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1 14 Today
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  • 17 1 TODAY on Saturday July 30, 2011 www.todayonline.com NEWS HOTLINE 6822 2268 A PUBLICATION OF MICA (P) 200/02/2011
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  • 531 1  -  ONG DAI LIN dailin@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE As the threat of a major dengue outbreak looms large, Minister for the Environment and Water Resources Vivian Balakrishnan said yesterday he is thinking of enhancing the power for the authorities to conduct forced entry into homes
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  • 758 1  -  Slight rise in unemployment reflects ‘normalisation’ from stellar growth last year, say economists LIN YANQIN yanqinl@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Against a backdrop of cautious business sentiment, the number of jobs created here slowed in the second quarter of the year: Between April and last month, 22,800 jobs were added
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    • 35 1 IN OUR SUNDAY EDITION the st regis perspectives ‘Simple boy’ NTU president Bertil Andersson face in the crowd A bibik named Bebe, keeping Peranakan culture alive AVAILABLE AT MAJOR SHOPPING MALLS AND ALL STARBUCKS OUTLETS
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  • HOT NEWS
    • 290 2  -  TAN YO-HINN yohinn@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The victorious Singapore football team returned home to a warm reception yesterday. On Thursday, the Lions held on for a 1-1 draw with Malaysia in Kuala Lumpur to clinch a 6-4 win on aggregate over a two-leg World Cup qualifier. As
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    • 407 2  -  TEO XUANWEI xuanwei@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE They had been acquainted for less than two months, but the then 23-year-old polytechnic student was already sending lewd text messages to the 13-year-old girl. When she repeatedly spurned his advances and requests to meet, Wang Jian Bin threatened
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    • 233 2  -  LIN YANQIN Business sentiments in the manufacturing and services sector have waned slightly for the second half of the year compared to a year ago, according to data released yesterday. Overall, 12 per cent of the 399 manufacturers polled expect business conditions to improve in
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    • 449 3 SINGAPORE Investment giant Temasek Holdings has kicked off a shopping spree in Hong Kong with a HK$18.8-billion (S$2.9 billion) purchase of a huge mall in Kowloon. Temasek’s wholly-owned unit, Mapletree Investments, will buy the Festival Walk mall from Hong Kong conglomerate Swire
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    • 456 3  -  LEONG WEE KEAT weekeat@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Presidential hopeful Dr Tony Tan has refuted online allegations that one of his sons received preferential treatment during National Service (NS). In a statement posted last night on his Facebook page, Dr Tan who served as
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    • 395 3  -  NG JING YNG jingyng@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The presence of the Integrated Resorts (IRs) here has not caused a spike in the number of gambling addicts, said Casino Regulatory Authority (CRA) chairman Richard Magnus yesterday, citing a study done by the Institute of
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    • 1081 4  -  Enrichment centres keep up with parents’ increasingly sophisticated demands, groom world-savvy kids TAN WEIZHEN, NG JING YNG weizhen@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE For 10-year-old Claire Lim, learning does not stop after school. The CHIJ (Kellock) Primary School student attends up to six hours of enrichment and tuition
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    • 191 6 Lim Hwee Hua joins Jardine Cycle Carriage SINGAPORE Former Minister in the Prime Minister’s Office Lim Hwee Hua (picture), 52, has been appointed a nonexecutive director at Jardine Cycle Carriage, the company announced yesterday as it unveiled a strong showing for the first half of the year. In a filing
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    • 584 6  -  TANYA FONG tanyafong@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE It seemed to be the worst possible time to consider a career switch. The global financial crisis had just begun but Mr Asoka Markandu, then 46, saw an opportunity in the crisis. A general manager
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    • 268 6 SMU’s first batch of law graduates would be “entering a profession that will be providing legal services to a vibrant Asia whose combined economies will, in the next 20 years, eclipse the major economies of today’s world”, said Chief Justice Chan Sek Keong
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    • 160 8 AP MANILA The Philippines is seeking the backing of South-east Asian governments for its proposal to separate disputed areas in the South China Sea from non-disput-ed waters, as part of a plan by Manila to ease the tensions with China and other claimants. The
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    • 470 8 AGENCIES WASHINGTON With four days remaining until the United States hits its debt limit, United States President Barack Obama yesterday told deeply divided Republicans and Democrats to stop bickering and find a way “out of this mess”. Mr Obama said a
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    • 300 8 REUTERS OSLO Norwegians united in mourning yesterday as the first funerals were held a week after anti-Islam zealot Anders Behring Breivik massacred at least 76 people in attacks that traumatised the nation. An 18-year-old Muslim girl was the first victim
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    • 317 8 EDINBURGH BUSINESS SCHOOL HE RIOT-WATT UNIVERSITY “Edinburgh Business School has the largest international MBA programme in the world” Financial Times listing 2011 Edinburgh Business School is the Graduate School of Business at Heriot Watt University, Scotland one of the UK's 100 Royal Charter Universities. The main focus of the school
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    • 15 8 >> WORLD STOCKS FALL ON SOVEREIGN DEBT WOES 28 >> JUSTICE? VENGEANCE? YOU NEED BOTH COMMENT 10
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  • COMMENT&ANALYSIS
    • 1037 10  -  Legal systems should punish the guilty commensurate with their crimes and satisfy victims’ need to feel avenged Polls suggest that most people around the world support the death penalty, especially for wrongdoers deemed the ‘worst of the worst’. Certainly Breivik qualifies for that distinction. THANE
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    • 1560 12  -  As employee incomes stagnate, the earnings of their bosses are on the rise once more eroding trust in business BRIAN GROOM Brian Groom is the Financial Times’ UK business and employment editor. THE FINANCIAL TIMES LIMITED Britain’s outspoken Business Secretary Vince Cable
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    • 301 12  -  BRIAN GROOM Politicians are constrained in how to curb what they see as excessive executive pay. Short of mandatory caps on earnings— which would damage incentives and invite avoidance attempts most options involve better disclosure. But transparency can make it easier for bosses to
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    • 961 14  -  With business increasingly done on Beijing’s terms, Washington’s ability to do as it pleases is not what it was DAVID PILLING David Pilling is the Asia editor of the Financial Times. THE FINANCIAL TIMES LIMITED United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton slipped across
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    • 651 15  -  BLOOMBERG EDITORIAL BLOOMBERG Only a few years ago, creditrating companies were the sleuths who did not see. In addition to awarding strong ratings to Icelandic banks, Lehman Brothers Holdings and other dubious enterprises, companies such as Fitch Ratings, Moody’s Investors Service and
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    • 262 15 24 Sep, 2011 Breakfast Network for Working Adults www.simge.edu.sg/openhouse Andrew Au Trade Associate HSBC /Bachelor of Business (Economics and Finance) RMIT Universitv. Australia > RMIT University, Australia Class of 2010 > Managed time between work and study. Staying in control of his career progression SIM has brought out the best
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  • VOICES
    • 240 18  -  Letter from Lau Kian Keong Assistant Director, Public Affairs Department, Singapore Police Force WE REFER to Mr Ong Swee Huat’s letter, “Taxi fare not paid, passenger goes free” (July 29). Our enquiry revealed that this was a dispute between Mr Ong and his passenger. The officer
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    • 169 18  -  Letter from Young Pak Nang I REFER to the report “Multiple transport operators could see commuters paying more, says Lui” (July 29). Transport Minister Lui Tuck Yew’s main argument against allowing multiple transport operators appears to be that new operators might
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    • 275 19  -  Letter from Alfred Lim Tahn Lin BEFORE couples embark on invitro fertilisation treatments, we understand it is mandatory for them to purchase insurance to mitigate their financial outlay should they have multiple births and their babies have to be admitted to the Neonatal
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    • 351 19  - Progress in shark conservation, but Letter from Jennifer Lee I REFER to the commentary “Moral progress measured by animal welfare” (July 18). On top of the progress cited for land animals, shark conservation has also taken a turn for the better this year, a result of the growing recognition of
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    • 226 18 have your say email your letters to voices@mediacorp.com.sg join the community www.todayonline.com/voices NGEE ANN-ADELAIDE EDUCATION CENTRE k 4* The Ngee Ann Kongsi THE UNIVERSITY "/ADELAIDE A PARTNERSHIP SINCE 1998 THE UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE DEGREE GROUP OF EIGHT MEMBER A Reputation of Excellence Associated with 5 Nobel Laureates 102 Rhodes Scholars
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 248 20 SINGAPORE The National Heritage Board (NHB) is offering Singaporeans and Permanent Residents free admission to all Permanent Galleries at its seven museums next month to celebrate National Day. Announcing this during the finale of HeritageFest last night, Minister for Information, Communications and the Arts
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    • 277 20  -  WAYNE CHAN waynechan@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Visitors to the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA) building can look forward to faster and more convenient visa applications following the official launch of the elobby@ICA. The facility was launched yesterday by Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Home
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    • 341 21  -  SHAFFIQ ALKHATIB shaffiq@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Another two people have been charged with graft in cases involving former senior executives of locallylisted AEM-Evertech Holdings. Tok Kian You, 50, the firm’s former executive chairman, is accused of seven counts of graft involving more than S$160,000.
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    • 177 21 SINGAPORE A company director was sentenced to four months jail yesterday for Goods and Services Tax (GST) offences. Suharry Abdullah, who worked at the now-defunct Republic Beverages Company, was also ordered to pay a penalty of about S$140,000 for creating false GST
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    • 131 21 The police have arrested a 41-year-old man believed to be involved in at least five cases of rental scams. He surrendered after a police media appeal for information on July 26. The alleged victims of Dennis Ang Beng
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  • WORLD
    • 326 22 THE GUARDIAN MISRATA (Libya) The death of Libyan rebel Abdel Fatah Younis has raised fears of a rift within opposition forces amid speculation that he may have been killed by gunmen on his own side. The president of the National Transition Council (NTC),
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    • 191 22 REUTERS BEIJING Tropical storm Nock-Ten began bearing down on the southern Chinese rubber-producing island of Hainan yesterday, forcing the cancellation of dozens of flights, ferries and rail services, state media reported. The storm has killed at least 41 people and
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    • 181 24 REUTERS The mother of a murdered British schoolgirl was targeted by a private investigator working for Mr Rupert Murdoch’s News of the World, her charity said on Thursday, reigniting a phone-hacking scandal that has shaken the global media empire. The Phoenix Foundation, a children’s
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    • 278 24 The Nation. BANGKOK A proposal by the Pheu Thai Party to reclaim 300 sq km of land in the Gulf of Thailand could have a severe environmental impact and fail to protect Bangkok from flooding, an environmental academic warned on Thursday. The
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    • 250 24 AP KILLEEN (Texas) An absentee infantry soldier caught with weapons and a bomb inside a backpack admitted planning what would have been Fort Hood’s second terrorist attack in less than two years, the army said on Thursday. He might have succeeded at
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    • 160 25 AP A surging outbreak of hand, foot and mouth disease has killed 70 people this year in Vietnam and infected more than 23,000, mostly children below five, reported the Thanh Nien newspaper. Most of the cases have been reported in
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    • 279 25 AP NEW YORK The New York Police Department (NYPD) is testing ground-breaking coun-ter-terror technology expected to dramatically increase its ability to detect and thwart a potential radiation attack, officials said on Thursday. The technology will allow a command centre in lower Manhattan to
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    • 191 25 REUTERS NEW YORK The hotel maid who has accused ex-Interna-tional Monetary Fund boss Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sexually assaulting her made an emotional public appeal on Thursday for people to believe her story as her lawyer threatened a civil lawsuit. In a highly
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    • 138 25 REUTERS Hemlines are a little longer at this year’s annual online gaming fair in Shanghai, as companies take to heart a government directive against “vulgarity”, a Chinese newspaper reported yesterday. TheChinaJoy Expo, an annual online game showcase, is known for its “spicy
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  • SCIENCE
    • 520 26 REUTERS ANCHORAGE (Alaska) Scientists have discovered the fossil of a rare, prehistoric marine reptile that is likely the most complete remnant of the creature ever found in North America. The nearly complete fossilised skeleton is of a thalattosaur, a long-tailed sea creature that
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    • 494 26 Scientists discover antibody that kills all strains of virus that cause flu pandemics LONDON A volunteer in a medical study who had an unusual reaction to the flu virus could hold the key to developing a vaccine that protects against all pandemic strains
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    • 204 26 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH Neanderthals in Europe died out because they were overrun by hordes of modern humans from Africa, scientists have claimed. The Homo sapiens arrived in swarms that outnumbered the Neanderthals by at least 10 to one, putting the natives at
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  • BUSINESS
    • 297 28  -  LINETTE LIM SINGAPORE Total bank lending in Singapore amounted to S$374.3 billion last month, up 3 per cent from the previous month, according to data released yesterday by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS). On a year-on-year basis, total bank lending surged 26 per
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    • 471 28 AGENCIES LONDON World stocks hit a one-and-a-half-week low yesterday, on track for their biggest weekly loss since August last year, as a Moody’s threat to downgrade Spain revived fears the euro-zone crisis is spreading and investors eyed a looming deadline for United States
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    • 224 29  -  AMANDA FENG amandafeng@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The Singapore Exchange (SGX) yesterday introduced two online initiatives to help retail investors understand and trade in complex investment products. The SGX began working on the two initiatives the Customer Account Review Module and the SGX Online Education Programme last
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    • 70 29 STOCK CALLS Neutral (S$14.16) Credit Suisse downgrades Singapore Airlines to Neutral from Outperform; lowers target price to S$14.40 from S$15.90. The carrier’s Q1 net profit of S$45 million had dropped below market and the house’s expectations of S$127 million to S$160 million due to high-er-than-expected fuel costs. House
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    • 56 29 FRIDAY CLOSE 3,189.26 (-0.02%) Thursday 3,189.85 q 0.12% Wednesday 3,193.54 p 0.22% Tuesday 3,181.79 p 0.32% Monday 3,171.55 q 0.36% TOP 5 BY VOLUME NAME VOL PRICE CHANGE Genting SP 121,669 $1.900 q 1.299% NexGenSCom^ 107,141 $0.030 p 7.143% MIDAS 84,652 $0.570 p 1.786% HPH Trust US$ 71,761 $0.760
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    • 32 29 HANG SENG È 22,440.25 H NIKKEI È È NIKKEI 9,833.03 (-0.26%) È È È È SHANGHAI 2,701.73 MALAYSIA AUSTRALIA 4,424.60 H SEOUL MUMBAI 18,192.62 (-0.09%) MALAYSIA 1,548.81 (-0.20%) SEOUL 2,133.21 (-1.05%)
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    • 124 29  -  LINETTE LIM Frasers Centrepoint Trust (FCT) will acquire Bedok Point shopping mall for S$127 million from Woodlands Complex, a subsidiary of Frasers Centrepoint Limited (FCL). The price is the average of two valuations by Knight Frank and Jones Lang LaSalle Property Consultants.
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    • 362 30  -  RACHEL KELLY, RYAN HUANG rachel@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Rising oil prices and increasing operating costs continue to put pressure on the Republic’s transport providers, which earlier this week reported dismal earnings results. The SMRT’s net profit fell by 8.9 per cent in the first quarter ended
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    • 218 30  -  STELLA LEE SINGAPORE Cash is still king in Asia with many people still preferring to make payment in hard currency or with the more convenient debit card. Visa, the electronic payment network, which posted a 13.3-per-cent increase in overall payments volume to US$929
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    • 106 30 DOW JONES The Singapore Exchange said yesterday it has appointed Ms Christine Lie as senior vice-president and head of listings for China with effect from Nov 1. Ms Lie was previously the vice-president of the issuer marketing department at the Hong Kong Exchanges
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    • 146 30 DOW JONES Hyflux said the completion of its desalination plant project in western Algeria is likely to be delayed until May next year from August this year, after a fire on Thursday damaged equipment to be installed in the project. The fire took place in
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    • 224 31 AGENCIES SEOUL Samsung Electronics, the world’s largest maker of television sets and flatscreen panels, reported a greater-than-estimated second-quarter profit after sales of mobile phones masked a drop in panel demand. Net income fell 18 per cent from a year earlier to 3.51
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    • 336 31 AGENCIES TOKYO Japan’s industrial production rose for the third straight month in June as the world’s No 3 economy staged a recovery from the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. Factory output increased 3.9 per cent last month from May, when it rose 6.2 per
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    • 166 31 AGENCIES Britain’s BSkyB will spend £1 billion (s$1.96 billion) to placate investors who lost out after News Corp bowed to public fury over a hacking scandal and dropped a bid to take full control of the satellite broadcaster. BSkyB, whose board on
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    • 468 29 s iw® WXNNSN SINGAPORE HERITAGEFEST 2011 tjeAtuml at tyefbcihj@ < llxiveviaS M Home What We Love About It! The Singapore HeritageFest celebrates the diversity of our city's culture and heritage, and invites you to rediscover what you love about your Home. We've saved the best for last at the Festival
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  • PERSONAL FINANCE
    • 1239 32  -  The poll revealed that 74 per cent of Singaporeans have discussed their financial protection needs with their spouse, but only close to half are aware of all details pertaining to their spouse’s life insurance policies. COMMENTARY PAUL HUGHES Paul Hughes is chief marketing officer
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    • 289 32 SINGAPORE JAPAN US/ 126 Years Of Academic Excellence Distinguished U.S. Faculty Flexible Schedule For Busy Professionals AACSB accredited for over 76 years TEMPLE UNIVERSITY® Is an EMBA right for you? Information Session Date: 11 August 2011 Time: 7-9pm Venue: National Library Building, Level 3, Function Room 2 Join our information
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  • SPORTS
    • 574 34  -  Hariss says Singapore must now prepare to battle with Asia’s best TAN YO-HINN yohinn@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Having survived the hostile 85,000 crowd in the backyard of football rivals Malaysia, rising Singapore stalwart Hariss Harun is relishing the upcoming battles with Asia’s best. The 20-year-old, who
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    • 90 34 Today, the SportsZone team heads to East Coast Park for the 2011 Osim Singapore International Triathlon, which marks its 10th anniversary. In a special two-hour broadcast, starting at 10am, hosts Ewan Mah and Raj Kumar talk to local and elite athletes, veterans and
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    • 332 34  -  TAN YO-HINN SINGAPORE He may have impressed in the two-leg World Cup qualifier against Malaysia, but Izwan Mahbud is willing to bide his time to establish himself as Singapore’s first-choice goalkeeper. Having only one senior cap previously, the 21 -year-old found
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    • 433 35 Asian football body in no hurry to replace the Qatari, who has a life ban REUTERS KUALA LUMPUR The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) cannot elect a replacement for banned president Mohammad Bin Hammam until after May 30 next year, the regional organisation’s legal committee
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    • 481 35  -  LOW LIN FHOONG SINGAPORE Names such as Zainal Abidin, Peter Hill, Anthony Chua and women’s national champion Mah Li Lian still roll off the tongues of many local fans here as they recall the glory days of Singapore squash. At its peak in
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    • 477 36  -  PHILIP GOH philipgoh@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE She may have won seven straight Malaysian Open titles, but Nicol David’s streak at the CIMB Singapore Women’s Squash Masters has ended at four. Despite taking the first two games, the world No 1 never looked comfortable in the 85-minute encounter with
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    • 377 36  -  LOW LIN FHOONG linfhoong@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Donning netball bibs, SingHealth Polyclinics’ two teams certainly stood out yesterday because the players were not on the netball court, but the bowling alley. The teams of eight bowlers each named SHP1 and SHP2 were actually
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    • 365 37 AP SHANGHAI American swimmer Ryan Lochte locked up two more gold medals at the swimming world championships yesterday, raising his victory total to four with at least one more event to go. He led from start to finish
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    • 249 37  - Tao Li misses out on history by 0.02sec TAN YO-HINN yohinn@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE National swim star Tao Li (picture) came within a whisker of becoming the first Singaporean woman to reach a final at the world swimming championships. She finished ninth out of 16 swimmers in the semifinals of the women’s
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    • 118 38 REUTERS Volkswagen could consider a move into Formula 1 in 2018, the German carmaker’s head of motor sports was quoted as saying on Thursday. “I could imagine involvement in Formula 1 in 2018, when the company is at the forefront of the industry,” Wolfgang
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    • 404 38 AGENCIES BUDAPEST McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton, a surprise winner last weekend in Germany, continued to shine when he was fastest in both practice sessions yesterday for the Hungarian Grand Prix. Red Bull’s Mark Webber crashed and lost his front wing in his first outing and was
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    • 608 39 AGENCIES JACKSONVILLE Tiger Woods (picture) finally gets back to golf next week at the Bridgestone Invitational, ending an 11week break to heal injuries to his left leg. It marks the third-longest layoff of his career, only this time Woods returns with as much uncertainty
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  • Page 35 Miscellaneous
    • 48 35 [pLAY® 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. For details, visit www.singaporepools.com.sg or call 6786 6688 Towards Community Purpose and Benefit SINGAPORE RGB Reg No: *****0202G
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    • 74 40 \jj[ presents K i I f P I fif -V m .i Get your picnic baskets ready for an evening of family fun and cultural performances by the most adorable kids! Dance to the beat of Urban Drum Crew, play games and have toads of fun! Come down to SINGAPORE
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 57 1 ARTS MUSIC MOVIES TELEVISION WINE DINE STYLE DESIGN HEALTH TECH TRAVEL CARS JULY 30, 2011 A PUBLICATION OF KEIRA KNIGHTLEY REVS UP HER REBEL SIDE T2 WARPAINT GROOVE TO THEIR ART ROCK T8 TRAVEL: GOING FOR CONCERTS OVERSEAS CAN BE OUT OF THIS WORLD T10 BRAND BECKHAM T3 WOULDN’T YOU
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  • STYLE
    • 557 2 Keira Knightley shows off her spunky side for the new Chanel Coco Mademoiselle ad campaign WITH highly coveted classics like the 2.55 and the tweed jacket, it’s strange to think that Gabrielle Chanel was once herself a fashion rebel. During the pre-war era when women were
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    • 419 3 David Beckham is marking his foray into the world of fashion with an affordable ‘bodywear’ line for H&M THE DAILY TELEGRAPH “BRAND Beckham” is about to go well and truly global as David Beckham has confirmed that his bodywear line namely, underwear and T-shirts will be distributed
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    • 293 3 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH IT HAD to happen. Fashion and pop music have always had a nice symbiotic relationship but sometimes, just sometimes, things can get a little out of hand. Such as the case of fashion photographer David LaChapelle and pop sensation Rihanna. A pre-trial
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    • Article, Illustration
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    • 313 5 5 questions with Adrian Wee ADRIAN Wee is a veteran in club land, having worked for more than a decade playing different roles in the scene as DJ, organising parties, marketing and branding. In addition to that, he, alongside DJs Aida, Zaidi and Jinmart, has been running the ever popular
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      112 5  -  ZHANG WEIFANG STYLE: magazine took it beyond the fashion pages and sealed a week of festivities with a party at Mandarin Gallery lastThursday.The celebration got cracking on July 15 with exclusive Mandarin Gallery promotions, a swanky MercedesBenz CLS-Class display and a Canon Photography exhibition featuring 10 stylish ladies
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  • ENTERTAINMENT
    • 1169 6  -  Hollywood’s classic thrillers would never have been possible had today’s technology been around then Joe Queenan features@mediacorp.com.sg THE GUARDIAN IN THE harrowing film 127 Hours, an outdoorsy type played by James Franco finds himself trapped in a mountain ravine with his arm wedged beneath a
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    • 615 8 THE last time all-female band Warpaint were in Singapore in January this year, it was raining cats and dogs. But guitarist Theresa Wayman said the band still had fun.“I had a lot of fun the last time,” she said.“Singapore was really interesting. It was pouring down rain,
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    • 586 9 Pundits say this weekend’s takings won’t be impressive REUTERS SENSING his genre-blending movie would be a tough sell to moviegoers during a summer rife with established film brands, film-maker Jon Favreau stumped for months, all across the country, in support of Universal’s
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
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    • 450 7 6 cathay.com.sg facebook.com/cathaycineplexes THE CATHAY 2 Handy Road, Levels 5 6 CATHAY reaLg) CAPTAIN AMERICA:THE FIRST AVENGER* (3D)^:>: 11,10am, 1,50pm, 4.30, 7.10,8.15, 9.50,11.00pm, 12.40am CAPTAIN AMERICA:THE FIRST AVENGER* (digital) 10.40am, 12.40pm, 3.10, 4.20, 5.40, 7.00, 9.40pm, 12.20am CAPTAIN AMERICA:THE FIRST AVENGER* 9.20am, 11,50am, 2.20pm, 5.10, 7.50,10.30pm, I. «gr|; 3D SEX
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    • 688 7 m RGANISATION 87 Years Of Entertaining The World (M rn.shaw.sg SHAW THEATRES BUGIS IS CLOSED FOR RENOVATION -W V r Thank you for your support over the years Look forward to your patronage again when we re-open in Sept 2011 CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER (CS) DIGITAL 3U 10:20cm, 10:40,3:30,
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  • TRAVEL
    • 1353 10  -  Despite the wealth of live music here, sometimes it’s fun to go overseas for some ZHANG WEIFANG in Shah Alam, Malaysia zhangweifang@mediacorp.com.sg WHEN I was asked to head up north to Kuala Lumpur for MTVWorld Stage 2011, I was naturally excited. After all, MTVWorld Stage is a
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    • 115 11 The stuff travelling’s made of The stuff travelling’s made of TAKING Philips O’Neill The Snug headphones (picture) on your travels is definitely having the best of both worlds. Not only are you guaranteed awesome sounds with a “deep bass” and great clarity, the headphones have also
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    • 537 11  - Jetsetting with Shaolin master Yan Kang SERENE LIM YOU don’t have to go to a Shaolin temple to learn the secrets of Shaolin kung fu. Shaolin master Yan Kang and his team are currently at Hong Kong Lantau Island’s Ngong Ping 360 for a summer showcase, which has proven to
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    • 34 12 SUDOKUplus DIFFICULTY RATING: HOW TO PLAY The rules are easy. Fill in the grid so that every row, every column, and every 3x3 box contains the digits 1 through 9. COPYRIGHT UCLICK YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION
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  • Page 13 Miscellaneous
    • 221 13 ON MEDIACORP THE WALKING DEAD (Premiere; PG-Violence) Channel 5, 10pm Sheriff’s deputy Rick Grimes wakes up from a coma to find his town overrun by flesh-eating zombies. After making friends with survivor Morgan Jones and his son Duane, Rick sets out to find his wife and son. Can he survive
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    • 631 13 6.00AM India: A Love Story 9.00 The Martha Stewart Show VI 10.00 The Doctors 11.00 2014 FIFA World Cup Qualifier: Malaysia vs Singapore (Encore) 1.00PM America’s Got Talent IV: Top 40 (1st Group Of 10) 3.00 The Unit IV 4.00 Flood CHANNEL 6.00AM Friends Next Door 6.30 Malaysia A Sensational
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    • 270 13 ON MEDIACORP THE KING OF SNOOKER Channel U, 7.30pm Taotao happily accepts Jason’s marriage proposal. Jiaqin secretly arranges for Yiqiao’s return to the snooker world but he refuses. Yiqiao threatens to sell his championship cue, for which Ziqian immediately offers $100,000. BOLLYWOOD MASTI: AAKROSH Vasantham, 4pm Three friends from Delhi
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