Today, 3 July 2010, Afternoon Edition

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    24 2 VMCH£ RHW MICA (P) 162/10/2009 A PUBLICATION OF NEWS HOTLINE 6822 2268 July 3 4, 2010 www.todayonline.com JULY 3 4, 2010 A PUBLICATION OF
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    Lock icon SMRT has a plan ...
    879 2  - SMRT has a plan Buses could be run parallel to MRT lines in bid to alleviate overcrowding LEONG WEE KEAT weekeat@mediacorp.com.sg LEONG WEE KEAT SINGAPORE Public transport operator SMRT is in discussions with the Government to roll out peak-hour bus services which would run parallel to congested stretches of MRT
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      39 2 COMMENT&ANALYSIS PAUL KRUGMAN DEBUNKING AUSTERITY MYTHS 10 RICHARD BRANSON CONJURING UP THE ‘PEOPLE FACTOR’ 12 THE BIG STORY PEDAL-POWERED COMMUTERS: WHY HEARTLANDERS ARE DITCHING THE BUS FOR BIKES 2 WORLD CUP W1 W2 BRAZIL SELF-DESTRUCT AS DUNGA STEPS DOWN
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      28 2 July 3 4, 2010 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking T FOOD/DRINK THE GREEN OF HEALTH T4 STYLE DRESS UP FORTHE COLD SNAPT8 TRAVEL BEST BUDDY FOR THE JOB
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  • THE BIG STORY
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      Lock icon HE GOT A PRIME PARKING
      95 5 When Mr David McQuillen joined OCBC Bank as its head of group customer experience a few months ago, he was given a parking lot in its Chulia Street office. But within days, he was sure he wasn’t going to need the space for his Honda
      PHOTOS: OOI BOON KEONG  -  95 words
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      Pedal-powered commuters
      441 6  -  Why many heartlanders are ditching the bus for their own two wheels annoyances notwithstanding ANSLEY NG ansley@mediaccorp.com.sg THEY start cruising in as early as 6.30am, some on shiny new bicycles, others on clunkers with rusty parts, having accomplished the first part of their morning commute on two wheels.
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      SPACE IN THE CBD, BUT CHOOSES TO CYCLE TO WORK
      365 6 Driving to work took 30 minutes, most of it stuck in peak-hour traffic. Taking the bus ate up an hour. “I was thinking to myself, ‘you could be doing a lot of things with that kind of time’,” said the
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      THE SECURITY HEADACHE
      326 6 But clearly, commuter-cyclists here are a tenacious lot: They have to be, in the face of the bike thief menace. Three in four said they have had their bicycles stolen before, whether from the void deck, the corridor outside their flat or the MRT station. Office manager
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      MOSTLY GRACIOUS
      239 6 What of the oft-raised complaint about brash cyclists on walkways who don’t give way or nearly pedestrians people over? Most intra-town cyclists polled say they don’t pedal fast and would give way to pedestrians. In fact, childcare centre principal Elizabeth Ng was once so irked by the behaviour
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  • NEWS
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      MRT vandal to appeal sentence
      137 7 SINGAPORE Convicted Swiss vandal Oliver Fricker has filed an appeal against his sentence, his lawyer Derek Kang told Bloomberg News. The 32-year-old was convicted last month after pleading guilty to spray painting two carriages of an MRT train with his accomplice, Briton Lloyd Dane Alexander.
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      Lock icon SINGAPORE HANDS OVER ACEH HOSPITAL
      180 7 Bilateral ties between Singapore and Indonesia were further cemented when Singapore’s Foreign Minister George Yeo handed over the $12 million Meulaboh General Hospital to the Indonesian authorities at a ceremony attended by some 500 guests in West Aceh on Friday. The project is a joint
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      Ionescu victim claims $600K compensation
      491 7  -  Injured trainee croupier is now ‘slow in performing mental calculations’: Report A significant sum from the $630,000 claim is for loss of future income, estimated at $540,000. The claim also includes compensation of $18,000 for loss of earnings and overtime as a croupier for six
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      Lock icon The wine is in the warehouse but ...
      551 9  - The wine is in the warehouse but Investors’ bottles are stored in a warehouse, but logistics company is not releasing them TEO XUANWEI xuanwei@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Their money, hundreds of thousands of dollars, may be as good as gone, after Assets Wine Management’s (AWM) Benny Lee Ghim Seng and Kally Quee
      SIM YI JIN  -  551 words
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      Lock icon CELEBRATE THE GOOD LIFE
      97 9 Learn about health and wellness the fun way at the Health and You exhibition at Suntec City Convention Centre on Saturday and Sunday. The event starts at 10am and admission is free. Sponsored by Nestle, the exhibition aims to get visitors to embrace an active lifestyle
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      Lawyer voluntarily refunds clients’ fees
      283 9  -  NG JING YNG SINGAPORE A lawyer voluntarily returned his clients’ legal fees on Thursday, following a rebuke by a High Court judge. Responding to media queries, a High Court spokesman said lawyer Leonard Loo, 40, had chosen to refund the legal fees for four clients
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      Lock icon Singapore drivers: Too fast, too furious?
      146 9 EVELYN CHOO SINGAPORE More Singapore drivers are speeding. According to a survey of 500 motorists by motor insurer AXA, more drivers were also running through amber lights and overtaking without signalling. Seventy five per cent of respondents admitted to driving 10 kmh above the
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      Lock icon Quan tells her side of story
      134 9 CHANNEL NEWSASIA SINGAPORE Television host Quan Yifeng, who is embroiled in a “taxirage” incident went to the police on Friday to record her statement. At about 3.45pm, Ms Quan and her daughter were seen entering the Bedok Police Divisional Headquarters. It is believed she
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      235 10 POSB Run for Kids 2010 We're running for the kids again. You can too! > KJ 4 Calling runners of all ages! The POSB Run for Kids 2009 was a resounding success. So, we're doing it again! Together with Pasir Ris-Punggol GRC, POSB will organise the Run to raise funds
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  • VOICES
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      Normal practice to log tenants
      167 11  -  Letter from Francis Zhan Chief Executive Association of Management Corporations in Singapore I REFER to the letter “Divulge condo tenants’ details” (July 2). Readers may like to know that it is a common practice for condominiums to register all their residents, owners and tenants alike,
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      Most commuters just want to get on the train
      389 11  -  Survey shows majority prefer this over getting a seat Letter from Bernadette Low Manager, Corporate Marketing and Communications SMRT Corporation WE THANK Ms Wendy Lim for her feedback on our trains without seats (“Do away with ‘seat-less’ trains”, June 9). The
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  • COMMENT & ANALYSIS
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      Lock icon Debunking the austerity myths
      879 13  -  PAUL KRUGMAN The writer is a professor of economics and international affairs at Princeton University. He received the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2008. THE NEW YORK TIMES When I was young and naive, I believed that important people took positions based on careful consideration of
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      Lock icon Conjuring up the ‘people factor’
      1002 15  -  All of my top five tips for entrepreneurial success rely on getting the most out of your people RICHARD BRANSON 2010 RICHARD BRANSON (DISTRIBUTED BY THE NEW YORK TIMES SYNDICATE) Nicki McKenzie, of Malaga, Western Australia, asked: “If you were to list your top five
      © 2010 RICHARD BRANSON (DISTRIBUTED BY THE NEW YORK TIMES SYNDICATE); AFP  -  1,002 words
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  • WORLD
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      Lock icon Lahore on high alert
      308 17 Suicide bombers strike shrine filled with thousands of worshippers AGENCIES LAHORE Pakistan’s cultural capital Lahore was on high alert on Friday after two suicide bombers blew themselves up in a shrine packed with worshippers, killing 42 people and wounding scores more. There was no immediate claim
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      Lock icon 40,000 cameras watch over Uighur-dominated Urumqi
      258 17 AFP BEIJING Police have installed 40,000 security cameras throughout the capital of China’s Xinjiang region, as the city braces for the first anniversary of the country’s worst ethnic violence in decades. The cameras have been installed in Urumqi in more than 3,000 public buses,
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      Lock icon Voice of Justice suspended
      189 19 AGENCIES KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia has suspended the publication of a main opposition newspaper, in a move political rivals criticised as a crackdown on dissent. Suara Keadilan or Voice of Justice, run by opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim’s Keadilan party, ran into trouble after the authorities said it
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      Lock icon UMNO FACES CLASH OF CLERICS WITH NEW FACES
      191 19 AGENCIES A fierce competition among the religious scholars in Malaysia’s ruling party is shaping up, with the recent admission of 40 new religious scholars said to represent Wahhabism. Wahhabish is often used to describe those who advocate purging Islam of practices that
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      Lock icon Who is Juan Lazaro?
      366 19 Russia spy suspect had greater loyalty to the Kremlin than to son AGENCIES NEW YORK He was known as a passionate leftist, the husband of Vicky Pelaez, a prominent Spanish-language journalist from Peru who shared his views and was known for her fiery columns critical of
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      Lock icon ANNA CHAPMAN WAS ‘CONDITIONED’ TO BE A SPY: EX-HUSBAND
      229 19 AGENCIES The British ex-husband of suspected Russian spy, Anna Chapman, suspects she was being “conditioned” to be a spy, reported The DailyTelegraph on Friday. The beautiful 28-year-old businesswoman is among 11 suspected Russian spies in US custody. Alex Chapman, 30, a
      AGENCIES  -  229 words
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      Lock icon US slaps Iran with toughest sanctions ever
      229 20 AGENCIES WASHINGTON President Barack Obama on Thursday signed into law the toughest United States sanctions ever on Iran, which he said would strike at Tehran’s capacity to finance its nuclear programme and deepen its isolation. The measures, in addition to new United Nations
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      Lock icon HIGH UP IN THE AIR
      75 20 AP China’s 'prince of tightrope walking' broke a world record on Friday, after spending five hours a day for two months gingerly crossing a wire above Beijing’s Bird’s Nest stadium. Mr Adili Wuxor, who has been walking about 19km a day on the tightrope strung
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      Lock icon Oz agrees to new mining tax
      184 20 AP CANBERRA Australia’s government on Friday retreated from a planned 40 per cent tax on booming profits in the mining industry, defusing a damaging row with big business and clearing the way for national elections to be called at any time. Mining companies had
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      Lock icon PHILIPPINE PRESIDENT AQUINO SETS GOOD EXAMPLE ON THE ROADS
      174 20 AFP Philippine President Benigno Aquino III may already be rueing his inaugural pledge to suffer Manila’s congested roads alongside his compatriots, after his limousine got stuck in traffic on Friday. On his second day in office, Mr Aquino ordered his driver
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      Lock icon US jobless rate falls to lowest level in almost a year
      378 23 But businesses still slow to hire: Labour Dept AP WASHINGTON The United States Labour Department has said that layoffs of temporary workers for the country’s census cut jobs last month for the first time in six months, while private
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      Lock icon RECLUSIVE RUSSIAN MATHS GENIUS REJECTS $1.4M PRIZE
      254 23 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH, THE NEW YORK TIMES A Russian mathematician has rejected a US$1 million ($1.4 million) prize for solving one of the world’s most challenging mathematical problems because he considers it unfair. Mr Grigory Perelman (picture), 43, who rejected the prize from
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      Lock icon CALIFORNIA TO PAY KIDNAPPED WOMAN $28M
      213 23 AP A woman held captive for nearly two decades by a rapist out on parole will receive US$20 million ($28 million) from the state of California for her ordeal, during which she bore two children to the man whom officials were supposedly monitoring. Lawmakers
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  • SCIENCE
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      Lock icon Global carbon emissions hold steady, but ...
      350 25 Global carbon emissions hold steady, but Spikes in China, India nullify steep cuts by rich countries THE GUARDIAN THE HAGUE Greenhouse gas emissions from rich countries fell a record 7 per cent in 2009 because of the recession, but the cut was entirely nullified by steep increases from fast-growing China
      THE GUARDIAN; AFP  -  350 words
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      Lock icon How to live to 100
      453 25 It’s not your lifestyle but your genes, research suggests THE DAILY TELEGRAPH WASHINGTON Longevity genes that indicate with incredible accuracy that you will most likely to live beyond the age of 100 no matter what your lifestyle have been discovered by scientists. Researchers claim to
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      Lock icon Of mice and women: Research links ovary transplants to long life
      156 25 THE GUARDIAN ROME In a series of animal experiments in which ovaries from young mice were implanted into older mice, researchers found that ovary transplants rejuventated mice and extended their lifespan significantly. The lifespan of mice that received the
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      Lock icon A dead zone off Louisiana
      133 25 THE GUARDIAN NEW ORLEANS Scientists are finding growing evidence that BP’s ruptured well in the Gulf of Mexico is creating oxygendepleted “dead zones” where fish and other marine life cannot survive. In two separate research voyages, independent scientists have detected what were described as “astonishingly
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      CUT DOWN ON SHOPPING, MEN
      68 25 Scientists have discovered that a spot of retail therapy could make men impotent. Researchers have found that a chemical compound found on some receipts contains enough of the hazardous substance Bisphenol A (BPA) to suppress male hormones being produced by the body. “A substance like
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      Lock icon GETTING FAT? TAKE THE TRAIN
      88 25 AGENCIES Switching to public transport could help you lose weight, new research suggests. Taking the train or bus instead of your car increases physical activity so much that the average person drops more than 3kg in a year, researchers wrote in the August issue of
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  • BUSINESS
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      Target: $3,100 median wage for workers
      517 27  -  But to achieve this, Singapore will need an economy with top quality skills: Finance Minister MILLET ENRIQUEZ emelita@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Singapore will need to have an economy with top quality skills that will allow wages for the average worker to increase by one-third in the
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      Lock icon Parkway share prices up 7.28 per cent
      368 27 JULIE QUEK SINGAPORE The prospect of a bidding war to gain control of Mainboard-listed healthcare services provider Parkway Holdings propelled its stock higher on Friday. Only a day after India’s Fortis Healthcare group launched its voluntary general offer, Parkway shares gained 7.28 per
      JULIE QUEK  -  368 words
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      World Cup fever propels sales of bigger TV sets
      230 27 SINGAPORE The football World Cup is proving to be a powerful driving force behind the surge in the sales of bigger TV sets equipped with the latest technology in Singapore. According to market research firm GfK Asia, football fans contributed to
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      Lock icon Engineering firm expects to triple business in Asia
      329 28 CHRIS HOWELLS SINGAPORE United Statesbased engineering and infrastructure developer Black and Veatch expects to triple its business in Asia over the next few years. This follows a deal signed recently to lead a consortium in Vietnam to implement an environment and water
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      RESEARCH TO CUT COST OF MAKING PHARMACEUTICALS
      71 28 Eight Singapore-based research projects have been tasked find new ways to lower production costs in the manufacturing of pharmaceuticals. And they will receive close to $5 million in funding from GlaxoSmithKline and the Economic Development Board. The investigators aim to change current industry
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      GUTHRIE GTS SELLS PROPERTIES IN AMOY STREET
      86 28 Guthrie GTS has sold its properties at 112 to 116, Amoy Street, to Sun Venture Invesco for $24.5 million. Guthrie expects to record a net surplus of $1.85 million from the sale of the properties. It says the properties are not its core
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      NO SECONDARY LISTING IN OSLO FOR CHINA FISHERY
      80 28 China Fishery has decided not to proceed with its proposed secondary listing on the Oslo Bors in Norway. The company said this is due to the current market sentiment in Europe. Also, thanks to the recent investment of US$190 million ($000 million)
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      Commodities, clearing businesses up: SGX
      105 28 SINGAPORE The Singapore Exchange reports that its commodities and clearing businesses continued to enjoy strong growth last month. However, trading activity in the securities market slowed down in the same period. Total turnover in the securities market fell about 24 per cent to 22.6 billion
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      Lock icon World Cup hits Macau casino revenue in June
      188 29 BLOOMBERG MACAU Casino revenue here declined 20 per cent in June from the previous month as the World Cup kept some gamblers away from card games and slot machines in the world’s biggest betting hub. Gambling revenue for casinos in the city
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      Lock icon BP in talks with China over $12.5b asset sale
      289 29 The Chinese oil companies have been avid buyers of energy assets around the world in an effort to feed China’s rapid industrialisation. THE GUARDIAN MOSCOW China looks poised to help bail out BP by buying up to US$9 billion ($12.5 billion)
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      Lock icon China stocks 'oversold'
      191 29 BLOOMBERG SINGAPORE Chinese yuandenominated stocks, heading for their worst week in 16 months, will probably rebound after plunging below counterparts listed in Hong Kong, according to Morgan Stanley’s China strategist, Mr Jerry Lou. “The market looks very, very oversold,” Mr Lou said in Singapore. The discount for
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      550 31 Manager wants mercurial captain to stay at Liverpool, but can’t offer guarantees AGENCIES AFP LIVERPOOL Roy Hodgson’s first day on the job was spent meeting two of Liverpool’s most influential players, captain Steven Gerrard (picture) and defender Jamie Carragher to get a feel of things at
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      447 31  -  Title Sponsor Major Partner LOW LIN FHOONG linfhoong@mediacorp.co.sg SINGAPORE Maybe it was the tough life out on the high seas, but there was certainly no fear in the Sea Rider bowling trio of Daniel Soh, Roger Koh and Alvin Sim, who hail from
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      575 32  -  Singapore to send record number of athletes to Commonwealth, Asian Games SHAMIR OSMAN shamir@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Walking out of the meeting room at the Singapore Sports Council headquarters on Friday, Annabel Pennefather wore a broad grin to match the clenched fist she was holding
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      140 32 Members of the sports fraternity are getting in on the act as the Singapore Sports CouncilMilo National Well-Wishing Campaign revs up support for Team Singapore athletes due to take part in the Youth Olympic Games (Aug 14-26), New Delhi Commonwealth Games (Oct 3-14) and the Asian
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      237 32 SHAMIR OSMAN SINGAPORE He threw his shirt down, punched the railings and stormed out of the Woodlands Sports Hall, barking a scream of anguish as he passed through its doors. There will be no twin towers of French terror looming over the rest of the
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      695 33 Red-hot Czech demolishes Djokovic, proving his win over Federer was no fluke THE DAILY TELEGRAPH WIMBLEDON Tomas Berdych came of age as a Grand Slam star with a clinical destruction of new world No 2 Novak Djokovic to reach his first Wimbledon final. The 24-year-old
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      427 33 AGENCIES WIMBLEDON The comparison is inevitable with a super inform Serena Williams up against Russia’s Vera Zvonareva in the Wimbledon women’s singles tennis final on Saturday. It’s as much a no-brainer as pitting an intercontinental ballistic missile against an assault rifle, and the
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      111 32 All Singapore Pools Branches open up to iOpm on match days SPORTS BETTING This match will not be telecast. All World Cup matches are on sale. For more details, please check Singapore Pools website. LIVE TELECAST AT Livewire {Resorts World Sentosa), 26 Sentosa Gateway #Bl-208 SportsBuzz (PoMo), 1 Selegie Road,
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      81 33 SPORTS ON SATURDAY TABLETENNIS 4pm Japan Open Women’s singles quarterfinals (Ch5) MOTORSPORTS 8pm MotoGP Catalunya Grand Prix (StarHub Ch202) CYCLING 11.45pm Tour de France: Prologue (StarHub Ch205) SPORTS ON SUNDAY GOLF 1am PGA AT&T National: Day 3 (StarHub Ch255) ATHLETICS 3.45am IAAF Diamond League Eugene (StarHub Ch205) TABLE TENNIS 9.30am
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    63 34 IN THE WILD5 OF SOUTH RFRICR... R BRTTLE IS RBOUT TO RRGE... RND ONE MRN 15 TRICING YOU INTO THE THICK OF THE RCTION Join Leonard Thomas through his football Safari, as he treks across South Africa to cover the 2010 World Cup finals. Get all the
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    • QUARTER-FINAL HOLLAND VS BRAZIL
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        820 35  -  Dutch World Cup dream very much on as Brazil coach Dunga steps down LEONARD THOMAS in Johannesburg, South Africa leonard@mediacorp.com.sg 2010 WORLD CUP QUARTER-FINALS Holland 2 Brazil 1 JOHANNESBURG The samba drums beat loudly for Brazil for 53 minutes of their 2010 World Cup quarter-final clash
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        468 38 AP Brazil’s 2-1 loss to Holland in the World Cup quarter-finals on Friday at Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium was a rollercoasterfor Felipe Melo. The match started perfectly for the defensive midfielder, making his return from a left ankle injury that
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        SPORTSZONE WADES INTO THE MATCH-UP OF THE WORLD CUP
        133 38 Arch-rivals Germany and Argentina square off in a rematch of the 2006 World Cup quarter-finals this Saturday. Will the Germans continue their march towards a fourth World Cup trophy, or will Diego Maradona conjure up a masterplan and book Argentina’s place
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        682 39 Team in ‘good shape’, but del Bosque wary of defensive Paraguay AP JOHANNESBURG Spain coach Vicente del Bosque believes his players are ready to make history. And they can start by winning a World Cup quarter-final for the first time. Surprisingly, Spain have never
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        205 39 AFP Paraguay’s historic run to the World Cup quarter-finals is being lived and breathed by Salvador Cabanas, their star striker who had to miss the finals after being shot in the head in January. The 29-year-old Mexico-based star who was shot by a drug dealer in
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      893 40  -  COMMENTARY QUARTER-FINAL ARGENTINA VS GERMANY Germany-Argentina clashes are never friendly kick-abouts, Saturday’s tie will be no different TAN YO-HINN yohinn@mediacorp.com.sg The writer is a senior reporter with MediaCorp NewsHub. The image of a bitter Diego Maradona in tears at the end of the 1990
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        96 41 AGENCIES While the focus is all on the action on the pitch, four South African football fans decided to get creative. They have assembled two limousine-style Volkswagen beetles, complete with paraphernalia which have been synonymous with this tournament. There are two models:The white one has
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        107 41 AP Fifa will suspend Nigeria from world football unless the country’s government overturns its ban on the national team by Monday. Fifa spokesman Nicolas Maingot said Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan has until 6pm local time (8pm, Singapore time) on Monday to back down
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        113 41 AFP France’s World Cup and European Championship winning defender Laurent Blanc was officially named the French national team coach on Friday. The 44-year-old, who coached Bordeaux to the 2009 league title, replaces Raymond Domenech, who stepped down after France’s catastrophic World Cup finals campaign. “It
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        828 41  -  COMMENTARY Against pumped up Germans, Maradona will count on the game’s ultimate matchwinner to sparkle LEONARD THOMAS in Johannesburg, South Africa The writer is executive sports editor at MediaCorp NewsHub. The local organising committee have tried their best to make use of Lionel Messi here.
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        309 42 AP SEOUL While Asia’s World Cup is over, the world’s largest continent is quietly satisfied with its performance in South Africa. Asia sent four teams to South Africa and two South Korea and Japan survived the first stage to reach the second round for the
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        271 42 AGENCIES SEOUL South Korea’s Huh Jung Moo (picture) announced on Friday he will resign as coach of the national football team. Huh, 55, who returned from the ongoing World Cup in South Africa earlier this week, told a news conference he
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      653 45  -  POSTSCRIPT Man-crushes, foot-in-mouth disease and other football noobie tales Mayo Martin mayo@mediacorp.com.sg The writer is an executive reporter at Today. I HAVE fallen head over heels over a bunch of blokes.And the best part is that my girlfriend doesn’t mind one bit. At least not yet.
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      770 46  -  THE FAIRERTEXT There’s nothing fearful about a woman who has a hearty appetite Georgina Chang georginac@mediacorp.com.sg The writer is the Senior Creative Director of987FM and Lush 99.5. I DIDN’T get my full figure by nibbling on salad. I possess the enthusiastic appetite of a starving ox.
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      604 47  -  Beneath the skin of the kiwi fruit is a bunch of surprises, as a trip to New Zealand reveals Tan Jun-Lei junlei@mediacorp.com.sg THE kiwi fruit is one of those fruits that might still be a novelty to some. Certainly its health benefits are not as
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      180 48 About the size of a large hen’s egg, the kiwi fruit is a tiny bundle of surprises. Here’s what you’ll be getting when you bite into the fruit. •Vitamins C, E and a small amount of A. The kiwi fruit outstrips the orange in terms ofVitamin
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      257 48 BITE SIZED DON MENDOZA IT IS official. Guests and patrons at the newly launched Marina Bay Sands (MBS) will find it easier to toast to living large with the help of a renowned choice of French bubbly.The Piper-Heidsieck Cuvee Brut to be precise. The quiet star
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      152 48 E KM Fan The Flames Of Gastronomic DELIGFITS 4, 11, 18 25 July 2010 SUNDAY BEER-Y BRUNCH BONANZA For the month of July, you can look forward to Sundays at Blue Potato, where a splendid brunch buffet is perfectly accompanied with a free flow of beer. Available from 11.00 am
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    666 49 DRINK French wines’ new export strategy:Think Coca-Cola AFP YOU know times have changed when French wines, bruised by competition from the New World, fight back with the upstarts’ own weapon dropping complex regional labelling for the plain old grape name. Even the staunchest of Gallic
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      102 50 $1.00* ROAST SUCKLING PIG Now till 31 August 2010 Tung Lok Classics and Noble House are offering two new promotional 8-course set menus at $388 and $488 for 10 persons, available from Mondays to Fridays (excluding Public Holidays). To celebrate the launch of these menus, pay only $1* for a
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    204 51 STYLE Flash floods, falling temperatures: If the past month is any indication, it’s going to be an unseasonably chilly July. Dress for it by layering the season’s hottest looks Photography: Adrian Mesko DLM Stylist: Atip W Hair and Make-up: Stacy Lee-Ghin using M.A.C Kevin Murphy Model: Michael Whittaker
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      342 55  -  A place to get a little more stylish after midnight Lynette Koh lynettek@mediacorp.com.sg QUICK, answer this: Where in Singapore can you buy funky headphones, novelty spectacles, acrylic statement necklaces, and arty magazines at 3am? No, it’s not Mustafa Centre. The correct answer: Zouk Boutique, the newly
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      422 56 IF YOU are a fan of blogshops, you should bookmark new e-commerce website, Jipaban.com. Launched in May,Jipaban brings together small retailers to create a one-stop virtual shopping portal.With about 80 retailers currently onboard, its name may be a bit of an exaggeration (jipaban is
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      157 55 With my new skills, I get more Workfare and can go further in my career! Ms Ton Ah Gee Employee Workfare Work Train A Better Tomorrow Singapore m m Jfc workforce WUA agency" 18 Enhanced Workfare gives more to low-wage workers who work regularly. It also benefits employers of low-wage
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      583 57  -  Traction control, race ABS, 190bhp from the most powerful production motorcycle engine with F1-derived tech this is the BMW S 1000RR Julian Low cars@mediacorp.com.sg IT LOOKS a little like a robot ant wearing a monocle. But straddling the BMW S 1000RR, one can sense how surprisingly light and
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      195 57 BMW’s head of motorcycle design David Robb (picture) explains the inspiration behind the S 1000RR’s controversial looks: “Every day we look at asymmetry in nature and don’t give it a second thought we ourselves aren’t symmetrical. The reason of course is that our
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      159 59  -  NEWS TRACKS DERRYN WONG PORSCHE and official dealer Stuttgart Auto launched two new models and held the second iteration of the Porsche World Roadshow this week, at Changi Exhibition Centre. Debuting in Singapore was the latest-generation of the popular Cayenne sport utility vehicle and new variants of the
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      Soul-searching ends here
      35 59  -  DERRYN WONG Cycle Carriage (C&C) and Kia launched the new super-customisable Soul hatchback at the C&C showroom on June 25. The event saw the attendance of more than 500 customers and guests.
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      493 59  -  CAR Jaguar’s XF Sport may be the harbinger of a quiet revolution DERRYN WONG ‘Sport’ means some minor visual modifications and nothing else right? Not quite. Let’s play a game: The Jaguar XF is a large, executive sedan, which means it competes with the likes of
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      490 61 CAR REVIEW Is more power the perfect thing to make Volkswagen’s compact Polo hatchback even better? It looks the same, doesn’t it? Well, not quite, it’s got a spiffy new set of wheels and some other exterior embellishments, such as fog lights. The biggest change
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      118 59 Master Ryuho Qkawa MEETTHE INFLUENTIAL AND DISCOVER HIS VISION Paradigm ofThe Future *Live Lecture Broadcast from Yokohama Arena 04 July 2010 1PM 3PM 190 Middle Rd, #16-05 Fortune Centre (*In Japanese, with simulcast English translation) By Master Ryuho Okawa, Visionary Founder of Worldwide Spiritual Movement, Happy Science Happy Science, founded
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    721 67 THINGSTO DO 1 Singapore Wine Jazz Festival 2010 Sample live music from the likes of Rani Singam, Greg Lyons and more, as well as wines from the world over. When: Saturday Time: 4pm onwards Venue: Robertson Walk. Admission: Tickets at $25 at the door 2Playwriting 101 By
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      382 69  -  Channel NewsAsia news presenter Tim Go heads to Queensland to get a taste of the ‘best job in the world’ Timothy Go timothygo@mediacorpnews.com MY JOB is to try out what others are getting paid to do. This is part of a series shown on Channel
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      351 70 Heading off on another weekend getaway? Pack your holiday gear in something that looks as good as you feel. NAQIB PUTRA (travel@mediacorp.com.sg) trawls the stores for some of the most stylish trolley bags in A piece of Porsche: The tearproof and water- and stain-resistant material used for
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