Today, 10 January 2011

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  • 41 1 TODAY MICA (P) 057/10/2010 A PUBLICATION OF /A=D!AC0RP NEWS HOTLINE 6822 2268 Monday January io, 2011 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking Tbiw MICA (P) 057/10/2010 A PUBLICATION OF NEWS HOTLINE 6822 2268 Monday January 10, 2011 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking
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    • 510 1 HERE'S YOUR OPPORTUNITY TO RIDE ON CHINA'S 12™ FIVE-YEAR PLAN China's five-year plan is an important document which sets out the economic and social targets for the country over a period of five years. With the implementation of each five-year plan, the different set of sectors that China targets to
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  • 312 1  -  SARA GROSSE saragrosse@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The Council for Estate Agencies (CEA) is granting provisional licences to estate agents and salespersons whose applications have yet to be approved, including 125 agents whose applications the CEA had lost. Agents still waiting to get their licences approved can now
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  • 470 1  -  CCTV monitoring trial along flood-prone BukitTimah Canal LEONG WEE KEAT weekeat@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Like security personnel watching out for unwelcome guests via closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras, the PUB may soon be using similar equipment to monitor the presence of an unwelcome guest floods. The national water agency plans
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    • 89 1 THE LATEST NEWS. NOW ON IPAD. DOWNLOAD YOUR FREE APP TODAY. MANCHESTER UNITED 1 LIVERPOOL 0 SPORTS NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY ideasjnc. business challenge from an idea to an enterprise NEED FUNDING FOR YOUR BUSINESS IDEA? ideas.inc. Business Challenge 2011 is now actively looking for powerful minds to give life to
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  • NEWS
    • 206 2 ONG DAI LIN When asked if he thought he would be in the hot seat at the coming General Elections over the flood incidents, Environment MinisterYaacob Ibrahim replied: “As far as Jalan Besar GRC is concerned, we are always ready.”
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    • 479 2  -  ONG DAI LIN dailin@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE One of the oldest wards here will be getting a $460 million facelift over five years to give it a fresher look. Facilities like artistic landscaping, the latest street furniture, 3-Generation Wellness Parks, more covered
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    • 661 3 Democrat shot in the head in critical condition AGENCIES TUCSON (Arizona) An assassination attempt left a Democratic congresswoman in critical condition, killed Arizona’s chief federal judge and five other people and forced Americans to question the toxic legacy of their divisive politics. Representative
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    • 374 3 REUTERS ABOARD A UNITED STATES MILITARY AIRCRAFT The United States will enhance its own capabilities in response to China’s growing military muscle, US Defence Secretary Robert Gates said, as he landed in Beijing for talks with China's political and military leaders
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    • 374 4  -  NEO CHAI CHIN, WAYNE CHAN chaichin@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE He developed interest in art while in Si Ling Secondary School, but materials like paints and canvasses cost a pretty penny for Muhammad Zulfadly Selamat, 19, whose family’s monthly household income is $2,400. Yesterday,the first-year Nanyang Academy
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    • 120 4  -  SHAFFIQ ALKHATIB Two charities came together to raise about $270,000 in their first Amazing Race around the island yesterday. More than 400 people took part in the fundraising initiative organised by the Lions Befrienders and the Lions Home for the Elders. Just as it is
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    • 132 6 Swimming in oil-polluted water and escaping from capsized boats these are just some of the survival skills taught in a new swimming programme launched yesterday by the North West Community Development Council. Youngsters are also taught how to breathe properly as part of their
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    • 142 6 SHAFFIQ ALKHATIB It is a prized delicacy that is often eaten on special occasions such as wedding banquets and Chinese New Year reunion dinners. That is why it was a dream come true forthe 80 abalonelovers who
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    • 210 6 A peek into life in a poly and beyond SINGAPORE Polytechnic graduates continue to be in demand and choosing the right programme and learning environment will make a difference. These were some of the messages that more than 500 O-level school leavers and their parents took home from the Choices
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    • 678 8  -  CapitaLand Residential expects continued demand, price rises for private residential housing JO-ANN HUANG joannhuang@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE CapitaLand Residential will sell 1,700 private residential units this year out of its existing inventory of 2,500 ready-to-launch homes that it has yet to release for sale, chief
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    • 199 2 Igor Pusenjak, developer of Doodle Jump, made US$2 million in 4 months. Steve Demeter, developer of Trism, made US$250,000 in 2 months. Bart Decrem, developer of Tap Tap Revenge, earned US$100,000 Ethan Nicholas, within 3 months of developer of iShoot, launching the game. made US$600,000 within the first month of
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  • VOICES
    • 395 10  -  Forecast of housing supply should include immigrant impact LETTER FROM NG YA KEN MR KU Swee Yong predicted that there would be a deluge of homes in 2013 and 2014 in his article “Revisiting housing supply” (Jan 7). He derived his view based on the projection that
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    • 105 10 A table that accompanied the commentary “Revisiting Housing Supply” (Jan 7) showed that Singapore’s population fell 61,200 in 2003 from 2002. The Department of Statistics has clarified that resident population data for 2003 to 2007 were revised in February 2008 to exclude Singapore residents who have been away from
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    • 563 12 This is the first of a two-part series on financial management. In this feature, we look at the first three steps to success. SPOTLIGHT ON LEARNING MANY of us aspire to be financially successful, yet, few of us are taught the skills
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    • 345 12  -  Letter from Sim Ann Senior Director, National Population and Talent Division WE THANK Mr Ng Ya Ken and Mr Rick Lim Say Kiong for their letters on Jan 3 (“6.5m people, more or less?”) and Jan 4 (“Works there, why not here?”). Singapore today faces a
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    • 103 12  -  LETTER FROM HELEN LIM HELEN LIM, DEPUTY DIRECTOR, MEDIA RELATIONS, LAND TRANSPORT AUTHORITY We refer to the letter “The Cross Street Viaduct Mystery” by Mr Lim Khoon Bock (Jan 6). The temporary road viaduct was constructed in 2008 to ensure lane for lane replacement
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    • 106 12  -  LETTER FROM RAYMUND KOH JOO GUAN I was quite amused by the daily announcements on the Circle Line MRT as it approaches Promenade and Esplanade Stations. The pronunciation of Promenade was correctly announced as “prom-me-naad” but Esplanade was pronounced as
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    • 89 10 have your say email your letters to voices@mediacorp.com.sg join the community www.todayonline.com/voices India Nowfasterthanever. FedExnowdeliversovernighttoMumbai. With new direct flights from the FedEx Hub in Guangzhou, shipping from anywhere in Asia to India just got quicker. This means your documents will arrive Mumbai overnight*, and your shipments to Mumbai, Bangalore and
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    • 173 12 Investment Opportunities and Warning Signs in 2011 Join Dennis Ng for a FREE 2.5 Hour "Path To Financial Freedom" Workshop and learn: The Outlook for Year 2011 The Best Time to invest Two Simple Questions in Investing Why investing is like a Soccer Game Is the investment Upside still available
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  • COMMENT&ANALYSIS
    • 1091 14  -  Will Saturday’s shooting mark the end of reckless political hyperbole, or the start of terrifying new era? MATT BAI Matt Bai writes the Political Times column for The New York THE NEW YORK TIMES Within minutes of the first reports on Saturday that Representative
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    • 861 16  -  Those who call his death the final nail in the coffin for a tolerant Pakistan are wrong SHEHRBANO TASEER Shehrbano Taseer is a reporter with Newsweek Pakistan. THE NEW YORK TIMES Twenty-seven. That’s the number of bullets a police guard fired into my father before
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    • 734 17  -  SIMON TAY Simon Tay is chairman of the Singapore Institute of International Affairs and Senior Consultant, WongPartnership (Singapore). Many people talk of the rise of Asia. This is especially now in the post-crisis period when prospects for the United States and Europe seem
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    • 114 14 Nanyang Polytechnic School of Information Technology Play a part in secugng the digital future Be a CSIT-Nanyang Scholar CSIT, a Centre of Excellence under the Ministry of Defence has partnered with NYP to offer scholarships to qualified students who enrol into the Diploma in Information Security course. The scholarship awards
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  • WORLD
    • 196 18 BLOOMBERG BANGKOK Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva outlined measures for the poor valued at 2 billion baht ($85, 270) ahead of an election he must call this year. The government plans to permanently offer free electricity to 9.1 million lowincome households, give soft loans
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    • 192 18 AP BANGKOK Thousands of anti-gov-ernment demonstrators marched in Bangkok yesterday, saying they had learnt lessons from chaotic violence last year and had a new strategy for the new year. About 10,000 Red Shirt protesters gathered at Bangkok’s Democracy Monument and
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    • 180 19 KUALA TERENGGANU A Malaysian blogger has claimed he was beaten and detained at a mosque after he tried to interview Parti Islam SeMalaysia president Hadi Awang last Friday. According to a report in The Star, the blogger, Mr Khairul Nizam Abdul
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    • 280 19 AGENCIES PETALING JAYA A marathon meeting between ruling coalition lawmakers and Prime Minister Najib Razak has sparked talk of a snap election. A total of 105 out of 112 Barisan Nasional MPs, including deputy ministers, met Mr Najib, according to the New Sunday
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    • 225 19 AP KUALA LUMPUR A Malaysian transsexual vowed to fight for her rights after a court refused to change the gender on her identification documents to female following sex-change surgery, her lawyer said yesterday. Lawyer Wong Kah Woh said the High Court ruled on
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    • 113 20 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH China has set a record with the construction of the world’s longest bridge over water. Spanning the waters of Jiaozhou Bay, the 42.5km-long Qingdao Haiwan Bridge links the centre of the port city of Qingdao in eastern China with the
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    • 149 20 AP An environmental official in eastern China was suspended after more than 200 children fell ill with lead poisoning connected to a battery factory, the authorities said yesterday. Mr Zhao Yiping, the head of the local environmental protection bureau in Huaining county in Anhui
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    • 587 20 AP XI’AN (China) While comprehensive data is hard to come by, official figures show abortions are increasing in China and Chinese media and experts say many, if not most, of the abor-tion-seekers are young, unmarried women. That is a change from the past, when abortion
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    • 121 21 AP Dubai’s highest court says the authorities can deport foreigners for hand gestures considered indecent under local laws. Dubai’s Court of Cassation has ruled that the United Arab Emirates’ strict indecency codes cover gestures such as the widelyknown insult of a
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    • 414 21 REUTERS Africa’s largest country faces split JUBA (Sudan) Millions of jubilant south Sudanese started voting yesterday in a long-awaited independence referendum that is expected to see their war-ravaged region emerge as a new nation. Huge queues built up outside polling stations before dawn in
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    • 107 21 REUTERS Heavy rain lashed Australia’s prime tourist beaches yesterday, provoking warnings that flooding in vast areas of the northeast could soon hit tourist areas as well as Queensland’s state capital Brisbane, forecasters said. Officials at Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology said flooding had been reported
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    • 287 21 AGENCIES ALGIERS The Algerian government has said it would slash the cost of some staple foods on Saturday to try and quell four days of rioting, triggered by price rises. Algeria’s Interior Minister Daho Ould-Kabila said yesterday three people were killed and
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    • 231 21 AP BALTIMORE Shooting erupted early yesterday outside a Baltimore, Maryland nightclub after a fight. A police officer and another man were killed, while a second police officer and three others were wounded. The authorities said that the police were called to the Club Select on
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    • 316 21 Sudan poll faces split Algeria announces price cuts ALGIERS The Algerian cost of some staple of rioting, triggered Algeria’s Interior terday three people wave of riots in several the increase in food two cities in the Kabylie In its first detailed in years, the government tax on sugar over price
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  • SPORTS
    • 515 22 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH FA CUP, 3RD ROUND Manchester United 1 Liverpool 0 LONDON Steven Gerrard was sent off for a two-footed challenge on Michael Carrick as Kenny Dalglish’s (picture) return as Liverpool manager ended in defeat against Manchester United yesterday. Ryan Giggs’s second
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    • 398 22 AP ASIAN CUP Japan 1 Jordan DOHA Alberto Zaccheroni dodged his first defeat as Japan manager in the nick of time as the three-time champions equalized in injury time for a 1-1 draw with Jordan in their Asian Cup opener on Sunday. Netherlands-based
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    • 627 23  -  Lack of money, pitches, coaches and matches draining the talent pool SHAMIR OSMAN shamir@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE It is no secret that the Republic’s football talent pool is fast diminishing. Like musical chairs, footballers plying their trade in the S-League serve their time at a club one
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    • 434 23 PHILIP GOH SINGAPORE His notes may have been smudged and his shirt wet from the spray. But Ruud Heijselaar, the technical delegate from the International Canoe Federation (ICF), stayed undistracted as he surveyed the course mapped out for the 2011 ICF Canoe
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    • 271 23 ROYAL TROPHY (GOLF) Europe 9 Asia 7 REUTERS HUA HIN (Thailand) Europe produced a stunning fightback to clinch a 9-7 victory over Asia in the Royal Trophy yesterday, overturning a seemingly unassailable lead to win the match-play contest for a fourth time. Pablo Martin holed
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    • 188 24 REUTERS TAIPEI Lee Chong Wei, the world No 1, kept his monopoly on badminton’s Super Series Finals title, sweeping aside Denmark’s Peter Gade 21-9 21-14 in yesterday’s final. The 28-year-old Malaysian has dominated the season-end-ing tournament since its inception, remaining unbeaten and dropping only one
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    • 528 24  -  Sports chief eyes another 2-year term to ensure realisation of her project TAN YO-HINN yohinn@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Bowling chief Jessie Phua (picture) is hoping to helm the Singapore Bowling Federation (SBF) for a fifth two-year term to oversee the proposed completion of a permanent
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    • 280 24 PHILIP GOH ASEAN BASKETBALL LEAGUE, ROUND 14 Singapore Slingers 102 Brunei Barracudas 61 SINGAPORE The Singapore Slingers stayed on course for a place in the Asean Basketball League (ABL) playoffs with a crushing 102-61 win over the visiting Brunei Barracudas. The visitors arrived for yesterday’s game at
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    • 477 25 Doesn’t matter who wins prize, Messi, Xavi and Iniesta are products of teams’ own assembly line AGENCIES FIFA PLAYER OF THE YEAR BARCELONA In a normal year, Lionel Messi’s outstanding performances and stunning goals for Barcelona would be enough for him to win the FIFA Ballon D’Or
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    • 250 25 REUTERS SYDNEY Multiple Olympic champion Ian Thorpe (picture) is back to training and that could become the catalyst for a return to competitive swimming, his long-time agent said. The “Thorpedo” retired from the pool in 2006 and the Australian has since then knocked several media
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  • BUSINESS
    • 696 3  -  China’s economic development necessarily implies something reasonably clear over the medium term about the RMB, that we should get some continued appreciation. Mr Richard Yetsenga, HSBC’s head of global emerging market foreign-exchange strategy CHRISTOPHER HOWELLS christopherh@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Access to yuandenominated savings and investment
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    • WEEKLY ROUNDUP (JAN 3TO 7)
      • 56 1 FRIDAY CLOSE 3,261.35 (-0.56%) Thursday 3,279.70 p 0.78% Wednesday 3,254.25 p 0.12% Tuesday 3,250.29 p 0.45% Monday 3,235.77 p 1.43% THEWEEKAHEAD Markets got a good start for 2011 but trading this week will take its cue from sentiments following the release of US jobs data on Friday, which showed
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      • 30 1 HANG SENG 23,686.60 (+2.83%) Ç NIKKEI Ç Ç È 10,541.00 (+1.90%) SHANGHAI 2,838.80 (+2.87%) AUSTRALIA È 4,705.00 (-1.78%) MUMBAI 19,691.80 (-3.98%) MALAYSIA Ç Ç 1,572.21 (+3.51%) SEOUL 2,086.20 (+1.72%)
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      • 9 1 È OIL US$88.03 (-3.66%) GOLD US$1,369.57 (-3.60%) È
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      • STOCK CALLS
        • 52 1 Buy $3.20 Daiwa retains Olam rating, raises stock’s target price to $3.72 from $3.52. “We believe the company will perform well regardless of... flooding in Queensland and civil unrest in Ivory Coast (the world’s largest producer of cocoa) We forecast Olam to more than triple its Queensland cotton-procurement volume
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        • 55 1 Underperform $0.59 CIMB downgrades from Outperform, lowers target to $0.45 from $0.71, after cutting its FY2010 through FY2012 earnings estimates by 13.8 per cent to 39 per cent to reflect persistent cost pressures. CIMB’s new target price is still set at 7X CY12 P/E, a 50 per
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    • 559 1 RACHEL KELLY Ms Kooi is also betting big on the Next Generation Nationwide Broadband Network (Next Gen NBN), which will bring high-speed, optic-fibre broadband to homes and offices across Singapore. While most analysts note that Singapore’s telcos are unlikely to see sizeable contributions
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    • 529 1  -  MILLET ENRIQUEZ emelita@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Big-ticket infrastructure projects and rising mergers-and-acquisitions (M&A) activity will drive loan growth in the Asia-Pacific this year. Experts say syndicated loans or the pooling of resources by several banks to finance large corporate borrowings could exceed US$280 billion ($362.4 billion) this
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    • 265 1 The inaugural Young Entrepreneur Awards was successfully held on 7 January. The winners walked away with more than $40,000 in cash and prizes. YctirG CTTREPRCrCUR AWARDS 2010 The Young Entrepreneur Awards celebrates the spirit of entrepreneurship the tenacity to fulfill a vision and more importantly,the ability to dream. Radio is
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    • 41 1 JANUARY 10, 2011 A PUBLICATION OF ANDIE CHEN IS ALL DORKED UP. T2 STRANGE ATTRACTIONS: ALAN CUMMING CAN’T RESIST THE ODD. T7 DESIGN:MODERN MEETS VINTAGE IN THIS ORIENTAL-INSPIRED HOME. T22 SUPPLEMENT GET ON COURSE AFTER YOUR O LEVELS. Photo: Jason Ho
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  • TELEVISION
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      1357 2  -  Andie Chen morphs from hot hunk to awkward nerd for the sake of Prosperity MAY SEAH may@mediacorp.com.sg IF ACTING is about transforming yourself into someone you’re not, then someone pat Andie Chen on the back. In Prosperity, the newest MediaCorp TV Channel 8 drama about three very different
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    • 101 6  -  CHRISTOPHER TOH SINARAN Hati Untukmu, the Suria and TAA Trust Fund’s fund-raising show raised $759,112 on Friday night.The amount was a combination of money raised via corporate donors and the phone-ins (1900 numbers) during the show night as well as from money raised by MediaCorp Malay
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    • 226 6 LAW enforcers are hot this year on local TV it seems. On MediaCorp Channel 5, there’s Point Of Entry, on Vasantham there’s Vettai. And just last Wednesday, a lensing ceremony was held to mark the commencement of filming for the MediaCorp TV Channel 8 drama, C.L.I.F. The
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    • 604 7  -  The Good Wife’s Alan Cumming ranks ‘politician’ as one of his weirdest roles May Seah may@mediacorp.com.sg TRANSCRIPT COURTESY DIVA UNIVERSAL AS FAR as strange characters go, Alan Cumming has no problems with them. His varied and eclectic resume has seen him portray almost everything
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    • Jump on the CCA bandwagon ...
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      • 49 10 As the saying goes, a smile is a curve that sets everything straight. Smiling is undoubtedly the easiest way to draw people to you. When you come across as a friendly person, it makes it easier for others to initiate a conversation with you.
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      • 50 10 It’s a sea of new faces on the first day of school but most likely, you’re not alone. Since everyone’s in the same boat as you are (lost and friendless), initiate an activity like a class lunch and get to know one another over a meal.
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      • 70 10 Since you are starting fresh and hardly anyone knows anything about you, people rely on first impressions for judgments. Be sure to act the way you want to be seen, but don’t try too hard to “fit in” and end up being someone you’re not.
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    • 403 12 East Asia Institute of Management (EASB) offers O-level graduates education pathways that allow them to obtain bachelor’s degrees awarded by its university partners within three years (applicable to students with five GCE O-level credits). Certificates, diplomas, and advanced diplomas from EASB are designed in accordance
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    • 316 12 Since its inception in April 1992, the Institute ofTechnical Education (ITE) has been responsible for creating learning opportunities for secondary school leavers and adult learners. It offers a wide range of full-time Nitec and Higher Nitec courses to technically-talented O-and N-level graduates. O-level students who enjoy
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    • 256 14 Founded in 1938, the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (Nafa) is widely recognised as Singapore’s pre-eminent tertiary institution for artistic studies. Nafa offers a suite of 11 full-time diploma courses to more than 2,200 talented students from diverse backgrounds and 24 territories. It delivers an
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    • 307 14 Nanyang Polytechnic (NYP) provides quality education and training to equip graduates for life and work, enabling them to contribute to the technological, economic and social development of Singapore. The School of Engineering in NYP offers a unique blend of theoretical and practical training for aspiring engineers. The combination
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    • 252 16 SIM Global Education (SIM GE) offers high quality academic programmes in partnership with established international universities and institutions from the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia and Switzerland. A diverse suite of more than 50 fulltime and part-time academic programmes at postgraduate, undergraduate, diploma and certificate levels
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    • 366 18 The Singapore Maritime Academy (SMA) was founded in 1957 and is the country’s main maritime training institution. It offers a full range of maritime-related diplomas, specialist diplomas and Certificate of Competency Courses, and Standards of Training, Certification and Watchkeeping (STCW) Courses. SMA
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  • Page 20 Miscellaneous
    • 216 20 ON MEDIACORP MEGA MONDAY MOVIE: X2:X-MEN UNITED Channel 5, 7.45pm (Part 1), 10pm (Part 2) A new war between humans and mutants begins after an attempted assassination of the US president. With the war escalating to extremes, can the rest of the X-Men trust their old foes to help them?
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    • 268 20 ON MEDIACORP PROSPERITY (Debut) Channel 8, 9pm Welcome the Chinese New Year with a new drama that is sure to make you smile and touch your heart. Stars Aileen Tan, Hong Hui Fang and Andie Chen. THE MAN WITH HALF A BODY okto, 10pm Kenny’s body ends at his waist
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    • 498 22  -  The right kind of creative collaboration mixes oriental flair and modern touches seamlessly Redzman Rahmat Features@mediacorp.com.sg THIS three-bedroom condominium in Yishun is the end result of months of careful consideration and back-and-forth discussion.While most interior designers would prefer to have creative freedom in designing a home, Joey Khu
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