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  • 20 1 TODAY MICA (P) 057/10/2010 A PUBLICATION OF NEWS HOTLINE 6822 2268 Wednesday September 21, 2011 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking
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  • 419 1 SINGAPORE A faulty cable beneath the platform at Dakota Station yesterday morning disrupted train services at all 16 stations on the Circle Line. In a statement to the media yesterday, public transport operator SMRT said it is investigating the power
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  • 664 1  -  ONG DAI LIN, NG JING YNG dailin@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Town councils around the island are feeling the heat of rising electricity prices: The Bishan-Toa Payoh Town Council, for instance, has seen its utility bill balloon to S$8.2 million in the last financial
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  • HOT NEWS
    • 570 2 AGENCIES SINGAPORE UBS chief executive Oswald Gruebel (picture) will ask the bank’s board to back plans for a radical overhaul of its investment banking division at a meeting in Singapore, after unauthorised trading at its London office caused a US$2.3 billion (S$2.91
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    • 396 2 AGENCIES BEIJING China said yesterday it was worried that Europe’s sovereign debt crisis could spill over into trade friction and hurt the country’s exports. Commerce Ministry spokesman Shen Danyang said: “As the crisis within the European Union intensifies, bilateral trade friction may
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    • 356 3 SINGAPORE A faulty network device caused OCBC Bank’s system to crash on the morning of Sept 13, paralysing banking services for many of its customers. In a statement yesterday, OCBC chief executive David Conner said after reviewing several possible causes,
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    • 473 3 AGENCIES ROME Italy yesterday slammed Standard Poor’s (S&P) for cutting its credit rating, saying the decision seemed politically motivated and out of touch with reality at a time when the government was working to boost growth and reduce debts, but markets took the surprise
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    • 384 4  -  Developer says sales met expectations, analysts felt take-up was below par ONG DAI LIN dailin@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE About three months after Centrale 8 (picture) sparked an outcry with a record asking price of up to S$880,000 for a five-room unit which was
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    • 479 4  -  TANYA FONG SINGAPORE In sentencing a 32-year-old man to death for the murder of a taxi driver, a High Court judge said he found that the prosecution had proved its case beyond reasonable doubt. Chinese national Wang Wenfeng was yesterday found guilty of
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    • 200 6 AGENCIES Dates: Venue: KUALA LUMPUR The United States is encouraged by Prime Minister Najib Razak’s plan to repeal the Internal Security Act (ISA) and said it was willing to help Malaysia draft laws to replace it. Speaking to reporters after
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    • 411 6 BLOOMBERG HONG KONG Wealthy people in China are the youngest among eight Asian economies and their numbers are poised to surpass counterparts in the region’s developed markets, according to HSBC Holdings. The average age of people in China with liquid assets
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    • 410 8 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH BEIJING An eagle-eyed Chinese Internet activist has raised questions about the rampant corruption in China after spotting countless senior Chinese officials apparently wearing wristwatches they could not possibly afford on their official salaries. The search through online
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    • 234 8 BEIJING A Chinese journalist investigating a food scam involving cooking oil being made from leftovers salvaged from gutters has been found stabbed to death. On Monday, Mr Li Xiang, a 30-year-old reporter with Luoyang Television Station in Henan, was found dead with
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    • 597 10  -  CAROLYN QUEK carolynquek@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Over 30 initiatives have been implemented under a national roadmap set up to develop programmes and services for the disabled here in the past five years. Building on the achievements of the current Enabling Masterplan which
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    • 351 10  -  SARA GROSSE SINGAPORE With chronic diseases on the rise, the Health Ministry is now developing a primary care masterplan to leverage on the general practitioner (GP) community. The ministry said that two in five Singaporeans, aged 20 and above, have diabetes, high
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    • 386 12  -  A ‘system upgrade’ caused a three-hour delay as guests were unable to check in NG JING YNG jingyng@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Some guests checking in at the Marina Bay Sands (MBS) hotel yesterday were left frustrated after they had to wait for more than three
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    • 168 14 Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak showed his lighter side yesterday morning when he helped radio deejays pull a prank on their producer on air. In a pre-recorded call on the hitz.fm radio station, Mr Najib asked the producer Jake Abdullah if his son could
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    • 311 14 REUTERS CANBERRA Australia’s national broadcaster faced calls for a review of funding yesterday over a television comedy scene with a fictional Prime Minister Julia Gillard draped in a national flag after having sex on her office floor. Conservative opposition lawmakers said
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  • COMMENT&ANALYSIS
    • 1057 16  -  prevent Bold action needed to avoid repeating path during Great Depression that led to World War II NOURIEL ROUBINI Nouriel Roubini is Chairman ofRoubini Global Economics, Professor of Economics at the Stern School of Business, New York University, and co-author of the book Crisis Economics.
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    • 779 18  -  Fans should exercise caution before investing CONRAD RAJ conrad@mediacorp.com.sg Conrad Raj is editor-at-large at Today. Now that Manchester United has been given the all-clear to list its shares on the Singapore Exchange, millions of fans throughout the world, and especially those in
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    • 1082 20  -  We’re more aware of mental illness but not enough to recognise the signs in ourselves or friends, says author CHEOW XIN YI cheowxinyi@mediacorp.com.sg A veteran in the charity sector with more than 20 years of youth development and counselling experience under his belt, Mr Chua Seng Lee,
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    • 983 22  -  NOAH FELDMAN Noah Feldman, a law professor at Harvard University and the author of Scorpions: The Battles and Triumphs of FDR’s Great supreme Court Justices, is a Bloomberg View BLOOMBERG Just what is Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas thinking? At the new United Nations
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    • 740 24  -  Good decisions rely on sound research now if only managers would accept JEFFREY PFEFFER Jeffrey Pfeffer is the Thomas D Dee II Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. 2011 HARVARD BUSINESS PUBLISHING (DISTRIBUTED BY THE NEW YORK TIMES SYNDICATE)
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    • 282 16 THIS IS THE TIME TO PROFIT FROM THE PANIC...AGAIN! It may sound crazy, but most people do not realize that economic slowdowns and financial crises are where fortunes are really made. It was during the recent 2008-2009 financial crisis that the number of millionaires in Singapore increased by 32.7% (Straits
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  • VOICES
    • 107 26  -  Letter from Lim Kay Soon UBS chief executive Oswald Gruebel claimed that he would be unable to stop rogue trades from happening if the bank has, unfortunately, employed fraudulent traders. Does it mean that if there are other such traders within UBS’ large investment team,
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    • 389 26  -  Letter from Chua Soo Kiat I THANK the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation (GIC) for its prompt reply “GIC’s total portfolio value back to pre-crisis levels” (Sept 20) to my letter. Since the General Election, Government institutions have become more responsive, which many Singaporeans welcome. In relation
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    • 150 28  -  Letter from Ho Sein Yean Deputy Director (Housing Maintenance), Housing and Development Board WE THANK Mr David Soh for his letter “HDB should review policy on ceiling leaks” (Sept 19). The maintenance of a flat’s interior is the responsibility of its owner. This
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    • 355 28  -  Letter from Controller Sin Lye Chong Controller of Housing, Urban Redevelopment Authority WE REFER to Mr Jensen Chong’s letter “More disclosure, please, for property purchases” (Sept 15). In Singapore, housing developers selling uncompleted projects with more than four units must comply with the
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    • 332 30  -  Letter from Kwan Jin Yao MR LEE Kuan Yew’s remarks that bilingualism remains pertinent, in the report “Bilingualism is possible, says Lee Kuan Yew” (Sept 17), are timely. Mastering two languages would bring many benefits, such as heightened communication
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    • 204 30  -  Letter from Kim Scarabello I AM a University of Cambridge certified English teacher from Canada who has been volunteering at both my sons’ local schools since we moved to Singapore in 2009. The kindergarten and primary school pupils are adorable even though I
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    • 210 30  -  Letter from Lee How Teck Senior Vice President General Manager, Group Health Insurance Division, NTUC Income I REFER to Mr Denis Distant’s letter “The high cost of dengue fever?” (Sept 17), and would like to explain the basis of our statements, which can
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    • 141 30  -  Letter from David Kwok Ng Kan MANY motorists and pedestrians use Tras Link (off Tanjong Pagar Road) daily, and traffic is increasing with the addition of residents from The Pinacle@ Duxton. The road was built three years ago and open to the public for
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    • 230 26 have your say email your letters to voices@mediacorp.com.sg join the community www.todayonline.com/voices ‘DEVELOPERS MUST PROVIDE ACCURATE INFO TO BUYERS’ VOICES PAGE THE SLOANE CLINIC POSSIBLYBEAUTIFUL! Indulge in a sumptuous afternoon tea as the doctors from The Sloane Clinic enthral you with the latest aesthetic innovations to help you look younger
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 402 32  -  Eight local companies honoured at annual ASEAN energy ESTHER NG estherng@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE For their efforts to be environmentally sustainable, eight organisations received the ASEAN Energy Awards, making it the largest number bagged by Singapore since the Awards started in 2000. The Galen, an eight-year-old
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    • 261 32 SINGAPORE Interim findings from a benchmarking study for the food services and retail sectors show that Singapore is on par with major international cities, such as Hong Kong, in terms of sales per employee and sales per square foot. However, the higher sales
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    • 78 32 CHANNEL NEWSASIA The trial of former Romanian diplomat Silviu Ionescu resumes in Bucharest today. Singapore’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs says special envoy to Romania, Mr Anil Kumar Nayar, will attend the hearing. He will be accompanied by a representative from the Attorney-General’s Chambers. Ionescu is on
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    • 283 33  -  SHAFFIQ ALKHATIB SINGAPORE Months after his release from prison, Abdul Nasir Abdul Rahim got into trouble again when he threatened to slit a doctor’s throat on March 15. The 45-year-old jobless man also admitted to using abusive language on a
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    • 412 33  -  LEONG WEE KEAT weekeat@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE A lawyer, who has been practising for more than 24 years, was found by a disciplinary tribunal to have failed “to exercise the level of care one would have expected of a solicitor”. Mr Manickavasagam Karuppiah Pillai
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  • WORLD
    • 120 34 REUTERS More than 1.3 million people were advised to evacuate yesterday as Typhoon Roke approached Japan, threatening the industrial city of Nagoya in central Aichi prefecture. “The heavy rain is causing some rivers to overflow. I would like to ask people to
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    • 594 34  -  ANSLEY NG ansley@mediacorp.com.sg AP BANGKOK POST SINGAPORE In recent years, there has been a spike in the number of people charged with lese majeste, or insulting the monarchy, in Thailand. Many of the cases happened during the tenure of the Democrat-led administration,
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    • 270 35 AP NEW YORK— The Association of South-east Asian Nations (ASEAN) will weigh the opinion of pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi as it considers whether to invite Myanmar to chair the regional grouping in 2014, Indonesia’s Foreign Minister told The
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    • 105 35 A car exploded outside a high school in the Turkish capital yesterday, killing at least three people and wounding 15. The cause of the blast in central Ankara is not clear and police are reviewing evidence from the scene, but Interior Minister Idris Naim Sahin
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    • 174 35 BLOOMBERG Tobacco taxes in Japan should be raised until the average price of a pack of cigarettes is about ¥700 (S$11.55 75 per cent higher than the current level to encourage more people to quit smoking and help cut medical costs, Health
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    • 164 38 REUTERS SEOUL Irked by Britain’s refusal to use South Korea’s name for a sea off the east of the peninsula, Seoul is considering using an Argentine name for waters around the Britishruled Falkland Islands, a newspaper reported yesterday. The JoongAng Ilbo said
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    • 337 38 REUTERS CANBERRA Australia may have to resume dealing with asylum-seekers on its mainland because proposals to move their processing overseas are being blocked by the opposition and legal obstacles, Prime Minister Julia Gillard said yesterday. In a fresh blow to the minority government, opposition
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    • 245 38 AP KINGSTON A Chinese VicePremier and a 60-member delegation arrived in the Jamaican capital on Monday to sign two grants to boost the island’s development, as the Asian economic giant steps up its investments across the Caribbean. Vice-Premier Hui Liangyu said Beijing
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    • 86 39 A woman standing in front of her damaged house after four earthquakes struck the south-eastern part of Guatemala in less than two hours on Monday afternoon, causing at least one death. At least three people were reported missing. President Alvaro Colom urged calm after the quakes
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    • 416 39 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH NEW DELHI India is to unveil controversial new quotas guaranteeing government jobs and university places for Muslims and poor upper caste Brahmins despite fierce opposition from the middle classes. Opponents denounced the move as an attempt to buy
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    • 162 39 AP Seven scientists and other experts went on trial on manslaughter charges yesterday for allegedly failing to sufficiently warn residents before a devastating earthquake that killed 308 people in central Italy in 2009. The case is being closely watched by seismologists around
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    • 306 42 THE GUARDIAN LONDON Mr Rupert Murdoch’s News International has offered Milly Dowler’s family a £3 million (S$5.96 million) offer in an attempt to settle the phone-hacking case that led to the closure of the News of the World and the resignation of
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    • 182 42 THE GUARDIAN An 18-year-old law that prevented serving United States military personnel from disclosing that they were gay has been formally repealed. The controversial ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ law was abolished yesterday after its repeal was signed into law
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    • 256 42 AP The Palestinians brushed aside heated Israeli objections and a promised United States veto on Monday, vowing to submit a letter formally requesting full United Nations membership when Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas addresses the General Assembly. As the Palestinians edged closer to seeking statehood
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    • 145 44 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH A defunct National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) science satellite is expected to fall back to Earth on Friday, showering debris somewhere on the planet although scientists cannot predict exactly where. The 6.5-tonne Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite, or UARS
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    • 162 44 REUTERS NASA plans to spend US$1.6 billion (S$2 billion) over the next two years bolstering industry efforts to develop space taxis. The United States space agency will be looking for complete systems launchers, spaceships, mission operations and ground support to ferry
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    • 346 44 REUTERS BEIJING China will launch an experimental craft next week that will help pave the way for a planned space station a step that will bring it closer to the United States and Russia as a space power. The Tiangong 1, or “Heavenly
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    659 40  -  NICOLETTE ONG Last week, you watched The Big Shot 2 where the contestants paired up and took pictures of each other in their most glamorous outfits. Here, we zoom in on the eight hopefuls behind the lens and find out what draws them to photography. MEET THE
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    • 62 45 Graphic r U Visuals see w i.' X's 1 M s W:-< eiVTPSSIA vjs *l£t u xv m* V n fli sLiu Bolin stays still for up to 10 hours to be painted just for a single photo. mm *>. All in the name of art. Brand New Serleg_ 'I
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    • 428 46 AGENCIES BEIJING/HONG KONG Bank of China (BOC), a big market maker in China’s foreign exchange market, has stopped forwards and swaps trading with several European banks due to the unfolding debt crisis in Europe, sources with direct knowledge of the matter said yesterday.
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    • 300 46 AGENCIES BEIJING China, the largest foreign holder of United States Treasuries, will keep buying the sovereign debt, the official People’s Daily reported yesterday, citing government researchers. In an article about the reasons for China’s increased purchase of US Treasuries, the newspaper cited Ms Yan
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    • 175 47 DOW JONES SINGAPORE The Singapore dollar touched a six-month low against the US dollar in late Asia trade yesterday as global economic uncertainties kept investors away from riskier assets. Traders and analysts say market sentiment also took a hit after Standard Poor’s
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    • 56 47 TUESDAY CLOSE 2,780.84 (+0.86%) Monday 2,757.23 q 1.14% Friday 2,789.04 p 0.83% Thursday 2,765.95 p 0.97% Wednesday 2,739.35 p 0.37% TOP 5 BY VOLUME NAME VOL PRICE CHANGE GoldenAgr 114,222 $0.695 p 3.731% AusGroup 44,016 $0.370 p 12.12% Genting SP 42,897 $1.680 p 2.128% DMX Tech 42,461 $0.270 p
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    • 81 47 STOCK CALLS Neutral s$2.43 CIMB maintains its Neutral rating and S$2.63 target price on M1. House says it views M1’s decision to end its roaming partnership agreement with Vodafone at the end of the year as a negative development as it could shave M1’s core net profit by 5
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    • 231 47 Coca-Cola Singapore opened its S$72 million plant in Tuas yesterday to manufacture and supply concentrate to several markets in the Asia-Pacific region. The opening of the plant, which is expected to create up to 120 jobs, also marks Coca-Cola’s 75-year presence in Singapore.
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    • 234 48  -  RACHEL KELLY SINGAPORE The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has upgraded its net profit outlook for the global airlines industry this year to US$6.9 billion (S$8.7 billion), up from the US$4-billion profit projected in June. Asia-Pacific carriers are expected to report the largest net
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    • 336 48  -  WITH ADDITIONAL REPORTING BY LINETTE LIM LINETTE LIM BLOOMBERG SINGAPORE DBS Group Holdings will invest S$250 million to expand private banking over five years, including hiring in China and setting up an international desk focusing on the Middle East and emerging
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    • 293 49 DOW JONES BANGKOK A unit of Singapore’s Temasek Holdings yesterday agreed to sell its 22.9-per-cent stake in an Indonesian petrochemical maker for about US$318 million (S$403.4 million) to Thailand’s largest industrial conglomerate, Siam Cement. In a statement, Siam Cement said it
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    • 135 49 Global Logistic Properties (GLP) said yesterday that it has entered into a binding agreement with Chinese logistics firm Transfar Road-Port to form a joint venture. GLP will take a 60-per-cent stake in the new company, Zhejiang Transfar Logistics Base, which
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    • 89 49 Singapore Technologies Engineering (ST Engineering) said yesterday that its unit Vision Technologies Aerospace has agreed to acquire DRB Aviation Consultants (DRB Aviation) for US$1.45 million (S$1.84 million). The acquisition is part of ST Engineering’s moves to develop the group’s cabin interior engineering capability.
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    • 180 49 DOW JONES BG Singapore Gas Marketing has tied up 2.3 million metric tonnes of liquefied natural gas in nine term contracts to sell from the Singapore LNG terminal, company general manager Anthony Barker said yesterday. The company is also
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    • 539 50  -  JUNE YANG juneyang@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The closure of the iconic Borders outlet at Wheelock place last month seemed to signal the end of an era in book-buying, locally. But where one era ends, another begins. As discerning readers look elsewhere to satisfy their book-buying needs, online retailers such
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    • 591 51 The war between Apple and Samsung wages on AGENCIES SEOUL Samsung Electronics is considering legal action to ban sales of Apple’s new iPhone, a source familiar with the matter said yesterday, in what could be its strongest step to defend itself against claims
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    • 150 51 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH A new feature of Google+ will provide endorsement to searched products by celebrities. Google’s head of social advertising Christian Oestlien said the company is currently testing the feature, which will appear under paid search results. During his presentation at the
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    • 275 51 CASE-DSAS Public Forum Knowledge is Protection “Direct Selling in the 21 st Century” "A Consumer's Guide to Direct Selling" People who buy products from direct selling companies may not be aware of their basic consumer rights. Mr. Seah Seng Choon, Executive Director of the Consumers Association of Singapore guides us
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    • 438 52  -  CanonPhotoMarathon draws 2,078 shutterbugs in its ninth year NICOLETTE ONG nicoletteong@mediacorp.com.sg THE number of photography enthusiasts has grown exponentially over the last few years, and so has the number of photography competitions. One of Singapore’s largest one-day photography competitions is the annual Canon
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    • 177 53 It is not surprising to find that many have taken to photography as it offers a form of self-expression and creativity for people, especially those with special needs. Photography is a great way to help them express themselves and to keep them occupied for hours. Realising
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    • 653 54  -  Organisers of the sport’s only night race believe they have the right formula IAN DE COTTA ian@mediacorp.com.sg FORMULA 1 2011 SingTel Singapore Grand Prix SINGAPORE If the response for tickets for this year’s SingTel Formula 1 Singapore Grand Prix is the
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    • 296 54  -  LOW LIN FHOONG SINGAPORE British financial services providers Barclays have decided not to renew their contract with the Scottish Open. But event organisers of the prestigious Barclays Singapore Open are confident the US$6 million (S$7.6 million) tournament hosted at
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    • 594 55  -  IAN DE COTTA ian@mediacorp.com.sg FORMULA 1 2011 SINGTEL SINGAPOREGRAND PRIX SINGAPORE The store at Marina Square was almost empty, save for the sales assistants, all set to help him as he browsed through the racks. Three days before he took to the Marina
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    • 163 55 THE GUARDIAN The German has to be on the podium at the end of it all on Sunday night at Marina Bay to have a chance of taking the title, and only once this season has he not finished in the top
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    • 728 56  -  Turner works on her endurance and ability to finish strong, as they chase their Olympic dream LOW LIN FHOONG linfhoong@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE It was only Tao Li’s third official training session with new coach Ian Turner and, already, he had her working on her
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    • 311 56 AP LONDON Arsenal chief executive Ivan Gazidis insisted yesterday that Arsene Wenger’s (picture) future is not under threat, and dismissed fan complaints that the manager may have lost his touch following the club’s worst start to a season for 58 years. The Gunners
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    • 304 57 REUTERS LONDON The world’s leading players are “not afraid” of going on strike unless officials heed their calls to improve the crammed tennis calendar as soon as possible, Andy Murray has warned. For years, athletes such as 10-time Grand Slam champion Rafael
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    • 454 58 AGENCIES AUCKLAND Samoa centre Eliota Sapolu Fuimaono (picture) clearly went overboard with his Twitter tirade, when he compared the scheduling of his team’s rugby World Cup matches to the holocaust, but he did have a point. Fuimaono was lucky to emerge from the incident unscathed,
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    • 209 58 AP 2011 RUGBY WORLD CUP, POOL C Italy 53 Russia 17 NELSON Wing partners Tommaso Benvenuti and Giulio Toniolatti scored twice each in a nine-try team performance as Italy ran riot to beat Russia 53-17 in a Pool C clash at the Rugby World Cup yesterday.
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      1026 2  -  Zoe Saldana packs some serious firepower in her new movie GENEVIEVE LOH genevieveloh@mediacorp.com.sg SHE was a classically trained ballerina who got her silver screen break playing a surprise, surprise dancer in 2000’s Center Stage. Between being the smart and sassy eye candy in 2002’s Drumline, as the love
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      194 3  -  GENEVIEVE LOH THE MUPPETS: “It’s time to play the music. It’s time to light the lights. It’s time to meet the muppets on the Muppet Show tonight! Boom boom boom boom!” All our favourites characters from the wonderful world of Jim Henson are back for this first Muppets
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    • 395 4  -  MOVIE REVIEW: FRIGHT NIGHT NC-16, 106MIN GENEVIEVE LOH EVEN when viewed through nostalgic goggles, the original 1985 Fright Night was a bonafide member of the quintessential perfect ’80s vampire flick genre. Hilarious, campy with just the fang-tastic amount of shock-and-scare tactics, it more than earned
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    • 437 5 MOVIE REVIEW: I DON’T KNOW HOW SHE DOES IT PG, 89MIN THE DAILY TELEGRAPH IN THE’30s and ’40s, Hollywood was very good at making what it used to call “women’s pictures” a term not so much derisive as descriptive of films that were designed
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  • ENTERTAINMENT
    • 584 6 Barbs at Charlie Sheen’s expense in season premiere of Two And A Half Men AP TWO And A Half Men creator Chuck Lorre introduced Ashton Kutcher as a new star of television’s most popular comedy on Monday, and gained a measure of revenge against
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    • 679 7  -  The ongoing retrospective on Chng SeokTin is long overdue but essential Mayo Martin mayo@mediacorp.com.sg AFTER an astounding 26 solo shows and participating in more than 100 group exhibitions, the highly respected and prolific artist Chng SeokTin finally has a Singapore retrospective, and it’s on at the
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    • 256 8 Fan queues 29 hours to get first copy of Gears Of War 3 in Singapore THE exhaustion shone on his face, casting a war-fatigued sheen. William Ten, 22, a student from Nanyang Polytechnic, had been standing in queue for 29 hours. At 8pm on Monday,Ten became one
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    • 249 12 ON MEDIACORP WEDNESDAY NIGHT MOVIE: NACHO LIBRE Channel 5, 10.30pm Nacho is a monastery cook who spends his day feeding orphans and being overlooked by the monastery. When Sister Encarnación arrives at the monastery, Nacho realises that the only way to win her affection and to save the children will
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    • 652 12 6.00AM Films Stars Asia 6.30 AM Live! 9.00 The Martha Stewart Show VI 10.00 The Doctors 11.00 America’s Funniest Home Videos XX 11.30 Lonely Planet Bluelist: Best In Asia NOON Under One Roof V 12.30PM Polo Boys 1.00 Triple Nine IV 6.00AM Frontline 6.30 Get It Right 7.00 Good Morning
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    • 262 12 ON MEDIACORP LOVE Channel 8, 7pm Jinsheng forgives Meiyu as he believes that Meiyu is repentant. He even asks Meiyu to keep the bar that he has given to her. Tang Zhen’s father is absolutely furious when he learns that Shixian only treats Tang Zhen as his younger sister. DANGEROUS
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