Today, 21 December 2009, Afternoon Edition

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    10 1 TODAY Monday December 21, 2oog www.todayonline.com we set you thinking
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        Rays of hope in Japan
        52 1 Japan's exports fell at the slowest pace in 14 months in November as demand from Asia supported the nation's recovery from its worst postwar recession. Shipments abroad slid 6.2 per cent from a year earlier, the smallest drop since last September, the Finance Ministry said
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        Saab bid revived
        71 1 SpykerCars, the Dutch automaker whose last-ditch bid for Saab was rejected on Friday by General Motors, came back yesterday with a renewed offer forthe Swedish icon, which GM has said it plans to shut down. "We continue to wind down Saab but... we've received several expressions of
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        Brittany Murphy dead
        53 1 US actress Brittany Murphy, who played in the films Sin City, 8 Mile, Girl Interrupted, Clueless and Just Married, died yesterday after going into cardiac arrest, according to media reports. Murphy was apparently found unconscious at her home, in her shower yesterday morning by her mother, gossip
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      Ballot cheer for P1 parents
      770 1  -  ANSLEYNG EDUCATION SYSTEM MOE tweaks registration exercise, S #poreans get better chance at popular schools ansley@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE -At the Primary One (PI) registration exercise in 2011, administrative manager Renee Lim will get an additional ballot slip to boost her daughter's chance of entering the school
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  • NEWS
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      Lock icon Act before someone gets hurt
      419 2  -  ANSLEYNG KILLER LITTER SINGAPORE Cases of suspected killer litter should be reported to town councils, even if no harm is done, says the Minister for Education Dr Ng Eng Hen. He has also told town councils to step up enforcement to ensure such incidents do
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      Lock icon SkyPark works nearly complete
      409 2  -  ANSLEYNG MARINA BAY SANDS SINGAPORE Integrated resort Marina Bay Sands (MBS) said the heavy lifting works at its SkyPark joining three hotels a complicated megatonne steel structure that has slowed its construction is near completion. The last piece of the cantilever, part of a superstructure that
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      Helping to send out a clear message
      290 3  -  DYLAN LOH SINGAPORE Some 4,800 litterbugs have been caught in the South West district so far this year. That's an increase of about 1,000 cases compared with 2008. To curb the growing problem, the district has a Recycling and Litter-Free Ambassadors programme which
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      CHARGEBACK SHOULD BE MANDATORY
      564 3  -  TEOXUANWEI POINTOFVIEW xuanweiifpmediacorp.com. sg SEEING how banks have responded to credit card users who were suckerpunched by Wellness Village Spa's abrupt shutdown last month, it is curious why consumers should be in the unenviable situation of having to jump through hoops to clean up the mess
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      Lock icon THE THIN GREEN LINE
      532 4  -  SHAUNTANDON AFP ANALYSIS news@mediacorp.com. sg CHINA'S complicated relationship with the West is casting a cloud over global talks on climate change, contributing to the tepid outcome of the Copenhagen summit, observers say. China, the top emitter of greenhouse gases blamed for global warming, played its cards
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      Lock icon Fourteen hurt in Taiwan quake
      167 6 AGENCIES TAIPEI A powerful earthquake off the coast of Taiwan on Saturday injured 14 people and caused minor damage in the capital. All 14 victims sustained minor injuries in the eastern city of Hualien, which is located 135km south-east of the capital, according to an
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      Lock icon Hot welcome for Chinese envoy
      479 6 AGENCIES CHINA-TAIWAN RELATIONS Thousands march in anti-China rally to protest tightening of economic links TAICHUNG Up to 30,000 protesters marched through Taiwan's third-largest city yesterday ahead of the arrival of a senior Chinese envoy for five days of talks with local officials. Mr Chen Yunlin,
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      Inspiration for a better marriage
      481 8  -  ZULOTHMAN MALAY-MUSLIM MARRIAGE Inspirasi centres guide couples to a better married life zul@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Married fora little over two years, 22-year-old Ali (not his real name) admits that marital life was not as blissful as he had hoped. But things changed, he said, after he
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      Lock icon Work begins on new $40 million sports complex in Pasir Ris
      161 8  -  ASHAPOPATLAL SINGAPORE Pasir Ris residents who have been clamouring for easy access to more purpose-built sports facilities now have something to look forward to. Work on a new $40 million sports complex began yesterday and the sprawling 1.4 hectare
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      SERVICE EXCELLENCE VERSUS CUSTOMER SATISFACTION
      718 10  -  DRCHITRA RAJ ARAM POINTOFVIEW director, mediacorp newshub and chief editor, radio chitrarajaram@mediacorp.com.sg IT WAS not long ago that service standards in Singapore came under fire for a whole host of sins from employees who spoke unintelligible English to those with poor social skills, or those
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      Winners don't quit, but quitters stand to win up to $2,500
      268 12 SINGAPORE The Health Promotion Board (HPB) has launched a four-week competition to encourage Malay smokers to quit the habit and have a shot at winning the top prize of $2,500. The Muharram Challenge, named after the first month of
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      Lock icon THIS ONE'S FORTHE KIDS
      71 12 WEETECKHIAN Resorts World Sentosa hosted its first event over the weekend, ahead of its scheduled opening early next year the children's charity concert ChildAid 2009. The three-night concert, which showcased the best of Singapore's young talents, was organised by The Straits Times and The Business Times.
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      24 drink-drivers arrested
      141 12 SINGAPORE The police have arrested 24 drink drivers in a four-and-a-half-hour ringfencing operation, bringing the total number caught so far this year to 2,891. Road blocks were set up along Punggol East and Sengkang West Way on Saturday night. Yesterday at about 2.30am, simultaneous roadblocks were also
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      Loan shark runner nabbed
      154 12 SINGAPORE Police arrested a 39-year-old man on Saturday night for suspected involvement in loan-sharking activities, following a tip-off from a member of the public. The suspect was seen loitering at the void deck of a block in Ang Mo Kio Avenue 8. He tried to run
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      Lock icon STORMTROOPER INVASION
      38 14 Aflashmob of 30 Stormtroopers led by Darth Vader brought the Dark Side to Orchard Road yesterday. The event was part of promotions for Adidas apparel, footwear and accessories, inspired by the Star Wars movie saga. WEETECKHIAN
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      Mobile clinic for 3,400 North East residents
      209 14 DIABETES SCREENING SINGAPORE Some 3,400 residents of the North East constituency will undergo diabetes screenings next year. Hoping to educate more Singaporeans on the disease and the importance of early detection, the Diabetic Society of Singapore (DSS) is partnering North East CDC to
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    • SINGAPORE ROUNDUP
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        Lock icon SKIPPING FORCHARITY RAISES 100,000 BOWLS OF RICE FOR THE NEEDY
        124 14 People have jogged, cycled and swum for charity. In a unique two-month challenge, residents of South East District skipped more than 2 million times in exchange for rice donations for needy residents. The skipping began in October with a series
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        STUDENT AID IN SERANGOON
        64 14 While many Singaporeans are celebrating year-end holidays, some needy families are already worrying about how they will pay for their children's school expenses next year. In an effort to help them, Serangoon Constituency has launched a new collaboration with religious organisations. The Back-To-School scheme provides 112
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      202 10 PUBLIC NOTICE Magnet Recognition Program® Site Visit Singapore General Hospital has applied to the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) for the prestigious designation of Magnet. The Magnet designation recognises excellence in nursing services. Patients, family members, staff and interested parties who would like to provide comments are encouraged to do
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      Lock icon Opposition pledges to seize power
      362 16 AP MALAYSIAN POLITICS KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia's opposition alliance pledged not to let infighting thwart its ambition of seizing federal power within the next few years. More than 1,500 opposition officials endorsed a document that spelled out their common goals late Saturday after a daylong convention
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      Lock icon Model urges M'sia to expedite caning
      278 16 AFP KUALA LUMPUR A Muslim model who was ordered to be caned for drinking beer urged the Malaysian authorities yesterday to decide what should happen to her four months after her case was halted. Ms Kartika Sari Dewi Shukarno, 32, was sentenced to six
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      Lock icon Philippines' Mayon stirs eruption fears
      248 16 AP LEGAZPI The Philippines' most active volcano could erupt within days, officials warned yesterday after detecting a drastic surge in earthquakes and eerie rumbling sounds in surrounding foothills. Tens of thousands of villagers have been evacuated as a precaution. Scientists raised the alert level for
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      Lock icon Indonesian justice system run by 'mafia'
      410 16 THENEWYORKTIMES JAKARTA They have long worked illegally in the shadows of Indonesia's police stations, attorney general's office and courts, the common link in what is called Indonesia's "judicial mafia". Called "markuses", they are middlemen who can persuade corrupt police officers, prosecutors and judges to
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      Lock icon Cambodia sends asylum-seekers back to China
      172 18 AP PHNOM PENH Cambodia deported a group of 20 Muslim asylum-seekers back to China, despite protests from the United States and the UN. China is Cambodia's largest foreign investor. The decision to expel them was announced on the eve of a visit from Chinese
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      Lock icon Suu Kyi seeks new blood
      420 18 AGENCIES MYANMAR POLITICS BANGKOK Myanmar's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi faces an urgent need to shake up her party's ranks, analysts say, after a rare meeting with her colleagues exposed a weak and ageing leadership team. Faced with national polls next year and their
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      Lock icon Women in Tamil camps were sexually abused: UK medic
      221 20 THE GUARDIAN COLOMBO A British medic held in an internment camp for Tamil civilians has revealed how guards dealt out cruel punishments. Tamil women interned after escaping the Sri Lankan civil war were sexually abused by military guards who traded sex
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      Lock icon Record on graft might swing vote
      421 20 AFP SRI LANKA PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION COLOMBO A presidential election in Sri Lanka next month will see two former allies from the country's bitter civil war slugging it out, but their record on corruption, not the battlefield, might swing the final vote. President Mahinda Rajapaksa
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      Lock icon 'Peace alone won't ensure lasting growth'
      372 20 AP PUNANI Hostilities ended in May, making the eastern region long claimed by the Tamil minority as part of their historical homeland the front line of Sri Lanka's postwar revival. There have been signs of progress. Hotels are expanding, rice and dairy production are
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      Lock icon A laugh a day keeps the Taliban away
      395 22 AFP PAKISTANI SATIRE Pakistani comedians fight the Taliban with humour LAHORE If the Taliban produced a soap opera, Pakistani comedy writer Mr Younis Butt pondered one day, what would it be like? The love triangles would be impossible to understand, he thought,
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      Lock icon Karzai dismisses criticism of new Cabinet
      234 22 AP KABUL Afghan President Hamid Karzai yesterday rejected criticism that his proposed new Cabinet amounts to business as usual and is unlikely to do much to tackle the country's problems. When his nominees for the Cabinet were presented on Saturday, many legislators complained that
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      Lock icon A TURNING POINT
      675 24  -  COLIN BLAKEMORE THEGUARDIAN POINTOFVIEW news@mediacorp.com.sg UNTIL this year, if you had said "Copenhagen" to the average scientist, they would probably have responded: "Bohr". Mr Niels Bohr was the father of the Copenhagen school of quantum mechanics a fairy-tale land in which things could be in two places
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    • GLOBAL ROUNDUP
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        Lock icon SWEDISH JEANS IMADE IN NORTH KOREA'
        96 26 AFP The "first ever" brand of jeans made in North Korea went on sale in Stockholm on Saturday. Some i,ioo pairs of the NoKo jeans are selling at €150 ($295) each. MrTor Rauden Kaellstigen, Mr Jakob Ohlsson and Mr Jacob Aastroem —three Swedes under
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        Lock icon GOVT-BACKED GAY BAR OPENS IN CHINA
        90 26 AFP China's first government-backed gay bar has opened after a three-week delay sparked by intense media attention in a nation where homosexuality is still a sensitive subject. The bar opened on Saturday in Dali, Yunnan, said Mr Zhang Jianbo, founder of the Dali HIV/AIDS
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        Lock icon 'NOT LONG' BEFORE MINIATURISED NUKES
        88 26 AFP North Korea will eventually be able to make a nuclear warhead small enough to fit in a missile, a news report said yesterday. Seoul's Yonhap news agency, citing the state-run Korea Institute for Defence Analyses (Kida), said Pyongyang developing the technology to achieve miniaturisation
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      Lock icon Deal with Shell, Petronas inked
      197 26 AP IRAQ OIL FIELD BAGHDAD Iraq has initialled a deal with a consortium led by European giant Royal Dutch Shell PLC and Malaysia's staterun Petronas to develop one of Iraq's most prized oil fields. Iraqi officials initialled the deal yesterday. The contract still must be
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      Lock icon Montazeri dies
      310 29 AGENCIES IRANIAN POLITICS TEHRAN A leading Iranian dissident, the Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, has died in his sleep, news agencies reported yesterday. Ayatollah Montazeri, once designated as the successor to the founder of the 1979 Islamic revolution, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, was a strong critic of the Iranian
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      Lock icon California city's police to wear head-mounted cameras
      124 29 .AP SAN JOSE Police in California are testing head-mounted cameras to record interactions with the public. The test using 18 patrol officers comes as citizens' groups criticise the department for too often using force during arrests. Officers are to turn on the cameras
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      Lock icon Google gets digital foothold in France
      161 29 AFP PARIS Despite fierce resistance to Google's plans to digitise the world's books, observers say it is well placed to start scanning Europe's cultural treasures beginning in France, where the US giant got a digital foothold last week. The Internet search giant began peeling
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      Lock icon Australian nun set to become nation's first saint
      135 30 AGENCIES SYDNEY An Australian nun who died 100 years ago looks set to become the nation's first saint, after the Pope recognised a miracle in which she apparently cured a woman of cancer, officials said yesterday. The "miracle", in which a woman
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      Lock icon 2,000 trapped on trains
      298 30 AP EUROSTAR BREAKDOWN 16-hour ordeal beneath the English Channel LONDON More than 2,000 people were stranded beneath the English Channel for up to 16 hours when their Eurostar trains came to a halt in a tunnel, leaving many of them without food, water or any idea
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      Lock icon Blizzard blasts eastern US
      154 30 AFP WASHINGTON Snow blanketed much of the eastern United States yesterday, during one of its worst storms in decades with stores closed, flights grounded and traffic brought to a standstill, as holiday shopping suffered a cold snap. In the bull's eye of the deadly weather, Washington
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      418 32  -  Leong SheeWing CYCLISTS ON THE PAVEMENT Letter from General Manager/Secretary Tampines Town Council WE REFER to Mr David Soh's Dec 17 letter, "Certification, police officers to keep errant cyclists in check?" We share Mr David Soh's concern for the safety of pedestrians when cycling
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      FOCUS ON THE FAMILY
      236 34  -  DRJAMES DOBSON c Tl BY DEALING WITH A SHY CHILD I heard a story about a 12-year-old boy who had never spoken a word in his life, and his parents and his siblings thought he couldn'ttalk. Then one day, the boy's mother placed a bowl of
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      No difference in resale rules: HDB
      188 34  -  Loh Swee Heng nj Bad drivers are I everywhere, be it behind the wheel of a Honda, a BMW or a sports car. So why pinpoint cabbies? Read John Bay's views on the 'anti-cabbie bias' and more letters at www.todayonline.com/voices Letter from Deputy Director
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      Channel 5 should step up to the plate
      121 34  -  Jeffrey Ooi Letter from I REFER to the report "No World Cup telecasts on TV next year?" (Dec 16). This made me wonder why we pay for TV licences. Why, when the licence fees go up, does the content on our terrestrial
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      336 44 AFP TOKYO Tiger Woods' absence from golf may prompt the US PGA Tour to court sponsors more aggressively in Asia, further embracing Japanese teenage star Ryo Ishikawa (picture). The European Tour has tapped the booming Asian market over the years
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        109 44 AFP As expected, table tennis powerhouses China dominated the Volkswagen Tournament of Champions yesterday, with Ma Long taking the men's singles title and GuoYan capturing the women's crown on home turf in Changsha. Ma Long, the 21-year-old world No 2, powered past world No 4Timo 801l of Germany
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        130 44 AFP Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit said yesterday she can only pray for a successful Commonwealth Games next year after admitting to delays in the construction of venues. "I only keep praying that we won't let the country down," Dikshit said, as concerns mounted over the slow
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      497 45 AGENCIES FOOTBALL t Former Inter boss Mancini is no stranger to dealing with demanding club owners MANCHESTER Roberto Mancini may remain an unknown quantity to many in England but the Italian's pedigree is such that few candidates to replace Mark Hughes have a more appropriate background
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      249 46 ROME Formula One is coming to the Eternal City after Fl boss Bernie Ecclestone signed a deal to stage a street race in the Italian capital, race organisers said yesterday. Course planner Maurizio Flammini told Sky Italia an agreement with Fl commercial
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