Today, 11 January 2011, Afternoon Edition

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  • 21 1 AFTERNOON EDITION MICA (P) 057/10/2010 A PUBLICATION OF NEWS HOTLINE 6822 2268 Tuesday January 11, 2011 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking
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  • 551 1  - If parents cannot care for children ZUL OTHMAN zul@mediacorp.com.sg ZUL OTHMAN SINGAPORE If parents are unable to provide their children adequate food, clothing, medical aid, lodging, care or other necessities, changes to the law now make it clear that the authorities may consider removing a child from his or her
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  • 568 1 Arizona gunman appears in court for first time, a hint of a smirk on his face THE NEW YORK TIMES PHOENIX Jared Loughner, his head shaved bare and his hands and feet in restraints, walked into a federal court yesterday, where he agreed not to
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  • PARLIAMENT
    • 444 2  -  LEONG WEE KEAT weekeat@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Once bitten, twice shy. That sums up the Republic’s relationships now with United States diplomats after candid discussions ended up on WikiLeaks. In the words of Foreign Minister George Yeo: “If this happened once, it can happen again
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    • 367 3  -  NG JING YNG jingyng@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The Ministry of Education (MOE) will take the initiative to obtain past records of candidates instead of getting schools to declare every act of misconduct by their students. Education Minister Ng Eng Hen gave this example
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    • 361 3 TANYA FONG Foreign lawyers here will soon be able to practise commercial areas of Singapore law through the establishment of the Foreign Practitioner Certificate (FPC). Currently, only foreign lawyers with degrees from universities that are approved by the AttorneyGeneral
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    • 370 6  -  ESTHER NG SINGAPORE The Government has no plans to lower the minimum age limit for foreign domestic workers (FDWs) from 23 to 21 as it may lead to a “perverse outcome” of making it easier for even younger FDWs to circumvent the requirement.
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    • 372 6  -  ESTHER NG estherng@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —The Housing and Development Board (HDB) inspected 6,700 flats last year and took action against 88 owners for unauthorised subletting, Senior Parliamentary Secretary (Ministry of National Development) Maliki Osman said yesterday. The authorities also penalised seven others
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    • 305 8  -  TEO XUANWEI xuanwei@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The proposed new duty on clubs’ jackpot machines is 9.5 per cent of actual turnover, according to the Private Lottery Bill 2011 tabled in Parliament yesterday. While the proposed rate is lower than that suggested earlier by Government —12
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    • 452 8  -  NEO CHAI CHIN chaichin@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE More than 1,300 occupational, speech and physiotherapists will be regulated in about a year’s time, with the Allied Health Professions Bill passed in Parliament yesterday. Three other professions clinical psychologists, radiation therapists and diagnostic radiographers will be
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  • NEWS
    • 307 4  -  VIMITA MOHANDAS AND NURAHAYATIE SINGAPORE It is a hat-trick for CHIJ St Nicholas Girls’ School (SNGS). For the third year running, one of its students has emerged as the nation’s top GCE O-level student. Student Chia Pei Yun, a Malaysian who is on a Ministry
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    • 174 4 Victoria School’s Muhammad Amirul HaqimGhazali (picture) who scored nine A1s in the O-level examination emerged the top Malay student. He also scored a distinction for his second language which was Chinese. Following in the footsteps of his two older siblings, Muhammad had taken Chinese
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    • 298 4 REUTERS SINGAPORE Ever wondered how far your sneeze goes? Or if you can stop germs from spreading by cupping your mouth with your hands when you cough? With a giant mirror and high-speed camera, scientists in Singapore are trying to find
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  • VOICES
    • 290 10  -  Letter from Deirdre Moss Executive Director, SPCA I REFER to the letters “Marine park walks the talk” from Resorts World Sentosa and “RWS must comply” from the Singapore Tourism Board (Jan 8). These letters were in response to recent concerns and objections to
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    • 166 10  -  Letter from Tan Kheng Hwee ASSISTANT Professor Paul Barter has a point in the article “Missed opportunity in parking policy” (Jan 6). Parking policy here is definitely not consistent with other public transport and car policies. Cars are classified as a luxury good and not a
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    • 165 12  -  Letter from Koh Teck Yam I REFER to the letter “Observe track etiquette at stadiums, please” by Ms Maureen Foo (Dec 28). We are a group of senior citizens who exercise regularly at Serangoon Stadium. The actions of some users are not only
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    • 229 12 Letter from Cheryl Soh THIS IS with regard to operations at the Esplanade and, sad to say, some things never change. My letter to Today (June 12, 2008) addressed the same issue, bringing plastic bags into the Esplanade Theatre or the Concert Hall. The Esplanade replied
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    • 67 12 In the report “The Nassim, d’Leedon units to be launched” (Jan 10), it was reported that “CapitaLand sold 15,025 units in total in the first 11 months last year, a marginal increase from the 14,688 units sold in 2009.” This is incorrect. CapitaLand sold 800 homes in Singapore in
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    • 159 10 have your say email your letters to voices@mediacorp.com.sg join the community www.todayonline.com/voices i i i Pi MODEL YOUR CAREER BUILD THE FUTURE Built Environment Scholarship, Training Career Fair 2011 15 Jan 2011 9am 5pm BCA Academy, 200 Braddell Road Driven by innovation and technology, the building and construction industry today
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  • COMMENT&ANALYSIS
    • 954 14  -  DAVID PILLING David Pilling is the Asia editor of the Financial Times. THE FINANCIAL TIMES LIMITED Is Japan the most successful society in the world? Even the question is likely (all right, designed) to provoke ridicule and have you spluttering over your breakfast.
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    • 719 15  -  RICHARD HARTUNG Richard Hartung is a consultant who has lived in Singapore since The 14.7 per cent rise in Singapore’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in 2010 is good news for companies and economic recovery. What the average person on the street may wonder,
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    • 716 16  - Investing in education, China rises and checkmates NICHOLAS D KRISTOF Nicholas D Kristof is a two-time Pulitzer Prize THE NEW YORK TIMES If there’s a human face on Rising China, it belongs not to some Politburo chief, not to an Internet tycoon but to a quiet, mild-mannered teenaged girl named
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    • 156 14 I received 4 University offers to read for a law degree based on my provisional results at Stansfield College!" Michael James Anstey was accepted by University of Manchester, York University, Exeter University and Brown University (US), based on Stansfield's provisional results and recommendation by our faculty. Michael is currently pursuing
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  • WORLD
    • 148 18 THE NEW YORK TIMES Despite violence breaking out and killing at least 30 people in the disputed Abyei region, residents of the southern capital of Juba continued to flood to polling centres to cast their votes in a landmark referendum on southern Sudan’s independence. The Abyei
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    • 258 18 AFTERNOON LATEST REUTERS LONDON —WikiLeaks’ founder Julian Assange is due to appear in a London court later today as lawyers draw the battle lines in his fight to avoid extradition to Sweden for questioning about alleged sex crimes. The mainly procedural hearing at the top
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    • 135 18 NYT AUSTIN Tom DeLay, the former House majority leader, was sentenced to three years in prison yesterday after convictions for money laundering and conspiracy stemming from his role in a scheme to channel corporate contributions to Texas state races in 2002. DeLay, once one of
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    • 167 19 AGENCIES PUTRAJAYA Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak yesterday dismissed Pakatan Rakyat’s (PR) widely-publicised 100-day reform plan as mere gimmick and challenged them to explain how they expect to pay for it. Labelling it “populist” and “irresponsible”, the Prime Minister claimed that
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    • 347 19 AP SEOUL South Korea and Japan held military talks yesterday on accords to share intelligence and provide each other with fuel and medical support, officials said, in what would be their first military agreement since Tokyo’s brutal colonial rule of the Korean
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    • 149 19 AP YANGON Myanmar’s new Parliament will hold its first session since 1988 on Jan 31, an event the country’s military rulers hail as one of the final steps in its selfstyled “roadmap to democracy”, state radio said yesterday. The new legislature, which
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    • 379 20 PETALING JAYA The foreign maid crunch in Malaysia has become more severe, leading to tens of thousands of families being stuck without domestic helpers. According to the Malaysian Association of Foreign Maid Agencies (Papa), as many as 35,000 families are on the waiting list for
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    • Article, Illustration
      66 21 At least 77 people were killed when a plane crashed on Sunday night in Iran’s north-western province of Azarbayjan-e Gharbi, the official IRNA news agency reported yesterday. The Iran Air Boeing 727 with 106 people on board reported technical failure to the control tower before trying to make
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    • 427 21 THE GUARDIAN NEW DELHI The arrest of a senior gang member in Bangladesh has revealed details of how criminals abduct and maim children before putting them to work as beggars. The existence of such practices has been reported frequently
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    • 147 21 BLOOMBERG JAKARTA —Blackberry manufacturer Research In Motion (RIM) is working to block pornography websites on BlackBerry services in Indonesia as the nation with the world’s largest Muslim population widens a campaign to clean up the Internet. RIM is in talks with domestic phone
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    • 463 22 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH LONDON British engineers are developing a new type of defence system that uses lasers to incapacitate pirates by temporarily blinding them as they approach a ship. The non-lethal weapon, which has been developed by defence company BAE Systems, is
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    • 285 22 THE GUARDIAN SHEIKH JARRAH (Israel) Heavy-duty demolition equipment razed a section of the historic Shepherd Hotel in East Jerusalem on Sunday to make way for a new Jewish settlement in a move which opponents said further jeopardised the shaky prospects for peace. Work
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    • 102 24 AP Floodwaters from a swollen river poured into businesses in yet another north-eastern Australian community yesterday, as relentless rains killed four in a region battling its worst flooding in decades. Residents of the town of Dalby, west of Brisbane, were evacuated as rising waters
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    • 358 24 NEW YORK New York police has charged a male model, who had recently been a contestant on a Portuguese reality TV show, with murder in the slaying of a celebrity Portuguese television journalist. The police said yesterday they have arrested Renato Seabra, 20, and
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    • 173 24 REUTERS Basque separatist group ETA called a permanent ceasefire yesterday, Basque regional newspaper Gara said on its website, three months after the weakened group announced a halt to armed attacks. The group, which has killed more than 850 people in half a century of armed
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    • 142 24 THE GUARDIAN Two young Frenchmen who died less than 24 hours after being kidnapped in the West African nation of Niger last Friday were probably killed by their captors, French military officials said. The bodies of the two 25-year-olds, one an
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    • 173 24 AGENCIES KUALA LUMPUR Police say two dogs have mauled an Irish tourist to death at an organic farm in northern Malaysia. Local police officer Lai Fah Hin says the man died on the spot on Sunday after being attacked by the dogs at the farm
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    • 218 25 THE GUARDIAN LONDON Serious tooth decay in children as young as two is being either ignored or badly treated in Britain as a result of a system of “poor care” and “supervised neglect”, a leading dental expert has warned. Young children
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    • 325 25 REUTERS LONDON Giving the antidepressant drug Prozac to people who have just had a stroke could help them to regain more control over their movements and allow more of them to live independently, scientists said yesterday. In the largest study yet of
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    • 163 25 AP CHICAGO Close birth spacing may put a second-born child at higher risk for autism, suggests a preliminary study based on more than a half-million California children. Children born less than two years after their siblings were considerably more likely to have an
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    • 291 24 BASQUE MILITANTS has been murder Castro (inset). Tweet a new year's wish for TODAY! Basque separatist group Basque regional newspaper after the weakened The group, which century of armed Spain and south-west a rise in support “ETA has cease-fire which munity,” the group www.gara.net. The Spanish Deputy Prime brief statement
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  • SPORTS
    • 491 26 Messi is world’s best, Spanish football dominates Fifa awards AP AFTERNOON LATEST ZURICH Lionel Messi’s mesmerizing performances for Barcelona outweighed a disappointing World Cup, ensuring the Argentina forward was named the world’s best player of 2010 last night. Messi won the FIFA award for a second
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    • 250 26 Beckham passes medical but loan deal in doubt; Henry links up with Arsenal AGENCIES LONDON David Beckham passed a fitness test at Tottenham yesterday before starting his month-long training stint with the Premier League club. Despite talks collapsing over a twomonth playing loan
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    • 386 26 REUTERS ZURICH Jose Mourinho put himself on the same pedestal as revered Portuguese compatriots Eusebio, Luis Figo and Cristiano Ronaldo after becoming the first winner of the Coach of the Year award last night. But Mourinho was not entirely satisfied with
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    • 258 27 REUTERS DOHA South Korea began their campaign for a first Asian Cup title in 51 years with a polished passing performance to beat Bahrain 2-1 in Qatar last night. The Koreans dominated the match for 85 minutes and led comfortably thanks to two goals
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    • 149 27 THE GUARDIAN LIVERPOOL Dutch forward Ryan Babel has been charged with improper conduct after posting comments and images concerning the referee Howard Webb on Twitter, the Football Association has confirmed. Babel responded to Liverpool’s 1-0 defeat at Old Trafford by posting a mockedup photo on
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    • 398 27 AP AFTERNOON LATEST LIVERPOOL Kenny Dalglish believes his decade away from management will not hamper his ability to revitalise Liverpool. The 59-year-old Scot, whose first stint at Liverpool ended in 1991, was rehired on Saturday when Roy Hodgson was fired after only six
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    • 118 27 AP Brazilian media is reporting that Flamengo and Ronaldinho have reached an agreement and the player will join most popular club in the country. SportTV and other local media are reporting, based on people close to the negotiations, that both parties finalised details on
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    • 637 28  -  Tanjong Pagar set to field a number of Singapore juniors in their S-League side SHAMIR OSMAN shamir@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The sign outside Gombak Stadium reads “Keep off lanes 1-4 from 5pm to 7pm new S-League team”. On the pitch, there was much activity, with footballers going through
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    • 340 28  -  LOW LIN FHOONG SINGAPORE If there are local promoters willing to come forward, then local fans could well be able to watch a Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) event here. Speaking to MediaCorp yesterday, Andrew Walker, WTA’s senior vice-president, global marketing and communications, said: “We
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    • 89 28 Tim Cahill struck twice as Australia began their Asian Cup campaign with a resounding 4-0 victory over India. The Everton midfielderopenedthescoring in the 11th minute before Galatasaray winger Harry Kewell netted the Socceroos’ second in the 24th minute. AZ Alkmaar striker Brett Holman added a third to
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    • 270 29  -  TAN YO-HINN yohinn@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The year-round tropical climate here should not be an excuse for ice-skating not to grow in the Republic. Speaking to MediaCorp before a two-hour clinic at Kallang Ice World yesterday, two-time Olympic medallist and five-time world figure skating champion
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    • 153 29  -  LOW LIN FHOONG The Singapore Badminton Association (SBA) is on the hunt for a new chief executive officer following the announcement yesterday that incumbent Edwin Pang will be leaving the post on Feb 9. The 41-year-old is returning to the NTUC,
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  • IMPACT
    • 117 5 STARHUB customers living in the North will be glad to learn there is a StarHub Shop in NEX at Serangoon Central. Opened on Dec 30, this StarHub Shop was designed with a family theme and boasts a waiting area that resembles a living room. The
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    • 595 5  -  Tiger Beer’s campaign to spread message of togetherness PETER YEO CHINESE New Year is a time when friends and families bridge distances to be together. This tradition has been adopted as Asia Pacific Breweries Singapore’s (APBS) theme of ‘Togetherness’ for this Chinese New Year. Conceptualised around the
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    • 177 4 PICTURE HOW LITTLE THINGS CAN MAKE A BIG DIFFERENCE AT WORK. ENTER THE TAFEP FAIR EMPLOYMENT PHOTO CONTEST TODAY. Little things that we can do make a big difference at work. So individuals should be assessed on their skills and ability to do the job well. It is not about
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  • BUSINESS
    • OVERNIGHT
      • 76 1 Has the rally stalled? US stocks recovered most of their early losses in light volume and ended slightly lower as prospects for strong earnings helped counter bailout fears for Portugal. Investors say the market’s upward trend remains intact, but the S&P’s third straight session of declines suggests momentum
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      • 81 1 Shut pipeline spikes prices US oil prices rose more than 1 per cent after a weekend leak shut the Trans Alaska Pipeline and forced producers to cut output to about 5 per cent of their daily average of 630,000 barrels. US crude oil for February delivery rose 1.39 per
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    • 416 1 Analysts read strong Q4 profits at Alcoa as portent for broader economy REUTERS NEW YORK Alcoa reported a fourth-quarter profit yesterday, after a year-ago loss, beating Wall Street estimates on higher aluminum prices. The largest aluminum producer in the United States projected demand for
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    • 236 1 REUTERS SEATTLE Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has ousted the head of the company’s server unit, marking the latest in a series of high-level departures as the software company tries to regain its leadership in the technology sector. Retail investors are already allowed to participate in
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    • 59 1 REUTERS CEO of Advanced Micro Devices, Mr Dirk Meyer, has resigned and will be succeeded by the chief financial officerThomas J Seifert while the company searches for a permanent replacement, AMD said yesterday. AMD, the world’s No 2 maker of PC microprocessors behind Intel, said the
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    • 128 3 DOW JONES Mapletree Commercial Trust is looking to launch a Singapore initial public offering in March, in a transaction that could raise up to $1 billion, people familiar with the matter said on Monday. Two people said Mapletree Commercial Trust plans to list through a
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    • 105 3 Bloomberg. Great Eastern Holdings and its subsidiary, Great Eastern Life Assurance Company, plan to establish a $1 billion multicurrency medium-term note programme, under which both companies may issue notes from time to time for general corporate purposes. Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation (OCBC) and Morgan Stanley
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    • 246 2  -  CHRISTOPHER HOWELLS SINGAPORE The Republic’s economic growth may get a lift this year from Intel’s latest chipset, codenamed Sandy Bridge, which is expected to drive a rise in replacement demand for PCs and laptops, spurring exports of Singapore-made electronic components.
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    • 520 2  -  CONRAD RAJ editor-at-large conrad@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Switzerland’s largest bank, UBS, is confident that the risk of the Asia-Pacific region’s asset bubbles bursting can be managed, and that growth, especially China’s, can be sustained. The group’s newly-appoint-ed co-chairman and co-chief executive for the Asia-Pacific, Mr
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    • 51 1 JANUARY 11, 2011 A PUBLICATION OF OVER 100 GALLERIES FROM 18 COUNTRIES HAWK THEIR WARES AT THE FIRST ART STAGE SINGAPORE. T2 BAZ LUHRMANN ADDS DEPTH TO THE GREAT GATSBY IN 3D. T7 THE BECKHAMS TO SPAWN AGAIN. T10 HEALTH: FOUL MOODS COULD BE LINKED TO THE COLOUR OF YOUR
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      • 201 6 Open House Taking place this weekend, the second half of this unique event lets you take a tour of HDB flats in Marine Parade, which have sitespecific works by local artists. Jan 15 and 16, 4pm to 8pm, Marine Parade Community Centre Plaza, 278 Marine Parade Road. Tickets
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    • 166 5 Sun, 16 Jan J1 5pm ESPLANADE CONCERT HALL BRAHMS Hungarian Dance No. 5 MARTINU Concerto No. 2 for Two Violins in D major LI HUAN ZHI Spring Festival Overture STRAUSS Die Fledermaus Overture CHAN YOONG-HAN violin FOO SAY MING violin Taking centrestage in Martinu's colourful Double Concerto in D major
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    • 156 7 REUTERS DIRECTOR Baz Luhrmann has workshopped his upcoming project The Great Gatsby in 3D, though he has not decided whether to shoot in the format. Luhrmann was in Las Vegas for the Consumer Electronics Show, where he, along with directors Michael Mann and Oliver Stone,
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    • 188 7 REUTERS SALMA Hayek and ABC are developing an eight-hour miniseries adaptation of the book Wicked that spawned the Broadway play. Hayek and her partner Jose Tamez will produce via theirVentanarosa Productions with ABC Studios.The project is in the early stages of development, so it’s unclear
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    • 533 8  -  Swordfish Concubine looks back at old Singapura from a basement Mayo Martin mayo@mediacorp.com.sg FOR their third and final production, the latest batch from W!ld Rice’s youth division Young &W!ld will be restaging Swordfish Concubine:The Fall Of Singapura. And they’re taking their cue from Christopher Nolan. “We’ve
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    • 173 10 REUTERS DAVID andVictoria Beckham are expecting their fourth child this summer, said her spokesperson on Sunday, adding that the couple’s children are “very excited about the arrival of their new brother or sister”. The England football star and his fashion designer wife are
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    • 412 11 The Social Network cleans up at the National Society Of Film Critics awards REUTERS FACEBOOK film The Social Network continued its winning ways during Hollywood’s awards season on Saturday as the National Society Of Film Critics named it Best Movie of 2010 and gave
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    • 237 12 ON MEDIACORP ANYTHING GOES Channel 5, 8.30pm The crew tries to transform Chan to help him get a gig with his hero, Jay Chou. But the more they try to assist, the more nervous Chan becomes. Can they get him to regain his confidence? Or will they lose him to
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    • 359 13 1 M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2011: Model Citizens A man stabs an MP at a Meet The People Session. But this is not their story. It is the story of the man’s girlfriend, an Indonesian maid who wants to get married and become a Singapore citizen; of
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