Today, 29 January 2011

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1 16 Today
  • 21 1 VMchA Hjdm MICA (P) 207/09/2010 A PUBLICATION OF NEWS HOTLINE 6822 2268 January 29 30, 2011 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking
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  • 331 1 CAIRO Following widespread protests against his administration, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak declared an overnight curfew on Friday in three cities Cairo, Alexandria and the flashpoint city of Suez and deployed the military to help the police control the violence. The police placed Nobel
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  • 496 1  -  JOANNE CHAN joannechan@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Reaffirming earlier flash estimates, official housing figures unveiled on Friday showed that the growth of property prices slowed in the fourth quarter of last year. Prices of public flats grew by 2.5 per cent in Q4 down from 4-per-cent growth in the
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  • 437 1  -  LEONG WEE KEAT weekeat@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Two Muslim organisations here have expressed “deep regret” at some of Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew’s remarks about the community that were published in the new book, Hard Truths to Keep Singapore Going. The Association of Muslim Professionals (AMP)
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  • THE BIG STORY
    • 1031 2  - A dish called yu sheng How the Four Heavenly Kings of the culinary scene in ‘60s Singapore brought ‘rising abundance’ to the masses TEO XUANWEI xuanwei@mediacorp.com.sg SEATED on wooden stools at a roadside hawker stall, the four friends watched the fish porridge seller slice off pieces of the ikan parang
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    • 268 3  - THREE GENERATIONS OF CUSTOMERS AND RESTAURANTS STILL GOING STRONG TEO XUANWEI Scowling middleaged waitresses with beehive hairdos pushing steaming baskets of dim sum across the sprawling dining floor, mouldy-looking carpeted floors, and weather-beaten curtains. These charming sights still greet you when you step into Red Star Restaurant at Chin Swee
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    • 301 3  -  HO YEEN NIE SINGAPORE Last year was a milestone year for MediaCorp’s free to air television services. The leading media company saw its highest number of viewers in a decade. An average of 2.7 million viewers tuned in daily during prime time (7pm to midnight). Channel
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    • 266 3  -  RYAN HUANG SINGAPORE Marina Bay Sands (MBS) chief executive officer Thomas Arasi has quit his job to “take a breather” and spend more time with his family. Mr Arasi, who is in his early 50s, will resign with effect from Tuesday some 18 months after he took
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  • NEWS
    • 770 4  -  ESTHER NG estherng@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Vertical farming has become a reality here, after DJ Engineering and the Agri-Food Veterinary Authority (AVA) successfully developed a prototype that could help land-scarce Singapore maximise its production of leafy vegetables. Vegetables can now be grown in a six-metre-tall tower: Exposure
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    • 285 4  -  ZUL OTHMAN zul@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Dealing with both the Singapore Government and the National University of Singapore (NUS) has stretched the time needed for Yale University to agree on the budget for the proposed joint liberal arts college with NUS, according to Yale president Richard
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    • 330 4  -  WAYNE CHAN SINGAPORE A full-time National Serviceman (NSF) died on Friday morning from an in-camp accident. Lance-Corporal Eugin Wee Yong Choon, 19, was hit by a truck driven by another serviceman. The Ministry of Defence (Mindef) said Eugin, a signal operator in the army, was
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    • 396 6 Singapore’s strong economic performance ushers in big on-year rise in job vacancies in September SINGAPORE Bouyed by the Republic’s robust economic recovery, the number of job vacancies rose 36 per cent to 50,200 in September last year, compared to the corresponding period in 2009. The
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    • 340 6  -  DYLAN LOH dylanloh@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Shops at Changi Airport rang in 15 per cent more sales last year compared to 2009 and more than $1 billion over both years. On Friday, $1 million went to one shopper who won what Changi Airport Group
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    • 290 6  -  ONG DAI LIN dailin@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE If an employee drives a company vehicle outside of office hours for personal use and gets into a car accident, should the employer also be held liable for the offence? The answer on Friday by High Court judge
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    • 119 6 Singapore’s iconic Merlion is set to undergo a transformation from Feb 7. The structure at Merlion Park will become a temporary hotel suite. “The Merlion Hotel” is just one of the many art installations presented as part of this year’s Singapore Biennale, organised by
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    • 123 6 SINGAPORE The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) said on Friday that it was “obliged to respect” a Romanian court’s decision to allow former diplomat Silviu Ionescu to travel outside the country’s capital Bucharest. In response to media queries, the MFA noted the court had
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    • 560 8  -  VIMITA MOHANDAS vimita@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The number of fires reported last year is the second lowest in 10 years. But one worrying point was that the number of fire safety violations had increased. These were some of the statistics released by
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    • 263 8 SINGAPORE The Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB) has made its largest Ecstasy bust in nine years. On Thursday morning, CNB officers arrested two men and a woman and uncovered about 3,097 tablets believed to be Ecstasy, with an estimated street value of $93,510. The
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    • 178 8 Nineteen people were arrested for drink-driving in an operation conducted by Traffic Police which ended early on Friday morning. More than 100 police officers were deployed in Ang Mo Kio, Jurong, Tampines and Woodlands. Seventeen men and two women failed the breathalyser test
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    • 114 8 More than 53,000 Singaporeans have checked the Registers of Electors, which closed on Thursday. A total of 69 people have filed claims after not finding their names on it, while 13 objections were received over the inclusion of a person’s name. The Elections Department
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    • 197 8 SINGAPORE A 19-year-old has become the first driver here to have his licence suspended immediately under amendments to the Road Traffic Act, in November last year. He had been involved in an accident on Jan 16 which killed a 24-year-old male
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    • 313 7 1 re id* o No SKIN SOLUTIONS SINGAPORE MALAYSIA I SHANGHAI Diminish Pigment Spots on Face Doreen had pigment spots on her face because of excessive sun exposure from numerous holidays. To hide the brown marks, she would apply thick and cakey makeup even in broad daylight. For this reason,
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    • 253 9 asian Children's g e s -f i v a I Celebrating Children IT J V If. > 9 Saturday Sunday, 29 30 January 2011 11.00 am-6.00 pm Woodlands Regional Library Woodlands Civic CentreJ A m if inTus fortaifascinating jounneyjthrough Asia! Join Learn about different Asian cultures through our exciting activities*!
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  • VOICES
    • Raise the game at the grassroots
      • 154 10  -  Letter from Kelvin Tang Yong Feng I AM glad the Football Association of Singapore (FAS) has introduced measures to improve the national team and Singapore football. However, there is one important aspect it can do more about it: Grassroots and amateur football. Grassroots football will
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      • 304 10  -  Letter from Stefanus Ian WITH regard to Ivan Goh’s letter “S-League can tap school affiliations” (Jan 26), I agree that the S-League should definitely tap school affiliations although I strongly disagree that making it compulsory for teams to field a school player would bring down the standard
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    • 251 10  -  Letter from Alvin Lim I REFER to Harriet Yeo’s letter “Tattoos and a police check” (Jan 27). While I empathise over the inconvenience of the police check, I fully understand why the police did a spot check on the trio. Tattoos were associated with secret societies
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    • 189 10  -  LETTER FROM KELVIN SEAH KAH CHENG I refer to “Singapore a safer place in 2010, but (Jan 27). I am happy to read that the number of unlicensed money-lending cases in Singapore fell last year. However, it has also been observed that licensed moneylenders
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    • 143 10 have your say email your letters to voices@mediacorp.com.sg join the community www.todayonline.com/voices S'pore ftovery Centre is ushering in the New Year with you! Date: 3 Feb 6 Feb k o 4 Yk Bring home your very own specially sculpted balloon according to your zodiac sign, created by our balloon sculpturing
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  • COMMENT&ANALYSIS
    • 1942 12  -  What’s behind the cycle of over-borrowing, over-building and dubious dealing that leads to the brink of disaster JOHN PLENDER John Plender has been a senior editorial writer and columnist at the Financial Times since 1981. THE FINANCIAL TIMES LIMITED Back in the
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    • 312 13 THE FINANCIAL TIMES LIMITED BANKS are likely to take a harder line with an indebted sector still dealing with the troubled legacy left by past generations of investors and their lenders. Outstanding debt to global commercial real estate is estimated to stand
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    • 836 14  -  PAUL GILFEATHER gilfeather@mediacorp.com.sg Paul Gilfeather is the principal correspondent with Today. The tabloid newspaper business in Britain is a very dirty business indeed. If you needed evidence of the lengths to which journalists will go to get stories, you only have to look
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    • 688 14  -  BRUCE GUTHRIE Bruce Guthrie is a former editor of The Age and Herald Sun, and author of Man Bites Murdoch. THE GUARDIAN At my last meeting with Mr Rupert Murdoch (picture), in October 2008, he told me with great conviction what
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  • WORLD
    • 521 16 THE NEW YORK TIMES CAIRO Violent protests spread across Cairo and other Egyptian cities earlier on Friday as thousands of demonstrators intensified their campaign to oust President Hosni Mubarak, pouring from mosques after noon prayers and clashing with police who fired tear gas,
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    • 210 16 AP JAKARTA A crowded ferry caught fire in Indonesia early on Friday, killing at least 13 people and sending panicked passengers jumping into the sea, officials said. Nearly 200 people were injured, some critically. Mr Bambang Ervan, a spokesman for the Transportation Ministry,
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    • 246 16 AGENCIES JAKARTA Two passenger trains crashed head-on in Indonesia early on Friday, killing at least three people and leaving many others injured, a railway official said. The accident occurred at around 2.30am local time on the outskirts of Banjar, a village in West
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    • 178 16 AGENCIES JAKARTA Flights to and from Indonesia’s holiday island of Bali were disrupted for a second day on Friday as a volcano on the nearby Java island spewed ash into the atmosphere. Volcanologists said a full scale eruption of the 2,300metre Mount Bromo
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    • 236 17 REUTERS JAKARTA Indonesia’s anti-graft body arrested 16 former and sitting Members of Parliament on Friday for alleged involvement in a bribery case linked to the appointment of a central bank senior deputy governor, local media has reported. The arrests come at
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    • 227 17 AGENCIES NEW YORK A two-stage winter storm struck, paused, gathered its breath and delivered a crippling blow to the East Coast of the United States on Thursday, dumping more than 30cm of snow, closing airports and schools, stranding commuters and shattering January records.
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    • 134 17 BLOOMBERG Australia’s Queensland state, recovering from the nation’s worst flood disaster, is bracing for a cyclone expected to hit its north-eastern coast within three days. Tropical Cyclone Anthony reformed into a cyclone on Friday and is likely to hit the coast between
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    • 492 18 THE NEW YORK TIMES TOKYO A promising auto engineer, Mr Kenichi Horie was exactly the sort of youthful talent Japan needs to maintain its edge over hungry Korean and Chinese rivals. As a worker in his early 30s at a major carmaker, he won
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    • 159 18 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH Disturbing footage of a man and woman being executed by the Taliban has been released by Afghan security forces. The alleged lovers, who were engaged to be married to other people, were arrested by the Taliban on the request of
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    • 179 18 THE MALAYSIAN INSIDER There will be no toll increase for the next five years at the Karak and East Coast Phase One highways, Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak said on Friday. He also said the toll for the EastWest link
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    • 354 20 AP PORTLAND A Bulgarian man was sentenced on Thursday to two years and a day in prison for stealing the identity of an Ohio boy who was kidnapped and killed at age three. Doitchin Krastev assumed the name, birthday and social security number
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    • 127 20 Fledgling Thai carrier PC Air announced on Thursday it has hired six transsexuals as flight attendants, and president Peter Chan believes other carriers will follow the lead of his “pioneer” airline, reported The Nation. The attendants will be given a “third sex name tag”
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    • 166 20 REUTERS Half of men in the United States would forgive their female partner’s infidelity, as long as it was with another woman, according to a new study on cheating. Women, however, were less likely to forgive and forget if their
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    • 125 20 AP News CorpCEO Rupert Murdoch will unveil the world’s first iPadonly newspaper, The Daily, in New York next Wednesday. He will be joined by Apple’s vicepresident of Internet services, Mr Eddy Cue. The original announcement was to take place on Jan 19 in
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    • 161 20 AP British police arrested five people on Thursday on suspicion of involvement in recent cyber attacks conducted by an Internet hacking group that has backed WikiLeaks. In a coordinated action, the United States authorities issued 40 search warrants in America. The five males
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    • 215 18 To celebrate this Chinese New Year, here's an auspicious dish with 8 lucky treasures specially prepared for you! Jiaminq <3) &aAlc Kice Pronounced as "Har" in Cantonese, it means "big laughter and joy" Fill your rice bin to the brim for riches and wealth £)oAxxmxxvi Family reunion represented by the
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  • SCIENCE
    • 1283 22 Lolita author’s once-derided hypothesis proven right, 33 years after his THE NEW YORK TIMES VLADIMIR Nabokov may be known to most people as the author of classic novels like Lolita and Pale Fire. But even as he was writing those books, Nabokov had a
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  • BUSINESS
    • 381 24  -  TRAVIS TEO travisteo@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Singapore Airlines (SIA) said on Friday its fiscal third-quarter net profit fell by almost 29 per cent, mainly due to the anti-trust fines imposed by the European Union, United States and South Korea. Net profit fell to $288.3
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    • 308 24  -  JULIE QUEK juliequek@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The Government will revise the Special Risk-Sharing Initiative (SRI) and the enhanced business financing schemes as it is now easier for companies to secure credit through the commercial markets, with the global economy on a firmer footing and financial markets
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    • 212 24 AGENCIES WASHINGTON The United States economy gained strength at the end of last year as Americans spent at the fastest pace in four years and companies sold more overseas. The US Commerce Department reported on Friday that growth rose to an
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    • 195 24 AGENCIES SMRT Corp on Friday reported net profit in the third quarter rose 9.6 per cent from the corresponding period a year ago to $43 million. Group revenue increased by 8.5 per cent to $243.9 million in the three months ended Dec
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    • 184 24 MediaCorp has selected Ericsson to implement and manage its new Over-the-Top (OTT) service via broadband connection to customers. The contract marks Ericsson’s first managed services deal with a media company in Asia, the Stockholm-based technology giant said on Friday. Earlier this week,
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    • 109 24 Singapore Post said on Friday its net profit in the fiscal third quarter fell marginally by 0.7 per cent year-on-year to $43.8 million. This is despite its revenue growing 6.3 per cent to $148.5 million for the three months ended Dec 31, mainly due
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    • 330 25  -  RYAN HUANG ryanhuang@mediacorp.com.sg DAVOS (Switzerland) Hotmoney inflows could cause economies to overheat and create asset bubbles if they are not well managed, said Government of Singapore Investment Corp (GIC) deputy chairman Tony Tan. Despite such concerns, he cautioned countries not to
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    • 319 25 AP TOKYO A batch of economic indicators released in Japan on Friday offered glimpses of both hope and doubt, underscoring ongoing questions about the fate of the still-fragile recovery in the world’s third-largest economy. The jobless rate and consumer price index were better than
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  • SPORTS
    • 712 28  -  Hopefully, Mullane and O’Connor make it easier for local CEOs to support the country’s No 1 sport 28 LEONARD THOMAS leonard@mediacorp. com. sg Leonard Thomas is the executive sports editor at MediaCorp NewsHub. The players, club chairmen, coaches, officials and the fans have been waiting
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    • 280 28  -  TAN YO-HINN yohinn@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE They don’t have milliondollar backing like the Courts Young Lions or Vanda Sports in their corner to help woo fans, so Hougang United will bank on their performances on the field to draw a crowd for their home games in the
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    • Article, Illustration
      109 28 Sunday will be the final day of the AIA Singapore Baseball and Softball Association Softball Open. The likes of the Old Rafflesians’ Association, the Singapore Combined Schools and the SRC Hunters will battle it out for top honours in the men’s and women’s categories for clubs and other
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    • 109 28  -  PHILIP GOH SINGAPORE India’s Somdev Devvarman failed to live up to his top billing at the Singapore ATP Challenger when he fell 6-3, 6-4 to Slovakia’s Andrej Martin in the quarter-finals on Friday. There was more misery for the Indian when he and South African partner Rik
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    • 216 29 REUTERS NEW DELHI Li Na’s spectacular progress to the final of the Australian Open will boost the continent’s bid to host a “fifth grand slam”, the Asian Tennis Federation’s chief told Reuters on Friday. Li stunned world No 1
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    • 455 29 AP MELBOURNE Andy Murray will get another chance to end a near 75-year winless streak for British men in Grand Slam singles tournaments after beating Spain’s David Ferrer 4-6, 7-6 (2), 6-1, 7-6 (2) on Friday to reach the Australian Open final. The
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    • 122 29 REUTERS Andy Murray actually forgot the score in the heat of his thrilling semi-final battle against David Ferrer on Friday. The fifth seed was a point away from trailing by two sets to love before recovering to win. Murray was actually unaware of how
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    • 455 30 AP SAN DIEGO Torrey Pines was supposed to be the perfect place for a fresh start, and it was every bit of that. Just not for Tiger Woods. Kang Sung Hoon, a 24-year-old from South Korea who had never played a
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    • 792 30 Looking for redemption For Australia’s Kewell and Japan’s Kawashima, Asian Cup final is a chance to make amends AP ASIAN CUP FINAL Australia vs Japan DOHA Harry Kewell already has Champions League and FA Cup medals from his club career but he knows he will never
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    • 659 31 Liverpool rebuff offer for Torres but Chelsea could come back in the summer AGENCIES ANFIELD Liverpool have rejected an audacious £40-million ($81.4-million) bid from Chelsea for Fernando Torres as the champions attempt to kick-start their faltering attempts to strengthen Carlo Ancelotti’s squad before Monday’s transfer deadline.
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    • 319 31 FA CUP Everton vs Chelsea LONDON Dimitar Berbatov’s hot goalscoring run is helping to mask Wayne Rooney’s struggles as treble-chasing Manchester United go to Southampton in the FA Cup on Saturday. Another two goals for Berbatov on Tuesday enabled the Premier League
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    • 229 31 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH MANCHESTER Germany goalkeeper Manuel Neuer and Holland’s Maarten Stekelenburg head a three-man shortlist to replace Edwin van der Sar at Manchester United following the 40 year-old’s confirmation that he will retire from football this summer. Atletico Madrid’s David de Gea
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  • Page 29 Miscellaneous
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    • 62 1 JANUARY 29 30, 2011 A PUBLICATION OF A CNY STYLE COVER GIRL Y.E.S. 93.3FM DJ LIM PEI FEN SHOWS HOW TO WORK ONE OUTFIT FROM DAY VISITING TO NIGHT PARTYING. T8 SHOP AUNTY LUCY SHOPS LIKE A MAN. T13 TRAVEL HOW TO STRETCH THAT RED PACKET BUDGET. T24 WHAT TO
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  • COLUMN
    • 766 2  -  How to turn a profit over the season without gambling Christopher Toh christophertoh@mediacorp.com.sg The writer is deputy features editor at TODAY. He has never tried any of these tips himself. Really. THERE are many things to like about Chinese New Year. Firstly, it’s a
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    • 828 3  -  A time to feast, visit, and be made to feel bad about yourself THE FAIRERTEXT Georgina Chang georginac@mediacorp.com.sg The writer is the senior creative director of 987FM and Lush 99.5. I LOVE festive seasons for the atmosphere of abundant food and convivial fellowship. However, just as Christmas has
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  • FOOD
    • 1120 4  -  Make the feasting last and make it memorable DON MENDOZA donm@mediacorp.com.sg LIKE many annual festivities, the course to ringing in the Lunar New Year is by and large paved with rich traditions, both old and new. It’s quite unlike the year-end Western holiday traditions we
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    • 502 7  -  RAISING with Don Mendoza donm@mediacorp.com.sg with Don Mendoza donm@mediacorp.com.sg IF MEMORY serves, it has been written that we all have a constitutional right to eat well. I quickly gathered that the writer in Blackwell Publishing’s Food And Philosophy (a collection of essays by modern day philosophers
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      1274 8  -  Radio DJ Lim Pei Fen shows how one outfit can take you from visiting in the day to partying it up at night LYNETTE KOH lynettek@mediacorp.com.sg SHE has an angelic face that makes her look way younger than her 29 years, but don’t let Lim Pei Fen’s sweetie-pie
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    • 87 10  -  LYNETTE KOH SOCIALITE Ju-Lynn Yeo, former TV host Benedict Goh, radio personality Georgina Chang, and Filter club co-owners Phil Poon and John Langan were just a handful of the whisky lovers who attended the Johnnie Walker Blue Label party held at Balaclava on Wedndesday.The occasion? To celebrate
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    • 252 13  -  LYNETTE KOH HIS giggly, curly-haired alter-ego,Aunty Lucy, has her own fan club, and he plays “an auntie who speaks different dialects” in Kelvin Tong’s new film, It’s A Great Great World. However, fans of Dennis Chew will know that his talents extend far beyond gender-bending.
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    • 451 14  -  Korean brand Kia ushers in the Chinese New Year with an impressive offering the Optima CAR Derryn Wong cars@mediacorp.com.sg FOR some, Chinese New Year is a time to display wealth and prosperity. Car dealers admit as much, since COE prices traditionally spike just before the holidays,
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    • 326 14  -  Mini breaks new ground in the New Year with its CSUV, the Countryman CAR REVIEW JULIAN LOW LET’S face it, the reason we buy new clothes for Chinese New Year is because our waistlines will increase after pigging out over the holidays. How timely then that Mini’s
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    • 313 16  -  JULIAN LOW IT MIGHT be time to lo hei soon, but car buyers here sunk their teeth into something decidedly more meaty last year.According to the latest figures from the Land Transport Authority (LTA), which are ranked by number of registrations in 2010, German
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      297 17  -  Ford’s S-Max MPV lets the whole family get in on the fun CAR REVIEW DERRYN WONG What’s an S-Max? It’s Ford’s bizarre name for its “fun” multipurpose vehicle (MPV). It’s not a huge puff of marketing smoke either the S-Max is an MPV that really offers the driver
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  • THINGS TO DO
    • 835 22 TODAY'S top 5 plus 5 others 1 Russell Watson Live In Singapore English tenor is supported by the Singapore Lyric Opera for this one-night only concert where he performs songs from his latest album, La Voce. Date: Saturday Time: 7.30pm Venue: Esplanade Concert Hall Admission: $48 to 188 Enquiries: Visit
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  • TRAVEL
    • 924 24  -  Ideas for your next vacation, depending on whether you make a profit or a loss during Chinese New Year SERENE LIM serenelim@mediacorp.com.sg AS ONE half of a married couple with no kids, Chinese New Year isn’t exactly my favourite holiday. Besides swatting away the usual pesky questions
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    • 121 26 iail*] The stuff travelling’s made of INSTEAD of packing mini bottles upon mini bottles of your creams, cleansers, eye gels and other what-have-yous, just bring along Evolu Travel Tower ($40). The botanical skincare brand from New Zealand has created six mini pots consisting of the
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    • 512 27  - Jetsetting with Siow Lee Chin Christopher Toh christophertoh@mediacorp.com.sg IN BETWEEN her “day job” as the director of strings and professor of violin at the College Of Charleston, South Carolina, violinist Siow Lee Chin also embarks on performances not just around the United States, but around the world. Singapore, of course,
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  • 623 1  -  LENS ANITA PATIL For comments, write to nytweekly@nytimes.com. £Ik ;N'e\u Jlork lines The start of a new year, still clouded by the recession, is a fitting time to purge. And it may bring better focus, more profit, more savings, or just freedom. Get rid of excess
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  • 1008 1  -  Demands for Dignity And Opportunity In Tunis and Cairo essAy MICHAEL SLACKMAN The New York Times Cairo MoMeNTuM seeMs To be building for a political evolution in egypt and around the region, many here say, and calls for change are less and less linked to a particular
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  • WORLD TRENDS
    • 1225 3  -  By MARK MAZZETTI Sl)c Jfhtt Jlork eimes WASHINGTON Duane R. Clarridge parted company with the Central Intelligence Agency more than two decades ago, but from poolside at his home near San Diego, California, he still runs a network of spies. Over the past two
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    • 635 3  -  By LYDIA POLGREEN S()c Jfhu y ork elmcs KODINAR, India Amit Jethwa had just left his lawyer’s office after discussing his lawsuit to stop an illicit limestone quarry with ties to powerful local politicians. That is when the assassins struck, speeding out of the
      S()c Jfhu y ork elmcs; LYNSEY ADDARIO FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES  -  635 words
    • 591 4  -  By JOHN LELAND, DURAID ADNAN EljciXctu Jlork Eimcs HABBANIYA CECE, Iraq The last Christian man in town goes to church each morning to clean the building and to remember the past. Romel Hawal, 48, was born in this town in Anbar Province
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    • 782 4  -  iNTELLigENcE/rOger ROGER COHEN Send comments to intelligence@nytimes.com. Sljc ;NV\u Jlork Eimcs Rome For too long, Arab peoples have been denied their dignity, ruled over by autocrats oblivious to their concerns, condemned to inhabit a world of conspiracies, mocked by periodic “elections” that are
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    • 567 6  -  GSTaaD jOuRNaL By CHRISTOPHER SOLOMON el)e iNVut Jlork Stines GSTAAD, Switzerland The mountain didn’t look quite right. Up close, its rock face was the giveaway, with its fading makeup of camouflage paint that seemed not to have been retouched since the cold war.
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    • 815 6  -  By SETH MYDANS EIK JsVlu jlork Etmes BANGKOK It is the most vilified army in Southeast Asia, known for crushing pro-democracy demonstrations and for its brutal suppression of ethnic groups seeking self-rule in the region’s longestrunning civil war. Myanmar’s 400,000-strong army
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    • 930 7  -  By SIMON ROMERO Sljc ?Cc\u Jlork eimcs LA PAZ, Bolivia In the haunts of this city where climbers gather over plates of grilled llama and bottles of Paceña beer to swap tales of mountaineering derring-do, they feign boredom when talk turns
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    • 788 8  -  By ANTHONY SHADID el)c?s>Ut Jlork Sinter ZAKHO, Iraq A Turkey as resurgent as at any time since its Ottoman glory is projecting influence through Iraq, from the boomtowns of the north to the oil fields near southernmost Basra. While the United
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    • 503 8  -  By CLIFFORD J. LEVY EIKJSYUT jjork Sinter TBILISI, Georgia The new teacher who arrived recently at School Number 161 could barely speak a word of the Georgian language, knew little about local customs and easily got lost in the streets of
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    • 501 10  -  By ALEXANDRA ZISSU el)c Jshu Jlork Stone* Two years ago, when going green was red-hot in the fashion industry, several leading brands made jeans with organic cotton. Now, organic jeans are being phased out in favor of other environmental efforts, such
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    • 577 10  -  By KEITH BRADSHER ®IK Jfeu Jlork Eimcs CH ANGSH A, China —Zhang Yue is one of China’s wealthiest entrepreneurs. But he has also emerged as China’s most outspoken tycoon on environmental issues. It is a notable distinction, now that China has passed the United States
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    • 538 11  -  By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL EIjc JfcUr jjork Stmcss The citizens of Lincolnshire, England, were so fed up this fall with the packaging that encased their store purchases that they took a piece of meat to court. The Lincolnshire County Council sued the Sainsbury’s supermarket chain
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  • SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
    • 833 12  -  By NICHOLAS WADE el)c Jfrto Jlork Simcs Chaser, a border collie in Spartanburg, South Carolina, has the largest vocabulary of any known dog. She knows 1,022 nouns. Chaser belongs to John W. Pilley, a psychologist who taught for 30 years at Wofford
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    • 661 12  -  By NICHOLAS WADE Sljc iNcUt Jjork ehnes Oxytocin has been described as the hormone of love. This tiny chemical, released from the hypothalamus region of the brain, gives rat mothers the urge to nurse their pups, keeps male prairie voles
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    • 546 13  -  ESSAY RICHARD A. FRIEDMAN, M.D. SljeJfelu jlork SJItocjsj It is practically an article of faith among therapists that selfunderstanding is a prerequisite for a happy life. Insight, the thinking goes, will free you from your hang-ups and promote wellbeing. But recent experience makes me
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    • 721 13  -  By KENNETH CHANG el)e;NYUt jlork Simes Six years ago, Michael E. Brown, a professor of planetary astronomy at the California Institute of Technology, spotted an object in the night sky that was so bright and so far away that he was sure
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  • ARTS & STYLES
    • 621 14  -  By LARRY ROHTER El)c $c\v JJork eimcii Long before they became doctors and lawyers or C.E.O.’s and real estate developers, they played in garage bands and maybe even dreamed of becoming rock stars. That’s why they signed up for Rock ’n’
      El)c $c\v JJork eimcii; DAMON WINTER/THE NEW YORK TIMES  -  621 words
    • 687 14  -  essay CATHY HORYN Sljc JfcUt JJork eimes Guarding their creative powers in a world flooded with images and other content, much of it mediocre, is a concern among up-and-coming fashion photographers like Danko Steiner and Daniel Sannwald. “We live in a rather dull moment
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    • 806 15  -  By LAWRENCE W. CHEEK eljc-NVur JJork elmcs Scores of architectural firms across America are enjoying a startling boom in China. The Chinese work has helped fill the void left by a listless American economy. But more intriguing, the architects say, is that Chinese developers and
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    • 613 15  -  By DENNIS LIM eljciN'cUt JJork eimes Nearly four decades after his death, Bruce Lee remains one of the most potent symbols of Hong Kong cinema’s golden age. So it’s only fitting that the latest stirrings of a revival in the Hong
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  • AMERICANA
    • 784 16  -  By MARC LACEY £l)c JfcUr JJork Stmcs NOGALES, Arizona Of the 50 or so women bused to this border town on a recent morning to be deported back to Mexico, Inez Vasquez stood stood out. Eight months pregnant, she had tried to
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    • 528 16  -  By MONICA DAVEY S!)c JfcUr JJork ®unc0 HAMTRAMCK, Michigan Leaders of this city met for more than seven hours on a Saturday not long ago, searching for something to cut from a budget that has already been cut, over and over.
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