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  • 20 1 TODAY MICA (P) 057/10/2010 A PUBLICATION OF NEWS HOTLINE 6822 2268 Monday March 14, 2011 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking
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  • 918 1  -  PM announces electricity rationing to several cities including VENESSA LEE correspondent venessa@mediacorp.com.sg AGENCIES KORIYAMA (Japan) —The nuclear crisis intensified yesterday as the authorities raced to combat the threat of multiple reactor meltdowns and a State of Emergency was declared at another nuclear power plant.
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    • 17 1 THE JAPAN DISASTER 13 PAGES OF THE LATEST NEWS, COMMENTARYAND REACTIONSTO THE EARTHQUAKEANDTSUNAMI SHARE YOUR VIEWS FACEBOOK.COM/TODAYONLINE
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    • 72 1 PLACES MINAMISANRIKU: THE FISHING PORTTHAT ‘VANISHED’ 2 SENDAI: THE FIRES RAGE ON 3 PEOPLE GRACE UNDER PRESSURE 8 I SAY: NO ONE SCREAMED 9 BUSINESS JAPANESE ECONOMY DODGED ENORMOUS BULLET; QUAKE SPARED INDUSTRIAL HEARTLAND 10 COMMENT&ANALYSIS WHERE DID JAPAN GO WRONG? 18 JAPAN’S HANDLING OF DOMESTIC DISASTERS DOES NOT INSPIRE
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  • JAPAN DISASTER PLACES
    • 575 2 Minamisanriku the fishing port that ‘vanished’ AGENCIES TOKYO It was once a thriving fishing port where, for generations, families had made a living from the sea. But today, Minamisanriku located 80km west of the quake’s epicentre off the coast of Japan lies buried under a sea of mud, victim of
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    • 527 3 Sendai the fires rage on AGENCIES TOKYO In the hard-hit port city of Sendai, the capital of Miyagi prefecture, fires continued to burn yesterday at oil processing and cargo facilities which caught fire when the tremor struck on Friday. But residents, though shell-shocked, organised themselves to clear roads, clean up
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  • JAPAN DISASTER FALLOUT
    • 153 4 REUTERS Japan and its neighbours are anxiously watching the direction of the wind over Japan’s earthquake-damaged nuclear complex a key factor in determining the fallout of any radiation. The Fukushima Daiichi plant is about 240km north of Tokyo on the north-east coast, facing
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    • 120 4 AGENCIES Apart from shifting the Earth on its axis and briefly speeding up its rotation, the massive earthquake that struck off the coast of Japan has moved parts of eastern Japan as much as 3.65m closer to North America, said US Geological Survey
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    • 325 5 I Joshua Liaw Associate Director, Commercial Real Estate, Standard Chartered Bank. Graduate, Summa Cum Laude. Dean's List. Presid Economics Society Winner, MAS essa’ competition. JCCI Singapore-Wasi School of Economics Do you see opportunities in crises? <| Ptpr Jovme Loy Assistant Director, External Department, Monetary Authority of Singapore. Graduate, MagTia Cum
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  • JAPAN DISASTER AID
    • 345 6 AGENCIES TOKYO Instant noodles and “kitchen cars” equipped to cook them are among the relief items on their way to victims in Japan, even as more international assistance has been pledged. Japan’s biggest instant noodle maker Nissin says it will deliver 1 million packets
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    • 182 6  -  LYNDA HONG The Japanese community here will meet the Red Cross today to look at ways to raise funds for disaster relief efforts in Japan. About 100 of the Japanese Association’s 4,500 members have families in prefectures affected by the earthquake.
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    • 328 6 AGENCIES SHANGHAI It took a massive earthquake back in her homeland to persuade Yuki Kosuge to look beyond traditional news sources and log in to Twitter for the first time. “I was relying on conventional media initially, but Twitter is by far the
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  • JAPAN DISASTER PEOPLE
    • 725 8 The Japanese have proven to be a stoic people in the face of disaster AGENCIES TOKYO Japanese affected by the recent earthquake and tsunami have displayed a characteristic grace under fire, according to eye-witnesses. “What’s amazing is that everyone I saw cops on their white bicycles, boys
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    • 178 8 MAN SAVED FROM ROOFTOP AT SEA AGENCIES Mr Hiromitsu Shinkawa was pushed out to sea as he clung to the roof of his home when it was torn from its foundation by the tsunami. For two days, he drifted off Japan’s north-east-ern coast, trying to get the attention of helicopters
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    • 118 8 AGENCIES Mr Chusei Sato, a 61-year-old farmer, saw the debris-laden tsunami ride over an embankment several meters tall and lay siege to his neighbourhood in Fukushima prefecture. He said the massive wave was about 200m away when he first saw it, but it was accelerating as
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    • 201 8 AGENCIES An Australian woman who was stranded nearthe exploding Fukushima nuclear reactor has escaped and is desperate to return to Australia. Ms Emily Peck was teaching when the quake hit, severely damaging the building. She said she was “terrified”
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    • 586 9  -  A correspondent’s account of the quake I SAY MICHIYO ISHIDA In Tokyo michiyo@mediacorp.com.sg The writer is Channel NewsAsia’s Japan Bureau Chief. On March 11, I had the day off, and decided I would watch a movie with a friend whom I had not seen for months. I
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  • JAPAN DISASTER BUSINESS
    • 832 10 Tokyo no longer seen as a major engine of global growth; economists say the world economy will be AGENCIES TOKYO The Japanese economy was already struggling before this latest disaster. Not only did its gross domestic product contract in the fourth quarter
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    • 220 10  -  NEO CHAI CHIN SINGAPORE Japan-bound tours of major travel agencies here were cancelled over the weekend, even as groups that arrived at Osaka, Kyushu and Hokkaido before last Friday’s earthquake are proceeding with their travels as planned. Nine tours that were to have flown to Japan over
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  • NEWS
    • 333 12  -  NEO CHAI CHIN chaichin@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The General Election is “getting near”, said Deputy Prime Minister Wong Kan Seng yesterday as he welcomed a contest at his Bishan-Toa Payoh Group Representation Constituency. Speaking yesterday at the sidelines of a community event his first
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    • 302 12  -  DYLAN LOH SINGAPORE Residents at a Geylang Bahru Market And Food Centre were given a taste of the possible contest to expect in the new Moulmein-Kallang Group Representative Constituency (GRC) yesterday morning. Members of the ward’s incumbent People’s Action Party (PAP)
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    • 205 12 The latest comments by Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew that he stands corrected on his perception of the integration of Malay-Muslims in Singapore has brought closure, according to Minister-in-charge of Muslim Affairs Yaacob Ibrahim. While DrYaacob called on the community to
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    • 163 12 SINGAPORE As General Election fever heats up, two Desmonds People’s Action Party’s (PAP) Desmond Choo as well as Singapore Democratic Alliance’s (SDA) Desmond Lim worked the ground yesterday in the respective constituencies that they are eyeing. Hosting a block party for Hougang residents, PAP’s Mr
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    • 411 13  -  TEO XUANWEI xuanwei@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Winning a Group Representative Constituency (GRC) is as much an aspiration as it is a necessity in terms of ensuring effective party renewal for the Workers’ Party (WP), going by what its chief Low Thia Khiang said yesterday.
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    • 499 13  -  HOE YEEN NIE SINGAPORE A S$460-million facelift announced in January for the wards that were in Jalan Besar Group Representation Constituency will be implemented, if its Members of Parliament from the People’s Action Party “get the chance to do
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    • 339 13  -  SHAFFIQ ALKHATIB SINGAPORE —The Workers’ Party may disagree but Foreign Affairs Minister George Yeo said yesterday that the changes in voter demographics in Aljunied Group Representation Constituency (GRC), following the new electoral boundaries, are “not very big” and, therefore, good for his Opposition opponents
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  • VOICES
    • 532 14  -  Experience trying to report a noisy motorist leaves me wondering Letter from Edward Leow I READ the report “Less lizardcatching, more crime-fighting” (March 10) with mixed feelings. While I was tickled by the photograph and anecdote, I am frustrated by a situation that I
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    • 527 16  -  “BRAINAPPS”: INSTANT EXCELLENCE, ANYONE? STUART TAN Stuart Tan is the best selling co-au-thor of “Master Your Mind, Design Your Destiny” and a Peak Performance Trainer for the “Patterns Of Excellence” programme. He is also the executive director of Adam Khoo Learning Technologies Group. Learning how to be
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    • 237 16  -  Letter from Lin Wenrong I BOUGHT two sets of two-day standard tickets for the event “Now Musical Festival 2011 I Love 80s” from SISTIC on March 12. The two-day standard package came in the form of two separate tickets in each set, one
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    • 177 16  -  Letter from Koh Poo Kiong Assistant Director Coastal Parks, National Parks Board WE REFER to Mr Danny G Tan’s feedback “Changi boardwalk neglected?” (March 9). We are aware of the situation and have since stepped up the cleansing of the boardwalk. Due to wear and tear, the
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    • 132 16  -  LETTER FROM PETRINA TEOH TEOH, SENIOR MANAGER CORPORATE COMMUNICATIONS, M1 LIMITED We refer to the letter “Can’t recall wife’s birthday, so no help from telco” by Mr Jimmy Ng Kim Kok (March 11). We express our apologies to Mr Ng, on the
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    • 86 16  -  LETTER FROM STEVE WANG Japan has been hit by an earthquake and tsunami and now some nuclear plants are in trouble with radiation leaks. The radioactive vapour could mix with rain and contaminate crops such as rice and beans in Japan, or in
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    • 81 16  -  FROM TIONG CHOON HIN As one of the biggest issuers of cheques to punters with winnings above S$5,000, Singapore Pools should perhaps consider the alternative of direct electronic deposit via the Internet into a punter’s bank account when he claims his
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  • COMMENT&ANALYSIS
    • 950 18  -  Some say officials reacted too slowly, others question whether safety measures in place were enough The Japanese might have acted too slowly to prevent overheating, suggested nuclear engineer Nils Diaz. Fear among Japanese regulators over public reaction to small releases of steam and
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    • 1721 20  -  Despite world-beating record in safety technology, Japan’s handling of domestic disasters does not inspire confidence WILLIAM HORSLEY William Horsley is a former correspondent for the BBC in Japan. THE DAILY TELEGRAPH With Friday’s devastating earthquake, Japan has truly felt the consequence of living
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    • 874 22  -  SIMON TAY Simon Tay is chairman of the Singapore Institute of International Following the tragic earthquake and tsunami in Japan, attention has fallen not only on how the country is coping with the aftermath. There has also been urgent response to the
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  • WORLD
    • 340 24 REUTERS AJDABIYAH Colonel Muammar Gaddafi’s troops seized the strategic Libyan oil town of Brega yesterday forcing rebels to retreat under a heavy bombardment while world powers considered imposing a no-fly zone. Losing Brega and its refinery further limits rebel access to fuel after the insurgents were
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    • 330 24 Nation’s international arms imports are now largest in the world AP NEW DELHI In its race to join the club of international powers, India has reached another milestone it’s now the world’s largest weapons importer. A Swedish think-tank that monitors global arms sales said yesterday that
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    • 42 24 Diners found themselves floating downstream on the Ohio River on Friday night when a floating restaurant broke from its moorings. They had to be rescued with a makeshift gangplank after the boat came to rest against a bridge. AP
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    • 188 24 AP Israel said yesterday it has approved hundreds of settler homes after five members of an Israeli family including three children were knifed to death as they slept in a West Bank settlement over the weekend. The attack and the government’s response threatened to
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    • 358 25 THE MALAYSIAN INSIDER MIRI The Sarawak state government has called on Malaysia’s Home Ministry to release all impounded or seized Malaylanguage bibles immediately as opposition parties scramble to use it as fodder for the state election that is likely to be held next
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    • 195 25 AP BEIJING The Chinese authorities have arrested 3,001 people in their latest crackdown on rampant product piracy and seized counterfeit medicines, liquor, mobile phones and other goods. The products include 26,000 mobile phones, some with phony Nokia and Apple labels, copies of Louis
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    • 115 25 AP Two Chinese dissidents who were sentenced to 10 years in prison for getting together to talk about democratic reform and posting their views online were released on Saturday after completing their jail terms. Xu Wei, a former reporter, and Jin
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    • 311 26 AGENCIES NEW YORK A tour bus overturned at high speed on a highway in the Bronx at 5.30am on Saturday. Passengers were returning to Chinatown on the chartered bus from the Mohegan Sun casino in Uncasville, Connecticut. The bus was sliced open in the
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    • 368 26 THE NEW YORK TIMES NEW YORK A New York Times investigation over the past year has found widespread problems in the more than 2,000 homes for the developmentally disabled run by the state of New York. There were 399 disciplinary cases involving 233 state
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  • SPORTS
    • 481 28 GUARDIAN FA CUP QUARTER-FINAL Stoke City 2 West Ham 1 LONDON A late onslaught from West Ham United was unable to prevent Stoke City from reaching the FA Cup semi-finals for the first time since 1972, as a combination of Thomas Sorensen’s brilliance and a slice
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    • 422 28  -  LOW LIN FHOONG linfhoong@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Touted as title favourites ahead of the 2011 Great Eastern-Yeo’s S-League season, Home United leapfrogged to the top of the table last night, after claiming a 2-1 victory over Albirex Niigata at Bishan Stadium. The Protectors
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    • 257 28 REUTERS BIRMINGHAM (England) World No 1 Wang Shixian (picture) of China won her first All England women’s singles crown yesterday, battling past brave Japanese Eriko Hirose 24-22,21-18. Unseeded Hirose was the first Japanese to reach the final since 1979 and fought all the way,
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    • 688 29 Arsenal manager’s rallying cry to troops may be too little, too late AGENCIES FA CUP QUARTER-FINAL Manchester United 2 Arsenal 0 LONDON Two weeks ago, Arsenal supporters were talking optimistically of an unprecedented quadruple. But defeats to Birmingham and Barcelona in the Carling Cup final
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    • 476 30 United midfield powered by old horses, says Marseille’s Heinze AGENCIES CHAMPIONS LEAGUE Round of 16, 2nd leg Manchester United vs Marseille (0-0 after 1st leg) LONDON Manchester United can build on their formidable home record this season and beat Marseille in the Champions League,
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    • 267 30 LONDON Real Madrid manager Jose Mourinho (picture) is planning a return to the Barclays Premier League next season. The “Special One” desperately misses the passion and excitement of English football his spiritual home said The Sun in an exclusive report. The Portuguese enjoyed a
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    • 337 30 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH LONDON Tottenham Hotspur shirts next season could contain a “computer” that relays players’ biometric signals such as heart rate and temperature to coaching staff and even broadcasters. American sports clothing manufacturer Under Armour, which signed a fiveyear
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    • 616 31 Woods and Mickelson make hasty exits at Doral as Johnson shows the way AGENCIES DORAL (Florida) Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson disappeared in more ways than one from the third round of the WGC-Cadillac Championship, leaving the stage for the new guard,
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  • Page 31 Miscellaneous
    • 70 31 SPORTS FIXTURES For fixtures of all E League Champ, Spanish League and UE Champions, please visif Singapore Pools websife. Ip yij Always play with care. [responsibly! Do not bet illegally. No person under the age of 18 years shall be allowed to purchase a ticket or to claim any prize.
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  • BUSINESS
    • 376 3  -  RACHEL KELLY rachel@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE New measures introduced in Parliament last week to protect mobile users from surprisingly high telco bills or “bill shocks” are expected to have little impact on Singapore’s three mobile-phone operators, according to analysts. They said moves
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    • 471 3 BLOOMBERG MANILA The Philippines plans to raise as much as 200 billion pesos (S$5.8 billion) from staterun financial institutions to help fund roads, railways and ports, Economic Planning Secretary Cayetano Paderanga said. “We want to tap the liquidity in the domestic market
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    • 415 3 THE GUARDIAN LONDON Bailed-out Royal Bank of Scotland risks stoking a City pay row this week by revealing that more than 300 of its bankers are each paid an average of £1 million (S$2.04 million). Chairman Sir Philip Hampton has
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    • 275 2 SINGAPORE The retail outlet which had the most shoplifting cases last year was Mustafa Centre, the police announced yesterday as they called on businesses to take “greater responsibility and ownership” of the issue of shoplifting. There were 570 cases at the 24-hour shopping centre, followed
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    • 511 2  -  JO-ANN HUANG joannhuang@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The high development charge (DC) of nearly half a billion Singapore dollars for Pine Grove, which has been put up for en bloc sale recently, may be a turn-off and a potential deal breaker for some property developers.
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    • WEEKLY ROUNDUP (MARCH 7 TO 11)
      • 46 1 FRIDAY CLOSE 3,043.49 (-1.04%) THEWEEKAHEAD Asian stocks continue to face pressure from the aftermath of the Japanese earthquake, as companies assess the extent of the damage on their assets. Thursday 3,075.44 q 0.56% Wednesday 3,092.90 q 0.35% Tuesday 3,103.84 p 1.22% Monday 3,066.52 p 0.17%
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      • 32 1 HANG SENG 23,249.78 (-0.68%) È È NIKKEI È È È È È 10,254.43 H MUMBAI SHANGHAI 2,933.80 MALAYSIA AUSTRALIA 4,644.80 H SEOUL MUMBAI 18,174.09 (-1.69%) MALAYSIA 1,495.62 (-1.77%) SEOUL 1,955.54 (-2.45%)
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      • 12 1 OIL US$113.08 (-1.704%) È È GOLD US$1,414.50 (-0.987%) SILVER US$34.5075 (-3.082%)
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    • STOCK CALLS
      • 64 1 Sell 5 S’pore cents CIMB downgrades stock to Trading Sell from Outperform, with a lower target of S$0.05. The house notes, the Indonesian government has announced that planned implementation of cabotage requirements from May for offshore oil and gas vessels has been abandoned. Following this change, it
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