Today, 26 November 2010

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    46 1 TODAY MICA (P) 057/10/2010 A PUBLICATION OF /\A=DIACORP NEWS HOTLINE 6822 2268 Friday November 26, 2010 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking TODAY MICA (P) 057/10/2010 A PUBLICATION OF NEWS HOTLINE 6822 2268 Friday November 26, 2010 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking NOVEMBER 26, 2010 A PUBLICATION
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    Watch how much you borrow, says MAS
    742 3  -  Monetary Authority of Singapore warns overextended households could be affected when interest rates eventually GEORGINA JOSEPH g eorginaj@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The red flag has been raised as prospective homebuyers here take advantage of the prolonged low interest rates. The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS)
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      158 3 6333 9888 MEDIACORP ADVERTISING ENQUIRIES PROPERTY B7 HOUSING FORTHE LOWER INCOME AN EXCLUSIVE COMMENTARY BY NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT MINISTER MAH BOWTAN COMMENT &ANALYSIS KATHRIN HILLE TENDING THE GARDEN BEHIND THE GREAT FIREWALL 22 SIMON TISDALL LET’S STRIKE A DEALAND GIVE NORTH KOREA WHAT IT WANTS 27 JEREMY LIM AND SEETHARAM KALLIDAIKURICHI
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  • NEWS
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      NTUC will not push for every firm to match civil service bonuses
      505 5  -  S RAMESHAND ESTHER NG rameshs@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The labour movement will not be pushing for every company to match the 2.5-month bonus this year for civil servants, according to labour chief Lim Swee Say. Speaking to the media a
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      Lock icon S Korean Defence Minister quits amid criticism
      541 7 More troops to be sent to islands near N Korea AGENCIES SEOUL South Korea’s Defence Minister resigned yesterday to help limit the fallout from the North Korean artillery attack that killed four people on a small island near their disputed frontier. The move
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      Part of Kwong Wai Shiu Hospital to be conserved
      487 9  -  HOEYEEN NIE yeennie@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The Kwong Wai Shiu Hospital (picture) celebrated its 100th anniversary yesterday with some good news. The uncertainty over its future was resolved yesterday as Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong announced at its charity dinner that the hospital
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      Lock icon He aced PSLE, thanks to grandma ...
      381 11  - He aced PSLE, thanks to grandma Rosyth student is top scorer with 282 aggregate SARA GROSSE saragrosse@mediacorp.com.sg WITH ADDITIONAL REPORTING BY AHMAD DHAFEER, IBRAHIM SAWIFI AND KRISTIN GEETHA SINGAPORE —Twelve-year-old Alex Tan Kian Hye was caught off-guard yesterday when he heard he was the top PSLE student this year. “When
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      THOUGHT OF BEATING BROTHER MOTIVATED HER
      194 11 The top madrasah PSLE student this year is Sakinah Yusof, who had a score of 266. Sakinah’s brother was the top madrasah student two years ago. Sakinah, who is from Madrasah Irsyad Al-Islamiah, said: “I felt I had to get better marks than him.
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      ‘Old’ distance discrepancies?
      455 13  -  Refund exercise will extend to those affected by earlier batch of 13 errors NEO CHAI CHIN chaichin@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE When the first set of discrepancies in bus-stop distances occurred in July, they affected 19,000 journeys daily. When the refund period ceased on Sept 30, however, only 180 claims
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      Lock icon Real-time traffic info on GPS
      229 13 LYNDA HONG SINGAPORE Real-time traffic information for motorists’ through their Global Positioning System (GPS) devices to help them avoid congested roads. This is one benefit that would be reaped from the Traffic Message Channel Location Table (TMC-LT), technology that was launched yesterday by the Land
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      Lock icon No all-clear on air quality here
      490 15  -  Singapore still falls short of WHO standards despite stricter enforcement against smoke ESTHER NG estherng@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The haze may have gone for now but Singapore’s air quality has apparently not been up to the mark over the years at least going by the highest
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      Maid to be charged with murder of 12-year-old girl
      218 17  -  SHAFFIQ ALKHATIB SINGAPORE A 24-year-old Indonesian maid has been arrested in connection with the murder of 12-year-old Linda Lee at Hougang Street 51. Linda’s body was found at the foot of the block by a passer-by at about 6.05am on Wednesday.
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      Police arrest teen for inciting violence online
      279 17 The suspect had posted comments on YouTube claiming that he was associated with a SINGAPORE Police have arrested a 15-year-old male youth for inciting violence using the Internet following the Downtown East slashing three weeks ago which resulted in the death of polytechnic
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      Lock icon BUY, WRAP, THEN SHARE-A-GIFT
      165 19 ALVINA SOH About 300 vehicles will deliver food hampers and gifts to 1,200 families next month in the Boys’ Brigade Share-a-Gift (BBSG) Charity Drive. It is the largest number in three years to participate in the annual event. About 28,500 people will benefit when deliveries are
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      UBS relationship manager ‘tried to meet client’
      422 19  -  TEO XUANWEI xuanwei@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE In the seven years that Ms Elizabeth Tay served as Mr Ng Kok Keong’s relationship manager, she frequently advised him on trades and proposed ways to maintain the minimum required sum in his private banking account. When Ms Lily
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      THE FIVE-YEAR COURT BATTLE
      338 21 Sept 2003: Taxi driver Koh Sia Kang and his wife Kang Siew Guek agreed to sell their Redhill flat to buyers Francis Hong Swee Kim and Elizabeth Bong for $390,000. The property agents were Kereen Teo Pei Pei and Tony Hon Nam Tung. The sellers were
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      Lock icon Five years that I will never get back ...
      785 21 Five years that I will never get back Despite lengthy battle to clear his name, veteran lawyer says it proves trust in legal system here well-placed TEOXUAN WEI IT WAS a court battle that lasted five long years and cost some $1 million in legal fees. But when the Court
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  • VOICES
    • Make the most of $300,000 error
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        Donate it to charity
        134 23  -  Letter from Lee Chee Keen I REFER to the news that bus commuters were overcharged by $300,000 (“More distance fare errors”, Nov 23). My guess is that the majority of those affected will not bother to collect their refunds as the amount owed to each individual
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        Use it to subsidise needy
        117 23  -  Letter from Lee Kwok Weng I CAN only imagine the administrative cost and effort needed to dispense refunds to the thousands of affected commuters. This would be akin to incurring more cost to try to save costs the purpose of instituting the distance-based fare scheme
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      Learning from mistakes is part of growing up
      154 23  -  Letter from Soh Ah Yuen I REFER to the report “Scholarship application testimonials did not contain past offences: MOE” (Nov 24). Much ink has been spilled over the omission of Jonathan Wong’s early offences from his testimonial. But we put deviant acts
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      Lock icon Somewhere in this store stands a shellshocked Tai-tai
      672 25  -  BUDGETTAI-TAI Tabitha Wang “Wah liao eh, like that sure cannot get anything leh.” “Nehmind lor, we wait a bit then we cheong ah. Maybe can find something.” In the crowded store, Singlish could be heard everywhere. But this was not a store
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  • COMMENT & ANALYSIS
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      Lock icon Tending the garden behind the Great Firewall
      1985 27  -  Beijing is by no means losing the battle with public opinion on the Internet KATHRIN HILLE THE FINANCIALTIMES Li Gang is a powerful man. As deputy police chief for a district of Baoding, a Chinese city of 1 million, he is influential enough
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      Lock icon Let’s strike a deal and give North Korea what it wants
      794 32  -  SIMON TISDALL The writer is an assistant editor of The Guardian and a foreign affairs THEGUARDIAN North Korea’s most spectacular military provocation in years Tuesday’s shelling of a South Korean island located only 120kms from Seoul was just that:
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      Lock icon Come together, for Asia’s own good
      971 33  -  Continent needs its own distinct approach to tackling health challenges, rather than imitating Western models JEREMY LIM AND SEETHARAM KALLIDAIKURICHI Asia has two faces. One is filled with towering skyscrapers and exhibits of economic growth. However, beside the veneer of prosperity, the other face
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      How will Najib play his cards?
      757 35  -  So many electoral options for M’sia’s ruling party OOI KEE BENG The writer is a Senior Fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. His latest book on Malaysia is Between Umno and a Hard Place: The Najib Razak Era Begins (Refsa Iseas). Rumours
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  • WORLD
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      Lock icon Mourning those who died in stampede
      419 37 AGENCIES PHNOM PENH Cambodia began a day of mourning yesterday with the Prime Minister weeping at the spot where hundreds died during a wild riverside stampede. Prime Minister Hun Sen cried as he lit candles and incense at a narrow bridge where thousands of
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      Lock icon It may take months to recover bodies of 29 NZ miners: Officials
      271 37 AP GREYMOUTH (New Zealand) Flags hung at half-staff, church-goers gathered at special services and lawmakers broke into a solemn hymn in Parliament yesterday, as New Zealanders mourned 29 men killed in the nation’s worst mining disaster in decades.
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      Lock icon Japan think-tank urges govt to increase immigration
      211 39 The country’s 127-million population is projected to fall 3 per cent within 10 years because of a low birth rate and an ageing society. BLOOMBERG TOKYO A Japanese think-tank has urged the government to relax immigration rules to take advantage of Asia’s economic
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      Lock icon BN policies maybe winning back Indian support
      507 39 THE MALAYSIAN INSIDER KUALA LUMPUR Three years to the day after 30,000 Indians marched into the city to protest against the “unfair” policies of the Barisan Nasional (BN) government, political leaders say the Najib administration’s conciliatory policies appear to be winning back their
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      Jap court issues first death sentence to minor
      158 41 KYODO A court jury in Japan yesterday sentenced a 19-year-old to death over the murder of two women, the first time such a sentence has been imposed on a minor under a new judicial system. The teenager, who was not named, was
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      ‘Crush fetish’ videos spark outrage online
      179 41 BEIJING A series of online videos showing young women crushing bunnies (picture) to death have sparked outrage among Chinese netizens, who are calling for them to be identified. Called “crush fetishists”, the group of attractive women in their 20s are seen stroking and kissing
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      Lock icon Irish voters set to ‘punish’ govt in by-elections
      347 41 REUTERS DONEGAL Irish voters prepared to punish the government in a by-election yesterday for presiding over a financial crisis that threatens the euro zone and has forced the country into an age of austerity. Prime Minister Brian Cowen’s four-year plan for tackling
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      Lock icon Public failing to appreciate terror threat: Scotland Yard chief
      396 45 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH LONDON The British public is failing to appreciate the risk from terrorism despite the biggest threat of an attack for three years, the head of the Metropolitan Police, or Scotland Yard, has warned. In his first major speech
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      Lock icon China’s crackdown hits turnout
      186 45 AP OSLO Only one of about 140 Chinese activists invited by the wife of jailed Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo has confirmed he will attend the prize ceremony in Oslo, according to an organiser of the guest list. Others have been stopped from leaving China
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      Lock icon Obama has time for turkey but not Palin
      179 47 AP WASHINGTON United States President Barack Obama is not worried about a possible 2012 presidential contest against Ms Sarah Palin, saying: “I don’t think about her.” Mr Obama said he had “respect for her skills” but dismissed the notion that he could
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      Lock icon Holiday fliers accept new body scanners as security trumps privacy
      370 47 The lack of logjams at screening stations gave a boost to the TSA and marked a setback to the critics of the new bodyimaging BLOOMBERG NEW YORK Thanksgiving holiday fliers accepted new body scanners and moved smoothly through checkpoints at
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      Lock icon CONGRESSMAN GUILTY OF MONEY LAUNDERING
      107 47 AP The heavy-handed style that made American politician Tom DeLay, 63, one of the most powerful Republican members of the United States Congress also proved to be his downfall when a jury decided he went too far in trying to influence elections, convicting him on
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      Lock icon Massive crackdown on dissent ahead of Egypt’s parliamentary polls
      244 50 AP CAIRO Egypt’s parliamentary elections on Sunday have been ushered in by one of the most sweeping campaigns to silence critics since President Hosni Mubarak came to power nearly 30 years ago, with the government seemingly determined to shut out its
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      Lock icon Egyptians go under the knife for a better life
      495 50 REUTERS CAIRO Working-class Egyptians are getting botox, breast implants and tummy tucks in the hopes that the cosmetic surgery once reserved for a wealthy elite will boost their own marriage and job prospects. Illiterate housewives fearing abandonment, soldiers mocked for flabby
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      Lock icon Dinosaur exhibit makes world premiere in Ohio
      287 51 AP CINCINNATI A fossilised nest of eggs laid by an unknown species of dinosaur is part of an exhibit that makes its world premiere today at an Ohio museum. The exhibit at the Cincinnati Museum Centre will feature fossils found by Chinese palaeontologists,
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      161 51 BLOOMBERG Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah had “successful surgery” in New York on Wednesday to remove a blood clot and adjust a slipped disk, the Royal Court said. The 86-year-old monarch’s treatment in the United States has raised the issue of succession in the world’s largest
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      116 51 BLOOMBERG Shanghai has recorded high levels of pollution since early this month, weeks after the close of the US$44-billion ($58 billion) World Expo. The city’s air pollution index has exceeded 100 for seven days this month, according to figures from the Shanghai Environmental Monitoring Centre.
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      227 53 AP CANBERRA An American man will return to the United States where he could face prosecution for drowning his wife during their 2003 honeymoon on the Great Barrier Reef, a crime for which he has served 18 months in an
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      117 53 AP An Australian woman was rushed to hospital after being run over by her own car twice on Wednesday. Paramedic Craig Brooks said the woman forgot to pull the handbrake before getting out of the car and that it rolled down her
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      161 55 REUTERS LONDON An experimental drug called tribendimidine could help cure millions of people infected with a cancer causing parasitic worm known as the South-east Asian liver fluke, Swiss scientists said yesterday. In a study in The Lancet medical journal, researchers found that
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      395 55 REUTERS PORT-AU-PRINCE Haiti needs a surge of foreign nurses and doctors to stem deaths from a raging cholera epidemic that an international aid operation is struggling to control, the top United Nations’ humanitarian official has said. Around 1,000 trained nurses and at
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      528 57  -  Youngest team in the competition claim gold to qualify for 2012 Olympics TANYO-HINN yohinn@mediacorp.com.sg GUANGZHOU They were not exactly the most popular team here at the Asian Games but Japan’s footballers did not care one bit. They kept their focus throughout the under-23 tournament and came
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      390 57 AP GUANGZHOU Japan’s Chisato Fukushima and Femi Seun Ogunode of Qatar won their respective 200m finals yesterday to complete golden doubles at the Asian Games. Ogunode, 19, who clinched gold in the men’s 400m earlier in the week, clocked a personal best 20.43sec to
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      481 61 Cricket team stun favourites Pakistan to meet Bangladesh in AGENCIES GUANGZHOU Afghanistan’s cricket team are one match away from a gold medal, after securing a shock win over Pakistan in their semi-final of the Asian Games Twenty20 tournamemt yesterday. Even against a second-string Pakistan team, few
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      Lock icon Hockey chief says men’s team a work in progress
      357 61  -  TANYO-HINN yohinn@mediacorp.com.sg GUANGZHOU Singapore’s men’s hockey team may have failed to meet their target of a seventh-place finish at the Asian Games but Singapore Hockey Federation (SHF) president Annabel Pennefather feels there are plenty of positives to be drawn from their
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      230 61 AP World champion Ren Cancan won the first women’s boxing gold at the Asian Games in an event that will be making its Olympic debut in London in 2012, while the Chinese men lost two of three finals yesterday. Ren, the women’s world champion at
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      311 63 REUTERS BRISBANE Australian Peter Siddle made an explosive return to Test cricket with six wickets, including a hat-trick, on the first day of the Ashes yesterday not a bad day for a fast bowler many thought should not be in the side. Siddle, who took
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      Lock icon Sports School shoots for the stars
      642 63  -  New programme next year will produce the shooters in the 2012 Secondary 1 cohort LOW LIN FHOONG linfhoong@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The sport was not among the eight badminton, bowling, golf, netball, football, swimming, table tennis and track and field academies situated in the Singapore Sports
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      Lock icon Rooney’s tale of redemption begins
      474 65 Striker nets in his first start as United again impress on the road REUTERS CHAMPIONS LEAGUE, GROUP C Rangers 0 Man United 1 GLASGOW It may only have been a penalty but strikers only thrive on goals and Wayne Rooney would have been relieved to
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      Lock icon MacDonald counts on experience for her new role
      420 65  -  Nations Cup 2010 foundation NTUC FairPrice Foundation Nations Cup LOW LIN FHOONG linfhoong@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE In a 12-year career that spanned three world championships (1999, 2003 and 2007) and continental battles in Europe that stretched from 2000 to this year, Lesley MacDonald has
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      Lock icon White Hart Lane sings like it is 1961 TOTTENHAM’S HEADY CHAMPIONS LEAGUE TRIP SO FAR
      909 68 Redknapp’s Spurs turn on the style again to prove their European pedigree REUTERS CHAMPIONS LEAGUE, GROUP A Tottenham 3 Werder Bremen 0 LONDON Under Bill Nicholson, Tottenham Hotspur became the first side to win English
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      Lock icon Last season’s finalists advance but it’s not so easy for champions Inter
      355 68 REUTERS LONDON Holders Inter Milan earned their coach Rafa Benitez a reprieve on Wednesday (yesterday morning, Singapore time), securing a nervous 1-0 win at home to FC Twente to advance to the last 16 of the Champions League.
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      76 61 ASIAN GAMES ON MEDIACORP CH 5 TODAY 12pm Kayak Women’s Singles/Doubles 200m, 500m 1pm Diving Men’s 10m Platform Prelims 2.30pm Gymnastics Individual: All around Rhythmic Finals 4.30pm Karate Men Women QuarterFinal Semi-Final, Men Women Bronze Gold Medal Match 5pm Athletics Women’s High Jump Final, Men’s Triple Jump Final Men’s Javelin
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  • PROPERTY
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      1054 77  -  COMMENTARY It’s all about giving hope for a better future MAH BOW TAN The writer is the Minister for National Development. Over the last two months, I have shared my thoughts about public housing in Singapore why we actively promote homeownership, why the Housing and Development
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      862 75  -  COMMENTARY ‘Shoebox’ apartments are selling well because few investors know what these units look like physically. Few of us have friends and relatives who live in such units. Fewer have lived in apartments of less than 500 sq ft. KU SWEEYONG property@mediacorp.com.sg The writer
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      937 73  -  COMMENTARY This new home loan war is to secure more mortgage business as expectations gain ground that the Government will announce new measures to cool the residential property market. COLIN TAN property@mediacorp.com.sg The writer is head, research and consultancy at Chesterton Suntec International. Just
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      Time to build up land banks
      430 71  -  Land prices stabilising as they have reached their peak: Analysts JO-ANN HUANG joannhuang@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The time is ripe for real estate developers to build up their land banks as land prices are stabilising, according to analysts. According to Nomura’s latest Singapore property report, the
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      CAPITALAND UNVEILS D’LEEDON AT FARRER ROAD
      157 71 A consortium led by developer CapitaLand has unveiled a new development along Farrer Road called d’Leedon, on the site of the former Farrer Court. A total of 1,715 units will be built on the 840,000-sq-ft site. This comprises 1,703 apartments in seven 36-sto-rey residential
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      26 83 HANG SENG Ç Ç 23,054.68 (+0.13%) Ç È Ç NIKKEI 10,079.76 (+0.50%) SHANGHAI 2,898.26 (+1.34%) MUMBAI 19,318.16 (-0.73%) MALAYSIA 1,496.49 (+0.53%) SEOUL Ç 1,927.68 (+0.09%)
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        52 83 Hold 19 cents CIMB starts coverage with a 17 cents target price, based on 6X FY12 P/E. Says TTJ’s reputation as a leading structural steel specialist has helped it clinch contracts such as Changi Airport Terminal 3 and the Marina Bay Double Helix Bridge, but notes it faces
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        ZIWO HOLDINGS
        72 83 Buy 35 cents Phillip Securities starts coverage with a 47 cents price target pegged at 6X FY11 earnings. The house tips strong growth potential for the China-based supplier of raw materials used to make lifestyle products. Says that while Ziwo has huge exposure to the consumer market, it
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      30 sites for private homes
      649 83  -  After Aug 30 moves to curb demand, Govt now focusing on increasing supply: Analysts JO-ANN HUANG JO-ANN HUANG joannhuang@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The Government is releasing more land for private residential development in a move that analysts say is targeted at containing froth in the property market.
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      251 85 AGENCIES KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia-based casino operator Genting Berhad’s thirdquarter earnings more than doubled mainly due to its new casino and resort complex in Singapore, as well as better profits from its plantation division. Net profit for the June-to-Septem-ber quarter rose 106 per cent to RM765
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      244 85  -  RYAN HUANG ryanhuang@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE—The Government is committing $450 million over the next five years to co-develop innovative solutions with the private sector. The idea for the Public Private CoInnovation Programme was mooted this year by the Economic Strategies Committee as part of its recommendations to nurture
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      115 85 One of the biggest lenders to the troubled Dubai World is opening its first Asia-Pacific branch in Singapore. The Dubai-based bank, Emirates NBD, hopesto benefit from financing trade and investment flows between Asia and the Middle East. The United Arab Emirates is Singapore’s second-largest
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      92 85 Changi Airport handled nearly 3.6 million passengers last month, a growth of around 8 per cent from October last year. Aircraft movement rose 7 per cent to about 22,000. Changi Airport said the better performance was driven by doubledigit growth in passenger traffic to
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      51 85 AGENCIES Keppel Corp, the world’s biggest rig-builder, yesterday said it won a US$180 million ($235 million) contract from Norway’s Standard Drilling to build a jackup rig. Standard Drilling has an option to order two more rigs, which will boost the order to about US$550 million.
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      336 81 AGENCIES BEIJING China’s current account surplus more than doubled in the third quarter from a year earlier, showing that the country still faces challenges in rebalancing the economy away from a reliance on external demand. The current account surplus the broadest measure
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      403 81 ECB council member says attack on euro will not succeed AGENCIES PARIS European Central Bank (ECB) council member and Bundesbank president Axel Weber said governments could increase the size of the European Union-led bailout fund if necessary to restore confidence in the euro. “€750
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      379 81 He warned that cutting the BOJ’s main benchmark rate, the policy rate, to zero might interfere with smooth fund flows by discouraging private financial institutions from trading in the short-term money market. AGENCIES FUKUSHIMA Bank of Japan (BOJ) policy board member Seiji
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        89 79 Celebrate Christmas with a feast at the Carlton Hotel Singapore. Start your meal with a traditional turkey (left), complete with a chestnut foie gras stuffing, and end it with one of Carlton’s luscious log cakes. What’s more, kids dine for free during the
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        77 79 Have an item you need delivered the next working day? SingPost’s new SmartPac Domestic may just be the solution. Holding up to 3kg in a box measuring 300mm by 190mm by 70mm, the SmartPac Domestic offers next day doorstep delivery service for just $4.20. This makes
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        86 79 The Furniture Mall (TFM) is celebrating its sweet 16 with a bang. Spend $200 for a chance to win a Mitsubishi I or a $1,000 Jetstar Travel voucher in the Grand Lucky Draw! Plus monthly giveaways of $100 TFM Cash Vouchers when you accumulate 16
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        100 79 Hot on the heels of Forevermark’s launch in China, Japan and Hong Kong, the diamond brand from the highest standards of business, social and environmental integrity. Each diamond is inscribed with the Forever- De Beers Group is set to launch in Singapore
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        98 79 If you thought the Cheesy 7 was sheer indulgence, think again. Pizza Hut has unveiled the all-new Cheesy 7 Christmas Edition Pizza now in a crust filled with three cheese flavours. Enjoy rolled turkey ham, roasted chicken, mushrooms and capsicums on a bed of roasted pep- per
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        73 79 If you’re heading overseas during the school holidays, keep your skin moisturised and your complexion smooth and clear with the Hada Labo (Hydrating) Travel Gift Set. Each gift set (left) contains lotion, facewash, make-up remover and other products containing Super Hyaluronic Acid,
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        117 79 Luminox and Shaw Organisation has come together in a joint promotion for the latest Hollywood blockbuster, Red. The movie stars Morgan Freeman, Helen Mirren, John Malkovich and Bruce Willis as retired CIA agents who are stalked by a high-tech assassin. The new Luminox Navy Seal Red Colormark model
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        80 79 Dettol has introduced a No Touch Hand Wash System, designed to give families the convenience of a touchfree hand soap dispensing system. Each starter kit comes complete with one dispenser unit, one hand soap refill unit and four AA batteries to get the dispenser unit working.
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      369 80  -  HETTY MUSFIRAH hetty@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The annual MediaCorp Festival organised yesterday by Singapore’s leading media company showcased creative content and products for next year. On show were the latest integrated media solutions as well as MediaCorp stars, who gathered for the red carpet event at Suntec Convention
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      35 86 Today is published by MediaCorp Press Ltd, Caldecott Broadcast Centre, Annex Building, Level 1, Andrew Road, Singapore *****9 Tel: 6333 3888. Printed by KHL Printing Co Pte Ltd, 57, Loyang Drive, Singapore *****8. Tel: *****222
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      513 88 Warner Bros owns the trademark for an incredible list of possible merchandise. Quidditch lingerie, anyone? REUTERS SURE, Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Part 1 raked in an astounding US$330 million ($432 million) worldwide in its opening weekend, but with Part 2 coming next
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      881 90  -  Warner Bros to revive iconic female hero but creator JossWhedon reacts angrily to the news Andrew Pulver features@mediacorp.com.sg THE GUARDIAN IT WAS the story the fans have long been waiting for:The return of Buffy, feminist icon and slayer of vampires and this time on the big
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      399 92  -  Lucy Mangan features@ mediacorp.com. sg THE GUARDIAN Oh, this is terrible. I feel like Buffy at the end of Season 2, with Angel poised on her swordtip and torn between her loyalty to the man(-type thing) she loves and her duty to a
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      392 96 Who are the frontrunners in this year’s best picture Oscar race? Here are some early contenders REUTERS The Social Network After a lukewarm opening weekend, The Social Network now has plenty of friends.The Facebook drama is probably the strongest front-runner alongside The King’s
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      433 98 Oscar-winner Adrien Brody says he was left with no other alternative to get his salary paid AP ADRIEN Brody (picture) says he was reluctantly forced to sue the makers of a thriller film because they failed to pay his full salary. United States District Judge Dale
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      233 100 REUTERS WARNER Bros has revealed a key plot-point in The Hangover 2 a seemingly innocent brunch will set the wheels in motion for the comedy. The newly released studio press kit reveals how The Hangover crew of Phil (Bradley Cooper), Stu (Ed Helms),Alan (Zach Galifianakis) and Doug (Justin
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      604 102  -  What Dancing With The Stars proved was that Bristol Palin will always be ‘Sarah Palin’s daughter’ Alessandra Stanley features@mediacorp.com.sg THE NEW YORK TIMES IT MUST be embedded in the Palin genetic code. Sarah Palin made a virtue of inexperience in the 2008 presidential campaign, baiting her critics for
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      889 104  -  Contemporary artist Takashi Murakami inflates his strange little creatures for Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Dave Itzkoff features@mediacorp.com.sg THE NEW YORK TIMES IT IS not uncommon for people to react with awe to their first up-close encounter with a balloon from the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in New
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      540 93 LIMITED TIME OFFERS FROM S$645 BOOK AT DELTA.COM OR CALL DELTA RESERVATIONS AT 6336 3371. Roundtrip Economy Class Fare* from Singapore to: Tokyo Los Angeles, San Francisco Seattle, Portland/OR Vancouver New York (JFK, EWR, LGA) Honolulu, Las Vegas, Phoenix, Salt Lake City Other U.S. destinations are also available! What's more?
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      757 94 Congratulations to all winners. The Singapore HEALTH Award celebrates your efforts in keeping workplace health on track. The Singapore HEALTH Award recognises organisations with commendable Workplace Health Promotion (WHP) programmes. We applaud all winners for their dedication in promoting good health for their employees in the workplace. Platinum Award Abacus
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      99 98 New on our T blogs >> www.todayonline.com/blogs For Art’s Sake: The Resident Art-Throb survived last week’s affordable art fair and this week he’s turning Graey. That’s the name of a dance festival, not a typo. Makan Kaki: Renowned French mixologist says making cocktails is easy-peasy. And he’s right! Rated G:
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      216 100 Interactive Online Chinese Lessons No travelling required, thus lessons can be shorter (best attention span for students) and frequent (more exposures to the language) 1 hr lesson 3x weekly better results. No need to squeeze all lessons during weekends One qualified teacher to 6 students per lesson 100% MOE syllabus
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      221 100 touch (D Go bargain hunting at Red Market and Three Lamp District, and the pedestrian-only Leal Senado Square. Or go upmarket at luxury shops at the Grand Canal Shoppes The Venetian Macau, DFS Macau and One Central. R •ft marvelous J HOTEL ROYAL FR$368 LANDMARK HOTEL FR$438 ROCKS HOTEL FR
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      99 101 CITIZEN. Innovation, powered by willpower. Innovation. It's what happens when imagination defeats the impossible. When curiosity overcomes inertia. When constant thought breaks through the old ways of thinking to the discoveries that wait beyond. e S?> Takeshi Kaneshiro CA0021-53E SUPER LIGHTNESS by Titanium Specific gravity 4.51g/cm3 Ti+IP 40% tighter than
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      120 102 LIFE COMPACTTONGKATALI SOD TEA i h S < Compact < <D O to o PREMIUM PRODUCT OF SINGAPORE C7 V st *ty Cup of T tcJ g' SUPPORT MENTAL PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE g' IMPROVES MEN'S HEALTH g' IMPROVES WOMEN'S HEALTH g' NEUTRALIZES FREE RADICALS DAMAGE THROUGH DOUBLE STRENGTH ANTIOXIDANTS g' SUPPORTS
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      683 102 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 HARRY POTTER THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 1*▲ 12.00 3.15 9.45pm 1.00am RAPUNZEL: A TANGLED TALE 3D* 11.00am 1.30 4.00 6.30 9.00 11.30pm YISHUN RAPUNZEL: A TANGLED TALE 3D* 10.50am
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      188 105 Kong Fu Wing Chun (PG) 1.00pm, 3.00pm, 7.00pm, 9.00pm Wet Hot Sake (R21) 1.00pm, 5.00pm, 9.00pm Help Me Eros (R21) 11am, 5.00pm PostCoitum (R21) 11.00am, 3.00pm, 7.00pm v V TAKE TH e voyage: m DISCOVER NARNIA LIKE YOU r. IT v\ •*5K V,) *»x xv i < ■j1» m r
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      1098 106 ON MEDIACORP ON MEDIACORP AMERICA’S GOT TALENT (Season Premiere) Channel 5, 10pm In its fifth season, new host Howie Mandel ups the element of excitement as the judges continue their search for fresh talent. It’s going to be an entertaining ride, with acts like the two dancing kids of Future
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      48 109 The original Singapore Girl >> Page T26 Hit the shops >> Page T30 Deck the malls >> Page T32 generation that gave us awttttMwtwtt the SIA girl and a time when taking the train to Malaysia was the way to tribute to the baby boomer Revisit the ’60s as we
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      168 110 Tartan jacket, $1,190 by Agnes b; White top, $495 by Agnes b; Grey hareem, $595 by Agnes b; Shoe heel, $139 from Egg 3; Sling eye bag, $199 from Egg 3; Rose ring, $195 by Agnes b; Rose necklace, $295 by Agnes b. Brown Hat $45 Ohm Mani 1 2
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      138 111 Jacket, $1,590 by Agnes b; U.Know limited edition white top, $94 from Soon Lee; Expandable palazzo, $279.90 by Max Tan from Egg 3 Shades, $235 by Agnes b Photograph by Jason Ho Styling by Sim Yulin Hair and make up by Kenny Tan (9877 1376) using Bobbi Brown make-up and
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      586 112  -  Alice Leong was among the first to don the iconic sarong kebaya in the ’60s Eveline Gan There was a sense of deja vu as Alice Leong proudly showed off faded photographs of herself in the Singapore Airlines (SIA) sarong kebaya uniform in 1969. The photographs
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      591 112 You may not have heard of Doris Young but her alter-ego, Cleopatra Wong, was a household name all over South-east Asia Zafirah Salim Starring in the ’70s spy movie They Call Her Cleopatra Wong has been an indelible part of Doris Young’s life so much so that her
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      428 114 William Lin represents a new breed of baby boomers who are not sitting still after retirement Eveline Gan He had spent 35 years of his youth helming multinational corporations in the IT industry, and was in need of a break. Like other financially-secure retirees, he could have
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      542 118  -  Step into these shopping malls and let the spirit of Christmas fill you By Zafirah Salim EVENTS TAMPINES MALL Pokemon Diamond and Pearl Funderland Tampines Mall will be holding a month-long Pokemon fair, featuring seven Pokemon booths and plenty of fringe activities. From workshops and mini fairs
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      160 116 Don’t put all your eggs in one basket. Tiered baskets, $89-$129, from Salad Shop. Telling the time becomes a pleasure with these vintage clocks, $159 each, from Salad Shop. No room for a garden? Use the walls. Wall-mount rack, $49 from Salad Shop. Styling Sim Yulin Vintage-inspired gifts add a
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      76 117 Back to School Early Bird Special Promotion From now till Sunday, 5 December 2010 IO% discount with every 2 pairs of Bata school shoes* purchase 3/589 1732 $17 95 w 10/6 9 Ne W K -si > \i 5/88l IO57 J $29 95 1 ~j Enjoy these school bags with
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    285 120 THINGS TO DO 1 The Turntable Instrumentalist Late Nite Esplanade presents a gig by DJ Koflow who will be performing with beatboxer Dharni, among others. Date: Today Time: 9.30pm Venue: Esplanade Recital Studio Ticket: $25 from Sistic 2 Parenthood Fair Bigger and better deals, contests and prizes
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      76 120 Sleeping of highly effective Gelebs She snores really loudly He can't sleep naked A She sleeps topless it He needs only 2 hours rT. r r--w why Ms Chia prefers bolsters to men: "Men are of irregular shanpanH er to e in someone else's kitchen shape and not too soft'
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      34 120 SUDOKUplus DIFFICULTY RATING: YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION HOW TO PLAY The rules are easy. Fill in the grid so that every row, every column, and every 3x3 box contains the digits 1 through 9. COPYRIGHT UCLICK
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      487 121 FIX DIY SELFFIX year-End GD NIPPON PAINT VISIT THE NIPPON PAINT STORE www.nipponpaint.com.sg NEW TECHNOLOGY Odour-less EasyWash (5 Litres) M "XZ?" All the benefits of Odourless Premium all-in-1 with added superior washability! Almost no odour r-zero VOC erior washabilitv PAINT Anti-Stain Formula 2x Easier to clean mm W ■rj 1
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