Today, 25 October 2011, Afternoon Edition

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1 14 Today
  • 40 1 TODAY MICA (P) 031/10/2011 A PUBLICATION OF NEWS HOTLINE 6822 Tuesday October 25, 2011 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking AFTERNOON EDITION MICA (P) 031/10/2011 A PUBLICATION OF NEWS HOTLINE 6822 2268 Tuesday October 25, 2011 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking
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  • 677 1  -  Republic safe from shortages because of strong S$, stockpiles and diversified sources TEO XUANWEI xuanwei@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The strong Singapore dollar, existing stockpiles of rice and diversified sources will buffer Singaporeans against the “serious food shortages” that the United Nations (UN) has warned will hit
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  • 393 1 THE NEW YORK TIMES VATICAN CITY The Vatican called yesterday for an overhaul of the world’s financial systems, and once again proposed the establishment of a supranational authority to oversee the global economy, saying it was needed to bring more democratic and ethical
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  • HOT NEWS
    • 529 2 AGENCIES BEIJING China’s manufacturing sector is set to expand in October for the first time in four months, snapping the longest contraction since 2009, after a preliminary index of purchasing managers soothed fears of an abrupt slowdown in the world’s second-largest economy.
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    • 557 3 AGENCIES BANGKOK Thai floodwaters spilled into northern Bangkok yesterday after armed men stopped workers from building a sandbag levee and a water gate broke, elevating concerns the deluge will spread to inner parts of the capital. Water surged onto a major street
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    • 264 4  -  YVONNE CHAN WITH AGENCY REPORTS SINGAPORE Singapore Airlines (SIA) and Australia’s Qantas may each have a new airline by the end of the year and both may be based here. With SIA encroaching on Qantas’ home territory through a network sharing deal with
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    • 495 4  -  MILLET ENRIQUEZ emelita@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Channel NewsAsia has launched a regional benchmarking system that will allow businesses to measure themselves against other similar trades. Developed in partnership with Deloitte Analytics, GreenA Consultants and the Singapore Management University (SMU), the online benchmarking system is for three areas
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    • 478 6 AP ERCIS (Turkey) Four people were pulled alive from the rubble yesterday when one managed to call for help on his mobile phone after a 7.2-magnitude quake levelled buildings and killed some 270 people in eastern Turkey. Dozens of people were trapped in mounds
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    • 141 6 Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has sent a condolence message to his Turkish counterpart, Mr RecepTayyip Erdogan, after a powerful earthquake hit the eastern part of the country on Sunday. In his message, Mr Lee said: “I am deeply saddened
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    • 351 8 AGENCIES BRUSSELS China may turn out to be a key player in resolving Europe’s debt crisis as euro zone policy-makers race to find a wider solution ahead of tomorrow’s deadline. The mostly likely method for leveraging the euro zone’s €440 billion (S$773.8 billion) bailout
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    • 476 8 AGENCIES BRUSSELS The euro zone debt crisis threatens to drive a rift between non-euro and euro nations, with Britain warning that outsiders could find themselves sidelined. As the 17 euro zone countries build closer economic ties in response to the crisis, British
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  • COMMENT&ANALYSIS
    • 916 10  -  It is driving the wedge between the country’s large surplus of capital and formal financing for its SMEs YAO YANG Yao Yang is director of the China Center for Economic Research at Peking University. PROJECT SYNDICATE Even in the best of times, it is difficult for
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    • 847 12  -  Products from forced labour enter the global economy, and countries need to cooperate to nail traffickers PAUL GILFEATHER gilfeather@mediacorp.com.sg Paul Gilfeather is the principal correspondent at Today. I am looking into the eyes of Mr Siddharth Kara (picture), the former investment banker who
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    • 1155 14  -  Asian metropolises are, for the first time, in position to define the standards and vision of what it means to be modern MISHA PETROVIC Associate Professor Misha Petrovic is with the Department of Sociology, National University of Singapore. In 2008, for the first time
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  • VOICES
    • 75 16 Could the Monetary Authority of Singapore, being the licensing body for insurers, clarify whether insurance companies are allowed to refuse reimbursement of medical costs when the amount is paid through Medisave? Such claims have been rejected with the remarks, “any payment made through Medisave is not claimable”,
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    • 555 16  -  I SAY Liew Kai Khiun The writer is an assistant professor at a local university. The Land Transport Authority’s plan to open a major road through Bukit Brown Cemetery, which is of eco-heritage value, has raised debates between conservationists and developmentalists. One sees
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    • 268 18  -  Letter from Yee Yao Zeng I DISAGREE with the letter “Criticise only when offering alternatives? Be open then” (Oct 24), which wrongly uses a contractor-client analogy to describe the People’s Action PartyWorkers’ Party relationship. A project team relationship is a more appropriate
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    • 225 18  -  Letter from Marco Wong Tjia Ming FOR the past few years, I have been shocked by the amount of debris and loose items on our roads. It will take a major accident before the authorities do something, I thought. I was finally cursed with one
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    • 238 18  -  Letter from Theresa Tan Leng Leng THERE have been reports in recent months of foreign doctors being brought in to meet the demand in medical care from the growing population, which has swelled disproportionately to the number of graduates from
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 267 20  -  CAROLYN QUEK carolynquek@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Things are looking bright for Singapore’s tourism and travel industry, going by latest visitor arrival and airport passenger figures. International visitor arrival figures for the second quarter of this year from April to June stood at 3.2
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    • 286 20  -  ESTHER NG estherng@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Setting cooling pipes at 45-degree angles instead of conventional right angles. Using fresh air and ceiling fans to cool the classrooms. Installing pipes before the walls were erected. These were among the measures taken by the United World College South East Asia
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    • 351 21  -  ALVINA SOH alvinasoh@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE A doctor’s five-minute toilet break after performing a liposuction procedure came under the spotlight at a coroner’s inquiry yesterday. The procedure caused the death of Mr Franklin Heng, 44, who was then the chief executive officer
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    • 341 21  -  TANYA FONG SINGAPORE A Singapore permanent resident who fractured his arms and right leg in an accident involving a van was found to be “75 per cent” liable for the accident, a judge ruled yesterday. Hence, he is only
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    • 234 22 CHANNEL NEWSASIA SINGAPORE A new Design, Build and Sell Scheme (DBSS) project, Trivelis, will be launched this week at Clementi Avenue 4, about five minutes from Clementi Mall and the MRT station. Its developer, EL Development, has released indicative prices for
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    • 257 22  -  ONG DAI LIN SINGAPORE The Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) and the Land Transport Authority (LTA) have partnered the Singapore Hokkien Huay Kuan, Peranakan Association Singapore and Singapore Heritage Society to document graves that will be affected by the new road to be built
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  • WORLD
    • 401 24 His will urges them to continue the resistance, fight foreign aggressors AGENCIES TRIPOLI The ousted Libyan leader, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, called on his followers to fight on and remember their “heroes” in a will that has appeared on a loyalist website as the debate continued
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    • 206 24 AP HONG KONG The highest court here refused yesterday to hear a feng shui master’s claim he was the rightful beneficiary of Nina Wang’s fortune, leaving him facing charges that he forged the will of his late lover, once Asia’s richest woman. The decision
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    • 401 26 REUTERS BEIJING Fourteen years after Beijing’s planned satellite city of Tongzhou rose from a small town with many scattered fields, it still lacks decent schools, hospitals and entertainment complexes that residents need to make it feel like home. Few of the people for
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    • 307 27 AP TUNIS Tunisian authorities counted votes yesterday in carefully watched elections, as moderate Islamists said their party appeared to be ahead in Tunisia’s first free election since an uprising earlier this year that set off the Arab Spring revolts. Most forecasts point
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    • 188 27 AGENCIES LONDON WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said yesterday that financial problems may lead to the closure of the notorious secret-spilling site at the end of this year. The whistleblowing website set up by Mr Assange said in a statement yesterday that it will
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    • 173 27 AP Swiss voters backed moderate parties in their general election on Sunday, and the nationalist Swiss People’s Party lost ground after mounting a campaign heavy on anti-immigrant sentiment. The nationalists were projected to take 25.9 per cent of the vote for the lower
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    • 165 28 AP A United States government watchdog says a State Department programme to train Iraqi police could become a “bottomless pit” for American money. The report, released yesterday by the US Special Inspector-General for Iraq Reconstruction, said the flagship
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    • 316 28 AGENCIES NAIROBI A grenade attack on a bar in the centre of Nairobi early yesterday wounded 13 people, Kenyan police said, an incident that comes as Nairobi battles Al Qaeda-linked militants in neighbouring Somalia. Capital News quoted a witness who said a man
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    • 155 30 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH NEW YORK A New Jersey mayor has become embroiled in a bizarre sex scandal after someone claiming to be a disgruntled male prostitute posted pictures of him, sleeping in only a pair of briefs, on the Internet. Mr Chris Myers, the
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    • 224 30 AGENCIES BUENOS AIRES Argentina’s centre-leftist President, Ms Cristina Fernandez (picture), won a landslide re-election victory on Sunday as voters credited her unconventional policies for a long economic boom. With nearly 97 per cent of polling stations reporting nationwide, Ms Fernandez had nearly 54 per
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    • 131 30 BLOOMBERG The United States will this week dismantle the last of its Cold War-era B53 nuclear bombs, the most destructive weapon in the country’s arsenal, the National Nuclear Safety Administration (NNSA) said yesterday. The 4,535kg bomb is the size of a minivan
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    • 193 31 AP Apple is allowing the general public to get a look at a heartfelt and starstudded memorial service it held for employees to celebrate the life of Steve Jobs at its Cupertino headquarters last week. Apple posted a link on its website late
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    • 515 31 THE NEW YORK TIMES NEW YORK Armed with neuroscience, self-analysis and common sense, some of New York City’s most competitive high schools famed for their Marine-like mentality when it comes to homework have begun to lighten the load for fear of crushing
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  • BUSINESS
    • 58 32 MONDAY CLOSE 11,913.60 (+0.89%) Friday 11,808.80 p 2.31% Thursday 11,541.80 p 0.32% Wednesday 11,504.60 q 0.63% Tuesday 11,577.00 p 1.58% NYSETOP 5 BY VOLUME NAME VOL PRICE CHANGE Bank of America 216.1m $6.72 p 4.02% Sprint Nextel 72.6m $2.69 q 2.89% Ford 68.3m $12.51 p 2.04% General Electric 66.8m
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    • 13 32 Ç FTSE100 5,548.06 (+1.08%) Ç Ç DAX 6,055.27 (+1.41%) CAC40 3,220.46 (+1.55%)
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    • 11 32 US$1 s$1.263 US$1 £0.625 US$1 €0.718 US$1 ¥76.108 US$1 A$0.955
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    • OVERNIGHT
      • 61 32 Lifted by corporate news Stocks rose, as a flurry of merger activity and strong earnings from Caterpillar boosted investor sentiment and kept the three-week rally intact. Adding to the upbeat tone was a batch of M&A activity in the healthcare and tech sectors involving deals totalling more than
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      • 68 32 Spread dips to US$20 US crude surged to its highest level in more than two months, outpacing gains in Brent, as volatile trade in key spreads stole the limelight from upbeat Chinese data and optimism over the euro zone. US December crude rose US$3.87 to settle at US$91.27 a
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    • 404 32 AFTERNOON REUTERS BRUSSELS Outgoing European Central Bank president Jean-Claude Trichet called for euro zone authorities to have greater powers over the economic policies of the bloc’s errant members, setting out a vision for a closer-knit currency area. Speaking yesterday as euro zone
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    • 264 34 SINGAPORE The sovereign debt crisis in Europe may lead to European banks retreating from Asia but they will not be missed for long, according to Mr Warren Hogan, the chief economist at Australia and New Zealand Banking Group (ANZ). This
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    • 194 34  - Eu Yan Sang CEO is Ernst Young top entrepreneur in Singapore AVELYN NG avelynngsy@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Mr Richard Eu, group CEO of Eu Yan Sang International, was named Ernst Young Entrepreneur Of The Year 2011 for Singapore yesterday. Mr Eu also won in the traditional healthcare category. He will represent Singapore
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    • 251 35 BLOOMBERG BEIJING China has jailed two officials for leaking classified economic data in its highest-profile crackdown, as the government warned it will “strike hard” against disclosures that enable insider trading in the world’s third-largest equities market. Wu Chaoming, a researcher with
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    • 339 35 BLOOMBERG ZURICH Swiss banks are likely to settle a sweeping United States probe of offshore tax evasion by paying billions of dollars and handing over the names of thousands of Americans who have secret accounts, according to two people familiar with the
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    • 142 35 REUTERS NEW YORK The United States is likely to suffer the loss of its triple-A credit rating from another major rating agency by the end of this year due to concerns over the deficit, Bank of America Merrill Lynch forecasts. The
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  • 575 32  -  When Canadian Aamir Ameer Ghani came to Singapore to work, he never thought that he would meet the love of his life here SINGAPORE, MY HOME With support from NIC FIVE years ago, if anyone had told Aamir Ameer Ghani that he would find
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  • DIGITAL
    • 772 36 Producing objects of desire without a price premium over competitors has proven a winning combination THE NEW YORK TIMES NEW YORK Something unexpected has happened at Apple, once known as the tech industry’s high-price leader. Over the last several years it began beating
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  • 1299 37  -  Used in moderation, digital tools can facilitate even improve family interaction, communication and understanding. By SHERALYN TAY It is ironic that even as mobile computing, social media and instant messaging boost connectivity with work, people and the world, these can encroach on precious family time. But technology
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  • SPORTS
    • 323 38  -  LOW LIN FHOONG SINGAPORE Kerry Tan, 16, and Cheryl Tang, 14, have little memory of the last Women’s World Cup held here in 2002. But the duo are aiming to have a tournament to remember, when the US$150,000 (S$189,700) Volkswagen 2011 Women’s World
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    • 609 38 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH AFTERNOON LATEST MANCHESTER Mario Balotelli has defiantly insisted that he does not care if he has a reputation as a trouble-maker. The Italian forward produced arguably his best performance in a Manchester City shirt as Manchester United were destroyed 6-1 at
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    • 197 39 THE GUARDIAN Javier Hernandez has signed a new five-year contract which will keep him at Manchester United until the end of the 2015-16 season. The Mexico international made a stunning impact after arriving in England last season, with 20 goals in all competitions, and United
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    • 343 39 Anton Ferdinand will discuss alleged racist slur with manager Warnock AGENCIES LONDON Anton Ferdinand will meet Queens Park Rangers manager Neil Warnock today before deciding whether to formally complain over an alleged racist slur made by England captain John Terry during Sunday’s clash at
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    • 175 39 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH Sven-Goran Eriksson was last night dismissed from his £1 million-a-year (S$2 million) job at Leicester City as Martin O’Neill emerged as the leading contender to return to his former club. Just hours after conceding to his squad that he was amazed to still
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    • 458 40  -  PHILIP GOH philipgoh@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Dr Gabor Salamon (picture) has an impressive record training some of the world’s top fencers, but the Hungarian is perhaps facing his sternest challenge in Singapore. The 62-year-old, who has coached Germans Arnd Schmitt and Britta Heidemann to world ti-
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    • 157 38 Volkswagen 2011 Women’s World Cup contest Today is giving away five pairs of season passes to the Volkswagen 2011 Women’s World Cup. Visit our Facebook page at www.facebook.com/Todaysports, provide a caption for our daily table tennis photo and the one with the most “likes” wins. 24-hour fast relief night Round-the-clock
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    • 393 39 @TDYSPORTS ON TWITTER SPORTS SCORES ANALYSIS NEWS STYLE WEDDINGS PRESENTS REGAL RQMANCE2011 at Hotel Re! ENCHANTED GARDEN RETR FAIRYTALE ORIENTAL STARRY STARRY NIGHT r m i DREE GOODIE s $200 voucher from Body Contours $100 voucher from Uber Aesthetic FREE freshwater loose pearl from eClarity Based on a first-come-first-serve basis.
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    • 156 40 Swimming World Cup SOME TAKE 10 THE WATER FASTER THAN OTHERS. Witness the drama as Olympic medallists and world record holders battle it out at FINA/ARENA Swimming World Cup 2011 Singapore Catch five-time Olympic gold medallist, Ian Thorpe, and world-class swimmers, Libby Trickett (AUS), Jiao Liuyang (CHN) and Shiho Sakai
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    • 32 40 SPORTS FIXTURES For fixtures of all E League Champ, Spanish and Italian League, please visit Singapore Pools website. MOTOR RACING For details, visit www.singaporepools.com.sg or call 6786 6688 rcb Reg No: *****0202G
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    • 60 1 ARTS MUSIC MOVIES TELEVISION WINE DINE STYLE DESIGN HEALTH TECH TRAVEL CARS MADONNA GETS LESS THAN WARM WELCOME IN LONDON T4 THE NATIONAL ARE FINALLY PLAYING ON OUR SHORES T5 HEALTH A MUM’S CUDDLE REVIVES BABY T10 OCTOBER 25, 2011 A PUBLICATION OF TIME OF REBIRTH COLDPLAY’S LATEST ALBUM IS
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      1007 2  -  Coldplay get their groove back with Mylo Xyloto Stephen Jones features@mediacorp.com.sg TRANSCRIPT COURTESY WARNER MUSIC WHEN Coldplay released their last album, Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends, frontman Chris Martin hinted that the album might just be exactly that their last. But producer Brian Eno
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      432 3 International A Cappella Festival 2011 The fourth instalment of this annual festival runs into its final leg, with vocal groups from around the world showcasing their unique styles, including the likes ofVocado, Suade, Green Onion, Flexitones &TAS Voices, and Republic Rhapsody. Until Oct 30, 8pm, SOTA Studio Theatre and
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    • 135 3 Win a pair of S$348 tickets to catch Elton John Marina Bay Sands presents Elton John on Nov 20 with his Greatest Hits Tour at the Singapore Indoor Stadium. And here’s what you can do to stand a chance at winning a pair of S$348 tickets to see him in
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  • ENTERTAINMENT
    • 156 4 AP ONE of America’s beloved country music singers, Loretta Lynn, was hospitalised over the weekend with the early stages of pneumonia, according to a representative of the performer. The 76-year-old, best known for hits such as Coal Miner’s Daughter, was scheduled to perform
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    • 270 4 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH MADONNA received a less than generous reception at her latest film premiere when she was booed for only talking to a handful of waiting fans at London’s Leicester Square for the BFI London Film Festival. The 53-year-old singer, who co-wrote and
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    • 511 5  -  Guitarist Scott Devendorf ofThe National talks new songs and why the band is giving money away CHRISTOPHER TOH THEY were supposed to perform here in March but, like many other bands,The National had to cancel their appearance in Singapore in light of the Japanese earthquake/tsunami disaster.They did, however,
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    • CD REVIEWS
      • 173 6  -  CHRISTOPHER TOH Reset Don Richmond: 4/5* DON Richmond is often known as a quirky character who likes his sports as much as he does his music. But those who remember him either as a producer of Sylvia Ratonel or Shigga Shay or for that track Bouncy Bouncy
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      • 142 6  -  KEVIN MATHEWS RELEASED in the United Kingdom earlier in the year, Gangs, the sophomore effort from Irish band And So I Watch You From Afar (ASIWYFA) finally gets an American release. And rightfully so, considering its numerous delights.ASIWYFA is an instrumental rock
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      • 145 6  -  KEVIN MATHEWS MODERN British pop often takes its cues from the classic pop of the ’60s and the ’70s. Singersongwriter James Morrison is an easy demonstration of this fact, with a voice that recalls the soulful tones of Stevie Wonder and repertoire that owes a debt
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      • 135 6  -  CHRISTOPHER TOH THE titular feathered creature in the title is a reference to “burung hantu”, owl in Malay. It’s been said that owls are Zee Avi’s favourite birds, but that has nothing to do with the music in her sophomore effort.Well, first track SwellWindow is the kind
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        119 7  -  CHRISTOPHER TOH THIS is the second mini album from the South Korean artiste and it’s not a bad thing.That is, if you’re a fan of the highly produced dance- pop offerings that have been flooding the market such that you can’t tell one from the other. G.Na
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      • 111 7  - Down The Way Angus Julia Stone KEVIN MATHEWS DESPITE its sepia-toned CD sleeve concept, Down The Way contains rather “old school” sonic approaches coming across for most part like baroque dreamy folk music. This brother-and-sister duo recalls the Celtic roots influences ofThe Swell Season especially in the way the male-female
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      214 7  -  Relooking a classic record CHRISTOPHER TOH Golden Lovesongs From The Evil Island Of The Handsome Tropical Cannibals Stone Revivals (1999) Retro music seems to have a soft spot in our hearts. (Why do you think shows like Retrolicious always draw the crowds?) And for Stoned Revivals Esam,
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    • 144 7 Buy tickets on n CAT H AY iCATHAY Vi III I Available free on the Hi* 1 AppStore H s < a A. 9h, a r LIKE US ON facebook.com/cathaycineplexes cathay.com.sg FOLLOW US ON twitter.com/cathay_cinemas fr HH z o w @1 SEE IT FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER IN 3©
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  • HEALTH
    • 632 8  -  Asian skin risks scarring and hyperpigmentation Eveline Gan eveline@mediacorp.com.sg HERE’S a good excuse to give your spouse the next time he complains about the sheer number of skin products on your vanity table. Compared with our Caucasian counterparts, Asians have it a lot tougher when it comes
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    • HEALTH LISTINGS
      • 57 8 IS DEMENTIA really just memory loss? Learn about the condition, coping strategies for caregivers and the types of activities suitable for people who suffer from dementia.This talk is conducted in English. Date: Saturday Time: 2.30pm to 3.30pm Venue: ECON Health Wellness Centre, Blk 152B, Bishan Street 11, #01-271
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      • 58 8 PARTICIPATE in fun activities and games at this roadshow that aims to educate the public on speech and swallowing therapies.Activities include tongue twister challenges, longest phonation time contest and a speed drinking competition. Date: Nov 1 Time: 11am to 3pm Venue: Block 6, Level 1, Postgraduate
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    • 390 10  -  EVELINE GAN BORN about three months premature, little Jamie Ogg showed no signs of life when he was delivered. Pronouncing him dead, doctors handed the Sydneyborn baby to his devastated mother, Kate, so that she could say goodbye. For two hours, Jamie laid on Kate’s chest, as
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    • 225 10 HEALTH BITE THE DAILY TELEGRAPH EXPOSING unborn baby girls to a chemical found in everyday plastics could cause behavioural and emotional problems in later life, warns a new study. The chemical biosphenol, or BPA, is often used to make plastic water bottles and can also
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  • 600 9 askthedentista public education project supported by the Singapore Dental Health Foundation (www.dentalhealth.org.sg) and Lion Corporation (www.lioncorp.com.sg) Q1 Recently my six-month-old baby girl has been getting feverish often. Her gums are red and swollen, and she drools a lot more. She gets cranky easily and sometimes refuses food.
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  • 722 11 La Cérémonie (A Judgment in Stone) A housemaid for an upper-class family, Sophie hides her illiteracy and history of violence under a cloak of obedience. Things change when she finds a friend in the energetic and uncompromising postmistress, Jeanne. Encouraged to revolt against her bourgeois employees, Sophie
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    • 34 11 SUDOKUplus DIFFICULTY RATING: YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION 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
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    • 275 12 ON MEDIACORP SMALL BEAUTIFUL Channel 5, 9pm Auntie Lucy and her friend from Thailand explore Singapore to discover all things small, beautiful and international including a quaint English-style tea cafe, a delectable Spanish restaurant and a novelty shop selling TinTin products. THE OATH (Debut; PG) Channel 8, 9pm Minfei is
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    • 680 12 6.00AM Unbeatable Banzuke 6.30 AM Live! 9.00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show IX (PG) 9.45 Planet’s Funniest Animals VIII 10.00 The Dr Oz Show: The Fountain Of Youth 11.00 Sports@SG: Team Singapore At The Games Special 11.30 Great Ideas From JML NOON My Sassy Neighbour 12.30PM Point Of Entry 1.30 Crimewatch
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    • 292 12 ON MEDIACORP AMARKALA DEEPAVALI 2011 (Live) Vasantham, 10pm Performances by more than 300 artistes in this countdown concert will keep you glued to the screen. GET REA! X Channel NewsAsia, 8.02pm, 11.31pm Eleven-year-old Lora walks through the busy alleyways of one of Manila’s most notorious slums delivering small packs of
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