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  • 36 1 TODAY MICA (P) 031/10/2011 A PUBLICATION OF /AeDIACORP NEWS HOTLINE 6822 2268 Friday December 2, 2011 Today MICA (P) 031/10/2011 A PUBLICATION OF NEWS HOTLINE 6822 2268 Friday December 2, 2011 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking
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    • 691 2 Carlton Hotel Concorde Hotel Singapore Celebrate this Christmas with more savings on dining, exclusively by Citibank. Hotels Fairmont Singapore Orchard Hotel Singapore Tel: 6734 7766 Amara Sanctuary Resort Sentosa Tel: 6825 3866/88 Holiday Inn Singapore Orchard City Centre Andersen’s of Denmark Amara Singapore Tel: 6879 2649/555 Big O Café Restaurant
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  • 522 1 AGENCIES BEIJING Manufacturing weakened from China to Europe last month as the euro zone’s debt problems darkened the outlook for the global economy, data showed yesterday, as European Central Bank president Mario Draghi signalled it could do more to fight the credit
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  • 444 1  -  Civil servants to get two days of parent-care leave annually from January ESTHER NG estherng@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Working adults clamoured for it and wrote numerous letters to the media. Yesterday, after years of campaigning from Members of Parliament, the Public Service Division (PSD) announced that it
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  • HOT NEWS
    • 630 2  -  TAN WEIZHEN weizhen@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE DBS Bank customers can look forward to more secure Internet banking from next year, as the bank becomes the first to launch a new Internet banking token with other banks here due to follow suit. With cyber attacks
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    • 499 2  -  HETTY MUSFIRAH hetty@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Scoot, Singapore’s first longhaul budget carrier, has chosen Sydney as its first destination and will begin flights next June, the unit of Singapore Airlines (SIA) said yesterday. A Boeing 777 aircraft, with a seating capacity of
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    • 416 3 CHANNEL NEWSASIA SINGAPORE Minister for the Environment and Water Resources Vivian Balakrishnan wants the National Environment Agency (NEA) to send a clearer deterrent message to litterbugs. Dr Balakrishnan suggested the NEA relook its current regime, which includes the corrective work order (CWO) and fines. “We
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    • 443 3  -  CAROLYN QUEK carolynquek@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Following a successful push to clear illegal advertisements from MRT stations and lamp posts, the Land Transport Authority (LTA) is now extending its fight to more structures and road facilities. The authority is planning to install notice
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    • 436 4 SINGAPORE Singapore came in fifth in a list ranking the world’s cleanest governments, while Somalia and North Korea tied for the dubious distinction of most corrupt. Singapore also ranks second within Asia Pacific, behind New Zealand, which topped the global ranking of 183 countries
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    • 509 6  -  NG JING YNG jingyng@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE After months of deliberation, the Ministry of Health (MOH) has decided to bring forward the opening of Sengkang Hospital to 2018, two years ahead of schedule. Writing on the MOH’s blog yesterday, Health Minister Gan Kim Yong said
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    • 379 6 CHANNEL NEWSASIA SINGAPORE A probation report was called yesterday for a 14-year-old girl who held down her 10-year-old male relative while her mother splashed hot oil on him. The girl, her parents and two sisters, aged 20 and 24, were arrested in
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    • 585 8 Anti-AIDS group reveals children in Asia are becoming resistant to AIDS drugs, require improved medicine REUTERS HONG KONG Teenagers in Asia receiving treatment for HIV are showing early signs of osteoporosis and children as young as five are becoming resistant to
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    • 343 8 SINGAPORE Fearing rejection from their loved ones and society if they are found to have contracted HIV, too few are coming forward for voluntary HIV testing. Just 12 per cent of newly-diagnosed cases were detected through voluntary testing last year, and more than half
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    • 360 10 AGENCIES KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak yesterday told officials of the ruling party that it risks losing power in elections expected to be held next year if it fails to boost its appeal among a new generation of
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    • 286 10 AGENCIES YANGON United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton yesterday offered Myanmar the first rewards for reform, saying the US would back more aid for the country and consider returning an ambassador after an absence of about two decades. Mrs Clinton said she
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  • COMMENT&ANALYSIS
    • 875 12  -  DAVID PILLING David Pilling is the FT’s Asia editor. THE FINANCIAL TIMES LIMITED The last time a United States Secretary of State visited Burma, Dwight D Eisenhower was President and the South-east Asian country was not yet a byword for repressive little dictatorships.
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    • 617 14  -  AMITY SHLAES Amity Shlaes is a Bloomberg View columnist and the director of the Four Percent Growth Project at the Bush Institute. The opinions expressed are her BLOOMBERG Whether his recent rise in the polls is lasting or not, Mr
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    • 813 14  -  MEHDI KHALAJI Mehdi Khalaji is a senior fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. PROJECT SYNDICATE As the West ratchets up its economic pressure on Iran to halt its drive to develop nuclear weapons, the Islamic republic’s rulers are not sitting idly by. Since Iran
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    • 1146 16  -  As the Obama administration focuses on a new region, it has to tread the path with care CHRISTOPHER HILL Christopher Hill, former US Assistant Secretary of State for East Asia, was US Ambassador to Iraq, South Korea, Macedonia, and Poland, US
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    • 1064 18  -  To save the euro zone, the country needs to know what it wants and take steps needed to stop the crisis CLIVE CROOK Clive Crook is a Bloomberg View columnist. The opinions expressed are his own. Mr Radoslaw Sikorski made a striking comment in
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    • 69 17 Explore a multitude of renowned fashion offerings. Select a luxurious gift for a loved one, or a small memento for a friend. Whether it's shopping for yourself or someone else, with more than 280 shops now open, you'll find an infinite number of ways to liven up the festive season
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  • VOICES
    • 118 20  -  LETTER FROM DAVID FOO It was reported in “A tighter leash on casino advertising” (Nov 26) that casino operators here are now required to seek approval for all advertising and promotional activities, under new government restrictions. The aim is to limit the
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    • 440 20  -  Not a lack of will-power, but a treatable brain disorder that one can recover from Letter from Tan Hwee Sim, Thomas Lee Kae Meng WE REFER to the Singapore Mental Health Study findings that 3.5 per cent and 0.5 per cent of adults in Singapore
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    • 241 20  -  Letter from Liu I-Chun WITH the review of smoke-free places underway, I would highlight an area that has been overlooked time and again: The home, where people spend most of their time. While there have been calls for more tolerance, telling people to tolerate their
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    • 419 22  -  SAY Christine Huang The writer is a final-year law student at the National University of Singapore. What is the worth of a woman? Not very much, if the answer is the width of her waist, the length of her legs and the
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    • 423 22  -  Letter from Helen Lim Acting Director, Media Relations, Land Transport Authority WE REFER to Ms Chua Kim Choo’s letter “Too many entrances and exits will ham per speed on expressway”, Ms Sandra Jayandran’s letter “New infrastructure, but at what cost”
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    • 349 22  -  Letter from Leong Sze Hian I REFER to the articles “Khaw’s wish might come true” (Dec 1) and “HDB publishes clearer data on BTO application rates” (Nov 26) and the statistics on the success rate for getting a new public flat. There were 1.4
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    • 111 22  -  LETTER FROM DESMOND LIM It is amazing that the new Circle Line seems to have leaking problems not only in a downpour but even when it is not raining. For example, there have been signs of leaks at Bras Basah Station since it
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    • 179 24  -  Letter from Yap Boh Tiong I COMMEND Mayo Martin on his well-written article “Medal of honour?” (Nov 28). It provided many interesting points for debate on the way the Cultural Medallion and Young Artist Award recipients are selected. To preserve the prestige factor of
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    • 443 24  -  Letter from Danial Bohan I SUPPORT the suggestions in the letter “Do more to help the disabled” (Nov 26). It is time that the Education Ministry reviews its systems to better support the learning needs of less able pupils in mainstream
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    • 237 24  -  Letter from Hwa Shi-Hsia THE article “Dining in the dark” (Nov 26) in the Travel section, about London’s Dans Le Noir restaurant, was interesting. But one need not travel so far for a similar experience. The Singapore Association of the Visually Handicapped, located
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    • 122 24  -  LETTER FROM KOH KAR SIONG We refer to “Where’s the update, POSB?” (Nov 25) and thank Mr Paul Fernandez for his suggestion to addTamil as a language option on our Automated Teller Machines. The choice of languages offered is guided
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  • Page 20 Miscellaneous
    • 71 20 VOICES ON RADIO The National Environment Agency has launched an e-poll on a smoking ban extension. Some people are also calling for more clarity on the current ban, with complaints of smokers lighting up near bus stops and of smoke drifting from smoking tables at food outlets. What do you
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 502 26  -  Programme aims to feed demand for skilled manpower SUMITA SREEDHARAN sumitas@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE With the tourism industry facing a labour crunch and high manpower turnover, the Institute of Technical Education (ITE) has launched a new full-time course that it hopes will feed the
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    • 238 26 CHANNEL NEWSASIA SINGAPORE The SMRT is adding more than 260 extra train trips each week on the North-South and East-West Lines ahead of the year-end festivities. The additional train trips start tomorrow and will last until the end of the
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    • 447 28  -  SAIFULBAHRI ISMAIL saiful2@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Maids in Singapore should go through training under the Settling-In Programme (SIP) to help them adapt to life here, instead of sitting for the current mandatory entry test, says the Foreign Domestic Worker Association for Skills Training (FAST). In an
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    • 400 28  -  CHEOW XIN YI SINGAPORE It might have started out as a “part-time” business venture among four friends but, within a span of five years, homegrown security equipment and software provider KAI Square has become a million-dollar company employing more than 40 people with offices
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    • 418 30  -  JOANNE CHAN joannechan@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Expect to see Singapore’s first batch of locally-bred golden pomfret at supermarkets and restaurants come May next year, as the authorities continue in efforts to boost productivity at local fish farms and improve food security. The Agri-Food Veterinary Authority
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    • 302 30 CHANNEL NEWSASIA SINGAPORE The Ministry of Finance (MOF) has kicked off the feedback exercise for Budget 2012 with the launch of the Budget 2012 website. The aim is to garner public views ahead of Budget 2012. Through this exercise, the MOF wants
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    • 135 30 AP Somali pirates released a hijacked palm oil tanker and 21 crew members but kept four South Koreans as hostages, the ship’s Singapore-based operator said yesterday. The pirates promised to release all 25 crew members on Wednesday but instead took the four South
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    • 259 30  -  ALVINA SOH alvinasoh@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE A former managing director of a company that sells aviation spare parts and equipment was jailed eight weeks in a district court yesterday for bribing a Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) captain in exchange for confidential information
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    • 176 32 The Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) has urged the public to exercise greater caution to minimise fire hazards and prevent fire outbreaks, with the festive season approaching. As the number of patrons and customers are usually higher during this period, the
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    • 544 32  -  TANYA FONG tanyafong@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The general practitioner who is in court for not complying with court orders and owing his four children and ex-wife about S$128,000 in maintenance had transferred more than S$1 million to his clinic assistant and her
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    • 96 32  -  ALVINA SOH A former undertaker was charged in court yesterday with two counts of corruption for allegedly accepting bribes to reveal addresses of deceased persons. Victor Louis De Foe, 65, allegedly accepted S$50 from another funeral services company on two occasions in May this year
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  • WORLD
    • 156 34 AGENCIES Chinasaysitwillhostamulti-nationalMekongRiversecurityhdrtrndiwillintItgavenodateforitsestab-lishment,althoughcoordinatedrivrtrlrtbinrnd China says it will host a multinational Mekong River security headquarters and is willing to despatch experts to help train security personnel in Myanmar and Laos. The Public Security Ministry says the centre will be located in the Mekong River port
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    • 423 34 AP TAIPEI Signs that Taiwan was preparing for a possible war with China were once everywhere: Huge posters calling for liberating the Chinese mainland and lengthy schoolyard drills training students to fight the communist enemy. That culture has changed so much since a
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    • 248 34 AGENCIES ISLAMABAD Pakistan could withdraw its support for the United States-led war on militancy if its sovereignty is violated again, the Foreign Minister suggested in comments published yesterday, even as the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) said there were signs of a rapprochement.
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    • 226 36 BLOOMBERG HONG KONG The police are seeking two men captured on closed-circuit television at the scene of Wednesday’s fire in the Mong Kok district that killed nine people and injured 34. “These two men may provide us with information
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    • 364 36 AP ATHENS Thousands of protesters bitterly opposed to government austerity measures marched through the Greek capital yesterday as workers walked off the job in their seventh general strike of the year. Schools and public services shut down, ferries were confined to port and hospitals
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    • 209 36 THE GUARDIAN BEIJING More than 100 workers have blockaded a Tesco store in east China, the latest incident in a wave of industrial action in the country. Staff occupied the entrances and exits round the clock, preventing shoppers from entering, in a protest over
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    • 122 36 REUTERS China will put back into service 54 bullet trains that were recalled after a deadly train crash in eastern China fanned a furore about equipment flaws, the state media said yesterday. The recalled trains, which were meant to be used on
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    • 224 40 AP SYDNEY British American Tobacco launched legal action against the Australian government yesterday, challenging the country’s tough new law that bans logos from cigarette packs. The move comes less than two weeks after Australia’s Parliament passed the legislation, which forces tobacco companies to
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    • 108 40 AP Radioactive debris from melted fuel rods may have seeped deeper into the floor of a tsunami-hit nuclear reactor in Japan than previously thought, a new simulation showed on Wednesday. Plant operatorTokyo Electric Power said its latest simulation showed that fuel at
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    • 325 40 REUTERS NEW DELHI India’s Parliament has always been a boisterous and chaotic place that, like the country itself, still somehow worked. These days, however, it is not even muddling through. Proceedings have been abruptly called off every day so far since the
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    • 141 40 AP A Philippine court yesterday gave former President Gloria Arroyo until next Tuesday to move to a government hospital after she was arrested on electoral fraud charges at a high-end private medical facility. Prosecutors said Arroyo should not receive preferential treatment. They want
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    • 108 40 AP Engineers inspected and declared a New Zealand office building safe five times in the months before it collapsed and killed 18 people in an earthquake earlierthis year, according to testimony at a government probe. Two engineers testified this week about their inspections
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    • 243 42 AGENCIES PARIS Former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn believes his sexual encounter with a hotel maid last May was “consensual but stupid”, according to a new book claiming to give his version of events. In DSK Affairs: The Second Inquiry, his biographer
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    • 375 42 BLOOMBERG BRUSSELS European Union (EU) governments yesterday tightened sanctions on Iran in a clampdown on the country’s nuclear programme, while divisions festered over a possible halt to purchases of Iranian oil. Following penalties imposed by the United States last month, the EU added
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    • 117 42 AP Norway yesterday reopened its embassy in Tehran after a 24-hour closure due to security concerns following the attack by protesters on Britain’s diplomatic mission. Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hilde Steinfeld says the premises opened after authorities had made a new evaluation of the situation. Norway
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    • 240 44 AGENCIES SHANGHAI Shanghai-based China Eastern Airlines has pledged to improve the English language skills of its flight crews after one of its planes was accused of taking off without clearance in Japan. Details of what happened on Monday in Osaka
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    • 339 44 AP HONG KONG Fast-growing Asian and Middle Eastern airlines have signed orders recently for hundreds of new airplanes. Now they face the problem of finding enough pilots to fly them. While there have been warnings for several years of a pilot
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    • 266 45 REUTERS WASHINGTON United States lawmakers on Wednesday proposed fighting the cyber threat that is taking a toll on American companies by allowing spy agencies to share threat intelligence with private firms. Representative Mike Rogers, the Republican chairman of
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    • 163 45 THE GUARDIAN The government intelligence service in Britain, GCHQ, is aiming to attract the next generation of web-savvy spies by running an ad campaign that challenges computer hackers to crack a code to get an interview. GCHQ, which reports to the
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    • 187 45 AP The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is considering lowering its standards forthe levels of arsenic allowed in apple juice after consumer groups pushed the agency to crack down on the contaminant. Studies show that apple juice has generally
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    • 159 45 AGENCIES McDonald’s has turned on a dime to get around San Francisco’s ban on fast-food meals containing free toys. It will now cost an extra 10 US cents (S$0.13) in San Francisco to get a toy in a Happy
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    • 232 47 AP MANCHESTER (New Hampshire) United States presidential candidate Mr Herman Cain has begun to outline a possible exit strategy from the race while admitting that his campaign’s fundraising has suffered. The former business executive, facing a woman’s allegation of a 13-year
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    • Article, Illustration
      105 47 A rare and pristine copy of the first issue of Action Comics, famed for the first appearance of Superman, has set a record on Wednesday for the most money paid for a single comic book: US$2.16 million (S$2.77 million). The issue, graded at 9.0, was auctioned starting
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    • 135 47 AP The discovery of a cross-border tunnel equipped with electric rail cars, a hydraulic lift and end-to-end wood floors has ended in seizures of more than 30,000kg of marijuana, the authorities said on Wednesday. The seizure onTuesday ranks as the second-largest pot
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    • 141 47 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH An American man was rushed to hospital after being “shot” in the buttocks by his dog during an ill-fated duck hunting accident in Utah. The 46 year-old, who has not been named, was hit just 3m away
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    • 168 47 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney has attacked Republican rival Mr Newt Gingrich for the first time, in a sign of growing alarm at the former Speaker of the House’s surging poll numbers. In an interview with Fox News, Mr
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    • 248 49 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH LONDON Men think about sex an average of 19 times a day almost 8,000 times less than previously thought. They also think about food almost as much as sex —18 times followed by sleep, which crosses their mind
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    • 90 49 New York City rang in the holiday season on Wednesday night as the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree, with its 30,000 lights, lit up for tens of thousands people watching. The ceremony featured performances by Neil Diamond, Cee Lo Green and Carol King. Justin Bieber and Tony
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    • 289 49 THE GUARDIAN LONDON Pregnant women have been urged to monitor their coffee consumption after research showed that a single cup in some high street cafes can contain more caffeine than official health advice says is wise. The National Institute for Health and Clinical
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  • BUSINESS
    • 243 50 AGENCIES SINGAPORE Standard Poor’s yesterday upgraded the credit ratings of United Overseas Bank (UOB) and Oversea-Chinese Banking Corp (OCBC) by one notch to AA- with a stable outlook as a result of major changes in the criteria it uses to assess risk. The rating on
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    • 55 50 THURSDAY CLOSE 2,761.88 (+2.20%) Wednesday 2,702.46 p 0.53% Tuesday 2,688.10 q 0.23% Monday 2,694.43 p 1.91% Friday 2,643.93 q 1.24% TOP 5 BY VOLUME NAME VOL PRICE CHANGE GMG R 332,098 $0.027 UNCH Noble Grp 89,383 $1.200 p 5.263% Genting SP 69,185 $1.540 p 2.326% GoldenAgr 53,810 $0.715 p
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    • 75 50 STOCK CALLS BUY S$0.535 OCBC maintains rating and S$0.64 target price. Says it expects the near-term prospects of the infrastructure and civil engineering firm to remain healthy given its high tender success rate and order book of more than S$400 million. Adds that “more contract wins will provide more
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    • 457 50  -  YVONNE CHAN yvonnechan@mediacorp.com.sg WITH AGENCIES SINGAPORE The Straits Times Index climbed 2.2 per cent to 2,761.88 at the close yesterday, the biggest advance since Oct 27, joining other major South-east Asian markets in a rally after six major central banks moved to ease a liquidity
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    • 214 50  -  WONG SIEW YING SINGAPORE KPMG said yesterday it has recovered another US$142 million (S$182.3 million) of customers’ segregated funds of MF Global Singapore (MFGS). The funds were received from local and offshore financial institutions, third party counterparties, clearing members and correspondent
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    • 94 52 DOW JONES Olam International, a commodities supplier partly owned by Temasek Holdings, said yesterday that it will invest US$49.2 million (S$63.3 million) to set up a farm and rice milling facility in Nigeria. The farming operations will be carried out in a phased manner
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    • 105 52 DOW JONES Australia’s Aspire Mining said yesterday that Singapore-listed commodities trader Noble Group has agreed to market coking coal from the Ovoot project being developed in northern Mongolia. This gives Noble marketing rights to at least half of the first 5 million
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    • 102 52  -  AVELYN NG Texas-based precision machining firm KNUST-SBO opened its first plant outside the United States in Singapore yesterday as part of plans to expand in South-east Asia. The company, a subsidiary of Austria’s Schoeller-Bleckmann Oilfield Equipment, said it will invest an initial US$10 million (S$12.8
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    • 181 52 DOW JONES SINGAPORE Singapore-based healthcare company Parkway Pantai, which is partly owned by Malaysia sovereign wealth fund Khazanah Holdings, has appointed three banks as joint global coordinators for its planned initial public offering, a person familiar with the transaction said yesterday. The group
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    • 195 52 REUTER5 HONG KONG Macau, the world’s largest gambling destination, posted a 32.9-per-cent rise in November gaming revenue to 23 billion patacas (S$3.7 billion), government figures showed yesterday. November revenue, which rose at the slowest pace this year, was expected to fall from October’s record
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    • 223 52 AGENCIES ZURICH UBS appointed Mr Philip Lofts back to his former role as chief risk officer yesterday, removing Ms Maureen Miskovic with immediate effect after less than a year in the job following the Swiss bank’s US$2.3 billion (S$2.95 billion) trading
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    • 250 54 REUTERS JAKARTA Indonesia’s annual inflation dropped in November to its lowest pace since April last year, giving the central bank more room to cut its benchmark rate again if it feels the global economic picture will get much worse. Annual inflation
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    • 237 54 AGENCIES TOKYO Japan is planning a fourth extra budget, a step unprecedented since post-war reconstruction in 1947, to help shore up a rebound that is under threat from a surge in the yen, Europe’s crisis and Thai floods that have disrupted production. Finance Minister JunAzumi
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    • 167 54 AGENCIES The former chief executive and two other executives of collapsed Glitnir Bank were sentenced to one week in custody by the Reykjavík District Court on Wednesday, the Iceland Review website reported yesterday. Former CEO Larus Welding, former director of market trade Johannes
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    • 157 54 REUTERS Former Olympus CEO turned whistle-blower Michael Woodford launched a campaign yesterday to oust the board of directors, reclaim his old job and bring in his own team to save the Japanese firm from a big accounting scandal. Mr Woodford, who publicly
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    • 135 56 Get all your festive eats and needs at Cold Storage supermarkets. From festive foods to wines and party solutions, Cold Storage has a wide selection of offerings. Impress your guests with Cold Storage’s eight Dinner Deal packages that include butterball turkey with chestnut stuffing and
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    • 350 58 Technology rumour mill fuels talk of radical redesign for iPhone 5 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH LONDON New, larger screens have begun to ship for use in Apple’s iPhone 5, respected sources have reported. The decision to use a larger screen for the new iPhone would put the
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    • 262 58  -  RYHAN YAZID SINGAPORE Companies looking to give their businesses legs can tap on services provided by Netbiscuits, now that it has chosen Singapore as its base for expansion into the Asia-Pacific. The German-based company owns one of the world’s leading platforms for developing,
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    • 345 58 REUTERS NEW YORK Blackstone Group and Bain Capital are preparing a bid for all of Yahoo! with Asian partners in a deal that could value the Internet company at about US$25 billion (S$32.1 billion), a source familiar with the matter said yesterday. The potential
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    • 233 60 DOW JONES SINGAPORE Singapore-listed Global Logistic Properties (GLP), which manages logistics facilities in China and Japan, has priced a S$500 million perpetual bond issue at a 5.50 per cent coupon, according to a term sheet seen by Dow Jones Newswires yesterday.
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    • 491 60 DOW JONES SHANGHAI Housing prices in 100 major cities in China dropped on a monthly basis for a third consecutive month in November and posted their biggest month-on-month decline this year, according to the privately compiled China Real Estate Index System
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    • 602 64 Let down by seniors in Carling Cup, Scot tells fans it was not a performance expected of United AGENCIES MANCHESTER Old Trafford was stunned and a much-changed Manchester United first XI was left dejected after they were booted out of the Carling Cup by Crystal
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    • 222 64 AGENCIES LIVERPOOL —Kenny Dalglish faces a midfield crisis as Lucas Leiva looked set to be sidelined for the rest of the season with a knee injury sustained during Liverpool’s 2-0 victory over Chelsea in the Carling Cup on Tuesday The Brazilian midfielder, one of his club’s
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    • 425 64 AGENCIES EUROPA LEAGUE GROUP A Tottenham Hotspur 1 PAOK Salonika 2 LONDON Tottenham Hotspur are virtually out of the Europa League after their 1-2 defeat to PAOK Salonika at White Hart Lane on Tuesday (Wednesday morning, Singapore time), but manager Harry Redknapp is
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    • 594 66 Sunderland manager gets the boot, as O’Neill and Hughes top list to take over Black Cats AGENCIES LONDON Ellis Short witnessed the horrific home defeat to Wigan on Saturday which saw furious fans turn on Sunderland manager Steve Bruce (picture) and decided enough was enough. The
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    • 471 66  -  PHILIP GOH philipgoh@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE They are aiming to fire up the ExCel Exhibition Centre in eight months’ time at the London Olympics but for two nights, starting today, eight of the world’s top men’s foil fencers will do battle at the Marina
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    • 208 66 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH After months of talk without anything materialising, the much-awaited bout between WBO welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao and WBC belt holder Floyd Mayweather Jr is seeing some daylight. On Wednesday, Pacquiao said only a few “little things” needed to be
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    • 745 68  -  Seven corporate head honchos will go the distance this Sunday at the StanChart marathon TAN YO-HINN yohinn@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE They are the chiefs of some of Singapore’s biggest companies. On Sunday, they will trade business attire for lighter get-ups to be among 65,000 runners from
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    • 489 74  -  Singapore squad gear up to fight for Olympic places as strong winds rule in Perth TAN YO-HINN yohinn@mediacorp.com.sg 2011 ISAF WORLD SAILING CHAMPIONSHIPS SINGAPORE At the sailing regatta during the last Olympics in Beijing three years ago, Singapore sailors competed in four classes and they
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    • 255 76 AP BRISBANE Arthur Beetson (picture), who was the first indigenous Australian to lead a national sports team and played a key role in revitalising the fierce Queensland-New South Wales rivalry with the State-of-Origin concept, died of a heart attack yesterday. He was 66.
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    • 398 76 AGENCIES SEVILLA (Spain) Rafael Nadal will play Argentina’s Juan Monaco in today’s opening singles rubber as the world No 2 returns to the scene of his first professional triumph to begin Spain’s bid for a third Davis Cup title in four years. Nadal was just 18
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    • 62 1 ARTS MUSIC MOVIES TELEVISION WINE DINE STYLE DESIGN HEALTH TECH TRAVEL CARS DECEMBER 2, 2011 A PUBLICATION OF WHAT’S THE CATCH? SEAFOOD LOVERS GET THE CERTIFIED REAL DEAL TRIED AND (DNA) TESTED T2 ROCHESTER PARK’S JAPANESE GEM, SERVED FRESH T4 A TASTE OF ROBUCHON AT HOME T6 CARS FUN TIMES
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    • 504 2  -  Now you can be sure: Restaurants are planning to have DNA-certified premium seafood for diners Rod McGuirk features@mediacorp.com.sg AP 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
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    • 750 10  -  Unlike buffalo wings, these are actually made from pork John T Edge features@mediacorp.com.sg THE NEW YORK TIMES TRISHA ROBERTS set aside her knowledge of animal anatomy and bit into a deep-fried Pig Wing. One recent evening, at a bar near here, she dunked that
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    • 510 14 REUTERS RAPPER Kanye West led the field of Grammy contenders, who were announced on Wednesday, with seven nominations, including for his album My Beautiful DarkTwisted Fantasy and his joint venture with Jay-Z Watch The Throne. But British singer Adele whose album 21
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    • 258 14 Pippa, Kardashians among ‘most fascinating’ of 2011 REUTERS WHAT do Britain’s Pippa Middleton and the US’ Kardashian family have in common? They are all among the 10 most fascinating people of 2011, according to veteran US journalist Barbara Walters. Middleton, 28, younger sister of Prince
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    • 193 15 YOU’VE heard them on the radio, but now DJs from MediaCorp’s Chinese radio stations Y.E.S 93.3FM, Capital 95.8FM and Love 97.2FM DJs have come together for the first time in a stage production entitled Resonance. Held in conjunction with radio’s 75th anniversary
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    • 443 16  -  The 42nd Tokyo Motor Show previews cars that won’t just be environmentally-friendly, but fun to drive as well Derryn Wong Derryn Wong in Tokyo features@mediacorp.com.sg IT’S been a difficult five years for Japanese automakers.The global recession hit them hard and affected future product planning due
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    • 583 16  -  Legendary Italian designer Giorgetto Giugiaro has designed countless beautiful machines in his five-decade career, but it’s still utility that inspires him the most DERRYN WONG GIORGETTO Giugiaro (picture) is a giant of automotive design.The 73-year-old Italian began his 56-year-long career at Fiat, moving to famous design houses
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    • 30 17 In last week’s review, the price of the Mini Coupe was listed as S$ 172,800. The correct price should be S$ 179,800 with COE. We apologise for the error.
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  • 578 18 Resonance DJsfrom MediaCorp radio stations YES 93.3FM, Capital 95.8FM and Love 97.2FM take to the stage together for the first time in this theatrical spectacular in celebration of MediaCorp Radio’s 75th anniversary. In a tale that spans 75 years and three generations,the storytells of how radio binds
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    • 278 19 ON MEDIACORP HUMAN PLANET okto, 9pm This episode explores the extraordinary ways in which people survive at extreme altitudes where nature becomes unforgiving. In the Alta mountains in Western Mongolia, the locals forge an astonishing partnership with golden eagles which hunt for them. On the cliffs of the Simien mountains
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    • 47 21 A Today SHOP TO WIN supplement brought to you Fabulous festive make-up and how to use them >> Page T24 Eelyn Kok on staying svelte >> Page T28 Decadent recipes that are (slightly) healthier >> Page T31 ALL YOU NEED FOR A WARM AND FUZZY CELEBRATION WITH YOUR LOVED ONES
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    • 280 21 On Elizabeth:Tweed dress, S$75.90, from Zara Kids; and glitter bow shoes, S$35.90, from bloomB. On Traico: Long-sleeved checked shirt, S$115, from Massimo Dutti; blazer, S$183, tie, S$26, pants, S$99 and oxford shoes, S$169, all fromTopman. (On cover, from left) On Paula: Chiffon dress, S$196, from
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      77 24 Shower your loved ones with these beautiful gift sets Lancome Les Miniatures Fragrance Set, S$65 Yves Saint Laurent Coffret for Him: La Nuit de L’Homme Noel 2011, S$109 La Mer The Discovery Collection, S$450 Estee Lauder by Michael Kors Gunmetal Set, S$98 (with any purchase of S$50 or
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    • 409 24  -  Put your best face forward with these nifty products and get ready for the year-end party in just minutes NICOLETTE ONG, WOO SIAN BOON Make-up Tips Bowled over by work or preparations for that large-family get-together this Christmas? The good news: It won’t take you that long
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    • 790 26  -  Have yourself a very merry Christmas with these healthier eating tips EVELINE GAN Remember how you stuffed yourself last Christmas? For most of us, diet plans and logic abandon all senses when we’re confronted with delicious festive treats. Even MediaCorp actress Eelyn Kok
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    • 493 28  -  Eelyn Kok shares how she keeps fit despite her sweet tooth EVELINE GAN She might not look like one but the svelte Eelyn Kok let on that she is quite the glutton when it comes to sweet treats. That is why, even though her job requires her
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      194 30 Gift ideas for the family For the baby in the family: Dangly elf plush toy, S$39, from Marks Spencer. Even the young and bawling ones need a dose of Christmas spirit. For cousins you don’t know very well, you can’t go wrong with a cute tin of gingerbread
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      660 31  -  Serving rich yet simple-to-make dishes for a large party makes the festivities satisfying for both guests and cook ANNETTE TAN When feeding a crowd, you want to give them something satisfying yet easy to make. In that vein, nothing beats a dish that’s irresistible yet rich so
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