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    12 1 TODAY on Sunday INCORPORATING INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY October 16, 2011 www.todayonline.com MICA(P) 199/02/2011
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      878 1 THE GLAMOUR OF POLO, SPORT OF KINGS the finer life 6 AXA’S ASIA-PACIFIC VICE-CHAIRMAN JOHN DACEY the st regis perspectives 8 MORE CCTV CAMS IN THE SUBURBS hot news 13 FOR THIS ROCK BAND, PERSONALITY OUTSHINES DISABILITY face in the crowd 10 ‘OCCUPY’ PROTESTS HIT ASIA, EUROPE hot news 15
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    Lock icon Red granny panties and ‘grey crime’ jails
    1423 2  -  From robot nurses and toilets that analyse one’s poo, to burial clubs and sex for seniors, Japan is finding novel ways to serve its growing grey population Sunday special venessa lee correspondent todayonsunday@mediacorp.com.sg When Harajuku girls grow old, do they shop at Grandma’s
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    Lock icon At 86, still fishing and farming
    642 3  -  VENESSA LEE INTAKAHAMA TAKAHAMA (Fukui prefecture) Talk about active ageing. In the coastal town of Takahama, Mr Sekitarou Sabui (picture) goes fishing every morning, handling his 7m-long boat on his own and selling his catch at the market. In the afternoon, the 86-year-old, who
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    Lock icon High on horseplay
    879 6  -  The recent Shanghai Tang women’s polo tournament shows what the ‘sport of kings’ is all about glitz, glamour and prestige thefinerlife cheow xinyi todayonsunday@mediacorp.com.sg There’s a reason that polo is called the sport of kings. For Singapore Polo Club president Leon Chu, hobnobbing with royalty comes with
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    Lock icon Life and death matters
    1088 8 Desp te a strongs vings ethos, Asians industry, AXA vice-chairman the perspectives continu to be under-insured —which akes for grea po ential to g ow the for Asia Pacific John Dacey tells editor-at-large Conrad Raj For John R Dacey, life is one of constant move as
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      40 9 What John Dacey had at Yan Ting Hong Kong Dim Sum Trio Double-boiled Bamboo Pith Consomme with Three Treasures Fried Sea Perch Fillet with Spiced Mango Sauce Braised Homemade Spinach Beancurd with Mushroom Sauce Refreshing Mango and Pomelo Soup $70
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    958 10  -  When it comes to rock band Rudely Interrupted, the personality outshines the disability faceinthecrowd christopher toh christopher toh deputy features editor todayonsunday@mediacorp.com.sg They sound like any indie rock band. Unlike other bands though, five of the six members in Melbourne-based Rudely Interrupted have a range of medical disabilities,
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    Shame’s a teacher for parents too
    753 11  -  parenttoparent lee seow ser todayonsunday@mediacorp.com.sg lee Seow Ser is a mother of two young boys. Iread an interesting chapter in a parenting book recently and came away thinking it might not be a bad thing after all for a child to feel shame. This
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    Lock icon Whisper sweet somethings
    783 12  -  speakeasy georgina chang todayonsunday@mediacorp.com.sg Georgina Chang is the senior creative director for Lush and 987FM, and the co-host for Lush Mornings on Thursdays 7-10am. I’m a very visual person and not vulnerable to sweet talk and flattery in general. However, when a guy I’ve just started dating
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      Lock icon More CCTV cams in the suburbs
      513 13 S’pore police introducing a host of measures to deter and solve crime SINGAPORE The police will introduce more closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras in local neighbourhoods to help prevent and solve crime. A new police land division will also be set up in Woodlands, along
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      New laws against harmful online conduct?
      276 13  -  TEO XUANWEI SINGAPORE New laws may be drawn up against harmful and unlawful online conduct as the proliferation of new media brings about new challenges to the rule of law, the Ministry of Law (MinLaw) said yesterday. Outlining its priorities over the next five
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      Lock icon G-20 to consider IMF resources
      389 13 AGENCIES PARIS The finance chiefs of the Group of 20 rich and developing nations said yesterday they will make sure the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has the resources it needs to help stabilise the world economy. That commitment is a hint that the world’s leading
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      Lock icon China’s Wen pledges stable yuan to protect exporters
      352 14 REUTERS SHANGHAI Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said China’s exchange rate would remain stable to protect exporters, the official Xinhua news agency reported. Mr Wen said yesterday that “a basically stable exchange rate” would help maintain a steady level of exports and enhance
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      Lock icon Obama seeks to put onus on Republicans over jobs
      283 14 REUTERS WASHINGTON President Barack Obama urged Republicans yesterday to stop picking “ideological fights” and focus instead on job-creation efforts as he pressed Congress to begin voting next week piece by piece on his defeated jobs package. With an eye to the
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      Lock icon US drone strike ‘kills Al Qaeda media chief, Al Awlaki’s son’
      213 14 AP SANAA An American drone strike in southern Yemen has killed seven Al Qae-da-linked militants, including the media chief for the group’s Yemeni branch and the son of a prominent United States-born cleric slain in a similar attack last
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      NUS BUSINESS SCHOOL RANKED AMONG TOP 10 OUTSIDE US
      128 14 The National University of Singapore (NUS) Business School is one of the world’s best outside the United States, according to The Princeton Review. The school said in a statement yesterday that the education services company put its MBA programme among the
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      Lock icon US BISHOP CHARGED FOR NOT REPORTING PORN ON PRIEST’S COMPUTER
      159 14 AP The first United States bishop criminally charged with sheltering an abusive clergyman has been indicted on a charge of failing to protect children, after he and his diocese waited five months to tell the police about hundreds of images
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      Lock icon Ten provinces in Thailand still at ‘critical risk’ from flooding: Yingluck
      227 15 AGENCIES BANGKOK Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra said 10 provinces in the country are still at “critical risk” from flooding, and the authorities are widening canals to protect Bangkok and the main international airport. “The government has to protect
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      Lock icon ‘Occupy Wall Street’ hits Asia
      387 15 AGENCIES HONG KONG People throughout the Asia-Pacific rallied yesterday to protest the widening gap between rich and poor as part of a planned day of demonstrations in dozens of cities across the world against the global financial system. Most events in Asia drew modest numbers
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      A strong, people-centric armed forces
      264 15 SINGAPORE Besides upgrading and adding new weapons to its arsenal, the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) will continue “to rely on the dynamism, will and professionalism” of its servicemen. It intends to enhance training methods, curriculum and learning environment, and provide fulfilling careers and opportunities for
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      Vital for Singapore to remain cohesive, alert and nimble, says MFA
      301 15 SINGAPORE With the international environment “becoming more unpredictable and fluid”, few countries are as exposed to the world as Singapore. Thus, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) said yesterday in its addendum to the President’s address, it is vital
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  • SPORTS
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      Lock icon Hernandez steals Gerrard’s thunder
      722 16 Liverpool captain scores on his return to the starting line-up but Reds end up disappointed AGENCIES ENGLISH PREMIERSHIP Liverpool 1 Man United 1 LIVERPOOL It may not have lived up to Sir Alex Ferguson’s billing as the greatest match-up in English football but Liverpool’s draw at
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      Lock icon City go top in style
      466 17 Mancini’s boys run riot against Villans to become league leaders THE DAILY TELEGRAPH ENGLISH PREMIERSHIP Man City 4 Aston Villa 1 LONDON Manchester City claimed top spot in the Premier League ahead of next Sunday’s derby against Manchester United by emphatically ending Aston Villa’s unbeaten
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      Lock icon Norwich halt Swansea’s revival as Bolton end losing streak at Wigan
      538 17 THE GUARDIAN LONDON Anthony Pilkington scored twice as Norwich halted Swansea City’s Premiership revival with a 3-1 victory at Carrow Road yesterday. Forty-eight seconds was all it took for Norwich to take the lead against Swansea. David Fox’s shot
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      Lock icon The calm before the storm
      684 18 Kiwis, Aussies say they’re ready for their biggest test yet AP AUCKLAND Australia and New Zealand have wound up careful preparations for a Rugby World Cup semi-final which may be the biggest clash either team have played and the high point of a rugby test
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      Lock icon No love for the French
      514 18  -  TAN YO-HINN yohinn@mediacorp.com.sg AUCKLAND Fans did not hold back their disbelief, anger and even disgust after Wales’ dream of winning the 2011 Rugby World Cup was crushed by France yesterday. The French may have overcome incredible odds, including internal strife, to reach the final, but
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      Lock icon Sloppy Les Bleus stumble into final as Welsh see red
      509 19 RUGBY WORLD CUP, SEMI-FINAL France 9 Wales 8 AP AUCKLAND This time France held onto a 9-8 lead in a Rugby World Cup semi-final to squeak into the championship match. Wales seemed to have buried themselves when captain Sam Warburton
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      33 19 Welcome Beck To Redio Lush Mornings Weekdays 7 IOam I ft I I f W4 w with Anita Kapoor Jacelyn Tay Glenda Chong Hamish Brown Q_j Georgina Chang (ST Joe Augustin MediaCorp 99.5FM
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    Lock icon ‘Out there’ No Longer In Reach
    634 1  -  LENS TOM BRADY (El)c NeUi Jlork (times For centuries, climbers and explorers pushed their limits, all the while knowing that a shift in the weather, a wrong turn, a twisted ankle or an error in judgment could mean death. But these days a rescue
    (El)c NeUi Jlork (times; ANNIE TRITT FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES  -  634 words
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    Lock icon If Only It Were a Depression
    1228 1  -  NEWS ANALYSIS NEWS ANALYSIS By DAVID LEONHARDT (El)c NeUi JJork (times UNDERNEATH THE MISERY of the Great Depression, the United States economy was making enormous strides during the 1930s. Television and nylon stockings were invented. Refrigerators and washing machines turned into mass-market products. Railroads
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  • WORLD TRENDS
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      Lock icon Failures That Point The Way Forward
      719 2  -  intelligenCe/roger ROGER COHEN el)c JfrUt Mark Ehucs London I was born the same year as Steve Jobs. We were both major aficionados of the Whole Earth Catalog, a counterculture guide to alternative living that Jobs once called “Google in paperback form 35 years before
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      Lock icon Pedestrians Squeezed In a City of Cyclists
      536 2  -  By JOHN TAGLIABUE El)c JfrUt llork Shu css COPENHAGEN Mikael le Dous has it in for bikers. Mr. le Dous, 56, a power plant engineer, rides a bike himself, as do his children, though he also has a car. He just wishes bikers
      El)c JfrUt llork Shu css; JOHAN SPANNER FOR THE INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE  -  536 words
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      Lock icon Patterns of Abuse Stir Effort to Protect Maids
      616 3  -  By JASON DePARLE EljcJscUt Jlork (Emm WASHINGTON When governments from around the globe passed a treaty in June to protect domestic workers, labor experts called it a surprising breakthrough for millions of vulnerable and exploited women. Two days later, Saudi Arabia, a
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      Lock icon An Arms Race in Drones
      820 3  -  news~analysis By SCOTT SHANE EljcJscUt Jlork (Emm WASHINGTON At the Zhuhai air show in southeastern China last November, Chinese companies startled some Americans by unveiling 25 different models of remotely controlled aircraft and showing video animation of a missile-armed drone taking out an armored vehicle
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      Lock icon Traveling Bank Tellers Are Aiding India’s Poor
      875 4  -  By VIKAS BAJAJ Sljc iXctu JJork Ehncs KOLAD, India—Time was, banks employed armies of human tellers. Later, they replaced many of them with automated teller machines. Now, India, along with countries like Brazil, Mexico and Kenya, is using a hybrid of the two
      Sljc iXctu JJork Ehncs; KAINAZ AMARIA FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES  -  875 words
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      Lock icon A Time of Healing for Haitian Divers
      619 4  -  By BRENT McDONALD Sljc JfcUf Jlork ehncs CÔTES DES ARCADINS, Haiti It was a clear morning, perfect for diving. A dozen volunteers, all excited, some a bit apprehensive, donned flippers and masks and shimmied into the warm sea, eager to join a team
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      Lock icon Banks, Not People, Prospering in China
      1394 7  -  By DAVID BARBOZA El)e ;NcUt JJork Simcs Jilin City, China the value of Chinese families’ nest eggs is shrinking, through no fault of their own. Under an economic system that favors state-run banks and companies over wage earners, China’s government keeps the interest rate
      El)e ;NcUt JJork Simcs; SHIHO FUKADA FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES  -  1,394 words
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      Lock icon Declining Wealth
      74 7 El)e ;XcUt Jlork Eimc‘1 Despite China’s rapid growth in recent years, personal income and spending has declined in relation to the overall economy, as state-run businesses have taken precedence over household wealth. Unlike Americans, Chinese households put a higher portion of their income into savings even though the
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      Lock icon For a Hefty Price, Privatized Detention
      793 8  -  By NINA BERNSTEIN ®(]c JscUt JJork ehucs A handful of multinational security companies have been turning crackdowns on immigration into a global industry. Especially in Britain, the United States and Australia, governments have looked to such companies to expand detention and show voters they
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      Lock icon At War With Critics of the King
      548 8  -  BANGKOK JOURNAL By THOMAS FULLER eljc Jfctu JJork ehucs BANGKOK Down a maze of corridors in a government complex here is a windowless room where computer technicians scour the Internet for photos, articles, Facebook postings anything that might be deemed offensive to King
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      197 5 Now on BlackBerry PlayBook Today New Parliament to start on October 10 Norway PM to politicians; Think before I you speak Follow us on Train crowding expected to ease with full opening of Circle Line: Lui BY HETTY MUSFIRAH ABDUL KHAMID 02 AUG 2011 0600 HRS SINGAPORE Relief is heading
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      1793 9 AUTHOR, PUNDIT, LOVER OF LIFE the St Regis perspectives 8-9 lelivers news you Today, on Saturday I Navy She has a busy social life filled with lunches and dinners with girlfriends, family and yes, it is true, the many suitors who want her attention. NOT JUST LUXURY TRAVEL BUT BESPOKE
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      Lock icon Taming the Last Frontier of International Commerce
      728 10  -  By AZAM AHMED, MICHAEL J. DE LA MERCED Sljc ?Cc\u Jlork ehucs Burdened by slowing consumer spending in the United States, WalMart Stores sought another jolt to its sales. The world’s biggest retailer turned its eyes to a continent where it has little
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      Lock icon In the Middle East, Start-Ups Seek Angel Investors
      553 10  -  By SARA HAMDAN Sljc ?Cc\u Jlork ehucs While venture capital firms have existed in the Mideast for more than a decade, they have generally been offshoots of private equity firms. Typically, they deployed large amounts of capital to a few companies already
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      Lock icon A Clinton Is on Board, But Why?
      603 11  -  ESSAY STEVEN M. DAVIDOFF EljcjXhu Jlork Smncs Chelsea Clinton as a corporate director? Really? Ms. Clinton was appointed last month to the board of IAC/InterActiveCorp, the Internet media conglomerate controlled by Barry Diller. For her efforts, Ms. Clinton will be paid about $300,000
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      Lock icon India, Newly Confident, Looks Abroad
      673 11  -  By VIKAS BAJAJ Eljc'NVut Jlcrk Smncs MUMBAI, India When the Ssangyong Motor company, a South Korean sport utility vehicle maker, came up for sale twice in the last seven years, the Indian auto company Mahindra Mahindra passed both times. Last year, Mahindra was finally ready
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  • SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
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      Lock icon Discovering the Ingenuity of the Ancient Slime Mold
      763 12  -  By CARL ZIMMER eljcJScUt JJork Stines Scientists have known of slime molds for centuries, but only now are they really starting to understand them. DNA analysis shows that the evolution of slime mold reaches back about a billion years. Slime molds may
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      Lock icon One Family May Unravel Alzheimer’s Disease
      504 12  -  By PAM BELLUCK, SALVADOR RODRIGUEZ St)c ;Nc\u JJork Stines In September, four family members traveled from Medellin, Colombia, to the Banner Alzheimer’s Institute in Phoenix, Arizona, along with eight distant relatives. There are many more where they came from, about 5,000 all members of
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      Lock icon A Vaccine to Counter Addictions
      883 13  -  By DOUGLAS QUENQUA Sljc Jfrut jlork ehncs SAN DIEGO Imagine a vaccine against smoking: People would light up a cigarette and feel nothing. Or a vaccine against cocaine, one that would prevent addicts from enjoying the drug’s high. Though neither is imminent, scientists are at
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      Lock icon Testing the Limits Of Compassion
      633 13  -  news~analysis By BENEDICT CAREY Sljc Jfrut jlork ehncs About the only thing falling faster than consumer confidence and the Greek economy would be the global compassion index, if such a measure existed. Consider just a few recent news items: Americans are balking at extending unemployment
      Sljc Jfrut jlork ehncs; BARBARA P. FERNANDEZ FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES  -  633 words
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  • LIVING: MAKING A HOME
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      Lock icon Shutting the Doors on Uninvited and Rent-Free Squatters
      764 14  -  By SARAH LYALL el)c Jfair Jjork Ehncs LONDON Arriving at his supposedly empty rental property just outside London recently, Sam Chima, a housing lawyer, was dismayed to find a newly installed lock on the front door and a newly installed stranger glaring
      el)c Jfair Jjork Ehncs; ANDREW TESTA FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES  -  764 words
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      Lock icon A Building Looks Good While Also Doing Good
      465 14  -  ARCHITECTURE REVIEW MICHAEL KIMMELMAN eljc iNVtu Jlork Ehncs Via Verde, the subsidized housing development now rising in what used to be one of the worst stretches of the South Bronx neighborhood in New York, makes as good an argu- ment as any
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      623 15  -  By JOHN TAGLIABUE Sljc Jfrtu jjork Elmcs VERNIER, Switzerland Alexa Magalhaes has no plans to move from the apartment building where she has lived for the last six years. As one of the largest such buildings on earth, it provides for just about
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