Today, 16 January 2012, Afternoon Edition

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1 12 Today
  • 22 1 AFTERNOON EDITION TODAY MICA (P) 031/10/2011 A PUBLICATION OF NEWS HOTLINE 6822 2268 Monday January 16, 2012 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking
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  • 635 1 But Al Qaeda-linked group denies Hakimullah Mehsud’s death REUTERS PESHAWAR (Pakistan) The leader of the Pakistani Taliban, the militant movement that poses the gravest security threat to the country, is believed to have been killed by a United States drone strike, four Pakistan
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    • 211 1 XAVI’S 400TH LA LIGA MATCH FOR BARCA, MARKED WITH A GOAL SPORTS PAGE 35 SWANSEA 3 ARSENAL 2 PAGE 34 OUTPLAYED OUTPASSED OUTGUNNED .1 -If?. i t < (50 L Or j' IT' 1 "-=f &Offl What’s so special about our new Bistro Cheddar Cheeseburger? Strips of smoked beef bacon
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  • HOT NEWS
    • 343 2  - Managing floods and droughts SARA GROSSE saragrosse@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Singapore’s investments in anti-flood measures must be just as effective in managing droughts, the other extreme weather condition, Environment and Water Resources Minister Vivian Balakrishnan said yesterday at a community event. The greater variability in the weather means more intense rain and
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    • 184 2 The Republic’s economy is starting to see a slowdown, particularly in the electronics sector, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said yesterday. Speaking at a Chinese New Year event in hisTeck Ghee ward where he also distributed red packets with cash and supermarket vouchers to low-income
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    • 409 2  -  MONICA KOTWANI SINGAPORE Pay is not an issue for the team in government, Acting Minister for Community Development, Youth and Sports Chan Chun Sing said yesterday as political salaries took centre stage in the first ministerial community visit held since
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    • 360 3 AP TAIPEI Economy first, politics later if ever. That is the mandate Taiwanese voters gave their newly re-elected President on relations with the Chinese mainland, which is bent on achieving unity with the democratic island but will have to wait for it.
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    • 215 3 RELIEF IN BEIJING AS TAIWAN’S PRO-CHINA PRESIDENT WINS A SECOND TERM THE GUARDIAN Outside the Kuomintang’s Taipei headquarters, the victors smiled under thin plastic hoods, cheering in relief as much as in celebration. Across town, the defeated opposition’s supporters seemed subdued. Taiwanese politics are vibrant, emotional, sometimes dirty and occasionally
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    • 340 4 AP GIGLIO (Italy) A helicopter yesterday airlifted a third survivor from the capsized hulk of a luxury cruise liner 36 hours after it ran aground off the Tuscan coast, as prosecutors said they were investigating the captain for manslaughter and accused him of abandoning
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    • 312 4 THE NEW YORK TIMES TOKYO A powerful and independent panel of specialists appointed by Japan’s Parliament is challenging the government’s account of the accident at the Fukushima nuclear power plant, and will start its own investigation into the disaster including an inquiry
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    • 218 6 REUTERS AMBOISE (France) French President Nicolas Sarkozy said yesterday he would announce reforms at the end of the month and that he intends to have them implemented rapidly following talks with union leaders and employers this week. Mr Sarkozy’s comments come two
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    • 533 6  -  TAN WEIZHEN weizhen@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Amid the growing number of patents being granted here, the authorities are raising the bar a move that observers believe would enhance the Republic’s reputation as an intellectual property services hub at a time when legal tussles over patents
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    • 7 3 >> WHAT NEXT FOR TAIWAN’S ECONOMIC LINKS? 29
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  • COMMENT&ANALYSIS
    • 1045 8  -  Rather than ask what they should be paid, ask what kind of ministers Singapore needs MAK YUEN TEEN Mak Yuen Teen is an associate professor of accounting at the NUS Business School who specialises in corporate governance. Ihave earlier highlighted the possibility of simplifying the salary
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    • 890 10  -  Groups like the JI are turning to fomenting sectarian wars at home, fears former FBI agent and terror expert Ali Soufan TEO XUANWEI xuanwei@mediacorp.com.sg Teo Xuanwei is a senior reporter at Today. The successful fight against Al Qaeda’s rhetoric over the years has seen
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    • 202 10 PREPAREDNESS AG AIN ST TERROR ATTACKS? I think it is first tier. They invest in these kinds of things, they think about it, even though it is sometimes very easy to say, ‘well, nothing happens, nothing is happening, so why should I be thinking about
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    • 274 12 The death of Osama bin Laden dealt a “lethal hit” to Al Qaeda in that the terror group has become much more fragmented and weakened under the leadership of Ayman Al Zawahiri (picture), said Mr Ali Soufan. Noting that Al
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    • 125 12 Even as sniffing out “lone wolf terrorists” is a tougher task than tracking down traditional terrorists, the good thing is they are incapable of causing as much havoc, said Mr Ali Soufan. “His training is on the Internet and his capabilities are not going to be as
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    • 777 14  -  Other cities are actually cutting back on city centre parking lots, and finding it to be beneficial RICHARD HARTUNG Richard Hartung is a consultant who has lived in Singapore since 1992. With buildings and parking lots being torn down left and right for
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    • 133 10 More Flights More Food, Sights Shopping Bangkok mmi i m p mmmllftm TomYum Noodle Royal Palace New Additional Timing Flight Destination Depart Arrival FD 3510 SIN BKK 22:45 24:00 Fly from Changi Terminal 1 ALL-IN FARE ONE WAY FROM SGD Booking Period 16 22 January 2012 Travel Period 28 February
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  • VOICES
    • 334 16  -  Letter from Lim Siang Joo GIVEN the spat over air pollution readings between the United States Embassy in Beijing and the local authority there, I assumed the National Environment Agency here had been monitoring particles finer than 2.5 micrometres in diameter. But its
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    • 97 16  -  LETTER FROM DANIEL KOH KAH SOON Now that the Government is looking at the drainage system along the Orchard corridor to minimise flooding, would PUB and other government agencies consider opening up at least some parts of Stamford Canal,
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    • 334 18  -  Letter from Bok Hai Suan FOR a small country like ours, optimising road usage must be a top priority. But road hogging is a growing hindrance. Every day on our expressways, goods vehicles with a speed limit of 70 km/h or below hog the
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    • 45 18 First, a DBS managing director said the ATM fraud was not a security lapse. Then, we had “DBS CEO says sorry, pledges new security measures” (Jan 12). If it was not a security lapse, why apologise or enhance security? Ooi Chun How
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    • 145 18  -  Letter from Gilbert Tan IT WAS heartening that the Transport Minister had assured in Parliament that the regulatory and penalty framework for transport operators will be relooked, following our worst train breakdowns, as reported in “More than just service gaps” (Jan 10).
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    • 100 18  -  Letter from Law Yong Wei THE review of our Mass Rapid Transit maintenance regime should have begun earlier. Train operator SMRT had experienced many technical problems before last month (271 delays lasting five to 10 minutes between January and November, up from 213 in
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 397 20  -  Name change and 4,900 applicants join successfully TAN WEIZHEN weizhen@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Amid the Government’s renewed push to create awareness of the enhanced Primary Care Partnership Scheme (PCPS) which underwent a name change yesterday 5,300 residents have applied to join the scheme since applications
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    • 153 20  -  VIMITA MOHANDAS About 5,000 people yesterday broke the record for the world’s largest Automated External Defibrillator (AED) training session, which marked the second National Life Saving Day here. The feat came with a serious message: That learning how to use the AED may
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    • 82 21 Singapore’s largest crossterrain adventure race, the SAFRA AVventura, saw a record 448 participants this year. Teams in the Ultra category ran, cycled and kayaked along a 44-km route yesterday morning, while clearing various mystery challenges that tested their teamwork and problem-solving skills. Minister of State (Defence)
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    • 335 21  -  HETTY MUSFIRAH hetty@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE It has recruited the pilots it needs. And when Singapore’s first longhaul budget carrier begins operations in June, it could fly to five or more destinations other than Sydney. These details emerged in an interview with MediaCorp, even as Scoot seems
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    • 240 21  -  TAN WEI ZHEN SINGAPORE The search is on for the best environmental journalists in Asia. The inaugural Asian Environmental Journalism Awards, launched yesterday by the Singapore Environment Council (SEC), is looking for winners in three categories. These are the Coca-Cola Environmental Story of the
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  • WORLD
    • 402 22 REUTERS ISLAMABAD Pakistani Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani yesterday rejected a demand by the country’s powerful army chief that he clarify or retract his criticism of the army and the spy agency last week, likely raising tensions further in a festering
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    • 103 22 Protesters gathered outside one of Italian fashion label Dolce Gabbana’s Hong Kong outlets yesterday. They were yelling for the company to apologise after news reports earlier this month said sales staff were preventing Hong Kong people but not mainland Chinese from
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    • 180 22 AP A South Korean cargo ship was rocked by an explosion off the country’s west coast yesterday, leaving five people dead and six others missing, officials said. The unexplained explosion tore apart the front of the ship and left the 4,198-ton
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    • 110 22 AP Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda’s recent Cabinet reshuffle has failed to lift his public support ratings, newspaper polls showed yesterday. Mr Noda had formed a new Cabinet on Friday in a bid to win cooperation from the opposition and support from
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    • 135 22 AP The Philippines has urged the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to hold a summit ofChina and five otherAsian claimants to try to resolve longsimmering territorial disputes in the South China Sea. Foreign Secretary Albert del Rosario said yesterday that he asked
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    • 85 22 AP A moderate earthquake roused people from sleep but caused no injuries or damage in the northern Philippines early yesterday, officials said. The United States Geological Survey (USGS) reported that the 5.7-magnitude earthquake hit the Babuyan Islands region off the country’s mountainous north. Philippine
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    • 118 22 AP A bomb blast ripped through a religious procession in eastern Pakistan yesterday, killing 13 people and wounding at least 20 in the latest sectarian attack in the country, police said. Hundreds of Pakistani Shias had gathered in the town of
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    • 349 23 REUTERS YANGON Myanmar’s government said on Saturday that 302 of the 651 detainees it freed last week were political prisoners whose release had been sought by the National League for Democracy (NLD) party of Nobel peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi. They were freed
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    • 209 23 AP Security forces clashed with angry Tibetans in south-western China, shooting one person, after a man set himself on fire in the latest protest against Chinese rule, activist groups said. Local residents began to protest on Saturday after seeing police severely beat
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    • 172 24 REUTERS Kuwaiti police torture and sexually abuse transgender women, a human rights watchdog said yesterday, urging the Gulf state to protect them from violence and investigate claims of brutality. The Human Rights Watch (HRW) report, titled They Hunt us Down for Fun: Discrimination
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    • 302 24 THE GUARDIAN PORT BLAIR Embarrassed officials in the Andaman Islands are desperately attempting to deal with the fallout from reported abuse of tribal women, after revelations in the Observer that they were being exploited for the benefit of paying tourists. Video footage capturing the
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    • 236 25 AP LAGOS A nationwide strike in Nigeria over spiralling fuel prices will continue, two major unions said yesterday after negotiations with the government failed. The statement from the Nigeria Labor Congress and the Trade Union Congress came as confusion remained over whether a
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    • 329 25 AP NAIROBI (Kenya) The October Al Qaeda video showed a lightskinned man handing out food to families displaced by famine in Somalia. But the masked man is not Somali, or even African he is a Wisconsin native who grew up in San
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    • 114 25 AP Syria’s state news agency said President Bashar Assad has granted a general amnesty for crimes committed during the unrest of the past 10 months. SANA said the amnesty issued yesterday covers those who have peacefully demonstrated, those who have carried unlicensed weapons and those
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    • 263 26 Time running out for ‘leap second’ THE GUARDIAN GENEVA Delegates will gather in Geneva this week to vote on a plan to alter the way we measure the passage of the seconds, minutes and hours that make up the day. If agreed, telling the time will no longer be determined
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    • 219 26 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH SYDNEY The Australian government has attacked British American Tobacco (BAT) as “sneaky” for using a kangaroo and a map of Australia to brand cigarettes in Europe. The use of the images on Winfield packets has been criticised as misleading and a
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    • 244 27 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH LONDON The sales tactics and safety record of the cosmetic surgery industry are to come under scrutiny in March from an influential committee of MPs in Britain. An inquiry will be held to examine the scandal
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    • 262 27 AP FORT WORTH (Texas) Ten months after becoming the first person to get a full-face transplant in the United States, a Texas man marvels at recovering the ability of expression. “The ability to smile and to show emotion on my face, even unintentionally, is
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    • 166 27 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH For generations, scientists thought the human tongue could detect only four basic tastes: Sweet, sour, salt and bitter. Then a fifth was discovered, “umami” or savoury. Now, researchers have identified a previously-unrecognised “sixth taste” fat. A team in the
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  • BUSINESS
    • 367 28  -  CapitaLand plans S$4.3b development in Chongqing LYNDA HONG lyndahong@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The economic stresses that have weighed on China’s property market in the past year are presenting an opportunity for Singapore’s biggest developer, CapitaLand. CapitaLand chief executive Liew Mun Leong told MediaCorp in China last
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    • 200 28 CHANNEL NEWSASIA SINGAPORE Singapore, which has the world’s highest density of wealthy people, may overtake Switzerland as the world’s largest offshore financial centre as early as 2015, according to a forecast by United Kingdom financial consultant Wealth Insight. The report says
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    • 487 29 REUTERS ~AFTERNOON~LATEST LONDON Standard Poor’s decision to cut the sovereign credit ratings of nine euro zone countries shows Europe must step up its efforts to kick-start growth, Britain’s Foreign Minister William Hague said yesterday. He said the Foreign Office had contingency plans for
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    • WEEKLY ROUNDUP (JAN 9 TO 13)
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        41 29 FRIDAY~ CLOSE 12,422.10 (-0.39%) THE~WEEK~THAT~WAS Stocks dropped on Friday, snapping a four-day winning streak, after news reports that Standard Poor’s would downgrade credit ratings on several euro-zone countries. Thursday~ 12,471.00~p 0.17% Wednesday~ 12,449.50~q 0.10% Tuesday~ 12,462.50~p 0.56% Monday~ 12,392.70~p 0.27%
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      • 10 29 È NASDAQ 2,710.67 H S&P500 S&P500 1,289.09 (-0.49%) È
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      • 14 29 È FTSE100 5,636.64 H DAX È È DAX 6,143.08 (-0.11%) CAC40 3,196.49 (-0.11%)
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      • 5 29 Ç OIL US$98.86 (+US$0.16)
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      • 76 29 STOCK~CALL BUY~|~S$1.265 CLSA upgrades from underperform and raises target price to S$1.64 from S$1.44. House says concerns of an over-leveraged balance sheet are exaggerated as CMA is in line with its Chinese peers. China accounts for about 48 per cent of CMA’s gross asset value, and there is deep
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  • DIGITAL
    • 619 30 THE GUARDIAN NEW DELHI Documents posted online by hackers that claim to reveal that Apple, Nokia and BlackBerry maker RIM gave the Indian government a “back door” to their systems appear to have been faked. Sources within the three companies and with
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  • SPORTS
    • 586 32  -  Struggling KL set to face a LionsXII side hungry for their first MSL win SHAMIR OSMAN shamir@mediacorp.com.sg ALOR STAR Conversation came easy at the Darul Aman Stadium yesterday, where the LionsXII managed to squeeze in a recovery workout in the morning before returning home. The 1-1
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    • 352 32  -  PHILIP GOH SINGAPORE LionsXII defender Safuwan Baharudin made a surprise appearance in a Courts Young Lions shirt yesterday, scoring for the S-League outfit in their 2-2 draw with Fandi Ahmad’s H-TWO-O Ultimate Dream Team at the Jalan Besar Stadium.
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    • 528 33 United boss instructs his star striker to improve while he pays tribute to Scholes DAILY TELEGRAPH MANCHESTER Sir Alex Ferguson risked another round of headlines questioning his relationship with Wayne Rooney when he warned his star striker to start firing again, after Manchester United’s 3-0
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    • 382 33 REUTERS LONDON Former Hull City striker Dean Windass (picture) has revealed he tried to commit suicide this month after battling with drink and depression following the end of his playing career two years ago. Windass, 42, who scored the goal that took his home
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    • 544 34 Wenger blames the referee and his defence for humiliating loss 3-2 at Swansea AGENCIES AFTERNOON LATEST LONDON Arsenal’s hopes of a late challenge for the Premier League title took what could be a decisive blow last night with a 3-2 defeat at newcomer Swansea. Robin van Persie
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