Editor via e-mail to suntimes@sph.com.sg or fax at 6319-8289. Please include your full name, address, telephone number and, for women, your preferred honorific such as Miss, Mrs, Mdm or Ms. The Forum Editor reserves the right to edit a letter. Have something to share?
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    1248 35 OBITUARIES "In my Father's house are many rooms; if it were not so, I would have told you. I am going there to prepare a place for you." John 14:2 m At mm w/i; Madam Lee Wan Tze Jane Age: 96 Was called home to be with the Lord on
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      123 35 ANNOUNCEMENT Our customer service counter at Toa Payoh North is closed today. We apologise for any inconvenience caused. We will be open from 12.30pm 9.45pm tomorrow and Tuesday for obituary bookings in The Straits Times and Berita Harian. MATS CLASSIFIED Obituaries For booking e n q u i r i
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    77 36 OBITUARIES \m\ PHYLLIS CHUA HOCK TAY (4 September 1923 14 February 1999) Cherished by her husband, ONG TIANG GUAN, her children and their spouses, JKKI and her grandchildren. 36th Anniversary In Loving Memory PI t S.ACHUTIAN NAIR Departed 15 Feb. 1974 Always remembered by Wife, Son, Daughters, In-laws, Grandchildren, Great
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      Lock icon Rare cases of cheating
      996 36  -  Very few marathon runners have been caught using drugs to enhance performance Jeanette Wang jwang@sph.com. sg Baseball players, boxers, weightlifters, cyclists and sprinters typically hog the headlines when it comes to performance-enhancing drugs. So, when Mary Akor Beasley’s failed A sample dope test at last year’s
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      152 36 AP Pebble Beach (California) Rampant speculation on Tiger Woods’ returning to golf at the Match Play Championship ended quietly on Friday when the PGA Tour released its 64-man field minus the No. 1 player. Woods did not meet the deadline for entering next week’s event in
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      Lock icon Oracle easily win first of three Cup races
      268 36 Reuters Valencia American challenger BMW Oracle won the opening race of the 33rd America’s Cup on Friday, beating Swiss holders Alinghi by more than 3km in a stunning display of hi-tech sailing. Software mogul Larry Ellison’s BMW Oracle started badly but were
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      345 36 AP Reuters Vancouver (British Columbia) The wall was raised and the luge competition resumed yesterday a day after Georgian luger Nodar Kumaritashvili was killed in a crash at the Whistler Sliding Centre. The 21-year-old had lost control at 148kmh and was launched over the rim of
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        252 37 England and Chelsea footballer Ashley Cole was on Thursday involved in a sex scandal, after naked pictures of him were allegedly sent to a model. According to The Sun, Sonia Wild, 28, received explicit mobile phone pictures of the left-back with raunchy
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        Lock icon Patrick’s sexy ads controversy
        262 37 During last Sunday’s Super Bowl broadcast in the United States, racecar driver Danica Patrick starred in two new GoDaddy commercials. One spot featured her dolled up as Marilyn Monroe and gyrating like Jennifer Beals in Flashdance. The other coaxed viewers to GoDaddy’s website to watch a
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        179 37 If earlier reports are to be believed, Tiger Woods never thought he was a sex addict. So it should come as no surprise then that the world No.1 golfer thought his sex addiction rehabilitation was a joke. Woods, on an indefinite break
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        244 37 Toni Poole, the wife of John Terry, has taken him back. The cheating Chelsea and England footballer, 29, was spotted on Friday planting a tender kiss on his wife’s lips, reported The Sun. He then snuggled up on a sun-lounger with Toni, 28,
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        163 37 Did you know that Manchester United’s Rio Ferdinand was a ballet dancer? Not many did, until Britain’s National Portrait Gallery publicised that last Thursday. It came out with an advertisement campaign that features England’s new football captain relaxing on a dark orange chair with the words
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        242 37 Landing on the cover of Sports Illustrated is a big goal for two types of people: Athletes and models. So, was United States tennis star Andy Roddick, 27, jealous when his wife Brooklyn Decker, a model, made it to the cover of
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        142 37 HOT BODS If you or your friends fit into our Hot Bods Series, drop us a line and photo at stimage@sph.com.sg Text and pictures by Desmond Lim Eric Choy, 30 Sales engineer Height: 1.75m Weight: 68kg Exercise regimen: I play beach volleyball twice a week, basketball and tennis once a
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        256 37 FOOTBALL English FA Cup Results not available owing to early press time. Dutch Eredivisie NEC Nijmegen 4 NAC Breda 2. German Bundesliga Borussia Moenchengladbach 2 Nuremberg 1. Italian Serie A AC Milan 3 Udinese 2. GOLF Pebble Beach National Pro-Am In California, 2nd rd: 132 Alex Cejka (Ger) 65
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          64 37 Reuters Lome Togo has appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) to overturn its African Nations Cup ban. The Confederation of African Football (CAF) barred Togo from the next two tournaments, after the team withdrew from this year’s competition in Angola following the death of
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          45 37 London Defender Wayne Bridge said he is prepared to play for England in the World Cup despite the possibility of playing with ex-Chelsea teammate John Terry, reported The Telegraph. Bridge is upset with Terry for having an affair with his ex-girlfriend.
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          39 37 AP Sydney Five-time Olympic swim champion Ian Thorpe is suffering from financial problems. The Australian, who retired in November 2006, said he recently had serious cash-flow problems after shedding sponsorship deals to focus on his studies.
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      Lock icon Amateur sides that dished out star-studded, exciting football
      865 38  -  The Football Association of Singapore plans to install a promotion-relegation system between the National Football League and the S-League. What is the NFL? We look back at its heyday, when spectators packed venues, and the FAS’ plans to give the tired-looking league
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      Lock icon Sorting out the real tigers from the paper ones
      1082 38  -  Some contenders for Barca’s Champions League crown are genuine, others aren’t HEART OF FOOTBALL Rob Hughes stsports@sph.com.sg February and March must, appropriately, sort out the paper tigers from the real champions of Europe. “Zhi laohu”, from the original Chinese, was once
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      669 38  -  Wang Meng Meng After more than a decade out of the limelight, Singapore’s National Football League is set for a makeover by the Football Association of Singapore (FAS) next year. This is following feedback and accusations of neglect from frustrated
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      376 39  -  Leonard Lim In the cavernous Royal Multicultural Hall filled with several historic Lotus cars rolled in just for the occasion, a Formula One institution was revived on Friday. AirAsia chief Tony Fernandes, the team principal of the car that was originally established
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      1061 39  -  Despite likely disappointments ahead, rookie F1 principal aims to return Lotus to their glory days Leonard Lim limze@sph.com.sg Nine years after dipping his fingers into an industry he knew next to nothing about, Tony Fernandes is at it again. The ebullient AirAsia boss is
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      78 37 TV times BASKETBALL NBA All-Star game (Live, Ch23, 9.30am). BOWLING USBC Masters (Live, Ch24, tomorrow, 4am). CRICKET 4th ODI Commonwealth Bank Series: Australia v West Indies (Live, Ch110, 11.25am and 3.25pm). FOOTBALL Dutch Eredivisie Heracles Almelo v PSV Eindhoven (Live, Ch116, 9.25pm). English FA Cup 5th rd: Bolton v Tottenham
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      80 37 Scottish Premier League Rangers v Hibernian (Live, Ch115, 9.25pm). Spanish Primera Liga Sevilla v Osasuna (Live, Ch27, tomorrow, 1.55am), Atletico Madrid v Barcelona (Live, Ch27, tomorrow, 3.55am). GOLF Avantha Masters Day 4 (Live, Ch26, 2.45pm). AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am Pre-show (tomorrow, 2am). Day 4 (tomorrow, 4am) Live, Ch26 Ch304.
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      404 40 EOS DIGITA.L Cation Delighting You Always BE EMPOWERED Faces of EOS captured by award-winning photographer Zhang Jingna using the Canon EOS IDs Mark III. k in r i i i m i A r E 1 I 1 Melissa Boey, 27 Teaches digital media at a polytechnic; formerly a flight
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      794 1 Ignatius Low The good and bad in the year of Golden Tiger Page 10 Enduring love They have been married for 31 years but he still sends her love poems. On Valentine’s Day, Sandra Leong asks couples how they keep the love Ms Pooja Chandiramani and Mr Udeykumar Chandiramani were
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        524 2 Fifty-four years might seem like a lifetime to be married, but for Mr Tan Koh Kwang and Madam Yeo Char Whay, the secret is simple. “Aiyah, we just take it one day at a time. Nothing to it,” shouts retired hawker Tan in Mandarin who, at
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        504 2 Meet a married couple of 31 years with three children who are still exchanging sweet nothings with each other. Almost every morning, Ms Pooja Chandiramani, 51, receives an SMS from her husband Udeykumar Chandiramani, 57, saying “I love you”. “Sometimes it can be a verse or
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        585 2  -  forever, say dreamers and romantics. But it is hard work to sustain a marriage and four couples tell how they keep the sparks alive as they celebrate Valentine’s Day today Sandra Leong sandral@sph.com.sg For some, Valentine’s Day might be about syrupy greeting cards, boxes of chocolates, red roses
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        567 3 When Robert and Kristy Quek met in 1974, he was her Secondary 1 form teacher at Ahmad Ibrahim Secondary School and she was his student 19 years his junior. After she left school, they stayed in touch. Six years later, when they both attended the National
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        566 3 A trekking trip to Nepal in 1999 proved a heady experience for Singaporean Vivian Baniya in more ways than one. In the country’s capital of Kathmandu, she met Nepalese trekking guide Sudip Baniya, 33, which was the first step in a long journey which culminated in
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        457 4  -  While most of Singapore are off work today, here are people working to ensure nothing goes wrong during the festive period Nicholas Yong nicy@sph.com.sg Visiting relatives may be the No. 1 priority today, the first day of Chinese New Year, but if you want to take
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        296 4 STEVEN LOW, 26 Staff nurse at National University Hospital’s emergency department “Be it public holidays or festive days, there will be people falling ill, feeling breathless or having diarrhoea. As most clinics or polyclinics are closed then, the 24/7 emergency department ends up receiving
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        308 4 ANDREW CHAN, 49 Somerset MRT station control manager “The whole atmosphere is different on the first day of Chinese New Year. On a normal day, about 70,000 people come in and out of Somerset station. But the first thing you realise on the first day of
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        317 4 YAP CHOON SYE, 50s Taxi driver “In more than 10 years as a taxi driver, this will be my fourth time working during Chinese New Year, so I am used to it. I usually work in the mornings. It may be the festive season but we
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        335 4 JANET NAH, 36 Senior flight stewardess with Cathay Pacific Airlines “Evenat 9,000m, the festive mood is well and alive. We see many families and most passengers are dressed in bright colours, while some children even wear traditional Chinese outfits. The passengers are very approachable and
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        331 4 RESTAURANTS Blue Basil From: 10am 10pm Where: 56 Cairnhill Road, tel: 6737-8770 Casa Verde From: 7.30am 3pm Where: 1 Cluny Road (Visitor Centre), Singapore Botanic Gardens, tel: 6467-7326 Cugini Restaurant and Lounge Bar From: Noon 3pm, 6.30 11pm Where: 87 Club Street, 01-01, tel: 6221-3791 Indochine Wine Bar
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        105 6 Even bikes under lock and key can get stolen, but securing your two-wheeler in the correct way could make it a lot harder and thus less attractive for thieves. DO’S AND DON’TS Lock bike in a well-lit area and not in the same spot all the time.
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        622 6  -  A chained bicycle may look secure but a determined thief can always find a way to snap the lock, say experts John Lui johnlui@sph.com.sg Cyclists are in a spin these days, with bicycle thefts on the rise and the recent high-profile theft of English cyclist Greg
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        950 6  -  Boon Chan Step back in time to when a night on the town meant well-coiffed women dressing up in colourful flared dresses and dapper men in zoot suits pulling up suspenders and donning hats. The Summertimes Big Band is presenting an evening of swing music
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        559 6 Five minutes. If bicycle thieves need more time than that to make off with a prized two-wheeler, they are likely to give it a miss, say bike shop managers and mechanics LifeStyle spoke to. A lock that can hold out for at least five minutes
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        914 7 Networks Most-Creative-Innovator Club Best-Value-For-Money-CEO Club Least-Likely-To-Use-An-Abacus Club Doesn’t-Like-Orange Club Relationship Hi guys. I luv all u crazy iFans. My aim is to make everything so tiny, cutesy and convenient for u that eventually
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        321 11 INK SKETCHES BY HLA MYINT SWE Yangon-based artist Hla Myint Swe captures the diverse cultural mix of his countrymen in this exhibition (right). Where: John Erdos Art, 6B Dempsey Road When: Till Feb 22 (closed today tomorrow), 10am 6pm daily Admission: Free 1 6pm
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      52 8 N@G NATIONAL COUNCIL ON PROBLEM GAMBLING Problem Gambling know the line.sg Know the line and take control Gambling is a social activity during the Lunar New Year but before it becomes a problem, know where to draw the line. Help is available. Call or log on for assistance and information
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      140 17 Wishing All A Roaring Success in the Year of Tiger! Celebrate Your Lunar New Year At The Movies! Book Your Movie Tickets Now! Catch Late Night Movies* at All GV cinemas! to 2.30am. Visit www.gv.com.sg or any GV box office to get your tickets today! ggk GV Movie Club members
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