Today, 4 November 2011, Afternoon Edition

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  • 40 1 TODAY MICA (P) 031/10/2011 A PUBLICATION OF NEWS HOTLINE 6822 Friday November 4, 2011 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking AFTERNOON EDITION MICA (P) 031/10/2011 A PUBLICATION OF NEWS HOTLINE 6822 2268 Friday November 4, 2011 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking
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  • 704 1  -  ONG DAI LIN dailin@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE A job-seeker above 40 stands a lower chance of snagging a job if he is interviewed by a panel of younger people. In contrast, his chances are substantially higher if the interviewers included people of similar
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  • 528 1 BLOOMBERG CANNES World leaders expressed impatience and irritation with Europe’s inability to defeat its two-year financial crisis as they urged swift resolution for the sake of the global economy. With Greece’s debt-ridden government at risk of collapsing as soon as today,
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  • HOT NEWS
    • 456 2 AGENCIES LONDON Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is seeking Cabinet support for a military strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities, Haaretz newspaper reported, after days of speculation on plans for such an attack. Other governments, including Britain and the United States, are also said
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    • 549 2 AGENCIES SINGAPORE MF Global Singapore, pressed by investors here for the return of their funds, has been hampered in its ability to close clients’ overseas trading positions due to difficulties in accessing foreign stock exchanges, the local unit of the failed United States
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    • 316 3 SINGAPORE Following a successful trial in which six CCTV cameras were fitted along Bukit Timah Road to monitor the area during heavy rain the PUB will install another 55 CCTVs at other flood-prone areas here by early next month. These
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    • 160 4 AGENCIES MUNICH Munich Airport said a Singapore Airlines Boeing 777-300ER slid off its south runway after landing yesterday. Flight SQ327 slid off the runway into the grass shortly after touching down at 12.14pm (7.14pm Singapore time) on arrival from Manchester, England. None of
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    • 440 4 AGENCIES FRANKFURT The European Central Bank (ECB) unexpectedly cut its main interest rate by 25 basis points to 1.25 per cent yesterday as the euro zone turmoil outweighed concerns over persistently high inflation. ECB policymakers, led by president Mario Draghi who took over the
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    • 400 4 AGENCIES CANNES The G-20 is debating whether to include a reference to China’s currency in a joint statement by leaders following their two-day summit in Cannes, according to an official from a member nation yesterday, stoking tensions even as
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    • 441 6 THE NEW YORK TIMES BATTAMBANG (Cambodia) The high water is devastating even for a country inured to monsoon rains and waterlogged rice fields: Wide swaths of Cambodia’s countryside have become giant lakes, with villagers and livestock marooned on scattered patches of dry land. The
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    • 182 8 Thai veterinarians are hunting for 15 African mamba snakes that reportedly escaped from a flooded building in Nonthaburi province, north of Bangkok a week after the authorities warned that thousands of crocodiles had escaped from wildlife parks. Officials say the highly
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    • 269 8  -  CAROLYN QUEK carolynquek@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The Health Sciences Authority (HSA) said it is “closing monitoring” any new safety data relating to the chemical quaternium-15 found in some cosmetic products in Singapore. The HSA was responding to Today’s queries after an international
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    • 387 8 AGENCIES BANGKOK As Thailand struggles to cope with the historic floods, residents in inundated neighbourhoods reluctant to leave behind their few possessions are complicating an already difficult relief effort, say the frustrated authorities. Many of Bangkok’s governmentrun shelters sit largely empty, while
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    • 349 10 Obama retakes top spot in Forbes most-powerful list REUTERS NEW YORK United States President Barack Obama topped Forbes’ list of the world’s most powerful people in 2011, as his clout rose after the deaths of Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi. Mr Obama, who topped
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  • COMMENT&ANALYSIS
    • 1084 12  -  Tripartism has given us years of industrial peace and prosperity, but trust must work both ways EUGENE K B TAN Eugene K B Tan is assistant professor of law at the Singapore Management University School of Law where he also teaches ethics and social
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    • 974 14  -  Only the new head of the European Central Bank can prevent disaster; will Mario Draghi do what’s needed? JEREMY WARNER Jeremy Warner, assistant editor of The Daily Telegraph, is one of Britain’s leading financial, business and economics commentators. THE DAILY TELEGRAPH We have
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    • 847 16  -  PAUL GILFEATHER gUfeather@mediacorp.com.sg Paul Gilfeather is principal correspondent at Today. Sources close to German Chancellor Angela Merkel have described Greece as an “infection” which now needs to be permanently removed from the euro zone. If the words of her officials and advisers are representative
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    • 845 19  -  DAVID PILLING David Pilling is the FT’s Asia editor. FINANCIAL TIMES LIMITED Every day thousands of Chinese tourists make their way to the Lingyin Buddhist Temple in the mountains outside Hangzhou. When they reach the Great Hall of Clouds and Forests, home to
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  • VOICES
    • 336 20  -  Letter from Gary Chan WHILE there are some kind souls who readily give up their seats on the trains and buses to those who need them, many commuters do not. It is especially disheartening when the culprits are students. In the absence of such social
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    • 142 20  -  LETTER FROM VICTOR LIM WEI LIANG The SMRT Corporation has announced on its website the increase of its NightRider bus fares, from s$4 to s$4.50, with effect from Nov 11. This, after SMRT’s high profit of s$34 million forthe
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    • 242 22  -  Letter from Leoi Boon Heng IT IS TIME the authorities clamp down on illegal vice activities in Orchard Towers like they have been doing so actively to control vice in Geylang, Joo Chiat and Tanjong Pagar. One visit and you can see how sleazy the
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    • 248 22  -  Letter from Charlotte Beck Senior Director, Gambling Safeguards Division, Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports I REFER to Mr Kwan Jin Yao’s letter “Re-look problem gambling approach” (Oct 31) and thank him for his suggestions. We agree that it is important to
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    • 199 22  -  Letter from Farah Abdul Rahim Director, Corporate Communications, Ministry of Manpower IN RESPONSE to a recent commentary and letters on extending training to foreign workers, the Ministry of Manpower wishes to clarify that the Government invests significant funds in the Continuing Education
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    • 252 25  -  Letter from Chua Kheng Yeow TWO months ago, I drove to Johor Baru and forgot to collect my CashCard after paying the toll at the Woodlands Checkpoint. Later that day, I called the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority to check if the card had been found, but
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    • 331 25  -  Letter from Tan Si An I AGREE with Mr Ng Ya Ken, in his online letter “A soft population policy threatens our longterm survival” (Oct 31), that a soft policy is a threat. However, I differ on what constitutes a soft policy.
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    • 34 25 In the report “Autobacs rolls out” (Oct 28) in our Drive Supplement, we gave the wrong address for AutoBacs Venture Pte Ltd. The correct address is 40 Loyang Drive. We apologise for the
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    • 19 25 VOICES ONLINE Go for a pragmatic approach in immigration policy. Paul Chan Poh Hoi ONLY AVAILABLE ATTODAYONLINE.COM OR ONOURMOBILEAPPS
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  • Page 25 Miscellaneous
    • 62 25 VOICES ON RADIO There has been much debate over the redevelopment of Bukit Brown Cemetery and the construction of a road there to ease traffic along Lornie Road and serve future housing estates. What do you think of these plans? How do we balance development and heritage? Join us today
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 205 26  -  NG JING YNG SINGAPORE With the likes of Angry Birds all the rage now, a polytechnic here is looking to tap into the fast-growing mobile application market by offering a new diploma from next year. The Republic Polytechnic’s (RP) three-year Diploma
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    • 77 26 The award-winning Merlion design on the back of the iconic ‘Louis Ghost’ Chair designed by Phillipe Stark for Kartell, in the Space Asia Hub furniture and design store in Bencoolen Street. The design, by LaSalle Art College design communications student Zheng Meisi, 25, was the winner in
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    • 478 26  -  Initiative aims to raise the number of female representation to 10% TAN WEIZHEN weizhen@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE When they are interviewed for positions on company boards, men are not asked if they have the relevant board experience; women are. Men are promoted on potential; women only after
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    • 127 28 CHANNEL NEWSASIA SINGAPORE Donation boxes will be placed at all 69 mosques here to raise funds for victims of the floods in Cambodia and Thailand. The fund-raising drive is organised by the Mosque Committee, which represents all the mosques here. The boxes, placed in the
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    • 203 28 CHANNEL NEWSASIA SINGAPORE Thirteen workers were killed when they fell from heights in the first six months of this year, compared to nine for the same period last year. The Manpower Ministry (MOM) said this is an emerging trend of concern. Most fatal
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    • 139 28 CHANNEL NEWSASIA SINGAPORE Escape Theme Park at Downtown East will operate its last rides on Nov 26. This is to allow for its redevelopment to meet the changing needs of guests, the NTUC Club, which runs the park, said yesterday. Details of the
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    • 153 28 CHANNEL NEWSASIA SINGAPORE With Hari Raya Haji being celebrated on Sunday, those planning a trip to Malaysia to take advantage of the long weekend have been advised to plan their journey. The Immigrations and Checkpoints Authority (ICA) said it expects traffic to be
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    • 254 30 SINGAPORE Prominent cosmetic surgeon Martin Huang and the family of a 17-year-old girl who sued him after a procedure last year have drawn a line under the controversy which had erupted after a public exchange in the media. Yesterday, lawyers of
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    • 195 30  -  VIMITA MOHANDAS vimita@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Officers from the Immigration Checkpoints Authority (ICA) have thwarted plans by two men to smuggle birds into Singapore in their car boot compartment. On Tuesday, ICA officers at Woodlands Checkpoint inspected a Singapore-registered SUV’s rear boot compartment which was
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  • WORLD
    • 451 32 AGENCIES BEIJING China successfully carried out its first space docking exercise yesterday between two unmanned spacecraft, a key test of the rising power’s plans to secure a long-term manned foothold in space. The Shenzhou 8 spacecraft joined the Tiangong 1 (Heavenly Palace) module
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    • 301 32 REUTERS BEIJING China’s top official newspaper warned yesterday that the government is facing “a crisis of faith” among its people and urged local officials to win trust in the face of rising discontent. Anger over forced demolitions and corruption has led to a
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    • 150 36 REUTERS TOKYO The Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO) company has played down the detection of xenon, a fission byproduct, at the melted-down Fukushima No 2 reactor, saying there is no evidence that nuclear reaction has started again. On Wednesday, TEPCO had detected xenon and had
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    • 302 36 REUTERS BEIJING A Tibetan nun has died after setting herself on fire in south-west China, Xinhua News Agency said, the 11th ethnic Tibetan this year known to have set themselves on fire in a region that has become the centre of defiance
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    • 120 36 AP Ten suspected militants went on trial in the West Jakarta District Court for allegedly planning to bomb an Indonesian church before Easter mass and to film the inferno for broadcast. They were also charged with sending mail bombs none of them deadly
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    • 288 39 AGENCIES OAKLAND (California) Occupy Oakland protesters were celebrating here on Wednesday evening after thousands of demonstrators shut down the United States’ fifth-busiest shipping terminal, escalating a movement whose tactics had largely been limited to marches and tent encampments since it began in September. The
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    • 180 39 AP A lawyer for the protesters camped outside London’s St Paul’s Cathedral said on Wednesday that the authorities have offered to let the tent city stay put until next year. The loosely-organised Occupy London demonstration, inspired by New York’s Occupy Wall Street movement,
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    • 158 39 AP The sexual harassment scandal surrounding Mr Herman Cain, a leading Republican presidential candidate, deepened on Wednesday as another woman accused him of inappropriate behaviour when he headed the National Restaurant Association lobbying group in the ’90s. The woman said Mr Cain
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    • 353 40 AP SYDNEY Nearly three-quarters of women cadets at Australia’s military training academy have been sexually harassed, a government report found after a series of scandals involving the mistreatment of women in Australia’s defence force. Conditions have improved in recent years and the Australian
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    • 189 40 AP Police launched an investigation on Wednesday into a Texas family law judge whose daughter posted a YouTube video of him savagely beating her with a belt during a tirade seven years ago when she was a teenager. The eight-minute
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    • 213 40 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH A British man has been found guilty of murder for strangling his Thai wife in their Greater Manchester Area home after she smashed up his toy collection. Rickie Nehls, 30, claimed that Pornpilai Srisroy, 28, damaged the
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    • 240 43 THE NEW YORK TIMES AMSTERDAM A well-known psychologist in the Netherlands whose work has been published widely in professional journals falsified data and made up entire experiments, an investigating committee has found. The man has admitted the fraud. Experts
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    • 275 43 AP COPENHAGEN Prosperous countries have not lived up to their promises to help the poor, the United Nations declared on Wednesday, saying poor people often go hungry because of polluted water, drought and other environmental factors that are increasing poverty. In its annual
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    • 197 43 AP WASHINGTON Federal health officials in the United States have approved a first-of-a-kind artificial heart valve that can be implanted without major surgery, offering a new treatment option for patients who are too old or frail for the chest-crack-ing procedure currently used. The Food
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    • 59 46 THURSDAY CLOSE 12,044.50 (+1.76%) Wednesday 11,836.00 p 1.53% Tuesday 11,658.00 q 2.48% Monday 11,955.00 q 2.26% Friday 12,231.10 p 0.18% NYSE TOP 5 BY VOLUME NAME VOL PRICE CHANGE Bank of America 239.3m us$6.91 p 2.83% Sprint Nextel 67.6m us$2.81 p 3.31% Citigroup 60.7m us$30.78 p 3.22% Ford 57.4m
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      • 75 46 Brent breaks losing streak Oil prices rose as Greece’s government backed away from a proposed referendum on staying in the euro and a rate cut from the European Central Bank raised hopes for an easing of the region’s debt crisis. Brent crude for December delivery settled at US$110.83 a
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    • 294 46 REUTERS LONDON Banks must accept responsibility for past mistakes and show how they can contribute to society and economic growth, the boss of one of Britain’s top banks said yesterday. Mr Bob Diamond, who took over as chief executive
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    • 163 46 REUTERS Insurer American International Group (AIG) lost more than US$4 billion (S$5.1 billion) in the third quarter, as its aircraft leasing unit took an impairment charge on a portion of its fleet and the fair value of the company’s one-third stake in Asian insurer
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    • 243 48 AGENCIES LOS ANGELES News Corp said its fiscal first-quarter net income dropped 5 per cent due to the cost of closing a scandal-wracked tabloid and dropping its takeover bid for British Sky Broadcasting. The media conglomerate, controlled by CEO Rupert Murdoch,
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    • 84 48 DOW JONES The Government of Singapore Investment Corp (GIC) has bought an additional 1.77 million shares of Hong Kong-listed China Petroleum Chemical Corp, or Sinopec, at an average price of HK$7.47 (S$1.23) each. The purchase on Oct 31 takes GIC’s stake in Sinopec to 5
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    • 57 48 DOW JONES Singapore-listed Chinese shipbuilder COSCO Corp said yesterday one of its units has secured a contract worth more than US$68 million (S$87 million) to build two dry bulk carriers for an Asian company. COSCO said both vessels, weighing 82,000 tonnes, are scheduled for
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    • 74 48 Job seekers wait in line during a job fair to apply for 800 job openings at the Seminole Casino Coconut Creek in Coconut Creek, Florida. Fewer people applied for unemployment benefits last week, a positive sign that the job market is picking up in the
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    • 205 48 DOW JONES SINGAPORE Banks have been asked to submit proposals for an initial public offering of healthcare company Parkway Pantai that could potentially raise up to US$2 billion (S$2.6 billion), people familiar with the situation said yesterday. Parkway Pantai operates a network of 16
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    • 765 60  -  Golf superstar Woods in good and confident mood 200m up Singapore airspace IAN DE COTTA ian@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE It was about five minutes and 22 seconds longer than the average time of his swing routine before tee off, and around five minutes and
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    • 894 62  -  Aussie legend’s all set to embark on another adventure, although he is not talking about winning LEONARD THOMAS sports editor leonard@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Ask him and he would admit he let himself go at least a little bit during his retirement. He announced he was
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    • 205 63  -  TAN YO-HINN SINGAPORE She is already a triple Olympic gold medallist, but the return of compatriot Ian Thorpe, 29, threatens to overshadow Libby Trickett (picture) and the rest of Australia’s formidable swimming team, although she does not mind. Speaking ahead of the FINA/Arena Swimming World
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    • 609 63  -  FINA’s Hall admits need for better rewards TAN YO-HINN yohinn@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Names like Mark Spitz, Ian Thorpe and Michael Phelps roll off the tongue, for the women, Janet Evans and Inge de Bruijn are just a couple of the standard bearers in the glittering
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    • 224 63 BLOOMBERG MADRID Ten-time Grand Slam champion Rafael Nadal has pulled out of next week’s Paris Masters tournament because he needs more time to prepare for the ATP World Tour Finals in London at the end of the month. “It’s been a difficult decision to
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    • 723 64  -  Recent comments by SEA Games chef de mission Tan could set Team Singapore back COMMENTARY LEONARD THOMAS leonard@mediacorp.com.sg Leonard Thomas is sports editor at Today. I wonder why Dr Tan Eng Liang decided to dredge up the past and criticise Singapore table tennis
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    • 474 64  -  PHILIP GOH philipgoh@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Many in the sports fraternity chose to steer clear of the spat that has developed between Singapore’s chef de mission for the SEA Games Dr Tan Eng Liang and table tennis chief Lee Bee Wah. The prevailing mood was
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    • 613 66  -  The 2011 batch return home as S-League clubs call for a minimum standard and more time SHAMIR OSMAN shamir@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE They came from Serbia, England, Romania, Australia, China and Bosnia, hoping to make an impression at the Football Association of Singapore (FAS) centralised trials
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    • 226 66  -  SHAMIR OSMAN SINGAPORE Over the last two Saturdays at the Jalan Besar Stadium a group of spe-cial-needs children took to the field, under the watchful eyes of instructor Mohamed Zainudeen and his trainees, who were undergoing the Asian Football Confederation
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    • 249 66 AFTERNOON LATEST THE GUARDIAN LONDON Fabio Capello has informed Wayne Rooney that he will not be in the England squad to face Spain and Switzerland but he will definitely go to the finals of Euro 2012 next summer. The England manager met with the
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    • 246 67 AP NEW YORK An NBA lawyer urged a United States federal judge on Wednesday to help end a stalemate with the NBA players union by agreeing to consider the legality of its lockout. The league locked out its players on July
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    • 449 67 American boxer hints at May 5 bout AGENCIES NEW YORK Just over a week before Manny Pacquiao fights Juan Manuel Marquez in the concluding chapter in their trilogy of bouts later this month, Floyd Mayweather Jr has hinted that he will return to the ring
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    • 553 68 Redknapp’s Spurs fail to guarantee their progress to knockout stages after stumbling to Russia’s Rubin Kazan AFTERNOON LATEST AGENCIES LONDON Tottenham’s second-string squad failed to deliver the performance their ailing manager Harry Redknapp would have wanted as they were easily beaten 1 -0 by
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    • 492 68 AGENCIES LONDON Second-half goals from Dean Whitehead and Peter Crouch earned Stoke a notable 2-0 win in Tel Aviv yesterday (this morning, Singapore time) and took them to the brink of qualification for the knockout stages. Stoke had beaten their Israeli opponents 3-0
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    • 195 68 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH LONDON Liverpool manager Kenny Dalglish has reiterated his desire to have the investigation into alleged racism by Luis Suarez concluded as quickly as possible. It is now almost three weeks since Manchester United defender Patrice Evra claimed the Uruguay international
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