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    21 1 AFTERNOON EDITION MICA (P) 031/10/2011 A PUBLICATION OF NEWS HOTLINE 6822 2268 Monday October 31, 2011 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking
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    Lock icon Court ends Qantas shutdown
    617 1 Verdict reached after 12-hour hearing, flights could resume this afternoon AGENCIES CANBERRA An Australian arbitration court early this morning ended the strikes and employee lockout that had abruptly grounded Qantas Airways and stranded tens of thousands of passengers worldwide. Qantas chief Alan Joyce who decided on
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    Govt, Opposition should participate in solving problems together: PM
    599 1  -  JOANNE CHAN joannechan@mediacorp.com.sg PERTH Parliament is not just a place to hold either the Government or the Opposition to account. Instead, both sides should participate in solving problems together or Singapore would be worse off for it. Prime Minister Lee Hsien
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      32 1 HOT SPURS KEEP PACE WITH PREMIERSHIP’S EARLY PACESETTERS SPORTS PAGE 33 SPORTS PAGE 35 END THE WAR, HAMILTON AFTER FOUR CLASHES WITH FERRARI’S MASSA IN ONE MONTH MCLAREN SAY ENOUGH IS ENOUGH
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  • HOT NEWS
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      Lock icon Life's normal for many in Bangkok
      541 2 AP BANGKOK On one side of the city, you will find the victims of Thailand’s worst flooding in half a century. They float down rubbish-strewn waterways, paddling washtubs with wicker brooms over submerged neighbourhoods. Only a few kilometres away, you will find something else
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      Lock icon FLOODS COULD EASE AFTER TODAY: THAI PM
      152 2 AGENCIES Peak tides tested Bangkok’s flood defences yesterday as hope rose that the centre of theThai capital might escape the worst floods in decades. Water flowing down from the north is meeting peak tides surging in the Gulf of Thailand, 20km south of
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      Pilot project to register cats in Chong Pang?
      563 3  -  CAROLYN QUEK carolynquek@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE One registered cat per public flat, with efforts to ensure responsible cat ownership this is how a coming pilot project at Chong Pang constituency seems to be shaping up. And if such a pilot is successful, the scheme
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      Lock icon Europe crisis 'may take a couple of years to resolve'
      480 4 SINGAPORE The Europe debt crisis could take “a couple of years” to resolve, former Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew said yesterday as he noted the challenges of a single currency system among the euro zone countries. Speaking at a dialogue
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      QANTAS PASSENGERS STRANDED IN CHANGI AIRPORT
      171 4  -  EVELYN CHOO Twenty Qantas flights to and from Singapore were cancelled yesterday, and about 2,700 passengers who were due to depart from Changi Airport are in a fix about whetherto remain in Singapore or take the next available flight out. Long queues persisted at
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      Lock icon Malaysia to introduce biometric checks for Sepang flights
      218 6 AGENCIES KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia’s Immigration Department plans to introduce biometric checks on board flights at the Low-Cost Carrier Terminal (LCCT) in Sepang, in what it says will be the first of its kind in the world. The pilot project is expected to
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      Lock icon SUBARU CHALLENGE BREAK
      51 6 Contestants resting during a special break on the second day of the MediaCorp Subaru WRX Car Challenge at Ngee Ann City’s Civic Plaza. As of 10 last night, there were 130 contestants left with 268 having dropped out. PHOTO BY OOI BOON KEONG PHOTO BY OOI BOON
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      SingTel's fibre services hit by network glitch
      286 6  -  TANYA FONG tanyafong@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE SingTel’s fibre services were affected by a network glitch over the weekend, disrupting some customers’ home phone, broadband and cable television services. Apologising for the glitch yesterday, SingTel said that services were progressively restored from 11.30am yesterday. By 5.30pm
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      Lock icon INDONESIA BACKS MYANMAR'S BID TO BE ASEAN CHAIRMAN IN 2014
      197 8 AGENCIES Myanmar’s political reforms look “irreversible” and put the country on course to chair the Association of South-east Asian Nations (ASEAN), Indonesia’s Foreign Minister said yesterday after meeting leaders of the reclusive, army-backed government. The comments by Mr Marty Natalegawa,
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      Lock icon China tells Europe: We're not your saviour
      348 8 REUTERS BEIJING Europe should not expect China to ride to the rescue as its “saviour” from the debt crisis, though Beijing will do what it can to help a friend in need, state-run news agency Xinhua said yesterday. Such commentaries offer an insight
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      Lock icon Ring and a prayer for Occupy London
      291 10 AGENCIES LONDON Christian groups in the United Kingdom have drawn up plans to protect protesters by forming a ring of prayer around the camp outside St Paul’s Cathedral in London, should an attempt be made to forcibly remove them. As the storm of
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      Lock icon 'Snowtober' strikes US north-east
      545 10 Unseasonal snowstorms cause power outages affecting millions AGENCIES BOSTON A rare October snowstorm, with a ferocity more familiar in February than October, barrelled up the east coast of the United States over the weekend, snarling air and highway traffic, causing at least three deaths and cutting
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  • COMMENT&ANALYSIS
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      Lock icon Blow to Australia and its Flying Kangaroo
      1021 12 What some Australian newspapers are saying about the labour dispute and the grounding of Qantas flights In The Australian The Qantas fleet grounding is a devastating blow to Australia’s image and international prestige as Julia Gillard was winding up the Commonwealth Heads of
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      Did Malaysia mature when we were not looking?
      728 14  -  OOI KEE BENG The writer is a senior fellow at the Institute of South-east Asian Studies. Among his recent books is The Right to Differ: A Biographical Sketch ofLim Kit Siang. The flurry of Malay organisations making the news in Malaysia bodes
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      Lock icon Bankers, Congress and legalised bribery
      841 16  -  THOMAS L FRIEDMAN Thomas L Friedman is a three-time Pulitzer Prize winner. THE NEW YORK TIMES Citigroup is lucky that Muammar Gaddafi was killed when he was. The Libyan leader’s death diverted attention from a lethal article involving Citigroup that deserved more attention because it
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  • VOICES
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      Re-look problem gambling approach
      439 18  -  Letter from Kwan Jin Yao THE REPORT “New measures to curb gambling” (Oct 22) explains the present strategies by the Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports and the National Council on Problem Gambling to curb problem gambling and its negative effects here. The measures might
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      Reduce noise pollution from buses
      147 19  -  Letter from Kelvin Sim THERE have been concerns recently about noise pollution caused by Mass Rapid Transit trains. I would like to raise concerns about noise pollution caused by public buses. I live in a Housing and Development Board flat that is beside a road,
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      Are foreigners responsible for rising property prices today?
      430 19  -  Letter from Wong Toon Tuan AMID soaring property prices, making private homes increasingly less affordable, fingers are pointing at foreigners for causing the Singaporean dream home to be out of reach. Some have written to the press, asking for government intervention to
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  • SINGAPORE
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      Lock icon Top marks for programme to train domestic workers
      515 20  -  TANYA FONG tanyafong@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Holding up the training programme for Indonesian foreign domestic workers (FDWs) here as a role model, an Indonesian official said yesterday that the Indonesian government hopes it can be replicated in other countries where its citizens work as
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      Lock icon FIRE BREAKS OUT IN WORKSHOP
      128 21 A fire broke out yesterday morning in a workshop containing scrapped car parts at the Sungei Kadut industrial estate. Residents in Yew Tee and Choa Chu Kang said they could see thick, black smoke billowing from the area. A retiree, Mr Zeng Ping An, 58,
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      PEEPING TOM ARRESTED WITH HELP FROM PUBLIC
      172 21 A 36-year-old man who trespassed into a women’s toilet and took a photograph of a woman in a cubicle was arrested on Saturday with the help of two members of the public. The 31-year-old woman was in the restroom in Block 55, Ayer
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      MEDISAVE FOR BIPOLAR, DEMENTIA OUTPATIENT TREATMENT
      107 21  -  ZHAO QUAN YIN From tomorrow, Medisave can be used to pay for outpatient treatment of bipolar disorder and dementia. This will come under the existing Chronic Disease Management Programme. Similarly, the Primary Care Partnership Scheme, which subsidises treatment at general practitioner clinics, will be
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      REVAMPED SUN YAT SEN NANYANG MEMORIAL HALL DRAWS CROWDS
      111 21 The revamped Sun Yat Sen Nanyang Memorial Hall has welcomed 70,269 visitors through its doors since its re-opening earlier this month. The museum, which held its reopening on Oct 8 in conjunction with the 100th anniversary of the 1911 revolution, features
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  • WORLD
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      Lock icon ‘DRUNK’ POLICEMAN’S CRASH SPARKS PROTEST IN CHINA
      123 22 REUTERS The Chinese authorities have arrested a police officer suspected of drunken driving after he crashed a vehicle and killed five people, setting off protests by local residents, media reports said yesterday. The policeman in Runan county, in the central province of Henan,
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      Lock icon CHINA ARRESTS 12,000 IN ONLINE NARCOTICS CRACKDOWN
      111 22 AP The Chinese authorities have arrested more than 12,000 suspects and seized 300kg of illicit drugs in a nationwide crackdown on narcotics sold through online chatrooms. The state-run Xinhua news agency said yesterday that police busted 144 drug rings involved in narcotics production
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      Lock icon Leaders insist progress was made at CHOGM
      381 22 But they fail to agree on recommended key human rights reform AGENCIES PERTH The three-day Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) came to a close yesterday with leaders insisting that they had made sweeping progress, despite failing to agree on a key human
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      Lock icon MALAYSIA SEEKS TO HOST CHOGM 2019
      104 22 AGENCIES Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak said yesterday that Malaysia is seeking to host the 2019 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM). Mr Najib told reporters in Perth, where the three-day Commonwealth forum ended yesterday, that 2019 is significant as it will then be
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      Lock icon Promising signs as Suu Kyi holds talks with Myanmar minister
      200 24 AP YANGON Myanmar democracy movement leader Ms Aung San Suu Kyi met yesterday with a Cabinet minister to discuss issues whose resolution could lead to a breakthrough in the country’s longrunning political deadlock. Labour Minister Aung Kyi read a joint
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      Lock icon CHINA COAL MINE BLAST KILLS 29
      109 24 Rescuers wait yesterday in the Xialiuchong coal mine in Hengyang city, in central China’s Hunan province, where a gas explosion on Saturday evening killed 29 workers, the authorities said yesterday. Five of the workers were rescued, while one climbed out of an air shaft.
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      Lock icon Jakarta's moves to curb deforestation fall short
      327 24 REUTERS SINGAPORE A two-year ban on new licences to clear peatlands and primary forests in Indonesia risks being undermined by the small area protected by the scheme and a host of exemptions, according to a review that calls for the programme to be
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      Lock icon Syrian President warns of 'earthquake that will burn the whole region'
      241 25 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH DAMASCUS Syria’s President Bashar Al Assad has warned that Western action against his country would cause an “earthquake” that would “burn the whole region”. In his first interview with a Western journalist since Syria’s seven-month uprising
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      Lock icon Taliban suicide bomber kills 17 in Kabul attack
      291 25 AP KABUL A Taliban suicide bomber rammed an SUV loaded with 700kg of explosives into an armoured NATO bus on a busy thoroughfare in Kabul, killing 17 people in the deadliest strike against the United States-led coalition in the Afghan capital since
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      Lock icon GAZA MILITANTS OFFER TO END ROCKET BARRAGES IF
      102 25 AP A Gaza Strip militant group spearheading a recent campaign of rocket barrages into Israel said yesterday that it was prepared to cease fire if the Israeli military did so as well. The rocket fire has provoked retaliatory Israeli airstrikes. Nine militants
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  • BUSINESS
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      Lock icon S’pore talks to focus on Asia’s oil demand
      517 26 REUTERS SINGAPORE Asia’s oil demand outlook will dominate talks at a key industry gathering here this week as policymakers in Europe and the United States grapple with an economic slowdown and the threat of a second recession. Asia, led by China, will
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      Lock icon China to 'firmly' maintain property curbs
      164 26 BLOOMBERG BEIJING China will maintain the control measures on the property market “firmly” and seek to “fine tune” its economic policies in “an appropriate degree and appropriate time”, according to a government statement following a State Council meeting chaired by Premier Wen Jiabao over
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      Lock icon Consumers worldwide thinking twice about spending
      273 28 REUTERS LONDON Global consumer confidence remained weak in the third quarter with 64 per cent of consumers saying it was not a good time to spend, and one in three North Americans saying they have no spare cash, a survey showed yesterday. The economic
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    • WEEKLY ROUNDUP (OCT 24 TO 28)
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        DOW
        57 28 FRIDAY CLOSE 12,231.10 (+0.18%) THE WEEKTHATWAS Stocks closed out a fourth week of gains in quiet fashion on Friday, edging higher as the market took a breather after rallying 3 per cent on Europe’s deal to stem its debt crisis. Thursday 12,208.50 p 2.86% Wednesday 11,869.00 p 1.39% Tuesday
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        US
        9 28 È NASDAQ 2,737.15 S&P500 S&P500 1,285.09 (+0.04%) Ç
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        EURO
        13 28 È FTSE100 5,702.24 DAX Ç È DAX 6,346.19 (+0.13%) CAC40 3,348.63 (-0.59%)
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        COMMODITIES
        5 28 Ç OIL US$93.62 (+US$0.30)
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        M1
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      617 32  -  Ding Ning beats Li to complete a unique double, and she’s now gunning for an Olympic singles spot LOW LIN FHOONG linfhoong@mediacorp.com.sg TABLETENNIS Volkswagen 2011 Women’s World Cup SINGAPORE Right now, table tennis star Ding Ning (picture) is not slated to play in the
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      381 32  -  LOW LIN FHOONG She rarely gets to play in front of her own crowd, and Singapore’s world No 4 Feng Tianwei (picture) had hoped to give the fans a tournament to remember. But the table tennis star failed to match
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      545 33 Van derVaart in rarefied air after scoring in fifth straight match to lift Tottenham to fifth in the league REUTERS AFTERNOON LATEST LONDON Two goals from Gareth Bale and one from Rafael van der Vaart gave Tottenham Hotspur a 3-1 win over Queens
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      207 33 THE GUARDIAN LONDON QPR owner Tony Fernandes has given his full support to Anton Ferdinand over the row with the Chelsea defender John Terry. The Football Association is investigating whether Terry used racist language towards Ferdinand, an ac- cusation the England captain firmly denies. AirAsia honcho
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      209 35 AP Udinese and Lazio both won yesterday to move back within a point of Serie A leader Juventus. Antonio Di Natale scored his league-leading seventh goal as Udinese edged Palermo 1-0, while Senad Lulic, Miroslav Klose and Tommaso Rocchi
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      234 35 THE GUARDIAN NEW DELHI Lewis Hamilton and Felipe Massa have been ordered to sort out their differences by the team bosses of McLaren and Ferrari, after the drivers clashed for the sixth time this season during the inaugural Indian Grand Prix yesterday.
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      386 36 REUTERS GOLF Shanghai Masters SHANGHAI US Open champion Rory McIlroy (picture) held his nerve to edge out American Anthony Kim in a sudden death play-off and pocket the US$2 million (S$2.5 million) winner’s cheque at the Shanghai Masters yesterday. The Northern Irishman,
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      214 36 LONDON Lewis Moody has admitted to mistakes as captain of the England team at the recent Rugby World Cup in New Zealand. Moody said he should have banned his teammates from going out at night during the campaign. England’s campaign in New Zealand was dogged
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      116 5  -  MAYO MARTIN The buzz was on blockbusters as the National Museum of Singapore opened the doors to its muchawaited exhibit of Impressionist art from the Musee d’Orsay and the ArtScience Museum unveiled its Titanic show. Another blockbuster, The Lion King, ended its run to make way
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      231 5 FESTIVAL Kalaa Utsavam 2011 The annual 10-day festival kicks off this week with a concert by L Subramaniam and Kavita Krishnamurti, the dance performance paying homage to Rabindranath Tagore, and a concert tribute to Kishore Kumar by Bollywood’s Shaan, among others. Nov 4 to 13 at various times and
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    549 8 Bombay Sapphire Blue Room This exhibition features artists and designers both local and based in Singapore. Each of them has created a piece in their respective expertise to the theme of “infused with imagination” that is Bombay Sapphire-inspired. Also look out for music production workshops conducted by
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