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  • 39 1 TODAY MICA (P) 057/10/2010 A PUBLICATION OF NEWS HOTLINE 6822 Monday August 22, 2011 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking Today MICA (P) 057/10/2010 A PUBLICATION OF NEWS HOTLINE 6822 2268 Monday August 22, 2011 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking
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  • 584 1 AGENCIES CHENGDU (China) United States Vice-President Joe Biden wrapped up a visit to China yesterday that offered him extensive time with the country’s expected future leader, Vice-President Xi Jinping, and delivered a strong message of US mutual interdependence with the world’s
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    • 58 1 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION 2011 CANDIDATES DISAGREE ON PRESIDENT’S POWERS Page 3 TAN CHENG BOCK I will be reserves’ ‘watchdog’ Page 4 TAN JEE SAY explains his take on S$500,000 salary Page 4 TONY TAN community bonding crucial to S’pore Page 4 TAN KIN LIAN I will use veto as last resort
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  • HOT NEWS
    • 408 2  -  HETTY MUSFIRAH, S RAMESH hetty@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Stressing the need for the Republic to get its politics right, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong reiterated that the country is too small to afford political paralysis. Speaking at the Ang Mo Kio-Hougang National Day
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    • 432 6  - Another season of Lose to Win TAN WEIZHEN weizhen@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Following the findings of an investigation into the death of a participant during the weight-loss reality television programme Lose to Win in January, the Health Promotion Board (HPB) has decided to go ahead with a third season of the show.
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    • 456 6 AGENCIES LONDON Former United Kingdom Prime Minister Tony Blair yesterday rejected the government’s claim that this month’s riots showed that British society is in “moral decline”, while Prime Minister David Cameron reiterated his pledge to fight “the wrongheaded ideas, bureaucratic nonsense and destructive
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    • 154 6 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH More than 200 police officers and support staff in Britain’s biggest force have been caught accessing the highly-sensitive Police National Computer for their own ends. Half of the offences uncovered, including some accused of passing information to criminals, took
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    • 160 6 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH The search for the new Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police has descended into chaos with British government officials having to persuade senior officers to apply for the job. The deadline for applications to succeed Sir Paul Stephenson in the
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  • PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION 2011
    • 374 3  -  JOANNE CHAN joannechan@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE A day after presidential hopeful Tan Cheng Bock stated that candidates should not over-promise on initiatives and causes that may not be within their constitutional power to deliver as Elected President, two of his rivals are standing their ground, while Dr
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    • 250 4  -  TAN WEIZHEN weizhen@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE When it comes to his rally, presidential candidate, Dr Tan Cheng Bock, wants to surprise his opponents. He is the only candidate who has not revealed when and where it will be held. At a
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    • 281 4  -  NG JING YNG SINGAPORE It was a “special treat” in bustling Geylang Serai for presidential candidate Tony Tan, who, together with his wife, spent more than one-and-a-half hours yesterday interacting with stall holders and shoppers. Speaking to reporters after he met some
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    • 285 4 SINGAPORE While his election flyer stated that S$500,000 is “plenty” for anyone to live on, presidential candidate Tan Jee Say stopped short of making it his campaign promise, saying he did not want to be accused of “trying to buy votes”.
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    • 310 4 SINGAPORE If elected President, Mr Tan Kin Lian will use the presidential veto on reserves to influence the Government’s economic and social policies, the former NTUC Income CEO said yesterday. Speaking to reporters after a walkabout at Whampoa Food Centre,
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    • 585 3 ii nl ii i) Wednesday Monday Sunday Tuesday FRIDAY Thursday Saturday Thursday Monday Tuesday Saturday SUNDAY Friday tday Tuesday Thursday MONDAY Saturday Tuesday Friday Wednesday Tuesday Monday Saturday Thursday Sunday fridoy Tuesday dnesday Monday Sunday Tuesday FRIDAY Thursday Saturday Thursday Monday Tuesday Saturday SUNDAY Friday Wednesda sdoy Thursday MON DAY
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    • 298 3 ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL Get the Tag Reader app from Apple’s App Store, Android Market, or http://gettag.mobi and scan the Tag. Or visit http://youtube.com/todaydigital Tan Cheng Bock Tan Jee Say Tony Tan Tan Kin Lian READ ALL ABOUT IT todayonline.com/singaporevotes GET THE LATEST NEWS twitter.com/todayonlinefacebook.com/todayonline ONLINE-ONLY PHOTOS WHERE THEY WILL
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  • COMMENT&ANALYSIS
    • 820 8  -  LIN YANQIN yanqinl@mediacorp.com.sg Lin Yanqin is assistant news editor a t Today. Only trees remain where the former Ama Keng village once stood. But for Dr Tan Cheng Bock, the memories of the village live on in more ways than one. The 71-year-old counts
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    • 772 10  -  CHEOW XIN YI cheowxinyi@mediacorp.com.sg Cheow Xin Yi is a reporter at Today. The first things that catch the eye in the office of presidential candidate Tan Kin Lian are the rows of framed newspaper profiles of himself and certificates to document his various
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    • 844 12  -  HENNY SENDER Henny Sender is the FT’s International Financial Correspondent. THE FINANCIAL TIMES LIMITED On the morning of Aug 9, the day after markets in Europe and the United States collapsed, the Hong Kong government agreed to sell a plot of land at
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    • 1119 14  -  Could 74-year-old social reformer Anna Hazare’s movement turn into the country’s Arab Spring? JAMES LAMONT James Lamont is The Financial Times’ South Asia bureau chief. THE FINANCIAL TIMES LIMITED Delhi’s elite have long thought themselves immune from the threat of middle class revolt.
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    • 784 16  -  STEPHEN WUNKER Steve Wunker is the managing director of New Markets Advisors and the author of Capturing New Markets: How Smart Companies Create Opportunities Others HARVARD BUSINESS PUBLISHING (DISTRIBUTED BY THE NEW YORK TIMES SYNDICATE) When stock markets gyrate and growth prospects
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    • 9 8 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION 2011 TOMORROW: Profiles ofTonyTan and Tan Jee
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  • VOICES
    • 452 18  -  Letter from Kwan Jin Yao SOME Singaporeans might have been surprised after reading the findings by the Customer Satisfaction Index of Singapore (CSISG), in the article “S’poreans are satisfied with public transport system” (Aug 12). Following the fare hike requests submitted by the transport
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    • 297 19  -  Letter from James Ang I READ with interest the comments by Law Minister K Shanmugam and Singapore Management University chairman Ho Kwon Ping about xenophobia in Singapore. While I agree with their concerns that this is an extremely dangerous path for
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    • 177 19  -  Letter from Goh Kay Thong I AM an occasional visitor to a relative living in Charlton Lane and I find it difficult to park along this road because the owners of the terrace houses there place flower pots and dustbins to reserve space for
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    • 155 19  -  So, which is which? LETTER FROM JENIFFER DE SOUZA JENIFFER DE SOUZA I recently paid S$5 for a Credit Bureau Singapore report and did not find anything adverse in my credit history. But the merchants to whom I applied for loans
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    • 238 18 have your say email your letters to voices@mediacorp.com.sg join the community www.todayonline.com/voices ANIMALS FLEEING NORTH AS EARTH HEATS UP PAGE psb 1 Ararlprr Academy For people who love a challenge. At PSB Academy, we work our students hard. When our graduates head out into the real world, they're armed with
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 523 20  - Only 150 mins a week Health Promotion Board introduces new set of guidelines for Singaporeans to adopt a healthier lifestyle TAN WEIZHEN weizhen@mediacorp.com.sg SOURCE: HPB SINGAPORE The sedentary lifestyle led by most Singaporeans, coupled with the rising rate of obesity, has led the Health Promotion Board (HPB) to introduce a
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    • 334 20  -  CAROLYN QUEK carolynquek@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE To help seniors better manage their health, the Tsao Foundation, a non-profit organisation here championing successful ageing, has launched a self-care project to equip 400 elderly people with the knowledge and skills to do so. The foundation said Project Self-Care
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    • 556 21  - When that bowl of curry is too much for the tummy NG JING YNG jingyng@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE While Singaporeans’ passion for curry a favourite among all races was abundantly displayed in recent weeks, a recent study conducted by the National University Hospital (NUH) has found that spicy food such as curry
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    • 325 21 SGX’s Online Initiatives for Retail Investors Where can I learn more about SGX-listed Specified Investment Products? Log onto the new SGX Online Education to learn more about the basic terms and features of various types of Specified Investment Products listed on SGX. This can be found at www.sgx.com/onlineeducation/specifiedinvestmentproducts What is
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  • WORLD
    • 468 22 AGENCIES JADDAIM (Libya) Libyan rebels battled their way towards Tripoli yesterday to help fighters inside the city who rose up overnight declaring a final showdown with Colonel Muammar Gaddafi. The Libyan leader dismissed the rebels, fighting since February to topple him, as “rats” and
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    • 274 23 AGENCIES HANOI Vietnamese police swooped in and crushed an anti-China rally here yesterday, arresting and forcing into buses dozens of protesters who refused to stop chanting. The move followed stern warnings last week that Hanoi would no longer tolerate the weekly
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    • 202 23 REUTERS MOSCOW North Korean leader Kim Jong Il visited one of Russia’s largest hydro power stations yesterday, Russian news agencies said, part of a tour of the country’s Far East before talks with President Dmitry Medvedev. The reclusive leader, who
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    • 109 23 AP An inter-island ferry with at least 75 people on board caught fire amid stormy weather in the central Philippines yesterday, leaving three people dead, one missing while the rest were rescued, officials said. The steel-hulled M/VIsland Fastcraft 1 was cruising towards
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    • 108 24 AP A new poll shows that Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan’s public approval rating has fallen to the lowest level since he took office last year. The survey by Kyodo news agency released yesterday found that 15.8 per cent of respondents approve
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    • 379 24 AP NEW DELHI Mr Anna Hazare’s threat to fast to death unless the government amends an anti-corruption Bill has sparked debate about whether the traditional Indian form of protest has any place in a modern democracy. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh last Wednesday called Mr
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    • 116 24 AP An activist on a hunger strike to demand that Indian lawmakers pass his anti-cor-ruption Bill said yesterday that his supporters comprise a “people’s parliament” above the nation’s elected assembly. Mr Anna Hazare vowed during his sixth day of fasting to carry on indefinitely unless legislation
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    • 798 25 AGENCIES AGENCIES KARACHI Pakistan’s military is ready to help stem a tide of political and ethnic violence in the city of Karachi, if the civilian government asked it to do so, a
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    • 362 25 AP AP Militants carried out a series of attacks against soldiers in Pakistan’s rugged tribal region along the Afghan border yesterday, killing two troops and wounding more than a dozen others, intelligence
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    • 354 25 AP AP Two gunmen on motorcycles killed a government prosecutor in the turbulent south of Afghanistan yesterday, officials said. The attackers shot Mr Mohammad Azam, the chief prosecutor for Helmand province’s Gereshk district, in the morning as he left for
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    • 401 26 AP JERUSALEM Militants in the Ha-mas-ruled Gaza Strip bombarded southern Israel with rockets and mortars yesterday and Israel hit back with an airstrike, as diplomats scrambled to keep a new convulsion of Israeli-Palestinian violence from escalating. Senior Israeli officials met late into
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    • 288 26 REUTERS BEIRUT Syrian President Bashar Al Assad was to give an interview to Syrian television yesterday, state media said, as a United Nations team arrived in Damascus to assess humanitarian needs after five months of turmoil. Mr Assad’s interview, only his
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    • 233 27 AP OSLO Norway yesterday paid tribute to the 77 people killed in a bombing and shooting massacre by a right-wing extremist exactly a month ago. A memorial service at the Spektrum Arena in central Oslo, which was broadcast live on national television, was attended
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    • 314 27 THE NEW YORK TIMES AP NEW YORK The lawyer for the woman who accused former International Monetary Fund head Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sexual assault said on Saturday that he believes prosecutors plan to dismiss some or all of the charges Mr Kenneth Thompson
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    • 109 27 AP Two men were shot and wounded in the parking lot of Candlestick Park in San Francisco after a preseason NFL game on Saturday night between American football teams San Francisco 49ers and the Oakland Raiders, police said. The shootings occurred around 8pm,
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    • 95 27 AP A First Division Mexican football game has been suspended after gunmen opened fire on police outside the stadium in the northern city ofTorreon. The series of detonations caused panic inside the stadium, where Santos was playing Morelia, and players ran for cover on Saturday.
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    • 235 28 AP WASHINGTON United States presidential candidate Jon Huntsman criticised Republican rival Rick Perry’s scepticism of man-made global warming, saying it hurts the party and make the Texas Governor come off as a not-so-serious national figure. Mr Huntsman, President Barack Obama’s first Ambassador to
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    • 244 28 AP WASHINGTON United States President Barack Obama’s summer of discontent has been marked by rumblings within his Democratic political base over his unwillingness to fight Republicans and his approach to fixing the economy. Liberals disappointed with Mr Obama for compromising with the Republicans
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    • 273 28 AP RESOLUTE BAY (Canada) A chartered Boeing 737-200 plane crashed while approaching an airport in Canada’s Arctic region, killing 12 people and injuring three, police said. Residents of the tiny hamlet of Resolute Bay in the Arctic territory of Nunavut and
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    • 405 30 AP WASHINGTON Animals across the world are fleeing global warming by heading north much faster than they were less than a decade ago, a new study says. About 2,000 species examined are moving away from the Equator at an average rate of more
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    • 458 30 AP DISKO ISLAND (Greenland) The old hunter was troubled by the foreigners encroaching on his Inuit people’s frozen lands. “The Inuit say that they are going to heat the ‘siku’ (the sea ice) to make it melt. There will
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    • 339 31 AP PITTSBURGH (Pennsylvania) The flash flooding that killed four people and forced others to swim to safety or climb onto car roofs was a freak accident caused by heavy rainfall that overwhelmed the sewer system just as rushhour traffic clogged low-lying
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    • 365 31 AP MADRID A freak thunderstorm on Saturday forced Pope Benedict XVI to cut short his speech to an estimated one million pilgrims gathered for the church’s world youth festival in the Spanish capital, giving the outdoor prayer vigil at an airfield
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    • 127 31 AP Dozens of people have died and tens of thousands have been displaced in India’s West Bengal state due to heavy rains that have overwhelmed rivers and flooded 15 districts. The state government says at least 11 people have died since Friday from
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    • 112 31 BANGKOK POST Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has ordered urgent measures to tackle the country’s flooding problem, as the number of people affected by persistent floods threatens to top the one million mark. The government on Saturday ordered more money forflood relief and a
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    • 78 30 WORLD Animals WASHINGTON Animals fleeing global warming faster than they were less study says. About 2,000 species from age per according lished Science which Species tains to escape averaging about 1.2m a year. The species mostly sphere and including plants but over several decades it hour away from the Equator.
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    • 86 31 “With this rain, the Lord sends us many blessings,” Pope Benedict quipped when he resumed his truncated remarks. Six people were slightly injured when a tent collapsed. Some makeshift chapels set up of their parishes. At the end of the Mass, he officially announced that the next World Youth Day
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  • BUSINESS
    • 397 32 SINGAPORE Direct real estate transaction volumes rose 225 per cent year-on-year (y-o-y) in the second quarter of this year to US$2.2 billion (S$2.7 billion). According to Jones Lang LaSalle’s (JLL) Asia Pacific Capital Markets Bulletin, this was boosted by double-digit growth
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    • 230 32 AGENCIES HONG KONG Hongguo International Holdings, which was delisted from the Singapore Exchange in May last year, is seeking a listing on the Hong Kong Exchange. According to reports, Hongguo, a Chinese shoemaker and retailer, is seeking to raise between US$200 million (S$242
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    • 254 33 REUTERS TOKYO The Bank of Japan will consider easing monetary policy further, possibly at an emergency meeting before next month’s rate review, if further rises in the yen push down Tokyo stock prices enough to hit business sentiment, sources said. The government may
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    • WEEKLY ROUNDUP (AUG 15 TO 19)
      • 50 33 FRIDAY CLOSE 2,733.63 (-3.34%) THE WEEK AHEAD Kim Eng says “many stocks seem to be turning attractive and the opportunities for bot-tom-fishing could emerge”. But it adds that technicals point to more downside. Thursday 2,824.96 q 0.13% Wednesday 2,828.53 q 0.15% Tuesday 2,832.73 q 1.47% Monday 2,874.40 p 0.83%
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      • 32 33 HANG SENG È 19,399.92 H NIKKEI È È È NIKKEI 8,719.24 H AUSTRALIA È SHANGHAI 2,534.36 16,141.67 Ç AUSTRALIA 4,101.90 (+0.02%) MUMBAI 16,141.67 (-2.70%) MALAYSIA 1,483.98 (+0.02%) SEOUL 1,744.88 (-2.70%) È
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      • 65 33 STOCK CALLS Outperform S$0.275 CIMB Securities maintains Outperform rating and target price at S$0.49. House notes new management team is working to unlock shareholder value, and that improvements in quarterly results may win investors over while mid-term catalysts could come from contracts for its new-build jack-ups. House says:
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    • 116 33 BLOOMBERG The Hong Kong Stock Exchange is in talks with its counterparts in mainland China to set up a joint venture to develop new financial products in another step towards closer ties with markets in the world’s secondbiggest
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    • 345 34 NEW YORK Key United States economic data will be released this week starting with figures for durable goods orders on Wednesday. This will be followed by the August consumer sentiment survey and gross domestic product (GDP) numbers for the second quarter on Friday.
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    • 139 33 Monumei Encount in the Ci for singles 'n only wnamzniisi mvmsniz ipl•JTd ii& titl Learn more about Singapore's history as we celebrate Singapore’s 46 th birthday. Come join your newfound friends in unravelling clues to mystery monuments and uncovering the interesting stories behind them. A delectable buffet dinner and attractive
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  • SPORTS
    • 660 38 The fans are unhappy, but Arsenal’s most successful manager insists he will not walk out THE GUARDIAN LONDON —With every passing day, it seems as if the pressure mounts on Arsene Wenger. He has guided Arsenal to three Premiership titles and four FA Cups,
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    • 395 38 AGENCIES LONDON Chelsea manager Andre VillasBoas has insisted anxiety, and not age or a lack of quality, was behind his side’s stuttering performance in his first home game in charge. The Blues looked far from potential Barclays Premier
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    • 535 39 McCarthy’s men send crowd into delirium with second successive win THE GUARDIAN ENGLISH PREMIERSHIP Wolves 2 Fulham 0 WOLVERHAMPTON They put their faithful through every shade of angst last season but Wolves ensured the long-time sufferers in the stands at Molineux could at least chant
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    • 289 39 AGENCIES ENGLISH PREMIERSHIP Man United vs Tottenham LONDON Tottenham Hotspur star Gareth Bale has described Manchester United goalkeeper David De Gea as “world class”, but warns that they will try to unnerve him during their clash at Old Trafford tonight (tomorrow morning, Singapore time).
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    • 424 40  -  SHAMIR OSMAN shamir@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE There was a relaxed atmosphere initially as the Lions went through their paces at the Geylang field last night. But at the end of the team’s final train session in Singapore ahead of their opening Group A third
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    • 378 40  -  Differences over training programme for 2012 Olympics cited as the reason TAN YO-HINN yohinn@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE In a shock development, Singapore swimming star Tao Li has split from her coach Barry Prime (picture). At last month’s World Championships in Shanghai, she had a poor outing, only
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    • 391 40  -  SHAMIR OSMAN SINGAPORE Her distance was more than two metres off her national record of 18.57 metres set in 2005, and well below her 17.12m gold-medal effort at the 2009 SEA Games in Laos, but Singapore Athletic Association (SAA) officials believe shot
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    • 667 41  -  With an eye on London 2012, butterfly ace Schooling confident of making a grand splash at the SEA Games TAN YO-HINN yohinn@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Joseph Schooling plans to obliterate the 100m butterfly and 200m butterfly national records at the coming SEA Games. And he believes
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    • 291 41 REUTERS OHIO World No 1 Novak Djokovic looks to make it an unprecedented six out of six in Masters series titles when he takes on Britain’s Andy Murray in the final of the Cincinnati Open this morning (Singapore time but
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    • 471 42 Playmaker scores a hat-trick for South American giants to claim fifth U-20 title AP U-20 WORLD CUP FINAL Brazil 3 Portugal 2 (aet) BOGOTA He may not get the same sort of recognition as England’s Geoff Hurst did for his celebrated hat-trick in the
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    • 178 42 AP SYDNEY Australia flyhalf Quade Cooper could assume the kicking duties in the Wallabies’ Tri-Nations rugby decider against New Zealand on Saturday if James O’Connor is suspended for disciplinary lapses. O’Connor has been Australia’s main kicker but failed to attend the World Cup squad announcement and
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  • ARTS
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    • 205 3 FESTIVAL Chinese Theatre Festival The inaugural Chinese Theatre Festival kicks off this Thursday with Tell Tales Sing Songs, a musical concert of songs from homegrown Mandarin musicals. Aug 25 to Sept 18, various times,The Joyden Hall at iluma (Level 7). Visit www.practice.org.sg/ctf for details and ticket info. Voyage Night
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  • ENTERTAINMENT
    • 183 4 Seven Singapore artists were included in the nominations for this year’s APB Foundation Signature Art Prize, which has expanded to more countries with the aim of making it the definitive contemporary art prize in the Asia-Pacific region.The Affordable Art Fair Singapore announced its return even as
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      499 4  -  Saddling up for Toy Factory’s Equus MAYO MARTIN REHEARSALS often get frenetic a week before a show starts, but Australian actor Walter Hanna has been horsing around in preparation for Toy Factory’s Equus. Mind you, that’s in the 24-year-old’s job description these days, because one of the
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    • 503 5  -  MediaCorp Radio’s Lush 99.5FM offers familiar names and a new template for its morning show CHRISTOPHER TOH YOU’VE seen her presenting on Channel NewsAsia, as well as hosting shows like the President’s Star Charity, but now Glenda Chong will be able to add “radio
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    • 79 5  -  Opera really isn’t that conservative, you know MAY SEAH AMIDST a backdrop of decadence, eroticism, perversion, fixation and decapitation, Salome showcases the most human of passions running amuck. Add to that a striptease, a sultry dance number and a severed head and well, you can say this
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    493 8 Local Motion Jon Chong If you’re passing by the Esplanade, catch local talent Jon Chong perform atthe Concourse. The musician strongly believes in the power of music to influence and aspires to bring back prominence to lyrics and their message. Jon is one of three “singspirators” who
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  • Page 8 Miscellaneous
    • 32 8 SUDOKUplus DIFFICULTY RATING: HOWTO 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. COPYRIGHTUCLICK SATURDAY’S SOLUTION
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    • 238 10 ON MEDIACORP MEGA MONDAY MOVIE:THE LOST WORLD:JURASSIC PARK Channel 5, 7pm Ian Malcolm discovers that there is a second island full of a variety of dinosaurs. Dr John Hammond decides to send four adventurers to monitor the dinosaurs before INGEN move in to control the island. Ian doesn’t like the
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    • 624 10 6.00AM Planet’s Funniest Animals VIII 6.30 AM Live! 9.00 The Martha Stewart Show VI 10.00 The Doctors 11.00 Films Stars Asia 11.30 Chef For Hire NOON Under One Roof V 12.30PM Chase 1.00 Triple Nine III CHANNEL 6.00AM Tuesday Report: Post Card From The Heart 6.30 Right Frequency III 7.00
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    • 254 10 ON MEDIACORP ETHIROLI SPECIAL:AN INTERVIEW WITH THE PRESIDENT Vasantham, 7.30pm Get up close and personal with Singapore President S R Nathan in this half-hour special. Find out about the highs and lows during the 12 years of his presidency; what he views as the main role of the President; and
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