Today, 29 November 2011

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    39 1 TODAY MICA (P) 031/10/2011 A PUBLICATION OF NEWS HOTLINE 6822 Tuesday November 29, 2011 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking Today MICA (P) 031/10/2011 A PUBLICATION OF NEWS HOTLINE 6822 2268 Tuesday November 29, 2011 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking
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      637 1 THERE’S A SANTA IN ALL OF US. Think Santa’s the only one giving out all the great gifts this year? With OCBC Cards Spend Redeem treats, you can give yourself and your loved ones the best gifts in town this Christmas. Discover your inner Santa this festive season, only with
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    Lock icon Bayfront, Marina Bay stations to open in Jan
    357 1  -  HETTY MUSFIRAH hetty@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Two new train stations on the Circle Line extension will open on Jan 14, boosting connectivity to the downtown Marina Bay area, said Transport Minister Lui Tuck Yew at the ground-breaking ceremony for the Downtown Line 3 (DTL
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    4 challenges facing MAS
    766 1  -  PM Lee says developments around the world will have deep implications for central LIN YANQIN yanqinl@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The world is undergoing “a fundamental reshaping of the economic and financial landscape” which Singapore must adjust to, said Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong yesterday. Calling this “a critical
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  • HOT NEWS
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      Lock icon World stocks jump on policy hopes
      411 2 AGENCIES LONDON Stock markets worldwide rallied yesterday amid hopes that euro zone leaders would unveil fresh measures to resolve the two-year-old debt crisis, even as the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) said the global economic outlook had deteriorated significantly. Late in Europe
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      Lock icon China's property curbs 'to stay' as OECD warns of risks
      402 2 AGENCIES BEIJING Measures introduced to control China’s real estate market are at a “critical stage” and the government should keep the curbs, Chinese Vice-Premier Li Keqiang said, Xinhua reported yesterday just hours before the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
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      Lock icon 'All European ratings at risk'
      314 2 AGENCIES LONDON The rapid escalation of the euro zone sovereign debt and banking crisis threatens the credit standing of all European government bond ratings, Moody’s Investors Service warned yesterday. “While Moody’s central scenario remains that the euro area will be preserved without further widespread defaults,
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      Lock icon Lee Kuan Yew's s$12-million pledge ...
      679 3  - Lee Kuan Yew's s$12-million pledge Former MM Lee hopes fund to expose pre-schoolers to English, mother tongue will swell to s$100 JOANNE CHAN joannechan@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Former Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew has kickstarted a fund to promote bilingualism in education with a pledge to donate S$12 million, and hopes the
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      Lock icon S KOREAN PRESIDENT DONS THERMAL UNDERWEAR TO SAVE ENERGY
      279 4 AGENCIES South Korean President Lee Myung Bak said he has turned down the thermostat in his office and will wear thermal underwear during winter to help save energy. He called on fellow citizens to turn off unnecessary lighting, wear warmer clothing
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      Lock icon 70% more food needed to feed the world by 2050
      598 4 A quarter of the world’s land is now highly degraded: UN AP ROME The United Nations has completed the first global assessment of the state of the planet’s land resources, finding in a report released yesterday that a quarter of
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      Lock icon New fight looms as Oz eyes water cuts
      440 4 REUTERS CANBERRA Australian farmers faced deep cuts to irrigation water use under proposals unveiled yesterday to help drought-proof the country’s vast food bowl, a plan set to spark a new fight for Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s beleaguered Labor government. After angry farmers
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      Lock icon StarHub gets exclusive rights to broadcast Euro 2012 matches
      288 6 SINGAPORE While StarHub has acquired the exclusive broadcast rights to the 2012 UEFA European Football Championship, SingTel mioTV subscribers hoping to catch the football action could also be in luck. This is due to the cross-carriage measure which was introduced by
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      Lock icon Reforms possible only if UMNO wins general election, says Najib
      569 6 THE MALAYSIAN INSIDER KUALA LUMPUR The Malaysian government’s political and economic reform plans can only take place if the ruling party, the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO), delivers a solid win in the upcoming national polls, Prime Minister Najib Razak
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      Lock icon Low levels of Vitamin D linked to heart disease, death
      252 8 REUTERS NEW YORK For people with low blood levels of Vitamin D, boosting levels with supplements more than halved a person’s risk of dying from any cause compared to someone who remained deficient, a large new study has found. Analysing
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      Lock icon US research sheds light on rare form of autism
      489 8 AGENCIES PALO ALTO (California) Neuroscientists studying a rare syndrome linked to autism have offered new insights into the condition and its origins, the Stanford University School of Medicine said in a release on Sunday. The researchers studied brain cells developed from
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      Work to widen CTE completed
      347 10  -  SUMITA SREEDHARAN SINGAPORE Motorists heading to the city can look forward to a smoother drive and a 15-per-cent cut in their expected travelling time with the completion of work to widen the Central Expressway (CTE). The stretch of road between Bukit Timah Road and Yio
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      Lock icon Probation report called on TV host
      408 10  -  ALVINA SOH alvinasoh@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE A probation report has been called on television host Quan Yifeng (picture), after she pleaded guilty yesterday to damaging a taxi meter and the receipt printer, to assess her suitability for probation. District Judge Low Wee Ping said the court
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      518 5 iu <0 ft I Singapore MediaCorp Artiste Joanne Peh 4New Zealand Eat, Shop Sight-see lir ilhk There s no better time to experience New Zealand. A leisurely self-drive holiday allows you to marvel at the breathtaking attractions along the way. Or you can sit back, relax and and enjoy a
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      21 6 TbnWmnPad For the latest news updates on the go. Get the latest news, photos and videos from ilbiMYon your iPad. http://www.todayonline.com/iTODAY
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  • COMMENT&ANALYSIS
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      Lock icon Tech will bring down cost of services
      986 12  -  JEFFREY D SACHS Jeffrey D Sachs is Professor of Economics and director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University. He is also Special Adviser to United Nations Secretary-General on the Millennium Development Goals. PROJECT SYNDICATE A famous claim in economics is that the
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      Lock icon A geostrategic disaster in the making?
      639 14  -  SIMON TISDALL Simon Tisdall is an assistant editor of The Guardian and a foreign affairs columnist. THE GUARDIAN Readers of Dawn newspaper, commenting online, were in no doubt how the Pakistani government should respond to Saturday’s killing by NATO forces of 24 soldiers on
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      Lock icon The politics of economics in the age of shouting
      1122 16  -  BILL KELLER Bill Keller is an Op-Ed columnist for The New York Times THE NEW YORK TIMES I share a virtual neighbourhood with a legion of Times reporters, editors and columnists who know more than I will ever know about business
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      America's return to Asia: Old hegemony or new engagement?
      731 18  -  SIMON TAY Simon Tay is chairman of the Singapore Institute of International Affairs and author of Asia Alone: The Dangerous Post-Crisis Divide from America. This week, United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton makes a historic high-profile visit to Myanmar even
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      5 14 >> PAKISTAN DENIES ITSTROOPSOPENED FIRE FIRST
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  • VOICES
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      What returns from added capacity?
      529 20  -  I SAY Alex Au This is an edited extract. The full version is at http://yawningbread.wordpress.com. In 2006, then-Transport Minister Raymond Lim declared a goal of having 70 per cent of morning peak period trips on public transport by 2020, compared to 63 per cent in
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      PRs who do not serve NS may not be at a disadvantage
      386 20  -  Letter from Sreedharan Sechachalam IT WAS reported in “8,800 PRs served NS in last five years” (Nov 23) that failure to serve National Service “would be taken into account” when permanent residents who renounce their PR status subsequently
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      Singapore football: Look beyond the symptoms
      451 21  -  Letter from Tan Heng Choon NOTWITHSTANDING the contrasting opinions by sports editor Leonard Thomas, in “SLeague footballers not good enough”, and reader George Quek, in “Funding a key hurdle to Lions’ success” (Nov 25), both share a common goal: To see progress in Singapore
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      CONCERN OVER SHISHA CAFES IN THE KAMPONG GLAM AREA
      158 21  -  LETTER FROM EMILY TENG I was in the Kampong Glam area on Friday night and was surprised by the proliferation of shisha cafes and restaurants, packed with customers. While I respect the individual’s choice to smoke, it becomes a public concern
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      122 20 have your say email your letters to voices@mediacorp.com.sg join the community www.todayonline.com/voices CHINA EYES EUROPEAN ASSETS PAGE Round-the-clock Relief For Cold and Allergy The ONCE-DAILY, non-drowsy formulation for fast relief that lasts up to 24 hours. Available Now At All Major Pharmacies and Selected Clinics. For more information, consult your
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      148 21 VOICES ONLINE I would beseech that FAS be objective in reviewing Slobodan Pavkovic’s performance. He is the technical director of football development and should be gauged in that respect. From Elvin Yeo Wee ONLY AVAILABLE AT TODAYONLINE.COM OR ON OUR MOBILE APPS Vi We believe uncertainty creates opportunity. While many
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  • SINGAPORE
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      Lock icon RAYMOND LIM JOINS JOHN SWIRE & SONS
      78 22 RAYMOND LIM JOINS JOHN SWIRE SONS CHANNEL NEWSASIA Former Transport Minister Raymond Lim has been appointed senior adviser at John Swire Sons (SE Asia) Pte Ltd. The company said yesterday that he will join its newly-found-ed South-east Asian operation. A Rhodes Scholar, 52-year- old Mr Lim graduated with a First
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      Lock icon Spas have protection schemes
      293 22 Customers at 57 CaseTrust spas can now get a refund if they close CHANNEL NEWSASIA SINGAPORE About a third of the 178 CaseTrust-accredited spas in Singapore have spa protection schemes which enable consumers at these 57 spas to get a refund on the unused portion of
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      Lock icon PRESIDENT RETURNS TO NUS AS CHANCELLOR
      111 22 President Tony Tan (left, with Mr Wong Ngit Liong, chairman of the National University of Singapore’s board of trustees) was welcomed as NUS’ ninth Chancellor with a lunch yesterday. Dr Tan, who was a student and, later, a lecturer at NUS, was appointed the
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      SPH APPOINTS NEW EDITOR AT THE STRAITS TIMES
      94 22 A former senior journalist of The Straits Times, Mr Warren Fernandez, will rejoin the newspaper in February as its new editor. Mr Fernandez will take over from Mr Han Fook Kwang on Feb 15. Mr Han will become managing editor of Singapore
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      Lock icon NUMBER OF MOSQUITO BREEDING SITES IN HOMES UP 14 PER CENT
      193 23 CHANNEL NEWSASIA The number of mosquito breeding sites in Singapore homes rose by 14 per cent over the past two months compared to the three months between July and September. National Environment Agency (NEA) officers conducted 40,987 home visits
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      Lock icon After 27 years on the run, the law caught up with him
      338 23  -  NG JING YNG jingyng@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Over the past two decades, Lee Hong Mun (picture) involved himself in charitable acts, such as providing free haircuts and spiritual advice through his dual trade as a barber and a medium. The
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      NTUC FAIRPRICE EXTENDS TEXTBOOK DONATION DATE
      110 23 NTUC FairPrice has extended the date for people to make donations of used textbooks from tomorrow to Monday. It said this is because it has hit only about 50 percent of the collection target for the annual FairPrice Share-A-Textbook Project. It hopes to collect
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      183 23 There should never be any obstacles for the most outstanding minds to realise their full potential. COURSES AVAILABLE The MIT-SUTD Dual Masters’ Degree Programme offered in collaboration by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), aims to support and promote outstanding researchers
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  • WORLD
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      Lock icon Hotel blast a 'terrorist strike'
      376 24 AP MANILA Suspected militants detonated a powerful bomb that killed at least three people and wounded 27 others in a budget hotel packed with wedding guests in the southern Philippines, officials said yesterday. Investigators believe the blast and ensuing fire that gutted the two-storey Atilano
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      Lock icon Pakistan denies its troops opened fire first
      225 24 AGENCIES ISLAMABAD The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) air strikes that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers went on for almost two hours and continued even after Pakistani commanders had pleaded with coalition forces to stop, the Pakistani army claimed yesterday in charges that could
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      Lock icon China's school bus donation to Macedonia criticised
      219 25 AP BEIJING China’s donation of school buses to tiny Macedonia has ignited a torrent of criticism online, where Chinese have called the gift ill-considered, given their country’s poor safety record and a recent crash that killed 19 pre-schoolers. The government’s gift of 23
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      Lock icon Sydney student guilty of killing mother's lover
      255 25 AGENCIES SYDNEY A 21-year-old student in Sydney has been found guilty of murdering his mother’s lover in a bid to protect his family’s honour. A New South Wales state Supreme Court jury found Andrew Iskandar guilty yesterday of killing Mr Mohd Shah Saemin,
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      Lock icon ECSTASY FEARS AFTER TWO DIE IN BRITAIN
      149 25 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH Two young men have died and a third is seriously ill in Britain after apparently taking the drug Ecstasy at the same north London venue over the weekend, just days after warnings that the drug is making a comeback in
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      Lock icon They came out in droves to vote in landmark Egypt election
      401 25 AGENCIES CAIRO Shaking off years of political apathy, Egyptians turned out in droves at voting stations yesterday in their nation’s first parliamentary elections since the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak. The vote promises to be the fairest and cleanest
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      Lock icon EGYPT’S VOTERS PICK THEIR PARTY BY PICTURES
      211 25 From bananas to tanks, traffic lights to toothbrushes, a dazzling array of weird and wonderful political symbols were on offer to Egyptian voters yesterday as they headed to the polls to elect a new Parliament. The use of symbols to distinguish between rival
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      Lock icon Uproar over invitation to foreign retailers
      153 26 AGENCIES MUMBAI India’s new open door policy for foreign retailers suffered a blow as allies joined opposition parties to stall Parliament for a fifth day. In a rare concerted attack on the ruling Congress Party, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s two largest parliamentary partners joined
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      Lock icon GERMAN PROTESTERS BLOCK N-WASTE CONTAINERS
      128 26 AP Protesters braved overnight cold in northern Germany yesterday as they tried to stop 11 containers of reprocessed nuclear waste from reaching a storage facility. Workers transferred the containers early yesterday from the train that brought them to Germany from France to trucks that are
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      Lock icon NEW HAMPSHIRE'S LARGEST PAPER ENDORSES GINGRICH
      127 26 AP The influential New Hampshire Union Leader newspaper has endorsed Mr Newt Gingrich as the Republican Party’s presidential candidate, snubbing favourite Mitt Romney six weeks before voters in the state cast their ballots in one of the first Republican primaries. “We don’t back candidates
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      Lock icon New York hotel rejects DSK conspiracy theory
      273 26 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH NEW YORK The Hotel Sofitel New York where Mr Dominique Strauss-Kahn was accused of trying to rape a chambermaid issued a point-by-point denial of claims on Sunday that the former French presidential favourite was set up as part of a
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      Lock icon MARKING XMAS, BRAZILIAN-STYLE
      90 27 Rio de Janeiro marks the start of the Christmas season with the world’s first floating Christmas tree. One hundred thousand people flocked to see the lights switched on at the Rodrigo de Freitas Lagoon over the weekend. The tree was the centrepiece of an eight minute fireworks
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      Lock icon Genuine restaurant fare with DNA barcoding
      310 27 AP CANBERRA Restaurants around the world will soon use new DNA technology to assure patrons they are being served the genuine fish fillet or caviar they ordered, rather than inferior substitutes, an expert in genetic identification has said. Last month, the United States Food
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      Lock icon EARLY WALT DISNEY DRAWING UP FOR AUCTION IN US
      109 27 AP An original, autographed drawing by Walt Disney, believed to have been made at around 1920 before he hit it big in the entertainment world, will go up for auction in Reno this week. The whimsical drawing of a cigar-chomping man
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      Lock icon WIKILEAKS HONOURED AT AUSSIE JOURNALISM AWARDS
      162 27 AGENCIES The whistle-blowing website, WikiLeaks, has been honoured at Australia’s premier journalism awards for releasing of “an avalanche of inconvenient truths in a global publishing coup” which has had “an undeniable impact”. Launched in 2006, the controversial website began posting thousands of confidential United
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      364 30 AGENCIES SINGAPORE Singapore-listed insurer Great Eastern Holdings said yesterday that it will invest US$380 million (S$493 million) in the cornerstone tranche of New China Life Insurance’s Hong Kong share offering. Great Eastern, which is 87-per-cent owned by Oversea-Chinese Banking Corp,
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      335 30 AGENCIES SYDNEY Australia’s Qantas Airways flagged a fall in first-half profits of at least 50 per cent as a series of strikes, the grounding of the fleet and high fuel bills take their toll. But the airline, which suspended all flights for two days
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      270 30  -  LYNDA HONG lyndahong@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Entrepreneurship in Singapore has taken a hit from the global economic turmoil. Numbers provided to MediaCorp by a consultancy helping startups reveal a slide in company registrations in the latest quarter. A total of 13,934 companies were registered in
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      124 31 Home prices in Singapore inched up 0.9 percent last month from September mainly due to a turnaround in the value of private non-landed residential properties in the central region, according to data from the National University of Singapore
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      219 31 AGENCIES HONG KONG HKT Trust and HKT Ltd, a spinoff of PCCW, said the retail portion of its Hong Kong initial public offering was undersubscribed while the international portion was oversubscribed. HKT Trust said it received applications for 24.31 million Hong Kong offer share
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      63 31 STOCK CALLS Hold S$0.985 DBS Vickers downgrades Ascott REIT to hold from buy; cut target price to S$1.13 from S$1.34. DBS said it expects Ascott REIT to be affected by the worsening European debt crisis, as the region accounts for about 42 per cent of its asset value.
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      54 31 MONDAY CLOSE 2,694.43 (+1.91%) Friday 2,643.93 q 1.24% Thursday 2,677.15 p 0.02% Wednesday 2,676.57 q 1.50% Tuesday 2,717.20 p 0.71% TOP 5 BYVOLUME NAME VOL PRICE CHANGE GoldenAgr 93,913 $0.695 p 3.731% Noble Grp 81,400 $1.100 p 4.265% NexGenSCom^ 41,996 $0.014 p 16.66% Digiland 41,824 $0.001 UNCH Genting SP
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      25 31 HANG SENG 18,037.81 (+1.97%) Ç NIKKEI 8,287.49 (+1.56%) Ç Ç Ç Ç SHANGHAI 2,383.03 (+0.12%) AUSTRALIA 4,058.20 (+1.85%) MUMBAI 16,167.13 (+3.01%) SEOUL 1,815.28 (+2.19%)
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      61 31 JTC Corp has awarded the tender for a 60-year leasehold industrial site at Lavender Street/Kallang Avenue to PLC 8 Development for S$218.3 million. The 305,135.3-sq-ft site is zoned for Business-1 White with a 3.0 gross plot ratio and a project completion period of
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      301 32 REUTERS HONG KONG A Japanese banker who is a key figure in the Olympus accounting scandal was tracked down on Sunday to a luxury apartment block in Hong Kong. Mr Akio Nakagawa’s United States investment firm earned a US$687-million (S$893-million) fee from
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      394 32 AGENCIES BEIJING China’s Commerce Minister plans to lead an investment delegation to Europe next year, hoping to pick up some plum assets on the crisis-hit continent. China has been reluctant to publicly commit to buying additional European bonds, despite pleas for help, but could be much
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      239 32 REUTERS SHANGHAI China’s yuan started trading against the Australian dollar and Canadian dollar in the country’s onshore foreign exchange market yesterday, the latest currency pairs to be introduced as part of Beijing’s efforts to promote the use of its currency. Beijing wants to
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      76 32 REUTERS China’s largest search engine, Baidu, said yesterday that it will invest three billion yuan (S$611 million) by the end of 2015 to help two million small- and medium-sized enterprises expand their businesses. Baidu will groom 100,000 search marketing professionals, help small-
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      702 34 THE NEW YORK TIMES LONDON Hitler spent decades plotting his campaign for world domination. Mr Alwyn Collinson, 24, a recent graduate in Renaissance history from Oxford University, hatched his own plan to invade Poland in a mere five days. On
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      640 36  -  After improved outing at recent SEA Games, SAA target to be among region’s top three nations by 2015 LOW LIN FHOONG linfhoong@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE It was two years ago that alarm bells sounded on the rapidly declining state of Singapore athletics after its representatives could only
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      346 36  -  LOW LIN FHOONG SINGAPORE Race walking is set to make a return to the local track and field calendar after close to two decades, with the Singapore Athletic Association (SAA) looking to revive the sport to field athletes at
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      562 37  -  Team’s M-League campaign takes shape as central defender signs on TAN YO-HINN yohinn@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The team that will fly the Singapore colours in their return to Malaysian football competitions since 1994 is shaping up into a force capable of challenging for honours. The latest to sign
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      334 37  -  TAN YO-HINN SINGAPORE After dwelling at the bottom two places in the last five seasons as Sengkang Punggol, they had hoped for a turn of fortune with a name change. It happened: Playing as Hougang United this year, they finished seventh out of 12 teams
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      304 37  -  TAN YO-HINN SINGAPORE Following the women’s team silver medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, the aim for Singapore’s national table tennis team is another podium placing at next year’s London Games. Speaking after the ITTF Pro Tour Grand Finals, Singapore Table
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      352 38 AGENCIES LIVERPOOL Manchester City continued their unbeaten streak in the Premier League but the 1-1 draw with Liverpool at Anfield on Sunday (yesterday morning, Singapore time exposed a weak link in the club’s ambition to lift England’s top football prize for the first time in
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      545 38 Gary Speed’s death shows there’s a silent enemy that stalks players, managers AGENCIES LONDON The tears and the outpouring of tributes have been flowing endlessly since Wales manager Gary Speed (picture) was found hanged on Sunday at his Huntington home in north-west England. While the former Leeds
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      239 38 AGENCIES SAO PAULO Mark Webber capped Red Bull’s dominant year with a win at the Brazilian Grand Prix on Sunday (yesterday morning, Singapore time) finishing ahead of team-mate Sebastian Vettel and McLaren’s Jenson Button in the final race of the season. It was the
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      641 39 Federer spins magic in 70th career win and banishes any thought he will retire any time soon AGENCIES LONDON At 30, Roger Federer is supposed to be pondering what comes after tennis. The Swiss has had a magical career that has already marked him
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      A tender feistiness
      1137 2  -  Feist on heartache, astronauts and a very special message for Shia LaBeouf SERENE LIM serenelim@mediacorp.com.sg THERE’S something about the way a song can evoke an emotion.Take, for example, the lyrics to singer-songwriter Leslie Feist’s tune, Let It Die: “The saddest part of a broken heart/ Isn’t the
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      602 3  -  Drummer Scott Underwood says the band is excited about the future Christopher Toh Christophert@mediacorp.com.sg IF YOU were to ask the members of American rock group Train for one word that would describe the band, the answer probably would be “excited”. At least, that’s
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      321 4 Mnet Asian Music Awards 2011 Some of South Korea’s top K-pop acts will be making their way here, including 2PM, Miss A and Girls’ Generation, for this music awards show. Nov 29, 6pm, Singapore Indoor Stadium. Tickets at S$198 (free standing) still available from Sistic. The Rise (Or Fall)
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        233 4  -  KEVIN MATHEWS Quadrophenia—The Director’s Cut The Who HERE’S yet another “new” presentation of The Who’s 1973 classic rock opera Quadrophenia. Sub-titled “The Director’s Cut” this latest reissue collects remasters of the original double album together with demos of songs which The Who songwriter Pete Townshend originally prepared for
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        187 5  -  KEVIN MATHEWS THE beauty of heavy metal resides in the fact that in itself, the overarching genre covers a multitude of sub-genres. However, the metal bands who can deliver the core principles of the genre will be the ones that will stand the test of time. Formed
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        123 5  -  KEVIN MATHEWS THIS one-time child prodigy proves conclusively with this new release that he is one of the finest jazz guitarists of all time. George Benson’s success has been founded on his easy listening style of smooth jazz, which accounts for his appeal and accessibility. On
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        145 5  -  MAY SEAH YES, it is a niche market that “popera” group Il Divo appeals to. But boy, do they know how to work that appeal. What Il Divo lack in the colour, sprightliness and honesty that made their first album such a hit, they make up
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        240 5  -  Relooking a classic record CHRISTOPHER TOH The Four Seasons Nigel Kennedy and the English Chamber Orchestra (1989) IS THIS recording perverse, or phenomenal? Critics were divided when this album came out. Before Nigel Kennedy got his hands on it,Vivaldi’s masterpiece The Four Seasons was performed with an
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      848 6  -  Strengthen your bones with these Eveline Gan eveline@mediacorp.com.sg DURING her teenage years, MaryTeo took up sports because all her friends were doing so. In her 30s and 40s, exercise was critical in helping her to tone her figure. Now that she is approaching her autumn
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      558 8  -  EVELINE GAN ONE in 10 men in Singapore are unhappy with their sex life, with men between the ages of 45 and 49 being the unhappiest of the lot, according to new local data. To mark International Men’s Day, the
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      255 8 HEALTH LISTINGS Show your support for World Aids Day on Thursday by putting a streak of red in your hair in the next two weeks.To commemorate the 10th anniversary of Hairdressers Against AIDS (HAA), a global initiative by L’Oreal to spread awareness about HIV/AIDS, professional hair stylists
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      543 7 Advertising feature A public health educational forum by Pacific Healthcare Specialist Centre V u Planning for a baby? With the dragon year approaching, some of you might be contemplating having a new addition to your family. So what now? Like all parents, you want only the best for your baby.
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    622 10 One or Nothing Check out internationally acclaimed Indonesian artist Arkiv Vilmansa’s inaugural exhibition in Singapore. On display are paintings based on uniquely Singaporean icons such as the Merlion, Vanda Miss Joaquim and the squirrel mascot for POSB’s Squirrel Savers’ Club. Until tomorrow, 12pm to 6pm, Flab Slab
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