The Straits Times, 21 January 2012

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    18 1 THE STRAITS TIMES. MICA (P) 073/11/2011 SATURDAY, JANUARY 21 2012 A SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS PUBLICATION ESTABLISHED 1845 1.00
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    • Article
      Lock icon AGC’s reassurance
      76 1 THE Attorney-General’s Chambers (AGC) yesterday sought to reassure the public that decisions to charge offenders involved in the same crime differently are made only after thorough reviews by many levels of officers. Its statement follows calls for greater transparency in the wake of the case of Ramalingam Ravinthran,
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      Lock icon Anwar’s case not over yet
      37 1 THE prosecution filed an appeal against the acquittal of Malaysia’s opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim over his second sodomy case, a move which his lawyers termed “political persecution, not prosecution”. LPRIME PAGE A10
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      Lock icon US panel relooks autism
      38 1 THE definition of autism is being reviewed by an expert panel in the United States, and the results could reduce the skyrocketing rates at which the disorder is being diagnosed worldwide. LPRIME PAGE A12
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      Lock icon Olympic dreams
      50 1 WINNING the SEA Games gold last year has whetted Fu Mingtian’s appetite for more success, particularly of the Olympic kind. The badminton player is the first of five nominees for The Straits Times Athlete of the Year award to be featured. LSPORT PAGE B19 ST PHOTO: ASHLEIGH SIM
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    Lock icon CATCH THE WATER DRAGON
    111 1 IN THE STRAITS TIMES TODAY LThe Dragon is coming and this time it is a Water Dragon. Saturday Special Report looks at the ways the mythical creature looms so large in Chinese culture. SATURDAY SPECIAL REPORT: PAGES C2-6 LSeveral Singapore chefs have taken yusheng, the traditional
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  • Article
    Lock icon Secure chips for all ATM cards by 2014
    972 1  -  Move among measures fast-tracked by banks to tighten security BY ROBIN CHAN MAGDALEN NG chanckr@sph.com.sg songyuan@sph.com.sg ALL ATM cards will have a smart chip installed by 2014, in a move that should significantly reduce the threat of fraud. The new safeguard protects
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    Lock icon Silver tsunami: S’pore revs up
    770 1  -  BY SALMA KHALIK HEALTH CORRESPONDENT salma@sph.com.sg SINGAPORE is ramping up services and facilities for the elderly to avoid running into a critical shortage as baby boomers age. With the number of those aged 65 or older set to spike by 2020, Health Minister Gan Kim
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    Lock icon US govt shuts file-sharing site
    779 1  -  Additional reporting by Lee Choo Kiong ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK TIMES WELLINGTON: With 150 million registered users, about 50 million hits daily and endorsements from music super stars, Megaupload.com was among the world’s biggest file-sharing sites. Big enough, according to a US indictment, that it
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      178 1 DECOR TRENDS Think open and free PAY DEBATE GOES ON... WP must explain Proposals diferent Preserving social mobility PAP: WP: LIFE! PAGES D6&7 PRIME, PAGE A4 REVIEW, PAGE A28 BREAKING NEWS: www.straitstimes.com INTERACT: www.stomp.com.sg EMAIL: stomp@stomp.com.sg VIDEOS: www.razortv.com.sg NEWS TIPS: 1800-*****28 CALL 6388-3838 TO SUBSCRIBE OR GO TO www.sphsubscription.com.sg subaru-xv.com
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        Lock icon Today’s lesson is...
        87 2 WE SAY The actions of a handful of teachers who develop and maintain inappropriate relationships with students in and after school are an unwarranted blot on a 31,000-strong profession whose long-standing traditions have been to impart knowledge, build character, mould individuals and give them skills for the
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      • COLUMNS
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          Lock icon Taste of S’pore in India
          42 2 A growing number of middle-class Indians are travelling, have more disposable income and are more willing to experiment with what they eat, says Nirmala Ganapathy and Singapore-inspired dishes are going down a treat. L WORLD PAGE A20
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        • Article
          Lock icon Pepe’s stamp: No excuses
          83 2 Real Madrid’s Pepe stamps on the hand of Barcelona’s best player, Lionel Messi, and Real coach Jose Mourinho later claims he has not had time to see the video playback. The “see no evil, hear no evil” excuse is not good enough, says Rob Hughes. Pepe
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        Lock icon For the sake of soccer...
        36 2 OUR READER SAYS Edwin Pang calls on the Football Association of Singapore to act fast over fans’ concerns regarding a lack of seats and the “plastic” pitch. L FORUM PAGE A30
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      Lock icon Add another B to the ‘Taiwan threat’
      982 2  -  Ballots, that is. Smooth election on island raises tough questions in China BY PEH SHING HUEI CHINA BUREAU CHIEF shpeh@sph.com.sg BEIJING: For more than 60 years, the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has viewed Taiwan as the source of two major threats to
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      Lock icon Three friends involved in fatal attack
      239 3 THE following is an account of the altercation that descended into a full-on assault by three friends on one man on May 26, 1996. The trio Mathavakannan Kalimuthu, then 18, Asogan Ramesh, 23, and Selvar Kumar, 24 met Mr Saravanan Michael Ramalingam at Block
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      Lock icon Murderer spared life imprisonment
      575 3  -  This is because he killed man before key 1997 ruling, High Court rules BY KHUSHWANT SINGH khush@sph.com.sg A 33-YEAR-OLD convicted murderer who once faced imprisonment for the rest of his life can now look forward to being a free man. The High Court yesterday ruled that
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      Lock icon HARD ROAD AHEAD:
      76 3 Land Transport Authority (LTA) engineers working last night to reinforce the sides of a canal beside Bukit Timah Road, after the authority discovered during tunnelling works for the Downtown Line 2 that a portion of the canal wall had been dislodged. A 25m stretch spanning two lanes
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      Lock icon PAP: Why did WP change stand on pay?
      744 4 Lawrence Wong posts note on website asking party to explain THE People’s Action Party (PAP) has called on the Workers’ Party (WP) to explain to the public its change of stance on ministerial salaries. “This is what it means to be accountable
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      Lock icon WP clarifies Gerald Giam’s remark in Parliament
      772 4  -  BY TESSA WONG THE Workers’ Party (WP) has clarified a controversial remark its Non-Constituen-cy MP Gerald Giam made in Parliament this week about the formula used for its proposed ministerial salary framework. Mr Giam had said that he did not know how the
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      Lock icon Enough about pay, time to focus on economy, say Singaporeans
      767 4  -  BY RACHEL CHANG ANDREA ONG DESPITE lingering concerns over ministerial salaries, many ordinary Singaporeans want the Government to move past the divisive issue and turn its focus to other pressing matters like steering the economy away from a looming slowdown.
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      Lock icon AGC: Robust reviews before discretion is exercised
      868 6  -  Internal guidelines exist; findings of innocence or guilt decided by courts BY K. C. VIJAYAN LAW CORRESPONDENT vijayan@sph.com.sg THE Attorney-General’s Chambers (AGC) yesterday sought to reassure the public that its decisions to charge offenders involved in the same crime differently are done only
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      Lock icon Girl, 5, dies of bird flu in Jakarta
      577 6  -  BY WAHYUDI SOERIAATMADJA INDONESIA CORRESPONDENT JAKARTA: Indonesia has stepped up the culling of chickens in Jakarta as a five-year-old girl became its second bird flu fatality in two weeks. The authorities in the capital also increased surveillance and called on regional governments
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      Lock icon Case that sparked the debate
      304 6  -  K. C. VIJAYAN RAMALINGAM Ravinthran and his accomplice Sundar Arujunan seemed destined to face the hangman, after they were arrested in 2006 for trafficking in cannabis. Sundar, however, escaped the gallows when he was charged with trafficking in a shade less than the quantity that
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      Lock icon Streamlined system to help needy elderly lacking: Experts
      580 8  -  BY CHERYL ONG AFTER having a leg amputated, a 54-year-old man was homebound for many years and had used nearly all his savings paying medical bills. He and his family turned to NTUC Eldercare for help, and the organisation submitted more than
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    • Article
      Lock icon ‘Low cheque, ATM fraud rate here’
      361 8  -  BY MAGDALEN NG SINGAPORE seems to get off relatively lightly when it comes to cheque and ATM fraud, according to the Association of Banks in Singapore (ABS) yesterday. The ABS told a briefing that Singapore has one of the world’s lowest fraud rates in
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      Lock icon Bus liberalisation plan shelved for now
      714 10  -  Govt will focus instead on getting operators to ramp up fleet sizes BY CHRISTOPHER TAN SENIOR CORRESPONDENT christan@sph.com.sg A PLAN to liberalise the public bus market by getting new and existing players to bid for the right to run services along routes looks stuck
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      Lock icon First wife of Goh Keng Swee dies at age 86
      642 10  -  BY ELGIN TOH MADAM Alice Woon, the first wife of one of Singapore’s founding leaders, Dr Goh Keng Swee, died yesterday after battling for months with kidney failure. She was 86. A pioneer of children’s social centres in Singapore, she
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      Lock icon Prosecutors appeal against Anwar’s acquittal
      645 10  -  BY HAZLIN HASSAN MALAYSIA CORRESPONDENT KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian prosecutors yesterday filed an appeal against the acquittal of opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim over sodomy charges, re-opening a long- drawn-out case that many Malay- sians had hoped was finally end- ed after last week’s surprise verdict. It
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      Lock icon GIG invests $38 million in sportswear maker Li Ning
      571 11  -  Convertible bonds will give GIC 8% of firm’s enlarged share capital BY YASMINE YAHYA yasminey@sph.com.sg THE Government of Singapore Investment Corp (GIC) is investing almost $40 million in China’s largest sportswear maker Li Ning. The Beijing-based company, founded in 1990 by
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      Lock icon US may narrow definition of autism
      530 12 Fewer people would be diagnosed with disorder under proposed changes NEW YORK TIMES NEW YORK: An expert panel in the United States is reviewing the definition of autism that would sharply reduce the skyrocketing rate at which the disorder is diagnosed, a move that
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      Lock icon Impact in S’pore ‘won’t be drastic’
      312 12  - Impact in S’pore won’t be drastic’ JANICE TAI SINGAPORE is likely to adopt the proposed changes to the definition of autism should these come to pass, but experts here say the impact of this is unlikely to be drastic here. In the US, there are fears that a narrower definition
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      Lock icon Where have all the apostrophes gone?
      859 12  -  BY JONATHAN EYAL EUROPE CORRESPONDENT LONDON: Does the apostrophe still matter in the Internet age? Yes, say many Britons up in arms over a recent decision by Waterstone’s, a national chain of bookstores, to drop the punctuation mark from its name; henceforth, it will
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      Lock icon Thailand unveils $12 billion plan to fight floods
      571 12  -  BY NIRMAL GHOSH THAILAND CORRESPONDENT BANGKOK: Thailand yesterday unveiled a much-awaited “masterplan” to prevent a repeat of the massive floods that devastated the country last year, with Premier Yingluck Shinawatra pledging an integrated approach beginning from the “first drop of rain” in
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      168 9 CHANGI airport Singapore for making us the world's most awarded airport u, > 6 Business Traveller Awards in 2011 Best Airport in the World World Travel Awards 2011 World's Leading Airport Travel Weekly China 2011 Best International Airport Conde Nast Traveller 2011 (India) Best Airport Travel Trade Gazette (Asia) 21
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  • WORLD.
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      Lock icon The long and winding road home for Chinese
      675 14  -  Complicated travel plans for many going to hometowns for the New Year BY AW CHENG WEI awcw@sph.com.sg BEIJING: Mr Chen Rong caught a flight from Beijing to Nanjing on Wednesday, but the Jiangsu provincial capital was not his final destination. After a
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      Lock icon New year dilemma for China’s only-child generation
      532 14 WASHINGTON POST BEIJING: For one particular group of Chinese young urban married couples who grew up as only children the yearly ritual of going home for Chinese New Year can also mean tough decisions and some-times-painful arguments. These young couples are part of
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      Lock icon WHAT’S ONLINE FOLLOW AND ENGAGE ST ONLINE
      89 14 News: www.straitstimes.com Connect: www.facebook.com/thestraitstimes Follow: twitter.com/stcom TOP THREE WORLD STORIES ONLINE L Severed head, hand found below Hollywood sign L Aussie ultra-marathon man finishes pole-to-pole run L Real-life James Bonds used fake rock to spy on Russia More Forum letters online at www.straitstimes.com
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      Lock icon WELCOMING THE YEAR OF THE DRAGON
      154 14 VIETNAM: Two girls with peach blossom branches in Hanoi on Thursday. The Vietnamese buy peach blossom trees and branches in the days leading up to Tet, which is what they call the Chinese New Year. PHOTO: BLOOMBERG PHOTO: BLOOMBERG CHINA: (Above) Visitors walking through
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    • world.regional
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        Lock icon Myanmar on right track to democracy: Thein Sein
        685 18 President urges West to lift sanctions, but says military can’t be left out WASHINGTON POST WASHINGTON: Myanmar President Thein Sein has sketched a vision of gradual progress towards democracy for his isolated and authoritarian nation in his first extensive interview with a
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      • Article
        Lock icon Spoof of Najib’s Facebook page hijacks attention
        487 18  -  BY LEE CHOO KIONG MALAYSIAN Prime Minister Najib Razak’s official Chinese-language Facebook page was launched with much fanfare earlier this week, but a spoof of the page has been hijacking some of the attention. Facebook users swarmed the new platform shortly after the
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        Lock icon Ethnic conflict tests govt’s reform agenda
        718 18 NEW YORK TIMES AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE MAIJA YANG (Myanmar): Even as the Myanmar government initiates political reforms in much of the country, it has intensified an ethnic civil war in the hills in the north. This month, scores of mortar rounds fired by the Myanmar
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        Lock icon Rare monkey spotted
        57 18 This undated photo released by non-profit group Ethical Expeditions shows a Miller’s grizzled langur in the Wehea forest in eastern Borneo, Indonesia. Scientists working in the dense jungles of Borneo have rediscovered the large, grey monkey, which is so rare it was believed by many to be
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        Lock icon Teasing the palate with a S’pore twist
        1181 20  -  More Indian restaurants experimenting with different kinds of cuisine MEMO FROM NEW DELHI BY NIRMALA GANAPATHY INDIA CORRESPONDENT gnirmala@sph.com.sg ON THE lawn of the five-star ITC Maurya hotel in Delhi, chef Rajkamal Chopra cooks up an Indian-style pulao (or pilaf, a rice dish)
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        Lock icon India court rejects tax claim against Vodafone
        613 22  -  Telco not liable for $2.8b in taxes on overseas purchase of local firm BY RAVI VELLOOR SOUTH ASIA BUREAU CHIEF velloor@sph.com.sg NEW DELHI: Global telecom giant Vodafone is not liable to pay US$2.2 billion (S$2.8 billion) in taxes on its purchase of one
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        Lock icon Survivor’s happy homecoming
        78 22 Shipwreck survivor Jonathan Pathri being welcomed by his parents at Rajiv Gandhi International Airport in Hyderabad, India, on Thursday. He was among those rescued from cruise ship Costa Concordia, which slammed into a reef off the Italian coast on Jan 13. At least 11 people died and
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      • Article
        Lock icon Atheist faces charge, mob for online post
        234 22 JAKARTA: An Indonesian atheist who questioned the existence of God on his Facebook page has been charged with blasphemy and is in protective police custody after he was attacked by an angry mob. The 31-year-old civil servant, known only as Alexander, had written
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        Lock icon Mixed views over coup claims in Dhaka
        702 22  -  BY RAVI VELLOOR SOUTH ASIA BUREAU CHIEF NEW DELHI: Claims by Bangladeshi military that it foiled an attempt to overthrow the Sheikh Hasina government came under scrutiny yesterday with people close to the country’s intelligence services playing down the seriousness of the case
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        Lock icon Another questioned over threat to Najib
        243 22 IN HOT WATER THE STAR/ASIAN NEWS NETWORK ALOR STAR: Another university student has been hauled up in connection with a Facebook posting that threatened Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak. It was reported that the female medical student was questioned in connection with a threat
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        Lock icon Former ‘slave’ reunites with mum
        812 19  -  BY LEE SEOK HWAI TAIWAN CORRESPONDENT seokhwai@sph.com.sg TAIPEI: A woman who made headlines in the United States and Taiwan for her story of enslavement by a foster family has had a teary reunion with her mother for the first time in nearly 20 years. “I
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        Lock icon China fugitive deported from Canada jailed
        255 19 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE ASSOCIATED PRESS BEIJING: A Chinese businessman deported from Canada after more than a decade on the run was found guilty of contract fraud yesterday and sentenced to 15 years in jail, in what his lawyer and family say is a test case
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        Lock icon Airlines to carry out A-380 checks
        548 23 European safety agency orders checks after new cracks found on planes NEW YORK TIMES REUTERS BLOOMBERG PARIS: European safety authorities have ordered airlines to carry out checks on almost one-third of the world’s Airbus A-380 fleet after new cracks were discovered in the wing
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        Lock icon Apple enters e-textbook market with iPad apps
        483 23 NEW YORK TIMES NEW YORK: Apple wants students to stop lugging around backpacks full of heavy textbooks and switch to the iPad instead. For this, it introduced three free pieces of software revolving around education on Thursday. It released iBooks 2, a new
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        Lock icon Cargo ship sinking
        64 23 In this photo from Maritime New Zealand that was released yesterday, an oil sheen flows from the cargo ship Rena, now almost completely submerged on a reef near Tauranga, New Zealand. The 236m vessel, which ran aground in October, split in two a fortnight ago and now,
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        Lock icon Verbal combat heats up final GOP debate
        932 25 4 Republican hopefuls trade personal barbs in lead-up to vital primary ASSOCIATED PRESS NORTH CHARLESTON (South Carolina): Mr Newt Gingrich angrily turned aside questions about his marital history at the outset of the final Republican presidential debate before the South Carolina primary, and
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        Lock icon US to make visits easier for Brazil, China tourists
        681 25 REUTERS BLOOMBERG ORLANDO: President Barack Obama on Thursday ordered the streamlining of applications for foreign tourist visas to the United States, focused on increasingly affluent Chinese and Brazilian visitors, in an effort to boost tourism and create jobs. Mr Obama announced
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      • MATTERS OF TIME
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          Lock icon Future of ‘leap second’ still undecided
          303 25 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE GENEVA: Timekeepers meeting in Geneva have failed to agree on a proposal to abolish a 40-year-old practice of adding the occasional second to world time. The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) put off the decision on Thursday, saying more study was needed into
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          Lock icon Putin may reverse winter time change
          275 25 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE MOSCOW: Russian strongman Vladimir Putin (below) has admitted he has a hard time getting out of bed and hinted that he may do away with a recent winter time change if elected as president in March. President Dmitry Medvedev this year moved
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        Lock icon Ionescu trial deferred due to technical problems
        316 25 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE BUCHAREST: The trial of a former Romanian diplomat accused of manslaughter after a deadly 2009 car crash in Singapore had to be postponed to Feb 1, after technical problems prevented the court from viewing video evidence of the accident. The court
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        Lock icon Obama campaign gears up for battle
        2191 24  -  As the Republican Party edges closer to picking a nominee for this year’s presidential election, the Obama campaign has been quietly ramping up its famed ground operation in anticipation of a tough battle. But will this be enough in the face of a struggling
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    • world.at a glance
      • IN BRIEF
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          Lock icon Taiwan’s foreign workers
          106 26 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE TAIPEI: Taiwan has passed a Bill to extend the length of stay for foreign workers to a maximum of 12 years from the current nine years to meet growing demand from the island’s ageing population. The Labour Affairs Council yesterday said the extension applies to
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        • Article
          Lock icon Al-Qaeda planner ‘killed’
          101 26 ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON: A US official has said a Central Intelligence Agency drone strike early this month killed a key Al-Qaeda operative who was planning attacks on the West. The official said on Thursday the Jan 10 strike hit Aslam Awan, who was described as an “external
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          Lock icon $23m Toto win in KL
          119 26 THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK SELANGOR: A Malaysian retiree has won a whopping RM57 million (S$23.4 million) in a Toto draw, a new record for jackpot winnings in the country. The man, in his 70s, said he had bet the winning set of numbers 2, 12,
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          Lock icon India visit for probe team
          82 26 XINHUA ISLAMABAD: A Pakistani judicial commission, probing the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks, will visit India in the first week of next month. The Interior Ministry yesterday said Mumbai’s High Court has given its nod to the commission to record the statements of witnesses and investigators
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          Lock icon Vote on Pipa postponed
          97 26 ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON: US Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid yesterday said he will postpone a vote on online piracy legislation he had scheduled for next week after a storm of protest. The protests included a blackout by Wikipedia this week and a petition by Google that
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        • Article
          Lock icon Nod to N. Korean aid trip
          89 26 ASSOCIATED PRESS SEOUL: South Korea says it is allowing a group of civilians to visit North Korea with a shipment of aid. The Unification Ministry yesterday said the group will take 180,000kg of flour to North Korea next week. Seoul allowed a shipment of
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          Lock icon Coalition deaths in Kabul
          126 26 ASSOCIATED PRESS KABUL: An Afghan soldier shot and killed four French troops yesterday in eastern Afghanistan, and a helicopter crash late on Thursday killed six more Nato service members in the south, officials said, marking a particularly deadly 24 hours for coalition forces. President Nicolas Sarkozy
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        Lock icon Saddam’s statue: Police arrest man on bum rap?
        337 26 SLICEOFLIFE LONDON: British police have arrested a 66-year-old man over claims that he tried to sell off part of a bronze statue a buttock of Saddam Hussein which was brought over from Iraq after the war. Derbyshire Police in northern central England
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      441 28 TALES of teachers developing inappropriate relationships with students sexual and otherwise in and after school, make for unsavoury reading. There may be just a handful of cases yearly, but it is a handful too many. The reprehensible actions of the few are an unwarranted blot on 31,000
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      1644 28 This is an edited excerpt of remarks made by Mr Tharman Shanmugaratnam, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance and Manpower at the Institute of Policy Studies’ Singapore Perspectives 2012 conference this week. BUILDING a fair and inclusive society is at the heart of our
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        953 29  -  LETTER FROM KYOTO BY JANICE TAY CORRESPONDENT tastingjapan@gmail.com THEY’RE asking the impossible. The officials are all saying the same thing through their loudspeakers: Don’t stop to take photos. Follow the person in front and keep moving. Except that the people in front aren’t
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        1080 29  -  BY JOE KARAGANIS The writer is vice-president of The American Assembly, a public policy institute based at Columbia University. WASHINGTON POST THIS month, the US Congress is expected to move forward on controversial legislation, the Stop Online Piracy Act (Sopa) in the House and
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        874 29  -  BY PAUL KRUGMAN NEW YORK TIMES CALL me peculiar, but I am actually enjoying the spectacle of Mr Mitt Romney doing the Dance of the Seven Veils partly out of voyeurism, of course, but also because it is about time that we had this discussion. The
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        Lock icon Heed fans’ call for sake of football
        328 30  -  Edwin Pang SINGAPORE football does not seem to have got off to a good start this year (“15 players left out in the cold” and “Etoile’s exit confirmed”; both on Tuesday). We may be back in the Malaysian Super League but with one
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        Lock icon Empty seats when matches are ‘sold out’
        303 30  -  Arthur Lim AFTER watching the first two Malaysian Super League matches on television, I am quite puzzled as to whether these matches were really sold out. I fully appreciate the fact that a “LionsXII” banner needs to be placed to cover an entire
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        174 30 “I would refrain from making a judgment until the FAS has completed its review of the controversy.” MR MELVIN TAN: “As a faithful supporter of the S-League since the days of its first chief executive Douglas Moore, I am terribly disappointed with the views expressed by
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        59 30 1 MS NG SIM WEE: Don’t start sexuality education earlier 2 MR ALAN KOH: Abstinenceonly education doesn’t work 3 MR ALVIN TAN: Don’t drown out chants and claps of fans 4 MS AMY ANG: Have more gratings to drain water off walkways 5 BCA: Action taken against those
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        384 30  -  Joan Chng (Ms) THE Housing Board should sell studio apartments with a tenure of 99 years instead of 30 years. A 47 sq m studio apartment with a tenure of 30 years on the fourth floor of Fernvale Rivergrove in Sengkang costs
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        122 30 “How can this room be fitted with two single beds and yet leave room for a wheelchair to be manoeuvred?” MR DOUGLAS LEE: “I am pleased to read about the proposed retrofitting of estates (“More estates to get elderly friendly fittings”; Jan 9) but it is ironic that
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        187 30  -  Lim Wan Keng (Ms) THE recent case of ATM fraud involving card-skimming devices has disturbed many bank customers. I am worried about the risk of similar fraud involving credit cards. How often do we see merchants checking the signatures on credit cards against
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      698 1  -  It will include 3-D land-height map of Marina catchment area for a start BY FENG ZENGKUN zengkun@sph.com.sg NATIONAL water agency PUB could be using a better flood-prediction computer model in the near future. It will include a 3-D land-height map of just the Marina
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      Lock icon Heavy rain and blocked drain cause flooding in mall
      365 1  -  BY GRACE CHUA PETER WONG A SHORT, heavy thunderstorm yesterday afternoon caused flash floods in several locations and flooding in the basement of Raffles City shopping mall, where some shops were forced to close for an hour. The downpour was heaviest
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      92 1 News: www.straitstimes.com Connect: www.facebook.com/thestraitstimes Follow: twitter.com/stcom TOP THREE HOME STORIES ONLINE L Man gets jail, caning for trying to have sex with woman met online L Don’t underpay our ministers: Lee Kuan Yew L Man jailed for stealing from mosque to buy food
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      Lock icon Novena hospital goes ahead with Mt E name
      564 2  -  Parkway Pantai moves despite opposition from original hospital’s docs BY MELISSA PANG melpang@sph.com.sg PRIVATE health-care group Parkway Pantai is going ahead with naming its new $2 billion hospital “Mount Elizabeth Novena”. This is despite the unhappiness expressed by the doctors practising out
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      72 2 SERVICE on the Punggol LRT line was delayed for 15 minutes just before 7pm yesterday evening, affecting about 800 commuters. This was due to a power dip from the PowerGrid network, said a spokesman for SBS Transit, which runs the line. Announcements were made
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      460 2  -  BY KARAMJIT KAUR AVIATION CORRESPONDENT EVEN as Changi Airport celebrates a record-breaking year, global challenges that could put pressure on future growth are looming. Last year, the airport handled 46.5 million passengers 10.7 per cent more than in 2010 figures released yesterday showed. The jump
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      51 2 Tourists tossing coins at a gong, placed under the Singapore Flyer to herald in the Chinese New Year till Feb 6. The sound made symbolises wealth, and the louder it is, the better. All coins will be donated to Kreta-Ayer Seniors Activity Centre. ST PHOTO: ALPHONSUS
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      Lock icon SingTel to offer free local calls, texts for CNY
      256 2 IT WILL literally cost you nothing to send a Chinese New Year greeting this festive season, if you are a SingTel customer. The telco announced yesterday it will offer its postpaid subscribers free local mobile calls, as well as free local
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      Lock icon M1 starts selling camera-less iPhones
      277 2  -  JERMYN CHOW SINGAPORE consumers can now get their hands on an Apple iPhone without a built-in camera. Singapore’s smallest telco, M1, gave details of the price plans of its no-camera iPhone 4 and 4S models yesterday. They can now be ordered on the M1 website.
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      Lock icon Part of Bukit Timah canal wall found dislodged
      515 4  -  Discovery made during MRT tunnelling but ‘cavities’ not caused by its works, says LTA BY ROYSTON SIM roysim@sph.com.sg THE mystery of the “cavities” that appeared in a drain embankment along Bukit Timah Road earlier this week may have been solved yesterday. The
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      Lock icon Singaporeans choosing to eat more chicken and vegetables
      391 4  -  BY HUANG LIJIE HEALTHY eating habits are taking root, with Singaporeans opting for more chicken and vegetables in their diet. Chicken, which is low in fat and cholesterol, was the top choice for meats consumed in 2010, edging out demand for fish
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      193 4 GETTING vegetables for dinner might soon be a matter of harvesting the greens growing at home. Responding to National Development Minister Khaw Boon Wan’s blog entry, Mr Lee Yi Shyan, Minister of State for National Development, launched a Facebook drive yesterday for the public to
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      Lock icon Six winners share $7 million Toto jackpot
      226 4  -  BY LIN WENJIAN THE God of Fortune smiled on six lucky punters in yesterday’s Toto Reunion Draw. The lucky six will share the jackpot of $7,055,010, following the draw made at Resorts World Sentosa last night. The winning combination was 7, 18, 26,
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      Lock icon Possible Chiam successor quits SPP leadership
      356 4  -  BY TESSA WONG ANDREA ONG A MEMBER of the Singapore People’s Party (SPP) who was expected to be a key contender to succeed Mr Chiam See Tong as secretary-general has decided to quit the party’s leadership. Mr Wilfred Leung, the party’s first assistant sec-retary-general,
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      485 4  -  BY PHUA MEI PIN FOR the first time, a Singapore think-tank has made it into the ranks of the top 50 think-tanks in the world. The S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS) is No. 48 on a list compiled by a top university
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      Lock icon Mosque: We tried to help man who stole $32
      604 5  -  Efforts over 3 years futile as recalcitrant ‘refused to turn over new leaf’ JAILED FOR STEALING FROM DONATION BOX BY THAM YUEN-C yuenc@sph.com.sg THE man who was jailed a year for stealing $32 from a donation box at a mosque was
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      Lock icon Pupils document wet markets for heartland heritage project
      448 5  -  BY LESLIE KAY LIM CAMCORDERS in hand, the children fan out across the wet market in search of stallholders to interview. It is an unfamiliar environment for many of these primary school pupils, brought up in the era of supermarkets. But a
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      Lock icon Maid levy error in some CPF statements
      340 5 SOME 44,000 maid employers got a shock recently when they received their annual Central Provident Fund (CPF) statements. Those who pay a monthly levy of $170 had that amount doubled to $340. Others who pay $265 each month had it doubled to $530.
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      Lock icon Be exemplary in conduct, teachers told
      551 6  -  Education Minister reminds them to act in students’ best interests BY LIN ZHAOWEI zhaowei@sph.com.sg TEACHERS are role models for their students, and therefore need to be exemplary in their conduct, Education Minister Heng Swee Keat told an audience of educators yesterday. “Parents and the
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      Lock icon Loss of future earnings payout raised for student hit by taxi
      402 6  -  BY K. C. VIJAYAN LAW CORRESPONDENT A PROMISING student who suffered head injuries after being knocked down by a cab has had his compensation payout for loss of future earnings more than doubled. Mr Lee Wei Kong, 24, has
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      Lock icon Serial housebreaker jailed 3½ years
      280 6 A SERIAL housebreaker who got away with $37,500 worth of property from 18 flats in Bukit Batok and Jurong West was jailed 31/2 years yesterday for burglary and drug-related offences. Adam Jamaluddin, 21, put his previous experience as a window cleaner to use, breaking into
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      Lock icon 5 years’ jail, 24 strokes for harassing debtors again
      286 6  -  ELENA CHONG HE WAS jailed and caned 21/2 years ago for helping a loan shark harass debtors. Tan Jit Thiam, 37, a shop supervisor, went back to his old ways last November. He defaulted in repaying a $500 loan he had
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      Lock icon Dead P4 boy’s family get NTUC Income payout
      278 6  -  LIM YAN LIANG NO CONTRACT had been signed as yet, so there was no need for insurer NTUC Income to pay out the claim. But NTUC Income still delivered a cheque for $15,000 to the family of dead Primary 4 boy Lee
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        78 6 A JOBLESS woman was remanded for further investigation after she was charged yesterday with cheating. She allegedly gave fraudulently obtained cheques to the owner of a flat in which she was trying to rent a room. Winnie Teo Weini, 28, is said to have given
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        Lock icon Australian acquitted of assaulting student
        90 6 AN AUSTRALIAN businessman, initially charged with assaulting a woman at Jurong East MRT station in 2010, was acquitted yesterday. Mr Bradley Joseph Furness, 47, was charged after he allegedly grabbed student Tan Ching Hong, 22, in a headlock and pushed her to the ground that
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        Lock icon Father charged with throwing baby on bed
        103 6 A FATHER who allegedly threw his baby boy from a height of 1.1m onto a bed, made his third appearance in court yesterday. Francis Lim Kiat Hoe, 29, who was charged on Jan 7 with a rash act, also faces a second charge
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        930 7  -  It will promote healthy gaming and Internet use among students, their families and residents BY JANICE TAI jantai@sph.com.sg HOUGANG Secondary will be the first school in Singapore to have a cyber wellness centre, which will promote responsible gaming and computer use, on
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      255 3 www.vw.com.sg Make this a truly Happy New Year with fantastic deals on all our cars. Last 2 days. Phaeton 3.6 V6 Handcrafted in Germany. $317,300 $31,000 off. Touareg 3.6 V6 Where on earth will you take it? $280,300 $18,000 off. Polo 1.4 Are you Polo enough? $103,800 $6,000 off. Passat
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      691 8  -  Court bars outgoing master tenant from evicting sub-tenants BY ESTHER TEO PROPERTY REPORTER esthert@sph.com.sg A FESTERING dispute over an imminent change-over of master tenants at the Turf City mall has escalated all the way to the High Court. The incoming master tenant SH Cogent
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      582 8  -  BY GRACE CHNG SENIOR CORRESPONDENT SINGTEL has seconded staff from its NCS unit to a new 3,000-strong group to provide engineering services for business customers here and across Asia. The new group, headed by veteran infocomm tech executive William Woo, will also
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      Lock icon SPH-UE joint venture bags Sengkang commercial site
      424 8  -  BY MELISSA TAN A JOINT venture by Singapore Press Holdings (SPH) and United Engineers has been awarded the tender for a Sengkang commercial site. The winning bid of $328 million from Earth Holdings the name of the joint venture works out to $1,156
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      Lock icon ST Engg wins $350m of deals
      227 8 ST ENGINEERING has won new contracts worth about $350 million in the electronics and marine sectors, including several naval contracts and commercial ship repair and conversion jobs. All the projects were secured in the fourth quarter ended Dec 31 last year. Its unit ST
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      94 8 News: www.straitstimes.com Connect: www.facebook.com/thestraitstimes Follow: twitter.com/stcom TOP THREE MONEY STORIES ONLINE L Qantas A-380 blast caused by defective pipe: Probe L Kodak files for bankruptcy, secures $1.2b L Euro zone close to recession: Juncker More Forum letters online at www.straitstimes.com Get your free
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      Lock icon Weak start to new year for China’s economy
      656 9 Factory output dips for 3rd straight month, PMI figures for January show AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE SHANGHAI: China’s manufacturing activity shrank for the third straight month in January, early data showed yesterday, leading analysts to warn of a further slowdown for the world’s No.
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      610 9 REUTERS PARIS: Two years after it requested US$500 billion (S$640 billion) to fight off a global slump, the call by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for a further US$600 billion to limit damage from Europe’s debt crisis has prompted supportive words
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      Lock icon BoA may give staff shares as bonuses
      424 9 REUTERS NEW YORK: Bank of America (BoA) may give shares worth US$1 billion (S$1.28 billion) to employees instead of cash as part of bonuses, and hold back on dividend increases and buybacks as the second-largest United States bank grasps for ways to boost
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      Lock icon Citigroup awards CEO $4.7m in stock
      350 9 BLOOMBERG NEW YORK: Citigroup, the third-biggest United States bank by assets, awarded its chief executive officer Vikram Pandit about US$3.7 million (S$4.7 million) in stock, as the firm reported a 6.4 per cent increase in full-year profit. The bonus was among shares the New
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        Lock icon Higher rents expected for some CCT properties
        535 12  -  CapitaCommercial Trust says its rates are below market average BY CHERYL LIM cherlim@sph.com.sg CAPITACOMMERCIAL Trust (CCT) expects to raise rents at some of its properties even though the year ahead is anticipated to be less buoyant for the office property segment. The trust
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        Lock icon S’pore accountants ‘least upbeat about global economy’
        448 12  -  MELISSA TAN LOCAL accountants were among the most pessimistic in the world about the global economy, in a survey conducted late last year. It found that about 67 per cent of respondents here were either “less confident” or “much less confident” about the
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        Lock icon Spa sector woes leave blemish on earnings at Mary Chia
        533 12  -  BY MELISSA TAN THE bad publicity surrounding the spa industry has claimed a new casualty. Beauty and slimming company Mary Chia Holdings expects a net loss for the six months ended Dec 31 last year, the firm said yesterday in
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        Lock icon S’pore shares continue strong run
        533 13  -  Rabbit Year ends with a bang on solid Europe bond sales, US jobs data BULLS AND BEARS BY JONATHAN KWOK jonkwok@sph.com.sg THE Singapore market enjoyed a rousing performance ahead of the festive weekend, with a solid rise on the back of successful bond auctions in
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        Lock icon Sias raises concerns over stock suspension
        412 13  -  JONATHAN KWOK THE investors’ watchdog yesterday asked the Singapore Exchange (SGX) for clarification over the situation regarding China Sky Chemical Fibre and expressed its concern over the stock’s continued suspension. The Securities Investors Association of Singapore (Sias) held talks on the contentious issue with
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      104 22 News: www.straitstimes.com Connect: www.facebook.com/thestraitstimes Follow: twitter.com/stcom TOP THREE SPORTS STORIES ONLINE L Mourinho warns Pepe over Messi stamp L Six footballers arrested in British sex probe L Beckham to re-join LA Galaxy on two-year deal After a 17-year hiatus, Singapore returns to Malaysian
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      690 22 Van der Vaart wants City’s Aguero and Silva to ‘feel defeat again’ THE BIG MATCH LONDON: Tottenham playmaker Rafael van der Vaart is desperate to reacquaint Manchester City’s attacking pair of Sergio Aguero and David Silva with that losing feeling. The fixture list has thrown up a
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      846 22  -  BY RICHARD JOLLY IT IS not quite uncharted territory for both clubs. It just feels that way. Manchester City were last champions of England in 1968, seven years after Tottenham Hotspur’s second and last title. For one, history could beckon. Yet, when they last
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      986 16  -  Benefits of group training spur interest in local running clubs FITNESS BY MAY CHEN maychen@sph.com.sg POH Yeow Kian has taken part in six consecutive editions of the Singapore marathon. But the 56-year-old information technology consultant’s timing has been stagnant at about six hours for the past
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      403 16 Today Basketball ABL: Indonesia Warriors v Malaysia Dragons (Live, mio TV Ch114, 4pm). NBA: Cleveland v Chicago (Live, StarHub Ch216, 8.30am), Orlando v LA Lakers (Live, Ch202, 9am). Football M-League: Sabah v LionsXII (Kota Kinabalu, 8.15pm. Live, StarHub Ch201 Ch112, 8pm). African Nations Cup, Gp A: Equatorial
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      180 16 Basketball NBA Houston 90 New Orleans 88 (OT), Miami 98 LA Lakers 87, Dallas 94 Utah 91. Football Italian Cup Last 16: Inter Milan 2 Genoa 1, AC Milan 2 Novara 1 (after extra time). Spanish King’s Cup Q-final, 1st leg: Valencia 4 Levante 1. Golf Humana Challenge In
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      44 16 ZHOU JUN, Shanghai Shenhua owner, on the Chinese Super League football club’s courting of Chelsea striker Didier Drogba (above)
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      243 16 ASSOCIATED PRESS SALT LAKE CITY (Utah): Top Canadian freestyle skier Sarah Burke died on Thursday from injuries suffered in a training fall. She was 29. A four-time Winter X Games champion, she lobbied to add superpipe skiing to the Winter Olympics programme. Her arguments
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      835 17 Nadal and Federer win to remain on course for semi-final showdown AUSTRALIAN OPEN ASSOCIATED PRESS AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE MELBOURNE: In the same half of a Grand Slam singles draw for the first time since 2005, Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer are taking similar paths to a potential semi-fi-nal
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      416 17 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE ASSOCIATED PRESS MELBOURNE: A rematch of the women’s 2011 final is already in place at the Australian Open, with defending champion Kim Clijsters and China’s Li Na winning late yesterday to set up a meeting in the fourth round.
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        63 17 REUTERS LISBON: Portugal’s Sporting are set to punish striker Valeri Bojinov after the Bulgarian shoved teammate Matias Fernandez aside to take a stoppage-time penalty in Thursday’s 1-1 Cup draw with lower-tier side Moreirense, only to see his kick saved. Moreirense goalkeeper Ricardo Ribeiro said:
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        68 17 REUTERS ADDIS ABABA: Ethiopia yesterday indefinitely banned 35 athletes including Olympic men’s 5,000m and 10,000m champion Kenenisa Bekele from competing in a row over training. The Ethiopian Athletics Federation, angry over poor results, called up 200 athletes to a camp two months ago.
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      504 17 ASSOCIATED PRESS MIAMI: LeBron James was sitting at his locker after the National Basketball Association game, a bottle of cold medicine at his side. The Los Angeles Lakers would be hard-pressed to believe it was needed. He shook off flu-like symptoms to put up
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      278 17 THE TIMES, LONDON MELBOURNE: In professional tennis, we have had fathers coaching sons, fathers coaching daughters, mothers coaching sons and daughters, husbands coaching wives, but a wife coaching her husband now that is a novelty. The most unlikely entrant into the third round of the Australian
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      1021 18  -  Obsession with beating Barca shows in negative tactics and dirty play INGO0D CONSCIENCE BY ROB HUGHES stsports@sph.com.sg FLORENTINO Perez bases his presidency of Real Madrid on restoring that club to its former reputation as the grandest in global sport. The image of the
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      298 18 ASSOCIATED PRESS MADRID: Real Madrid defender Pepe has apologised to Lionel Messi for stepping on the Barcelona forward’s hand in his team’s 1-2 loss in the first leg of the Spanish Cup quarter-final, insisting that it was not intentional. “As far
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      392 18 ASSOCIATED PRESS AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE REUTERS LOS ANGELES: While the football world speculated where or whether David Beckham would resume his career, he quietly made his decision on New Year’s Eve in London. Paris Saint-Germain had offered him an 18-month contract worth
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      241 18 ASSOCIATED PRESS RIO DE JANEIRO: Fifa’s general secretary has again blasted Brazil for being behind schedule in its stadium preparations for the 2014 World Cup. Jerome Valcke said on Thursday that “there is not a single stadium ready today”. He spoke alongside
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      430 18 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE NEW YORK: Tiger Woods has vented his fury at one of his exes, accusing former swing coach Hank Haney of writing a tell-all book about their years together “just for the money”. He insisted he had no plans to read The
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      790 19  -  Gold medal spurs drive for Olympic glory after years of hard work THESTRAITSTIMES ATHLETEOFTHEYEAR Presentedby For shuttler Fu Mingtian, the first of our five nominees, last year proved a breakthrough, culminating in her SEA Games victory BY LIN XINYI linxinyi@sph.com.sg IF THE bitter has to come before the
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      552 20  -  Weary LionsXII take on Sabah without adequate recovery and practice BY SANJAY NAIR nsanjay@sph.com.sg KOTA KINABALU: Changi Airport played host to a scene of contrasting emotions at the crack of dawn yesterday. While most wore bright smiles as they embarked on holidays over the long weekend,
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      432 20  -  SANJAY NAIR KOTA KINABALU: For the fourth straight Malaysian Super League match, LionsXII coach V. Sundramoorthy has been forced to tinker with his starting line-up. Injuries and key defender Safuwan Baharudin’s suspension have ravaged the team, who have yet to field the same
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      794 20 THE TIMES, LONDON LIBREVILLE (Gabon): There is, Yaya Toure says, no Ivorian equivalent of the fable of the tortoise and the hare. The Manchester City player accepted, though, that it is a fitting analogy. “Manchester United are the tortoise,” he said. “They go slowly but,
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      143 20 ASSOCIATED PRESS African Nations Cup (today to Feb 12) Group A: Equatorial Guinea, Libya, Senegal, Zambia Group B: Ivory Coast, Sudan, Burkina Faso, Angola Group C: Gabon, Niger, Morocco, Tunisia Group D: Ghana, Botswana, Mali, Guinea Four players to watch: Yaya Toure, Ivory Coast Club:
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      394 20 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE KUALA LUMPUR: A new match-fixing scandal has erupted in Malaysia. Nine players with Perlis, who play in the second-tier Premier League, admitted having contact with a bookmaker who offered them up to RM100,000 (S$41,000) each before they lost 2-7 against a weak Johor
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      671 21 United manager hopes Arsenal will have forgotten 8-2 rout AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE LONDON: Revenge can be a strong motivating force, which may explain why Manchester United Alex Ferguson tried to play down his side’s 8-2 humiliation of Arsenal five months ago ahead of tomorrow’s clash at the Emirates
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      296 21 LONDON: Under -pressure goalkeeper David de Gea’s difficult season has taken a turn for the worse. Already dropped as Manchester United’s first choice, he may now need corrective laser surgery to one of his eyes. It is understood that he suffers from a condition
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      367 21 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE LONDON: Liverpool manager Kenny Dalglish will continue to use veteran forward Craig Bellamy sparingly over the remainder of the campaign, an indication of how important the injury-prone Welsh international is to his club’s cause. Bellamy, 32, is certain to play some
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      463 21 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE LONDON: Chelsea manager Andre Vil-las-Boas believes that English football should seriously consider following the Spanish model by allowing English Premier League clubs to field “B” sides in the lower tiers of the game. Like many of his EPL peers, the
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      93 21 Today Norwich City v Chelsea Live, HD Ch102, 8.45pm Everton v Blackburn Rovers Live, HD Ch103, 11pm Fulham v Newcastle United Live, HD Ch104, 11pm Queens Park Rangers v Wigan Athletic Live, Ch105, 11pm Stoke City v West Bromwich Albion Live, Ch106, 11pm Sunderland v Swansea City Live,
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      204 21 P W D L F A Pts 1 Manchester City 21 16 3 2 57 16 51 2 Manchester United 21 15 3 3 52 20 48 3 Tottenham Hotspur 21 14 4 3 39 21 46 4 Chelsea 21 12 4 5 40 25 40 5 Arsenal
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      377 21  -  BY RICHARD LENTON The writer is mio Stadium host and an experienced EPL broadcaster and journalist. Catch him on Samsung Score! (Friday, 10pm) mio TV Ch102 L THE first Super Sunday encounter sees Manchester City defend their 100 per cent home record, against Tottenham.
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      38 22 AUSSIE OPEN PAIN Li-Clijsters rematch after injury forces Medina Garrigues out. B17 HOT DESPITE COLD LeBron James brushes aside illness to fire Heat past Lakers. B17 GROUP EFFORT The quest for fitness can be smoother alongside others. B16
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      17 22 MAKING THE BEST OF IT LionsXII striker Agu Casmir still sidelined, meaning forced rejig against Sabah. B20
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      235 1 ENTER THE The docile rabbit makes way for the magnificent dragon on Monday. Why does this mythical creature reign so majestically in Chinese culture? Jeremy Lim and Candice Neo find out. PHOTO: JEREMY LIM Sr r> i ONE OF A KIND JADE BUDDHA DEDICATED BY KYABJE LAMA ZOPA RINPOCHE FOR
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        121 2/3 According to folklore, to create the most powerful creature, the Chinese combined the horns of a deer, the head of a camel, the eyes of a rabbit, the ears of an ox, the neck of a lizard, the belly of a turtle, the scales of a fish, the
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        958 2/3  -  Historians have several theories about how ancient peoples ‘invented’ the mythical creature BY JEREMY LIM jlimwz@sph.com.sg HERE is a popular Chinese idiom: wang zi cheng long. It expresses the wish that a “son becomes a dragon”, embodying the traditional virtues of wisdom and leadership leading to success
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        131 2/3 If you were born a dragon in one of these years, you might have the following qualities. 1904, 1964: WOOD DRAGON An intellectual who cleverly and subtly pursues his or her ambition. Being cultured, you have great appreciation for beauty. 1916, 1976: FIRE DRAGON
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        85 2/3 The Great Wall is not the only famous wall in China. Also celebrated is the Nine-Dragon Wall (left, a section of the wall) in the Forbidden City, which features the serpentine creatures chasing after pearls of prosperity. Built in 1773, it protected the Emperor Qianlong's privacy
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        427 2/3  -  BY JEREMY LIM INGAPORE’S notoriously low birth rate goes out the window in dragon years when parents produce a bumper crop of babies. This is not surprising as the dragon is regarded as the mightiest of the 12 animals in the Chinese zodiac. Not only are
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        52 4 A dragon roaring on a mustard yellow field was adopted as the flag of the Qing dynasty in 1862, with yellow representing the Manchu tribe that ruled China for 300 years. Sadly, this final dynasty collapsed in 1912, leaving China in a state of uncertainty.
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        78 4 If you watch a dragon dance performance during the New Year, you will see the dragon chasing a colourful spinning ball. This represents the sacred pearl of wisdom and yang energy, which may bestow enlightenment. In some performances, the dragon tangles himself up in knots in
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        866 4  -  What can you look out for this dragon year? We bring you forecasts from fengshui masters. BY CANDICE NEO cjyneo@sph.com.sg T IS the only mythical creature in the Chinese zodiac but it is a grumpy and destructive creature, so brace yourself for a big year of
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        72 5 The five-clawed dragon was a symbol of the emperor’s power, and anyone else might get into a lot of trouble for displaying it. The five claws represent the elements of metal, earth, fire, water and wood. Nobles could display the design of a
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        60 5 Every king needs a queen, and the dragon's female counterpart is the Fenghuang, or Chinese Phoenix. This queen of birds decorated the Empress’ clothes, and represents the Confucian values of loyalty, honesty, decorum and justice. justice. If the dragon and phoenix appear together, it
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          841 5  -  BY CANDICE NEO OT every craftsman wants to see his lovingly prepared work go up in flames, but that is precisely the point and pleasure for dragon-maker Fong Keng Yuan. Mr Fong, 70, spends two months building and weaving a
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          1010 5  -  CANDICE NEO HE worktable cluttered with tools, pens and various bits of colourful material looks like the bustling centre of a busy creative enterprise. But it masks a sad reality for craftsman Xiao Pei Li, 65, who finds himself one of the last masters
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        172 6 Everyone loves the Dumpling Festival, which falls on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, and the tasty, sticky meat-filled pyramids of rice that are eaten at that time. But the occasion is also known as the Dragon Boat Festival, after the popular sport of
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        63 6 A dragon that can cook rice, keep salted eggs and grow vegetables. Once found in households all over Singapore, these big brown jars with their dragon symbols were the “magic solution” to various domestic needs. Today, they can still be seen “hanging out” along HDB
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          361 6 THE dragon, according to Chinese myth, has nine sons with unique qualities. Their likenesses can be seen on many ancient artifacts, and some are still used today in the construction of musical instruments or traditional-style buildings. Pulao, the bell dragon As a guardian spirit who warns people
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          622 6 Glow-in-the-dark dragon A GHOSTLY apparition rising out of the darkness, this dragon will make its appearance at the 2012 Chingay parade. The performers wear black to give the illusion that the dragon is floating on its own. But the real magic lies in the fact that
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        940 7  - Reining in runaways by letting go Parents should accept that children have valid needs and concerns SOAPBOX BY EISEN TEO eisenteo@sph.com.sg YOUNG people run away from home in the hundreds every year and they are getting younger. Counsellors and youth workers say runaways defined as people who leave the family
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        508 7 YouthInk writers discuss the pros and cons of e-learning, and how best to incorporate it MY LIFE EVERY semester at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), there is a week set aside for e-learning. We don’t attend physical classes at school, but instead utilise online resources posted
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        726 7  -  MY THOUGHTS BY LIM SHAN The writer, 16, recently graduated from St Margaret’s Secondary School. WHEN I told everyone I got a vacation job at Times bookstore, they all said it would be a dream job for me. I never thought about how hard
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        837 8 All around the world, coastal cities are sinking, because of climate change, rapid urbanisation and excessive groundwater withdrawal. Built on swampy land and surrounded by rising seas, these cities face the biggest threat of disappearing under water in the years to come. The Straits Times looks at some
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      247 1 Dragon yusheng Audi ups the ante Art Stage spat Chefs get creative with zodiac animal D2 Why did organiser’s wife tear gallery’s guest book? D3 A1 appeal enhanced with new five-door model D10 The hot trends in HDB home decor now: open loft-style living, sleek Scandinavian design and modern English
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      1136 2  -  For the Year of the Dragon, restaurants up the ante with intricately styled yu sheng eunice quek euniceq@sph.com.sg The popular yu sheng (raw fish salad) is getting a dragon year makeover. Premium ingredients such as abalone and lobster have jazzed up the salad in previous years. But
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      1204 3  -  Gallerist Valentine Willie slams behaviour of Art Stage’s Maria Elena Rudolf in Yogyakarta adeline chia arts correspondent chiahta@sph.com.sg www.facebook.com/chiahta A spat has broken out in the visual arts community after prominent gallerist Valentine Willie posted an irate Facebook post about the behaviour of one of the
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      415 3  -  denise cheong Standing majestically atop Sentosa’s Imbiah Lookout is an 8m-long, 2.8m-tall “dragon” made out of sand and water. Singapore sand sculptor Jooheng Tan, 39, took four days to complete the life-like sand dragon. Using 18 tonnes of plastering sand, he compressed this with
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      116 4 ‘Oh, men. It’s not that women don’t understand you. It is that we have seen through you and don’t care two hoots about you. Or we decide to just play along with you’ Television host Dee Hsu (left) ‘I am on an international stage rather than
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      703 4  -  Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? takes on a new language, giving it a transcultural tension corrie tan corriet@sph.com.sg The classic American realist play, Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? (1962), is being revived here. The twist? The seminal work by American playwright Edward Albee will be
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      559 5  -  Despite stumbles, the Paris Opera Ballet gave a competent rendition reviewdance GISELLE Paris Opera Ballet Esplanade Theatre/Thursday tara tan stlife@sph.com.sg The second act of Giselle paints a Casanova’s worst nightmare: Jilted lovers turn into vengeful spirits called Willis, who lure young men into dark forests to dance
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      334 5 Associated Press Nashville, Tennessee Herbert Carter (below) flew 77 missions during World War II and crash-landed only once, numbers that challenged those sceptical of the abilities of black aviators. Decades later, he and other AfricanAmerican airmen he flew with must once again prove themselves, at
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        488 6  -  Home owners are tearing down the walls of their home for an open-concept style, one of three decor trends natasha ann zachariah natashaz@sph.com.sg Step into Ms Yvonne Leong’s HDB home and you will gasp. Most of the walls are gone save for a single partition the formerly tiled
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        419 6 The trend: Scandinavian What: This Nordic-style approach is about looking modern, sleek and sharp, and is largely fuss-free. Get the look: Inspired by Scandinavian nature and its winter season, clean white walls are a focal point of the design to reflect light and have
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        420 6 Trend: Open-concept homes What: Leave behind the traditional designations for rooms and open them up into shared living areas. Get the look: This is reminiscent of loft-style living modern and urban, just without the high ceilings. Favoured by singletons and yuppie couples, the open concept hardly
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        429 7 Trend: English- or French-style interiors What: This decor pays homage to the different eras of the English and French, but scales it back for a modern, updated look, without the garish opulence and stuffy interiors. Get the look: Unlike the minimalist approach to decor, these
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        133 7 In keeping with Chinese New Year, new threads, even for the bedroom, are a must. Bedding and homeware store Aussino has put out Blossom Inn a lunar new year-themed collection with seven bedspread designs inspired by the Japanese cherry blossom. The flower has been digitally transformed, creating various
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        785 8  -  Invented in 1974 by a Hungarian architect, the Rubik’s cube is Andrew Thio’s favourite toy the collectors’ series with Andrew Thio nicholas yong nicy@sph.com.sg It was back in the 1980s that 42-year-old Andrew Thio, then a secondary schoolboy, got caught up in the Rubik’s cube craze. He
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        654 8 When it comes to penthouses, this duplex might be considered small but it more than makes up for its lack of size with clever storage and space-saving ideas. Due to the space constraints such as having the living room sofa sitting just a few steps
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        349 8  -  The answers are by Mr Wilson Wong The answers are by Mr Wilson Wong, founder of Green Culture Singapore (www.greenculturesg.com), a website for plant lovers. My plant (right), which has been growing for more than five years, started out small but is now about three storeys
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        595 10  -  Adding two doors to the A1 makes for a Sportback that is stylish and practical raymond lai in lloret de mar, spain stlife@sph.com.sg The diminutive A1 has been pretty much a success for Audi despite being launched as a three-door with limited practicality. It did not
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        701 10  -  christopher tan senior correspondent Compared with the C63 AMG, a compact sedan with an oversized V8 reviewed last week, Mercedes’ latest toy for well-heeled adrenaline junkies fares surprisingly well. For a biggish car (just 60mm shy of 5m), the CLS63 AMG feels nearly as nimble
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        717 11  -  Mere buttons separate Jekyll and Hyde in the new BMW M5 christopher tan senior correspondent christan@sph.com.sg The new BMW M5 may not look very different from the 5series sedan it is based on. And its V8 engine is not nearly as exotic as its predecessor’s V10.
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        458 11  -  christopher tan ANOTHER AUDI FOR ALL ROADS This is Audi’s third-generation A6 Allroad (above), a multi-terrain station wagon for those who want something less bulky than a Q7. Three engines are available initially: 3.0 TFSI with 310bhp and 440Nm; 3.0 TDI with 204bhp and 450Nm; and 3.0 TDI
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        66 11 The windscreen wipers of my car come to rest in the “up” position when turned off. What could be the cause? It sounds like the wiper motor needs to be replaced. This is, of course, after making sure that if you unbolt the wipers and put them back
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        278 14  -  Colin Lim I refer to Adeline Chia’s story Art’s Big Names Fall In At Gillman (Life!, Jan 13). After the list of commercial galleries awarded the privilege of holding court at Gillman Barracks for the next three years was officially announced, many in the arts
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        179 14  -  Cheong Kin Man Deputy director (design development) HDB We refer to Vivienne Lau-Chew’s letter Fill HDB Estates With Blooms (Life!, Jan 7). We share her view on the importance of greenery in HDB estates. In developing new housing projects and upgrading older HDB precincts, the
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        117 14  -  Ricky Ow Senior vice-president and general manager Networks Asia, Sony Pictures Television We refer to Mr Tan Keong Boon’s letter, Bring Back Nostalgic TV Shows (Life!, Jan 14). We are delighted to inform him and all fans of the original Hawaii Five-O series from the
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        150 14  -  Alfred Wong From recent letters in ST Forum as well as the article The Past Is Just A Memory by Clarissa Oon (Life!, Jan 31), it is clear that the former National Theatre remains in the memory of many Singaporeans, including its sad demolition
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        285 14 I read with mixed feelings the story What A Squeeze (LifeStyle, Jan 15). While I applaud the authorities’ efforts to ensure the safety of all children in cars (children are now required by law to sit in a child seat or booster seat
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        242 14  -  Bernard Tay C.H. I am glad to see more articles such as How Joo Chiat Road Got Its Name (The Straits Times, Jan 12) and exhibitions such as the National Library Board’s Stories Behind Singapore Streets (free, till June 29 at the National Library
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        514 14 Agence France-Presse Paris Kimonos provided the keynote for Louis Vuitton’s luxurious new autumn-winter look, sharing the limelight with Japanese houses Issey Miyake and Yohji Yamamoto on day two of the Paris menswear shows on Thursday. While Miyake’s designers sent out a playful wardrobe
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        519 16  -  gladys chung gladysc@sph.com.sg ActressMaggieCheungmight be in an industry where youth and looks are usually prized above everything else, but she is unfazed by ageing. “One has no choice but to embrace it. Apart from dying young, I can’t think of any other way of not growing old,”
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        253 16 Reuters Jaipur Salman Rushdie will not attend a literature festival in India, a director of the event told Reuters yesterday, after protests from some Indian Muslim groups who called for the controversial author to be banned from entering the country. A planned protest by
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        220 16 Beijing Zhao Benshan (right), an icon of China’s annual Spring Festival Gala, is quitting the mainland’s most-viewed show after two decades. The 55-year-old, arguably the most popular Chinese comic, has taken part in the Chinese New Year Eve show every year since 1990, except
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          52 16 K-pop boyband Beast will perform at The Max Pavilion Singapore Expo at 7pm as part of their Beautiful Show 2012 tour. Tickets at $131, $181 and $231 go on sale on Feb 3 at Sistic. They last performed here at the Mnet Asian Music Awards
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          38 16 The Chong Feng (Reunion) xinyao concert returns on May 11 and 12 at the Esplanade Theatre. Singers include Huang Shu-jun, Zheng Yi and Lin Hui-ping. Tickets from $58 to $138 are available from Sistic.
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          57 16 Jennifer Lopez, 42, and her new flame, 18 years her junior, took to Twitter to say that age does not matter. Lopez did not confirm her romance with dancer Casper Smart, 24, but retweeted messages from him saying other people’s views do not
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          39 16 Johnny Otis, who made the R&B classic Willie And The Hand Jive and evangelised black music to white audiences as a band leader and radio host, died on Tuesday in California. He was 90.
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      301 3 School of Humanities and Social Sciences Singapore Writing Residency (National) The School of Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS) at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, and the National Arts Council, Singapore, seek to appoint an outstanding Singapore writer to the Singapore Writing Residency (National). The Singapore Writing Residency (National) is a
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      114 5 V-' Some survived... DINOSAURS LIVE! Exhibition 21 October 2011 -26 February 2012 Science Centre, The Annexe www.dinosaurs-live.com Celebrate the Year of the Dragon with our delightful giveaways OidOiongKec FREE Curry’O! at Science Centre with every Dinosaurs-Live! Exhibition ticket purchased! Available on 28 ,h 29 ,h January 2012 while stocks last!
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      1533 12 THE tUi()STWI:l.l.-IU:CI:IVI:l) MU VI Chan Yunn Horng, Film Reviewer, SPH Lianhe Waobao '■CtfJhL i i i i r JMiM j" Mervin lay, SPH My Paper Sfe' J JO fk A' JAY CHOU A MOVIE FOR THE ENTIRE FAMILY! A BRAND NEW JACK NEO FILM 2p Eista Lee, Film Reviewer, SPH
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      193 15 Cheating his way into women’s hearts TVB actor Raymond Wong (left) made his mark as a leading man with his outstanding role in pre-war drama Bottled Passion. He played a man who preys on women’s vulnerabilities. Why did this role worry him? Editor’s picks Video on demand 1. SINGAPORE NOW
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      266 1 NAC scholar! SATURDAY, JANUARY 21 2012 PRODUCED BY THE SPECIAL PROJECTS UNIT, MARKETING DIVISION, SPH ?????llowyour Follow your PHOTO: CHONG JUN LIANG Let passion lead you to an exciting career path NAC scholar Sylvia Low Lilian is an assistant director of programming and operations for the Singapore Arts Scholar, Teacher
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      741 2  -  MFA offers Ms Thng Shuqi the chance to gain new insights and help shape Singapore’s foreign policy lynn seah THE second half of last year was a whirlwind of work for Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ (MFA) country officer Thng Shuqi (above). She was then with
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      662 5  -  An MAS scholarship steers Mr Jeremy Hor to a challenging career in the financial sector Narendra Aggarwal WHEN Mr Jeremy Hor Zhixiong was checking out the various scholarship options available as a junior college student, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) scholarship seemed to
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