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  • 26 1 TODAY MICA (P) 057/10/2010 A PUBLICATION OF NEWS HOTLINE 6822 2268 Wednesday November 17, 2010 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking NOVEMBER 17, 2010 A PUBLICATION OF
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  • 523 1  -  Tougher laws, greater police power on the cards but family involvement critical, says Minister of State Masagos TEO XUANWEI xuanwei@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The Ministry of Home Affairs is looking into whether to make laws tougher and give the police greater powers to tackle the
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  • 133 1 TEO XUANWEI Six of the 16 people arrested for the parang attacks in Bukit Panjang last week will likely be detained without trial, a police spokesman told MediaCorp yesterday. The spokesman said the six men, aged between 19 and 49, are
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    • 142 1 Today WISHES ALL ITS MUSLIM READERS SELAMAT HARIRAYA HAJI SPORTS COMMENT &ANALYSIS WORLD CHINA LEAVE NO DOUBT WHO IS NO 1 20 MATTHEW LYNN EURO DOMINOS WILL FALL UNTIL CURRENCY IS SPLIT TRAGEDY IN NEW DELHI AS BUILDING COLLAPSES 16 DON’T MISS 16 PAGES OF T Everyone is a WINNER!
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  • NEWS
    • 490 2  -  NEO CHAI CHIN chaichin@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE At the start of liquidation last month, it had $1,623 cash in hand and about $44,000 on its bank book. In contrast, claims against Subtle Senses, comprising mainly the value of its customers’ unused treatments and the Central Provident Fund
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    • 139 2 SHArriOALKfU Til} An 18-year-old youth, one of the accused in the Downtown East murder of Republic Polytechnic student Darren Ng Wei Jie, is believed to have been transferred out of Changi General Hospital’s intensive care unit. Edward Tay Wei Loong, who
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    • 405 2  -  ONG DAI LIN dailin@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE He would have received a lighter sentence had he apologised about the offending content in his book. Instead, British journalist Alan Shadrake aggravated the offence, Justice Quentin Loh said yesterday as he handed out what was the stiffest
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    • 587 2  -  ONG DAI LIN dailin@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The legal fraternity is in a flap over a recent move by the Law Society (LawSoc) which raised its annual membership subscription fees for lawyers by $200 last year to provide business class air tickets for council
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    • 372 3  -  IDA’s stance follows recent reports that nine in 10 condo management committees rejected the installation of the requisite fibre-optic cabling, citing mainly aesthetic reasons for their reluctance to comply. SATISH CHENEY satishkumar@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE All building owners, including management committees of private apartments
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    • 370 3 SINGAPORE It currently takes about six hours to diagnose a patient with Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease (HFMD) and a further six hours for its more virulent strain, Enterovirus 71 (EV71). But the world’s first HFMD kit, developed by Singapore Polytechnic lecturer Dr Tan
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    • 126 3 SINGAPORE A Swiss expatriate who was jailed and caned for vandalising an MRT train at the depot has flown home after serving his sentence, the Swiss embassy reportedly said yesterday. Oliver Fricker (picture), a 32-year-old software consultant, was released from Changi Prison
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    • 369 3 VIMITAS MOHANDAS SINGAPORE An artificial leaf to mimic nature and turn sunlight and water into a fuel source. A “virtual human” that will allow fashion designers to try out different designs and fabrics on various body types or even act as personal tutors.
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    • 442 4  -  Lawyers-as-mediators programme takes off, extended to Small ClaimsTribunal Volunteering as Associate Mediators at the Subordinate Courts, they hear disputes, seek common ground between the parties and persuade them to view litigation as a last resort. LEONG WEE KEAT weekeat@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE It took him less than
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    • 180 4  -  The project, which will offer about 800 apartments at $450 to $550 per square foot, had its groundbreaking ceremony yesterday. LYNDA HONG SINGAPORE Prospective buyers are flocking to the Yishun site where Adora Green, a project under HDB’s Design, Build and Sell
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    • 346 6  -  S'pore in unique position to help building of ties: Political analysts WONGYEE FONG WONG YEE FONG yeefong@mediacorp.com.sg BEIJING Singapore will continue to play a unique role as a bridge between China and South-east Asia, political observers in Beijing believe, following the conclusion of Chinese Vice-President Xi
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    • 241 6 SINGAPORE MediaCorp is producing a live television show to raise funds for victims of the Mentawai tsunami and Mount Merapi volcanic eruption. Titled Project Hope, the programme is supported by broadcasters across South-east Asia. It will feature performances from regional artistes.
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    • 69 6 Singapore’s diplomat in Brussels, Mr Desmond Koh will attend the hearing of the former Romanian charge d’affaires in Singapore Silviu Ionescu in Bucharest, Romania today. The Foreign Ministry said Mr Koh is attending the hearing on behalf of Singapore’s Special Envoy to Romania, Ambassador
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    • 148 6 Actor Adrian Pang wants to “rock out” with his two sons at Glastonbury. Actress Pam Oei hopes to perform in a rock concert. TV host Anita Kapoor dreams of operating her own air balloon. The three celebrities’ revelations about what they want to
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    • 337 6  -  Defence counsel Michael Khoo said that Mr Tan Kwee Koon handed over the $480,000 cheque... to buy out one of his own brothers. SHAFFIQ ALKHATIB SINGAPORE A cheque for $480,000 was the centrepiece of the trial yesterday of former lawyer Tan Cheng Yew,
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    • 158 6 The licences of 15 employment agencies have been revoked so far this year, compared to 11 last year, for various infringements under the Employment Agencies Act orthe Employment of Foreign Manpower Act. The Manpower Ministry said the infringements ranged from the illegal employment of foreigners,
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    • 108 6 The CPF Board will continue paying members 2.5 per cent annual interest on their Ordinary Account savings between January and March next year. Based on the major local banks’ interest rates for the three-month period from August to October this year, the
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    • 106 7 Standard Chartered Can a bank really stand for something? Can it balance its ambition with its conscience? To do what it must. Not what it can. As not everything in life that counts can be counted. Can it not only look at the profit it makes but how it makes
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  • VOICES
    • 296 8  -  Hats off to the Government healthcare system, where world-class healthcare is available at reasonable prices. Letter from Harshini Siriwardane I AM an American expatriate living in Singapore. In the countries I have previously lived in, private healthcare providers were the best. Based on that experience,
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    • 145 8  - Contact us if you can Letter from Lim Poh Seng WITH the Internet such a pervasive part of our lives now, with Google and websites now fulfilling the functions of the old phone directory, it is hoped large firms and organisations could standardise how their contact information is accessible and
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    • 222 10  -  Letter from Toh Chong Siong SINGAPORE has strict laws governing the use of motor vehicles, but I have seen motorists blatantly flouting the rules. For instance, I have seen cars with blacked-out windows and windscreens or retrofitted exhaust pipes. Most irksome and dangerous
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    • 617 10  -  Letter from Lawrence CT Low OVER the past two years I have been at the receiving end of some poor service from SingPost. Two packages were sent to me from Germany via DHL on Dec 18,2008, and Jan 8 last year. I
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  • Page 8 Miscellaneous
    • 147 8 Today MediaCorp Press Ltd Caldecott Broadcast Centre, Annex Building, Level 1, Andrew Rd, Singapore *****9 Tel 6236 4888 Fax 6534 4217 today@mediacorp.com.sg we set you thinking todayonline.com Publisher Patrick Yong Editor Walter Fernandez Deputy Editor Quak Hiang Whai Associate Editor Chan Teck Guan Night Editor Richard J Valladares Editor-At-Large Conrad
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  • COMMENT & ANALYSIS
    • 987 12  -  In each country, it will be a different trigger that causes a collapse in financial confidence. The root cause is the same, though. When the euro was launched, it was a big bet that sharing the same currency would make a group
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    • 873 13  -  JULIAN RIMMER The writer is a trader at CF Global Trading in London. The opinions expressed are his own. BLOOMBERG The jury is out, or at least it would be if there was one. Fascinated or appalled, Russia and the world await the verdict
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    • 961 14  -  Somewhere in the past decade, her conviction hardened that the state of Palestine is achievable, inevitable and compatible with Israeli security. ROGERCOHEN The writer is a New York Times columnist. The opinions expressed are his own. THE NEW YORK TIMES I like the look of President
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    • 783 15  -  RORYCARROLL THE There was so much goodness packed on to the plane there was almost no room for me. This was American Airlines flight 575 from Miami to Port-au-Prince and the passengers were on a mission to help Haiti. A volunteer agreed to take a
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  • WORLD
    • 288 16 collapsed. AP NEW DELHI Rescuers hammered slabs of concrete and dug with their hands yesterday to pull survivors and bodies from a fivestory apartment building that collapsed into a mountain of rubble in a poor New Delhi neighbourhood. At least 65 people were
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    • 103 16 AP Britain’s Prince William is to marry his long-term girlfriend Kate Middleton next year, Buckingham Palace said yesterday. William, 28, the elder son of heir-to-the-throne Prince Charles and the late Princess Diana, and Middleton, 28, became engaged while on holiday in Kenya. “The wedding will take place
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    • 232 16 AGENCIES WASHINGTON The United States plans to hold talks with Myanmar’s new military-backed rulers as it assesses US sanctions after the release of pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, the State Department said on Monday. “We will have meetings in the coming
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    • 200 16 THE MALAYSIAN INSIDER Opposition Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) vice-president Azmin Ali is set to be the next deputy president as his only competition is unlikely to catch up with his 11,350-vote lead afterthree weekends of voting. The coming weekend will see the last round
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    • 162 16 AP,THE DAILY TELEGRAPH Apple Inc announced yesterday that its iTunes service will sell music from the Beatles. The Fab Four have so far been the most prominent holdout from iTunes and other online music services. Apple Corps, which manages the band’s affairs,
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    • 139 16 REUTERS The Chinese police held eight suspects yesterday after a Shanghai apartment fire that killed at least 53 people was blamed on unlicensed welding, in a jolt for the growing number of people who live in high-rises in China. The fire gutted a
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    • 123 16 REUTERS Protesters in Haiti, blaming United Nations troops for a cholera epidemic that has killed hundreds of people, attacked UN peacekeepers in two cities on Monday. One protesterwasshotdead in the clashes and six UN peacekeep- ers were injured. The UN mission blamed the
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    • 124 16 The manager of a Bangkok hotel opposite Thai Premier Abhisit Vejjajiva’s home is petitioning the government for financial help because the constant presence of security personnel has scared away tourists, the Bangkok Post reported. Manager Anan Hayeemasalae said the 80-room
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    • 261 17 THE MALAYSIAN INSIDER KUALA LUMPUR The Malaysian Education Ministry has said existing sex education modules will continue, denying recent media reports of a new syllabus for the culturally and religiously sensitive subject. The New Straits Times quoted Deputy Education Minister Wee Ka Siong
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    • 299 17 AP BANGKOK Thailand extradited accused Russian arms trafficker Viktor Bout to the US yesterday to face terrorism charges, siding with Washington in a tug of war with Moscow over whether to send him to stand trial or let him go home. The Cabinet
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    • 286 18 AGENCIES LONDON A group of former Guantanamo Bay detainees who claim they were tortured with the complicity of the British security services have been paid millions of pounds to drop legal action against the British government. Ministers will announce today that a
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    • 234 18 AP MIR ALI (Pakistan) A suspected United States missile strike targeting a home and a speeding vehicle near the Afghan border killed 15 alleged militants yesterday, Pakistani intelligence officials said. The attack happened in the Bangi Dar village of North Waziristan, a tribal
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    • 374 18 AP TEHRAN Iranian state television has broadcast a purported statement by an Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning for adultery in which she calls herself a “sinner”. The stoning sentence against the 43-year-old Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani has been put on hold and
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    • 142 18 THE GUARDIAN Hundreds of thousands of people with family and housing law problems in the United Kingdom will no longer have access to free legal advice under government proposals announced yesterday. Measures proposing the most drastic cuts to legal
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    • 128 18 THE GUARDIAN British government plans, allowing police to stop people on the grounds of skin colour, are discriminatory and amount to racial profiling, the Equality and Human Rights Commission warned ministers on Monday. The official equalities body said there is a high risk
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    • 139 18 AP A California woman has been charged with conspiring to provide money and people to a Somali terrorist group to help carry out killings in the African nation. Nima Ali Yusuf, a 24-year-old United States permanent resident, conspired in southern California and elsewhere to
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    • 168 18 role.” THE DAILY TELEGRAPH An American software engineer has gained notoriety in the United States after posting a blog item saying he had been ejected and threatened with a fine for refusing a groin check after turning down a full-body scan at San
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    • 344 19 judge charges, THE NEW YORK TIMES PRAGUE At least seven people have been charged with participating in an international organ-trafficking network based in Kosovo that sold kidneys and other organs from impoverished victims for up to US$200,000 ($300,000) to patients from as far
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    • 134 19 THE NEW YORK TIMES In a unanimous decision, the California Supreme Court ruled on Monday that illegal immigrants can be eligible for the same reduced tuition at public colleges and universities as legal residents of the state. The ruling is the latest in a series
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    • 95 19 AP The United States and its North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (Nato) allies are close to an agreement to erect a missile shield over Europe, a project that would give the military alliance a fresh purpose while testing President Barack Obama's campaign to
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    • 125 19 AP An 84-year-old Japanese-American woman was pushed to her death from a commuter train platform in Los Angeles’ Little Tokyo by an apparent stranger and investigators believe the victim did nothing to provoke the attack, authorities said on Monday. Ms Betty
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    • 58 19 Millions of residents in Dhaka were travelling home yesterday from the capital city of Bangladesh to celebrate the Eid Al-Adha holiday today. Muslims around the world celebrate Eid Al-Adha to mark the end of haj by slaughtering sheep, goats, cows and camels in remembrance
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    • 200 19 REUTERS SAN FRANCISCO Facebook rolled out an all-in-one messaging service that, for the first time, allows its half a billion members to communicate with people outside the social network, intensifying a battle with Google and Yahoo for users’ Internet time. Addressing speculation the world’s largest
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    • 252 19 BLOOMBERG MOSCOW Russian intelligence services are hunting for more moles after a Moscowbased agent with knowledge of a sleeper cell in the United States defected, Kommersant reported, citing unidentified officials. The newspaper reported on Nov 11 that a Russian official in charge
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  • SPORTS
    • 533 20  -  Stung by the Singaporeans in May, hosts produce their 'A' game to win table tennis gold TANYO-HINN TAN YO-HINN yohinn@mediacorp.com.sg GUANGZHOU At every break in proceedings, Tiffany Giardina’s energetic number “Hurry up and Save Me” would blare out over the loudspeakers at
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    • 356 20 TANYO-HINN GUANGZHOU Her nickname is “Le Le”, which is “Happy” in Mandarin. It has been anything but for Singapore table tennis star Feng Tianwei in recent weeks. She was powerless to stem the tide yesterday as the Chinese swept to
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    • 547 21 Youngsters Shayna and Hui Fen finish with silver and bronze in the singles SINGAPORE Singapore is used to bigname bowlers like Remy Ong, Jasmine Yeong-Nathan and Jazreel Tan making headlines at major events. So far, it is not going to script at the 16th
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    • 362 21 AP GUANGZHOU China turned its attention to basketball yesterday as the competition kicked off at the Asian Games with the hosts strolling to a 91-46 win over Mongolia in Group E. It was the first step for a team trying to
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    • 472 22 South Korean rockets to second gold in the pool and eyes a historic third tomorrow AGENCIES GUANGZHOU After qualifying fifth-fast-est for his signature event at the 16th Asian Games, 2008 Beijing Olympic 400m champion Park Tae Hwan confidently remarked that the lane allocation
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    • 339 22 IAN DE COTTA SINGAPORE With China dominating in the pool, and Japan and South Korea the next best swimming nations at the Asian Games, only Tao Li was expected to feature among the medals for Singapore in Guangzhou. The rest of the Republic’s 18-strong swimming
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    • 220 22 GUANGZHOU Three days and six races in, Singapore’s sailors are eyeing three gold medals at the 16th Asian Games. At the Shanwei Water Sports Centre yesterday, the Republic continued to lead in the Laser Standard through Colin Cheng, while the pairs Justin Liu and
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    • 435 23 Hong Kong cyclist picks herself up from huge crash to win silver AP GUANGZHOU Wong Wan Yiu’s tears on the medal podium at the Asian Games yesterday had nothing to do with joy. The Hong Kong cyclist had just survived a multi-bike crash and had possibly
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    • 211 23 LOW LIN FHOONG SINGAPORE Organisers of the 2010 Standard Chartered Marathon Singapore have put in measures to ease waiting times for some 60,000 participants looking to collect their race entry packs from Nov 19 to 22. Held at the Singapore Expo Hall 5, the collection
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    • 412 23 Ex-internationals play to support the underprivileged, develop women's, youth football SINGAPORE Singapore football chief Zainudin Nordin will put on his boots for charity at the annual Singapore 9s Masters 2010, which will be held at Jalan Besar Stadium this weekend.
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    • 342 24 way.” THE GUARDIAN ANFIELD Liverpool owner John Henry has ruled out the possibility of the club embarking on a spending spree in the January transfer window. His statement could stir the ire of supporters, who turned on manager Roy Hodgson following Saturday’s 2-0
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    • 417 24 United owners the Glazers to repay loans AGENCIES MANCHESTER Last month, John Henry paid off Liverpool’s acquisition debt which was brought onto the club by their previous owners George Gillett and Tom Hicks. The Glazer family has now decided to emulate their fellow American. The
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    • 372 24 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH LONDON Chelsea’s backline was stunningly exposed by Sunderland on Sunday, now Blues manager Carlo Ancelotti will have to figure out how to cope without his defensive rock John Terry (picture) for the next few months. Ancelotti’s medical team
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    • 634 25 Three Lions' captain urge team to improve mentality LONDON England captain Rio Ferdinand (picture) has admitted that he is as bemused by the national team’s enduring ability to disappoint. Ahead of England’s friendly against France tonight (tomorrow morning, Singapore time), Ferdinand said that
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    • Article, Illustration
      64 25 AP Twin brothers in football attire, one in Ukraine’s blue and yellow colours, the other in Poland’s white and red, are presented in Warsaw, Poland, yesterday as the mascots of the Euro 2012 championships. The tournament, which pits 16 of the best European national sides, will be jointly
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    • 134 25 FREE BEER FOR ALL AUSSIES IF ASHES ARE WON AP An Australian brewery will provide a free beer for every adult in the country if the Australian cricket team wins the Ashes test series against England starting this month. Team sponsor Carlton and United Breweries announced the promotion in Sydney
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    • 60 21 ASIAN GAMES ON MEDIACORP CH 5 TODAY 12pm Taekwondo Men/ Women 1pm Equestrian Dressage Individual 3pm Beach Volleyball Women’s Prelims 4pm Volleyball Men’s Prelims: KAZ vs KOR 6pm Swimming Finals TOMORROW 12pm Table Tennis Men/ Women: Singles Doubles 1pm Volleyball Women’s Prelims: JPN vs TPE 4pm Badminton Men/Women: Singles Doubles
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  • ENTERPRISE
    • 694 30 Reprinted from SPRINGnews November 2010 issue. Published by SPRING Singapore. ENTERING a new industry is a bold undertaking and Griffin Kinetic has done just that. The maritime and offshore logistics provider ventured into the burgeoning pharmaceutical sector in September last year. Its success in making
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    • 319 30  -  MILLET ENRIQUEZ emelita@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Singapore will host Asia’s first World Entrepreneurship Forum (WEF) in November next year. This annual gathering of thought leaders has been held since 2008 in France. Singapore has become a hotbed for new businesses. From retail and wholesale trade to
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  • BUSINESS
    • 499 26  -  QUAK HIANG WHAI IN BEIJING deputy editor, Today hiangwhai@mediacorp.com.sg BEIJING The head of the world’s second largest bank has described the global trade imbalance situation as merely a “division of labour” that should not be tampered with. Speaking at a financial conference in
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    • 80 26 TUESDAY CLOSE 3,212.10 (-0.76%) Monday 3,236.80 q 0.47% Friday 3,252.00 q 1.26% Thursday 3,293.39 p 0.13% Wednesday 3,289.24 q 0.74% TOP 5 BYVOLUME NAME VOL PRICE CHANGE Genting SP 157,798 $2.100 p 0.48% BanJoo^ 79,343 $0.050 p 11.11% GoldenAgr 52,080 $0.730 p 1.39% Centillion 47,510 $0.005 UNCH SingTel 34,968
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      • 61 26 Buy 39 cents Kim Eng upgrades from Hold and raises the target price to 50 cents from 46 cents. The changes reflect the China-based commercial property developer’s redesign of its Daping project and assumptions for more achievable retail yields and average selling prices. The house expects Ying Li’s
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      • 69 26 Hold 99 cents OCBC Investment Research downgrades from Buy and trims the target price to 99 cents from $1.10 after lowering FY11 and 12 core earnings forecasts by 12 per cent and 4 per cent, respectively. The house says it expects crane company’s profit margin to remain under
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      • 61 26 Buy 85 cents DMG keeps rating and raises the target price to $1.05 from 93 cents. The house says that while it has trimmed earnings forecasts downwards by 7.3 per cent for FY10 and 4.6 per cent for FY11 to factor in higher effective tax rates and expenses,
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    • 488 26  -  Shipments to all of S’pore’s top 10 markets rose JONATHAN PEERIS jonathanpeeris@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The Republic’s non-oil domestic exports (NODX) surged at a much better-than-expected 34.5 per cent last month from the same month a year earlier to $16.8 billion, data from the trade
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    • 395 27  -  Stage set for Singapore's largest en bloc sale RYAN HUANG ryanhuang@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE It could be third time lucky for Pine Grove estate. MediaCorp understands that the third attempt at an en bloc sale of the condominium along Ulu Pandan Road received the necessary 80-per-cent approval
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    • 171 27 JULIE QUEK UOL Group said its Spottiswoode Residences project has registered strong preview sales, with 130 units of the total 150 released for sale snapped up since last Friday. UOL will release another 80 units at the official launch today. The property group said 86
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    • 326 27 AGENCIES BRUSSELS Europe’s debt crisis reached a critical juncture yesterday, as finance ministers sought to keep Ireland’s market turmoil from triggering a domino effect that could topple other vulnerable nations like Portugal and fray the region’s economic unity. Only months after saving Greece from
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    • 95 27 SEMBCORP MARINE SELLS $253 MILLION RIG TO TRANSOCEAN PPL Shipyard, a Sembcorp Marine subsidiary, is selling a jack-up rig for US$195 million ($253 million) to Transocean, the world’s largest drilling contractor. The rig is already under construction and is scheduled for delivery in the fourth quarter of 2011. It will
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    • 371 28 Move to mean that central bank will tolerate stronger local currency DOW JONES SINGAPORE The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) will now allow the local currency to move as much as 3.5 per cent against an undisclosed basket of currencies after the central bank widened
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    • 400 28  -  CONRAD RAJ editor-at-large conrad@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Trade between Singapore and Argentina looks likely to rise with the arrival of a trade delegation from several provinces of the land of the tango and the gauchos. The group of about two dozen delegates represents
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    • 71 33 NOVEMBER 17, 2010 A PUBLICATION OF BREAKING UP WITH DANIEL RADCLIFFE AND THE CAST OF HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 1 IN LONDON. T2 FOOD REVIEW: UNIVERSITY CLUB LOUNGE AND DINING ROOMS GET AN ‘A’ FOR EFFORT. T14 EVERYONE WANTS TO BE IN THE NEXT MUPPETS MOVIE BUT
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    • 1577 34  -  Denial, heartbreak and wizardry a writer deals with the impending end of her decade-long relationship with Harry Potter GENEVIEVE LOH IN LONDON genevieveloh@mediacorp.com.sg HE WAS a cute-as-a-button 11-year-old boy with a lightning bolt scar and dorky round glasses, completely unaware of his extraordinary supernatural
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    • 490 38 Legendary movie producer was larger than life, say David Lynch and Arnold Schwarzenegger Kong. AP DINO De Laurentiis was a man who loved life, his family, good Italian food and the movies. So said Arnold Schwarzenegger, David Lynch and Baz Luhrmann,who shared stories about the veteran producer
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    • 313 38  -  MOVIE REVIEW: HARRY POTTER ANDTHE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 1/ PG, 146 min Serene Lim serenelim@mediacorp.com.sg PART 1 of the seventh instalment of the franchise picks up almost immediately where The Half-Blood Prince left off. Lord Voldemort (Ralph Fiennes) has seized control of the wizard world, and the grim
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    • 926 40  -  It was one thing to make a film based on a theme park it's quite another to base one on the Rubik's Cube Catherine Shoard features@mediacorp.com.sg THE GUARDIAN AS THE career of Steven Seagal shows, Hollywood has a track record of breathing life into apparently inanimate objects.Yet,
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    • 334 41 We imagine what other games in our cupboards could be turned into movies. THE GUARDIAN The Operation Seven years after accidentally killing his best friend while trying to remove a spanner from his ankle, brilliant surgeon Max Tweezer (George Clooney) has hung up his scalpel and
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    • 197 42 Stars are lining up to be in the new Muppets movie saying REUTERS DISNEY’S new Muppets movie will be bursting at the seams with high-profile cameos. Alan Arkin, Jack Black, Billy Crystal, Zach Galifianakis and Jean-Claude Van Damme are being recruited to make guest appearances in the
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    • Article, Illustration
      115 42 What’s the story, Morning Glory? Apparently, not much, according to rather tepid reviews of the upcoming comedy starring Diane Keaton, Harrison Ford, Rachel McAdams and Patrick Wilson. And expectations are incredibly high when a film comes prepackaged with proven talent and a creative team that includes Notting Hill
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    • 438 43 Jay-Z pens book on his songs, his life in the 'hood, and getting rich REUTERS FROM selling crack cocaine as a teenage hustler to becoming one of America’s richest rappers, Jay-Z writes about his life, decodes his music and explains hip-hop culture in his literary debut, Decoded,
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    • 1128 44 ON MEDIACORP ON MEDIACORP ONE MOMENT OF GLORY (Season Finale, Live) Channel 5, 8pm (Performance), 10pm (Results) CHANNEL 6.00AM Films Stars Asia 6.30 Holiday Special: Famous Crime Scene Michael Jackson 7.00 Holiday Special: Forbes Top 20 TV Cash Queens 8.00 Holiday Special: Britney For The Record 9.15 Holiday Movie: Goal!
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    278 45 THINGS TO DO 1 Vedic Metal Band Collaborates With Dance Group RUDRA, widely known as the founders of a metal genre called “vedic metal”, presents a collaboration between death metal and dance movements together with Maya Dance Theatre. Part of Kalaa Utsavam: Indian Festival Of Arts 2010.
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      611 46 For its apparent culinary ambitions,The University Club: Lounge and Dining Rooms gets an 'A' for effort SERENE LIM I REMEMBER my political science professor treating a bunch of us honours students to lunch at the NUS Guild House restaurant. It was a noisy diner of sorts, and the
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    • 245 46 BITE-SIZED DON MENDOZA FROM a pushcart of France’s finest fruits and vegetables some 100 years ago to achieving worldwide fame as a leading purveyor of luxury food, French gourmet icon Fauchon has extended its reach across the globe to over 40 countries or 450 points
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