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  • 18 1 TODAY on Saturday January 28, 2012| www.todayonline.com NEWS HOTLINE 6822 2268 A A PUBLICATION OF MICA (P) 200/02/2011
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  • 826 1  -  “Those jobs aren’t Jobs reportedly said. It is not just a matter lower outside the United Apple’s executives believe of overseas factories ibility, diligence and foreign workers have American counterparts the U.S.A.” is no longer failure.” Almost nobody faces the life and death struggles of
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  • 282 1  -  WONG SIEW YING Making his first comments on the highprofile Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau (CPIB) probe, which has dominated headlines in recent days, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong stressed yesterday that the Government insists on high standards
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    • 205 1 IN OUR SUNDAY EDITION the new york times international weekly Where the iPhone work went the st regis perspectives Evolve MMA’s Chatri Sityodtong Lessons Learned On the Ice With the recent 100th anniversary of the conquest of the South Pole, stories of survival and death on the seventh continent were
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  • HOT NEWS
    • 556 2 URA residential price index up 0.2% in Q4; pace of increase the weakest since Q3 2009 AGENCIES SINGAPORE The rise in private home prices in Singapore slowed to a crawl in the fourth quarter last year, with property analysts saying the data showed that
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    • 439 2 AGENCIES SINGAPORE The Housing and Development Board (HDB) resale market appears to be stabilising as prices climbed at a much less rapid pace in the fourth quarter from the previous three months and as prospective buyers and sellers await new policy measures. The
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    • 235 2  -  SUMITA SREEDHARAN SINGAPORE Motorists can expect improved traffic at the busy intersection between Upper Serangoon Road and Bendemeer Road, with the new Woodsville tunnel open to traffic from 9am today. Motorists travelling between Upper Serangoon Road and Bendemeer Road, Serangoon Road to Upper
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    • 787 3  -  Measures will focus on sustaining Singapore’s long-term competitiveness: PM WONG SIEW YING WONG SIEW YING siewying@mediacorp.com.sg DAVOS With the world at a critical juncture one where policy missteps could trigger a global recession the Republic has to remain nimble and responsive to the external environment,
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    • 442 3 AGENCIES WASHINGTON The United States economy grew at its fastest pace in a year and a half in the final three months of 2011, signalling that a sturdier recovery took hold despite the troubles in Europe. US gross domestic product expanded at
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    • 356 3  -  SAIFULBAHRI ISMAIL SINGAPORE The number of job vacancies saw its first quarterly decline since March 2009 in the third quarter of last year, as employers scaled back on hiring amid the weaker economic outlook. According to the latest job vacancies
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    • 293 4 AP SYDNEY Authorities and indigenousrights protesters blamed each other yesterday for a heated clash in which bodyguards had to rush Prime Minister Julia Gillard out of an event marking the anniversary of British colonisation. Ms Gillard stumbled in Thursday’s fray and lost a shoe, which
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    • 457 4 SINGAPORE The Ministry of Law (MinLaw) has rebutted the comments of Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Singapore’s human rights record, describing HRW’s remarks as “false assertions” and “inaccurate”. HRW had said in an article on its website on Monday that
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    • 357 4 AP SAN FRANCISCO Twitter has refined its technology so it can censor messages on a country-by-country basis. The additional flexibility announced on Thursday is likely to raise fears that Twitter’s commitment to free speech may be weakening as the short-messaging company
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  • COMMENT&ANALYSIS
    • 819 6 Tech firms that do not strive to displace their own innovations will see someone else do so BLOOMBERG BLOOMBERG EDITORIAL The travails of Research In Motion (RIM), the Ontario-based maker of the BlackBerry mobile messaging device, follow a pattern sadly familiar to technology-company
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    • 1001 8  -  The Net brings a new dimension of cohesion to modern China with hard-to-foretell economic and political ramifications STEPHEN S ROACH Stephen S Roach, a member of the faculty at Yale University, is non-executive chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia and the author of The Next Asia. PROJECT SYNDICATE
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    • 877 10  -  WILLIAM PESEK Tokyo-based William Pesek is a Bloomberg View columnist. BLOOMBERG A fiery debate has broken out over an issue many thought had long been settled: Japan’s economy is sliding toward irrelevance. The freshest evidence, reported earlier this week, is the first annual trade
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    • 727 10  -  I am proud to live in a world where a stranger’s suffering matters. Yet foreign aid, the best way to address that suffering, has a growing legion of critics. That is a contradiction we must remedy. BILL GATES Bill Gates is co-chairman of the Bill
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    • 36 10 THE MYTH OF JAPAN’S FAILURE Get a QR code reader app from your smartphone’s app store (simply search for “QR reader”) and scan the code using the app, or you can visit http://tdy.sg/failuremyth on your browser.
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  • VOICES
    • 139 12  -  Letter from Carol Lim Siew Imm LAST week, I noticed a foreign worker trying to top up his stored-value card by S$2 at an MRT station. The minimum top-up, though, is S$5 for child/student concession cards and S$10 for other cards. Why is this
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    • 70 12  -  LETTER FROM CHONG WONG GUAN The formerTanjong Pagar Railway Station is now vacant and fenced up. For the interim, could it be converted into a flea market, and its former eating house into a food court/ beer garden to add to the city nightlife?
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    • 320 12  -  Letter from Paul Chan Poh Hoi I AM unconvinced that it is fair for owneroccupied households to pay increases in property tax based on adjustments of the Annual Value. The bone of contention is the spirit of Section 20 in the
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    • 284 12  -  Letter from James Chia Wee Tiong SMRT Corporation’s search for a new chief executive officer is a difficult task. The pool of potential CEO talent is small, compounded by the specialist nature of running Singapore’s main rail operator. While not the case for
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    • 230 12  -  Letter from M Lukshumayeh I REFER to the call for lawyers to take on more cases for free to help ensure that every citizen has access to justice. As stated by the Chief Justice at the opening of the legal year, such
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    • 74 12  -  LETTER FROM ALA SMFIE My mother blacked out last Wednesday (7.15am) in the train, on her way to work, at Outram. When she regained consciousness, a bespectacled Chinese lady in a whiteT-shirt and jeans and a Malay nurse were rubbing Axe Oil on her forehead
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 404 14  -  TEO XUANWEI xuanwei@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The black market for contraband cigarettes is shrinking, figures released yesterday by the Singapore Customs suggest. Customs seized 1.9 million packets of contraband cigarettes last year more than 17 per cent lower than that in
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    • 233 14  -  There are some 4,000 people living with HIV/ AIDS in Singapore, and seven in 10 of them are working adults between 30 and 59 years old. HON JING YI SINGAPORE Fifty companies in the private sector have pledged to adopt a set of new guidelines
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    • 93 14  -  CLAIRE HUANG A 30-year-old man has been charged with murdering his mother. Mohamed Redha Abdul Mutalib wore a stoic look as he stood in the dock yesterday as the charge was read out. His 55-year-old mother, Madam Asnah Aziz, was found dead on
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    • 331 14 CHANNEL NEWSASIA SINGAPORE Beachgoers can once again swim safely at Pasir Ris beach (picture) after the National Environment Agency (NEA) yesterday declared the water quality there as “good”, more than three years after it advised the public not to swim, wakeboard or
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  • WORLD
    • 448 16 Panting breathlessly and trailed by a cameraman, the group of about 15 women chased after girls and boys sitting quietly on benches or strolling under the trees. The women peppered them with questions: What were they doing? Did their parents know? Were they engaged? THE
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    • 338 16 AP OHI (Japan) International inspectors are visiting a rugged Japanese bay so thick with reactors it is dubbed “Nuclear Alley”, where residents remain deeply conflicted as Japan moves to restart plants which became idle after the Fukushima disaster. The local economy depends
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    • 230 16 AGENCIES SEOUL North Korea may commit acts of terrorism ahead of South Korea’s parliamentary and presidential elections this year in an effort to bolster its new regime, South Korean police said in an annual public safety report. Mr Kim
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    • 311 18 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH WASHINGTON The United States military unveiled a 2013 budget plan that would cut US$487 billion (S$610 billion) in spending over the next decade by eliminating nearly 100,000 ground troops, mothballing ships and trimming air squadrons in a bid to create
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    • 506 18 AP WELLINGTON Chinese investors are buying New Zealand farmland for the first time as economic ties with the Asian powerhouse grow ever deeper, sparking considerable anxiety in a country where livelihoods are heavily reliant on agriculture. New Zealand’s government yesterday approved
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    • 174 18 AGENCIES The New York City Police Department and United States authorities are investigating two sacks containing more than 16kg of cocaine that arrived in the mailroom of the United Nations headquarters last week. Police spokesman Paul Browne said two fake pouches
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    • 139 18 AGENCIES Costa Crociere has offered passengers €11,000 (S$18,100) apiece to compensate them for their lost baggage and psychological trauma after its cruise ship ran aground and capsized off Tuscany. Costa, a unit of the world’s biggest cruise operator Carnival Corp, will also reimburse
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    • 134 18 AP Rescuers in Rio de Janeiro worked feverishly yesterday to find survivors in the rubble of three buildings that collapsed. But nearly two days after the buildings went down with a rumble and great cloud of smoke, hopes of finding anyone alive
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    • 218 19 THE GUARDIAN TORONTO Two Canadian teenagers have sent a Lego man (picture) into the outer reaches of the Earth’s atmosphere using a homestitched parachute and equipment found on Craigslist. Mr Mathew Ho and Mr Asad Muhammad, both 17, attached the plastic figurine replete
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    • 316 19 AP CHICAGO About 16 million Americans have oral human papilloma virus, or HPV, a sexually transmitted virus more commonly linked with cervical cancer that can also cause mouth cancer, according to the first nationwide estimate. HPV is increasingly recognised as a
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    • 55 19 Mr Regan Reaney, owner of the world’s largest emerald, scrutinising the gem at the Western Star Auction House in Kelowna, British Columbia, on Thursday. The 57,500 carat emerald, named ‘Teodora’, weighs 11.5kg. It was mined in Brazil and cut in India. The stone will be publicly
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    • 106 19 REUTERS NASA’s planet-hunting Kepler space telescope has found 11 new planetary systems, including one with five planets all orbiting closer to their parent star than Mercury circles the Sun, scientists said on Thursday. The discoveries boost the list of confirmed extrasolar planets
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    • 120 19 THE GUARDIAN Britain’s most powerful television executive, the BBC’s direc-tor-general Mark Thompson, has signalled that he is ready to step down. Insiders believe he will quit at the end of this year or early next year, when the broadcaster finishes its Olympic coverage.
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    • 112 19 REUTERS A two-day “festival of cycling” will be the first large-scale event to use the Olympic Park when it reopens in 2013 after this year’s Games, Mr Boris Johnson, Mayor of London, announced on Thursday. Organisers say the festival will culminate in
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    • 112 19 REUTERS Facebook and the American state of Washington sued a company on Thursday for a practice called “clickjacking” or “likejacking” the first time any state government has gone to court in a crackdown against spam spread by the social network. Users are fooled
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  • SCIENCE
    • 365 20 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH AUSTIN Lifelong criminals could be genetically programmed to break the law, a study claims. The idea crime could be part genetic is extremely controversial because most criminologists argue that the root causes of crime are environmental factors such as
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    • 300 20 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH TUCSON Dogs have been man’s best friend for at least 30,000 years, a new study suggests. A pair of dog skulls uncovered in digs in Siberia and Belgium, each 33,000 years old, show dogs were domesticated
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    • 471 20 REUTERS LONDON Children who develop autism already show signs of different brain responses in their first year of life, scientists said yesterday in a study that may in the future help doctors diagnose the disorder earlier. British researchers studied 104
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  • BUSINESS
    • 364 21 AGENCIES AGENCIES, WITH ADDITIONAL REPORTING BY LYNDA HONG SINGAPORE Singapore’s retail and industrial property sectors are expected to continue to outperform the office market, which is feeling the impact of dampened demand from financial firms, analysts say. Across the board, the pace of increase
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    • 287 21  -  SIM PING KHUAN simpingkhuan@mediacorp.com.sg Kim Eng Research. WITH ADDITIONAL REPORTING BY AGENCIES SINGAPORE Indonesia’s largest oil-and-gas shipping company Berlian Laju Tanker (BLT) is temporarily ceasing payments on its debts after breaching covenants on a loan facility, blaming a slump in freight markets. BLT
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      52 21 FRIDAY CLOSE 2,916.26 (+0.75%) Thursday 2,894.43 p 0.10% Wednesday 2,891.64 p 1.48% Tuesday CLOSED Monday CLOSED TOP 5 BY VOLUME NAME VOL PRICE CHANGE UniFiber 111,915 $0.039 p 39.29% Noble Grp 77,104 $1.375 p 2.612% Artivision 67,388 $0.280 q 1.754% Genting SP 60,910 $1.630 p 0.929% Healthway 56,925 $0.085
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    • 28 21 HANG SENG 20,501.67 (+0.31%) Ç È Ç Ç È NIKKEI 8,841.22 MUMBAI Ç SHANGHAI CLOSED AUSTRALIA 4,288.40 (+0.40%) MUMBAI 17,233.98 (+0.92%) MALAYSIA 1,520.90 (-0.19%) SEOUL 1,964.83 (+0.39%)
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    • 110 21 STOCK CALL BUY S$10.85 DBS Vickers keeps call and raises target price to S$12.34 from S$10.60 after increasing fiscal 2012 and 2013 earnings forecasts by 3 per cent each, tipping positive re-rating catalysts ahead. It notes fiscal 2011’s record recurring profit-after-tax and minority interests of S$1.5 billion was in
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    • 91 21 AGENCIES Singapore-listed forestry firm United Fiber System surged as much as 71 per cent yesterday after it struck a S$1.5-billion reverse takeover deal with Indonesian coal miner Golden Energy Mines. Under the deal, United Fiber will swap 92.8 per cent of its enlarged
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    • 72 21 Singapore-listed Ascott Residence Trust (Ascott REIT) has agreed to sell its serviced apartment in Melbourne, Australia, for about A$11.7 million (S$15.6 million) as part of its strategy to actively manage its portfolio, the manager of the REIT said yesterday. The estimated net
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    • 134 21 BLOOMBERG Samsung Electronics’ fourthquarter net profit rose 17 per cent on-year to 4 trillion won (S$4.5 billion), as stronger smartphone sales helped it keep pace with Apple and overcome a loss at its flat-panel business. Sales rose 13 per cent to 47.3 trillion
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    • 87 21 CapitaRetail China Trust posted a distribution per unit (DPU) of 2.28 Singapore cents for the fourth quarter, an increase of 10.1 per cent from the previous year. Total DPU for last year rose 4.1 per cent to 8.70 Singapore cents, the manager for CapitaRetail
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    • 119 21 AGENCIES Japan’s core consumer prices fell for the third consecutive month in December, and mild deflation is expected to persist this year as worries about Europe’s debt crisis suppress wage growth and economic activity. Consumer prices excluding fresh food dropped 0.1 per cent
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  • MARKETBUZZ
    • 223 22 This festive season, deck your children out in fabulous clothes from KidStyle. The one-stop multi-brand concept store offers five international designer labels OshKosh B’gosh, carter’s, adidas kids, Levi’s Kids, Nike Young Athletes catered for newborns, children, all the way to pre-teens. What’s more, KidStyle has brought in
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    • 154 22 Take your loved one to Cafe Mosaic at Carlton Hotel Singapore for a romantic Valentine’s Day dinner. Savour the array of international cuisine and assortment of seafood on the rocks, including sashimi, oysters, blue mussels and flower clams. There will also be a spread of
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    • 197 22 On Dec 25 and 26 last year, the ZON Johor Bahru played host to Miss Tourism International 2011. During the two-day visit, the delegates took part in a motorcade parade in classic cars from Toll Skudai. They also attended the Little Princess Contest 2011, organised by
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      156 22 Freshkon’s Dezigner range of solitaire cosmetic contact lenses is the first series of Freshkon lenses to feature groovy patterns. It features multi-faceted diamond-cut designs that frame the iris to give eyes that dazzle. These fashionable patterned lenses are like accessories; it offers an instant makeover so you can
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      136 22 Yokohama’s ADVAN Sport V105 tyres will be fitted as standard equipment on Mercedes Benz SLK class two- seaters. The ADVAN Sport V105 was jointly developed by Yokohama Rubber and Daimler, and the “MO” mark on the side of each tire signifies Daimler’s approval. These tyres deliver all the
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  • PERSONAL FINANCE
    • 731 23  -  COMMENTARY WALTER DE OUDE Walter de Oude is the chief executive officer at HSBC Insurance (Singapore). The challenges posed by an ageing population are no longer just a problem of the developed world. Over the past 30 years, Asia has seen a major
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  • SPORTS
    • 872 24 Battling an injury crisis, Ferguson calls for calm as Red Devils prepare to enter a cauldron AGENCIES FA CUP, FOURTH ROUND Liverpool vs Man United LONDON The two sets of fans may be ready to get at each other’s throats today, but at
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    • 563 25 Statements issued for fans to behave as Terry, Ferdinand come into spotlight AGENCIES LONDON QPR yesterday issued a reminder to fans about their behaviour ahead of today’s FA Cup fourth-round clash with Chelsea. The match will be the first time Chelsea captain John
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    • 284 25 REUTERS LONDON Christopher Samba continued his push to leave Blackburn yesterday, accusing the Premier League club’s Indian owners Venky’s of breaking their promises and “not understanding English football”. The 27-year-old Congo international defender, who had a transfer request refused earlier this month, said he had
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    • 280 25 AP LONDON Tottenham Hotspur manager Harry Redknapp (picture) can hardly write, has never sent an email or text in his life and is the “most disorganised person in the world” who cannot even fill in a team sheet, a court heard here on
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    • 554 26  -  In red-hot form, Liberian star Forkey sends out warning to Sundram’s men 2012 M’SIAN SUPER LEAGUE LionsXII vs Terengganu 7.45pm, Jalan Besar Stadium SHAMIR OSMAN shamir@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE He looked different from the rest in his all orange outfit and there was a certain swagger about
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    • 189 26 SINGAPORE In a surprising development yesterday, the Football Association of Singapore (FAS) announced the retirement of long-serving Geylang United chairman Patrick Ang (picture) just before the 2012 Great Eastern-Yeo’s S-League season kicks off on Feb 9. Former Singapore international Leong Kok Fann will take over as
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    • 470 26  -  SHAMIR OSMAN shamir@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE On the day the Football Association of Singapore (FAS) announced that newly-appointed deputy chief executive officer of the S-League Johan Gouttefangeas was not a bankrupt, the extent the Frenchman’s former club Etoile FC are in trouble financially began to
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    • 534 27 Agony for Murray as world No 1 pulls off a thrilling win to line up Nadal in his sights TENNIS Australian Open MELBOURNE Defending champion Novak Djokovic moved into an Australian Open final against Rafael Nadal after edging Andy Murray in a five-set semi-final
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    • 511 27 SINGAPORE Ever since the S-League was launched in 1996, young football talent in Singapore have had the opportunity to pursue a professional career in the game they love. But, in their encounters with local players over the years, SAFFC general manager
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    • 58 1 ARTS MUSIC MOVIES TELEVISION WINE DINE STYLE DESIGN HEALTH TECH TRAVEL CARS TRAVEL YOUR VALENTINE’S STAYCATION PLANS SORTED T6 ALL A GIRL NEEDS ON THE ROAD IS A GOOD HAIRDRESSER, SAYS WICKED’S SUZIE MATHERS T7 JANUARY 28, 2012 A PUBLICATION OF IS THE INCREASING SELLABILITY OF HAUTE COUTURE TO THE
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    • STYLE
      • 1119 2  -  It used to be a loss-making laboratory for fashion’s wildest ideas. Now couture is making money but has it lost its spark? Jess Cartner-Morley features@mediacorp.com.sg THE GUARDIAN THE crazier the world gets, the more haute couture makes sense. Haute couture is the insanely expensive, handmade-to-order, every-stitch-is-sublime
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        430 3 Latest digs around town Net-A-Porter. com and Karl of Karl Lagerfeld Fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld has unveiled his latest contemporary and accessible line, Karl, in a joint venture that sees Net-A-Porter.com as the exclusive global retailer for four weeks starting Jan 25, and the exclusive online retailer after.
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      • 216 4 5 questions with Amanda Ling AMANDA Ling has been a familiar face in the local music scene for close to a decade now, with keyboard stints in bands like Throb and Electrico, and a jaunt in the electronic dance music field in the form of her live electronic DJ duo
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        526 4 Slap, slather and spritz on the latest beauty and grooming must-haves Ettusais aroma cream scrub Start your day on a fruity note with Ettusais aroma cream scrub (S$25).This gentle body scrub, which doubles up as a body wash, exfoliates dull and rough skin cells for smoother skin; cleanses
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    • ENTERTAINMENT
      • 99 5  -  ZHANG WEIFANG UK act SBTRKT (pronounced “subtract”) hopped down to give a 400-strong floor at Home Club an intimate live show on Wednesday. Co-organised by Now/Live and Home Club, Reiki warmed the decks with a medley of dubstep rhythms before the main man and his key collaborator,
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    • TRAVEL
      • 1426 6  -  This Valentine’s Day, meet the folks who’ll make your romantic staycation go from ‘mmm, nice’ to ‘oh, wow’ SERENE LIM serenelim@mediacorp.com. sg OH, HOTELS and romance ...What is it about the combination that we love so much? Is it the gazing into each other’s eyes during
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      • 465 7 Jetsetting with Suzie Mathers SHE may play the flighty and frothy Glinda in Wicked, currently having a great run at Marina Bay Sands, but Suzie Mathers sure doesn’t travel like her character. For one, she doesn’t travel by bubble. “The similarities between Glinda and I probably stop at blonde hair
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    • THINGS TO DO
      • 80 8 Enjoy complimentary entry to all exhibitions and galleries atthe National Museum of Singapore this weekend. This includes the popular Singapore History Gallery, The Goh Seng Choo Gallery with The William Farquhar Collection of Natural History Drawings, and ongoing special exhibition of 19th century renowned
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      • 113 8 In a Theatre Talks Back session, invited theatre practitioners will be talking abouttheir recent productions in a Q&A presentation. Cake Theatrical Productions will also be showing a video presentation of Decimal Points: 4.44 and share the trials and tribulations of their first copresentation with The Substation.
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      • 90 8 Catch these films adapted from novels, plays and short stories and find outforyourself if the book or the film is better. This new film series by The Arts House kicks off with the tongue-in-cheektheme that writing is a hazardous job. Films fortoday and tomorrow include
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      • 47 8 Catch Pothe panda on the giant LED screen at ION Orchard after a day of shopping. The sequel to the popular animated comedy is shown as part of ION Orchard’s free outdoor movie screening series. Today, 10pm, ION Orchard, outdoor area. Free admission.
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      • 88 8 The Steinway Gallery Singapore is on the hunt for young pianists aged 17 and belowtotake part in the Singapore Steinway Youth Piano Competition. One participant will be selected to represent Singapore at the Steinway Youth Piano Competition Regional Finals, and could go on to represent
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      • 87 8 Roop Kumar and Sunali Rathod are the celebrated duo behind many hit film songs and ghazal albums. Their soulful renditions have graced prestigious venues such as the Royal Festival Hall London and the Birmingham Symphony Hall. Well-known film songs include Tujh
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      • 99 8 UPCOMING Created as a response to 9/11, godeatgod is a layered and moving exploration of power, sexuality, spirituality and survival in the post-traumatic world. It seeks to excavate the tragedies that surface dishonesties, power struggles, corruption and egos. In the face of such moral corruption, art can perhaps
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    • 87 9 ON MEDIACORP PRINCESS DIARIES Channel~5, ~7.15pm An~awkward~teenage~girl, ~Mia, ~makes~a~shocking~ discovery~—~she’s~the~princess~of~Genovia. ~However, having~lived~in~New~York~all~of~her~life, ~lessons~on~how~ to~be~a~princess~from~her~newly~found~grandmother~ may~turn~out~to~be~more~than~she~can~handle. ~Starring~ Julie~Andrews, ~Anne~Hathaway~and~Hector~Elizondo. THE SHENG SIONG SHOW (Live) Channel~8, ~9pm The~guest~artistes~for~this~episode~of~The Sheng Siong Show ~are~Elvin~Ng, ~Zheng~Geping~and~Andie~Chen. ON~SINGTEL~MIO~TV ALCATRAZ SEASON 1 Season~Pass~(mio~TV~Ch~746), Available~Now, ~Anytime~On~Demand Alcatraz ~is~a~chilling~new~drama~about~America’s~ most~infamous~prison, ~the~one-time~home~to~the~ worst~murderers, ~rapists, ~kidnappers, ~thieves~and~ arsonists. ~Cast: ~Sarah~Jones, ~Jorge~Garcia,
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    • 357 9 ~6.00AM~ India: ~A~Love~Story ~8.00~ India: ~A~Love~Story ~9.00~ The~Martha~Stewart~Show~VI ~10.00~ The~Dr~Oz~Show ~11.00~ Wipeout~USA~II ~NOON~ 3rd~Annual~Creative~VIdeo~ Awards~Showcase~ ~12.30PM~ Sports~@~SG: The~Roar~Returns~ ~1.00~ America’s~Got~Talent~V ~6.00AM~ Don’t~Worry~Be~Happy~II~ ~6.30~ Life~Scent~~ ~7.00~ Man~Of~The~House~ ~8.00~ Zheng~He~Voyages~~ To~The~West~Seas~~ ~8.30~ Panda~Fanfare~~ ~9.00~ Pleasant~Goat~And~~ Big~Big~Wolf~II ~9.30~ Doraemon ~10.00~ The~Exciting~Ventures~~ Of~San~Mao~~ CHANNEL ~2.00~ Style~Star ~2.30~ Seconds~From~Disaster~II ~3.00~ Knight~Rider ~4.00~ Football~Action: ~MUTV: ~Reserves:
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    • 77 9 ON MEDIACORP CULTURE SHOCK Channel~NewsAsia, ~3.32pm Many~people, ~local~and~foreign, ~flock~to~this~city~to~seek~ their~fortune. ~Shanghai~is~a~land~of~opportunity~and~ bustling~commerce. Tune~in~to~join~Nick~Cheadle~as~he~ gets~into~the~swing~of~Shanghai~on~Culture Shock. SHAGIRD Vasantham, 4pm Directed~by~ Tigmanshu~ Dhulia, Shagird stars~Nana~ Patekar, ~Mohit~ Alawat~and~Rimi~ Sen. ~It~is~about~ a~rookie~cop~ who~questions~ the~tactics~of~ his~superior, ~and~ attempts~to~track~the~abductors~of~his~girlfriend. ON~STARHUB~CABLE~TV HANDSOME SUIT STAR~Chinese~Movies~(StarHub~TV~Ch~866), ~9pm Takuro~Oki~is~the~chef~and~owner~of~a~diner, Kokoroya, ~which~is~very~popular~in~the~ neighbourhood. ~Because~he~is~awkward~and~ugly~ in~appearance, ~he~has~no~luck~with~women. ~He~ falls~in~love~with~Hiroko, ~a~part-time~helper~in~his~ diner~but~she~rejects~him.
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