Today, 5 January 2011, Afternoon Edition

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    39 1 TODAY MICA (P) 057/10/2010 A PUBLICATION OF NEWS HOTLINE 6822 Wednesday January 5, 2011 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking AFTERNOON EDITION MICA (P) 057/10/2010 A PUBLICATION OF NEWS HOTLINE 6822 Wednesday January 5, 2011 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking
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      345 1 FROM TERENCE WINTER EMMY® AWARD-WINNING WRITER OF THE SOPRANOS, AND ACADEMY AWARD®-WINNING DIRECTOR MARTIN SCORSESE AN HBO ORIGINAL SERIES D T <••• a D ->■ JJAilJj 33 ii._VA.-D Ajef. jyfe .1 A m tdH PI IW x t v---* a *>&'"Vi&afl Y I T& HN:*^ furl Ibbbbmh s V;.- i
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      154 1 FROM TERENCE WINTER, EMMY® AWARD-WINNING WRITER OF THE SOPRANOS, AND ACADEMY AWARD®-WINNING DIRECTOR MARTIN SCORSESE not to be missed" People ATLANTIC CITY 1920 When alcohol was outlawed, outlaws became kings. AN HBO ORIGINAL SERIES D I R®I PFBRA ran, ..01 .J Cr V li'tSI: SM vJi! K DA NW- U
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    Lock icon Pakistan a step closer to the abyss
    664 1 Punjab Governor’s assassination by his own bodyguard plunges nation into mourning, outrage, political chaos THE GUARDIAN ISLAMABAD Pakistan lurched into a fresh crisis after an outspoken secular politician was shot dead yesterday by a fanatic who opposed reform of the country’s draconian blasphemy
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      Lock icon Legal eagles set bar with own foundation
      379 2  -  ONG DAI LIN dailin@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Rajah Tann has become the first law firm in Singapore to have its own foundation to disburse funds to the less fortunate. The firm has committed a proportion of its annual profits to social causes. Its managing partner,
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      Major review of ethical code, guidelines for docs
      573 2  -  Prominent issues have surfaced since last revisions in 2001, says the SMA NEO CHAI CHIN chaichin@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE If the Singapore Medical Association (SMA) has its way, the issue of patients being overcharged should be given more attention in governing the conduct of
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      Safe cycling campaign participant meets tragic end on the roads
      394 3  -  Avid cyclist dies following collision with lorry ONG DAI LIN dailin@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The year 2010 ended with a campaign to promote safe cycling. But on Monday, a Singapore Armed Forces regular who took part in the campaign became the first
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      SAF ready to assist in flood-hit Queensland, Mindef tells Australia
      322 3  -  LEONG WEE KEAT SINGAPORE Singapore has offered its assistance to help Australia combat floods in the state of Queensland, where the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) has been conducting training exercises for the past 20 years. Expressing Singapore’s empathy with the
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      Brawl on bus finds its way to YouTube
      238 4  -  LIANG KAIXIN SINGAPORE A fight between two middleaged men broke out on board a Service 14 bus but the driver apparently continued driving during the altercation. It was left to startled passengers to step in, with one unsuccessfully urging the two men
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      Wage policies for mature workers: Sats shows how it is done
      405 4  -  CHEOW XIN YI cheowxinyi@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE An employer of8,000 workers here may have set the example for other companies, especially unionised ones, to follow when deciding the wages of mature workers. Instead of a 10-per-cent wage cut, Singapore Airport Terminal
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      Lock icon Punggol Topaz a hit with home buyers
      381 6  -  JOANNE CHAN joannechan@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The Housing and Development Board’s (HDB) latest public housing project, Punggol Topaz, is a hit with home buyers. As at 5pm yesterday, it had received 6,846 applications for the 1,010 units available. Applications closed at midnight. The strong demand
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      Property agent pleads guilty to various offences
      342 6  -  SHAFFIQ ALKHATIB SINGAPORE A 28-year-old man who gained notoriety by posting homemade videos on the Internet of himself having sex pleaded guilty yesterday to housebreaking, forgery and possession of obscene films. Chen Guilin, who goes by the online moniker “Gary Ng”, originally faced
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      Lock icon Ex-SIA CEO appointed STB chairman
      127 8 SINGAPORE Former Singapore Airlines chief executive Chew Choon Seng (picture) has been appointed chairman of the Singapore Tourism Board (STB), taking over from Mr Simon Israel with effect from Jan 1. Mr Israel, who is the executive director and president of Temasek Holdings, had chaired
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      Lee Foundation donates $150m to NTU medical school
      143 8 The new medical school at the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) has received a $150 million gift from the Lee Foundation. NTU said half the sum will go directly to needy students. The remaining $75 million will go to setting up another endowment
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      Lock icon AN UNUSUAL LESSON FOR SST STUDENTS
      106 10  -  DYLAN LOH Students at the School of Science and Technology began theirfirst day in school by doing something different: Serving food and drinks to more than 180 foreign workers. The event was organised not only to thank the workers, who helped build their new
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      School’s different for new kids on the block
      319 10  -  QIUYI TAN qiuyitan@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Classes did not start until 8am at Cantonment Primary School yesterday a new school that opted for a later starting time. This follows the policy change last May, giving all schools the flexibility to decide on school hours.
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      7 more charges for man accused of murder
      156 12  -  SHAFFIQ ALKHATIB shaffiq@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE A man accused of murdering his friend’s three-year-old son now faces seven additional charges of child abuse. Muhammad Raffiq Jaffah, 23, allegedly caused Danish Iman Abdullah’s death between 5.30pm and 6.15pm in a unit at 204, Geylang Road,
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      Lock icon SP’s exerciser an ‘ultimate’ fit for elderly
      291 12  -  MONICA KOTWANI SINGAPORE For Chan Chee Kin and his mates final-year Singapore Polytechnic (SP) students a visit to the Bishan Home made them realise that, while the elderly residents liked exercising, the machines built around weights and cables were cumbersome. And there were
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      Remisier who alleged he was slapped settles out of court
      434 14  -  ZUL OTHMAN zul@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE His day in court to face a private summons for allegedly slapping a remisier nearly two years ago was over in 15 minutes. He made an undisclosed out-of-court settlement, all of which means the charges against
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      984 15 Singapore outh award RECOGNISING SINGAPORE’S MOST OUTSTANDING YOUTH SINGAPORE YOUTH AWARD 2011 THE TIRELESS ADVOCATE Eveline Gan meets recipient of the Singapore Youth Award 2009 in the category I get a lot of satisfaction when I finally see them stand on their own. You feel like you are the invisible
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  • VOICES
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      These sellers are not serious
      207 16  -  Flat owners re-valuing flats for profit Letter from Gurmit Singh Kullar THE latest cooling measures have admittedly had some effect in curbing the cash over valuation (COV) for resale HDB flats but we are still unlikely to see any decrease in valuations. I have come
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      It is not about politics at Boon Lay Youth Club at all
      220 16  -  Letter from Tan Ah Teck I REFER to the article “When school and grassroots work do not mix” by Mr Siew Kum Hong (Jan 4). My daughter was actively involved in the Boon Lay Youth Club (BLYC) when
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      Consume only sustainable seafood
      153 18  -  Letter from Jennifer Lee A FEW weeks ago, Singaporean Catherine Tay submitted a proposal on reach.gov.sg requesting that the Singapore Government exclude shark’s fin soup from all Government banquets, including those of its agencies. The article garnered tremendous support and received more than 500 Facebook “Likes”
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      New Sentosa Boardwalk will ease the journey
      404 18  -  Letter from Helen Lim Deputy Director, Media Relations Land Transport Authority Suzanne Ho Communications Director Sentosa Leisure Group WE refer to the letter by Mr S B Kaslan, “Improve transport to Sentosa” (Dec 28), and thank him for his feedback and suggestion to
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    Lock icon Charting new waters
    877 17 TMSS scholar Zhang Shu Zhen on why she chose to join the maritime industry Brought to you by At the age of 17, Zhang Shu Zhen had a clear vision of her future: She wanted a career that would expose her to a world of unique opportunities
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      520 19 Brought to you by ALL IT TAKES IS THE RIGHT BED Last week on Episode 5, hosts Bryan Wong and Michelle Chia headed to a Choa Chu Kang block where neighbours Julie Eu and Koh Beng Bock as well as Sherlyn Yeo and Edwin Chia were set to go head
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  • COMMENT&ANALYSIS
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      Lock icon Wild card draw for Europe’s Central Bank?
      940 20  -  Anything would be better than the two main candidates for job of region’s top monetary official MATTHEW LYNN Matthew Lynn is a Bloomberg News columnist and the author of “Bust”, a book on the Greek debt crisis. The opinions expressed are his own.
      BLOOMBERG; BLOOMBERG PHOTOS  -  940 words
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      1033 22  -  New social safety net needed to integrate rural immigrants permanently in China’s cities FAN GANG Fan Gang is Professor of Economics at Beijing University and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Director of China’s National Economic Research Institute, Secretary-General of the China Reform Foundation, and
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      How to stay friends with China
      660 24  -  The time is ripe for Washington and Beijing to consolidate bilateral ties and widen cooperation ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI The writer was the National Security Adviser in the Carter THE visit by President Hu Jintao of China to Washington this month will be the most important
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      Lock icon Keep out of the water, says Mayor
      441 26 AGENCIES ROCKHAMPTON (Australia) Floodwaters eased in Australia's major coal mining region yesterday to allow some mines to slowly resume production, although most remain idle as devastating floods affect some 200,000 people and force towns to be evacuated. Floods have submerged or disrupted life
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      151 26 AP Pakistan's main opposition leader gave the government three days yesterday to accept a list of demands if it wants to avert collapse after it lost its majority in Parliament. The ultimatum by Pakistan Muslim League-N chief Nawaz Sharif could determine the government's fate since
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      319 27 AP TOKYO The Japanese Prime Minister wants 2011 to be the year Japan opens up to the rest of the world and called yesterday for debate on raising the sales tax to prop up ailing finances as the country’s population shrinks and ages.
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      175 27 REUTERS SEOUL Japanese and South Korean defence ministers will meet next week in Seoul to discuss boosting military ties in the wake of deadly attacks from North Korea, a South Korean official said yesterday. But Japan’s Toshimi Kitazawa and his South Korean counterpart
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      Lock icon JAPAN WAS ON HIGH ALERT FOR AVIAN FLU LAST MONTH
      120 27 THE NEW YORK TIMES Japanese bird sanctuaries, poultry farms and zoos went on high alert last month after several species of migratory birds in different regions were found dead from what appeared to be H5N1 avian influenza. ProMED, a global
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      Floods force 5,000 to miss first day of school
      171 28 KOTA BARU The school year started on Monday in Malaysia but more than 5,000 students in Kelantan, near the border with Thailand, missed the first day of school thanks to floods. Eight schools in Rantau Panjang and Tumpat were flooded with
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      TAIWAN PLANS BILLION-DOLLAR SCHEME TO BOOST BIRTHS
      138 28 Taiwan will spend more than US$1 billion ($1.29 billion) a year to boost its shrinking birth rate, which is among the world’s lowest. According to the Economic Daily News, the Council for Economic Planning and Development is proposing an annual budget of NT$38
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      Lock icon BANGKOK AIRPORT TRAIN LINK OPENS CHECK-IN SERVICES
      128 28 AP Travellers in Bangkok can check-in their luggage when boarding the city's train-to-the-plane for flights on certain Thai airlines, with most carriers opting out of the service for now. A high-speed train link from central Bangkok to Thailand's main international airport opened in
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      204 29 AGENCIES BANGKOK Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva yesterday said he had sent Democrat MP Panich Vikritseth to inspect the disputed border between Thailand and Cambodia last week, before the lawmaker and six other Thais were arrested by the Cambodian authorities. He explained
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      Lock icon Now that the phoney peace pact is over...
      318 29 THE GUARDIAN WASHINGTON The Republican Party is to use the new Congress, which begins today, to mount a guerrilla campaign aimed at destroying President Barack Obama’s healthcare reforms, slashing the federal Budget and preparing the ground for his defeat in next year’s
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      Lock icon Iran invites IAEA envoys to visit N-facilities
      160 29 REUTERS TEHRAN Iran said yesterday it had invited envoys from the International Atomic Energy Agency to visit some of its nuclear facilities this month, shortly before a second round of talks between Tehran and major powers. Those invited included representatives from some of
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      Lock icon China's next President 'redder than the red', WikiLeaks reveals
      356 30 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH SHANGHAI Mr Xi Jinping (picture), the man who will take over as China’s paramount leader next year, is only of “average intelligence” and women find him “boring”, a close friend has reportedly told United States diplomats. After winning
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      Lock icon Israel arrests 2 workers at UK Consulate in Jerusalem
      212 31 AP LONDON Two local maintenance workers at the United Kingdom Consulate in Jerusalem have been arrested by the Israeli authorities on suspicion of selling weapons to Hamas militants. The arrests came after Israel's Shin Bet security service on Sunday disclosed that
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      Lock icon Egypt sees Al Qaeda link to blast; Europe warns Copts
      306 31 AGENCIES CAIRO Egypt is screening people who arrived recently from countries where Al Qaeda is known to recruit after early findings suggested the network was behind a New Year’s church bombing, security sources said. In Europe, the authorities were pursuing
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      Lock icon GREECE PLANS ANTI-MIGRANT FENCE ATTURKISH BORDER
      106 31 REUTERS Greece is planning to build a 12.5km fence at its border with Turkey to prevent a wave of immigrants from flowing into the country, its Public Order Minister said on Monday. Asian and African migrants increasingly use the northern Greece Evros border with
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      Lock icon DEAD FOETUS FOUND IN AIRCRAFT TOILET AT MANILA AIRPORT
      119 32 AP The police say a dead foetus has been found in the toilet of an aircraft that arrived in Manila. Aviation police investigator Marcelino Peninoy says a cleaner discovered the five-to-six-month-old male foetus on Monday on an Etihad Airways aircraft after
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      Lock icon FILIPINO OFFICIAL CAUGHT MURDER SUSPECT ON CAMERA
      140 32 AP The police in the Philippines investigating a shooting death of a local councilman on New Year’s Day did not have to look further than the last photograph the victim took. The picture taken outside the councilman’s house in metropolitan Manila clearly shows
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      Lock icon NY garbage piles save suicidal man’s life
      239 32 REUTERS NEW YORK A man who jumped out of a ninth-floor window in New York on Monday survived after he landed in a giant heap of rubbish which had not been collected since the city’s huge snowstorm a week ago. Mr Vangelis Kapatos,
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      Lock icon WOMAN CLAIMS DONALD DUCK GROPED HER
      121 33 AP A Pennsylvania woman who claims that Donald Duck groped her at Disney’s Epcot theme park can have her day in court, a federal judge has ruled. Disney must defend itself against Ms April Magolon’s claims that the character grabbed one of her breasts
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      Lock icon Songwriter’s son charged with murder of designer
      326 33 AP NEW YORK An Academy Award-winning songwriter’s son has been indicted on a murder charge in the death of his swimsuit designer girlfriend, who was found in a hotel bathtub, according to court records that show the upgraded charges. Nicholas Brooks, 24, was
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      163 33 AP BUENOS AIRES Thieves dug a 30m ventilated and lit tunnel from a neighbouring building into an Argentine bank and emptied the contents of up to 140 safe deposit boxes. The authorities said three thieves entered a Banco Provincia branch in the Buenos Aires
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      438 34 Here’s why those New Year resolutions are so hard to keep AP WASHINGTON Uh-oh, the new year has just begun and already you are finding it hard to keep those resolutions to junk the junk food, get off the couch or kick smoking. There is a biological reason a lot
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      190 35 AP SVAY ROLUM (Cambodia) Hundreds of villagers flocked to a wedding ceremony yesterday between a 5m-long, 90kg female python and her slightly smaller mate, both believed to be magic snakes that bring prosperity and peace. The two-hour ceremony in Svay Rolum village, 20km
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      383 35 AP BEEBE (Arkansas) New Year revellers in a small Arkansas town were enjoying midnight fireworks on Friday night when they noticed something other than sparks falling from the sky: Thousands of dead blackbirds. The red-winged blackbirds rained out of the darkness onto rooftops
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      331 29 V Singapore g National Life Saving Day 2011 INTRODUCTION Five organisations have come together to create Singapore's inaugural National Life Saving Day: 1. National Resuscitation Council, Singapore 2. Singapore Heart Foundation 3. Peoples'Association 4. Singapore Sports Council 5. Institute of Technical Education Sunday 16 January 2011 Singapore Expo Hall 7
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      Lock icon Tao Li’s Olympian task for Games fame
      662 36  -  TAN YO-HINN yohinn@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE To win a medal in the women’s 100m butterfly final at the 2012 London Olympics, Tao Li will have to lop more than half-a-second off her personal best of57.54sec for the distance. A gold medal could require her to
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      263 36  -  LOW LIN FHOONG SINGAPORE The Singapore Tennis Association (STA) have identified eight youngsters to groom into future stars and are awaiting psychological tests to determine if they can withstand the rigours of full-time training. Said STA president Edwin Lee: “We
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      250 36  -  SHAMIR OSMAN SINGAPORE The Football Association of Singapore (FAS) are now officially a charity. In a statement yesterday, the FAS said amendments were made to the association’s constitution at an extraordinary general meeting on Monday evening, in order to meet the charity registration requirements
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      395 37 ‘Chicharito’ lifts Man United’s below-par showing with a goal and an assist AGENCIES AFTERNOON LATEST MANCHESTER Never mind the quality, feel the quantity of points. Manchester United continue to put in average displays and continue to lead the Premier League, moving three points clear of
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      338 37 AP LONDON Fulham and Birmingham pulled off crucial victories to escape the relegation zone last night. At Craven Cottage, Fulham beat West Bromwich 3-0. Simon Davies scored just before halftime thanks to a goalkeeping bllunder from Scott Carson. Clint Dempsey and Brede Hangeland added
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      111 37 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH John Rooney, the brother of Manchester United striker Wayne, could be set for a career in the United States after signing a contract with Major League Soccer. The deal will see the 20-year-old midfielder take part in a training camp before being offered
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      114 37 THE GUARDIAN Daniel Agger has added to Roy Hodgson’s woes at Liverpool by revealing he will leave the club if he cannot regain a regular first-team place. Agger has endured an injuryplagued five years at Anfield and only returned to the side on New
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      97 37 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH Two-time world player of the year Ronaldinho has signed a deal to join Brazilians Gremio from AC Milan, the Italian newspaper Gazzetta dello Sport reported yesterday. The sports newspaper claims Ronaldinho’s brother and agent Roberto de Assis has reached an agreement with Gremio, where
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      478 38 KoloToure, Adebayor have a very public bust-up during training THE DAILY TELEGRAPH AFTERNOON LATEST LONDON At least Roberto Mancini cannot accuse his Manchester City players of lacking fighting spirit as they attempt to end the club’s 35-year wait for success. Kolo
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      146 39 AP CAPE TOWN India lost their last four wickets for 48 runs after tea but still seized a slender first-innings lead over South Africa on day three of the deciding third test yesterday. Dale Steyn finished with 5-75 as India were bowled out for 364
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      SOUTH AFRICA VS INDIA, 3RD TEST
      29 39 South Africa 362 (Hashim Amla 59, Jacques Kallis 161; Shanthakumaran Sreesanth 5-114) vs India 364 (Gautam Gambhir 93, Sachin Tendulkar 146; Dale Steyn
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      513 39  -  Dentsu pick Singapore as their regional hub SHAMIR OSMAN shamir@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE From the Fifa World Cup to the Olympics, Asian Games and the IAAF World Championships, the Sports Division of Dentsu Incorporated has its tentacles spread deep and wide in the sports world. Started as an
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      621 5 SINGAPORE To make event management as simple as flicking on a switch that is the aim of Huang Yaoquan. The NUS computer science alumnus is the co-founder of FlickEvents, which he runs with fellow graduate Phun Yan Yan. In May last year, the duo successfully launched
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      438 5 SINGAPORE Advertising feature Psychology at JCU Singapore A complete accredited Psychology pathway is what Shehnas look for The possibility to earn a real Australian degree without leaving Singapore was an attractive and promising opportunity for Shehnas Alam, a 23-year-old Ngee Ann Polytechnic graduate. "From the age of 14, I have
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      403 3 Xbox 360 Game Deuelopment UJorksho □ate of course: 17 Jan to 24 Feb 2011 (10 Sessions, Mon Thur, 6.30pm to 9.30pm) Venue Singapore Polytechnic Course fee $107 (inclusive of gst) Fascinated with the technological beauty of Halo 3, Gears of War and Alan Wake? If you have experience in programming
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      237 3 BLOOMBERG SHANGHAI Companies in China may raise more than 400 billion yuan ($77.8 billion) this year from initial public offerings after first-time sales climbed to a record last year, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) said. Financial services providers, information technology companies and makers of industrial
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      241 3 REUTERS TAIPEI The American International Group’s (AIG) protracted sale of its Taiwanese unit took another twist when a local firm yesterday proposed jointly running the unit with the bailed-out insurer instead of a sale that AIG has been pushing for. AIG has been
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      121 3 DOW JONES JAKARTA Indonesian stateowned flag carrier Garuda Indonesia began pre-marketing yesterday for an initial public offering of around US$500 million ($642.8 million), according to a term sheet seen by Dow Jones Newswires. The airline is selling 9.36 billion shares and will begin road shows for
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      Lock icon ‘GLP eyes majority stake in Airport City
      261 2 DOW JONES SINGAPORE Global Logistic Properties (GLP), a unit of the Government of Singapore Investment Corp, is in talks to acquire a majority stake in China’s Airport City Development, people familiar with the matter said yesterday. Airport City Development, which is 40 per
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      365 2 SINGAPORE The manufacturing sector in Singapore expanded for the third consecutive month in December after contracting for two straight months earlier in the year. The purchasing managers’ index (PMI) posted a reading of 50.7 last month, a dip of 0.7 point from November but
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      128 2 Robin Village Developments, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Mainboard-listed construction group Tiong Seng Holdings, is building a $26 million Prefab Hub to supply pre-cast concrete components. The 19,000-sq-m hub, located inTuas, is expected to be completed in the third quarter of this year. It will
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      310 1 REUTERS DETROIT Car sales in the United States rose to the highest rate in 16 months in December, and major carmakers forecast the recovery would gather momentum this year as the industry distances itself from one of its deepest slumps ever.
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        77 1 Punters shun commodities Investors abandoned red-hot commodity shares on profit-taking, while fears of lower supermarket profits hit food retailers, sending the S&P and Nasdaq lower. Volume was strong for a second day as investors reshuffled their portfolios at the beginning of the year, and analysts said the attractiveness
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        78 1 Plunge below US$90 Oil prices slid more than 2 per cent, retreating from a 27-month high and dropping below US$90 a barrel, as profit-taking struck the commodities complex following a rally over the thin holiday trading period. Investors said abrupt selling across energy, metal and agricultural markets reflected a
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      56 1 TUESDAY CLOSE 11,691.20 (+0.18%) Monday 11,670.80 p 0.81% Friday 11,570.50 p 0.07% Thursday 11,569.79 q 0.13% Wednesday 11,585.38 p 0.09% NYSETOP 5 BYVOLUME NAME VOL PRICE CHANGE Citigroup 580.1m $4.90 UNCH Bank of America 218.3m $14.24 p 0.35% Sprint Nextel 118.0m $4.45 q 1.33% Annaly Capital 107.5m $17.35 q
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      21 1 US$1 $1.288 US$1 £0.641 US$1 €0.751 US$1 ¥82.075 US$1 A$0.994 US$1 HK$7.768 All figures correct as at 8am this morning
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      384 1 BLOOMBERG WASHINGTON United States Federal Reserve policymakers said that improvements in the economy did not meet the threshold for scaling back their plans to purchase US$600 billion ($775 billion) in bonds. “While the economic outlook was seen as
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      1225 2  -  British actor Pete Postlethwaite remembered and the unwitting role he played in the Northern Ireland peace process Peter Bradshaw features@mediacorp.com.sg THE GUARDIAN IN THE movies, an actor’s face is his fortune. It isn’t simply a matter of being goodlooking enough to play the romantic hero
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      306 6  -  MOVIE REVIEW: THE FIGHTER M18, 115 min GENEVIEVE LOH IT’S an old-fashioned underdog story about blue-collar working-class America. It’s got controversial director David O Russell (Three Kings) at the helm. It’s got critics’ favourites Christian Bale, Melissa Leo and Amy Adams in a true story about ringside blood,
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      Love is all around
      330 6  -  MOVIE REVIEW: LOVE AND OTHER DRUGS M18, 112 min GENEVIEVE LOH WHAT’S not to like about a movie which flaunts regular unobstructed views of Jake Gyllenhaal’s and Anne Hathaway’s lovely bodies in a story about the rise ofViagra? Unfortunately, Love And Other Drugs, for all the
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      Crime doesn’t pay
      266 7  -  MOVIE REVIEW: ALL GOOD THINGS NC16, 100 min GENEVIEVE LOH PRETTY blonde Katie Marks (Kirsten Dunst) is missing. Her husband David Marks (Ryan Gosling) is the troubled son of powerful and wildly wealthy New York real estate mogul Sanford Marks (Frank Langella), who not only made millions
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      211 8 REUTERS JOHN Goodman is joining Sandra Bullock and Tom Hanks in Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close, a Sept 11-themed drama to be directed by British filmmaker Stephen Daldry. The story centres on Oskar, a 10year old boy (played by unknown Thomas Horn) who
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      193 9  -  GENEVIEVE LOH WATER FOR ELEPHANTS: HOW clever of a brooding vampire to surround himself with two Oscar winners a diabolical SS German Officer and a legally blond country singer in an obvious bid to extricate himself from severe typecasting and a middling (albeit phenomenally popular) teen franchise. Based
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      Lock icon Another Year for Jim Broadbent
      432 10  -  Dany Margolies features@mediacorp.com.sg REUTERS IN ROLES large and small, in theatre and on-screen, Jim Broadbent imprints his work with his characteristic mix of truthfulness and colourful details. The kinetic manager in Moulin Rouge! and his Oscar-winning turn as the husband of a dementia victim in
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      197 10 REUTERS CHINA’S box-office gross sales rose 61 per cent last year to US$ 1.47 billion 1.9 billion), boosted by Hollywood imports and local hits local media said on Monday citing a leading media regulator. From January through December, China’s moviegoers bought tickets worth 10 billion
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      114 11 REUTERS ACTRESS Anne Francis (picture), who appeared in dozens ofTV shows and movies including Forbidden Planet, died in California on Sunday, her daughter told The Los Angeles Times. She was 80. Francis died of complications of pancreatic cancer at a retirement home in
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      200 11 REUTERS SWEDISH police found the remains of a second body in the burned wreckage of Per Oscarsson’s home on Monday. The news increased fears that the 83-year-old actor (picture) who appeared in the Swedish film adaptations of Stieg Larsson’s Millennium series, died along with his wife in
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