Today, 31 December 2010

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    26 1 TODAY MICA (P) 057/10/2010 A PUBLICATION OF NEWS HOTLINE 6822 2268 Friday December 31, 2010 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking DECEMBER 31, 2010 A PUBLICATION OF
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    Lock icon Ex-SLA man accused of cheating Govt faces 70 new charges
    366 1  -  S RAMESH rameshs@mediacorp.com.sg SLA and IPOS. SINGAPORE Former deputy director at the Singapore Land Authority (SLA), Koh Seah Wee, who stands accused of cheating the Government of more than $12 million, was yesterday slapped with another 70 charges. Koh, 40,
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    Lock icon More firms offer part-time work, staggered hours
    641 1  -  MOM survey also shows companies in finance, education give more leave ESTHER NG estherng@mediacorp.com.sg ADDITIONAL REPORTING BYONG DAI LIN SINGAPORE More employers are offering a variety of work options such as part-time work and staggered hours, according to a recent Ministry of Manpower
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      32 1 THE LATEST NEWS. NOW ON IPAD. DOWNLOAD YOUR FREE APP TODAY. Today WISHES ALL ITS READERS A HAPPY NEWYEAR. THERE WILL BE NO AFTERNOON EDITION TODAY. WE WILL BE BACK ON MONDAY.
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  • NEWS
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      Lock icon South Korea: North building up special forces
      308 2 AGENCIES SEOUL North Korea’s immediate threat to South Korea has grown, with 20,000 more special warfare troops deployed near their border along with 200 new tanks, according to a defence white paper published by the South yesterday. The report also says the North
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      Missing man's body found over 170km away in Bintan
      367 2  -  SAIFULBAHRI ISMAIL saifulbahri@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The body of the fifth Singaporean victim of the boat tragedy in Mersing, Johor, was found yesterday afternoon more than 170km from where he last disappeared into the sea. Mr Ng Kian Tek's body was discovered by
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      Lock icon A snowed-in city boils over
      518 2 NY Mayor under fire for handling of blizzard, admits city could have done better days. THE DAILY TELEGRAPH NEW YORK New Yorkers still trapped in streets buried under 60cm of snow several days after an epic storm have lost patience with Mayor Michael Bloomberg and
      days. THE DAILY TELEGRAPH; THE NEWYORKTIMES  -  518 words
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      Lock icon Capital and and Keppel Land unveil new projects
      310 3  -  MILLET ENRIQUEZ emelita@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Singapore developers appear to be unfazed by China’s property cooling measures as CapitaLand and Keppel Land yesterday unveiled plans to develop multi-billion-yuan projects in the country. CapitaLand announced it was set to develop its second Raffles City integrated
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      Lock icon Appeal fee to be raised to $50 from the current $5
      433 3 LEONGWEE KEAT SINGAPORE Accused persons who file an appeal against a Subordinate Court decision will soon have to pay a $50 fee, up from the current $5. The fee hike has caused concern among some lawyers as they were
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      S’pore grapples with low birth rate, integration
      696 4  -  All eyes on new National Population and Talent Division to come up with policies HOEYEEN NIE yeennie@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Despite several measures in the past aimed at addressing Singapore's low fertility rate, 2010 saw the birth rate continue to decline. Some 31,500 babies were
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      Lock icon Businessman pleads guilty in $2.4m bribery case
      427 4  -  LEONG WEE KEAT weekeat@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Over seven years, a businessman paid a former Ikea employee $2.4 million so the latter would place food orders with his companies. The amount involved is one of the largest in kickbacks paid to an individual here. Andrew
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      Few takers for job of postman
      250 4 SINGAPORE Singapore Post (SingPost) is finding it tough to recruit postmen to boost its staff strength. This could be due to the physically-demanding nature of the job, it said. With Singapore's economy doing well, SingPost has been seeing a rising attrition rate since the
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      Lock icon Croupier ‘converted cash chips dishonestly’
      153 6 LEONG WEE KEAT SINGAPORE A Marina Bay Sands casino croupier has been charged in a district court with dishonestly converting cash chips amounting to $13,000. Lim Kim Yeou, 28, was said to have committed the offence on Wednesday after having been entrusted with the chips
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      Lock icon Adulterated whisky: 10 men held, five charged
      202 6 upon LEONG WEE KEAT SINGAPORE Five men were charged with in a District Court yesterday with counterfeiting the “Johnnie Walker” registered trade mark. Ong Bee Hock, 36; Shawn Wan Kee Wee, 35; Ho Thiam Hwa, 34; Michael Ong Bee Zhuan, 33, and Ong
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      Three hygiene products recalled voluntarily: HSA
      175 6 SINGAPORE Three companies distributing mouth rinses and cleansing wipes have voluntarily recalled their products, according to the Health Sciences Authority (HSA). The products are: “Care Wipes” by Tai Sun Paper Products, “Trihexid Chlorhexidine 0.2% Mouth Rinse” by Trident Pharm and “Pearlie White Fluorinze Fluoride
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      TOURISM ARRIVALS CONTINUE TO RISE
      84 6 The Singapore Tourism Board (STB) says visitor arrivals rose 16.1 per cent to reach 963,000 last month. It is the highest number of arrivals recorded for the month. November also saw the 12th consecutive month of record visitor arrivals. Visitors from Indonesia (176,000), Malaysia (100,000),
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      WHERE TO EXCHANGE EXPIRED PARKING COUPONS
      84 6 A reminder for motorists: Parking coupons which are only valid up to Dec 31 can no longer be used from Jan 1. Motorists with unused expired coupons can exchange them for new ones during office hours from Jan 3 at all HDB branch offices
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  • VOICES
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      Use taxi logs to ensure safe driving
      168 8  -  Letter from Ronnie Tay I CANNOT agree more with the writer of the letter “Taxi, bus drivers put lives at risk” (Dec 30), who says that taxi drivers these days have become more inconsiderate and, sometimes, are even road bullies. Observations have been
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      Lock icon The day my blood boiled trying to make a donation
      563 8  -  Letter from Debarnab Shankar Roy I AM a regular blood donor and would like to share my most recent experience at a blood donation event held by the Red Cross on Boxing Day. I had called at 11am that day
      reader. TODAY FILE  -  563 words
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      Display of goods worsens congestion at mall
      123 8  -  Letter from Chan Wai Piew Daniel I LIVE in Bishan. Like many other residents, I have to walk through Junction 8 shopping centre to get to the MRT station. This short stretch, between the bus interchange and the station, is lined with shops
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      111 9 Windows®. Life without Walls™. Samsung recommends Windows 7. BEAUTY HAS NEW CURVES. tii mi Designed to go. Powered to perform. Introducing the new silhouette on the SF 310/410 Here's a sensuous twist to practicality. Powerful Intel® Core™ i5 processor is contained within ultra-stylish lines so that you can multi-task just
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  • COMMENT & ANALYSIS
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      Lock icon Seven bets for a better year for business
      994 10  -  JOHN GAPPER John Gapper is associate editor and chief business commentator of the Financial Times. THE FINANCIALTIMES LIMITED With a new year and the third anniversary of the 2008 financial crisis coming, should business be optimistic about what lies in store? Despite
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      Lock icon MrClooney, back off bashing Bashir
      823 14  -  If southern Sudan votes for independence, the West must play part in peaceful transition SIMON TISDALL The writer is an assistant editor of The Guardian and a foreign affairs columnist. THE GUARDIAN It is a popular pastime in progressive circles to be bashing Sudan’s President
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  • WORLD
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      Lock icon THAI COURT CONVICTS ‘YELLOW SHIRT’ PROTESTERS
      86 16 support AP The 79 members of the “Yellow Shirt” movement who stormed a state television station two years ago have been sentenced to jail. This was the first major court ruling against members of the People’s Alliance for Democracy, which seized Bangkok’s airports in
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      Lock icon Terrorists/drug guards
      407 16 Al Qaeda gains hundreds of millions from South American gangs THE DAILYTELEGRAPH SAO PAULO South American drug gangs are providing millions of dollars of funding for Al Qaeda terrorists by paying them to ensure the safe passage of cocaine across north Africa and towards Europe. Militants familiar with
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      Lock icon China shuts 60,000 porn sites
      189 16 REUTERS BEIJING China shut down more than 60,000 pornographic websites this year, netting almost 5,000 suspects in the process, a government spokesman said yesterday, vowing no let-up in its campaign against material deemed obscene. Beijing has run a highly publicised drive since last December against
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      Lock icon STORE BLOWOUT
      56 16 A furniture store in Michigan was completely levelled by an explosion, suspected to have been caused by natural gases, on Wednesday. The explosion claimed at least two lives, with rescuers recovering the bodies of a store salesman and an unidentified woman. The store owner, 64-year-old Paul Franks, is
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      Lock icon IVORY COAST ‘ON THE BRINK OF GENOCIDE’
      183 16 AGENCIES West African leaders blinked in their showdown with Mr Laurent Gbagbo on Wednesday, taking a military intervention off the table for now so that negotiations can continue with the incumbent leader who refuses to hand over power in Ivory Coast. Even as
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      Lock icon Doctor, assistant sentenced to jail over baby sale
      275 17 AP KUALA LUMPUR A Malaysian court sentenced a doctor and his assistant to a year in jail for selling a newborn boy in what a government lawyer said yesterday was a rare successful prosecution over baby trafficking. A court in Johor found
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      Lock icon A 'ONE-IN-100-YEAR' EVENT
      114 17 Flooded communities across eastern Australia could be under water for more than a week, with the cleanup bill expected to hit billions of dollars, Queensland state Premier Anna Bligh warned yesterday. Days of torrential downpours have left parts of central and southern Queensland state inundated, flooding thousands
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      Lock icon WOMAN KILLED, 4,000 EVACUATED IN PHILIPPINE FLOODS
      126 17 AP Officials said yesterday an 80-year-old woman has died and her son is missing after they were swept away by floodwaters in the eastern Philippines, where landslides and flooding have prompted some 4,000 people to evacuate to safer ground. Albay province has been
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      Lock icon TORNADO WARNING ISSUED FOR JAKARTA
      121 17 AP Meteorological officials have warned residents of Indonesia’s capital to brace for the possibility that more tornadoes could hit the city in the coming week. A small tornado hit Jakarta on Tuesday, damaging more than 50 houses and knocking down dozens of trees. No injuries
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      Lock icon The orphan who helps orphans
      581 18 medicine.” AP PASADENA (California) A photo of a 12-year-old North Korean boy on Mr Sam Han’s laptop pulls the dying man 60 years back in time, across continents to where he once wandered in search of his parents. Separated from his family during the Korean
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      Lock icon NO GO FOR ANTI-SMOKING POSTERS IN NEW YORK CITY
      158 18 THE NEW YORK TIMES A federal judge on Wednesday struck down a New York City law that would have forced shops to post gruesome images of diseased lungs, brains and teeth in the shops to discourage people from buying cigarettes. In
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  • SPORTS
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      Lock icon After the highs of 2010, get ready for a wild ride in the next 10 years
      373 22 LEONARDTHOMAS SINGAPORE So many in the country had yet to taste the kind of atmosphere generated by a major mul-ti-sport event like the SEA Games, with the last one in 1993 seeming much further
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      Lock icon Time’s up for Oon, the game-changer
      1350 22  -  Sports’ top civil servant is set to get his feet wet in a completely different field LEONARD THOMAS leonard@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Olympian Oon Jin Teik has never stood out in a crowd. He swam for Singapore in the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, collected two relay
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      Lock icon Thank you Cubs, for a rousing performance
      432 22 TANYO-HINN SINGAPORE For two weeks in August, Singapore’s under-15 boys’ football team (picture) played like Lions, their roar seemingly calls to prayer for a nation. In a year when the nation’s No 1 sport endured some real lows, the Cubs played themselves into
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      Lock icon Toothless Lions, struggling S-League: It’s been a dark year for football
      478 23 SHAMIR OSMAN SINGAPORE Even the most fanatical sports fan would have been huffing and puffing at the end of it all in 2010. This year’s sports calendar featured an unprecedented number of events and, as is usually the case
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      Lock icon An outpouring of support
      533 26  -  SSC say they will help S’pore’s first Olympic medallist however they can LOW LIN FHOONG linfhoong@mediacorp.com.sg linfhoong@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Help is just around the corner for the Republic’s first Olympic medallist Tan Howe Liang (picture). A day after MediaCorp reported that the former weightlifter’s wife had undergone
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      Lock icon ‘WE'RE BEHIND YOU, HOWE LIANG’
      253 26 of.” LOW LIN FHOONG His Olympic feat at the 1960 Rome Games may have been achieved well before they were born but members of the public whom MediaCorp spoke to yesterday were ready to open their hearts and wallets to help weightlifter Tan Howe Liang
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      Lock icon Fabregas slams referee for not giving penalty
      364 26 THE DAILYTELEGRAPH LONDON Cesc Fabregas has criticised referees for inconsistency, claiming Arsenal were denied a last-minute penalty at Wigan for exactly the same offence as he was penalised for against Tottenham. Fabregas was suspended for Wednesday’s 2-2 draw at Wigan but referee Lee
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      Lock icon Hodgson asks fans: Where’s the support?
      585 28 Kopites chant Dalglish’s name after another woeful Liverpool display THE GUARDIAN ANFIELD After conceding that Liverpool had produced the worst performance of his six tumultuous months as manager, Roy Hodgson (picture) argued that he had yet to see “the famous Anfield support”. Sections of
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      Lock icon We’re back in the hunt: Ancelotti
      619 28 THE DAILYTELEGRAPH LONDON Carlo Ancelotti declared Chelsea back in the Premier League title race after seeing them end their miserable run by beating Bolton. Chelsea ground out the scrappiest of 1 -0 wins on Wednesday to take maximum points for the first time in
      THE DAILYTELEGRAPH; REUTERS  -  619 words
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  • PROPERTY
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      Clearthe hogwash and whitewash
      777 36  -  COMMENTARY Wishes for next year: More market transparency and independent views in the property sector COLIN TAN property@mediacorp.com.sg The writer is Head, Research Consultancy, at Chesterton Suntec International. When I was a student, I believed everything I read in the papers. If it appeared in print,
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      Australia the next property investment hot spot?
      460 36  -  JO-ANN HUANG joannhuang@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Australian real estate may present a good investment opportunity next year as a robust economy and a growing shortage of homes underpin prices that, according to analysts, have room to go up still further. Analysts say that foreigners will
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      LAW FIRMS JOIN DBS AS FUTURE
      153 36 TENANTS IN 66%-LEASED MBFCTOWER3 The Marina Bay Financial Centre has received pre-commitment for over 66 per cent of the space in Tower 3, a year ahead of its completion, its manager Raffles Quay Asset Management said yesterday. The new lease agreements were inked with
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      Spotlight on good-class bungalows
      897 38  -  COMMENTARY ONG KAH SENG property@mediacorp.com.sg The writer is Senior Manager, Research Asia Pacific at Cushman Wakefield. 2010 has been an impressive year for the landed housing segment, with prices rising 23 per cent in the first three quarters, including a 7.7-per-cent increase in the third quarter
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      219 30 earlier. REUTERS SINGAPORE Singapore Press Holdings (SPH) is eyeing further investments in real estate, in particular shopping malls that will provide recurring income, its chief financial officer said. Cash-rich SPH has been investing in new areas, from outdoor advertising to property, to offset
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      55 30 THURSDAY 3,212.46 (+0.14%) Wednesday Tuesday Monday Friday 3,207.91 3,183.70 3,159.36 3,143.80 p p p p 0.76% 0.77% 0.49% 0.19% TOP 5 BY VOLUME NAME VOL PRICE CHANGE Ying Li Gallant ChinaGaoxian GoldenAgr Genting SP 57,151 40,730 36,262 30,514 25,783 0.440 0.475 0.390 0.800 2.180 p q p q q
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      26 30 HANG SENG Ç È 22,999.34 Ç Ç Ç (+0.13%) NIKKEI 10,228.92 (-1.12%) SHANGHAI 2,759.58 (+0.29%) AUSTRALIA 4,790.38 (+0.32%) MUMBAI 20,389.07 (+0.66%) MALAYSIA È 1,518.91 (-0.36%)
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      17 30 US$1 £1 €1 ¥100 A$1 RM1 HK$100 RMB100 1.290 2.001 1.709 1.585 1.313 0.419 16.58 19.57
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      WILMAR INT'L
      121 30 STOCK CALLS BUY $5.63 AmFraser has a “Buy” rating and $7.60 target price after the commodities giant entered into an agreement with Kerry Properties and Shangri-La China to submit a joint bid to acquire land rights for six sites in Laobian, Yingkou City in China’s Liaoning province. The
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      316 30 Negative effect of yuan reform had been overestimated: PBOC official DOW JONES BEIJING A small, gradual appreciation in the yuan presents more benefits to the Chinese economy than costs, the director of the People’s Bank of China’s (PBOC) Statistics and Analysis Department wrote in the Financial
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      SMEs to boost productivity with NGNBN
      789 31  -  RYAN HUANG ryanhuang@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE A florist and a recruitment firm. These are only two of the many small and medium enterprises (SMEs) that have benefited from the ongoing roll-out of Singapore’s all-fibre, ultra-high-speed broadband network. And their experience suggests that next year may be
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      Demand rises for green design, furnishings
      343 32  -  RACHEL KELLY rachel@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Dimming lights that can reduce one’s electricity bill by almost a third and sustainable building materials such as recycled coconut walls. These are some of the approaches companies and homeowners here are adopting as they go green. Some home furnishing
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        124 34 Get set to ring in the new year with Tiger Crystal. The Ultimate NYE Tiger Bus will help revellers experience the best of all the New Year parties by connecting partygoers to Marina Bay, the Marina Barrage and Clarke Quay. What’s more, Tiger Crystal
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        TURKISH AIRLINES PICKS KOBE BRYANT
        159 34 Basketball star Kobe Bryant has been named global brand ambassador for Turkish Airlines for the next two years. A global advertising campaign featuring the NBA star will be aired next year in more than 80 countries. “I’m so proud to be chosen as a global
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        BANISH THAT BLOATED FEELING
        95 34 Hawthorn fruit is traditionally thought to help digestion and improve general health. If you’ve overindulged this festive season, why not try Huiji Fruity Lite to help cleanse your system and improve your bowel movements. This season, Huiji Fruity Lite is now on offer. Buy three regular-sized
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        GET LUCKY AND WIN AT HARBOURFRONT CENTRE
        100 34 Christmas may be over, but you still can head down to HarbourFront Centre for some festive treats. Simply spend $50 and get a chance to partake in the Merry X’mas Draw, and stand to win a pair of Armani watches, a Laurastar ironing
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        TURNING JAPANESE AT LIANG COURT
        124 34 Welcome the new year with the latest Japanese sensation Not For Sale (below) at Liang Court. Featuring four fortune tellers, an MC, a DJ and a VJ, this boy band will be giving live performances on Jan 8 and 9 at 2pm and 5pm. On
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      MSC LODGES DRAFT PROSPECTUS FOR SGX LISTING
      153 32 Malaysia Smelting Corporation (MSC), the world’s third-largest tin producer, has lodged a preliminary prospectus with the Monetary Authority of Singapore for the listing of its shares on the Singapore Exchange (SGX). If successful, it would make the company dual-listed on Bursa Malaysia and
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      Lock icon Hong Kong mass-market home sales slump
      295 32 REUTERS HONG KONG Sales of massmarket housing in Hong Kong have fallen by a monthly 24 per cent so far this month following government measures to cool the overheated property market, the South China Morning Post reported yesterday. The number of deals for apartments
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      UOB venture gets okay to manage funds in China
      252 32 SINGAPORE Marking its first foray into China, UOB Asset Management (UOBAM) said yesterday that it had obtained approval from the China Securities Regulatory Commission to set up a joint venture fund management company in the world's second-largest economy. The joint venture,
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    530 42  -  TELEVISION Countdown to 2011 from the comfort of your home MAY SEAH may@mediacorp.com.sg IF THE thought of battling the crowds on New Year’s Eve at countdown parties tonight sounds more like a nightmare than a celebration to you, and your roomy couch is where
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      104 43 YEAR'S '1 I m 2010 *> 5BATE 2011 (a Ma r IMTDOWN PA"** ,pm«" la,e CQC^SS Ss»5rVeI,l,e 6pm^ late Time: 6pn COI MAB' NA Barra9 e oartya w«»> Ma,ina hair as y° ushe rint he C0UNT M^ clarke uay r^ Siia part>< !Join heTigw0 D anie ,.nuary. vlSltU l; a
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      Lock icon Catch U2 in 3D glory
      250 44 cheaper a regular CHRISTOPHER TOH SO ALL your friends went to Australia to catch U2’s 360 tour. Well, no matter. You can actually just head on down to Jurong, to the Singapore Science Centre to be precise, where they’re screening U2 3D, the first ever
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      A Cut above
      497 45  -  Indonesian band Sajama Cut wants to take its music as far as possible KEVIN MATHEWS IT WOULD appear that alternative rock in South-east Asia is on the ascent. In Malaysia,Thailand, the Philippines and Indonesia, alternative rock scenes are thriving, earning new fans in increasing numbers. But more
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      459 46 AP BILLY Taylor, an acclaimed jazz pianist and composer who became one of the genre’s most ardent advocates through radio, television and the landmark Jazzmobile arts venture, has died at age 89. Taylor died Tuesday of a heart attack in Manhattan,
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      The drama behind good TV
      849 48 Castle creator Andrew Marlowe clues us in May Seah may@mediacorp.com.sg WHAT makes TV dramas like The Ultimatum and Red Thread watchable? Andrew Marlowe would be the best person to ask. He has after all written screenplays for movies like Air Force One, Hollow Man and
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      818 44 C'H o I o J o ivriE/5° aurants bars shops tS/e ><• Reign in the Christmas Cheer Chijmes Revel in the Christmas spirit and soak in the festive celebrations at our eclectic mix of restaurants, pubs and bistros offering the season's best for dining and drinks. You'd be spoilt for
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      535 46 US BOX OFFICE #1 THE TRAPS COME ALIVE IN 3D! A bl/t., Efti ¥>. I r 9 r «f"j v. ALSO AVAILABLE IN 2D SPECIAL SNEAKS TODAY! IP R21 STRONG GORE AND VIOLENCE W.3U V IS ATI nex nex SERANGOON CENTRAL. LEVEL 4 CENTURY CENTURY SQUARE LEVEL 5 BALESTIER SHAW
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      40 47 9 V' 4 a /i V > V > I I. v L >'M V1 .\j4° 2 V%&\ ZS9: 3IB5 I ,V i ff Official Broadcaster: ifirtf i'firn, ul /AEDIACORP Presenter: Tf<£er /S-^ CRYSTAL Co-Sponsor: Canon Organising Partner: URBAN REDEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY A
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      852 48 This holidays funniest comedy! Robert Ben Owen Blythe Teri Jessica withDustin andBarbra DeNiro Stiller Wilson Danner Polo Alba Hoffman Streisand -MeettkFbrentSn le -■'7 T r: >■: ■f" v ft Kids bring everyone closer, right? S?SS LittleFockers.net 0% |NC161 Sexual Humour WITH CHINESE SUBTITLES Now Showing 1900 912 1234 www.gv.com.sg m.gv.com.sg
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      113 49 2 GOLDEN GLOBE NOMINATIONS 2 INCLUDING BEST ACTRESS ANNE HATHAWAY! BEST ACTOR JAKE GYLLENHAALlJL BEST ACTRESS ANNE HATHAWAY BEST ACTOR JAKE GYLLENHAAL FUNNY, CHARMING,POIGNANT SEXY." BEST SHARKEY, Cos Anocles aimes jake yllenhaal SC anne hathaway TODAY SI U't nan g Cruise .3Mi0W=P ™^„oM a< e,a ,?p Jointly Organised by t\
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      1210 50 ON MEDIACORP ON MEDIACORP HOLIDAY EVE MOVIE: THE MUMMY RETURNS Channel 5, 7pm CHANNEL 6.00AM Video Zonkers 6.30 Prime Time Morning 9.30 Planet’s Funniest Animals VIII 10.00 Style By Jury 10.30 Art Of Health 11.00 Food Chain II 11.30 Rachael’s Vacations NOON AFF Suzuki Cup 2010: Final Indonesia vs Malaysia
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    321 51 THINGSTO DO 1 Celebrate 2011 A star-studded countdown show hosted by Michelle Chia and Gurmit Singh, with performances by David Tao, Malaysian hiphop group One Nation Emcee, Singapore Idol winner Sezairi Sezali, and local artistes including Sylvia Ratonel, Sylvester Sim Queen Band and Jack Rai. Date: Today
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  • TECH
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        ACTION GAME OF THE YEAR
        138 52 AS THE year draws to a close, it’s time to look back at the games released in 2010 and choose the best. Today’s gaming fiend Trevor Tan (trevor@mediacorp.com.sg) gives his verdict. This year has been great for action adventure games, with the likes of Assassin’s
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        SPORTS GAME OF THE YEAR
        158 52 Your favourite sports game will probably be down to what type of sports you are interested in.And almost all the games are annual updates, such as FIFA 11, Pro Evolution Soccer 11 and NBA 2K11. However, this year, with the release of motion-sensor technologies in
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        ROLE-PLAYING GAME OFTHEYEAR
        186 52 Role-playing games (RPGs) are my favourite, as I like the engaging stories as well as addictive character development and inventory management. But good RPGs are hard to come by. This year, notable ones include Mass Effect 2, Fallout: New Vegas, Final Fantasy XIII, Alpha Protocol and Fable
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        STRATEGY GAME OFTHEYEAR
        194 52 The beginning of the year sees the conclusion of Command and Conquer (C&C)Tiberium series with C&C4: Tiberium Twilight. Unfortunately, it is a dud as its gameplay deviates starkly for a C&C game. I mean, what is C&C when you can’t harvest Tiberium? Thankfully, StarCraft II stays true
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        RACING GAME OFTHEYEAR
        153 52 For racing game enthusiasts, the biggest news this year was the release of the PS3exclusive GranTurismo 5 (GT5), which has been in the making for five years. Nonetheless, we should not overlook other very good racing games, such as Need for Speed Hot Pursuit, BLUR and Formula
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        SHOOTER GAME OFTHEYEAR
        152 52 Shooter games are the staple of electronic gaming as they allow you to shoot your foes out of their pathetic existence. This year, we have a wealth of quality shooter games, such as Battlefield: Bad Company 2, BioShock 2, Halo: Reach, Medal of Honor (MOH) and Call
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      GAME OF THE YEAR
      82 52 For me, the game of the year boils down to either Mass Effect 2 or Red Dead Redemption. Both have an open interactive world and both stories are well told and dotted with interesting characters and varied missions.The combat mechanism in Red Dead Redemption is not
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      Built like a tank
      618 54  -  DSLR CAMERA REVIEW: OLYMPUS E-5 TrevorTan trevor@mediacorp.com.sg WITH the enormous success of Olympus’ Micro Four Thirds (MFT) PEN series, there are worries that Olympus might neglect its FT digital single lens reflex (DSLR) series. Thankfully, that’s not the case, and the camera-maker has recently released the
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      487 54 CAMCORDER REVIEW: FLIPVIDEO MINOHD just HEDIRMAN SUPIAN TWENTY extra frames. That’s the gist of the latest iteration of Cisco’s Flip MinoHD video camcorder. It now comes in two models with slight differences in storage capacities and looks. The 8GB ($349) model that lets you
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      180 54 HAZWAN NORLY EVER needed to do something but didn’t know how to? Howcast.com offers a vast array of “how to” videos, such as “how to bake a cake” and “how to practise good office etiquette”, making it easy to learn something new every day. Each Howcast.com video shows a
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      Lock icon New Year ‘app’titude adjustment
      560 55 HAZWAN NORLY IT’S the start of a brand new year tomorrow. A whole year of your life has passed (again) and you realise that you have not achieved even half of the items on your 2010 Resolution List.To make sure you achieve a little bit more
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      81 55 THE E r. rr m i* Mill HAVE LANDED Af ■SCIENCE CENTRE' <* J";;- 1 qiraMt ar J, Sat > grasshopper, p/alypus W rki M ffe A* i j ?ggs '-3?? ~%rx^^,aiv£' 1^' Special exhibition and usual Science Centre admission rates apply. ,#t A 15 Science Centre Road, S(*****1) Opening
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