Today, 20 November 2010

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    66 1 Week&uC RHW MICA (P) 207/09/2010 A PUBLICATION OF NEWS HOTLINE 6822 2268 November 20 21, 2010 www.todayonline.com we set you JftdewtToDM MICA (P) 207/09/2010 A PUBLICATION OF NEWS HOTLINE 6822 2268 November 20 21, 2010 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking NOVEMBER 20 21, 2010 A PUBLICATION A Publication of MediaCorp
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    References and interviews are key to scholarship selection
    487 2  -  NG JING YNG jingyng@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE He would have been considered for his grades and co-curricular activities. He would have written a personal statement, undergone psychometric screenings and an interview, backed by references. But disciplinary records are not listed under the requirements in
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    It could have started earlierthan thought...
    446 2  -  Ex-SLA executive's alleged involvement in fraud may have begun in 2005 LEONG WEE KEAT weekeat@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE In a further twist to the largest suspected fraud in the civil service, investigators now believe that one of the accused began cheating the State years before he
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  • THE BIG STORY
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      Lock icon China's ascent
      1323 6  -  Is it a peaceful rise or a strategic economic expansionism that needs to be feared and checked? QUAK HIANG WHAI IN BEIJING deputy editor, Today In recent years, we have seen an increasingly assertive China in various global arenas, be it political, economic or sports. Observers say Chinese
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      Lock icon MM Lee: How to stay ahead of the pack
      393 7  -  NEO CHAI CHIN chaichin@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The Republic may have to watch how the world changes but it can thrive as long as it keeps its people familiar with the latest technology and keeps its living environment conducive, Minister Mentor Lee Kuan
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      Lock icon MPs to raise questions on financial governance
      364 7 LEONG WEE KEAT SINGAPORE Were there lapses in Government guidelines for finance and procurement processes? Are there requirements for Government agencies to have industryspecific policies for managing fraud risk? Are there clear pathways for whistle-blowing? Law Minister K Shanmugam and Finance Minister Tharman
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  • NEWS
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      Lock icon SHARING THEIR DREAMS WITH
      98 8 On Friday, about 150 youth got a rare chance to engage Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong on issues close to their hearts. Held fittingly at youth park *SCAPE, the closed-door session saw youth aged between 17 and 35 discussing the theme 'Youths Inspired'. The dialogue,
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      Ngiam's book interesting: FM George Yeo
      374 8  -  SATISH CHENEY SINGAPORE Retired top civil servant Ngiam Tong Dow has packed a collection of his speeches, interviews and articles into a book, Dynamics of the Singapore Success Story. What he has said and written since he retired has sometimes raised eyebrows, but Mr
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      TOUGH MEASURES TO GUARD AGAINST HFMD PAYOFF FOR ONE KINDERGARTEN
      172 8  -  VIMITA MOHANDAS The number of Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease (HFMD) cases reached 509 last week. This is an increase of 38 from the week before. And while this number is below warning levels, the Health Ministry says the public
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      HAZE, GE ISSUES TO BE RAISED IN PARLIAMENT
      156 8  -  HETTY MUSFIRAH Questions about the haze are at the top of the list of questions that have been tabled forthe last sitting of Parliament this year, which takes place on Monday. Members of Parliament want to know if Singapore, with other Asean
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      DOWNTOWN EAST MURDER: THREE MORE CHARGED
      153 8  -  SHAFFIQ ALKHATIB Three more youth have been charged in court with the recent Downtown East murder. It is believed that the trio were part of an unlawful assembly that attacked Darren Ng Wei Jie, 19, between 5.30pm and 6pm on Oct 30. The Republic
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      ANG MO KIO SLASHING: 17-YEAR-OLD ARRESTED
      91 8 Police have arrested a 17-year-old who is believed to have assaulted another teenager, 16, with a bread knife on Thursday. The victim was found at Block 448 in Ang Mo Kio Avenue 10 with cuts on his arm, shoulder and stomach. The police said
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      MARINA BOULEVARD DEATH NOW CLASSIFIED AS MURDER
      68 8  -  TAN QIUYI Police have classified the death of a 36-year-old man at Marina Boulevard on Thursday as murder. The man identified as a Chinese foreign worker was found on a bench near the Marina Bay Financial Centre. Police had earlier classified the case
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      Lock icon FOR VICTIMS OF INDONESIAN DISASTERS
      189 8 Among the artistes who were featured on Project Hope including (from left) Tay Ping Hui, Gabrielle Ferdinands, Petra Sihombing, Sylvia Ratonel, Taufik Batisah, Ayu, Angel, Tomok and Robert Fernando lending their voices to the finale song of the charity programme, With Hands United, on Friday
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  • VOICES
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      Breakthrough for knee pain sufferers
      149 10 New scientific study shows AposTherapy reduces knee pain by 64.8% in just 8 weeks AposTherapy is a drug free and non-surgical treatment for knee and low back pain based on the correction of body alignment and re-education of muscle control while walking. The treatment takes
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      Leave the lunch break alone
      818 10  -  Letter from Fergus Tan I BELIEVE continuous all-day trading is not necessary in the Singapore market as the disadvantages of doing so outweigh the benefits. Unlike in the United States, brokerages play a key role in the trading ecosystem here. In America, unless you pay
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      OFF-PEAK SCHEME CARS ARE A DAILY MORNING MENACE
      118 10  -  LETTER FROM CHENG SHOONGTAT While ferrying my children to school, I have to be on the road just before 7am every weekday. This means I have to put up with the daily daredevil acts by drivers of Off-Peak Scheme cars rushing to
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      CORRECTION
      38 10 In the commentary “Landed property fever?” (Nov 19), the table was labelled “Price increase between 2Q2009 and 3Q2009”. That is incorrect. It should have been “Price increase between 2Q2009 and 3Q2010”. We are sorry for the error.
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      81 10 have your say email your letters to voices@mediacorp.com.sg join the community www.todayonline.com/voices Advertising Feature 7 W/ u m Conclusion: "Our data show that using the AposTherapy system and treatment methodology is an effective non-pharmacological therapy that improves both pain and function in patients with knee OA." 1 Bar-Ziv et al.
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      126 11 WATERFRONT GOLD GOLDEN OPPORTUNITIES, GO FOR IT X > Features 361 magnificent units and an unrivalled Sky Park that offers stunning views of Bedok Reservoir Presents diverse apartment types, ranging from 1+study, 2, 3, 4-bedroom apartments to exclusive and luxurious penthouses Walking distance to upcoming Bedok Reservoir MRT station (Downtown
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  • COMMENT&ANALYSIS
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      Lock icon Kate Middleton's obstacle course
      1118 12  -  The long, long route to Buckingham is fraught with conservative clothes and paranoid princes TINA BROWN The writer is the founder and editor-in-chief of The Daily Beast. She is the author of the 2007 New York Times bestseller The Diana Chronicles and the former editor ofTatler,
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      Lock icon IsObama losing Iraq?
      945 16  -  The Obama administration is trying to force what it perceives as the easiest path to a new government in Iraq even if it is pro-Iranian not because it is in the US national interest, but to enable it to head for the exits more quickly in advance
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  • WORLD
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      Lock icon 2,000 foetuses found in Thai temple
      243 18 AGENCIES BANGKOK Police have uncovered another 2,000 human foetuses at a Buddhist temple in Bangkok on Friday, after discovering 300 foetuses earlier this week dumped in plastic bags at the temple’s morgue. A strong smell first drew police to the Wat Phai Ngern Chotanaram
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      Lock icon Race on to find trapped NZ miners
      401 18 AGENCIES WELLINGTON Specialist mine rescue teams and emergency services are racing against time to bring out 27 people missing in the Pike Creek Coal mine (picture) one of New Zealand’s largest on the western coast of South Island. Officials fear a possible gas
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      Lock icon Red Shirts remember crackdown
      114 18 BLOOMBERG BANGKOK Thai opposition protesters gathered in central Bangkok on Friday to mark the six-month anniversary of a military crackdown that ended deadly demonstrations earlier this year. The Red Shirts, who are aligned with former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, were hoping to gather 10,000 people for
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      Lock icon JAPAN SAYS CHINA TO RESUME EXPORTS OF RARE EARTHS
      105 20 AP China appears to be easing a de facto ban on exports of rare earth metals to Japan, a Cabinet Minister said on Friday. Japanese firms have said shipments have virtually stopped since September, when Japan arrested a Chinese fishing boat
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      Lock icon ZAID LIKELYTO FORM NEW PARTY
      89 20 THE MALAYSIAN INSIDER Former Malaysian Law Minister Zaid Ibrahim confirmed on Friday that he will quit opposition party Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) on Dec 16 and will likely go on to form a party of his own. The maverick politician, who recently quit the PKR
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      Lock icon 'MILKSHAKE MURDER' RETRIAL IN JANUARY
      100 20 AGENCIES A Hong Kong judge has ordered American Nancy Kissel to stand trial again for the murder of her banker husband. Her retrial is expected to begin on Jan 10, with a pretrial hearing on Jan 4. Kissel, 46, was convicted of giving her husband
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      Lock icon FORMER CHINA N-POWER FIRM'S MANAGER CONVICTED
      56 20 AP Former China National Nuclear Corporation general manager Kang Rixin has been convicted by Beijing’s First Intermediary Court of taking bribes and abusing his position to enrich others, according to the Xinhua news agency. Kang was sacked last year by the company, China’s biggest
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      Lock icon TALLESTCOUPLE
      76 20 Meet the Guinness World Records’ new ‘Tallest Married Couple’: Wayne Hallquist, 2.09m tall, and his wife Laurie, 1.98m, from California. Their combined height is 4.07m. ‘It’s a whole different perspective up here, and we can find each other quite easily in a crowd,’ said Mrs Hallquist, who works as
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      Lock icon Pyongyang 'has started work on nuclear reactor'
      311 20 AP SEOUL New satellite images show construction under way at North Korea’s main Yongbyon atomic complex, apparent proof that Pyongyang is making good on its pledge to build an experimental light-water nuclear reactor, according to a private American security institute. North Korea vowed
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      Lock icon Malaysian 'hacked into US Fed bank network'
      264 20 REUTERS NEW YORK A Malaysian man, charged on Thursday with hacking into the computer networks of the United States Federal Reserve and a defence contractor, was caught by Secret Service agents while selling stolen credit card numbers for US$1,000 ($1,296) at a restaurant
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      Lock icon Chinese woman sent to labour camp for tweet
      171 20 AP BEIJING China has sentenced a woman to a year in a labour camp for “disrupting social order”, an international rights group said. Cheng Jianping, 46, reposted a message from the social networking site Twitter last month hinting that Chinese protesters should
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      Lock icon Spotted: Planet 'born' outside our galaxy
      242 22 Spotted: Planet born' outside our galaxy THE DAILY TELEGRAPH LONDON Astronomers have for the first time spotted a planet that originated outside our galaxy. To date about 500 planets have been discovered within our galaxy but this is the first known to have been born elsewhere. The gas planet, at
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      Lock icon ■ FACEBOOK COULD TRIGGER ASTHMA ATTACKS
      119 22 FACEBOOK COULD TRIGGER ASTHMA ATTACKS AP Italian doctors warn that Facebook could trigger attacks in depressed asthmatics following the case of an 18-year-old man who had an attack after he saw how many men his former girlfriend had friended on the site. In a letter to the Lancet medical journal,
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      Lock icon ■ KL TO LEARN HOWSINGAPORE PLANTS TREES
      99 22 KL TO LEARN HOWSINGAPORE PLANTS TREES THE MALAYSIAN INSIDER A delegation from Putrajaya is headed here next month for a two-day study trip to see how Singapore plants and maintains its trees, Federal Territories and Urban Wellbeing Ministry Secretary-General Ahmad Phesal Talib said on Friday. The ministry said it will
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      Lock icon ■ ROYAL WEDDING WILL BE A BANK HOLIDAY
      77 22 ROYAL WEDDING WILL BE A BANK HOLIDAY THE DAILYTELEGRAPH The wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton will be celebrated with a bank holiday, British Prime Minister David Cameron has indicated. Mr Cameron said on Thursday he wanted the occasion to be “a day of national celebration” and said he
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      Lock icon Yakuza not welcome here...
      304 22 THE NEW YORK TIMES TOKYO When the toasts are raised here next year at the opening of the world’s tallest communications tower, the Tokyo Sky Tree (picture), yakuza gangsters will not be celebrating. “The mob cannot come here,” said Mr Toru Hironaka, a lawyer who leads
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      98 18 S^NDA PROJECT Give TOUCHING LIVES, TOUCHING HEARTS Project Give is an annual fund raising campaign organ ised by Singapore Indian Development Association (SINDA) to support educational needs of school-going children from low income families. Help educate a child. Donate now! HOW TO DONATE? Cash Credit Card: At SINDA, No 1.
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      338 21 snmrr This Festive Season r, sss 'I'm so happy to lose excess fat and its' negative effects!" MS 0^-o VO Photo taken on July 2008 Pamela Goh, 31 Overall Weight Gain Before: 66kg After: 50kg Lose -\6ct^ 8 move ov PROVEN RESULTS Kg Loss -5cm Arms -6cm -13cm Waist -7cm
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    Lock icon I'll be back... to save the planet
    1295 24 SCIENCE Arnold Schwarzenegger, his term in California almost terminated, is undergoing a transformation from Governator to Al Gore THE GUARDIAN LOS ANGELES It’s very nearly a wrap for Arnold Schwarzenegger, whose career as Governor of California will come sputtering to an end in
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      261 25 4 YUN NAM H A I R C A R E Singapore I Malaysia I Shanghai Share great hair deals with your buddy this X'mas! For $10 You Get 1 Yun Nam Ginseng Hair Treatment 1 exclusive gift set Bring a friend Bonus 1 set of haircare products Your friend
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  • BUSINESS
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      Thai Tiger delay?
      278 26  -  TRAVIS TEO TRAVIS TEO travisteo@mediacorp.com.sg BANGKOK Thai Tiger Airways will not be taking off until next May. According to a Reuters report, Thai Airways chairman Ampon Kittiampon informed reporters of the two-month delay from the originally planned March launch of the new budget carrier, which is a
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      Lock icon HK unveils more cooling measures
      221 26 Homes sold within six months of purchase will incur 15 per cent stamp duty effective on Saturday, Financial Secretary John Tsang said. Properties resold within six to 12 months will incur 10 per cent stamp AGENCIES HONG KONG Hong Kong on Friday announced additional taxes
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      Amtek IPO aims to raise $547m
      126 26  -  DOW JONES SINGAPORE Amtek Engineering is seeking to raise up to $547 million through an initial public offering on the Singapore Exchange, people familiar with the transaction said on Friday. The sources said the company was looking to offer 342 million shares at between
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      MOTOR INSURANCE PREMIUMSTO RISE MORE SLOWLY
      144 26  -  RYAN HUANG Motor insurance premiums are likely to increase at a slower pace next year because losses for underwriters have narrowed this year, reducing the need for steep increases. Gross motor premium collections from January to September rose 10 per cent from the year-earlier
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      SINGTEL HIRES THREE BANKS FORCREDIT INVESTOR MEETINGS
      118 26  -  RYAN HUANG SingTel has hired Barclays, HSBC and Morgan Stanley to organise a series of meetings with credit investors, Bloomberg reported on Friday, citing a person familiar with the matter who declined to be named. When contacted by MediaCorp, a SingTel spokesperson said:
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      REPUBLIC'S DOMESTIC WHOLESALE TRADE SHRINKS IN Q3
      118 26  -  JONATHAN PEERIS Singapore’s domestic wholesale trade shrank in the third quarter. Data released by the Department of Statistics on Friday showed that domestic wholesale trade declined 7.1 per cent from the same period a year earlier, with lower turnover reported by the petroleum
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      Lock icon 'Asian investors will save Ireland'
      200 27 AGENCIES PARIS Funds to rescue Ireland could be raised in five to eight days, notably from investors in Asia, the head of the euro zone’s fiscal safety net said in a newspaper interview published on Friday. Mr Klaus Regling, the chief executive of the European
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      Lock icon Bernanke defends Fed's bond purchase plan
      517 27 Central bank chief also asks Congress to provide more stimulus AGENCIES FRANKFURT United States Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke has sought to defuse criticism of the central bank’s US$600 billion ($779 billion) bond purchase plan by arguing that it is needed to boost the
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      321 26 ADAM KHOO LEARNING CENTRE Discover the Proven Strateg leS to Score A's in Math NOV and English! S Prnnrrimmac School Holiday Programmes School Holiday Programmes for Primary 1 to Secondary 4 Students Make this November/December an exciting and purposeful holiday for your child! Excellent preparation for the transition into 2011
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      28 27 m S J IHS kr f 1 SI Be Vigilant. Be Resilient. Be United Against Terrorism. i! iiimmumKtmmm Be as One. > <* r, i V. NATIONAL SECURITY COORDINATION SECRETARIAT
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  • SPORTS
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      Lock icon Spurred to burst Gunners' bubble
      568 28 High-flying Arsenal meet stumbling block in the form of arch-enemy AP ENGLISH PREMIERSHIP Arsenal vs Tottenham LONDON Now that Arsenal’s players are in buoyant mood and talking about winning the English Premiership title, along comes an old adversary to attempt to puncture their hopes. Tottenham
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      Lock icon Carragher calls for Reds to step up
      369 28 AGENCIES ANFIELD Liverpool defender Jamie Carragher has urged his team-mates to rise to the challenge of losing captain Steven Gerrard for up to a month. Scans on Thursday revealed the Liverpool skipper had sustained a grade two hamstring tear in England’s friendly defeat
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      Lock icon Finally, an English factory to produce future stars
      208 28 AP LONDON A day after England were comprehensively outplayed by France’s youngsters, the Football Association announced on Thursday that a training complex and academy designed to emulate their cross-Channel rivals’ Clairefontaine base will finally be built. The FA board gave approval for
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      Lock icon 'Next Schmeichel' not good enough for United
      433 29 Danish legend says Red Devils should go for Reina, not Lindegaard THE DAILY TELE GRAPH MANCHESTER He has been dubbed the “new Peter Schmeichel” but in the words of the Danish legend himself, Anders Lindegaard (picture) is not worthy of the tag. Manchester
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      Lock icon S-League clubs adopt cost-cutting measures
      549 30  -  They refute FAS claim that many sides are now in a better state financially SHAMIR OSMAN shamir@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Former SAFFC midfielder John Wilkinson is the latest Singapore international to have left the S-League for greener pastures, after the 31-year-old signed with Thai Premier League side
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      Lock icon Amri's race against time
      239 30 SHAMIR OSMAN SINGAPORE Khairul Amri (picture) is in a race to prove he is fit enough for a place in Radojko Avramovic’s 22-man squad for the AFF Suzuki Cup from Dec 1 to 29. The unlucky forward has had to deal with a string of injuries
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      Lock icon S-League clubs worry about new tax system
      361 30 SHAMIR OSMAN SINGAPORE When the S-League was first formed in 1996, clubs depended heavily on the Football Association of Singapore’s (FAS) subsidies to fund their day-to-day operations. Having evolved now, cash-strapped clubs in the Great Eastern-Yeo’s S-League strive to explore various revenue streams,
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      Lock icon Paddlers must show no fear
      761 31  -  COMMENTARY Medal contenders for the 2012 Olympics, the women should take a leaf out of Tao Li's book We will never know what a worry-free Feng A would have donef in Guangzhou... 4 LEONARDTHOMAS leonard@mediacorp. com. sg The writer is executive sports editor at MediaCorp
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      Lock icon First doping case
      179 31 AP GUANGZHOU Uzbekistan judoka Shokir Muminov was disqualified and stripped of his silver medal on Friday in the first doping case confirmed at the Asian Games. Dr Mani Jegathesan, chairman of the Olympic Council of Asia’s medical committee, said Muminov’s urine sample showed traces of the banned
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      Sailors in the hunt
      208 31  -  LOW LIN FHOONG SINGAPORE Recharged after a day’s rest, Team Singapore’s Asian Games sailing contingent emerged from the waters off Shanwei on Friday with the 420 pairs of Justin Liu and Sherman Cheng (men) and Rachel Lee and Cecilia Low (women) leading their respective fleets. Competing
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      616 32  -  Singapore's Phua lobbying hard, hits out at SSC as bowlers search for gold TANYO-HINN yohinn@mediacorp.com.sg GUANGZHOU The final day of bowling at the 16th Asian Games has possibly taken on even more significance. The Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) are looking to streamline the
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      420 32 LOW LIlM FHOONG SINGAPORE Minutes after her women’s singles quarter-final loss to China’s world No 8 Li Xiaoxia on Thursday, paddler Feng Tianwei received heartbreaking news from the Singapore Table Tennis Association (STTA). Her 83-year-old paternal grandmother, whom the 24-year-old was very attached to, had died
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      137 32 AP GUANGZHOU Ali Khaseif Housani made the decisive save and then Mohamed Saeed Alshehhi stepped up to secure the United Arab Emirates’ (UAE) 9-8 win on penalties in an Asian Games quarter-final football match against North Korea on Friday. The narrow victory earned the UAE a
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      730 33  -  Tired after her medal exploits, Singapore swim starTao Li talks about her future TANYO-HINN yohinn@mediacorp.com.sg GUANGZHOU Unlike her fearless, confident demeanour barely 18 hours earlier, Tao Li looked tired on Friday. Walking into the international zone of the Athletes’ Village, it seemed the exertions of the
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      121 33 ASIAN GAMES-MANIA HITS 938LIVE’S SPORTSZONE The 16th Asian Games have reached the halfway point and Singapore’s finally struck gold through butterfly star Tao Li, who defended her 50m title on Thursday. The Republic have also earned medals in bowling, cuesports and table tennis. SportsZone catches up with various Team Singapore
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      49 37 NOVEMBER 20 21, 2010 A PUBLICATION ARTISAN CHOCOLATIERS DO IT FOR LOVE. T4 STYLE PRETTY GROTESQUE ACCESSORIES. AND THAT’S A COMPLIMENT. T8 CARS THE ANGELIC MERCEDES SLS AMG HAS A DEVIL OF AN ENGINE. T14 TRAVEL HOW TO SURVIVE THE HELL OF PLANNING A DREAM HOLIDAY FOR TWO. T24
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      806 38  -  POSTSCRIPT Being the only one worshipping at the altar of The Almighty Schedule sucks Mayo Martin mayo@mediacorp.com.sg The writer is the arts correspondent at TODAY. ASA devout wearer of rose-tinted spectacles, there are very few types of people who stress me out to no end. Those who
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      868 39  -  THE FAIRERTEXT I'm getting older. Hooray! Georgina Chang georginac@mediacorp.com.sg The miter is the senior creative director of 987FM and Lush 99.5. I LOVE birthdays, especially the merrymaking with friends, chocolate birthday cake and birthday presents.The thought of aging has never crossed my mind. At my milestone age
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      1111 40  -  Do we crave this ageless indulgence enough to melt for only the best? Don Mendoza donm@mediacorp.com.sg WHAT’S not to like about chocolate? Aside from the fact that an open box never fails to woo us into postponing that diet another day, we’ve been in love
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      506 42  -  The hardest thing about cooking is RAISING with Don Mendoza with Don Mendoza donm@mediacorp.com.sg THERE is no denying the fact: Children say the darndest things. Even if I factored in the likelihood that some parents underestimate a young child’s ability to fathom the “adult stuff”, or possess
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      222 43 How TO BE A MILLIONAIRE, THE S'PORE WAY (Extracted from The Straits Times 21 July 2007) (Extracted from Thrr Straits Times 21 July 2007) A capable person has hopes of joining the ranks of the top earners and become a millionaire. Parents should remember this reality and not neglect their
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      601 44  -  The accessories we're loving right now are pretty strange Lynette Koh Lynette lynettek@mediacorp.com.sg A DISEMBODIED claw-like hand grasping a pearl. A gecko sprawled over a bracelet. A bib necklace made up of creepy-crawlies of varying proportions. Clearly, “pretty” and “feminine” were not the watchwords designers had in mind
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      64 47 LAST Friday, It girl and DJ Leigh Lezark brought the glam and the groove to the Beat! party at Home Club, along with fellow Misshapes member Geordon Nicol.Joining Home Club resident DJs Ginette Chittick and Joe Ng,the New York-based duo kept the throngs of nattily dressed scenesters
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      101 47  -  AT A GLANCE ZAFIRAH SALIM LET your “Be Happy Me” spirit shine through with Bossini’s latest winter collection, which feature wearable colourful pieces from cardigans, hoodies and jackets, to basics such as tees, sweaters and jeans. To up the happy quotient, Bossini had up-and-coming
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      469 48  -  Lebanese jeweller to the stars opens its first store in Singapore Lynette Koh lynettek@mediacorp.com.sg HOW does a jewellery designer know he is doing something right? When Hollywood legend and famed lover of bling Elizabeth Taylor cannot bear to let go of his glittering
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      240 48  -  LYNETTE KOH SINCE taking over the helm at German luxury fashion label Etienne Aigner AG in 2008, CEO Sybille Schoen has slowly but surely been reinventing the brand. Besides re-launching several of the brand’s classic bag collections to popular response, she has led the company
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      499 50  -  CAR REVIEW Derryn Wong cars@mediacorp.com.sg ONE glance at the SLS AMG is enough to tell you this ain’t no regular MercedesBenz. It not only marks the brand’s return to making a serious supercar, it’s also tuning/motorsport subsidiary AMG’s first whole, ground-up model. It borrows its lines, and
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      353 50  -  Porsche's hybrid technology zooms ahead of the competition literally Andy Hum in Zhuhai, China cars@mediacorp.com.sg HYBRID cars usually can’t hold a candle to normal ones for sheer speed whether on the road or the racetrack. But when it comes to endurance racing, hybrid racing cars offer huge
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      400 52  -  CAR REVIEW Audi's flagship A8L is packed with high technology, but impresses most in basic ways Daryl Lee Daryl cars@mediacorp.com.sg It doesn’t look all that spectacular You might even say it looks like a stretched version of Audi’s A4 small sedan. We say it’s a restrained outing, all
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      66 52 NEWS TRACKS ITALIAN motorcycle maker MV Agusta has revealed its new F3 supersport bike that comes with a three-cylinder, 675cc engine.The new two-wheeler will primarily challenge the Triumph Daytona 675. It is also a return to historical roots for MV, which built three-cylinder racebikes in its heyday. Local
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      930 54 SATURDAYTV STAY HOME SATURDAY MOVIE: ICE AGE Channel 5,8pm Twenty thousand years ago, when the earth was overrun by glaciers and creatures everywhere were fleeing the onslaught of the Ice Age, an unlikely quartet of misfits unexpectedly, and reluctantly, comes together in a quest to return a human infant to
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      985 55 SUNDAYTV FILMART: BECOMING JANE okto, I Opm Jane Austen believes in love, but her parents want her to marry for money. When the 20-year-old meets dashing young Irishman Tom Lefroy, his intellect and arrogance ignite Jane's curiosity. Can Jane afford to spurn the offer of Lady Gresham's nephew, defy the
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      1552 57 HEADLINES 12.30pm, 1pm, 1.30pm, 5.30pm, 6pm, 6.30pm, 10.30pm, 11.30pm, 12.30am, 1am, 1.30am HEADLINES/SINGAPORE UPDATES 9.30am, 11.30am, 2.30pm, 4.30pm HEADLINES/SINGAPORE MARKET REPORT 10.30am, 3.30pm 9.00AM Club M.A.G.I.C (Debut) (PRESCHOOL) 9.30 Play With Me Sesame (PRESCHOOL) 10.00 Maryoku Yummy (Debut) (PRESCHOOL) 10.30 Strawberry Shortcake (PRESCHOOL) 11.00 Club M.A.G.I.C (PRESCHOOL) 11.30 Super Why!
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      674 58 TODAY'S top 5 plus 5 others 1 Sunidhi Chauhan In Concert The young and spunky Sunidhi Chauhan sings Hindi film hits in her signature husky, powerful voice.This performance is part of Kalaa Utsavam: Indian Festival Of Arts 2010. Date: Saturday Time: 7.30pm Venue: Esplanade Concert Hall Ticket: $48 to 128
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      802 59 1900 912 1234 www.gv.com.sg m.gv.com.sg VIVOCITY TIONG BAHRU PLAZA MARINA SQUARE JURONG POINT TAMPINES MALL GRAND, GREAT WORLD PLAZA SINGAPURA GVmax YISHUN HARRY POTTER THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 1*▲ 10.40am 11.20 1.45 2.25 8.35 9.10 11.40pm 12.15am TOM: 10.00am 12.15 1.05 3.20 4.10 6.30 7.15 9.35 10.20pm MEGAMIND▲ 11.15am 1.20
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      875 60  -  Who knew planning a rendezvous for two could be such a killer? SERENE LIM serenelim@mediacorp.com.sg ARE you in love? Hoping to go somewhere romantic together? Perhaps create the dream vacation for a winsome twosome? Oh boy, are you in trouble. Many couples agree the very process of arranging
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      117 61  -  SERENE LIM The stuff j travelling's L. made of. j If you feel surly on the plane because you’ve already watched all the in-flight movies available (no, please, not Avatar again), try something new.You know, like, reading. Award-winning humour writer David Sedaris brings his trademark self-deprecating
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      513 62  -  The host of E! News Asia on travelling and planning Christopher Toh in Hong Kong christophertoh@mediacorp.com.sg YOU know her as the better-looking half of the duo who present E! News Asia, the weekly half-hour show covering the entertainment scene in Hollywood and Asia. But, right now,
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      856 68 INTELLIGENCE/MATILDE SANCHEZ Justice seems to be watching, instead of protecting, journalists. NYT Matilde Sánchez, an editor at Clarín in Buenos Aires, also writesfiction. Buenos Aires The press, which was either censored or an ally of bloody dictators during the cold war, has once
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