Today, 29 August 2013, Afternoon Edition

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    24 1 TODAY M=diaCorp THURSDAY, 29 AUGUST 2013 MICA (P) 053/06/2013 TODAY TODAYONLINE.COM WE SET YOU THINKING /VI bdiaCorp THURSDAY, 29 AUGUST 2013 MICA (P) 053/06/2013
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    PM makes changes to Cabinet
    556 1  -  Varied range of talent, abilities needed as governance becomes ‘more complicated and intense’ SMALL STEPS TO SUCCESSION PLANNING TAN WEIZHEN weizhen@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong yesterday announced changes to the Cabinet and other political appointments, as part of ongoing efforts to reinforce his
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      142 1 AS S’PORE AGES, THE RISE OF AFFLUENT RETIREES WILL OFFER COMPANIES A MYRIAD OF OPPORTUNITIES FOR BUSINESSES: SEET MIN KOK COMMENT&ANALYSIS 14 Don’t know what to EAT? Download the free 8 DAYS EAT app now! In Cinemas September 2013 usivt POPE THEf^slNGA A'? A partner I rjl si ngaP° re
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    Lock icon UN Security Council set for Syria showdown
    703 1 REUTERS BEIRUT —The United Nations Security Council was set for a showdown over Syria yesterday as Britain sought authorisation for Western military action that Russia called premature and seems certain to block. UN chemical weapons experts investigating a gas attack that killed hundreds
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    389 2 and abilities and it’s a team which you build up gradually over time”, he said. Currently, Mr Chan, Mr Tan Chuan-Jin and Mr Lawrence Wong all of whom entered politics in 2011 are Acting Ministers. Mr Lee noted that Mr Tan and Mr Wong have been Acting Ministers for “just
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  • hot news
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      More backbenchers to the fore
      503 2  -  Analysts say they can provide on-the-groundperspective on issues, aid in policy-making ‘INVALUABLE TO CABINET’ AMIR HUSSAIN amirhussain@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The latest promotion of another two backbenchers to the front bench will add to the growing proportion of junior political office-holders who have had backbench experience. This
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      Lock icon Profit from Ho’s music projected to be S$34.6m
      595 4  -  Kong’s lawyer tries to show that expected earnings far exceed S$13m in bonds that Xtron has to redeem from CHC BUDGET BENCHMARKED AGAINST SHAKIRA’S NEO CHAI CHIN chaichin@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Beyonce, Shakira, Wyclef Jean and will.i.am. Some of the most recognisable names in
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      Lock icon COVs to fall further on new curbs: Analysts
      578 6  -  Experts say shorter loan tenure lower mortgage servicing ratio will reduce purchasing power MEASURES AIMED AT PROMOTING GREATER FINANCIAL PRUDENCE LEE YEN NEE |eeyennee@mediacorp.com.sg AnalystsLEE S I N G A P O R E Cash-over-valuation (COV) premiums are expected to trend downwards
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    • Article
      Demand from PRs to shift with new measures
      544 6  -  SUMITA SREEDHARAN, XUE JIANYUE sumitas@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —Sales engineer Sean Tan and his wife who are both Malaysians were hunting for a resale flat after they got Permanent Resident (PR) status in June. However, their plans will have to be shelved for now.
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    • Article
      ENHANCEMENTS TO SHG, AHG WILL COST GOVT OVER S$440M A YEAR
      171 6  -  SUMITA SREEDHARAN It will cost the Government at least S$150 million to subsidise the enhancements made to the Special CPF Housing Grant (SHG), said Minister for National Development Khaw Boon Wan in a Facebook post yesterday. This will raise
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      Lock icon RESALE PRIVATE HOME PRICES UP 0.2% IN JULY
      108 6 CHANNEL NEWSASIA Resale prices of completed non-landed private homes edged up 0.2 per cent in July from June, reversing two consecutive months of declines, helped by small units and those in the non-central region. Prices of small homes, defined as 506 sq
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      Lock icon S’pore plays ‘very important role’ in China-US ties
      558 8  -  Xinjiang party chief endorses the Republic for using its strengths in coordinating relations between big countries HOPE FOR GREATER ECONOMIC LINKS TEO XUANWEI xuanwei@mediacorp.com.sg U RUMQI —Singapore plays a “very important role” in the international arena, particularly in coordinating relations between big
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    • Article
      Lock icon Haze worsening in 3 Malaysia states
      351 8 AGENCIES KUAL A LUMPUR —Malaysia is on high alert as air quality worsened in Kedah, Penang and Malacca yesterday, following a rise in the number of hot spots in Sumatra, according to the Department of Environment (DOE). Air Pollutant Index (API) readings in Malaysia’s
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      NEA USES ‘OFFICIAL’ FIGURES
      189 8 The National Environment Agency (NEA) uses hot spot figures provided by the ASEAN Specialised Meteorological Centre (ASMC), which is tasked to provide the “official” hot spot count for ASEAN. This was the case when it reported 488 hot spots on Monday a figure disputed by an
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      Lock icon WESTERN ATTACK ON SYRIA LIKELY TO BEGIN WITH 100-MISSILE, 48-HOUR BLITZ
      236 10 AGENCIES A British and American attack to punish Syria for using chemical weapons will see the allies launch a barrage of more than 100 missiles in a blitz lasting up to 48 hours, according to military insiders and diplomatic
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      9 10 WORLD HAGEL MEETS ASIAN DEFENCE LEADERS ASSYRIA SIMMERS 32
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      67 11 a fairer healthcare system: Singaporeans? What does it mean to Is our society collectively ready to take a greater load off the individual? Is more means-testing needed for health subsidies? What should MediShield Life cover and/or exclude? How do we prevent overconsumption in healthcare? Catch the debate! tdy.sg/voicestoday #voicestoday voices@mediacorp.com.sg
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  • comment &analysis
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      Lock icon China could get an American bailout
      895 12  -  IF A FINANCIAL CRISIS OCCURS ALEXANDER FRIEDMAN Alexander Friedman is Global Chief Investment Officer at UBS Wealth Management. PROJECT SYNDICATE The 21st-century economy has thus far been shaped by capital flows from China to the United States a pattern that has suppressed global interest
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      Lock icon Economic opportunities in an ageing population
      896 14  -  RISE OF AFFLUENT BABY BOOMERS SEET MIN KOK Dr Seet Min Kok is a senior lecturer atSIM Global Education. He is also a Council Member with the Economic Society of Singapore. From the perspective of economic policy, the ageing population in Singapore poses significant
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      Lock icon Limits of Twitter diplomacy
      979 15  -  STATECRAFT IN THE 21ST CENTURY CHRISTOPHER R HILL Christopher R Hill, former US Assistant Secretary of State for East Asia, is Dean of the Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver. PROJECT SYNDICATE Twentieth-century American statecraft produced Dean Acheson, Henry Kissinger, Richard Holbrooke, and many
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      191 12 “Reading Law was a challenge and I was able to expound my full potential at Stansfield. Lecturers were focused on developing epistemological reasoning and analytical skills and this makes Stansfield stand apart as a Law college.” Stansfield congratulates Mr Riyach Hussain who was has been offered admissions into the Bachelor
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      43 12 With so many international problems today, diplomacy does need to combine the old-fashioned statecraft of the 20th century with the new tools that budding technologies have provided, from Facebook to Twitter. But tools alone cannot solve or build anything. CHRISTOPHER R HILL 15
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  • voices
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      GEP no longer fits values of S’pore
      428 18  -  FROM SCHUTZ LEE In the debate about education since the National Day Rally, nothing has been said about the elephant in the room, the Gifted Education Programme. As long as it remains in our education landscape, it will be a key source of
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    • Article
      Review Integrated Programme to mitigate pressure point at PSLE
      242 18  -  FROM IVAN GOH My daughter completed her Primary School Leaving Examination last year. Along with my friends who have children of a similar age, we think that while the scrapping of the T-score will be a right step, the PSLE will
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    • Article, Illustration
      Lock icon Why penalise flat owners who genuinely need to move?
      319 19  -  FROM LIM AI TIONG Currently, the five-year Minimum Occupation Period (MOP) is imposed on resale flats bought from the open market with Central Provident Fund housing grants. I can understand why, as these buyers are normally first-timers consuming the public housing
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    • Article
      Allow free parking on Saturdays, too
      108 19  -  FROM NEO HWEE LI With the Government encouraging family bonding, why not introduce free parking on Saturdays? More companies now run on a fiveday work week to promote work-life balance, so Sundays are no longer the only day for visiting families. For example, my
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    • Article
      Different premiums should apply for MediShield Life
      49 19  -  FROM CHARIS TAN I refer to this week’s VoicesTODAY topic, “A fairer healthcare system: What does it mean to Singaporeans?” I believe MediShield Life should cover all Singaporeans at certain standard premium rates and all permanent residents at a higher premium rate.
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      14 18 •HAVEYOURSAY email your letters to voices@mediacorp.com.sg JOIN THE CONVERSATION facebook.com/todayonline READ MORE LETTERS todayonline.com/voices
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  • singapore
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      SDP’s Wijeysingha quits politics to work on LGBT issues
      606 20  -  Decision was aboutfinding ‘most appropriate role’for himself, not directly linked to his coming out as gay HE SEES A ROLE WITHIN CIVIL SOCIETY WOO SIAN BOON woosianboon@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Two months after he pub­licly said that he is gay, becoming the first
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    • Article
      New drop-in programme for people with disabilities
      422 21  -  SIAU MING EN siaumingen@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Caregivers of those with disabilities can now take a breather, with a drop-in programme launched yesterday to let them leave their charges in others’ care for a few hours a day. Housed at two Seniors Activity Centres run
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    • Article
      Pre-school anchor operators to be announced by early December
      264 21  -  SIAU MING EN SINGAPORE The evaluation process for proposals submitted for the preschool Anchor Operator Scheme will take about three to four months, said Acting Minister for Social and Family Development Chan Chun Sing yesterday. “Right now, the Early Childhood Development
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    • Article
      S’pore made 107 requests for user details to Facebook
      419 22  -  MAJORITY OF REQUESTS WERE FOR CRIMINAL INVESTIGATIONS EMILY LIU SINGAPORE —In the first six months of this year, the Singapore Government filed 107 data requests to social networking site Facebook for information regarding certain user accounts, according to the first Global
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    • Article
      Man convicted of murder to serve life sentence
      456 23  -  AMANDA LEE leeguiping@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —An Indian national yesterday became the third convicted murderer to be sentenced to life in prison, escaping a death penalty. Former shipyard worker Bijukumar Remadevi Nair Gopinathan, 37, was also ordered to be given 18 strokes of the
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      Lock icon Company fined for safety lapses that caused death
      174 23 CHANNEL NEWSASIA SING A PORE —A company was fined S$50,000 yesterday for workplace safety lapses that led to the death of a lorry driver in the sea off Pasir Panjang Terminal in December 2011. Director of Trans-Island Marine Ng Teck Hai, 52,
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  • silver
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      Lock icon Closing the gap between generations
      858 24  -  One grandma wan ts to change her peers’ attitudes to help them bond with grandchildren GEYLANG SERAI’S FAMILY LIFE CHAMPION EMILY LIU emilyrliu@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE It is as simple as picking up the phone and calling one’s children or grandchildren, but many grandparents today still prefer
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  • china&india
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      Lock icon Gang rape trial puts spotlight on offspring of China’s political elite
      845 28 SON OF PROMINENT MILITARY SINGERS DENIES CHARGE THE NEW YORK TIMES HONG KONG —A rape trial that opened in Beijing yesterday, accompanied by a blaze of local media attention, has become China’s latest legal spectacle to cast glaring attention
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    • Article
      Lock icon China to land first probe on moon at year-end
      378 31 Chang’e Three is the next step in the country ’s three-stage lunar mission POSSIBILITY OF MAN ON MOON AFTER 2020 REUTERS BEIJING China will land its first probe on the moon at the end of this year, state media reported yesterday,
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      Lock icon Buildings collapse in India
      96 31 AP Rescuers using heavy equipment to remove the rubble after two adjacent apartment buildings collapsed yesterday at Vadodara in Gujarat state in western India. Officials said 11 people were killed and at least 30 were buried by rubble. Most of the occupants in the first building
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  • world
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      Lock icon Hagel meets Asian defence leaders as Syria simmers
      505 32 Looming US military action threatens to shift focus away from recent pivot towards Asia AMERICAN FORCES ‘READY TO GO’ AGENCIES BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN —United States Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel opened two days of talks with Asian defence leaders at the ASEAN Defence
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    • Article
      Lock icon Manila ‘to avoid military confrontation’ despite rise in South China Sea tensions
      320 32 AP MANILA —The Philippine military will not change its no-confrontation policy even as it acquires more weapons and seeks a larger United States military presence as territorial disputes intensify in the South China Sea, the armed forces chief
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    • Article
      Lock icon Malaysia to launch biggest crackdown on illegal foreign workers
      425 34 THREE-MONTH NON-STOP OPERATION THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY AGENCIES PUTR A JAYA —From Sunday, the Malaysian authorities will launch what local media said was the nation’s biggest crackdown on an estimated 500,000 illegal foreign workers. The operation to flush out illegal immigrants comes
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      204 34 AGENCIES BANGKOK —Two Chinese tourists were killed and four other people injured yesterday in a speedboat accident in the resort town of Pattaya in Thailand, the police said. The speedboat, which was carrying 20 tourists from China, crashed into a glass-bottom boat
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      253 36 AP TOKYO Japan’s nuclear regulator yesterday upgraded the rating of a leak of radiation-contaminated water at its tsunami-wrecked nuclear plant to a “serious incident” on an international scale. The Nuclear Regulation Authority originally gave a Level 1 “anomaly” rating to the Aug 19 leak
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      622 37 REUTERS WELLINGTON —Dairy giant Fonterra’s products that were at the centre of a global contamination scare this month did not contain a bacteria that could cause botulism and posed no food safety threat, New Zealand officials said yesterday. The Ministry for
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      440 44  -  STI spent much of session below key 3,000-point level MARKET ‘USUALLY MORE RESILIENT’ DAVID BOTTOMLEY Business Editor davidb@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The local share market endured another tough session yesterday as investors continued to react badly to the prospect of military intervention in Syria, with
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      148 44 AGENCIES SINGAPORE Fraser Neave (F&N) shares ended 4.2 per cent higher yesterday at S$5.72 after the company announced plans to spin off its property business through a Singapore listing at the end of the year. “This makes the company a more transparent organisation,” said Mr
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      583 46  -  PROPOSED DEAL SET TO IMPROVE OPERATIONAL EFFICIENCIES WONG WEI HAN S I N G A P O R E —The public consultation for the proposed S$126-mil-lion sale of OpenNet to a business trust owned by SingTel has started, with the Infocomm Development Authority
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      92 44 Gladys Ow I’M A ST R Hetty Musfi rah A Khamid Lim Hwa Meng At MediaCorp, we bring you the very best in entertainment, news and lifestyle content across television, radio, newspapers, magazines, movies, digital and out-of-home media. Join us for boundless career opportunities Senior/Account Director, Integrated Account Management (Team
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      114 46 SINGAPORE MEDIA ACADEMY FILM PETITIDN WIN ULL2 $10,000CASH! PROFESSIONAL CATEGORY $10,000 CASH AND OPEN CATEGORY $3,000 CASH APPRECIATING OUR FRONTLINERS IN THE CLEANING, SECURITY, LANDSCAPE, FLORISTRY AND SOCIAL SERVICE INDUSTRIES What kind of stories can be told in 180 seconds? How much can be said and how varied can the
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      431 48 EISP NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY Centre for Cliinese Language and Culture Tan Lark Sye Professorship in Chinese Language Culture Public Lecture Series Was Traditional China an Empire? Speaker: Professor Mark C. Elliott Mark Schwartz Professor of Chinese Inner Asian History Department of East Asian Languages Civilizations Harvard University Chairperson: Professor Chan
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      33 48 As Singaporeans’ frenzied buying of property continues, undeterred by measures to cool the market, we profile the architects, designers and other professionals who make it their business to give buyers their dream homes.
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      339 52 GALAXY GEAR, NOTE III TO BE UNVEILED THE DAILY TELEGRAPH SEOUL —The hotly-anticipated Galaxy Gear smartwatch will be unveiled next Wednesday, along with the Galaxy Note III. Ms Lee Young Hee, Executive VicePresident of Samsung’s mobile business, revealed in an interview with The Korea
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      306 53 AGENCIES SAN FRANCISCO —Google’s Android, the dominant mobile operating system, is by far the primary target for malware attacks, mostly because many users are still using older versions of the software, according to a study by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
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      311 53 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH ESPOO (FINL AND) —Nokia is preparing to launch a 10.1-inch tablet running the Windows RT version of Windows 8, according to reports. The tablet, code-named Sirius, will look like a larger version of Nokia’s Lumia Windows Phone products, according to an
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      165 53 Fri 30 Sat 31 Aug 2013 7pm 2am Free Admission 2nd weekend of Art and Culture awaits at the Singapore Night Festival 2013 www.brasbasahbugis.sg/nightfestival A nocturnal extravaganza of spectacular aerial performances, music, dance and installation artworks at the heart of Bras Basah.Bugis precinct, Singapore’s arts and heritage district. The main
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      737 54  -  S’pore offers help as SEA Games hosts look to make comeback after 44-year absence WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM THEIR FRIENDS LOW LIN FHOONG linfhoong@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —Water polo player Myint Oo Lwin was just a baby when the South-east Asian Peninsular (SE AP) Games,
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      311 54  -  ADELENE WONG SINGAPORE —National swimmer Quah Ting Wen has qualified for her sixth event at this year’s South-east Asian (SEA) Games in Myanmar, this time for the women’s 50m freestyle. At the second day of the Final Qualification Meet at the Toa
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      456 56  -  They clinch boys’ floorball crown but miss out on double at Inter-Schools ‘C’ Division Championships ADELENE WONG adelenewong@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —It was a bitter-sweet ending for Springfield Secondary School at this year’s National Inter-Schools ‘C’ Division Floorball Championships. Springfield missed out on the double after losing
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      535 56 AGENCIES LONDON —Wayne Rooney will remain with Manchester United this season after he decided on Tuesday not to submit a transfer request. The striker will also be offered a chance to extend his contract at the club before the
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      169 56 AP MADRID —The committee for Madrid’s 2020 Olympic bid has appointed Los Angeles Lakers star Pau Gasol as one of its spokesmen. In a statement, the committee said Gasol, one of Spain’s most well-known athletes and a twotime Olympic silver medallist, will
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      612 57  -  National body inks S$1m partnership with Epson to make it a hat-trick of deals YOUTH DEVELOPMENT AS PART OF CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY EFFORTS IAN DE COTTA ian@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —The Lions XII may be having a torrid time in the Malaysia Cup, but away from the
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      461 57  -  DAN GUEN CHIN danguenchin@mediacorp.com.sg S I N G A P O R E —LionsXII head coach V Sundramoorthy has issued a plea to be judged only after this Saturday’s vital Malaysia Cup clash against Perak. Tuesday’s 1-0 loss to the same rivals left the
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      169 58 REUTERS World No 1 Novak Djokovic’s 6-1 6-2 6-2 demolition of Lithuanian Ricardas Berankis was so swift and one-sided that his post-match news conference shifted from who he beat to what he eats. The Serb has credited his rise to the top to a
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      510 58 2011 CHAMPION STOSUR DUMPED AGENCIES NEW YORK —A teenage American girl with a squeaky voice, lightning-quick forehands and an incredible tale of survival stole the spotlight at the US Open on Tuesday with a stunning upset win over Samantha Stosur, the
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      42 59 THURSDAY, 29 AUGUST 2013 60 CHECKLIST SAVOUR THE VIEW FROM ASIA’S TOP PEAKS MTV ROCKS AND ITS STARS REAP THE REWARDS OF A RECORD YEAR JETSETTING WITH SPOTIFY’S DIRECTOR FOR ASIA ON MUSIC’S BORDERLESS APPEAL 66 64 68 PHOTO: PETER MOR ATH
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        528 66  -  JEREMY GOPALAN SINGAPORE —Sunita Kaur may have only recently joined Spotify as its Director for Asia, but she’s certainly no stranger to the hip music streaming service, which she first discovered while working for Facebook as its Advertising Director for Asia. In her new role
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        217 67 REUTERS LOS A NG ELES Ridley Scott continues to build the supporting cast of his Moses movie Exodus, as Aaron Paul and Ben Kingsley are in negotiations to join Christian Bale and new cast members Sigourney Weaver and John Turturro, an individual familiar
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