Today, 27 November 2009

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    10 1 TODAY Friday November 27, 2009 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking
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    My Life: Then & Now photo book goes on sale
    383 1 My Life: Then Now photo book goes on sale SINGAPORE From black-and-white photos of haunts long gone, to treasured family portraits from the era of beehive hairdos this nostalgic tapestry of Singapore's transformation, seen intimately through Today readers' eyes, can now be your permanent keepsake. The My Life: Then Now
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    A first: No AVC for whole year
    586 1  -  ZULOTHMAN CIVIL SERVICE PAY Civil servants get vmodest 0.25-month payout instead, as PSD walks cautious line zul@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE It is typically seen as setting the tone for private sector paymasters and with the start of the economic recovery sparking talk of post-crisis rewards
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    Pay of some political appointees, top civil servants falls 15-22%; tweaks deferred again
    374 1 SINGAPORE In view of the "uncertain economic recovery", the Government will for a second time defer the salary adjustments for administrative officers, political, judicial and statutory appointment holders. This news from the Public Service Division comes as
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  • NEWS
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      Instalment repayments waived for some
      548 2  -  TEOXUANWEI WELLNESS VILLAGE SPA SAGA Case to explore ways to prevent future debacles xuanwei@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Even as one bank has responded to the cries for help from its credit card holders hit by the sudden closure of Wellness Village Spa, the Consumers Association of Singapore
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      Lock icon Lengthy article on taboo topic published in China's state-run magazine
      429 2 AP BEIJING It read like a muckraking expose: A magazine revealed a system of secret detention centres in Beijing where Chinese citizens are forcibly held and sometimes beaten to prevent them from lodging formal complaints with the central government. But
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      NUS SCHOLARSHIP IN HONOUR OF LO HWEI YEN
      212 3  -  ONG DAI LIN A law scholarship has been launched in memory of Singapore's first terror victim, Ms Lo HweiYen (picture). The National University of Singapore (NUS) Faculty of Law, which Ms Lo graduated from, announced yesterday the launch of the Lo HweiYen
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      Lock icon Guard is up, but ...
      469 3 Guard is up, but AGENCIES MUMBAI ATTACKS MUMBAI Black-clad commandos rappelled down a building and Indian police showed off their new gear yesterday in what was intended as a reassuring display of force a year after a terror attack across the city killed 166 people. Activists fear the security upgrades
      AGENCIES; AFP  -  469 words
    • Article
      Building on good foundations
      542 4  -  LINYANQIN PSLE RESULTS Choice to take foundation classes a relief for some students, but "options should be kept open yanqin@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Most preferred to take subjects at the standard level to keep their options as open as possible when they proceed to secondary school, but for
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      Lock icon SHE WENT FROM BARELY PASSING TESTS TO TOPPING THE NATIONAL COHORT
      256 4  -  LINYANQIN She started school in Singapore at Primary Three, after moving here from China. As she "barely passed" her first English test, Qiu Biqing did not expect to eventually develop a passion for reading novels in the language, let
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      Lock icon H1N1 vaccine okay for kids above 10
      318 4  -  SATISH CHENEY satishkumar@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE It may have taken a while longer, but the health authorities are finally assured that HI Nl shots are safe for children above the age of 10. In fact, while the vaccination is voluntary, the recommendation now is that
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      Lock icon A silver lining despite shrinking arts contributions
      204 4 SINGAPORE Last year was not an easy one for the arts, with contributions shrinking by 9 per cent to $30.5 million. But there was a silver lining. There was a 10-per-cent increase in the number of arts activities, 3-per-cent growth in ticketed audiences
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      Lock icon It's not about the numbers
      550 6  -  NEOCHAICHIN CASINO EXCLUSION SCHEME chaichin@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The option to set the upcoming integrated resorts' casinos as personal "no-go" zones is now available, but going by the experience of other countries as well as local gambling operators, the response could be lukewarm. However, its proponents argue
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      Former employees see red over late payments
      448 6  -  ALICIA WONG alida@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE It burst onto the scene in March as the local version of the iconic Playboy magazine. But while lads may have been getting their fill from VIP magazine, some of its employees and freelance contributors have not. From as
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      Freely loses appeal against claims payout
      270 10  -  LEONGWEEKEAT weekeat@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE A company belonging to a self-styled expert on option trading lost an appeal yesterday against claims awarded by the Small Claims Tribunal to 48 people amounting to $176,583. They had filed the claims after The Straits Times reported that Freely Pte
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      Lock icon Man, 31, charged with murdering boy, 6
      386 10  -  LEONGWEEKEAT SHAFFIQALKHATIB CRIMEWATCH vHe was not a friendly man', say neighbours AND SINGAPORE A 31-year-old man was charged yesterday with the murder of six-year-old Muhammad Nor Rashidy Rahmat, also known as Edy. Mohammad Johan Rashid allegedly committed the crime last Friday between 2pm
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      Lock icon Maid in jail after 'hot-tempered' employer found dead in house
      410 10  -  ANSLEYNG ansley@mediacorp.coms.g SINGAPORE Barely a week after starting work, the Indonesian maid appeared to be struggling to keep up with her employer's nagging and high standards of cleanliness, so the neighbours observed. The employer, 87-year-old Madam Sng Gek Wah, recently
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    • Article
      One acted out of fear, the other was obnoxious
      463 12  -  LEONGWEEKEAT ASSAULTS ON PUBLICTRANSPORT WORKERS Man in scuffle with cabbie avoids prison time; but man who kicked bus driver fails to get jail term lifted weekeat@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE AJapanese national avoided a jail term yesterday after he successfully appealed against his six-weekjail
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      10 superstars of service
      201 12 SINGAPORE He is the reason all Sentosa staff know how to greet guests in at least five languages. To make international visitors feel more at home, lead attractions host Mohmad Amiruddin Casperico Ali encouraged his team members to learn greetings in different languages. The organisation learned
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    • SINGAPORE ROUNDUP
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        MAN FOUND DEAD IN MRT STATION TOILET
        61 12 A man was found dead in the toilet of Tampines MRT Station yesterday. Police received a call at about 6.15am that a person was lying motionless on the floor inside the toilet. The body of a 61-year-old Malay man was found. He was
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        SIF ARTS AND CULTURE GRANT: PRIORITY FOR THOSE WHO ENGAGE FOREIGN ARTISTS
        139 12 Singaporean artists who want to present their works abroad can apply to Singapore Internationale, an arts and culture grant by the Singapore International Foundation (SIF). However, priority for this "refreshed" grant will be given to projects by Singaporeans
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        YOU CAN NOW TOP UP FLASHPAY CARDS AT MRT STATIONS AND UOB ATM MACHINES
        153 12 Hundreds more channels to top-up have been added for the Nets FlashPay card you can now do so at any of the 53 Passenger Service Centres (PSC) at SMRT stations and any UOB ATM across the
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        VIETNAMESE NABBED FOR HARASSMENT
        78 12 The police yesterday arrested and charged a 25-year-old Vietnamese man for loanshark harassment. At about 2.30am, a male victim called the police after he saw a Chinese man splashing paint and writing on the wall outside his Henderson Crescent home. On searching the area, Clementi Police
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        MCYS' FUNERAL ADVERT WINS TOP HONOURS
        158 12 A campaign to promote family values has won top honours at the Singapore Advertising Hall of Fame Awards. At the heart of the campaign which picked up the Most Effective Media Campaign of the Year Award was Funeral, a television commercial featuring a woman's
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        ALBERT CENTRE HAWKER CENTRETO REOPEN
        91 12 Following an upgrading, Albert Centre hawker centre at Blk 270 Queen Street is slated to re-open for business on Dec 1. It will boast an improved infrastructure enabling stallholders to maintain better hygiene conditions, said the National Environment Agency. These include a raised ceiling for
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  • WORLD
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      Lock icon 4% GST planned for 2011
      409 14 AFP MALAYSIA TAX CHANGES KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia plans to introduce a 4 per cent goods and services tax (GST) in 2011, replacing current sales and services tax in a bid to diversify national revenues, a minister said yesterday. The government had previously proposed to introduce
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      Lock icon 'More transparency needed in awarding public contracts'
      211 14 AP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia's government faced growing pressure yesterday to be more transparent in awarding public contracts after it signed a huge land swap deal without an open bidding process. The deal has revived opposition demands for authorities to scrap a long-held practice
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      Lock icon Four arrested for killing Indonesian
      194 14 AFP KUALA LUMPUR Four Indonesians have been arrested over the gruesome murder of an Indonesian man whose severed genitals were found next to his body, the police said yesterday. The man, whose identity has not been released, was found dead at his flat in Penang
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      Lock icon Prime suspect in mass killing to be charged
      367 14 AFP AGENCIES AMPATUAN (Philippines) The chief Philippine prosecutor says he will be filing murder charges today against a scion of a powerful pro-government clan accused of leading the massacre of 57 people in the south of the country. Chief State Prosecutor Jovencito
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      Lock icon Taiwan wants elite force to protect island
      229 16 AFP TAIPEI Taiwan's president has urged the island's armed forces to become a small, elite unit, saying a voluntary military rather than conscription was key to its defence, local media said yesterday. Mr Ma Ying-jeou's call, made on Wednesday at a seminar at
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      Lock icon Newspaper fined for graphic crime news
      179 16 AP TAIPEI A newspaper in Taiwan has been fined for illustrating news stories involving crime and violence in vivid animation on its Web site, Taipei Mayor Hau Lung-bin said yesterday. The Apple Daily was fined U5515,500 ($20,700) on Wednesday for using motion graphics to
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      Lock icon Joint survey of overseas industries
      368 16 AFP KOREAN COOPERATION SEOUL The two Koreas will conduct a joint survey of industrial plants in China and Vietnam next month in a bid to revive a shared industrial project in the North, officials said yesterday. The trip involving 10 officials each from the two
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      Lock icon China's 'Obama Girl' is all the rage online
      311 16 AP BEIJING While United States President Barack Obama talked about Internet rights during his visit to China, the Internet here talked about a mystery woman in black. Clad in a black dress and red coat, college student Wang Zifei was snapped by
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      Lock icon Pakistan bomb targets police, three wounded
      167 18 .AFP PESHAWAR A roadside bomb packed with steel pellets exploded in Pakistan's violence-plagued city of Peshawar yesterday, wounding two policemen and an 11-year-old girl. The remote-controlled device was planted near a power pylon in a congested area and targeted a police station chief, said
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      Lock icon In search of the 'perfect' beggar
      348 18 AFP COMMONWEALTH GAMES CLEANUP NEW DELHI More than two months after the authorities here launched mobile courts to convict and remove beggars from the capital's streets, the controversial initiative has made a faltering start. On a recent trip with police officers through Old Delhi,
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      Top scientists slam budget cut
      278 20 RESEARCH IN JAPAN TOKYO Top Japanese scientists, including four Nobel laureates, have criticised the government for plans to slash research budgets, warning the country will loose its high-tech edge. In a rare joint press conference on Wednesday, they attacked a proposal to cut 26.7 billion
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      Lock icon 6,000 thirsty camels terrorise Outback town
      232 20 AGENCIES SYDNEY -The Australian authorities plan to round up a 6,000-strong herd of wild camels terrorising a remote Outback community and shoot them dead in the desert. The camels have been arriving daily for weeks in Docker River, a town of 350 residents, because
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    • GLOBAL ROUNDUP
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        DENGUE ALERT IN MALAYSIA
        78 20 Malaysia's Health Ministry yesterday announced a nationwide dengue alert with 819 cases and three deaths last week. Health director-general Mohd Ismail Merican said the number of cases reflected a 17 per cent increase from that of the previous week. Two of the deaths were in Malacca
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        Lock icon PRAYING IN UNBEARABLE HEAT
        67 20 AGENCIES Haj pilgrims travelled to Mount Arafat under the scorching heat yesterday, following a day of torrential rains, which caused floods and killed at least 77 in western Saudi Arabia. About goo people were rescued after the heaviest rainfall in years and meteorologists predicted more showers.
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      Lock icon Couple crashes White House dinner
      64 22 AFP WASHINGTON The United States Secret Service is investigating how two gatecrashers beat several layers of security to attend a state dinner with President Barack Obama and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. The couple, Tareq and Michaele Salahi (picture), posted on Facebook photos of themselves
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      Lock icon Obama's got an offer to make
      337 22 AFP COPENHAGEN SUMMIT Administration likely to curb carbon emissions, though by less than has been recommended WASHINGTON United States President Barack Obama will head to next month's Copenhagen climate summit to offer the first US plan to cut carbon emissions, officials said, reviving hopes
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      Lock icon CHINA UNVEILS CARBON INTENSITY TARGETS
      202 22 AFP China yesterday announced its first targets for limiting carbon emissions, joining the United States in revealing the stance it will take at next month's climate summit. The country will cut the intensity of carbon dioxide emissions per unit of gross domestic product in 2020
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      Lock icon MASSIVE SECURITY FOR UN CLIMATE MEET
      110 22 AFP Denmark is putting the final touches on its preparations for the United Nations climate summit in Copenhagen next month, mounting an "unprecedented" police deployment for the biggest event ever organised in the country. Some 30,000 participants are expected to attend the talks and
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      Lock icon IT TAKES COURAGE ...
      71 22 IT TAKES COURAGE AFP After 10 months in office, United States President Barack Obama granted his first pardon on Wednesday to 'Courage', a 20kg turkey spared from the Thanksgiving dinner table. Mr Obama said the bird will get to spend the rest of its life at a Disneyland amusement park.
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      Lock icon Capturing 9/11 chaos in 573,000 messages
      503 24 THE GUARDIAN WIKILEAKS NEW YORK The mental and emotional storm that struck the United States on Sept 11,2001, with the attacks on New York and Washington has been recreated with the release of over half a million pager messages sent on that day. The
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      Lock icon DEFINING MOMENTS
      229 24 THE GUARDIAN I Some of the messages about the 9/11 attacks I 8.51am World de Center is on FIRE!!!! No Joke. Rick. j 8.53am CRASH AT WORLD TRADE CENTER. THIS IS NOT A DRIL j (sic) 9.15am Hey Honey! Can you bring some bagels when you get back?
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      Lock icon On the final leg of his trip, Ahmadinejad makes inroads into Latin America
      297 26 AP CARACAS Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad sought to expand Tehran's influence in Latin America and deepen his alliance with Venezuela's Hugo Chavez on Wednesday in a visit that gave him a platform to defend his country's nuclear
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      Lock icon After 15-months, freedom
      350 26 AFP SOMALIA HOSTAGES MOGADISHU—Two journalists, one from Canada and one from Australia, flew out of Somalia yesterday at the end of a 15-month ordeal during which they were tortured and shackled in windowless rooms by their captors. Ms Amanda Lindhout and fellow freelancer Mr Nigel Brennan boarded
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      Lock icon Porcine flatulence sparks gas scare
      156 26 AFP SYDNEY —A flatulent pig sparked a gas emergency in southern Australia yesterday when a farmer mistook its odours for a leaking pipe. Fifteen firefighters and two trucks were called to a property in Victoria state after reports of a gas leak, the Country Fire
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      At the door or mailbox, it's a pain
      470 30  -  Sarah Sum-Campbell JUNK MAIL Letter from I REFER to Mr Derrick Lim's "Isn't that why we have mailboxes?" (Nov 25) in which he decries flyers being dropped at his front door, and points to mailboxes as the proper place for such junk
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      132 30  -  Shirley Ong Letter from It's so annoying to have to clear my doorstep of flyers every day. I recently asked the Town Council about the flyers piling up at my doorstep, and the impression I got isthat while they are aware of the issue, they can do
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      217 36 THEDAILYTELEGRAPH THE MUPPETS DO BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY THE Muppets have taken YouTube by storm with a video of Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody. The video has had close to 1 million hits within 24 hours of being posted. It stars dozens of Muppets characters, with Gonzo singing the
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      477 38 AP OUTTAJAIL! ROMAN Polanski was granted |JS$4.5 million ($6.2 million) mail on Wednesday, clearing the l/vay for the fugitive director to inove within days from a Swiss pail to house arrest and electronic monitoring at his Alpine Iresort chalet. The Swiss Justice Minister said she
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      541 39  -  MAYO MARTIN LOCAL THEATRE Peranakan theatre gets a little contemporary, bilingual shake-up i Zizi Azah, who is directing Bilek Roda Hidop in the Peranakan patois, was an early fan of Peranakan plays. There was a kind of purist mindset in the community, that if you touch the
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      441 40  -  GENEVIEVELOH VICKIZHAO genevieveloh@mediacorp.com. sg THEY do not kiss once throughout the al-most-two-hour-long movie, but actress Vicki Zhao Wei is more than ready to plant one on her Mulan co-star Chen Jun if the movie does well at the box-office. "It has to cross the
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      998 41 TV LISTINGS ON MEpJACORP ....™.™.__™....g.... HOLIDAY MOVIE: FLUSHED AWAY SAMANTHA BROWN: Channel 5 7 45 pm S.ooAM S.oo Ent^nm^Tonjg^ ~30 Samoa PASSPORT TO EUROPE Cash Queens of Music DayTelecast) 12.30AM Entertainment Tonight okto, 9pm 7.30 Holiday Special: Rock lN' 7.30 Just For Laughs Gags VIII 1.00 Holiday Special: Ricky V^^FlJ
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      587 42  -  TANYO-HINN SINGAPORE SPORTS Fina chief says Republic can pull it off but SSA #s Leow is wary of stumbling blocks yohinn@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Cornel Marculescu witnessed the final leg of the Fina/Arena Swimming World Cup short course (25m) series at the Singapore Sports School last weekend.
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      351 42  -  TANYO-HINN SINGAPORE Lam Chih Bing and Mardan Mamat got off to a steady start yesterday, combining to shoot a 6-under 66 at the US$5.5 million million) Omega Mission Hills World Cup in Shenzhen, China. The Singapore duo are joint10th after the opening fourballs.
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      Parker raises the bar, again
      207 42  -  TANYO-HINN SINGAPORE Barely 24 hours after rewriting his national 50m breaststroke mark, Parker Lam was in recording-breaking form again yesterday. The 20-year-old broke the Singapore men's 100m breast mark, clocking lmin 02.655ec en route to a fourth-place finish at the Bth Asian Swimming Championships in
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      475 43  -  SHAMIR OSMAN SINGAPORE FOOTBALL As he waits for FAS approval, Yoon embarks on plan for 2010 season shamir@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Their proposal to switch from an all-Korean team to a local side has yet to receive the green light from the Football Association of
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      426 43  -  LOW LIN FHOONG HONG KONG Shirley Robertson (picture) finished ninth in the Europe class in her first Olympics in Barcelona in 1992. Four years later, she came in fourth in Atlanta. It turned to gold at the 2000 Sydney Games and
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        123 44 AP Avram Grant (picture) was yesterday appointed manager of Portsmouth, taking over a team struggling to get out of the Premier League's relega tion zone. Due to work permit issues, Grant will officially remain the director of football when last-placed Pompey host Manchester
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        164 44 AFP Rafael Nadal said he was going work hard on regaining his self-belief and sharpness in a bid to reclaim the world No 1 spot from Roger Federer next year. The Spaniard said it was time to head for the courts to make sure his
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        153 44 AP Ten-time NBA All-Star Allen Iverson, who guided Philadelphia to the 2001 NBA Finals, announced plans to retire on Wednesday (yesterday morning, Singapore time) in a statement released on a website. The website of reporter Stephen A Smith published the statement attributed to Iverson, announcing
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      555 44 AGENCIES EUROPEAN FOOTBALL Ronaldo returns to action ahead of Real's VEI Clasico showdown with Barca CHAMPIONS LEAGUE, GROUP C Real Madrid l FC Zurich o MADRID Real Madrid forward Cristiano Ronaldo has been quick to switch his focus to this weekend's mouthwatering "El Clasico" with Barcelona, having
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      801 45 AGENCIES EUROPEAN FOOTBALL Bayern barely keep hopes alive as coach is given until Christmas to save his job CHAMPIONS LEAGUE, GROUP A Bayern Munich 1 Maccabi Haifa o MUNICH On the verge of elimination and with a coach under fire, Bayern Munich dodged
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      201 45 AP CHAMPIONS LEAGUE, GROUP A Bordeaux 2 Juventus o BORDEAUX Laurent Blanc, who has been mentioned as a possible successor to Alex Ferguson at Manchester United, further enhanced his reputation when he guided Bordeaux to a 2-0 win over Juventus on Wednesday (yesterday morning, Singapore
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      91 43 SPORTS ON TV TODAY Bam Cricket 3 Mobile Test Series: Australia v West Indies, Ist Test Day 2, StarHubTVCh 110 gam Am Ftball Big 12: Texas vTexas A&M, StarHub TV Ch 23 gam NBA Orlando v Atlanta, StarHub TV Ch 24 11.30am Golf World Cup 2oog: Day 2, StarHubTVCh 26
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      618 46  - ONE-TRICK PONY SO WHAT? TREVORTAN POINTOFVIEW trevor@mediacorp. com.sg AGE-OLD wisdom dictates that we refrain from putting too many eggs in one basket. However, current conventions seem to suggest otherwise at least, in the case of the digital audio player (DAP). The first DAP arrived in the form of the SaeHan
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      425 47  -  TREVORTAN DSLR REVIEW CANON EOS 7D Intuitive, fast, takes mind-blowing shots: This is one top-notch DSLR trevor@mediacorp.com.sg EVER since photography went digital, upgrades have become more frequent. I've never felt the urge to upgrade my DSLR (digital single lens reflex) camera, as it still works fine after
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      293 47 XBOX 360 REVIEW I WET MEET Rubi Malone the quintessential anti-heroine who swigs liquor frequently and spouts drab one-liners with an attitude matched only by the gory fate she inflicts on her foes with her sword and guns. Get ready to get WET with blood! As
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      133 47 CATCH the new Portege series from Toshiba at Sitex 2009. The 11.6-inch TllO-Pl3O ($1,199) and 13.3-inch Tl3O-D332 ($1,699) measure less than an inch thin and run on Intel's Ultra-Low Voltage processors. They're capable of running for up to 11 hours. Windows
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      364 47  -  FREVORTAN DSLR REVIEW SONY ALPHA 850 SONY'S Alpha series of DSLR cameras has been making inroads into a market dominated by giants Canon and Nikon. To further entice consumers, Sony has released a full-frame DSLR the Alpha 850 (A850). With a humble
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      481 50  -  LOUISE ARMITSTEAD THE DAILYTELEGRAPH BANKING SALARIES Banks will be forced to publish the number of stafl earning more than $2.3m LONDON Britain is set to introduce the toughest pay regulations in the world with the government set to implement a radical corporate governance plan drawn
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      277 50 AGENCIES HANOI Battling to contain inflation and bolster its trade, Vietnam had to devalue its currency after burning through reserves to defend the dong, but analysts say the economy is not stable yet. The State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) on Wednesday said that effective
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      297 50 BLOOMBERG DUBAI Dubai is shaking investor confidence across the Persian Gulf after its proposal to delay debt payments risked triggering the biggest sovereign default since Argentina in 2001. The cost of protecting government notes from Abu Dhabi to Bahrain rose, extending the
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      347 50 BLOOMBERG SHANGHAI China Minsheng Banking Corp became the first Chinese lender in four years to fall on its Hong Kong trading debut on concern banks will have to raise capital to meet rising loan demand. Shares of the nation's first privately owned
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      391 52  -  RYAN HUANG STIMULUS MEASURES ryanhuang@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Experts at a forum on asset management yesterday said that the massive stimulus measures put out by governments to bolster their economies are causing systemic risks to build up. And that may lead to another crisis. However, these experts also
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      707 54  -  TAN HUI LENG JAPAN LAND Company says it is committed to observing SGX requirements huileng@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The Japanese managing director at troubled firm Japan Land, Mr Mitsutoshi Ono (picture), will be stepping down by end of this year. In turn, local executive director LeowTet Sin has
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      261 52 BLOOMBERG NEW DELHI Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC), India's biggest energy producer, plans to discuss "specific opportunities" with executives from National Iranian Oil Co next week, said chairman and managing director R S Sharma. "In import-dependent countries like ours, we have
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        98 52 Net profit of Singapore-listed China Fishery for the first nine months of the year was little changed, at US$7B.l million ($lO5 million). That's just 0.1 percent higherthan its net profit for the same period a year ago. The company said revenue for the
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        85 52 A subsidiary of mainboard-listed commodities firm Noble Group, Gloucester Coal, said it will increase its annual production to 3.5 million metric tonnes from 2014. The company, 87.7 per cent owned by Noble, also said that the increased output is expected to include 2 million tonnes
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        142 52 Independent auditors of Singapore-listed manufacturer of circular knitting machines Falmac said in a report yesterday that they cannot give an opinion on the firm's balance sheet. This is because the auditors, LTC, were not able to obtain sufficient and appropriate audit evidence to provide an opinion.
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      136 52 Mainboard-listed frozen fish supplier Pacific Andes Resources Development reported its six-month net profit which rose 31.8 per cent to U5536.6 million ($49.4 million). This despite revenue over the same period falling 4 per cent to US$4BO million. This is the company's first results announcement after
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      307 53  -  JONATHAN PEERIS Q&M DENTAL GROUP SINGAPORE Shares of Q&M Dental Group had a sparkling debut on the Singapore Exchange (SGX) yesterday. The stock surged as much as 32 per cent when trading started to hit a high of 32.5 cents. However, some profit
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      160 53 938LIVE SINGAPORE Singapore's business receipts index, which measures activity in the services industry, fell 4.4 per cent in the third quarter from a year ago. Data released by the Department of Statistics showed turnover of transport and storage services had the biggest drop, down 18.9
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      202 53  -  YASMINEYAHYA SINGAPORE A new cable television channel will be launched early next year by local start-up firm Xinya Media Group. The firm has raised US$9 million ($12.4 million) from EDB Investments and two other investors China-based Gobi Partners and Cheng's Films. The Xinya
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        57 54 Buy $3.07 DMG starts call with $3.36 target price, based on 16.1X FY2OIO price-to-earnings ratio. Notes supply chain manager exports a good amount of its key products to high-growth markets such as China. Tips 11-per-cent rise in average selling prices in FY2OIO as global commodity prices rise with
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        51 54 Buy $1.70 Kim Eng Securities upgrades call from "Hold", citing DPU yield of 5.2 per cent. Adds "at almost double the 10-year government bond yields, CMT's DPU yield looks increasingly attractive." Raises target price to $1.96 from $1.69 after reducing cost of equity assumption, increasing occupancy forecast for
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        86 54 Buy 67.5 cents DBS Vickers starts call with 88 cents target price. Expects engineering contractor for oil and gas industry to secure $230 million in new orders in FY2OIO and $275 million in FY2OII from Singapore and Middle East. Notes Singapore's plans to build two ethylene cracker complexes bode
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        19 54 Wednesday 2,792.84 A 0.46% Tuesday 2,779.98 V 0.64% Monday 2,797.88 A 1-32°/° Friday 2,716.54 A 0.10%
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        22 54 Jikkei lhanghai ieoul /lumbai Malaysia 9,383.24 T 0.62% 3,170.98 T 3.62% 1,599-52 T 0.77% 16,854.93 T 2.00% 1,270.61 V 0.03%
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        18 54 :i euro Ui !Mi $2,287 HKSioo $17.83 $2,084 RMB100 $20.24 $1,268 RS100 $2,969 $0,408 RPio,ooo $1,466
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      107 54 The Singapore Power Building, now named I TripleOne Somerset, is expected to open in January after undergoing a $50 milI lion comprehensive facelift. The 32-year-old building, which Pacific I Star Group acquired in I February last year, will have two floors of lifestyle and retail
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      268 54  -  JONATHAN PEERIS jonathanpeeris@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Singapore's manufacturing output grew at a slower-than-expected pace in October, partly caused by the ongoing weakness in the pharmaceutical sector. Data released by the Economic Development Board (EDB) yesterday showed manufacturing output rose 3.6 per cent from a year ago.
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