The Straits Times, 18 November 2010

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    19 1 THE STRAITS TIMES. MICA (P) 094/11/2009 THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18 2010 A SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS PUBLICATION ESTABLISHED 1845 90 CENTS
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    Lock icon SMRT vandal met by Swiss cops at airport
    569 1  -  Fricker suspected of also having vandalised trains at home BY TEH JOO LIN joolin@sph.com.sg SWISS national Oliver Fricker flew home to Switzerland on Tuesday, hours after he was released from Changi Prison and straight into the arms of police waiting for him
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    Lock icon EU takes stock of Irish debt woes
    757 1 ASSOCIATED PRESS REUTERS BLOOMBERG AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE BRUSSELS: The European authorities have geared up to travel to Ireland and lift the lid on just how bad the latter’s debt woes are, as European Union finance ministers struggled yesterday to hammer out a rescue plan
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    Lock icon BOWLED OVER:
    82 1 Teammates consoling Singapore’s Remy Ong (centre), who broke down in tears at the end of the men’s double bowling competition at the 16th Asian Games. Ong and Jason Yeong-Nathan were sitting in first place for a while, but their dreams of gold were dashed by Malaysians Adrian Ang
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      166 1 Obesity can begin in the womb SUBSCRIBE Call 6388-3838 You’ll get a gift when you subscribe to The Straits Times IN MIND YOUR BODY Trans-Cool Tokyo The best of Japanese contemporary art Trams in Singapore? HOME, PAGE B7 LIFE! PAGES C4&5 BREAKING NEWS: www.straitstimes.com INTERACT: www.stomp.com.sg EMAIL: stomp@stomp.com.sg VIDEOS: www.razortv.com.sg
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      Lock icon Royal ring controversy
      43 1 PRINCE William’s announcement of his engagement to long-time girlfriend Kate Middleton has already sparked controversy. The bone of contention is the ring he chose for his bride-to-be the same one worn by his late mother, Princess Diana. ?LIFE! PAGE C9
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      Lock icon Blase young litterbugs
      57 1 A NEW breed of young litterbugs is worrying the authorities. Young offenders are now growing in significant numbers. Last year, 4,278 of those caught were under the age of 21. In 2006, they numbered 1,835. But more worrying than the numbers is that teenagers are displaying a
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      Lock icon Ascendas signs MOU
      44 1 SINGAPORE’S Ascendas signed a memorandum of understanding yesterday, teaming itself up with a Japanese consortium to develop an integrated township in Chennai, India. The project will help ease the entry of Japanese companies into the growing Indian market. ?MONEY PAGE B17
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      Lock icon KL may relax oil rules
      42 1 MALAYSIA’S national oil company Petronas may lose its monopoly as the Malaysian government is considering allowing private oil companies to explore and extract oil from the country’s marginal oil fields under a proposed plan. ?PRIME PAGE A12
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      Lock icon NTU to offer new majors
      54 1 NANYANG Technological University is expanding its humanities school, in another step towards becoming a comprehensive university. It will offer history as a major by 2012 and philosophy as a major by 2013. These courses will be less Western-centric than those at the National University of
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        37 2 WE SAY Finance Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam’s suggestion that Asia should look for a way of directing capital flows from the West into Asia, into more productive investments like infrastructure is worth supporting. EDITORIAL PAGE A29
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        Lock icon Focus on skills, not pay
        48 2 COLUMNS A minimum wage can distract us from focusing on improving skills and raising productivity. We need to stay competitive to attract enough investment and talent to generate full employment and, hopefully, a rising standard of living, says Augustine Tan. REVIEW PAGE A29
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        Lock icon Take a bow, Uncle Sam
        47 2 Often you are wasteful, and sometimes you are bullying. On occasion, you are downright maddening. But in the 2008 financial crisis, you came through and the world would look far different now if you had not, says Warren Buffett. REVIEW PAGE A29
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        Lock icon Why PSLE is critical
        63 2 OUR READER SAYS If a child does not do well in the PSLE, his learning environment in secondary school might not always help him harness his unrealised potential. Furthermore, the tendency to gauge a person’s worth on the basis of the secondary school he attends is
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        20 2 www.straitstimes.com Radha Basu meets sons, daughters or spouses who selflessly care for their sick or aged loved ones.
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      Lock icon A row of boulders in China’s path?
      1091 2  -  Strong ties in Asia are US’ only way to trip up the growing giant BY RAVI VELLOOR SOUTH ASIA BUREAU CHIEF velloor@sph.com.sg SIX trips to Asia in two years by the United States Secretary of State. Two presidential swings in a 12-month span
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      Lock icon ST school magazine picks up global award
      567 3  -  IN receives World Young Reader prize in recognition of its value as a teaching tool BY SERENE LUO serl@sph.com.sg SAN FRANCISCO: The trophy is a figurine of a child sitting on a wire spiral, amid stacks of newspapers, with her hands thrown up
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      Lock icon H5N1 avian flu case detected in HK
      248 3 BLOOMBERG XINHUA HONG KONG: A case of H5N1 avian flu has been detected here in a woman who may have caught the disease in China, prompting the Hong Kong government to raise its alert level. Secretary for Food and Health York Chow told
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      Lock icon Muslim community progressive because of Syed Isa: Yaacob
      1231 4  -  BY AMELIA TAN OUTGOING Mufti Syed Isa Mohamed Semait guided an entire generation of Malay Muslims to a progressive religious life, Minister-in-charge of Muslim Affairs Yaacob Ibrahim said yesterday. Speaking to reporters at an Ang Mo Kio mosque, the minister said the
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      Lock icon Nostalgic korban ritual at Malay Village
      441 4  -  MAVIS TOH YESTERDAY was the first time a korban ritual took place at the Malay Village in Geylang Serai. It will probably also be the last. This time next year, the village will most likely have been demolished, after appeals by its tenants and
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      Lock icon NTU to offer history, philosophy majors
      602 6  -  Courses to stand apart from NUS’ offerings and be less Western-centric BY ELGIN TOH elgintoh@sph.com.sg NANYANG Technological University (NTU) is expanding its humanities school, in another step towards becoming a comprehensive university. It will offer history as a major by 2012 and philosophy as
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      Lock icon Clan urges members to help sick young man
      549 6  -  BY ELGIN TOH THE traditional mission of Chinese clans providing for the needy among their members has not expired, at least according to the Hainan Tan Clan. As it celebrates its 75th anniversary this week, the clan will call on its 800
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      Lock icon Indonesian scion to endow NTU professorship
      672 6  -  BY LYNN LEE INDONESIA BUREAU CHIEF JAKARTA: The scion of one of Indonesia’s billionaire tycoons, Mr Anindya Bakrie, wants to use some of his family’s wealth to grow the wealth of knowledge on South-east Asia. Mr Bakrie, 36, chief executive officer of telecommunications firm
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      Lock icon Branson may lose leg hair over F1 bet
      305 8 THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE PETALING JAYA: Wearing the striking red AirAsia flight attendant uniform after losing a bet could be the least of Virgin Group boss Richard Branson’s worries. He now also has to deal with requests to shave his
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      Lock icon Indian PM in the crosshairs
      681 8  -  NEWS ANALYSIS BY RAVI VELLOOR SOUTH ASIA BUREAU CHIEF velloor@sph.com.sg NEW DELHI: A swirling scandal over the issuing of telecom licences threatens to taint the reputation of India’s Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. On Tuesday, the country’s Supreme Court criticised Dr Singh for not acting on
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      Lock icon Cardinals to discuss sex abuse issue
      597 8 Around 105 to attend unprecedented meeting at Vatican tomorrow VATICAN CITY: Cardinals from around the world will hold an unprecedented meeting in the Vatican tomorrow to discuss sex abuse by priests, as activists call for tougher action against offenders. The meeting comes a day
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      Lock icon S’pore is Malaysia’s largest foreign investor
      772 10  -  Warmer bilateral ties see Republic pump $1.2b across Causeway from Jan to July BY CAROLYN HONG MALAYSIA BUREAU CHIEF carolynh@sph.com.sg KUALA LUMPUR: Singapore emerged as the largest foreign investor in Malaysia in the first seven months of the year, as warmer bilateral ties spurred
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      Lock icon Malaysia may let private firms tap marginal oil fields
      695 12  -  Plan aims to boost foreign direct investment, would mean end of Petronas monopoly BY LESLIE LOPEZ SENIOR REGIONAL CORRESPONDENT ljlopez@sph.com.sg KUALA LUMPUR: The Malaysian government is seriously considering dismantling the decades-old monopoly held by national oil company Petronas and allowing private
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      Lock icon WHAT’S ONLINE MOST READ, MOST COMMENTED ON AND MORE
      108 14 www.straitstimes.com MOST-READ ONLINE Japanese man kills himself live online MOST COMMENTED ON Fresh political blow or step forward? Says kian118chan: “Everything great and permanent has to be painstakingly built over time. Trust has to be nurtured. You cannot poison them with
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      Lock icon South Koreans hard to beat
      765 14  -  Gaming is a sport in the country; half of the citizens have played online games ONLINE GAMING CRAZE BY KIM JI HYUN jemmie@heraldm.com SEOUL: South Korea has reason to claim that it took online gaming to its highest level when it turned the industry into
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      Lock icon Not all fun and games for Internet addicts
      582 14  -  KIM JI HYUN SEOUL: Out of a job and money, he found online games to be his escape from reality. Better yet, there was some money to be made if he played well. Those were the days when gaming was everything to
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      Lock icon North Korea’s leader-in-waiting purging senior officials, say defectors
      417 14 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE SEOUL: North Korea’s young heir apparent has launched a purge of senior party and military officials in an apparent attempt to cement his grip on power, a North Korean defectors’ group said yesterday. Pyongyang this month began a crackdown on
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        Lock icon Close to 40 buildings evacuated
        589 18 Fears of more collapses as they’re found to have waterlogged basements BLOCK COLLAPSE IN INDIA AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE NEW DELHI: The Indian authorities yesterday ordered inhabitants to evacuate dozens of buildings near a five-storey residential block that collapsed and killed at least 67 people. Hopes of
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        Lock icon Air India crash: Just-awake pilot disoriented during landing
        330 18 ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW DELHI: The pilot of an Air India flight that crashed in May, killing 158 passengers, slept through more than half the flight and woke up disoriented when it was time to land the aircraft, an investigative panel concluded, according
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        Lock icon China orders tighter fire safety steps
        349 18 ASSOCIATED PRESS SHANGHAI: China ordered tighter fire prevention measures yesterday following the blaze that gutted a high-rise apartment building in Shanghai and killed at least 53 people, with dozens still believed to be missing. The fire heightened concerns over the ability to cope with
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        Lock icon Red shirts ‘taking hardcore stance’
        718 20  -  Up to 90% of movement now anti-monarchy; viable strategy and credible alternative leaders needed, say two key figures NEWS ANALYSIS BY NIRMAL GHOSH THAILAND CORRESPONDENT nirmal@sph.com.sg BANGKOK: Thailand’s “red shirt” movement has recovered from the army’s crackdown in May quicker than anticipated, and anti-monarchy sentiment
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        Lock icon Aerial tourism set to take off at China’s richest village
        331 20 XINUA NANJING: A village in east China’s Jiangsu province has announced plans to buy 20 aircraft for pilot training and tourism, after the government said it would open low-altitude airspace to private planes. Huaxi, the richest village in China which
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        Lock icon Junta warning spells trouble for Suu Kyi
        620 22 She backs polls fraud probe; harsh penalties for false complaints of vote cheating: Officials AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE ASSOCIATED PRESS YANGON: Myanmar’s military government has warned against filing complaints over the Nov 7 election a move that could spell trouble for pro-democracy leader Aung San
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        Lock icon China owes top global energy user spot to livestock waste
        460 22 REUTERS AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE BEIJING: China has nudged to the pinnacle of world energy consumption rankings on the back of pig manure and other kinds of biomass fuel, International Energy Agency (IEA) chief said, explaining why estimates differ. Chinese officials have
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        Lock icon Japan envoy to attend Nobel event
        171 22 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE TOKYO: Japan will send its ambassador in Oslo to attend the prize ceremony for Chinese Nobel Peace laureate Liu Xiaobo, despite requests from China to boycott it. “Our country’s ambassador to Norway has already replied (that he will) attend the Dec 10
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        Lock icon Aquino goes public about new girlfriend
        469 23  -  Bachelor President is dating his stylist after recently ending a 2-year relationship BY ALASTAIR MCINDOE PHILIPPINES CORRESPONDENT amcindoe@yahoo.com MANILA: Philippine President Benigno Aquino, a bachelor, has confirmed that he is dating his personal stylist, 28-year-old Liz Uy, who was hired to spruce up his
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        Lock icon Driver ‘took fengshui master for a $1m ride’
        385 23 NEW YORK: Doesn’t this limo driver know who he’s messing with? American prosecutors say a New York-area limousine driver cheated Hong Kong’s most notorious fengshui master out of US$795,000 (S$1.01 million) after driving him into mid-town Manhattan. Mr Tony Chan was charged
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        Lock icon Berlin steps up security after terror tip-off
        634 24 ‘Concrete indications’ of attacks being planned for end-November ASSOCIATED PRESS BERLIN: Germany is increasing security and vigilance across the country because of “concrete indications” of terrorist attacks being planned for the end of this month. Police carrying automatic weapons and wearing protective gear
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        Lock icon Haiti struck hard by cholera
        79 24 A child with symptoms of cholera being treated by volunteer American doctors at a hospital in Archaie, Haiti on Monday. Across Haiti where sanitary conditions do not exist in most places, about 1,000 people have died and thousands been hospitalised with cholera. Haiti’s President Rene
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        Lock icon Donated US heart devices reused in India
        301 24 REUTERS CHICAGO: Implanted cardiac defibrillators removed from American patients due to infection or upgrade are saving lives in India, thanks to a United States doctor with a big heart. Rather than discarding the pricey devices when they are removed from the patient’s chest,
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        Lock icon Russian mole hunt on after double agent defects
        437 24 BLOOMBERG NEWS NEW YORK TIMES AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE MOSCOW: Russian intelligence services are hunting for more moles after a Moscow double agent with knowledge of a sleeper cell in the United States defected, Kommersant has reported, citing unidentified officials. The newspaper said last
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        Lock icon China V-P inks 4 deals during visit to S. Africa
        528 24 REUTERS BLOOMBERG CAPE TOWN: South Africa and China signed four accords in Cape Town yesterday to cooperate in the fields of mining, energy, banking supervision and trade statistics. Visiting Chinese Vice-President Xi Jinping yesterday also started talks with South Africa
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        Lock icon French cuisine makes Unesco list
        749 25 First time UN body has listed gastronomic meals as a cultural treasure WASHINGTON POST AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE REUTERS NAIROBI: The United Nations cultural organisation has added French cuisine, Spain’s flamenco dance and the Peking opera to the world’s intangible cultural treasures. The inclusion of French cuisine
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        Lock icon Israel fears losing high-tech edge
        437 28 Call for reinvention as China and India pose challenge ASSOCIATED PRESS JERUSALEM: It is well known that the emergence of India and China is casting a shadow on the developed economies of Europe and North America. Less famous is the challenge facing Israel: With the
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        Lock icon Flying to Mars on a shoestring
        268 28 ASSOCIATED PRESS PULLMAN (Washington): It is always cheaper to fly one way, even to Mars. Two scientists are suggesting that colonisation of the red planet could happen faster and more economically if astronauts behaved like the first North American settlers, who did not expect
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        Lock icon Past perfect
        35 28 An archaeologist of the Auvergne regional cultural affairs office working on the skeleton of a prehistoric horse perfectly preserved despite being 100,000 years old in Moriat, central France, on Tuesday. PHOTO: AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
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          Lock icon Ionescu trial adjourned
          138 28  -  MIHAI URSU BUCHAREST: Former Romanian diplomat Silviu Ionescu’s trial was adjourned yesterday to give lawyers for insurers NTUC Income time to review the case file. Singapore lawyer Desmond Tan, whose client NTUC Income insured the car Ionescu was allegedly driving during a hit-and-run incident in Singapore last
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          Lock icon More Qantas problems
          85 28 ASSOCIATED PRESS SYDNEY: A bird and a bolt of lightning were the latest problems to strike Qantas, the airline said yesterday, causing a fourth flight turnaround since an engine blowout on one of its Airbus superjumbos this month. On Tuesday, a Boeing 747 carrying 171 passengers to
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          Lock icon Palin ponders presidency
          35 28 NEW YORK: Former Alaska governor Sarah Palin is pondering a run for the United States presidency in 2012. She told the New York Times Magazine she would decide after consulting her family.
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          Lock icon BP ‘took risk lightly’
          65 28 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE WASHINGTON: Oil giant BP’s “insufficient consideration of risk” and “lack of operating discipline” contributed to America’s biggest-ever oil spill, The Wall Street Journal has quoted a National Academy of Engineering report as saying. The report, quoted on Tuesday, also blamed regulators and the offshore
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          Lock icon Chopsticks ‘not weapons’
          75 28 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE SEOUL: A South Korean appeals court ruled yesterday that metal chopsticks are not a weapon, even though they were used to threaten the victim in a robbery and rape case. A 50-year-old man, identified only by his surname Koo, was charged with raping and robbing
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      826 18 Congratulations EDITH COWAN Cricos IPC *****B SMa "j; Institute of Higher Learning to our all-star ECU graduates for having made the SMarter choice! SMa and Edith Cowan University Graduation Celebration 2010 I 18 November 2010, 10am Raffles City Convention Centre Guest of Honour: Mr Goh Eng Ghee, Deputy Chief Executive,
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      1716 20 Singapore Manufacturers' Federation Congratulates All Our Achievers of SMa Institute of Higher Learning and SMa Centre for Corporate Learning Our wholehearted applause goes out to all our graduates! SMa Graduation Celebration 2010 18 November 2010, 10am Raffles City Convention Centre Guest of Honour: Mr Goh Eng Ghee, Deputy Chief Executive,
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      791 29  -  BY AUGUSTINE H.H. TAN The writer is a professor at the Singapore Management University. THE debate about whether Singapore should legislate a minimum wage has attracted contributions from academics as well as prominent citizens such as Professor Tommy Koh and Mr Ho Kwon Ping. Like
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        924 30 Our Homes: 50 Years Of Housing A Nation, a history of the HDB, was launched last week by President S R Nathan. Written by Warren Fernandez and published by Singapore Press Holdings, the book carried an interview with Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong. Below
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        1305 30 What challenges do you see for public housing in the years ahead? First, there is the question of how much resources we should put into this. Punggol 21 Plus, Dawson and so on look marvellous and we are very proud of these projects. But it costs
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        726 30 How did the idea to remake whole HDB estates come about? We saw the new estates coming up, better than the old ones, and the comparison was very stark. So we have implemented for more than 10 years now all sorts of schemes to
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        303 31  -  Seah Kian Peng MP for Marine Parade GRC Chairman, Workgroup for the Maintenance of Parents (Amendment) Bill I THANK Professor Jack Lee for his letter (“Upkeep: What if a will excludes parents?”; Nov 9) and Mr Alfred Lim for his letter (“Parental maintenance:
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        554 31  -  Koh Chiat Ying PR Executive Jetstar Asia Airways/ Valuair JETSTAR would like to offer its sincere apology to Mr Marcus Lim (“Passengers forgotten after flight delay”; Tuesday) and passengers whose travel plans were disrupted on our recent flight to Hong Kong. The aircraft developed a
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        151 31  -  Yeoh Phee Suan (Ms) Director, Marketing and Communications NTUC Club WE REFER to Mr Prem Singh’s letter (“Set up police posts”; Nov 9). Our priority is to make Downtown East a safe and fun place for all visitors. As we are entering our peak
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        65 31 More letters on www.straitstimes.com 1 MR VICTOR LOOI: Change in parental Act may be needed 2 MR PAUL CHAN: If a child could afford to support parents, so too should will’s beneficiaries 3 MR EDDISON TENG: Four months and still no Jetstar refund 4 MR LEE TECK KIANG:
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      804 1  -  Monuments in heritage board’s series honour eminent foreigners with links to the Republic BY NG KAI LING kailing@sph.com.sg TEXT: NG KAI LING THE next time you walk along the stretch of the Singapore River in front of the Asian Civilisations Museum, you could
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      111 1 www.straitstimes.com MOST-READ ONLINE Man fined $3k for oral sex Darren Ng was part of gang MOST COMMENTED ON ‘They’re street-corner gangs’ Says wannabe2010: “They may be street-corner gangs, but they are violent and deadly. Are we making excuses by saying they
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      815 2  -  More travellers aware of the need for protection, in case of any mishap BY HUANG LIJIE lijie@sph.com.sg MADAM Irene Low, 56, never used to buy travel insurance, but is now a convert to the idea, after having read or heard about holidaymakers caught in
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      75 2 A boy playing a bowling game using the new Xbox 360 Kinect sensor, which allows games to be played just by using body movements and speaking commands. Game controllers are not needed. The sensing device was unveiled to the public at Plaza Singapura yesterday. By
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      642 5  -  They come in handy when victim had direct contact with assailant BY MAVIS TOH,TEH JOO LIN mavistoh@sph.com.sg joolin@sph.com.sg IT WAS used in the recent gang-related Bukit Panjang slashings, and also when four women were attacked in Yishun and Woodlands earlier this year. Victims
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      500 7  -  They offer clean, green, convenient option for commuters, say experts BY CHRISTOPHER TAN SENIOR CORRESPONDENT christan@sph.com.sg TRAMS, which are making a strong comeback in Europe, can be relevant in Singapore, says a prominent transport guru. Sir Peter Hall, a professor of planning and
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      354 7  -  ANG YIYING THE number of individuals or households seeking help from the government assistance fund ComCare has fallen as a result of the economy’s turnaround. Applications for assistance with looking for jobs fell almost 40 per cent. Between January and September, there were 18,000
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        117 8  -  MAVIS TOH SENIOR civil servant Tan Yee Woan has been appointed Singapore’s next Permanent Representative to the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland. She will assume the post on Dec 6, taking over from civil servant Tan York Chor, said the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) in
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        121 8  -  ELIZABETH SOH A MALAYSIAN man was arrested on Tuesday for trying to smuggle a woman, a Chinese national, in the trunk of his sedan into Malaysia. The 23-year-old man managed to clear departure immigration before Singapore Immigration and Checkpoints Authority officers noticed that he appeared uncomfortable
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      1218 8  -  BY MELISSA PANG, JUDITH TAN A SIX-BED ward in Ren Ci Long Term Care Hospital is the only home that 64-year-old Frederick has known for the past 15 years. Paralysed from the waist down in 1995 after a failed suicide
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      166 9 SINGAPOREANS are getting used to the fact that they must begin fighting the battle of the bulge. With obesity becoming more prevalent, precautions have to be taken as soon as possible. This is especially since research is beginning to show that obesity can begin in the womb.
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        1332 6  -  Better job opportunities and quality of life are the main attractions BY MELISSA KOK melk@sph.com.sg FROM countries as far away as Argentina and Peru, more young and educated foreigners are heading to Singapore to live and work. These foreigners in their 20s and 30s are
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        426 6  -  FROM PERU MELISSA KOK MS MARCELA Llaguno is a long way from home. More than 17,700km away if you ask the Peruvian pilot who landed here in May. The 35-year-old from Lima is now based here, working as a pilot for Jetstar Asia.
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        512 6  -  FROM KAZAKHSTAN MELISSA KOK IT WAS a path less travelled when Ms Dina Orazova decided to leave Kazakhstan for South-east Asia a decade ago. She was then 20 years old and heading to Malaysia to study English as well as eventually pursue a
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      86 10 www.straitstimes.com MOST-READ ONLINE STORIES Serving up silver Focus on Webber hurts Alonso Feng makes history again MOST COMMENTED ON England look to recover Said TrueBeliever: “The five-year residency rule means many of the English league’s foreigners can play for England. So
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      328 10 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE GUANGZHOU: Is it the worst football miss of all time? Qatari Fahad Khalfan’s amazing Asian Games blunder, when he managed to miss an open goal from one metre out against Uzbekistan, has become the reluctant star of the Internet. “What a Qatarstrophe”,
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      678 11 Use of illegal device on shoe leads to female fighter’s disqualification ASIAN GAMES IN GUANGZHOU ASSOCIATED PRESS AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE GUANGZHOU: In the first major judging controversy of the Asian Games, Yang Shu-chun was disqualified from the taekwondo competition for using an illegal sensor
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      513 11  -  ATTHEGAMES BY ROHIT BRIJNATH NONA Lim has violence on her mind. A sort of cultured mayhem. This morning she will don what looks like a modern version of ancient chain armour, think “happy thoughts” about her husband and her dog, Cleo. Then she will
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      234 11 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE GUANGZHOU: Bikini-wearing Asian Games beach volleyball cheer squads are proving too hot for some competitors, who claim the scantily clad dancers make it impossible to concentrate. “They had an effect on how we played,” Yemen beach volleyballer Adeeb Mahfoudh told
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      342 11  -  BY LEONARD LIM GUANGZHOU: With three days of racing left, Singapore’s sailors are in a good position for a fistful of medals. Rachel Lee and Cecilia Low, and Justin Liu and Sherman Cheng, lead their fleets in the women’s 420 and men’s
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        57 12 NORTH and South Korea shared four gold medals to prevent a Chinese domination of yesterday’s action in the Asian Games shooting competition. The North Koreans clinched both the team and individual golds in the men’s 10m running target mixed event, while South Korea secured a
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        80 12 ASSOCIATED PRESS AZIZULHASNI Awang (above) of Malaysia celebrating his win in the keirin race yesterday as China’s Zhang Lei is being treated after his crash. Malaysia’s Josiah Ng appeared to bump into Zhang, who tumbled onto the track only to be run over by
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        95 12  -  LIN XINYI ORGANISERS have ensured that the media have everything they need at the Games Village. Reporters who are too busy to take a shower can get a “Chinese-style hair washing” for 38 yuan (S$7.50) at the main press centre. It comes with a
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        92 12  -  LEONARD LIM ENTERPRISING Chinese made a quick buck from selling tickets on the black market on the first few days of competition. There were at least 20 of them outside one of the gates at the Aoti sports cluster where swimming, hockey, shooting
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        120 12 ASSOCIATED PRESS THE Olympic Council of Asia has launched an investigation into possible ambush marketing after Chinese gymnasts made hand gestures (above) that were meant to mimic their sponsor’s logo. The gymnasts have a deal with Li Ning, a Chinese brand created by the former
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      627 12  -  Hosts’ teenage brigade raise eyebrows as they serve notice of their potential for 2012 Olympics ASIAN GAMES IN GUANGZHOU ATTHEGAMES BY LEONARD LIM limze@sph.com.sg GUANGZHOU: On a night when South Korean swimmer Park Tae Hwan’s 100-me-tre freestyle win took his gold tally to three, several lesser-known
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      771 12  -  ATTHEGAMES BY ROHIT BRIJNATH IF YOU come from a proud country wounded by war. If you hail from a nation unknown really in mainstream sport. If you arrive from a land where you don’t have showers at your national training centre. If you come
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      525 12  -  LEONARD LIM GUANGZHOU: Sabine Hazboun smiles gleefully, letting on that competing at the Asian Games has allowed her to skip a month of school while her friends are stuck in class. But a longer chat with the 16-year-old Palestinian, whose homeland has been
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      681 13  -  The S-League’s top scorer has been named for two other awards BY FABIUS CHEN fabiusc@sph.com.sg ETOILE FC may have missed out on a first season Treble but their striker Frederic Mendy could yet complete one of his own in Sunday’s Great Eastern-YEO’S S-League Awards Night.
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      300 13 ASSOCIATED PRESS LONDON: Manchester United fans have demanded to know where the club owners found the cash to repay the high-inter-est hedge-fund debt they have long feared could cripple United’s finances. The American owners yesterday said they have not drawn cash from
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      412 13 LONDON: Chelsea may be forced to dip in the transfer market come January due to their long injury list. Despite their insistence that they will not add to their squad in the winter transfer window, manager Carlo Ancelotti is now considering signing a
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      423 13 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE ZURICH: Fifa is due to announce today the outcome of a probe into alleged corruption and collusion that has upset bidding for football’s 2018 and 2022 World Cups just two weeks before the hosts are chosen. The ethics committee of world
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      89 13 BLOOMBERG SOUTH Korea will stage some World Cup football matches in North Korea if it wins the right to host sport’s most-watched tournament in 2022. South Korea is competing against the United States, Australia, Qatar and Japan, with whom it co-hosted the 2002 edition. Football
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      322 13 REUTERS BERNE: Football stars Lionel Messi and Arjen Robben are battling with a Japanese teenager and a Swedish second division player for Fifa’s Goal of the Year award. The shortlist of 10 announced on Tuesday also included an astonishing effort from
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      497 14 REUTERS SALZBURG (Austria): Formula One world champion Sebastian Vettel and Red Bull teammate Mark Webber cleared the air after Sunday’s season-ending race in Abu Dhabi, the German said on Tuesday. Vettel, who won the finale to pip Australian teammate Webber and Spain’s Fernando
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        56 14 ASSOCIATED PRESS LYON (France): Federal investigators and anti-doping officials from the United States, including federal agent Jeff Novitzky, are in France to meet anti-doping officials and members of Interpol, as they intensify their probe into cyclist Lance Armstrong. US officials have been scrutinising Armstrong’s suspected
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        83 14 REUTERS NEW YORK: World champion Allyson Felix and American record holder David Oliver have won Jesse Owens Awards as United States athletes of the year, USA Track Field announced on Tuesday. Felix, the three-time world 200m champion, earned 2010 Diamond League titles in
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        55 14 REUTERS MELBOURNE: Melbourne may not continue to host the Australian Grand Prix after the current contract runs out in 2014, Victoria state Premier John Brumby said yesterday. The Formula One race, which lost almost A$50 million (S$64 million) this year, has been held at
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        52 14 ASSOCIATED PRESS ANKARA (Turkey): Former National Basketball Association All-Star Allen Iverson scored 15 points in his debut for Besiktas Cola Turka but failed to carry his team to victory against Hemofarm Stada. The Serbian club defeated Besiktas 94-91 in a European Cup game on Tuesday
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        64 14 ASSOCIATED PRESS LONDON: The French squad have agreed to give their World Cup bonuses to help amateur football projects throughout the country, drawing a line under the team’s humiliating exit. After France’s group-stage knock-out in South Africa in June, amid infighting and indiscipline, the
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        41 14 LONDON: West Ham vice-chairman Karren Brady has assured manager Avram Grant his job is safe despite the club propping up football’s English Premier League, reported The Telegraph. West Ham have only one win in 13 matches.
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      251 14 Today Basketball NBA: Washington Wizards v Boston Celtics (Live, StarHub Ch201, 8.30am), Houston Rockets v Oklahoma City Thunder (Live, Ch202, 9am). Table tennis National Championships (STTA, 7pm). Tomorrow Basketball NBA: LA Clippers v Indiana Pacers (Live, StarHub Ch202, 8am). Rugby union Autumn Internationals: Wales v Fiji (Live,
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      133 14 Basketball NBA Cleveland 101 Philadelphia 93, Indiana 92 Atlanta 102, Washington 109 Toronto 94, Memphis 99 Portland 100, Milwaukee 107 LA Lakers 118, Houston 92 Chicago 95, Denver 120 New York 118. Cricket 1st Test In Galle, 3rd day: West Indies 580-9 dec. Sri Lanka 165-3 (overnight 54-1: K.
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      40 15 Memory wanders as shadows fall Back to the days of happiness, Days beyond recall. A vision comes before us, So calm, so dear, so sweet, Of her lips now silent And whose lids are closed in sleep. r i v/-
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    1112 15 “The Lord is my Shepherd,I shall not be in want...and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.” Psalm 23 NG ENGTEE Age:85 Was called home to be with the Lord on 17 November 2010,dearly missed and fondly remembered by loved ones. (Wife:Lim HweeYin, deceased) Children: Spouses: Ng
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      603 19 SIX CAPITAL proprietary forex traders FOREX EDUCATION SEMINAR SERIES ONE mt The Foreign Exchange (Forex/FX) market is the single largest market in the world, with turnover soaring to a staggering USD 4 trillion dollars a day in 2010. Singapore has benefited from this and is today, the fourth largest foreign
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      112 22 www.straitstimes.com MOST-READ ONLINE OCBC now Singapore’s largest bank MOST COMMENTED ON Why only term insurance plans make sense now. Says stompKING: “It gives the buyer the best returns but it gives the seller the lowest commission. If an agent sells only
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      889 22  -  Women make up just 5% of independent directors at local firms BY JONATHAN KWOK jonkwok@sph.com.sg SINGAPORE women may be found in all parts of the corporate world, but they are still under-represented on company boards compared with their counterparts in Western nations. Only about 5 per
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      456 16 REUTERS BLOOMBERG NEW YORK: Wall Street may earn US$19 billion (S$24.6 billion) this year, its fourth most profitable year, even as regulatory changes and a weakened economy limit its ability to generate profit, New York state’s comptroller said. The comptroller, Mr
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      628 16  -  S’pore-based managers post 40% growth; US asset firm chief says focus is on emerging markets BY ROBIN CHAN chanckr@sph.com.sg HOT capital flows into Asia have been making headlines often for the wrong reasons, but one group is happy: the rapidly growing asset
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      386 16  -  BY AARON LOW INFLATION worries, not external political pressure, will be the main trigger prompting China to lift the value of its currency, according to an economic adviser to the Chinese government. China’s 4.4 per cent inflation figure for last month
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      559 16 REUTERS NEW YORK TIMES NEW YORK: Sixteen months after the wheels came off General Motors, the remodelled GM is racing back to the stock market. It seems hard to believe. GM actually has Wall Street panting. Investors are lining up for what
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      461 16 REUTERS BLOOMBERG ZURICH: Roche Holding AG yesterday set out plans to cut costs with a wide-rang-ing restructuring programme that includes slashing 4,800 jobs worldwide as it grapples with recent product setbacks and mounting pressure on prices. The Swiss drugmaker said it would
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      504 17  -  It ties up with Japanese group to help Japanese companies break into India BY KWAN WENG KIN JAPAN CORRESPONDENT wengkin@sph.com.sg TOKYO: Business space provider Ascendas is joining hands with a Japanese consortium to develop a huge integrated township in Chennai, India, that will help
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      568 17  -  BY HARSHA JETHNANI THE latest Singapore brand aiming to capture a slice of the Korean market is bak kwa producer Bee Cheng Hiang. Its first outlet, a stand-alone shop, opened earlier this month in the trendy area of Mye-ong-dong in Seoul. On
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      337 17 DBS Bank, South-east Asia’s largest lender, yesterday opened its first branch in Vietnam, in Ho Chi Minh City, as it strengthened its regional footprint. The bank said in a news release that it will support companies with business interests in Vietnam by connecting them to
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      857 19  -  Women are shaking off stereotypes to set up flourishing businesses BY FRANCIS CHAN COMPANIES CORRESPONDENT franchan@sph.com.sg WOMEN entrepreneurs in Singapore are quietly gaining ground on their betterknown male counterparts. They may rarely be celebrated on the local business scene, but more female entrepreneurs are emerging every year
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      353 19  -  BY HARSHA JETHNANI FAMILIAR indices like the consumer price index (CPI) or the various stock market barometers may soon seem old hat. Next month, the likes of management consultancy McKinsey, innovation consultancy Ideo and the National University of Singapore will be drawing up an
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      709 21 He is to allay doubts, win support for bid among lawmakers BLOOMBERG CANBERRA: Australia Stock Exchange (ASX) has hired a former adviser to the country’s parliamentary opposition leader Tony Abbott to lobby lawmakers in support of its takeover by Singapore Exchange (SGX), three people familiar
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      266 1 Culture Vulture Movie adaptations vs books Kampung days Classic and cool Students capture Buangkok for exhibition C7 The woman who would be Queen C6 C9 The Singapore Art Museum at 8Q is showcasing the best of orar Japanese contemporary s-Cool art in the Trans-Cool n Tokyo exhibition. DEEPIKA SHETTY reports.
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      108 6 ‘I shoot for the stars. If I get to the moon, I’m okay with that’ Jersey House reality TV star Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino (right), who hopes to move to the big screen ‘As long as I’m not No. 1, they say I’ve tragically met my
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      1101 6  -  A movie can’t completely capture a book. Treat it as a chance to enjoy a novel in a communal fashion culture vulture stephanie yap ysteph@sph.com.sg So Baz Lurhmann has found his Daisy Buchanan. According to Deadline Hollywood, after a far-reach-ing search that saw him auditioning everyone from
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      550 6 TIME FOR TUBA The Singapore Symphony Orchestra will perform this Sunday in a concert conducted by Darrell Ang and featuring their principal tuba player Hidehiro Fujita. They will play German composer Felix Mendelssohn’s The Fair Melusina Overture, Op. 32, French composer Eugene Bozza’s Concertino For Tuba And Orchestra
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      544 7  -  Six Hwa Chong students are documenting life in Kampung Buangkok for an exhibition magdalen ng says. songyuan@sph.com.sg Kampung life has always intrigued Bryan Ow Yong, 14. His father had lived in one by the sea and often told him stories about growing up in the close-knit
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      1014 9 Mum’s blue oval sapphire and diamond ring is Prince William’s way of remembering her Reuters Bloomberg London Britain’s Prince William and his fiancee Kate Middleton bubbled with joy on Tuesday evening, in their first public appearance since the palace announced their palace engagement after more
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      760 9 Associated Press London Ms Kate Middleton’s style is natural, unforced and unpretentious. She never seems to be trying too hard or worried about currying favour with the glittery world of fashion. That is going to help when the naturally beautiful young woman blessed with poise,
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      485 10  -  Stalls from six categories vie for top honour at the Singapore Hawker Masters hunt in Round 2 eunice quek euniceq@sph.com.sg Almost 5,000 nominations have been received for the first part of the inaugural Singapore Hawker Masters hunt. Public voting for the best hawker began last
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      450 10 Agence France-Presse Geneva A rare pink diamond, regarded as one of the most desirable and beautiful in the world, was sold for a record US$46.16 million (S$60 million) on Tuesday, smashing previous auction records for the sale of any single diamond or
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        643 2  -  Zhang Leiping’s debut art show in Singapore was more than 10 years in the making magdalen ng songyuan@sph.com.sg A debut Singapore exhibition by Shanghai-based artist Zhang Leiping that opens this weekend marks two important developments. The first is on the cultural diplomacy front. The show, Immortal Nature: Ink
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        535 2  -  adeline chia arts correspondent Young talent can be fiery. And, as the kids at The Little Arts Academy are showing, they can blow you away with their content, too. The academy, an arts school which mostly caters to underprivileged children, is putting on an “explosive
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        1709 4  -  Quirky and edgy artworks by 18 Japanese artists show how cool J-pop art is deepika shetty deepikas@sph.com.sg Angry cartoon girls and super heroes find their way onto prints, canvases, sculptures and video art as part of a new exhibition featuring some of the biggest names in Japanese
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        412 12 Reuters Los Angeles Just Fab. The Beatles soared up the iTunes record charts on Tuesday, with five of their classic albums entering the United States Top 20 less than 24 hours after their catalogue was released for the first time on the world’s No. 1 digital
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        272 12 Taipei Reports that Taiwanese actress Barbie Hsu (right) and her Chinese fiance of 25 days, businessman Wang Xiaofei, have registered their marriage have fuelled speculation that she is pregnant. They joined a queue and completed the registration in 10 minutes at a Beijing civil affairs bureau on
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          87 12 Hong Kong director-producer Wong Tin Lam died on Tuesday of heart failure at a Hong Kong hospital, aged 82, said his son, director Wong Jing. In his film career spanning more than 40 years, the elder Wong was known for producing hit TVB serials of the
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          56 12 Online retail giant Amazon has launched Amazon Studios, inviting film-makers and screenwriters to submit movies and scripts. It will offer US$2.7 million (S$3.5 million) to the top submissions received by Dec 31 next year and seeks to develop the best ones into feature films as part of
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        381 12 Associated Press Beverly Hills, California It was a scene befitting a Hollywood true crime drama. A prominent Beverly Hills publicist was gunned down in her MercedesBenz after attending a movie premiere, sending the luxury car careening into a light post near Sunset Boulevard. Police said Ronni
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      167 7 ART GALLERY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA PRESENTS GREAT COLLECTIONS OF THE WORLD Peggy Guggenheim A COLLECTION IN VENICE Exclusively in Perth, works from some of the world’s most famous artists including Picasso, Pollock, Rothko, Mondrian and Kandinsky. Enjoy a unique opportunity to see a world-class exhibition that rarely leaves Venice, Italy.
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      139 11 The weather Showers with thunder over northern, eastern and western Singapore in the late morning and early afternoon. SUNRISE 6.49am MOONRISE 4.09pm SUNSET 6.52pm MOONSET 3.49am °C 32/24 AIR QUALITY PSI 26 (Good) FOR UPDATES AND MORE DETAILS, CALL METEOROLOGICAL SERVICES DIVISION, NEA: 6542-7788 OR GO ONLINE TO www.nea.gov.sg/metsin TIDES
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      30 12 Special AlltheglitterWith a bigger Christmas light-up, new shops, and more than $600,000 worth of prizes to be won A special supplement in The Straits Times tomorrow by sph marketing division
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      389 2  -  Gloria Chandy Editor gloria@sph.com.sg One issue in the news over the past couple of weeks has been very effective in raising the antennae of people who feel overfed and complacent. It’s a category in which, I must admit, I belong. The latest figures about
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      313 2 Contents 17 Ask The Experts: Blurred vision after cataract surgery 19The Pro: Pain manager 20Recipes to help fight cancer 22Doc Talk: Food for thought 23Gene therapy for heart patients 26Eat To Live: Tapas with a healthy twist 27Fit Fab: Iron-willed man 4Benefits of natural sweeteners 5Fact or fiction: Broken bones
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      299 5 The New York Times The claim: After being broken, bones can become even stronger. The facts: Just like muscle, human bone grows and strengthens under pressure, and weakens when barely put to use. This concept is known as Wolff’s law. It is the reason astronauts
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      163 6 The Dental Studio aesthetic and implant dentistry j«r A Forum by Dr Lynette Ng Prosthodontist (Specialist) BDS (S pore), MDS (Prosthodontics) (S pore), MRD RCS (Edinburgh), FAMS (Prosthodontics) Dental implant and denture Dates: 20 Nov 2010 (Sat) 2:00pm 24 Nov 2010 (Wed) 6:30pm English forum Agenda: 1. Dentures What are
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      471 12 V Date Time Venue For Life! Great Food, Inspiring Stories Sunday, 5 December 2010 1.00pm to 5.30pm Pan Pacific Hotel, 7 Raffles Boulevard, Marina Square, Pacific Ballroom 1 2 PROGRAMME 1:00 Registration Coffee 1.30 Fighting Cancer: Stories of Hope by Dr. Ang Peng Tiam 2.30 I'm a Cancer Warrior by
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      181 7 OPEN FOR PREVIEW now! Waterfront View Tampines. Fantastic reservoir lake view. Don’t miss out on the last development with reservoir view. ESTELLA GARDEN FLORA Rd. BLK 29A. 1BDRM. 650 sqft. F’hold. #06. Tenanted $1800 till April 2011. $580K up. *****055 AUCTION 24/11, MELVILLE Pk, 1346 sqft 3+1, quiet facing, well
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      153 8 CASUARINA RD. 1½ storey inter terrace 1500 sqft. 4 bdrm. Park 1 car. Unfurn. Near St Nicholas. Immed. Asking $2900 neg. 3-STOREY TERR Chuan View 1850/ 3300 sqft. Near S’goon Gdn 5 bdrms. 1st Nov. *****400 3-STOREY TERR Chuan View 1850/ 3300 sqft. Near S’goon Gdn 5 bdrms. 1st Nov.
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      670 9 AALTO 3RMS/ 1550 sqft $6.3k Partially furnished, Available immediate. 9336 3168/ 9021 2183 enquiry@mli.com.sg SEAVIEW 4+1. 1647 sqft. NS. Full ocean view. No noon sun. High flr. P/ furn, F/ facilities. immed. $5.8k. Also for sale 9739-6496 SEAFRONT ON MEYER VIP Blk 3+1 Designer decor. Showflat cond. Full sea/ pool/
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      528 9 3+1 HOUGANG BLK 350. Mins Mrt. Nicely renovated. F/furn with aircon. 1800 sqft. Exec Mais. Viewing 7.30pm today. 8112-1565 5’A’ BLK 421 CCK Ave 4. High flr, 3rm, p/furn, 136 sqm. Amenities/ Mrt/ childcare. Avail 1st Dec. Professional/ family. 9777-5067 4NG BLK 103 S’goon North Ave 1. Approved. High flr.
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      334 10 ALEXANDRA PRIME LOCATION Space ideal for light industries Level 3 with ramp fr. ground flr. *****sqft. Good layout. Immed ALJUNIED 250/400-5000 SQFT Macpherson 2000-14,000 sqft Ubi 1500-*****sqft ground/upp ramp-up. All trades. *****864 IRVING IND, #01. 1605sqft $3.2k Asiawide Ind 4500sqft $5.5k, Autopoint, 1250 sqft, $3k Little Rd 2000 sqft $3k.
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      303 10 TONG ENG BUILDING CECIL STREET μ 527 1,797 sq ft μ Short walk to Raffles MRT μ Window Units and High Floor μ Column Free Layout μ Ample Carpark Lots Call Owner Tel 6223 7712 BUSINESS SPACE FOR LEASE HB CENTRE I 12 Tannery Road (MacPherson Area) Hi-Tech Building Glass
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      718 11 JOO CHIAT SOHO. Close to MRT. Small apt. with 4rms 2 toilets at $2.5k /Vacant 1,615sqft at $4k. Call 1-5pm *****648 TG PAGAR SHOPHSE office. 3rd flr attic. 1400 sqft. Good frontage convenient. $3.5K. Immed. Co-broke welcome. *****-222 NEWLY OFFICE RENOVATED, next to Sim Lim Sq. Golden Wall Ctr. MRT,
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      778 11 E-CENTRE BT Merah. 1000 sqft, renovated, self-contained, $4k, inner office conference rm. Secured. immed 9822 4472 $1.60 PSF UP. MRT. Ubi Tech Pk. Fitted. Lights/ aircon/ partition. 1300/ 2600/ 7800 sqft. Easy loading Immed *****328 CJ CENDEX CTR 1152 sqft. High flr. Fully fitted City view. Office-like. One Commonwealth 786
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      704 11 Sim Lim Square #05, 240sqft. Concourse. Cheap! Bukit Timah Plaza Retail, education, medical trade Water. 220, 650,1470, 2500 sqft. People’s Park Complex #01, face entrance, 120 650sqft Amoy Street #02 attic. 1000 sqft, office Peace Center #04, 560sqft. Furn office. Nice Owners enquiries welcome Call 8139-1272 1) HOLLAND VILLAGE Lor
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      497 11 OFF JALAN BESAR main Rd/ Veerasamy Rd 2adjoining corner HDB shop. For investment/ own use. Sell below value! 9001-6838 BANK AUCTION 25/11. HDB shop, 829 sqft, Clementi West Street 1 Blk 612, walk to West Coast Plaze, bal 72 yrs, *****639 DTZ AUCTION 25/11, GROUND flr shop at Parklane Shpg
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