Today, 15 January 2011

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  • 41 1 VMchA Hjdm MICA (P) 207/09/2010 A PUBLICATION OF NEWS HOTLINE 6822 2268 January 15 -16, 2011 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking Saturday, January 15, 2011 MICA (P) 149/07/2010 A Publication of MediaCorp Articles selected for Copyright 2011 The New York Times
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  • 424 1 AGENCIES TOKYO Japan’s Prime Minister Naoto Kan appointed a fiscal hawk to a key post and replaced his deputy in a Cabinet revamp on Friday to cope with a divided Parliament and tackle reforms to rein in public debt but hurdles to success are
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  • 261 1 SINGAPORE A “Middle East-ern-looking” man a description given by the police drove a van to Braddell Road, parked it outside the Singapore Islamic Hub, home of the Islamic Religious Council of Singapore (MUIS), and promptly disappeared. His actions shortly before 5 pm on Friday
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  • 460 1  -  ESTHER NG estherng@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Home Affairs and Law Minister K Shanmugam has come out strongly to correct an article in The Straits Times last week on Thaipusam, which touched on the rules for religious processions here. The guidelines which apply to “all religious processions, not
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    • 604 2 J /<> GRIN CTV F E FREE 5 Years niUPS r sr. can"' 1 j5 JS Usher in the festive season with Gain City Expo 2011, shop at the largest fair with the widest range of latest home appliances and electronic gadgets at unrivalled prices island-wide! Get piped up for
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  • NEWS
    • 395 2  -  Former swimming instructor first of 8 to be dealt with NG JING YNG jingyng@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Former swimming instructor Ho Yen Teck, who had conspired with two former Singapore Land Authority (SLA) senior executives to cheat the Government of $12 million, was sentenced to
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    • 953 2  -  As Earth’s denizens breach the threshold this year, some ask if we can or should stop our population growing LEO HICKMAN THE GUARDIAN LATER this year on Oct 31, to be precise a boy will be born in a rural village in the Indian
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    • 549 4  -  ALVINA SOH, TAN QIUYI alvinasoh@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Tertiary education in Singapore is going to cost more. On Friday, all three universities, five polytechnics and the Institutes of Technical Education (ITEs) announced their latest round of fee hike, which will be applied to this year’s incoming cohort.
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    • 345 6  -  Syndicate leader arrested with the help of Malaysian police WAYNE CHAN waynechan@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Just 1.5 kilometres away from Tuas, fish farms and islands such as Pulau Merambong were being used by syndicates as holding areas for illegal immigrants biding their time to sneak into Singapore.
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    • 352 6  -  MILLET ENRIQUEZ SINGAPORE Singapore property stocks took a beating on Friday, one day after the Government unveiled new property cooling measures. Blue chip developers City Development and CapitaLand saw their shares fell by 4.55 per cent and 3.39 per cent respectively. These losses in turn
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    • 259 6  -  NG JING YNG SINGAPORE The illicit relationship between a 45-year-old martial arts coach and his 13-year-old student had blossomed over online chat portal MSN, exchanging intimate messages with the former also dishing out relationship advice. The man, who is married with two young children,
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    • 203 6  -  CHEOW XIN YI Political blog The Online Citizen (TOC) is willing to operate as a political association, it said in a statement on its website on Friday. The Prime Minister’s Office intends to gazette TOC under the Political Donations Act. On Monday, the
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    • 165 6  -  ONG DAI LIN A week after the resignation of the chief executive officer of the National Healthcare Group (NHG) and Tan Tock Seng Hospital (TTSH), Dr Lim Suet Wun, his replacement has been found. Not one, but two men. Clinical Professor
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  • THE BIG STORY
    • 271 3 THE GUARDIAN BY 2050,75 per cent of us will be living in cities, believes Dr Tim Jones, the British author of Future Agenda: The World in 2020. The recently-launched report is an exercise in futuregazing involving 2,000 global participants, including Google, Shell, PepsiCo and
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    • 209 3 THE GUARDIAN Behind the eye-catching 7 billion figure lies a complicated demographic reality. While population growth in developed nations has largely stagnated, in sub-Saharan Africa birth rates remain at pre-industrial-age rates six or more children per woman. Some developing countries like Thailand have brought the birth
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  • VOICES
    • 326 10  -  Letter from Jun Wang I TAKE SBS Service 23 from Tampines Avenue 5 (Block 147) to Jalan Besar (after Allenby Road a few times a week. In August last year, I wrote to SBS Transit that I was overcharged 4 cents for each trip. I was charged
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    • 129 10  -  Letter from Kay Mohlman ON WEDNESDAY, I received an unsolicited text-message advertisement on my handphone from one of Singapore’s major pet stores informing me that it had flown in guinea pigs, rabbits and hamsters which I could now “visit” at Parkway Parade Atrium. I have
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    • 462 10 have your say email your letters to voices@mediacorp.com.sg join the community www.apos.com.sg In with the new year. Out with old knee pain. Clinically proven. Non-surgical. Drug-free. Mdm Chua loves hosting reunions at her home during Chinese New Year, cleaning her flat from top to bottom and festively adorning it. Unfortunately,
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  • COMMENT&ANALYSIS
    • 992 12  -  US grapples with reality, as China comes to dinner next week viewed as dominant power of the future WILLIAM PESEK William Pesek is a Bloomberg News columnist. The opinions expressed are his own. BLOOMBERG Nine per cent of Americans think Japan is
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    • 1373 13 As America must learn, curbs and discipline are required to make the freedom of expression real SIMON JENKINS Simon Jenkins is a journalist and author who writes for The Guardian and The Sunday Times, as well as broadcasting for the BBC. THE GUARDIAN The
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  • WORLD
    • 328 14 AGENCIES BRISBANE Australia's third-larg-est city started cleaning up stinking mud and debris on Friday after some of the country's worst floods on record. But in a sign of the task ahead, it could take six months to pump flood waters out of Queensland's coal mines.
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    • 195 14 THE GUARDIAN LONDON —To the outrage of breastfeeding campaigners, scientists on Friday advocated scrapping the current World Health Organisation (WHO) guidelines that say mothers should breastfeed exclusively for the first six months of their child’s life. Doctors from leading child health institutes now say
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    • 346 14 BLOOMBERG LONDON Scientists from Cambridge University bred chickens genetically-modified to prevent bird flu transmission in a move that may help thwart pandemics in humans. While the tweaked birds did die from the flu, they infected fewer others around them, scientists led by Dr Laurence Tiley
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    • 118 14 AP Police say a suspected Iranian drug trafficker has died after a rupture of 137 drug capsules in his stomach which he had swallowed while trying to smuggle the drugs into Malaysia. Local police chief Abdul Razak Abdul Majid said the man told officials
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    • 91 14 AP Taiwan’s disease control centre has reported the island’s first superbug case a new gene that makes bacteria resistant to most antibiotics. The centre said on Friday a 56-year-old Taiwanese man was found to be infected with the gene, known as NDM-1, shortly after
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    • 380 16 AGENCIES MILAN Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi (picture) is under investigation in Milan for engaging in prostitution with a minor and abusing power, one day after Italy’s highest court weakened a law granting him immunity while in office. Mr Berlusconi was
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    • 214 16 BLOOMBERG LONDON The opposition Labour Party won a special election in a north-west English parliamentary district in a blow to Prime Minister David Cameron, whose party lost support in the area. The Labour candidate in Oldham East and Saddleworth, Ms Debbie Abrahams,
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    • 184 16 AP BAGHDAD A dozen terror suspects disguised in police uniforms broke out of an Iraqi jail on Friday, prompting a manhunt across the nation’s south for what officials called a dangerous group of top-ranking insurgents linked to Al Qaeda. At least two
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    • 237 17 AP MANILA The Philippine government said on Friday that it will resume formal peace talks with the country’s main Muslim rebel group next month but it was unclear how the two sides resolved a dispute over the Malaysian facilitator of the negotiations.
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    • 262 17 AGENCIES TOKYO North Korea is less able to invade South Korea now than it was a decade or more ago but has become a more lethal threat to Asia and the world, United States Defence Secretary Robert Gates said on Friday. “The
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    • Article, Illustration
      48 17 A Thai Patriots Network member at a rally against Cambodia in Bangkok on Friday. The protesters were calling on Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva to intervene in the case of seven Thais arrested in Cambodia for illegal entry into disputed border territory between the two countries.
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    • 159 17 The police in Bangkok have been ordered to conduct checks on teens who loiter in the streets after 10pm, to prevent them from committing crime or becoming victims of crime. “If we find them road racing we will send them to police
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    • 334 18 THE NEW YORK TIMES BEIJING Like most drivers around the world, Shi Jianfeng did not like to roll down his window at toll booths. In fact, Shi, a farmer from Henan province in central China, was so averse to toll collectors,
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    • 305 18 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH LONDON Prison inmates sent to frontline fighting between the Myanmar army and a rebel faction have been used by the regime’s military as human mine-sweepers. Some of the 600 prisoners shipped off to the front near the border with Thailand suffered serious
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    • 239 18 AGENCIES COLOMBO More than 300,000 people have been forced out of their homes by flooding in Sri Lanka, with no sign of a let-up in the torrential rain on the island nation’s east coast. Four more people were killed by mudslides on Friday,
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    • 256 18 Where paedophilia is culturally accepted THE DAILY TELEGRAPH KABUL British forces have been advised by a military study that paedophilia is widespread and culturally accepted in southern Afghanistan. Older, powerful men boost their social status by keeping boys as sexual playthings and the practice is celebrated in song and dance,
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    • 290 19 AGENCIES NEW YORK —A new memoir of tough parenting, Chinese-style, written by a self-pro-claimed “tiger mother” in the United States has unleashed a ferocious roar. Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother an autobiographical study by Yale law professor Amy Chua of the failings
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    • 326 19 AGENCIES TUCSON The funeral of Christina-Taylor Green, the youngest of the six victims of the Arizona shootings, was held on Thursday in Tucson. Thousands of residents, some dressed as angels, gathered in and around the St Elizabeth Ann Seton Catholic church
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  • SCIENCE
    • 307 20 THE GUARDIAN PARIS Tagging the flippers of penguins for long-term scientific studies significantly limits their chances of survival and ability to raise chicks, according to a decade-long study in the Antarctic. In the new study, published this week by French researchers
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    • 577 20 Without urgent action, coral reefs ‘could be extinct within our lifetime’ THE GUARDIAN LONDON Conservationists have unveiled plans to preserve and protect the world’s most important species of coral, in a response to increasing threats that they say will lead to “functional extinction” within
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    • 307 20 And it ties with 2005 as the THE NEW YORK TIMES WASHINGTON New government figures for the global climate show that last year was the wettest year in the historical record and that it tied with 2005 as the hottest year
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    • 296 21 fsMw NVk SKIN SOLUTIONS 1 nd-H No ModBM SINGAPORE MALAYSIA SHANGHAI Discover the Secrets of Youthful Skin The job scope of a Salesgirl requires one to meet customers, everyday with smiles and poise. As for Roszana, her acne problem had affected her confidence and progress at work. New York Skin
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  • BUSINESS
    • 395 22  -  CONRAD RAJ editor-at-large conrad@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —There will be no lunch break for the stock broking community come March 1. Investors will then be able to trade continuously from 9 in the morning to 5 in the evening. At present, brokers break for
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    • 363 22  -  CHRIS HOWELLS SINGAPORE Singapore’s key non-oil domestic exports (NODX) look set to rebound and may have hit 10 per cent on-month growth last month. This is after the country’s NODX contracted 12.9 per cent in November. The NODX growth forecast is according
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    • 327 22  -  JOANNE CHAN SINGAPORE The competition for the Government’s street advertising contract, covering more than 900 bus stops, is heating up. Six bidders, comprising some new players, are vying for the Land Transport Authority (LTA) tender, which grants the winner a five-year concession to sell advertisements
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    • 304 22  -  JOANNE CHAN SINGAPORE The latest round of cooling measures introduced by the Government, which kicked in today, appears to have created some knee-jerk reaction in the private property market. MediaCorp understands that some sellers rushed to close deals before midnight to
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    • 377 23  -  JO-ANN HUANG joannhuang@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Media company Singapore Press Holdings (SPH) posted a 29-per-cent drop in its first quarter net profit, dragged down by a sharp fall in operating revenue from its property business. SPH said it made a net
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    • 466 23  -  COMMENTARY PHANG LAH HWA The writer is OCBC Bank’s head of consumer secured lending. With the latest round of Government measures, there might be concerns among first-time home buyers, those looking to upgrade their properties as well as property investors on how
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    • 304 23  -  TRAVIS TEO SINGAPORE Retail sales in Singapore, excluding motor vehicles, rose a seasonally adjusted 0.5 per cent in November from the previous month. On a year-on-year basis, sales, excluding autos, went up 5.4 per cent. Analysts say that the retail outlook remains positive due to
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    • 316 23  -  CHRISTOPHER HOWELLS SINGAPORE After having made strong gains in South-east Asian currencies last year, investors are seen turning to Northeast Asia, according to Standard Chartered Bank. The bank sees currencies such as the Chinese yuan and Korean won outperforming their South-east Asian counterparts this year.
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  • Page 24 Miscellaneous
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  • SPORTS
    • 681 26  -  Former international Kadir Yahaya believes national team will only get better with a mix in the side IAN DE COTTA ian@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE At last month’s AFF Suzuki Cup, the Lions’ squad of 20 players stood out because it did not feature a
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    • 513 26  -  SHAMIR OSMAN shamir@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The annual Adecco children’s career survey released this month revealed that kids here want most to be professional footballers when they grow up not doctors or lawyers. But the harsh reality of the domestic football scene has
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    • 552 27  -  F&N chief Koh impressed with STTA’s vision as paddlers chart course to 2012 Olympics TAN YO-HINN yohinn@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE With just under 560 days to go to the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in London on July 27, 2012, Singapore’s table tennis players have
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    • 243 27  -  30TH ASIAN WINDSURFING CHAMPIONSHIPS TAN YO-HINN SINGAPORE Asian Games silver medallist Ek Boonsawad took over the lead in the men’s RS:X race at the ongoing SIM 30th Singapore Open Asian Windsurfing Championships at the NSRCC Seasports Centre at Tanah Merah. On the second day of competition
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    • 294 27 AGENCIES DOHA Australia and South Korea showed why they are tipped to go all the way to the Asian Cup final when they fought out a classy 1-1 draw in their second Group C match on Friday. South Korea had the better start in the
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    • 210 28 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH LONDON Former Tottenham and England striker Les Ferdinand, now a coach at White Hart Lane, fears the loan signing of David Beckham could cause a dressing-room split. Beckham has been training with the club this week and Harry Redknapp is
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    • 152 28 When Zainudin Nordin, president of the Football Association of Singapore, said two weeks ago that the Lions will be revamped following a dismal Asean Championship, the decision generated an intense discussion over the national team, the strength of the S-League and the general state
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    • 584 28 Dutch star believes Spurs can boost title credentials by beating United AGENCIES ENGLISH PREMIERSHIP Tottenham vs Man United LONDON David Beckham will look on from the stands at White Hart Lane on Sunday as Tottenham attempt to inflict a first defeat of the season on Premier
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    • 620 29 Liverpool lack spirit, unlike Everton, says talisman Cahill AGENCIES ANFIELD Kenny Dalglish (picture) will remember the last time he was in the Liverpool dugout and the opponents were Everton. The year was 1991, the occasion an FA Cup replay at Goodison Park that
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    • 375 29 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH LONDON Chelsea midfielder Frank Lampard has said the champions are lacking in confidence but will not lay blame for their poor recent Premier League run on Ray Wilkins’ sudden departure last year. The Blues have won only one league game
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  • Page 28 Miscellaneous
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    • 59 1 Call it the Black Swan syndrome: Diaphanous layers floating down the runways, coinciding with the dark ballet film. THE FIVE TRENDS YOU’LL BE COVETING THIS SPRING. T8 FOOD LOCAL PASTRY CHEFS GET THEIR JUST DESSERTS. T4 CARS PART 2 OF WHAT YOU’LL BE DRIVING IN 2011. T14 TRAVEL WHO NEEDS
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  • TODAY
    • COLUMN
      • 797 2  -  New year, new man, new perspective leave the past in 2010 THE FAIRERTEXT Georgina Chang georginac@mediacorp.com.sg The writer is the senior creative director of 987FM and Lush 99.5. I LIKE brand new things like haircuts, dresses, shoes, cars, houses, and sometimes even a new boyfriend. There’s
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      • 801 3  -  Isn’t it time the movies stop appropriating the brothers Grimm? Emily Barr features@mediacorp.com.sg THE GUARDIAN GATHER round, children, and sit comfortably, for it is postmodern fairytale time once again. As Rapunzel: A Tangled Tale proved, the smashing of storytelling convention is so normal that it
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    • FOOD
      • 1133 4  -  Pastry chefs have had to up their ante in the new dining culture DON MENDOZA donm@mediacorp.com.sg HERE’S a quick bolt from the blue: Pastries have not just been about pastry for some time. We’re talking baked goods like tarts and such. Allow the following
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      • 472 6  -  RAISING with Don Mendoza donm@mediacorp.com.sg AT AROUND a quarter past five on a pleasant Sunday evening last week, a girl began cooking a country-style coq au vin for only the second time since she father first taught her about a month or so ago. In all
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      • 159 6 FOOD NOTES IFTHERE are one too many reunion dinners lined up, you could explore an interesting alternative like the Reunion High Tea byTian FuTea Room. Designed by its accomplished Tea Masters and masterchefs, the Chinese NewYearthemed menu will be paired with two exquisite varieties of premium
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    • STYLE
      • 664 8  -  Constant rain getting you down? The spring collections provide plenty of cause for cheer LYNETTE KOH lynettek@mediacorp.com.sg HERE’S why we love spring fashion: Firstly, no matter how much we may covet the layered looks of the winter collections, the weather here just does not lend
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      • 274 10  -  Out with the old, in with the new? Not if we can help it. A style maven learns how to rework one of 2010’s biggest trends harem pants for 2011 CHARMAINE HO DEBORAH Ng is a mother of three (not that we can tell!) and the founder
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      • Article, Illustration
        80 10  -  LYNETTE KOH LAST Tuesday, 700 Saab fans, including guests such as Swedish ambassador Ingemar Dolfe and Channel NewsAsia anchor Steven Chia, got up close and personal with the new Saab 9-5 at a launch party at Shangri-La Hotel. Guests, however, got to enjoy a lot more than just
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    • SHOP
      • 434 12  -  Looking forward to cool collections with Club 21b Lynette Koh lynettek@mediacorp.com.sg FROM arty diffusion line McQ by Alexander McQueen to quirky Japanese label Mercibeaucoup, multi-brand store Blackjack has brought local fashion hunters an impressive roster of edgy labels from all over the world for the past 15
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      • 314 12  -  LYNETTE KOH TO TELEVISION audiences, AlaricTay is probably best known as Andre Chichak, the nasal newscaster on MediaCorpTV Channel 5’s news parody The Noose. The 31-year-old Fly Entertainment artiste however, has also been active in film since being cast in Glen Goei’s Forever Fever at
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    • CARS
      • 887 14 deux)Our two-part look at the new releases for 2011 continues HE SAID The most affordable French brand, Renault, continues its massmarket blitz with the Latitude.This large sedan has Korean roots, which will help keep it competitive in terms of price. 1 Mercedes-Benz C-Class What: Baby Benz
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      • Article, Illustration
        308 17  -  The Range Rover Vogue V8 Supercharged is superbly charged, but do you really need a 510bhp SUV that costs $500k? CAR REVIEW DARYL LEE Whoa! 510bhp? Yes, plus there’s 625Nm of peak torque available from 2,500rpm. This gives the Range Rover the kind of pulling power one would
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    • 725 2  -  intelligence/rOger intelligence/rOger COHen £l)c iNcUr JJork elmcs London The shooting of Representative Gabrielle Giffords was an attack foretold. She noted last March that her district was on Sarah Palin’s targeted list. “The thing is the way she has it depicted has the cross hairs of
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    • 738 2  -  By STEVE LOHR SI)c iNcUr JJork Sim ess Computer vision is moving into the mainstream. High-resolution, low-cost cameras are proliferating, found in products like smartphones and laptop computers. New software algorithms for mining, matching and scrutinizing the flood of visual data are progressing swiftly. The
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    • 749 6  -  news analysis By DAVID E. SANGER EIkJscUt Jlork Elmcs WASHINGTON The assassination this month of one of the most moderate politicians in the Pakistani political elite was shocking enough, even in a country known for settling religious and political disputes with a hail
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    • 762 7  -  By STEVEN LEE MYERS el)c Jfctu Jtjork Ehucs JIMIJMA, Iraq —The damage done to the ruins of ancient Babylon is visible from a small hilltop near the Tower of Babel, whose biblical importance is hard to envision from what is left of
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    • 560 7  -  By SCOTT SAYARE and MAÏA DE LA BAUME £l)c iNcUt Jlork Slimes PARIS French couples are increasingly shunning traditional marriages and opting instead for civil unions, to the point that there are now two civil unions for every three marriages. When France
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