Today, 3 December 2011

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  • 17 1 TODAY on Saturday A PUBLICATION OF NEWS HOTLINE 6822 2268 December 3, 2011 www.todayonline.com MICA (P) 200/02/2011
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  • 484 1 AGENCIES WASHINGTON The labour market in the United States unexpectedly strengthened last month, with the jobless rate falling to its lowest level since March 2009 as private employers in the world’s largest economy stepped up hiring in response to the gradual
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  • 606 1 SINGAPORE Property tax on Housing and Development Board (HDB) flats is set to rise from next year, after annual values (AV) of HDB flats were yesterday revised upwards with effect from January to reflect the increase in their market values. However,
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    • 36 1 INOUR SUNDAY EDITION JAILED AFGHAN WOMAN FREED BUT FORCED TO MARRY HER RAPIST WORLD 23 the st regis perspectives John Ryan, CEO of the Center for Creative AVAILABLE AT MAJOR SHOPPING MALLS AND ALL STARBUCKS OUTLETS
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  • HOT NEWS
    • 391 2 AP BERLIN German Chancellor Angela Merkel (picture) flatly rejected any quick-fix ideas to try to resolve the European financial crisis, telling lawmakers yesterday that treaty changes and stricter controls were the only path forward and that the process could take years. Mrs Merkel and French
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    • 519 2 AP YANGON In a striking display of solidarity and sisterhood between two of the world’s most recognisable women, the United States Secretary of State, Mrs Hillary Clinton, and Myanmar opposition leader Ms Aung San Suu Kyi vowed yesterday to work together to promote
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    • 253 2 BLOOMBERG BEIJING China cannot use its US$3.2 trillion (S$4.1 trillion) in foreign exchange reserves to “rescue” European nations and the country “has done its part” to help the region deal with its financial crisis, ViceForeign Minister Fu Ying said yesterday. “The argument that
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    • 493 3  -  SARA GROSSE saragroose@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE To intensify efforts in supporting children of abuse, the Government will set up a specialist agency for child protection next year, which will serve as a focal point and work with the relevant agencies to handle cases of child abuse. Announcing
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    • 252 3 REUTERS BEIJING Chinese home prices are at a turning point and banks are concerned about a possible chain reaction if they fall by 20 per cent, the central bank said yesterday. “Real estate investment growth eased, developers’ cash flows tightened, land transactions and prices
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    • 498 3  -  SUMITA SREEDHARAN sumitas@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Different management models and stall allocation modes were among the topics discussed by a 19-member panel looking into the future of hawker centres, amid public debate about rising food costs and rents. In their two meetings thus far,
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    • 287 4 SINGAPORE A number of flights arriving at Changi Airport yesterday had to be diverted elsewhere, after a cargo plane veered off a runway, leading to a temporary closure of the runway. The incident occurred yesterday afternoon, and the runway was
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    • 620 4  -  Singapore’s annual marathon eyes elite billing as SSC CEO Lim works on a possible unique race for 2015 TAN YO-HINN yohinn@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The Standard Chartered Marathon Singapore could soon become part of the elite band of top races in the world as organisers seek
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    • 611 6  -  TANYA FONG tanyafong@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Because his lover’s daughter disliked him, he was sometimes instructed to confine himself in a room in their flat, where he claimed he sometimes had to relieve himself in a plastic bag. These details emerged in court yesterday at
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    • 258 6  -  GENEVIEVE LOH SINGAPORE Transformers film franchise director and executive producer Michael Bay was at Resorts World Sentosa yesterday to officially launch the world premiere of Transformers The Ride at Universal Studios Singapore. Making a Hollywood blockbuster-worthy entrance on stage in a 2010 Chevrolet Camaro (the
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    • 333 6 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH LONDON A second iPhone 4 has reportedly exploded in the second such incident in less than a week. In the latest mishap, which happened in Brazil on Wednesday morning, the Apple smartphone short-circuited and started to burn about 40cm from a
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    • 233 8  -  AGENCIES, WITH ADDITIONAL REPORTING BY MILLET ENRIQUEZ MILLET ENRIQUEZ AGENCIES SHANGHAI More than 200 workers massed outside a Shanghai factory of a Singaporean electronics firm yesterday in a third day of strikes, denouncing what they said was a management plan for mass layoffs. Blue-jacketed workers,
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    • 235 8 REUTERS BANGKOK Thailand’s selfexiled, fugitive former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra could be reissued his Thai passport within weeks as a “New Year present” from the government, the country’s foreign minister said yesterday. Thaksin, who lives in Dubai to avoid jail in Thailand, should be
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    • 374 8 AGENCIES TOKYO Honda Motor Co yesterday issued a global recall of 304,000 vehicles for airbags that may inflate with too much pressure in a crash, send metal and plastic pieces flying and cause injuries or deaths. The Japanese car-maker said there have been
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  • COMMENT&ANALYSIS
    • 1028 10  -  Economy far from hitting the rocks, and Wenzhou’s underground credit crisis will have scant national impact YU YONGDING Yu Yongding is a former member of the monetary policy committee of the People’s Bank of China and former director of the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Institute
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    • 878 12  -  MARC LYNCH, STEVEN A COOK Marc Lynch is an associate professor of political science at George Washington University. Steven A Cook is a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. THE NEW YORK TIMES Egyptians lined up this week to vote
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    • 1152 14  -  He needs to close the yawning chasm between two types of politics EZRA KLEIN Ezra Klein is a Bloomberg View columnist. The opinions expressed are his own. BLOOMBERG Guess who tweeted this: “This Black Friday, take 10% off all purchases with code 10%TURKEYDAY.”
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    • 661 16  -  OOI KEE BENG The writer is the deputy director of the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. His recent books include The Right to Differ: A Biographical Sketch ofLim Kit Siang. The leader of the Youth Wing declared at the United Malays National Organisation’s
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  • VOICES
    • 431 18  -  Letter from Helen Lim Acting Director, Media Relations, Land Transport Authority WE REFER to the letter “Let’s not just wait for new trains” (Nov 23). We assure Mr Jimmy Chan that besides adding trains to the existing rail system, the Land Transport
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    • 218 18  -  LETTER FROM LAWRENCE NG I refer to the reply “Tree uprooted due to a variety of reasons” (Dec 1) to my letter and totally agree that there may have been multiple reasons why the tree fell. The facts, though, are that
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    • 250 19  -  Letter from Christina Lee Campaigns Officer, Animal Concerns Research Education Society I REFER to the report “Dolphins ‘to play vital role in public education’” (Dec 1). The Animal Concerns Research Education Society (ACRES) is fully supportive of the education programmes that Resorts
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    • 285 19  -  Letter from Corinne Fong Executive Director, Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals I REFER to Ms Lau Vi Minh’s letter “If you love them, take ownership of community cats at home” (Dec 1). Were it possible, I am sure that community cat
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 135 20  -  ALVINA SOH A 31-year-old man, who pretended to be a police officer to cheat an elderly woman of S$2.3 million, was charged yesterday in a district court with 36 counts of cheating. Lim Kah Yong, who is
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    • 322 20  -  NHB launches new project where street trades common in the past are brought back to OLIVIA SIONG OliviaSiong@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —This weekend and next, relive Singapore’s past and get a traditional street barber’s haircut or your fortune told for a mere 50 cents, and enjoy an
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    • 264 20  -  HETTY MUSFIRAH Singapore’s first long-haul budget airline, Scoot, has kickstarted its marketing efforts to woo travellers for its inaugural flight to Sydney in June, while Australian tourism officials are looking at innovative ways to give more value to travellers.
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    • 391 21  -  ALVINA SOH alvinasoh@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE One was a 37-year-old Briton, who jumped off the rooftop of Fullerton Bay Hotel into the waters around Marina Bay in a drunken state. The other was a local delivery man, believed to have been in a troubled mental state
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    • 192 21 CHANNEL NEWSASIA SINGAPORE A Malaysian woman has been arrested for trying to smuggle two bundles of heroin hidden between two sanitary pads in her undergarments. She was nabbed at the Woodlands Checkpoint in a joint operation between the Central Narcotics Bureau
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    • 126 21 Fifteen people including an 82-year-old man have been arrested by the police for suspected involvement in loansharking activities. OnThursday at about 6pm, following up on investigations into cases of loansharking activities, police mounted an island-wide operation covering Ang Mo Kio, Eunos Crescent, Boon Lay
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    • 233 21 SINGAPORE The Republic’s first of two Archerclass submarines the RSS Archer entered into active service yesterday, following three months of sea trials in local conditions. Acquired from the Royal Swedish Navy in 2005, and launched in Sweden more than two years ago, the RSS Archer
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    • 257 21 SINGAPORE Five youths will be charged in court today for rioting with a deadly weapon, following an incident on Thursday where two 17-year-olds were attacked, with one stabbed in the back. The five youths, aged between 15 and 17, were arrested by the
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  • WORLD
    • 419 22 US says Pakistani officials cleared NATO air strike, military admits internal confusion AGENCIES ISLAMABAD United States officials said Pakistani border control personnel gave the go-ahead to a NATO air strike last Saturday that inadvertently killed 24 Pakistani troops, unaware that their own forces were in the
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    • 147 22 Volunteers and officials including former Thai Prime Minister Chuan Leekpai clean up at the Thammasat university yesterday, after floodwater receded in Pathumthani province on Bangkok’s outskirts. As Thailand’s floodwaters continue their slow journey to the sea, large swathes of the country have drained and dried,
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    • 285 22 REUTERS BEIJING Coca-Cola Co yesterday defended the safety of its yogurt drinks sold in northern China, denying there was any link to the death of a child or the illness of three other people who had consumed the drinks, but said it
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    • 161 22 AGENCIES Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO) released its first report into the Fukushima disaster yesterday, almost nine months after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. TEPCO said in its report that critical units of its Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant withstood shaking from the earthquake, Japan’s
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    • 117 22 AP A former Buddhist monk in Tibet has been hospitalised after setting himself on fire, the latest in a series of apparent self-immolation protests against Chinese rule, a human rights group said. The Washington-based International Campaign for Tibet said Tenzin Phuntsog, a former monk in
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    • 304 23 AP LONDON Iranian diplomats chartered a plane and left Britain yesterday after they were expelled by the British government in retaliation for attacks on the British Embassy in Tehran. Tehran’s relations with London have become increasingly strained in recent months, largely due to tensions
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    • 263 23 AGENCIES GENEVA Syria has entered a state of civil war with more than 4,000 people dead and an increasing number of soldiers defecting from the army to fight President Bashar Assad’s regime, the United Nation’s top human rights official has said. Civil war has
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    • 227 23 REUTERS Russian President Dmitry Medvedev yesterday urged his countrymen to vote “for the future” by electing a strong parliament to maintain stability and said all parties had been treated equally, despite opposition complaints of foul play. Mr Medvedev is leading Mr Vladimir Putin’s United
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    • 666 23 THE NEW YORK TIMES KABUL When the Afghan government announced on Thursday that it would pardon a woman who had been imprisoned for adultery after she reported that she had been raped, it seemed a clear victory for women here.
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    • 348 25 Geo-engineering could save the Earth or destroy it Human intervention works in theory, but no one knows its side effects AP DURBAN (South Africa) Brighten clouds with sea water? Spray aerosols high in the stratosphere? Paint roofs white and plant light-coloured crops? How about positioning “sun shades” over the Earth?
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    • 116 25 United States President Barack Obama and his family officially marked the start of the Christmas season on Thursday by lighting the new National Christmas Tree. The tree was planted in March on the Ellipse, a park that lies between the White House and the
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    • 191 25 THE GUARDIAN LONDON There has been a huge increase in the number of young adults in Britain treated in hospital for serious liver problems brought on by excessive drinking, the latest National Health Service figures show. The biggest increase in hospital admissions for
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    • 251 25 AGENCIES PARIS Chimpanzees in the wild have been observed selfmedicating by eating certain plants when they are sick, with the know-how apparently passed on from generation to generation, new research has found. Researchers from the National Museum of Natural History in Paris studied more than 40
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    • 106 25 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH More than one in 10 British banknotes is tainted with cocaine, according to tests by the police. An inquiry for the Home Office’s advisory council for the misuse of drugs showed 11 per cent of notes in circulation
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    • 116 25 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH Argentina has proposed that its athletes wear a logo stating “The Falklands are Argentine” at the London Olympics. The proposal, which calls for the logo and image of the Falkland Islands to be emblazoned on
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    • 175 25 AP NEW YORK It is true that apple juice can pose a risk to your health, but not necessarily from the trace amounts of arsenic that people are arguing over this past week in the United States. Despite the US government’s consideration
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    • 115 25 THE GUARDIAN The eBay showcase shop with no tills has arrived in the heart of London’s West End in time for the online Christmas shopping rush. The Internet shopping site began its brief residency on Wednesday in an empty shop in Soho,
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  • SCIENCE
    • 543 26 REUTERS LONDON British scientists believe microscopic worms which are biologically very similar to humans may be the key to helping humans colonise other planets like Mars by giving clues on coping with longterm space living. A team of scientists led by Dr Nathaniel
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      248 26  -  RYHAN YAZID SINGAPORE Five major printer brands in Singapore Brother, Canon, Dell, Epson and Lexmark launched a collaborative effort for a greener Earth on Thursday. With the support of the National Environment Agency (NEA) and the National Library Board (NLB), Project Homecoming is Singapore’s first-ever joint-funded and managed
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    • 237 26 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH COLUMBUS (Ohio) Scientists have been cataloguing star systems for three years to try to capture them as they meet their ends. Researchers have noticed one star system in the Whirlpool Galaxy, which was brightening and dimming in an unusual
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  • 760 27 Infocomm technology helps you keep a firm grasp on your growing business Infocomm for SME success Brought to you by AS YOUR company expands, effective management of resources becomes even more crucial to success. Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) experiencing rapid growth can benefit from
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  • BUSINESS
    • 237 28  -  CHEOW XIN YI SINGAPORE A corporate governance scorecard ranking the top public-listed firms in the Association of South-east Asian Nations (ASEAN) will make its debut by 2013 as part of a regional effort to promote companies in the grouping as an internationally
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    • 211 28 IPO may take place in first half of 2012 DOW JONES SINGAPORE Singapore-based healthcare company Parkway Pantai, which is partly owned by Malaysian sovereign wealth fund Khazanah Holdings, is seeking a dual listing in Kuala Lumpur and Singapore as part of an
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    • 262 28 SINGAPORE Two units of Singapore–listed developer Sim Lian Group have been jointly awarded a 99-year leasehold commercial-cum-residential site in Bukit Panjang for S$492.9 million. Sim Lian Land and Sim Lian Development outbid nine others in the tender that closed on Wednesday for
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    • 56 28 FRIDAY CLOSE 2,773.36 (+0.42%) Friday 2,761.88 p 2.20% Thursday 2,702.46 p 0.53% Wednesday 2,688.10 q 0.23% Tuesday 2,694.43 p 1.91% TOP 5 BYVOLUME NAME VOL PRICE CHANGE GMG R 124,086 $0.019 q 29.63% Noble Grp 40,897 $1.230 p 2.500% GoldenAgr 37,322 $0.710 q 0.699% GMG 32,827 $0.115 q 4.167%
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    • 22 28 HANG SENG 19,040.39 (+0.20%) Ç NIKKEI 8,643.75 (+0.54%) Ç È Ç SHANGHAI 2,360.66 MUMBAI AUSTRALIA 4,288.00 (+1.40%) MUMBAI 16,846.83 (+2.20%) Ç
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    • 11 28 US$1 s$1.283 €1 s$1.730 ¥100 s$1.648 AU$1 s$1.317 RMB100 s$20.18
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    • 157 28 The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) announced yesterday several changes in its senior management team to fill the gaps as Mr Leo Mun Wai, the assistant managing director of capital markets, steps down. Mr Leo, who has been with the MAS for 13 years, is set
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    • 163 28 Standard Poor’s (S&P) has upgraded the credit rating of Standard Chartered Bank to AAfrom A+, making the lender the only major global bank to have been upgraded by all three rating agencies since the beginning of the financial crisis, the United Kingdom lender said. StanChart
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    • 68 28 STOCK CALL Underperform S$0.91 Macquarie starts at Underperform with a S$0.60 target price. It says the stock trades at an expensive 1.43 times 2012 price-to-book ratio against Asian shipbuilders’ average of 1.22 times. “We are concerned with the lack of margin visibility due to weak yard execution and the
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    • 240 31 AGENCIES TOKYO An initial public offering of Japan’s Nikko Asset Management that looked set to raise ¥45.5 billion (S$750 million) for its main shareholder was shelved yesterday due to weak market conditions and the worsening debt crisis in Europe. Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings,
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    • 210 31 AGENCIES TOKYO Sales, profits and capital spending at Japanese companies fell for a second quarter, adding to signs that the country’s post-earthquake rebound is stalling as overseas demand fades. Capital spending fell 9.8 per cent from a year earlier in the three months
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    • 233 31 AGENCIES BEIJING China’s four largest banks extended 140 billion yuan (S$28.3 billion) in new loans in the first 28 days of November, far under market expectations and less than October’s full-month amount of 240 billion yuan, the official China Securities Journal reported yesterday. New
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  • MARKETBUZZ
    • 249 30 City Square Mall celebrates Christmas with a Pokemon theme! Children will love the cute Pokemon decorations festooned throughout the mall and the fun activities such as the Pokemon Nintendo DS Challenge and Pokemon Eco Pen Holder workshop. Be sure to catch the Pokemon Eco-Christmas show featuring your
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    • 119 30 The search is on for CheapTickets.sg’s ambassador! The online travel agency recently launched its website in Singapore. CheapTickets offers a wide selection of cheap flights and fares to worldwide destinations. Just type in your dates and destination, and the website will display a range of scheduled
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      164 30 For all those who love mixing and arranging music on the PC, get your hands on the new Pioneer DJ controller the DDJ-ERGO-V. It comes bundled with DJ software Virtual DJ Limited Edition so that you can mix songs, make loops, add effects, create samples by
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    • 210 30 Leading watch brand CITIZEN has launched its first flagship store in Marina Bay Sands. The spacious and stylish boutique offers consumers a one-stop shop for all the latest CITIZEN watch models and technology. The highlight during the launch was the CITIZEN Eco-Drive
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    • 215 30 Have a Christmas celebration with your family and friends at Park Hotel Group. For this festive season, the hotels Grand Park Orchard, Grand Park City Hall and Park Hotel Clarke Quay have prepared a special menu complete with gourmet goodies and hampers that will impress
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  • PERSONAL FINANCE
    • 1387 32  -  COMMENTARY BENEDICT KOH Dr Benedict Koh is a professor of finance at Singapore Management University and director of the Centre for Silver Security. The content of this article draws heavily from chapter 8 of “Personal Financial Planning” by Benedict Koh and Fong Wai Mun (4th Edition,
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  • SPORTS
    • 458 34 Ferguson beset with injury worries ahead of a crucial week for the champions AGENCIES ENGLISH PREMIERSHIP Aston Villa vs Man United MANCHESTER With domestic games coming thick and fast in the usual busy Christmas season of December, and a crucial Champions League tie away from
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    • 582 34  -  COMMENTARY ALYWIN CHEW alywinchewsc@mediacorp.com The writer is assistant sports editor at Today. Liverpool had much to cheer about when they beat Chelsea for the second time in nine days in their 2-0 Carling Cup quarter-final victory on
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    • 106 35 Away from fans’ prying eyes, David Beckham took time out from football to share his experiences and listen to Filipino children struggling to rebuild their broken lives. “It’s so important to have a dream,” Beckham told the former street children yesterday at a UNICEF-supported
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    • 572 35 Bullish talk out of Stamford Bridge belies Chelsea’s precarious position AGENCIES ENGLISH PREMIERSHIP Newcastle vs Chelsea LONDON The threatening grey clouds of trouble currently hang heavy over Chelsea Football Club, increasing the pressure on manager Andre Villas-Boas, who surely faces a win or bust Premiership clash
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    • 173 35 AGENCIES LONDON Fabio Capello could continue his role as England manager even after the Euro 2012 tournament, despite intense speculation for some time now that the Italian will be stepping down for an Englishman, possibly Tottenham manager Harry Redknapp, to take over. English Football Association
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    • 218 36 REUTERS UEFA president Michel Platini said he would be willing to move European football club competitions in order to allow the 2022 World Cup in Qatar to be played in the winter. The Frenchman, who could well be FIFA president by 2022
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    • 206 36 AGENCIES SUNDERLAND Martin O’Neill is expected to take over on a permanent basis as a replacement for Sunderland’s former manager Steve Bruce, who was fired on Wednesday. According to the BBC yesterday, O’Neill has “agreed” to take over the reins. A meeting between O’Neill and
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    • 491 36  -  Italy’s foil fencer shows why he is a world champion, claiming Duel at the Marina PHILIP GOH philipgoh@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Andrea Baldini served notice of his Olympic ambition last night at Marina Bay Sands (MBS) when he topped a high-quality eight-man field to win Duel at
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    • 639 37  -  Defending men’s champion happy he’s not going into tomorrow’s race ‘blind’ TAN YO-HINN yohinn@mediacorp.com.sg TRACK AND FIELD 2011 Standard Chartered Marathon Singapore SINGAPORE He admits he was lucky to win last year, and Kenneth Mungara is not taking any chances this time around. The
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    • 337 37 REUTERS GOLF Chevron World Challenge THOUSAND OAKS (California) Tiger Woods enjoyed a solid start to tie for second place in the first round of the Chevron World Challenge on Thursday (Friday morning, Singapore time), but strong winds made it impossible for him to assess
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    • 111 37 SPORTS FIXTURES League I Home Team I Away Team I s j apore^a C te?t^.e) K League Jeonbuk Ulsan $un 04/12/11 12.30pm For fixtures of all E Premier, E League Champ, Spanish, Italian, German, J League and A League, please visit Singapore Pools website. LIVE TELECAST AT LIVEWIRE(MARINA BAY SANDS
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    • 53 1 ARTS MUSIC MOVIES TELEVISION WINE DINE STYLE DESIGN HEALTH TECH TRAVEL CARS DECEMBER 3, 2011 A PUBLICATION OF HILARY SWANK: MAKING NEW YEAR’S EVE WAS FUN T8 TRAVEL HOTELS ARE MORE THAN JUST TEMPORARY HOMES T10 REVISITING THE EELYN KOK GOES BACK IN TIME FOR SOME 1930S GLAMOUR T2 Photo
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    • 1098 2  -  Actress Eelyn Kok channels old-world glamour for her latest role ZHANG WEIFANG zhangweifang@mediacorp.com.sg IN AN age where thespians are normally primped for a modern-day role in the typical local household or stepping into the shoes of a criminal investigator in the police department, Eelyn Kok’s role in
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      421 4 Latest digs around town Marni for H&M Following the successful collaboration Versace for H&M, the Swedish fashion house announces a spring designer partnership with Marni.The celebrated Italian brand is famous for its use of fabulous prints and fabrics, and a wicked buffet of modern tribal elements, athletic utilitarian
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      291 5  -  Slap, slather and spritz on the latest beauty and grooming must-haves ZHANG WEIFANG Lancome Renergie Yeux Multiple Lift The eyes are mirrors to one’s age, hence it is vital to keep the eye contour area plump, happy and firm. Lancome’s Renergie Yeux Multiple Lift is a doubleformula, luxurious
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    • 501 6  - 5 questions with Elvin Ng ZHANG WEIFANG MEDIACORP artiste Elvin Ng has been capturing the hearts of television viewers since his arrival in the entertainment industry six years ago. But when it comes to style, Ng said he doesn’t spend a great deal on fashion labels, counting a limited edition
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    • 91 7  -  ZHANG WEIFANG BOMBAY Sapphire recently hosted a closing party at dbl O Art Space, following an exhibition of nine commissioned works of art crafted around the theme Infused With Imagination. Renowned local DJs, producers, designers and collectives such as Mojoko Shang, Kult3D, Kittozutto and Clara Yee shared their
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  • ENTERTAINMENT
    • 655 8 Hollywood celebs have fun on New Year’s Eve TRANSCRIPT COURTESY WARNER BROS NEWYear’s Eve is supposed to be a fun time for everyone. And it apparently was just as enjoyable doing a movie about New Year’s Eve. Directed by Garry Marshall, New Year’s
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    • 222 8 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH ADELE, Bruno Mars and Kayne West will grab all the Grammy headlines for their multiple nominations, but one of the great things about the Grammys is the breadth of musical talent being recognised.There is gold sprinkled throughout some of the smaller categories. The Decemberists
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    • 472 9 REUTERS WITH no new films opening wide on what is typically the slowest moviegoing weekend of the year, the one afterThanksgiving, Disney’s The Muppets is expected to finish No 1 at the United States box office. The Muppets, entering its second weekend, has already grossed US$44.4 million (S$57
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    • 831 8 m.gv.com.sg www.gv.com.sg@ 6311 9162 VIVOCITY TIONG BAHRU PLAZA MARINA SQUARE JURONG POINT TAMPINES MALL GRAND, GREAT WORLD PLAZA SINGAPURA ARTHUR CHRISTMAS*▲ (G) 11.20am 2.40 4.45 6.50pm TOM: 2.40 4.45 6.50 9.35pm YISHUN PUSS IN BOOTS*▲ 12.20 2.25 7.00pm TOM: 12.45 2.50 7.25pm THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN PART 1* 4.30
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    • 83 9 LIKE US ON facebook.com/cathaycineplexes Buy tickets on iCATHAY Available free on the App Store FOLLOW US ON twitter.com/cathay_cinemas cathay.com.sg A\ I J v CHRIST 3D ARTHUR CHRISTMAS* (3D) (G with Chinese Subtitle) Cineleisure Orchard 10.25am, 12.35pm, 2.50, 5.05pm AMK Hub -9.10pm, 11.30pm ARTHUR CHRISTMAS* (Gwith Chinese Subtitle) The Cathay 10.25am,
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    • 798 9 #1 MOVIE IN THE WORLD! “The Best Twilight’Film Yet!” Mos6 Pcrsico, CTV MONTREAL Mark S. Allen. CBS-TV Fi RST. SPII The NcwPaper Mark S. Allen. CBS-TV i \i L v,/\ X v VjJ parti 7 1 FORFVr R IS ONIY THE B E G I M'NING NOW SHOWING 1 m
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  • TRAVEL
    • 1228 10  -  One travel writer explains his fascination with being ‘home away from home’ Guy Trebay features@mediacorp.com.sg THE NEW YORK TIMES IF YOU travel a lot, friends are understandably curious to learn where somebody fortunate enough to have visited a fair number of places would
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    • 671 11  - Jetsetting with Jimmy Choo Mayo Martin mayo@mediacorp.com.sg WHAT is it like to be in Jimmy Choo’s shoes? While Carrie Bradshaw may have her own opinions, there’s really no better person to ask than, well, the man himself. The Malaysian global fashion icon is the quintessential local-boy-done-good. Rising from his humble
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  • 645 12 FUNd! INclusive Sports The Kids INclusive Sports Club (KISC), a Singapore Disability Sports Club (SDSC) initiative, has set up a fund-raising booth at Ngee Ann City, where they will be selling items like toys and bags made from recycled materials. Pick up stocking stuffers and help children
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    • 33 12 SUDOKUplus DIFFICULTY RATING: HOWTO PLAY The rules are easy. Fill in the grid so that every row, every column, and every 3x3 box contains the digits 1 through 9. COPYRIGHT UCLICK YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION
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    • 222 13 ON MEDIACORP THE INCREDIBLES Channel 5, 7.15pm A family of undercover superheroes trying to live the quiet suburban life is forced into action to save the world. BACHNA AE HASEENO Vasantham, 4pm This film follows the journey of a young man who goes from one love affair to another, only
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    • 652 13 6.00AM India: A Love Story 9.00 The Martha Stewart Show VI 10.00 The Doctors 11.00 Wipeout USA NOON Michael Buble’s The Making Of Christmas 12.45PM Planet’s Funniest Animals VIII 1.00 The X Factor: Top 7 Perform (Encore) 2.30 Seconds From Disaster II: Columbia’s Last Flight CHANNEL 10.00 Best Of Incredible
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    • 229 13 ON MEDIACORP HUNTER HUNTED okto, 9pm A series of attacks by cougars on humans, including a four-year-old girl, have occurred on Vancouver Island. Experts try to find out the motives behind these attacks by an animal which usually stays far away from people. BHOPALI Channel NewsAsia, 7.30am On Dec 2,
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