Today, 13 December 2010, Afternoon Edition

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  • 26 1 TODAY MICA (P) 057/10/2010 A PUBLICATION OF NEWS HOTLINE 6822 2268 Monday December 13, 2010 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking DECEMBER 13, 2010 A PUBLICATION OF
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  • 607 1  -  CONRAD RAJ editor-at-large conrad@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE While the world is gripped by the revelations and other goings-on at WikiLeaks, here in Singapore, listed rig builder Sembcorp Marine (SembMarine) is trying hard to prevent a mini leak. The world’s second-largest builder of offshore rigs is
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  • 962 1  -  Foreign Minister George Yeo speaks out about latest WikiLeaks ONG DAI LIN dailin@mediacorp.com.sg ADDITIONAL REPORTING BY WAYNE CHAN SINGAPORE Comments purportedly made by Singapore diplomats on Asian countries that were revealed by WikiLeaks cables will not impact bilateral ties and “I don’t think we should
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  • NEWS
    • 383 5 AGENCIES LONDON Health chiefs in Britain have urged people to be vaccinated against Influenza A (H1N1) flu after it was found that the same virus that swept the country last year has claimed the lives of 10 adults in Britain in the
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    • 483 5  -  Mr Goh said the elderly are a special group, and Singapore would need more young people to engage older Singaporeans to help them grow old graciously. He noted that one in five Singaporeans will be aged 65 and above by
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    • 297 5 THE MALAYSIAN INSIDER KUALA LUMPUR Former Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim used Twitter yesterday to dismiss a revelation by WikiLeaks that Australian intelligence believes he engaged in sodomy, claiming the source was Malaysia’s Special Branch (SB) police. The opposition leader did not take calls
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    • 395 6 AGENCIES STOCKHOLM Swedish police investigating two blasts that rocked central Stockholm on Saturday, killing the suspected bomber and wounding two, said yesterday they had good leads into what they said were “terror crimes”. Before the explosions, the Swedish news agency TT
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    • 540 8  -  NG JING YNG jingyng@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE In 2006, this newspaper reported how many from the pioneer cohort of life sciences graduates had ended up in junior research positions or manufacturing and sales jobs in the industry positions that do not require a life
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    • 230 8 Vanishing act highlight of Explore Singapore! finale VIMITA MOHANDAS SINGAPORE A vanishing act was the highlight at the grand finale of the Explore Singapore! 2010 yesterday evening. Singapore illusionists J C Sum and “Magic Babe” Ning made five people “disappear” in The Aerial
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    • 237 10 WAYNE CHAN SINGAPORE Maintaining cleanliness in HDB estates is still a challenge and chairman of Pasir Ris-Punggol Town Council, Dr Ahmad Magad, said this is partly due to the high attrition rate among local cleaning workers due to the low
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    • 246 10 ZHAO QUAN YIN ANDTAN QIUYI SINGAPORE The woman who miraculously survived a 12-sto-rey fall from a condominium balcony in Jalan Datoh off Balestier Road on Friday is now up and about. Discharged after only two days in hospital, Chinese national Zhou Zhi Hui said
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    • 117 10 The Singapore branch of ICICI Bank India’s largest private-sector bank has contributed $100,000 to the Singapore Indian Development Association (Sinda). Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan, the global brand ambassador for ICICI Bank, and Mr Vijay Chandok, Head of the International Banking Group, presented the
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    • 676 12  -  S RAMESH rameshs@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Singapore’s labour movement, the National Trades Union Congress (NTUC), will give extra significance to leadership renewal at its next National Delegates Conference next year, which will also see elections to its Central Committee. “Many of
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    • 101 12 Indonesian domestic workers attend a singing class (top) and a sewing class (bottom) during their day off at the Sekolah Indonesia Singapura (Indonesian School). Administered by the Indonesian Embassy, the school offers courses from high school diplomas to degree programmes held in partnership with the Indonesian Open
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    • 126 12 The Old Victorians’ Association (OVA) yesterday called for nominations of worthy Victorians to feature in a book commemorating 135 years of Victorian heritage. The book seeks to identify and honour 135 alumni who embody the Victorian Spirit. The closing date for nominations is Feb 11
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  • VOICES
    • 499 14  -  Being fragile creatures, they are not suited to being cared for by Letter from President, House Rabbit Jacelyn Heng Rabbit Society Singapore President, House Rabbit Society Singapore I REFER to the report on “Don’t buy bunnies on impulse: SPCA.” I wish to urge members of the
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    • 122 16  -  Reader suggests ways to ease access for wheelchair-bound Letter from Ric Cai MOST of the medical clinics in HDB estates are located at shop houses, and most of their entrances have high kerbs, making them inaccessible to wheelchair-bound patients. Could the Ministry of Health
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    • 297 16  -  Letter from Sebastian Tan Gee How I REFER to the stories “’Tis the season for change” and “Avramovic’s still our man, says Zainudin” Dec 10. Those who have called for (Singapore football coach) Raddy (Avramovic) to be replaced are totally missing the point.
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  • COMMENT & ANALYSIS
    • 800 18  -  GLP has failed investors in not disclosing non-compete agreement with ProLogis and in saying this is not material information when found out CONRAD RAJ conrad@mediacorp.com.sg The writer is editor at large at Today. Global Logistics Properties’ (GLP) response to a recent article in The Business Times
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    • Article, Illustration
      925 20  -  THOMAS L FRIEDMAN The writer has won three Pulitzer Prizes, the most recent in 2002for commentary. THE NEW YORK TIMES The failed attempt by the United States to bribe Israel with a US$3 billion ($3.9 billion) security assistance package, diplomatic cover and advanced F-35 fighter aircraft if Prime
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    • 845 21  -  ALISTER DOYLE The writer is Reuters’ environment correspondent. REUTERS “I was born in 1992. You have been negotiating all my life. You cannot tell us that you need more time,” Ms Christina Ora of the Solomon Islands complained to delegates at the United
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  • WORLD
    • 260 22 GUARDIAN The United States grew so concerned about the possibility of an Islamist terrorist attack in Spain in 2007 that it proposed setting up a counter-terrorism centre in the country’s second-largest city, according to leaked US Embassy cables. The three cables said the
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    • 133 22 AGENCIES A suicide car bomber killed at least seven people and wounded dozens near government buildings in the mainly Sunni Iraqi city of Ramadi yesterday. The incident occured as political leaders moved toward forming a new government. The attacker blew up
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    • 288 22 Protesters want new minimum wage implemented AGENCIES CHITTAGONG Garment workers demanding the implementation of a new minimum wage clashed with police at an industrial zone in southeastern Bangladesh yesterday, leaving up to three people dead and 250 hurt, police and news reports said. Police official Reza
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    • 227 22 REUTERS LONDON Russia told a United States diplomat that it had been tracking the suspected killers of a former KGB agent before his murder in London four years ago but had been warned off by Britain, according to a US
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    • 200 23 AP MOSCOW Police clashed with more than 2,000 soccer fans and nationalists who gathered near the Kremlin on Saturday to protest the fatal shooting of a man on the streets of Moscow. The crowd was upset over the death of Yegor Svidorov, a
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    • 265 23 THE GUARDIAN LONDON Afghanistan’s police force, whose success and stability is crucial to allowing the government to withdraw British troops, is losing nearly one in five recruits every year, new figures reveal. Foreign Office statistics show that more than 20,000 officers from the
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    • 169 23 AP WELLINGTON There were fresh calls yesterday for New Zealand’s unarmed police to carry guns after a lone constable was attacked with a machete, leaving slashes across his face, deep cuts and fractures to his head and arms, and a severed finger.
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    • 421 24 THE NEW YORK TIMES BEIJING Ms Liu Yang, a coal miner’s daughter, arrived in China’s capital city this past summer with a freshly-printed diploma from Datong University, US$140 ($183) in her wallet and an air of invincibility. Her first taste
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    • 113 24 AP President Benigno Aquino III said the Philippines did not send a representative to the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony honouring jailed Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo because of his efforts to spare Filipinos on death row in China. Mr Aquino said in an interview
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    • 116 24 AP Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin arrived on Saturday in Haiti as part of a brief humanitarian mission in an impoverished nation struggling to overcome post-election violence and a cholera epidemic. Her first stop was to tour a shelter with Reverand Franklin
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    • 266 24 THE NEW YORK TIMES MILLBRAE United States Attorney-Gen-eral Eric H Holder Jr has defended the use of sting operations orchestrated by government informers, telling advocates for the civil rights of American Muslims on Friday night that the tactic is an “essential law
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    • 264 24 GUARDIAN LONDON British Home Secretary Theresa May is under intense pressure to ban controversial anti-Muslim preacher Terry Jones from entering the country after far-right activists said he had agreed to address them at a demonstration about “the evils
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    • 136 26 MINNEAPOLIS A powerful snowstorm socked the upper Midwest on Saturday with as much as 50cm of snow, forcing authorities to close roads across five American states as heavy winds made for treacherous driving conditions. North Dakota experienced wind chills of minus 16°C. Eastern
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    • 227 26 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH LONDON The case against Mr Shrien Dewani (picture), the British millionaire arrested on suspicion of having his wife killed while they were on their honeymoon, has taken a dramatic new twist after South Africa’s police chief linked him to another
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    • 428 28 AP LUCKNOW Their tale begins in the 18th century, with an ancestor who served a Mogul emperor and an aristocratic family’s rise to immense wealth and power. It ends with two brothers-in-law, whitehaired men living in adjoining apartments in a palace that long ago
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    • 276 28 AP LONDON Prince William and Ms Kate Middleton look relaxed, poised and very much in love in official photos released to mark their engagement. One of the two images by Mr Mario Testino shows the couple, dressed in jeans and casual tops, smiling
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    • 234 29 THE GUARDIAN CAMEROON Sting operations by wildlife activists in Central Africa have broken up organised smuggling rings which send endangered species abroad, leading to the arrest of key dealers. The clampdown took place in Cameroon, Gabon, the Central African Republic and the
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    • Article, Illustration
      56 29 Hundreds of people dressed in Santa outfits celebrating at Trafalgar Square in London on Saturday, startling commuters and tourists. Organisers of the annual ‘Santacon’ festive flash mob say it is ‘a nonprofit, non-political, non-religious and nonsensical celebration of Christmas cheer, goodwill, and fun’. Similar events were planned in
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    • 259 29 THE GUARDIAN LONDON Some of the biggest names on the British high street use Indian sweatshops which pay poverty wages and break labour laws to keep costs to a bare minimum, according to a report by anti-poverty campaigners War on Want and Labour Behind
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  • SPORTS
    • 638 31 Drogba’s missed stoppage-time penalty caps an exciting but error-strewn match REUTERS ENGLISH PREMIERSHIP Spurs 1 Chelsea 1 LONDON Chelsea’s poor run continued as Didier Drogba missed a stoppage-time penalty in an exciting but error-strewn 1-1 Premier League draw at Tottenham Hotspur on Sunday. Roman Pavlyuchenko shot Spurs
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    • 440 31 AGENCIES LONDON Stuart Holden scored with two minutes left yesterday to help Bolton overcome their fourth red card of the season and beat Blackburn Rovers 2-1 in a fiery Barclays Premier League clash at the Reebok Stadium. The American midfielder’s second goal of the
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    • 617 32 THE TELEGRAPH ENGLISH PREMIERSHIP Man United vs Arsenal MANCHESTER Samir Nasri turned up the heat ahead of Arsenal’s clash with Manchester United tonight (tomorrow morning, Singapore time) by claiming Sir Alex Ferguson’s side have gone backwards and that Old Trafford has lost its capacity
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    • 264 32 NEWCASTLE Alan Pardew couldn’t stop smiling after he started his reign as manager of Newcastle United with a 3-1 win over Liverpool in a Premiership clash on Saturday (yesterday morning, Singapore time). In contrast, Roy Hodgson was angry, left bitterly disappointed by his men as
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    • 413 32 MANCHESTER While Nani’s superb displays of late has not gone unnoticed among the Old Trafford faithful and Dimitar Berbatov’s five goals against Blackburn in Manchester United’s last Premiership game took the breath away, much of the talk over the last few days in the red half of
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    • 335 33  -  World Netball Championships 2011 LOW LIN FHOONG linfhoong@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The Republic were drawn with third seeds Jamaica in Pool C for the 2011 World Netball Championships (WNC), which Singapore will host from July 3 to 10 at the Indoor Stadium. They will also do battle
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    • 395 33 REUTERS MANCHESTER Captain Carlos Tevez’s (picture) shock transfer request has been rejected by Manchester City, the Premier League club announced yesterday. City, who went joint top of the Barclays Premier League on Saturday after a comprehensive 3-1 win away to West
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    • 116 33 A world record for attendance at an ice hockey game was set when an unofficial 113,411 fans watched Michigan beat college rivals Michigan State 5-0 outdoors at Michigan Stadium on Saturday. The previous mark for a hockey game was 77,803 at this
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    • 353 35  -  NTUC FairPrice Foundation Nations Cup LOW LIN FHOONG linfhoong@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Buoyed by a 100 per cent winning record, Scotland were tipped to win their first FairPrice Foundation Nations Cup trophy at Toa Payoh Sports Hall yesterday. But last year’s runners-up, ranked highest in the six-team
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    • 386 35 REUTERS LONDON Team Lotus have abandoned plans to race in the same colours as Formula 1 rivals Lotus Renault next year, owner Tony Fernandes revealed on Saturday (yesterday morning, Singapore time). The Malaysian entrepreneur felt that it made no sense having four
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    • 295 35 AP SAN DIEGO San Francisco has been told it will lose the right to host the 2013 America’s Cup unless a deal is signed by Friday. The warning came in a letter the Golden Gate Yacht Club (GGYC) sent to Mayor
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  • Page 32 Miscellaneous
    • 50 32 [p"la"yS) Always play with care. [responsibly! Do not bet illegally. No person under the age of 18 years shall be allowed to purchase a ticket or to claim any prize. For details, visit www.singaporepools.com.sg or call 6786 6688 Towards Community Purpose and Benefit SINGAPORE FU POOLS RCB Reg No: *****0202G
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  • Page 38 Miscellaneous
    • 122 38 New Classes starting in January 2011: -4 All classes are held at Bras Basah Complex, 5th floor open space, once a week, with starting dates as indicated. Unless otherwise informed, there is no class on public holidays. Daoyin Yangsheng Gong (DYYSG) created by Professor Zhang Guangde of Beijing Sport University,
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  • BUSINESS
    • 428 36  -  MILLET ENRIQUEZ emelita@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE More monetary tightening measures may be on the cards in China after consumer prices rose last month at their fastest pace in two years. China’s 5.1-per-cent inflation rate, which underscores an overheating economy, will act as a counterweight
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    • WEEKLY ROUNDUP (DEC 6TO 10)
      • 42 36 FRIDAY CLOSE 3,185.42 (-0.77%) 3,210.20 A 0.23% Wednesday 3,202.80 a 0.34% Tuesday 3,191.88 A 0.33% Monday 3,181.41 A 0.28H THE WEEK AHEAD Ongoing fears of interest rate hike in China and Tuesday's FOMC meeting will likely impact market trading this week.
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      • 28 36 H HANG SENG 33,162.91 (-0.68%) NIKXEI 10,211.95 HQ (+0.33%) H SHANGHAI 2,841.04 (-0.05%) AUSTRALIA Wf WA5-9° (+1.10%) MUMBAI 19,508.89 (-2.29%) MALAYSIA 1,507.28 (+0.27%) SEOUL 1,986.14 ill (+1.48%)
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      • 9 36 H OIL US$87.79 (-1.56%) M GOLD US$1,386.00 (-1.98%)
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      • STOCK CALLS
        • 62 36 Neutral $1.63 DMG downgrades from Buy as the stock has breached its $1.66 target price. Says the shares are now worth 18.5X FY11 P/E. Adds, the massagechair maker's plan to list in Taiwan is positive as the sale of treasury shares will generate $76 million, which, together with its
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        • 60 36 Overweight $1.94 HSBC initiates with $2.22 target price; says the REIT's stable income profile ensures steady payouts while its asset enhancement initiatives will result in continued rental uplift. Bank also starts coverage on CapitaCommercial Trust at Underweight with $1.47 target; says the roll-over of high rentals will likely
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        • 57 36 Outperform $1.54 Macquarie upgrades from Underperform, lifts its target to $2.00 from $1.19 to account for benefits stemming from increased tourist arrivals in Singapore, a market which accounts for 60% of the public transport operator's revenue. Says ComfoitDelgro's robust growth in Australia is expected to continue, aided by recent
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    • 568 36 Banking reforms unveiled Down Under to boost bank competition REUTERS CANBERRA The Australian government unveiled reforms to boost bank competition yesterday, allowing lenders to issue covered bonds for the first time and cracking down on interest rate signalling under a package meant to
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    • 531 38  -  JO-ANN HUANG joannhuang@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE One of the world’s largest privately-held medical-device makers, Cook Medical, expects to nearly triple its sales in Asia by the middle of the decade. The company, which conducts research in areas of and makes products for
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    • 823 38  -  COMME NTARY Cotton prices have soared of late, raising the spectre, as one tongue-in-cheek comment on the Web said, of jobless Americans shivering naked in their foreclosed homes. Meanwhile, Olam’s shares have jumped 40 per cent on the Singapore Exchange in a
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    • 48 42 IS SHE REALLY OUR BEST ACTRESS? DECEMBER 13, 2010 ZOUKOUT WHAT HAPPENED THIS YEAR. T6 BREAKOUT NEW TV SERIES HEATING UP OUR SCREENS. T10 CHECK OUT NEW DESIGN EXHIBITION SHOWCASES CREATIVE HOME IDEAS. A PUBLICATION OF LOOK INSIDE FOR MORE T-AWARDS WINNERS. T2 OUR TOP PICKS OF TWENTY-TEN
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    • 238 43  -  MAY SEAH may@mediacorp.com.sg IT’S SAID that we can’t move into the future without acknowledging where we’ve come from. Looking back this year, we can certainly acknowledge the numerous hours we’ve spent in front of the goggle box. First, there was the intensified
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    • 79 43 You don’t want to run into Yifeng on a bad day. This year, she had an altercation with a taxi driver, allegedly trashing his taxi and kicking him. Yes, she’s gone and done to cabbies what many of us only dream of doing. However,Yifeng will
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    • 73 43 Sorry, The Family Court you guys looked good too, but you didn’t have The Pupil. We really enjoyed this Channel 5 drama it’s a definite step in the right direction. Boasting splendid production values, good direction and good acting Rebecca Lim even won this year’s
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    • 84 43 Seriously, was there anybody else? Michelle wholly deserves this award because she is one of the most talented, as well as most underrated, actresses on local television. On The Noose and various variety programmes, her caricatures are inspired and hilarious. In more serious roles like that
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    • 56 45 We don’t know what his secret is, but Geping is doing wonders for the image of uncles everywhere.That alone would qualify him for some kind of award; but on top of it all, he’s genuinely charismatic, buff, blessed with perfect skin, and a model husband to
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    • 127 45 This was the hair that looked like a clown’s wig that the cat dragged in. But it was for a good cause: Yuwu’s hair was permed for his role as a diva actor in the Channel 8 drama Precious Babes. So it wasn’t altogether a senseless
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    • 61 45 First there were the is-he-or-isn’t-he rumours, then there were the denials. Then, more is-he-or-isn’t-he debates, and then suddenly,Tay Ping Hui was a married man! If you need a lesson in planning a top-secret shindig shrouded in mystery and equivocation, call TPH. He should
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    • 72 45 Okay, so we don’t actually know if she spends every waking hour hitting the books. But the point is, she is hitting the books and full-time, at that.This year, Felicia made the very grown-up decision to go back to school and get a degree in Business
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    • 93 46 A year ago, Zhen Huan had to don a dress in the Channel 8 drama Together for his role as a guy driven by poverty to cross-dressing as some sort of hostess to earn money.Trust us, it wasn’t pretty. Last month, in
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    • 47 46 If all lizards looked this good, none of them would lose their tails in terror-fuelled attacks on the species. Morena Baccarin as the reptilian alien leader in V makes our blood run hot and cold in a good way, of course. SEXY!
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    • 81 46 A kid who wears aftershave, thinks of himself as a Latin lover, and looks like that kid from Up? The 12-year-old Rico Rodriguez, who plays Manny, is shaped like a mini Moses Lim and has impeccable comic timing we bust a rib every time
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    • 517 47  -  There’s got to be a morning after yes, even at ZoukOut Mayo Martin mayo@mediacorp.com.sg SUNDAY morning, 7am. Madonna’s Hung Up blares from the main stage at Sentosa’s Siloso Beach.With one more hour to go before ZoukOut 2010 wraps up, the crowd is still dancing. The clean-up brigade
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    • 373 48 The annual jazz music do ‘pop’ direction still draws a crowd CHRISTOPHER TOH DESPITE there being seven gigs going on at the same time such as ZoukOut 2010 and Sodagreen’s concert, to name but two a sizeable crowd still formed at the Chijmes Lawn where another
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    • 134 49 ALL of Class 95FM’s DJs Glenn Ong, Vernetta Lopez,The Flying Dutchman, Jean Danker, Bobby Tonelli, Carol Smith and Yasminne Cheng took to the streets on Saturday as part of their charity drive or should we say, walk. The DJs were split into three teams as
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    • 479 51  -  New drama series receives much positive feedback May Seah May@mediacorp.com.sg IT WOULD appear that Channel 8’s yearend blockbuster drama series, Breakout, is a breakout hit. The dramatic storyline and strong performances from the cast drew over one million viewers to its first and second episodes alone.
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    • 1145 53 ON MEDIACORP ON MEDIACORP ANYTHING GOES Channel 5, 8.30pm 6.00AM Whacked Out Sports 6.30 Prime Time Morning 9.30 The Price Is Right USA 10.30 Body Beautiful 11.00 Food Chain 11.30 Rachael’s Vacations NOON The Doctors 12.45PM Planet’s Funniest Animals VIII 1.00 Singapore Racing Legend 1.30 Heartlanders II 2.00 Films Stars
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  • 242 54 THINGS TO DO 1 Robot Zoo Check out this educational exhibition which uses biomechanics of giant robot animals to simulate and examine how real animals work. Date: Until Apr 3 Time: 10am to 8pm Venue: Omni-Theatre Tickets: $1 Enquiries: www.science.edu.sg 2confes/s\essions This collective performance and archival project
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    • 36 54 WEEKEND’S SOLUTION NOTICE This is the last time we will run the Sudoku answers. For the next 10 weeks, solve the puzzles and stand a chance to win a Sony Ericsson phone. COPYRIGHT UCLICK DIFFICULTY RATING:
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    • 762 55  -  A design exhibition featuring works inspired by local memories has been open for a week. Why haven’t you visited it yet? By Serene Lim Serenelim@mediacorp.com.sg TIFFIN carriers and steamboat pots, kerosene lamps and piggy banks… it’s hard to think that these objects from a bygone era could
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    • 136 56 SELECTING A SOFA Sofa, not so good? It’s essential to get the right sofa as the couch is a key element of the living room. It’s where you plonk yourself down or spend time with friends and family, making it a centerpiece. Before you replace your current
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