Today, 8 July 2010

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    29 1 TODAY MICA (P) 160/10/2009 A PUBLICATION OF A=D/ACORP NEWS HOTLINE 6822 2268 '/#|S t_ '-Z1 Thursday July 8, 2010 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking JULY 8, 2010 A PUBLICATION
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    Vigilance to be stepped up: DPMTeo
    361 1  -  ZULOTHMANAND SAIFULBAHRI ISMAIL zul@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —Deputy Prime Minister Teo Chee Hean has said that the Defence Ministry and the island’s security agencies will work together to step up vigilance against possible security threats in the wake of the detention of full-time National Serviceman Muhammad
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      114 1 Have you had your veggies and fruits.. NEWS 8 DENGUE 69CASES IN CAIRNHILL NEAGOES ON THE HUNT COMMENT&ANALYSIS PAUL GILFEATHER RED CARD FOOTBALL’S OBSCENE WAGES 18 BORIS JOHNSON HAIL THE HEROIC PARENTS! 20 JONATHAN FREEDLAND NOW ISRAEL RISKS LOSING ITS FRIENDS 22 DON’T MISS 24 PAGES OF IPal No Sugar
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      365 1 Vigilance to be stepped up: DPM Teo ZUL OTHMAN AND SAIFULBAHRI ISMAIL zul@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —Deputy Prime Minister Teo Chee Hean has said that the Defence Ministry and the island’s security agencies will work together to step up vigilance against possible security threats in the wake of the detention of full-time
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      Fifa gives women’s team the boot
      443 3  -  SHAMIR OSMAN shamir@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The Singapore women’s football team has been struck off Fifa’s latest world rankings, released on May 28. They join the likes of Aruba, Vanuatu and Bermuda as one of 51 countries that have disappeared from the governing body’s list, following
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      Lock icon Politics meets plumbing on reconciliation hotline
      316 3 AFP BANGKOK It was billed as a campaign to bridge the deep divide in Thai society after the worst political violence in decades, but the lady calling about her faulty plumbing apparently did not get the memo. And maybe the man asking for a
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      Lock icon COEs down in all but one category
      340 5  -  Car dealers see price rises on horizon as deregistrations slow LYNDA HONG lyndahong@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Car dealers expect Certificate of Entitlement prices to bounce back in the next bidding exercise in the middle of this month. This is because the number of deregistrations continue
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      Muis cannot safeguard against militant influences on its own
      651 5  -  ZULOTHMAN zul@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The Islamic Religious Council of Singapore (Muis) signalled yesterday that it cannot safeguard against militant influences on its own. It called on Muslim Singaporeans religious leaders, mosque leaders and parents to bring to its attention any stray teachers
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      Lock icon ‘Slave labour’ working conditions in Japan?
      443 6 Interns die after working 16-hour THE DAILY TELEGRAPH TOKYO The Japanese government has been accused of running slave labour working conditions after 27 foreign interns died in one year following months of working more than 16 hours a day. The majority of the interns
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      Lock icon Individual Chinese, welcome to Taiwan!
      234 6 AFP TAIPEI Taiwan is likely to lift a ban on visits by individual Chinese tourists, Premier Wu Den-yih said yesterday in yet another sign of Taipei’s fast-warming ties with Beijing. So far Chinese have only been allowed to travel to the island in groups as
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      Lock icon Junk food fuels surge in diabetes in South-east Asia
      282 6 AFP SYDNEY The growing popularity of Western junk food is fuelling a diabetes boom across South-east Asia, Australian researchers warned yesterday. Studies found about 11 per cent of men and 12 per cent of women in Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh City
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      BEAUTY SECRETS
      550 7 THE L’ORÉAL PARIS OFFICE INVASION MAKE-UP WORKSHOP Brought to you by Learn to look good while climbing the corporate rungs with L’Oréal Paris WHEN JordanTan, senior HR executive, training and development at Samsung Asia, heard about the L’Oréal Paris Office Invasion, he signed the company up for it,
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      Lock icon Carrefour ‘not leaving Singapore, Malaysia’
      304 8  -  EPHRAIM SEOW, SEOW, AGENCIES SINGAPORE Carrefour has said that it is not closing any of its stores in Singapore and Malaysia. In a statement, the company said it is “business as usual” for every store in the two countries. It also noted that it had
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      Lock icon RING AROUND THE SUN
      101 8 This rainbow-like halo was seen in the sky off the Changi Naval Base at about 1pm on Tuesday. The National Environment Agency (NEA) says the phenomenon is due to the refraction and reflection of light by ice crystals in the cloud acting as tiny prisms. When
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      PM Lee to be US conference keynote speaker
      221 8 SINGAPORE Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong will be the keynote speaker at this year’s Sun Valley Conference in Idaho, in the United States. Mr Lee, who is in the US till July 13, will speak at the conference on Friday. The Sun
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      A new training initiative for the disabled here
      241 8  -  S RAMESH rameshs@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE A new training initiative, the Centre for Training and Integration (CTI), has been launched to enhance job opportunities for those with disabilities. This is to provide specific skills training for the disabled from special education schools and voluntary
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      Lock icon Dengue outbreak in Cairnhill
      152 10 NG LIAN CHEONG SINGAPORE A total of 69 cases of dengue have been reported in the Cairnhill area over a three-week period starting from June 15. Of these, 42 cases involve construction workers in the area. They work at the Hilltops condominium construction site under Tiong
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      Inspiration from Singapore flag at this year’s National Day Parade
      365 10  -  JOANNECHAN joannechan@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The nation’s biggest outdoor parade promises to be a theatrical extravaganza. Entitled “Red, White and Wow!”, the show component of National Day Parade 2010 draws its inspiration and design from the Singapore flag. A song composed by
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      PROGRAMME TO TRAIN HR PRACTITIONERS, LINE MANAGERS AND SUPERVISORS IN INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
      212 12 A programme to train HR practitioners, line managers and supervisors in industrial relations (IR) has been rolled out. The programme bytheOngTengCheong Labour Leadership, or OTC Institute, is the first dedicated industrial relations programme being offered under the HR
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      Lock icon Getting families to play together, stay together
      452 12 SINGAPORE The People’s Association says it is aiming to double both grandparenting clubs and activities from the current 50 as part of its Family Life Champions Programme which was first started in 2005. There will also be efforts to get more men involved.
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      Lock icon Smartphone sales up in East, South-east Asia
      245 12 Combined sales of both regions jump two-fold MOK FEI FEI SINGAPORE More than one in 10 mobile phones bought by consumers in South-east and East Asia in the first quarter of this year was a smartphone. Market research firm GfK Asia says the
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      Lock icon Deep sea fish farming going swimmingly well for Singapore
      281 14  -  VICTORIA JEN victoriajen@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Deep sea farming is helping Singapore meet its supply needs. And the republic’s clean and sheltered waters are apparently a factor for the success of Barramundi Asia, Singapore’s biggest commercial fish farm. Located off Pulau Semakau, the
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      30 ARRESTED IN CRACKDOWN ON ILLEGAL MONEYLENDING
      83 14 The police have arrested 19 men and 11 women between the ages of 19 and 59 for suspected involvement in unlicensed moneylending activities in an three-day islandwide operation that ended yesterday. Preliminary investigations revealed that the suspects had allowed their bank accountsto be
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      Lock icon NVPC SETS $1 BILLION ANNUAL DONATION TARGET
      125 14 CLAIRE HUANG The National Volunteer and Philanthropy Centre (NVPC) wants to get donations to charities or Institutions of Public Character in Singapore to go up by some 45 per cent to a billion dollars a year by 2020. A 2006 Charities Aid Foundation
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      10 12 DEEP SEA FISH FARMING GOING SWIMMINGLY WELL FOR SINGAPORE PAGE
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  • VOICES
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      Attacked, but they just stared
      463 16  -  My sister and I have lost faith in the kindness of Singaporeans except for one The struggle lasted for 30 minutes and was witnessed by all the passengers seated on the upper deck, but during the entire incident, not one of them tried to Letter
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      FOCUS® ON THE FAMILY
      191 18  - FOCUS ON THE FAMILY BY DR JAMES DOBSON BOOKS VS COMMUNITY SUPPORT If you have checked out the parenting section of a bookstore lately, you’ve probably noticed hundreds of authors who want to tell you how to raise your children. Have you ever wondered if they really know more than
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      Sub-letting lets owners unlock value in times of need
      174 18  -  Foo-HoYoke Ming Director Deputy Director (Branch Operations) Housing and Development Board Letter from I REFER to the letter from Mr Vincent Kang, “For public, not profit” (July 1). Mr Kang rightly pointed out that HDB flats are meant for owner-occupation, and
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      One life could have been saved
      116 18  -  Letter from Gupta Kavita I WAS shocked to read about Ms Kerin Peh’s death on Tuesday. Her neighbours had heard her sobbing for 15 minutes, but they did not bother to take a look. Instead, they ignored the sobbing as it was late at
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      Come on, Singapore, stop whining
      135 18  -  Letter from Lawrence Chong WHAT is happening to Singapore? We can’t tolerate it if someone does not speak or respond to our enquiry in a language we know. We can’t get stuck in traffic jams, make a “wrong turn” or take instructions from others. Flights
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      CORRECTION
      42 18 In the article, “Great shave” (July 7), we reported that the fund raising event was to commemorate Great Eastern’s 36th anniversary. This is incorrect. It was to commemorate the Great Eastern Life Planners’ Association’s 36th anniversary. We apologise for the error.
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      22 16 have your say email your letters to voices@mediacorp.com.sg join the community www.todayonline.com/voices DEGREE PROGRAMMES(1 (PART-TIME, 1-YEAR) MASTER PROGRAMMES (PART-TIME) OUR PARTNERS: ACCREDITATION:
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      116 16 y Western Union is now available at CIMB Currency Exchange, Sentosa. >1 A A 6 Now you can send money within minutes 1 to more than 370,000 2 Western Union Agent locations in over 200 countries and territories worldwide. Resorts World Sentosa Unit B1-K57 at the Forum Operating hours: 10am
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      37 18 VOICES ON RADIO How have the new distance based bus fares affected how much you spend on transport? Tune in to TalkBack on 938Live from 8.15am to 8.45am tomorrow. Call us at 6691 1938 and share your
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      209 19 "Mum always gave me the best. Naturally, I want to do the same for her." OCBC SmartSenior m'<- 1 Huang Bi Ren, Actress 1 m. fm 1 9 iLS In support of the National Family Council's L Filial Piety j Campaign, Let's talk about giving your parents love, respect and
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  • COMMENT & ANALYSIS
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      Red card football’s obscene wages
      944 20  -  Ditch the overpaid superstars and groom young local talent instead PAUL The writer is the principal correspondent at Today. Nike’s World Cup television advertisement campaign ran with the fairy tale that a successful World Cup could see soccer superstar Wayne Rooney knighted for his performance.
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      Lock icon Hail the heroic parents!
      1054 22  -  BORIS JOHNSON The writer is one of Britain’s best known politicians and the current Mayor of London. THE DAILYTELEGRAPH Every so often I find a new hero. I read in the papers of some individual who is managing to swim against the glutinous tide of political
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      Lock icon Now Israel risks losing its friends
      1146 24  -  Netanyahu meets Obama believing he has time on his side he’s wrong JONATHAN FREEDLAND The writer pens a weekly column for The Guardian. This is an excerpt of a longer commentary. THE GUARDIAN The advance word was that this was to be a “holding
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      177 24 HOW PROFESSIONAL TRADERS TRADE AND WHAT THEY KNOW AND WHY AMATEUR TRADERS ALWAYS GET BEATEN How do Professional Traders differ from the average amateur who is trying to make a second income? The problem is that most people do not know what a Professional Trader knows. Do Traders have a
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      48 25 Litter cigarette butts and you could end up paying a $300 fine. So let's make it our responsibility to bin all litter and keep Singapore clean. For more information, please call the NEA hotline at 1800-2255 632. DO THE RIGHT LET'S BIN IT7 Our Environment Sustain and Enjoy
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  • WORLD
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      Lock icon Defence Minister’s bombshell
      271 26 Another blow for Australian PM as second Cabinet member quits AFP SYDNEY Australia’s Defence Minister John Faulkner (picture) yesterday announced plans to quit the Cabinet, dealing a blow to Prime Minister Julia Gillard as national elections loom. The heavyweight senator said he would return to the back
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      Lock icon Timor-Leste resists Australian asylum plan
      261 26 AFP DILI Opposition grew in East Timor yesterday to an Australian proposal to process Austral-ia-bound asylum seekers in the impoverished country, despite President Jose Ramos-Horta’s guarded support. Mr Ramos-Horta said Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard had raised the idea with him in a phone call
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      Lock icon ‘Bond between US and Israel is unbreakable’
      748 28 Change in public tone during Obama and Netanyahu’s meeting AFP AGENCIES WASHINGTON United States President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sought on Tuesday to paper over the deep political rift between the US and Israel and publicly avoided any mention
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      Lock icon Russia offers ‘spy swap’ deal to US: Lawyer
      375 29 THE DAILYTELEGRAPH MOSCOW Russia wants to swap a scientist jailed on charges of spying for Britain for one of the suspected Russian agents detained in the United States last month, a lawyer for the scientist said. Igor Sutyagin, a nuclear weapons expert,
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      Lock icon Pianist charged with rape in Thailand
      219 29 AGENCIES BANGKOK Internationally acclaimed Russian pianist, conductor and composer Mikhail Vasillievich Pletnev has been charged with raping a 14-year-old boy in a Thai beach town, police said yesterday. Mikhail Vasilievich Pletnev, the founder of the Russian National Orchestra, was charged with rape and appearing
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      Lock icon Ex-Chongqing justice official executed
      204 29 AGENCIES BEIJING China executed a former top justice official at the centre of a huge graft and organised crime scandal that riveted the nation, Xinhua news agency reported yesterday. Wen Qiang, 55, former director of the Chongqing Municipal Judicial Bureau, was the highest ranking person caught
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      Lock icon US government sues Arizona over immigration law
      234 30 AGENCIES WASHINGTON The United States government sued Arizona on Tuesday to throw out the state’s strict new immigration law and keep other states from copying it. “Setting immigration policy and enforcing immigration laws is a national responsibility,” said US Attorney-General Eric Holder. Arizona
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      Lock icon US soldier charged over Iraq video leak
      354 30 AGENCIES WASHINGTON A United States army intelligence analyst was charged on Tuesday with leaking a highly classified video of American forces killing unarmed civilians in Baghdad and other secret diplomatic cables to the whistleblower website WikiLeaks. Private Bradley Manning, who had top-secret security
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      Lock icon Saddled with world’s riskiest job
      196 31 SYDNEY Horse-racing jockeys have one of the most dangerous jobs in the world, second only to deep sea fishing in terms of fatalities, according to an Australian study. Scientists analysed 75,000 races at over 10,000 race meetings in Australia from 2002 to 2006, and found
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      Lock icon Making medicines is healthy business in India
      482 31 THE NEW YORK TIMES HALOL (India) Below an ancient hilltop temple in the state of Gujarat, Sun Pharmaceutical Industries churns out generic versions of cancer drugs and epilepsy medication bound for the United States. Business is so brisk that Sun, with revenue of
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      Lock icon ON A WING AND A PRAYER ... AND A WHOLE LOT OF SOLAR
      81 32 ON A WING AND A PRAYER AND A WHOLE LOT OF SOLAR A solar-powered aircraft took off from a Swiss airbase yesterday in a bid to make history by flying continuously for 24 hours. Pilot Andre Borschberg was to take the prototype Solar Impulse to an altitude of 8,500m using
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      Lock icon Oil spill firms hauled to court
      186 32 AFP SYDNEY A Hong Kong shipping firm was ordered to stand trial in connection with Australia’s worst oil spill, which blackened a string of tourist beaches last year. A Brisbane magistrate committed Swire Shipping and the Pacific Adventurer cargo liner’s captain to trial over
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      Lock icon Space scientists to be jettisoned
      232 32 AGENCIES HOUSTON—The National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (Nasa) top space contractor plans to lay off 1,000 top scientists and technicians, or about 15 per cent of its work force, after the US ended its space shuttle programme. United Space Alliance said in a statement on
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      Lock icon South Korean fishermen trawl for brides overseas
      234 34 AFP SEOUL More than a third of South Korean fishermen and farmers who married last year chose immigrant brides, indicating the formerly homogeneous nation is becoming increasingly multiracial. In data released yesterday, the Ministry of Gender Equality said foreigners mostly from China or
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      Lock icon MOTORISTS HIT JACKPOT
      69 34 A truck carrying about €2 million ($3.5 million in coins overturned in southern Italy on Monday, unloading its contents onto the road. Passing motorists helped themselves to the coins before the police arrived. Police in Foggia said it was impossible to establish how much money had been
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      Lock icon Mean Girl sent to jail for 90 days
      152 34 AGENCIES LOS ANGELES American actress Lindsay Lohan has been jailed for 90 days after violating probation in a 2007 drunk driving arrest after failing to attend court-ordered alcohol education classes. Ms Lohan, 24, sobbed and pleaded but the judge slapped her with
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      Lock icon Life is carried out with a bare face, says minister at French veil debate
      247 36 AGENCIES PARIS The French Parliament on Tuesday began debating a ban on the full Islamic veil that is all but certain to be adopted despite fears of renewed tensions in the country with Europe’s biggest Muslim
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      Lock icon ROYAL TRIBUTE
      84 36 Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II praised the United Nations’ ‘remarkable’ achievements in her first address in five decades at the UN Headquarters as part of her tour of New York City on Tuesday. Her visit followed a nineday stay in Canada. She later went to Ground Zero, where she
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      Lock icon BRITAIN TO HAND OVER VIOLENT AFGHAN AREA TO US
      125 36 AFP British troops will hand over control of violence-wracked Sangin in south Afghanistan to American forces by the end of the year, Defence Secretary Liam Fox said: “This will simplify current command arrangements and enable British troops to be redeployed to
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      Lock icon NEW MEASURES IN BRITISH SCHOOLS TO ‘SHIFT BALANCE OF POWER BACK TO TEACHERS’
      166 38 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH Teachers in Britain will be encouraged to restrain unruly pupils and use physical force when necessary, as part of a drive to improve discipline in schools. According to proposals announced by Mr Nick Gibb,
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    SPRING INTO MELBOURNE
    365 39 As the weather warms up, the carnival atmosphere arrives in Melbourne. Spring is alive in the city with racing, fashion, arts more. Mahe Melbourne your next stop with our list of must dos for a once-in-a-lifetime holiday Top 5 Must Dos in Melbourne During Spring /7\ Catch
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  • SPORTS
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      335 40 AP LAUSANNE Jamaican sprint superstar Usain Bolt (picture) may switch to other disciplines such as the long jump after the 2012 London Olympics. The world’s fastest man, who is one of three current Olympians appointed ambassadors to the upcoming inaugural Youth Olympic Games in Singapore
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      Lock icon Verdasco coach to hand-pick budding pros
      675 40  -  And STA chief Lee hopes he doesn’t have to look for foreign talent EWAN MAH ewanmah@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Juan Luis Rascon, the man who groomed Spain’s Fernando Verdasco into one of the world’s top10 players, will be personally helping Singapore tennis hand-pick its future pros
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      Lock icon Games-bound relay quartet sprint into action
      494 42  -  4x100m team to race together again, seven months after last run LOW LIN FHOONG linfhoong@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE For the first time since their record-breaking run in Laos last December, the men’s 4x100m quartet of Gary Yeo, Muhammad Elfi Mustapa, Lee Cheng Wei and Muhd Amirudin
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      Lock icon S-League players yearn for more passion in the stands
      372 42 SHAMIR OSMAN SINGAPORE His national team-mate and friend was ambushed, attacked and pelted with stones. But instead of reacting with anger, disgust or wishing ill on the assailants, Aleksandar Duric was jealous of the victim, Mustafic Fahrudin. The Persija Jakarta midfielder’s
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      Lock icon Wie, the unrealised prodigy
      613 44 While others have arrived, the American is content to tee up and hope for the best AP OAKMONT (Pennsylvania) For Michelle Wie (picture) and those who follow her, the wait goes on. Not long ago, Wie was supposed to do for women’s golf what Tiger Woods
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      Lock icon Probe into cycling widens
      298 44 AGENCIES ARENBERG (France) Lance Armstrong dealt with treacherous cobblestone sections with authority, but a flat tyre left the 38-year-old American on the ropes following the first three stages of this year’s Tour de France. The flat cost the seven-time Tour de France champion significant time, and
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      Lock icon One last hurrah for Murali
      311 44 AFP NEW DELHI Realising that everything in life has an expiry date, Sri Lanka’s world bowling record holder Muttiah Muralitharan said yesterday he was retiring from Test cricket. “I have achieved what I wanted to achieve. There is nothing left or any target to reach,”
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    Way ahead for the third quarter
    849 52  -  COMMENTARY INVEST Investors should continue to go for equities with a focus on the US, emerging markets and Asia In 2007, the global investment markets ignored the risks associated with property bubbles in places like the US and Europe, and to the massive leverage
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      315 46 BLOOMBERG SINGAPORE Singapore investment firm Temasek Holdings is set to post a record jump in the value of its assets when it unveils its annual report today. Analysts said the investment firm will see its bottom line lifted as markets rebounded and the
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      STI
      53 46 WEDNESDAY CLOSE 2,861.03 (-0.24%) Tuesday Monday Friday Thursday 2,868.02 2,844.02 2,844.19 2,820.35 p q p q 0.84% 0.01% 0.85% 0.53% TOP 5 BY VOLUME NAME VOL PRICE CHANGE Eastgate Tech Genting SP ChinaNTown GoldenAgr SwingMedia 200,400 98,332 59,463 56,008 54,002 0.005 1.140 0.110 0.525 0.050 q q UNCH 2.564%
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      ASIA
      30 46 HANG SENG È È 19,857.07 (-1.13%) Ç È È NIKKEI 9,279.65 (-0.63%) SHANGHAI 2,421.12 (+0.49%) AUSTRALIA 4,254.60 Ç (-0.50%) MUMBAI 17,471.03 (-0.81%) È MALAYSIA 1,311.75 (+0.36%) SEOUL 1,675.65 (-0.55%)
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      21 46 US$1 £1 €1 ¥100 A$1 RM1 Rp10,000 HK$100 RMB100 RS100 1.391 2.102 1.750 1.595 1.180 0.432 1.532 17.85 20.51 2.951
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        WILMAR
        60 46 Outperform $6.00 Organic growth potential in Australia for Wilmar’s acquisition target Sucrogen likely limited due to insufficient arable land to expand sugar plantations, says CIMB, which has $6.50 target. Says “growth and synergies from this acquisition expected to come from the expansion of the sugar business into new growth
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        CAPITACOMMERCIAL TRUST
        66 46 Hold $1.260 OCBC Investment Research downgrades CCT to “Hold” from “Buy” on limited upside to its $1.26 target price after recent run-up on hopes office landlord will sell its StarHub Centre in Singapore. Says despite one-off gain from divestment, distribution per unit will be affected by loss of
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      Where were S’pore’s IPOs?
      413 46  -  JANICETEO janiceteo@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE—The Singapore initial public offering scene paled in comparison to its Asian counterparts for the second quarter this year, according to the latest global IPO study by accounting firm Ernst and Young. For the three months ended June 30, the Singapore Exchange attracted six
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      Leasing boost for Ocean Financial Centre from ANZ, BNB Paribas
      336 48  -  RYAN HUANG ryanhuang@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Two foreign banks, the Australia and New Zealand (ANZ) Banking Group and BNP Paribas Singapore, have become the latest to sign up for space at Ocean Financial Centre at Raffles Place. This raises the pre-commitment levels
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      50 Collyer Quay pre-commited leases at 22%
      235 48 SINGAPORE Mainboard listed Overseas Union Enterprise (OUE) said its whollyowned subsidiary, Clifford Development, has obtained pre-committed leases totalling some 88,000 sq ft or 22 per cent of the net lettable area for its latest development, 50 Collyer Quay. The initial lineup of tenants
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      Lock icon Microsoft to lay off 20 employees
      242 48 JULIE QUEK SINGAPORE Software giant Microsoft Corp is planning to cut a small number of jobs worldwide, including in Singapore, as early as this week as part of its operational reorganisation and not due to cost constraints. It is understood that Microsoft Singapore intends
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      Logistics sector held steady: EDB
      268 50  -  DESMOND WONG desmondwong@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The logistics sector held steady last year despite the global downturn. The Economic Development Board (EDB) reported that the sector attracted about $481 million in business spending last year, down slightly from 2008. The logistics sector, which makes up about 5.5
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      Lock icon Khazanah talks to 5 banks for loans
      192 50 BLOOMBERG KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian sovereign wealth fund, Khazanah, has started talks with five banks for loans that will enable it to increase its offer for hospital operator Parkway Holdings. This is according to a Bloomberg report, which cited three unnamed people with knowledge
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      CAPITALAND TO MANAGE TWO MORE SERVICED RESIDENCES IN CHINA
      129 50 CapitaLand’s serviced residence business unit, The Ascott, has secured contracts to manage two more serviced residence properties in Xi’an and Shenzhen, China. Somerset Gaoxin, Xi’an is Ascott’s first Somerset-branded serviced residence in the city. Located within the new commercial centre of
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      FLASH ESTIMATES OF Q2 GROWTH TO BE RELEASED ON WEDNESDAY
      91 50 Singapore will release flash estimates for its second quarter growth on Wednesday. The Ministry of Trade and Industry said the advance estimates of the gross domestic product (GDP) will be released at 8am. Economists expect strong growth for Singapore’s second
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      SMARTFLEX OFFERS 13 MILLION SHARES TO EXPAND PRODUCTION FACILITIES
      132 50 Assembly and testing services firm Smartflex Holdings is hoping to raise $1.76 million in net proceeds from a listing on the Catalist board. It is offering 13 million new shares at $0.22 each and only 1.5 million shares have been set
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      168 46 BUSINESS LEASING BOOST FOR OCEAN FINANCIAL CENTRE FROM BROKERAGE RESEARCH AND AGENCY REPORTS Disclaimer: Readers should seek independent financial advice before making any investment decision. Today cannot be held liable for any consequence arising from the use of this information. The world's favourite lock WM m m Unlock your life
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      Lock icon Oranje fever grips Holland
      310 55 AGENCIES THE HAGUE Dutch newspapers hailed in bold orange letters yesterday their footballers’ achievement in reaching the country’s third World Cup final after a 3-2 victory over two-time winners Uruguay. “FINALS!” screams the front page of the popular Telegraaf daily with a picture of a roaring
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      Lock icon BRITISH JOURNALIST TO FACE TRIAL IN SOUTH AFRICA
      200 54 AP The British tabloid journalist arrested after a fan appeared in the England team’s dressing room after a World Cup game will go on trial this weekend. Simon Wright of the Sunday Mirror appeared in court yesterday and will face charges of
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      Lock icon IT'S ALL DOMENECH'S FAULT, SAYS BITTER GALLAS
      180 54 AFP The blame for France’s catastrophic World Cup finals campaign should be laid at the door of former coach Raymond Domenech, veteran defender William Gallas (picture) said yesterday. “The real problem is the coach,” he told weekly publication Les Inrockuptibles. “Okay I wasn’t
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      Lock icon Not so sweet, this Oranje
      699 54  -  COMMENTARY Van Marwijk’s side do it their way as they chase a place in the history books LEONARDTHOMAS in Cape Town, South Africa leonard@mediacorp.com.sg The writer is executive sports editor at MediaCorp NewsHub I looked around the stadium from my vantage point up in the
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      Lock icon Van Persie dreams of lifting the Cup, just like Maradona once did
      386 54 AFP CAPE TOWN Dutch striker Robin van Persie has admitted he is desperate to win the World Cup on Sunday to follow in the footsteps of his hero, Argentina legend Diego Maradona. Van Persie is delighted to be
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      Lock icon Now for the one that’s missing
      720 59 Sneijder hopes to add World Cup to Serie A, Coppa Italia and Champions League titles THE DAILY TELEGRAPH CAPE TOWN Fortune is smiling obsequiously on Wesley Sneijder. With 20 minutes left of Holland’s World Cup semi-final tie against Uruguay on Tuesday, (yesterday morning, Singapore
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      Lock icon Let’s finish the job, boys
      453 58 Van Marwijk reminds his players there’s still one more obstacle to clear AFP CAPE TOWN Dutch coach Bert van Marwijk has praised his side for reaching their first World Cup final in 32 years, but said their achievement counts for nothing yet. Holland’s 3-2 semi-final
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      Lock icon Now comes the hardest part...
      583 63 Tabarez has to lift despondent charges for a match where only pride is at stake AFP CAPE TOWN His unheralded team carried the flag for South America, as Brazil and Argentina crashed out it was unfancied Uruguay who defied their doubters with a sensational run
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      Lock icon A monument for Maradona?
      319 63 AP BUENOS AIRES He is reportedly depressed, locked away in a Buenos Aires suburb and considering his future after Argentina’s exit from the World Cup. Hopefully this piece of news will cheer Diego Maradona up. An Argentine legislator has proposed building a monument to honour the
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      Lock icon He fought till he dropped
      584 62 Forlan played through the pain but it wasn’t good enough for Uruguay AP CAPE TOWN Diego Forlan ignored the pain for as long as he could, carrying Uruguay on his shoulders and giving the little nation hope of a most improbable World Cup final berth.
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      Lock icon Uruguay beaten but their pride is intact
      378 62 AGENCIES CAPE TOWN They were the last team to reach the World Cup finals, and they had hoped that they would be the last to leave the tournament as well. But Uruguay’s dreams of reaching their first World Cup final in 60 years
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    ‘I was once a fan’
    1601 67  -  MUSIC CHRISTOPHER TOH christophertoh@mediacorp.com.sg Or how I helped Kit Chan attain superstardom (well, kind of) IT’S 8PM. MediaCorp studios. In the auditorium below, fans are screaming for Korean boyband Beast, who are performing for Channel 5’s variety show, Entertainment On 5. Up in the dress-
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    GREAT NIGHTS BEGIN FROM 17:59
    207 68 Brought to you by 17:59 marks the transition between two halves of the day the end of work time and the beginning of our time; made up of our mates, our plans, our interests and our beer. 17:59 is when our time begins; and our
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      29 68 Guinness would like to thank you for sending in your “Great Night Moments with Guinness” pictures. Look out for the winning picture in the July 15 edition of Today.
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        267 73  -  BY APHRODITE KYLIE MINOGUE CHRISTOPHER TOH “Dance, it’s all I want to do, so won’t you dance,” sings Kylie on this album’s opening track All The Lovers.That more or less sets the tone for Aphrodite, Kylie’s 11th album. And it’s one that will definitely make you
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        103 73 This singer joined X Factor in 2008. She didn’t win, but starred in the West End production of The Rise And Fall Of Little Voice. Which meant that this debut had to be delayed. But some things are worth waiting for. Especially if you’re
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        92 73 This band’s latest effort seems to be nod back to the days of AOR. Not that they’ve ditched their clubland ways. There’s enough club beats and disco treats to keep any dance enthusiast happy, on songs like Any Which Way and Fire With Fire. Even the most
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        302 75 Relooking a classic record CHRISTOPHERTOH New School Rock II Various Artistes “1991 was indeed a watershed year for Singapore indie music,” so began Patrick Chng, who wrote the liner notes for this album, a project that was in part a prize for winners of the Commitments music
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        126 75 So here’s the cleanliving wunderkind who’s doing really well on the popularity front. Such that she can afford to go all rebellious-like on this album. I say “rebellious- like” because, let’s face it, she’s the It Girl for cute packages and being an all-round nicey.
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      136 77 If he appears, Spanish actor says he will ‘rock the house’ AFP OSCAR winner Javier Bardem (No Country For Old Men) is expected appear in a cameo role in the second season of Glee. A fan of the hit television show, the Spanish actor will play a
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        94 83 Two popular destinations are among the highlights of Chan Brother Travel’s weekend sale. Starting from $569, including taxes and fees, two can fly to Bangkok for a weekend in a four-star establishment with daily breakfasts.The five-day Hong Kong package, meanwhile, starts from $625, including taxes and fees, and
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        107 83 Catch the Road to Mandalay for a luxurious exploration of the Ayerwaddy River, along with off-the-tourist-radar sites in Burma’s far north. The river cruiser sails fromYangon to Mandalay, Bagan and Bhamo, about 80km from the Chinese border. Passengers can sun by the pool on deck, enjoy gourmet meals
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        181 83 AFP The price of a hotel in many European cities is continuing to decline, according to hotel price comparison site Trivago. The average price of a hotel in Europe’s top cities was just €108 ($189) this month, with 38 of the 50 cities indexed by Trivago posting
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      340 85 AFP WOOD-BURNING stoves, in-room recycling, fine cuisine featuring local produce: From bed-and-breakfasts to five-star palaces, France’s hotel industry is opening its eyes to the lucrative advantages of going green. “Our business involves a lot of water, electricity and rubbish, so our goal is to
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      639 87 Changi returns to the top, now to stay there HE PEIWEN THE allure of Changi Airport is no secret: Reviews by travellers on independent airline and airport reviewer Skytrax’s website applauded the airport for the efficiency of its immigration and baggage clearance procedures, cleanliness and
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      356 88 Good news for travellers in Asia Pacific four out of five of the best airports in the world are situated in the region according to airport and airline reviewer Skytrax. In all, 210 airports around the world were rated by airline passengers for their products and
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