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  • 20 1 TODAY MICA (P) 031/10/2011 A PUBLICATION OF NEWS HOTLINE 6822 2268 Thursday March 1, 2012 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking
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  • 924 1  -  To build an inclusive society, Govt and S’poreans need to do more: MPs TEO XUANWEI xuanwei@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Even as Workers’ Party chief Low Thia Khiang praised the “pro-people” Budget which reflected a “major shift” in the Government’s mindset a change
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  • HOT NEWS
    • 343 2 AGENCIES NEW DELHI India has foiled a major terror attack in the capital with security agencies arresting two operatives of the Pakistan-based Lashker-e-Taiba (LeT) who had planned to trigger explosions in crowded areas in the next few days, officials said yesterday. The police
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    • 425 2 THE NEW YORK TIMES WASHINGTON North Korea agreed to suspend nuclear weapons tests and enrichment and allow international inspectors to verify and monitor activities at its main reactor, the State Department announced yesterday, as part of a deal that included a pledge by
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    • 311 8 REUTERS FRANKFURT Banks grabbed €530 billion (S$886 billion) at the European Central Bank’s second offering of cheap three-year funds yesterday, fuelling expectations that credit will flow to businesses and borrowing costs will ease for governments hit by the euro zone crisis. In the
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    • 211 8 AGENCIES Markets were shored up early yesterday by upbeat US economic growth figures and news the ECB provided lenders with more money than economists had forecast, but pared gains after Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke damped speculation of more quantitative easing. In Europe, Germany’s
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    • 296 8  -  NEO CHAI CHIN SINGAPORE A slowdown in the clinic registration system at the National Healthcare Group’s (NHG) nine polyclinics yesterday morning resulted in longer waiting times for walk-in patients. Interior designer Clifford Lai, 27, said he arrived at Woodlands Polyclinic at about 9.30am,
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    • 352 8 AGENCIES LONDON Mr James Murdoch, the executive at the epicentre of the phone hacking scandal at his father’s British newspapers, has stepped down as chairman of News International, the British publishing unit of News Corp. The 39-year-old has relinquished his newspaper
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    • 486 10  -  CHANNEL NEWSASIA SINGAPORE The arts education scene will get a prestigious boost come August, with a new tie-up between LASALLE College of the Arts and Goldsmiths College offering 14 arts degree programmes. Singaporean and permanent resident (PR) students will enjoy subsidised tuition fees
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    • 239 12 REUTERS LONDON Canada’s natural beauty, multicultural society, healthcare service and security made it the top place on the planet for United Kingdom expats, according to an annual index by NatWest bank that was released yesterday. The NatWest International Personal Banking Quality of
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    • 300 12 AGENCIES SAN FRANCISCO Apple is hosting a media event next week where it is expected to unveil the latest version of its popular iPad tablet as it looks to thwart increasing competition from rivals such as Amazon. The invitation-only event will be
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    • 241 12 AGENCIES HONG KONG Hong Kong’s anticorruption watchdog has launched an investigation into Mr Donald Tsang (picture), the territory’s Chief Executive, following allegations that he received inappropriate favours from local business tycoons. Mr Tsang, whose term ends on June 30, has been criticised by lawmakers for accepting
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    • 293 2 let Singapore’s Success Stories ERC Guide You in Your Career! institute < 2.15PM (SMS: SI) HOW TO SUCCEED IN A FAMILY BUSINESS Speaker: Adrin Loi, Executive Chairman of Ya Kun International PL Turned a home-grown coffee stall to an International franchise spanning across 6 countries and over 50 outlets; Inaugural
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  • PARLIAMENT
    • 376 3  -  AMIR HUSSAIN hussainsamir@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE In line with a cooling property market, development charges for nonlanded residential properties will ease, decreasing by 3 per cent on average. The charges which developers pay the State in exchange for the right to enhance the use of
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    • 478 4  -  NG JING YNG jingyng@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE While Members of Parliament continued to express concerns about the impact of proposed foreign manpower cuts on small businesses, Labour chief Lim Swee Say said that change is needed if Singapore is to remain competitive. On Tuesday,
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    • 445 4  -  SBS Transit and SMRT ‘capable of raising own funds’ SUMITA SREEDHARAN sumitas@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE For the second day running, Members of Parliament voiced concerns over the Government’s move to spend S$1.1 billion to help the public transport operators boost their fleet over the next five
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    • 711 6  -  AMANDA LEE leeguiping@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Seeking a solution to the young people who sit at the bridges in Robertson Quay drinking and becoming “extremely noisy” when they get high, dis­turbing nearby residents, Tanjong Pagar GRC Member of Parliament Indranee Rajah turned to the Land Transport
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    • 210 10 www.bcaa.edu.sg B C A ACADEMY of the built environment Building New Horizons M Diploma Programmes Construction Information Technology Design (Interior Landscape) Strategic Facilities Management ms 0 April 2012 Intake Construction Engineering Mechanical Engineering (Green Building Technology) Electrical Engineering and Clean Energy Application closes on 31 March 2012. Students with good
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    • 234 12 a place to Dive 2 'j >■» The Aedes mosquito can breed in stagnant water no larger than the size of a 20-cent coin. Continue to do the 5-step Mozzie Wipeout everyday. Protect your loved ones from the pain and suffering of dengue. IT’S YOUR LIFE. IT’S YOUR FIGHT. M
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  • COMMENT & ANALYSIS
    • 1098 14  -  A whole range of reforms needs to be coordinated carefully; if done badly, the Chinese might lose control MARTIN WOLF Martin Wolf, chief economics commentator at the Financial Times, is considered one of the world’s most influential writers on economics. THE FINANCIAL TIMES
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    • 1093 16  -  For Europe and US, lesson from ’90s crisis is that austerity can work STEPHEN S ROACH Stephen S Roach, former chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia, is a member of the faculty at Yale University and the author of The Next Asia. PROJECT SYNDICATE The austerity debate
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    • 916 16  -  The governments of the euro zone are following the same path pursued by the Asian countries austerity and competitiveness but don’t have the same chances for success. JEAN-PAUL FITOUSSI Jean-Paul Fitoussi, a professor of economics at the Institut d’Études Politiques de Paris, is a co-author of Mismeasuring
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    • 923 18  -  Xenophobia is shifting its targets from Muslims to eastern and southern Europeans SIMON KUPER Simon Kuper is a columnist with the FT. THE FINANCIAL TIMES LIMITED On the website where Dutch people can lodge complaints about central and eastern European immigrants, the disgruntled can tick various
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    • 45 14 I V Jh The Aedes mosquito can breed in stagnant water no larger than the size of a 20-cent coin. Continue to do the 5-step Mozzie Wipeout everyday. Protect your loved ones from the pain and suffering of dengue. IT’S YOUR LIFE. IT’S YOUR FIGHT.
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  • VOICES
    • 475 20  -  The Government should thus call the by-election in Hougang as soon as practicable. Letter from Sylvia Lim Member of Parliament forAljunied, Chairman, Workers’ Party Managing Editor Editor-At-Large Night Editor Razali DigitalMedia Editor MR HRI Kumar Nair’s letter “We should let PM do his job” (Feb 29)
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    • 428 21  -  Changi Foundation to be launched Letter from Jonas Kor Vice-President, Corporate Communications, Changi Airport Group I REFER to Mr Liew Kai Khuin’s letter “Changi Airport’s lucky draw prize excessive” (Feb 25). The retail business among airports is very competitive; passengers have many spending options, including
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    • 98 21  -  LETTER FROM TAMMY TAN LETTER FROM TAMMYTAN, SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT, CORPORATE COMMUNICATIONS, SBSTRANSIT We refer to the online letter “Bus driving that is unacceptable” (Feb 27). Road safety is of paramount importance to us. All bus captains are trained and
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    • 377 22  -  Letter from Noel Chia Kok Hwee I REFER to the report “Towards a lifetime of being enabled” (Feb 22). I agree with the Enabling Masterplan 2012-2016 steering committee that early detection of children with special needs is essential to provide appropriate early intervention, to ensure
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    • 368 22  - To raise awareness of autism I SAY Christina Lee As a mother of a four-year-old who has been diagnosed with moderate autism, I understand that society’s acceptance level of autism is sadly low. Autism is invisible, and my boy is seen as a spoilt brat during his meltdowns. I believe
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    • 145 22  -  LETTER FROM PATSIE TAN ASSISTANT VICE PRESIDENT, CORPORATE COMMUNICATIONS, SINGAPORE POST We thank Ms Linda Ong for her feedback, in the letter “Lapse in postal security?” (Feb 25), and the opportunity to clarify. Her item was not delivered due to an
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  • Page 22 Miscellaneous
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 140 24  -  CHANNEL NEWSASIA A 12-storey block on Dover Road will soon be the new home for students of the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) for the next three years. The university managed to lease the block of flats one of nine that
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    • 407 24  -  HETTY MUSFIRAH hetty@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Airlines operating from Singapore’s BudgetTerminal will soon operate from Changi Airport, with the Budget Terminal to close later this year to make way for a new and improved terminal. MediaCorp understands that the decision to move the carriers to the
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    • 158 25 SINGAPORE As a new rule kicks in today requiring financial institutions to provide home loan borrowers with a fact sheet of key features of the loan, OCBC Bank has launched an iPad application to comply with the requirement
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    • 370 25  -  AMANDA LEE leeguiping@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE For couple Mohamad Khidir Abdul Rahman and Fadhiilah Ismail, having Singapore’s first leap year baby of 2012 yesterday came with an added baby bonus a S$30,000 scholarship from the Management Development Institute of Singapore (MDIS). And the scholarship made
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    • 215 27  -  CLAIRE HUANG SINGAPORE A young couple has been charged in court with extorting S$6,000 from a 22-year-old man. Yap Siew Ting, 17, and Soh Zhi Ren Alexander, 21, allegedly tried to extort money from Ng Yong Cheng on Jan 8 at about 5.40pm
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    • 216 27  -  CLAIRE HUANG SINGAPORE A 55-year-old man who had been on the run for 18 years after stabbing two men was sentenced yesterday to 10 years of preventive detention. Tan Giam Koon (picture) had pleaded guilty to stabbing Malaysian Lay Chee Chew and Lim Meng
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    • 121 27  -  CHANNEL NEWSASIA Two more hawker centres will be upgraded with better toilet facilities, increased seating capacity, improved ventilation and fire safety features. The hawker centres are at Block 353, Clementi Avenue 2, and Blocks 2/3, Changi Village Road. The upgrades will also make
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    • 176 27  -  CHANNEL NEWSASIA The police have arrested a 57-year-old man thought to be involved in a spate of thefts of cash cards from motorcycles. The police had received reports last week of cash cards being stolen from motorcycles parked at the
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  • WORLD
    • 309 30 AP HONOLULU Refrigerators, TVs, houses and other debris dragged into the sea when a massive earthquake hit Japan last March, causing waves as high as 40m to crash ashore, have spread across the northern Pacific where they could wash ashore on the
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    • 212 30 REUTERS CANBERRA Australia will investigate new images appearing to show cattle being mistreated at an Indonesian abattoir, and could reimpose an export ban on the slaughterhouse if it broke animal welfare rules, Agriculture Minister Joe Ludwig said yesterday. Australia had suspended live cattle exports
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    • 164 31 AGENCIES PARIS INTERPOL said that 25 suspected members of the loose-knit Anonymous hacker movement were arrested in a sweep across Europe and South America. The international police agency said in a statement on Tuesday that the arrests in Argentina, Chile,
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    • 328 31 AP NOVI (Michigan) Mr Mitt Romney (picture) scored a hard-fought victory in his native state of Michigan and won handily in Arizona, slowing the advance of his top Republican presidential rival Rick Santorum and gaining precious momentum ahead of a key set of primary
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    • 134 31 AP Britain says migrant workers will need to earn at least £35,000 (S$69,400) from April 2016 to qualify for a visa permitting them to settle in the country. Immigration Minister Damian Green announced yesterday the change in migration rules, aimed at cutting
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    • 174 32 Myanmar’s election commission has rejected a challenge to the parliamentary candidacy of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi and confirmed her place on the ballot. A spokesman for Ms Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy said yesterday that the commission’s division-level office
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    • 237 32 BLOOMBERG HONG KONG Ms Regina Ip (picture), Hong Kong’s former security chief, failed to muster enough nominations to enter the race to be the city’s next leader, losing her bid to stand as an alternative to the scandalhit Henry Tang. “Though
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    • 138 32 BANGKOK POST The police in Bangkok have identified two more suspects in relation to the multiple bomb blasts that happened on Feb 14, the Bangkok Post reported. Deputy national police chief Pansiri Prapawat, who heads the team investigating the blasts, refused to release
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    • 135 32 BLOOMBERG The city of Beijing has fined about 1,000 drivers as part of a campaign that started last month to reduce car emissions, the China Daily reported yesterday, citing the Chinese capital’s environmental protection bureau. The city began 24-hour inspections of
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    • 172 34 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH A man who was left with a large dent in his head after a fall has had his face rebuilt through pioneering surgery using his own body fat. In the first procedure of its kind in Britain, Mr Tim
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    • 213 34 AP The teenager behind a shooting rampage in a high school cafeteria chose his victims at random and is “someone who’s not well”, a prosecutor said on Tuesday as the young man appeared in juvenile court. T J Lane, 17, admitted to
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    • 263 34 AGENCIES LONDON Health workers should lose their jobs for not meeting standards on dignity for elderly patients, according to Mr Keith Pearson, one of the authors of a new report on the treatment of elderly people in hospitals and care homes
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    • 198 34 REUTERS WASHINGTON Partial remains from some people killed in the Sept 11, 2001 attacks ended up in a landfill, according to a Pentagon-commissioned report released on Tuesday that revealed previously undisclosed blunders at the United States military’s main mortuary.
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    • Article, Illustration
      43 35 Construction of the Tokyo Sky Tree, the world’s tallest broadcasting tower at 634m, was completed yesterday, according to its builder Obayashi Corp. It tops the 600m Canton Tower in Guangzhou, China, and the 553m CN Tower in Toronto, Canada. Reuters REUTERS
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    • 266 35 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH LONDON British researchers believe that flatworms, which live in ponds and lakes, could live forever after examining their ability to repeatedly regenerate. Experts from Nottingham University managed to create a colony of more than 20,000 flatworms from one by chopping
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    • 120 35 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH A new website is offering to help people find out why their relationships ended or why dates never called them back. Recently launched in Australia, wotwentwrong.com provides for a feedback form to be sent to a previous love interest. It
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    • 169 35 Asteroid may hit Earth in 30 years’ time THE DAILY TELEGRAPH NEW YORK An asteroid with a one in 625 chance of striking Earth in 30 years’ time has been identified by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The 140m ball of rock, named 2011 AG5, is potentially on
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    • 403 44  -  Property giant will focus on stepping up expansion plans in China LINETTE LIM linettelim@mediacorp.com.sg AGENCIES SINGAPORE Property giant City Developments (CDL) has booked a worse-than-expected fourth-quar-ter net profit of S$163.2 million, down 32 per cent from a restated S$241 million a year ago, mainly due
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    • 271 44  -  YVONNE CHAN yvonnechan@mediacorp.com.sg WITH AGENCIES SINGAPORE The Singapore unit of Standard Chartered Bank (StanChart) delivered a record operating profit of more than US$1 billion (S$1.24 billion) last year, up 40 per cent from 2010, helping the Londonbased lender notch up its ninth consecutive year
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      • 72 44 Reduce S$0.55 Nomura Equity Research keeps rating; lowers target to S$0.45 from S$0.50. Says Mewah’s Q4 net income was about 15 per cent below street estimates, and planned projects have been put on hold to make way for the Indonesian refinery expansion due to be completed by the end
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      • 73 44 Outperform S$1.42 Credit Suisse keeps rating but trims target to S$1.75 from S$1.80. It lowers fiscal 2012 to 2014 earnings per share estimates by 1 to 5 per cent as 2011 results came in slightly below its estimates. But it tips key positives from the results as the gross
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    • 116 44  -  MILLET ENRIQUEZ Bank lending in Singapore rose 0.39 per cent in January to S$422.11 billion from S$420.44 billion in December, Monetary Authority of Singapore data showed yesterday. Housing and bridging loans increased 1.2 per cent to S$132.68 billion month-on-month, while building and construction
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    • 109 44 JARDINE CYCLE CARRIAGE 2011 PROFIT UP 9% AGENCIES Singapore-listed Jardine Cycle Carriage, which is involved in auto distribution and retail, reported yesterday a 9-per-cent rise in full-year profit and said the outlook for the group this year is encouraging. Net profit of US$1.3 billion (S$1.6 billion) last year included a
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    • 299 46 REUTERS NEW YORK The United States Justice Department is conducting a criminal probe into whether the world’s biggest banks manipulated a global benchmark rate, a person familiar with the matter said. While the Justice Department’s inquiry into the setting of the London
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    • 180 46 REUTERS SINGAPORE Singapore-listed First Resources could produce 10 per cent more crude palm oil from its Indonesian plantations this year, while the company also plans to diversify into rubber, its chief executive said yesterday. First Resources, which has a market capitalisation of US$2.2
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    • 197 46 BLOOMBERG NEW DELHI India’s economy grew at the slowest pace in more than two years last quarter as domestic demand weakened and the global recovery faltered, adding pressure on the central bank to lower interest rates. Gross domestic product rose 6.1 per cent
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    • 126 46  -  WONG SIEW YING Singapore REITs (S-REITs) continued to dominate cross-border acquisitions within Asia last year, according to a report by CBRE. S-REITs invested S$2.51 billion abroad last year, up from S$2.49 billion the previous year, with the vast majority of capital targeted at China, the
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    • 92 46 Keppel DHCS, a unit of Keppel Integrated Engineering, has bagged contracts to provide cooling systems services to several firms, including Ascendas and Procter Gamble at Biopolis and Fusionopolis at One-North. The tenures of the contracts are for 10 to 20 years and will see
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    • 83 46 JTC Corporation yesterday released the detailed sales conditions for an industrial site at Tai Seng Street near Paya Lebar. The site is available for application under the Reserve List of the Industrial Government Land Sales Programme. Developers and industrialists can now apply for
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    • 124 46  -  YVONNE CHAN Moody’s Investors Service is expecting corporate defaults to increase moderately in Asia this year, as slowing global growth and Europe’s debt crisis constrain liquidity and knock confidence. The Moody’s Credit Transition Model (CTM) estimates that the corporate high yield default rate
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    • 449 48 REUTERS WASHINGTON There is a good chance young people growing up in today’s always-wired world will eventually become bright, nimble decision makers if they do not wind up intellectual lightweights unable to concentrate long enough to chew over a good book. So
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    • 220 48 Twitter has sold its tweet archive to digital marketer DataSift, allowing business to access every tweet posted by any user for the past two years. The deal aims to allow businesses to understand their consumers better by tracking what users have been saying about the products they use.
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    • 608 50  -  Two Internet start-ups are netting themselves much attention with their innovative concepts AVELYN NG avelynngsy@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Two start-up businesses are making waves in cyberspace. The owners of portals Referoll.com and Renttycoons.com are banking on their innovative concepts to help other companies function more
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    • 117 50 MENG DESIGN BUILD 20/0 SUCCESSFUL IMjIMMIW HDB Licence: HB 02-0262A RADAC Email: mengdesignbuild@yahoo.com.sg www.mengdesign.com.sg 3* DJ Jian Wen From Radio 100.3FM Saturday 3 March 2pm-4pm At Tampines Showroom Our new showroom W Ul Xiow open inTAMPlNFQ 'Jn Tampines Street 23 42" LED TV Door gifts for all visitors! Blk201E#01-128 Tampines
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    • 585 58  -  However, increased gate receipts hardly a windfall IAN DE COTTA ian@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE If playing to capacity crowds at the Jalan Besar Stadium is anything to go by, the LionsXII’s participation in the Malaysian Super League (MSL) is for the moment a success, insofar as re-igniting
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    • 336 58  -  SHAMIR OSMAN shamir@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Down and already out of the reckoning to qualify from Group A in the third round FIFA World Cup qualifiers, Singapore were shown no mercy last night in Doha. Iraq only needed a draw to go through as Group A winners, but
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    • 289 58 SINGAPORE Fast-food giant McDonald’s are looking for three young Champions of Play to represent Singapore at the 2012 London Olympics. The three between six and 12 years old will join 200 children from all corners of the world in London to experience the Olympic
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    • 598 59  -  Gao Ning and Yang Zi win Republic’s first Asian Championships gold in 58 years LOW LIN FHOONG linfhoong@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE It has been 58 years since Singapore last won a gold medal at the Asian Table Tennis Championships. At that time, the men’s doubles pair of
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    • 525 59  -  But league is on the up, and LionsXII a promising prospect SHAMIR OSMAN SINGAPORE Ousted from the Kelantan job he held for only four months, Peter Butler left the Malaysian Super League (MSL) leaders standing firm on his belief that technical team matters
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    • 309 60 Sighting of Special One further fuels speculation that Chelsea boss may get axed soon THE DAILY TELEGRAPH LONDON Jose Mourinho has flown back into London as speculation continues to grow about the future of his protege, Andre VillasBoas, at Chelsea. Mourinho, currently in
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    • 290 60 Saturday, March 3 West Brom vs Chelsea (Premier League) On paperthis should be straightforward for Chelsea but West Brom’s confidence will be buoyed by their recent 4-0 win over Sunderland. Likely outcome: Victory, though it
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    • 329 60 THE GUARDIAN LONDON Tottenham midfielder Scott Parker was named captain of England for their international friendly against Holland at Wembley on Wednesday (this morning, Singapore time). The interim England manager, Stuart Pearce, had been expected to return the captaincy to Liverpool’s Steven Gerrard for
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    • 156 60 AP Brazil needed an own goal in injury time to defeat BosniaHerzegovina 2-1 in a friendly in Switzerland on Tuesday (yesterday morning, Singapore time). The late winner came after a cross by FC Porto striker Hulk deflected off defender Sasa Papac in the
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    • 479 61 AP PALM BEACH GARDENS Tiger Woods’ agent lashed out on Tuesday against Hank Haney’s book, saying his “armchair psychology” about Woods was “ridiculous” and that it was clear the former swing coach only cares about self-promotion. Haney’s book about his six years as Woods’
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    • 242 61 THE GUARDIAN LONDON The World Boxing Council have suspended Dereck Chisora indefinitely for brawling with David Haye after failing in his challenge for Vitali Klitschko’s WBC heavyweight title in Munich two weekends ago. The governing body which earlier withheld US$100,000 (S$124,700) of Chisora’s purse said
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    • 121 60 SPORTS FIXTURES Match KickOff (Singapore date/time) Home Team Away Team S.League Albirex Thu, 01/03/12 7.45pm For fixtures of all other S.League, M League, E League Champ and A League, please visit Singapore Pools website. LIVE TELECAST AT LIVEWIRE(MARINA BAY SANDS RESORTS WORLD SENTOSA) SPORTSBUZZ(POMO) A League S.League Adelaide Woodlands Perth
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    • 41 62 CrlAMHBL HJ K ■aT' CELEBRATE ASIA'S BUSINESS EXCELLENCE AT THE PRESTIGIOUS CHANNEL NEWSASIA LUMINARY AWARDS ON 9 th MARCH 2012. Catch the highlights of the ceremony on 10 th March 2012, 11:00pm on Channel NewsAsia Logon to channelnewsasia.com/luminaryawards for more details.
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    • 49 1 ARTS MUSIC MOVIES TELEVISION WINE DINE STYLE DESIGN HEALTH TECH TRAVEL CARS MARCH 1, 2012 A PUBLICATION OF SWEET VALLEY HIGH A DRAMA ON HORSEBACK IN WOLGAN VALLEY T7 ARE THE OSCARS STILL RELEVANT? T2 TRAVEL: EAT YOUR GUTS OUT IN LYON T12 Photo courtesy Wolgan Valley Resort Spa
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  • ENTERTAINMENT
    • 953 2  -  Fears grow that Oscar’s allure may be resistible Brooks Barnes, Michael Cieply feature s@mediacorp.com.sg THE NEW YORK TIMES THE Oscar statuette is 34.3cm tall and weighs 3.86kg.They may want to think about shrinking it. The Academy Awards ceremony, after all, appears to be evolving towards a
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    • 218 3 AP URKEL, The Empress of Soul, and one of the Green Bay Packers are waltzing onto Dancing With the Stars 2012. Family Matters actor Jaleel White, singer Gladys Knight and National Football League player Donald Driver will be among the 12 celebrity contestants
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    • 125 3 AP ORGANISERS of the Cannes Film Festival have chosen to honour Marilyn Monroe by selecting a photo of the Hollywood sex goddess for the poster for this year’s event. The organisers said in a statement on Tuesday that “50 years after her death, Marilyn remains
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    • 150 3 AP CHARLIE Sheen will be stirring up a new round of laughs when Anger Management arrives on June 28 on FX. FX on Tuesday set the premiere date for Sheen’s new sitcom, which returns him to weekly TV after his noisy exit from
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    • 313 3 AP SINGER Celine Dion has cancelled more shows at Las Vegas’ Caesars Palace, citing a virus causing an inflammation of her vocal cords. Christi Nelson, an official with show producer AEG Live, said on Tuesday that the French-Canadian pop superstar has been
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    • 656 4  -  Local singer Tay Kewei on rapping and doing things her way Christopher Toh christophert@mediacorp.com.sg SHE made her mark singing at events and backing some of the region’s biggest pop stars, from hotshot Wang Lee Hom to veteran Eric Moo. But in 2010, Singapore songbird Tay Kewei decided
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    • 190 4 REUTERS BRITISH punk rockers the Sex Pistols have signed with Universal Music Catalog UK, part of the world’s largest record label Universal, which will re-release their seminal album Never Mind The Bollocks Here’s The Sex Pistols. The repackaged album will go on sale later in
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    • 592 5 Gertrude Stein and her family’s impact on avant-garde French art REUTERS FEW people have had more influence on the impact of avant-garde art in early 20th century Paris, and the careers of Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse, than the writer and collector Gertrude Stein and her
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    • 599 10 ‘Single, tall male bird seeking Crane fest sees people flocking to venue THE NEW YORK TIMES OVER the next few days, more than 20,000 visitors will descend on the San Luis Valley to bask in the sun, strut and preen for the opposite sex, dance until all hours and, in
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    • 408 12 “WHERE ON EARTH DOES IT FEEL LIKE YOU’RE WALKING ON THE MOON? RIGHT HERE. For some, the experience of walking among the Pinnacles is like taking steps on the surface of the moon. The incredible limestone spires, which pierce the golden sands of the region, can rise up to several
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    • 78 15 Looking for better job opportunities? Visit Career 2012, the biggest education and career exhibition in Singapore for guidance on prospects in these two areas. There will be more than 300 exhibiting companies and more than 80 seminars and workshops providing information on higher education, tips for successful job
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    • 90 15 An exhibition organised by six second-year students from LASALLE College of the Arts as part of the i-AM 2012 Festival, Don’t Forget to Remember is a multi-artist exhibition that focuses on capturing and preserving transient and intangible memories. Featuring works by young Singaporean artists Hafidz Senor,
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    • 103 15 Monumental Moments Open Call for Wedding Photographs Were any of our 64 national monuments a witness to one of the most important milestones in your life? The Preservation of Monuments Board is looking forwedding photographs taken at a national monument, to be displayed in a Monumental Moments exhibition atthe National
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    • 48 15 Let six young and gifted pianists reveal to you the beautiful sounds of classical music. These award-winning students of pianist Benjamin Loh will be performing a series of classical and jazzinfluenced pieces by Gershwin, Beethovan and Copland. Today, 7.15pm and 8.15pm, The Esplanade Concourse. Free admission. www.esplanade.com
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    • 57 15 Presented by the Calcutta Arts Club, Nostalgia is the first solo exhibition for Subir Dey. With watercolours as the main medium, he presents works which juxtapose the old and the historic, with the aim of evoking sentiments in the audience. Today and tomorrow, 10am to 8pm, Gallery, The Arts
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    • UPCOMING
      • 74 15 Fans of mixed-martial arts, get ready as the One Fighting Championship returns to our shores. Held at the Singapore Indoor Stadium, 20 champions from around the world will be competing forthe honour and glory of being a One Fighting Champion. Get ready for an action-packed night,
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      • 145 15 The Singapore Flyer is celebrating their fourth anniversary with a day of fun-filled activities for everyone. Express your creativity in the Paper Craft Shoe Art competition. Design your own shoes and win cash prizes of up to S$500. All entries will also be displayed atthe
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    • 34 15 SUDOKUplus DIFFICULTY RATING: HOW TO 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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    • 58 16 ON MEDIACORP DESPERATION (PG13-HORROR Channel~5, ~10.20pm A~sinister~supernatural~force~seems~to~have~tightened~ its~grip~on~the~town~of~Desperation, ~Nervada. ~A~sheriff~ sends~those~arrested~to~jail~and~no~one~has~emerged~ alive~except~a~group~of~survivors~who~narrowly~thwart~ death~by~escaping~from~jail. TRAPPED okto, ~9pm On~April~25, ~2005, ~Japan~faced~its~worst~train~disaster~in~ 42~years. ~An~out-of-control~commuter~train~flew~off~the~ tracks~and~crashed~into~an~apartment~building~in~Osaka. The~story~is~told~by~the~survivors~and~those~who~saved~ their~lives. ON~SINGTEL~MIO~TV MAUSAM EROS~Bollywood~(mio~TV~Ch~313), ~Anytime~ On~Demand~(TV~Premiere) Mausam ~is~the~story~of~two~lovers, ~Harinder~ Singh~and~Aayat. The~two~meet~and~fall~in~love~at~ Mallukot, ~where~Harry’s~family~lives. ~But~before~ they~get~to~spend~some~time~together, ~Aayat~leaves~ for~Mumbai~with~her~uncle~and~aunt; ~and~Harry~ joins~the~air~force. COUGAR TOWN SEASON III Season~Pass~(mio~TV~Ch~749), ~Available~Now, Anytime~On~Demand There~is~no~time~for~romance~when~you’re~
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    • 377 16 ~6.00AM~~ Ninja~Warrior ~~6.30~~ AM~Live! ~9.00~~ The~Ellen~DeGeneres~Show~ IX ~10.00~~ The~Dr~Oz~Show ~11.00~~ America’s~Cup~Magazine~ Television~Series: ~America’s~ Cup~Uncovered ~11.30~~ Great~Ideas~From~JML ~12.30PM~~ Light~Years ~1.00~~ The~Pupil~II ~2.00~~ Knight~Rider ~6.00AM~~ Golden~Age~Talentime~2011 ~7.00~~ Good~Morning~Singapore ~10.00~~ The~Unforgettable~Memory ~Noon~~ Mission~Possible ~1.00PM~~ News~8~At~One ~1.30~~ Tuesday~Report ~2.00~~ BLUFF ~2.30~~ A~Mobile~Love~Story~ ~3.30~~ Judge~Bao~—~The~Seven~ Heroes~and~Five~Gallants CHANNEL ~3.00~~ The~Dr~Oz~Show ~4.00~~ The~Ellen~DeGeneres~Show~ IX ~5.00~~ Unbeatable~Banzuke ~5.30~~
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    • 50 16 ON MEDIACORP SCARLET HEART Channel~8, ~7pm The~new~Emperor~orders~the~Eighth~Prince~to~divorce~ his~wife~Minghui. The~Eighth~Prince~has~no~choice~ but~to~issue~the~divorce~letter. ~Minghui~commits~ suicide~soon~after, ~leaving~the~Eighth~Prince~extremely~ heartbroken. VETTAI 2.0 Vasantham, ~10.30pm ASP~Seelan~and~Inspector~Mugi~return~with~a~new~team. They~need~to~take~down~three~main~gangs, ~but~what~ starts~off~as~an~operation~turns~into~a~bloodshed~of~ personal~vendettas. ON~STARHUB~CABLE~TV MOUNTAIN GORILLA BBC~Knowledge~(Ch~407), ~10pm Only~discovered~a~century~ago, ~mountain~gorillas~ inhabit~a~fragile~world. ~A~small~number~of~families~ cling~to~existence~on~the~forested~peaks~of~ isolated~volcanoes~in~three~war-torn~countries, surrounded~on~all~sides~by~a~growing~human~ population. FORENSIC INVESTIGATORS Crime~&~Investigation~Network~(Ch~403), ~10pm~ It’s~natural~to~have~a~compelling, ~~often~morbid~ fascination, ~with~nefarious~and~extraordinary~cases~ of~murder. Forensic Investigators ~takes~the~scene~ of~infamous~and~bizarre~murders~and~into~the~ enthralling~investigations~that~follow.
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