Today, 11 October 2013, Afternoon Edition

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    SingTel contingency plan questioned as fire repairs continue
    1159 1  -  Damage more severe than initially thought as telco struggles to restore all services REMAINING SERVICES TO BE UP BY 7AM TODAY TAN WEIZHEN tanweizhen@mediacorp.com.sg ADDITIONAL REPORTING BY AMIR HUSSAIN SINGAPORE —As SingTel struggled to fully restore all services that were affected by
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    MFA’s protocol chief charged with cheating Govt of S$90,000
    403 1  -  CLAIRE HUANG SINGAPORE As the Chief of Protocol at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA), he was in charge of getting diplomatic protocol right. But yesterday, Lim Cheng Hoe, who is currently suspended from duty, was charged in court for allegedly
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    Lock icon Myanmar pledges ‘active participation’ as it assumes ASEAN chair
    587 1  -  NEO CHAI CHIN IN BANDARSERI BEGAWAN chaichin@mediacorp.com.sg B A N DA R S E R I B E G AWA N —The 23rd ASEAN Summit drew to a close yesterday in Brunei with the Chairman’s gavel passed to Myanmar for the
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      52 1 ENLIST WOMEN, PR VOLUNTEERS FOR S’PORE’S DEFENCE BY ALL MEANS BUT SAF IS NOT THE ONLY OPTION: HO SHU HUANG COMMENT&ANALYSIS 16 HOT NEWS 4 KAMPONG BUGIS TO GET CAR-FREE RESIDENTIAL AREA HOT NEWS 8 CHINA GDP GROWTH ‘WILL EXCEED 7.5%’ IN FIRST 9 MONTHS US, VIETNAM SIGN AGREEMENT ON
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  • hot news
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      Affected businesses resume services
      520 2  -  SOME BROADBAND SERVICES STILL NOT IN WORKING ORDER TIARA HAMARIAN tiarabtemh@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —Repairs for Wednesday’s unprecedented telecommunications service disruption continued into the second day yesterday. Still, most businesses including banks and Singapore Pools had their operations fully restored as early as yesterday morning, as SingTel prioritised
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      Lock icon Car-free residential area to be piloted in Kampong Bugis
      583 4  -  Area near Kallang River to be more pedestrian-friendly as transport network is redesigned LTA TO WORK WITH URA ON PROJECT SUMITA SREEDHARAN sumitas@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE A car-free residential area is set to be piloted in Kampong Bugis, near the Kallang River, as
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      FCBC case not a matter of church vs state: NCCS
      287 4 SINGAPORE —The judicial-review application made by Faith Community Baptist Church (FCBC) regarding the Ministry of Manpower’s (MOM) intervention in the dismissal of an employee should not be framed as a “church versus state” matter, the National Council of Churches Singapore
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      How the 10-day shutdown has afected the US and the world
      288 6 Trade gets stuck All pesticide imports to the US halted. Tech frms unable to export. Steel imports stranded at customs-clearance warehouses. US interests worldwide at risk US interests worldwide imperiled, said US Secretary of State John Kerry. Security assistance
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      Lock icon Republicans mull borrowing extension, with strings attached
      604 6 President Obama must first agree to talks on spending cuts; govt shutdown to continue CONGRESSIONAL DEADLOCK ‘BEGINNING TO STRESS FINANCIAL MARKETS’ AGENCIES WASHINGTON House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner said yesterday that Republicans would vote to extend the government’s ability to borrow money
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      Lock icon KERRY ASSURES CHINA’S LI THE US IS COMMITTED TO ENDING FISCAL CRISIS
      275 6 AGENCIES US Secretary of State John Kerry assured China’s Premier Li Keqiang that the United States was committed to resolving a fiscal impasse after the Chinese leader raised the issue in a meeting on the sidelines of an
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      Lock icon China GDP growth ‘will exceed 7.5%’ in first 9 months
      364 8 AGENCIES BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN —China’s economic growth should hold above 7.5 per cent in the first nine months of this year, Premier Li Keqiang said yesterday, a sign that the government will next week report success in arresting a two-quarter
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      Lock icon U.S., VIETNAM SIGN AGREEMENT ON NUCLEAR TRADE
      316 8 REUTERS The United States and Vietnam yesterday signed a pact that would allow the transfer of nuclear technology to the South-east Asian nation and open the way for US investment in the burgeoning industry, another sign that Washington is seeking stronger economic and
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      COVs for flats slip to S$15,000, further falls likely
      579 10  -  ‘PRICES TO CONTINUE MODERATING IN Q4, EARLY 2014’ LEE YEN NEE leeyennee@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —Government measures to rein in the property market have continued to drive cash-over-valuation (COV) premiums for Housing and Development Board (HDB) resale flats lower, and will likely affect
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      Lock icon Renowned short-story writer Munro wins Nobel Prize for Literature
      606 12 13TH WOMAN TO WIN PRIZE AGENCIES STOCKHOLM —Ms Alice Munro (picture), the renowned Canadian short-story writer whose visceral work explores the tangled relationships between men and women, small-town existence and the fallibility of memory, won the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature
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      Lock icon By 2047, the coldest years will be warmer than hottest in past
      809 14 S’PORE TO BE OFF-THE-CHARTS HOT BY 2028, SAY SCIENTISTS AGENCIES WASHINGTON —Starting in about a decade, Kingston in Jamaica will probably be off-the-charts hot permanently. Other places will soon follow. Singapore in 2028. Mexico City in 2031. Cairo
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  • comment &analysis
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      Lock icon Accommodate more volunteers for Singapore’s defence
      989 16  -  POLICE/CIVIL DEFENCE BETTER OPTION THAN SAF? HO SHU HUANG Ho Shu Huang is an MPhil/PhD candidate with the Department of War Studies at King’s College London. He is also an Associate Research Fellow with the Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies at the S
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      Lock icon How to exceed expectations
      656 18  -  THE WAY WE LEARN: A SERIES C FRANK STARMER C Frank Starmer is Associate Dean of Learning Technologies and Professor, Cardiovascular and Metabolic Disorders Programme, at the Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School. Education reform is one of his passions. This is part of a series on the
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      Lock icon A dream for 5 billion in the digital age
      978 20  -  BRINGING THE INTERNET TO THE DISCONNECTED PETER SINGER Peter Singer is Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University and Laureate Professor at the University of Melbourne. His books include Practical Ethics, One World, and The Life You Can Save. PROJECT SYNDICATE Fifty
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      Lock icon Don’t leave central banking to technocrats
      938 26  -  DECENTRALISE POWER OF MONETARY POLICYMAKING AMAR BHIDE Amar Bhide is a professor at Tufts University’s Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and the author of A Call for Judgment. PROJECT SYNDICATE Financial circles are buzzing about Ms Janet Yellen’s nomination to succeed Mr Ben
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      53 16 Around the world, more than two billion people live in the Digital Age. They can access a vast universe of information, and communicate at little or no cost with their friends and family. The other five billion are still stuck in the Paper Age in which my generation grew up.
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  • voices
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      Try other transport tune-ups before adding ERP gantries
      255 28  -  FROM SIEW KANG YOKE The possibility that “More major roads maybe subject to ERP” (Oct 8), such as on Alexandra Road, Jalan Bukit Me­rah and Commonwealth Avenue, was also mooted a few years ago, and I am exasperated to hear it being
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      Should it be National ‘Service’ or ‘defence’ for women?
      270 28  -  FROM DAWN TAN SIEW MEI If some “S’poreans want PRs, women to be part of national defence” (Oct 9), they must be absolutely clear about what they want from women: National “Service” or “defence”? If it is the former, is it
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      Lifestyle changes needed to curb plastic bag usage
      420 30  -  FROM CHONG LEE MING The Singapore Environment Council is right to seek a reduction of “wastage arising from taking small bags with low potential for secondary use”, but its recommendations appear to be inadequate. (“Only take what you need for rubbish disposal”;
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      Is Fandi ready to serve?
      137 30  -  FROM ISHWAR MAHTANI I read with interest about football fans here hoping to see Fandi Ahmad as LionsXII head coach. I do think we need a coach who can soon reignite the Kallang Roar, bringing Singapore football back to life. We have the talent; all
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      46 28 •HAVEYOURSAY email your letters to voices@mediacorp.com.sg JOIN THE CONVERSATION facebook.com/todayonline READ MORE LETTERS todayonline.com/voices LETTER OH FORA GREATER SHADE OF COM FORT AT MRT PLATFORMS Scan the QR code using the reader app on your smartphone, or visit tdy.sg/ltrmrt11oct for the letter from Debarnab Shankar Roy.
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  • singapore
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      Lock icon Ubin residents to pilot green energy grid
      500 32  -  ELECTRICITY MAY BE INCORPORATED INTO NATIONAL POWER SUPPLY IN FUTURE WOO SIAN BOON woosianboon@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Tests are under way on Pulau Ubin to see if its renewable energy supply currently being provided to a group of residents on the island can be relied
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      Fund for farms gets S$10m boost
      411 36  -  APPLICATION PROCESS SIMPLIFIED SIAU MING EN siaumingen@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Farmers here received a S$10-million boost from the Government, enabling them to purchase better equipment, vaccines and feeds in a move aimed at diversifying the Republic’s food sources. Announcing the top-up to the AgriFood and Veterinary
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      KKH debunks rumour over extra charge for baby matching system
      373 36  -  KOK XING HUI SINGAPORE An online rumour that the KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital (KKH) is charging new parents S$15 for the use of its new Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) system to make sure that they take the right baby
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      Lock icon 6 years’ jail for pimp who forced minor into prostitution
      271 38  -  CLAIRE HUANG SINGAPORE —The pimp who forced a minor to have sex with 100 men was yesterday given a six-year prison sentence, with the judge calling his actions “outright cruelty”. Last month, Tang Huisheng (picture), 37, a Chinese national, pleaded
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      Centre for disease development research launched
      291 38  -  AN N.U.S.-A*STAR COLLABORATION NAVENE ELANGOVAN navenee@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —A sum of S$148 million has been set aside to study the impact of lifestyle choices and nutrition on disease development in people. The Singapore Centre for Nutritional Sciences, Metabolic Diseases and Human Development (SiNMeD) is a
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      Appeals against S377A ruling to be heard together
      416 40  -  JUDGES SAY ISSUES IN 2 CASES ‘ESSENTIALLY THE SAME’ AMANDA LEE leeguiping@mediacorp.com. sg SINGAPORE —The Court of Appeal yesterday agreed to hear together two appeals against a law which criminalises sex between men. One appellant, Tan Eng Hong, 49, had sought the
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      634 42  -  New display technology can tell a person’s gender, age and emotional response TECHNOLOGY THAT BENEFITS BOTH CONSUMER AND INDUSTRY JUNE YANG juneyang@med iacorp.com .sg SINGAPORE Imagine a future where outdoor ads change depending on who is looking at them. Some may even know what
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      254 43 Bio-£ssence MIRACLE BIO WATER 110 VOLUNTEER CHALLENGE RESULTS Date: 13 April 2013 Venue: Tampines Mall Atrium 100% SUCCESS! 110 challengers proved the efficacies of the Miracle Bio Water! miracle BIO WATER f((C))i Linda Chung using the Miracle Bio Water on her face. H L 1 Challenger observed her pores are
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      Lock icon Chinese mining firm launches charm offensive in Myanmar
      864 44 COMPANY ON SOCIAL-SPENDING SPREE TO ALTER IMAGE IN COUNTRY DOW JONES MONYWA (MYANMAR) Across the world, Chinese firms, particularly stateowned enterprises, have developed a reputation for being secretive, quiet investors, expanding their global footprint with ferocity but little fanfare. But in Myanmar,
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      Lock icon Faster growth, car sales help China overtake US as top oil importer
      624 45 AP BEIJING China has achieved another world-beating status its leaders do not want: Biggest oil importer. The country overtook the United States last month as the world’s biggest net oil importer, driven by faster economic growth and strong
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      227 45 mi Bitn an l^fer^®KQrirffa!igi lilj@ligiaiji n Why go on the typical Gold Coast tour when you can soar above the cityscape in a helicopter, zip around in a jet boat and slide down on a sand dune for free? Simply order a BK PepperKing meal with a SJORA" Mango Peach,
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      Lock icon Thousands rally against Taiwan’s President
      89 46 Activists holding placards with defaced images of Taiwan’s President Ma Ying-jeou were among thousands of protesters denouncing his policies during National Day celebrations in Taipei yesterday. The protests were the first to dog the normally staid National Day observance since Mr Ma took office in
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      Lock icon Aussie varsities bow to Asian tiger mums
      762 46 More work less play as they seek to boost flagging foreign student enrolment INTEREST AMONG INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS SLOWING IN RECENT YEARS DOW JONES SYDNEY —Australian universities are learning from Asia’s tiger mums in a bid to address a sharp fall in overseas students,
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      Lock icon Jakarta begins construction of MRT system
      528 47 AGENCIES JA K A R TA Construction of a longawaited urban railway kicked off in the Indonesian capital yesterday as part of the city’s efforts to stave off its crippling gridlock. Jakarta Governor Joko Widodo presided over a groundbreaking ceremony to mark the beginning
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      616 48 WASHINGTON ‘NOT SEVERING TIES WITH CAIRO’ REUTERS KUALA LUMPUR —The United States will consider resuming aid to Egypt “on the basis of performance” that encourages democracy through elections, US Secretary of State John Kerry said yesterday, a day after Washington halted
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      544 49 AGENCIES C AIRO —Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zeidan was briefly kidnapped from a Tripoli hotel yesterday in an apparent act of retaliation for his supposed consent to the capture of a suspected Al Qaeda leader last week by American Special Forces. Mr
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      232 48 PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT COURSES CREATIVEWRITING OCTOBER 2013 WSQ Write a Narrative Script (English Chinese) Course Duration: 6 days Course Fee*: S$1059.30 WSQ Write a Sitcom Script Course Duration: 5 days Course Fee*: S$1059.30 WSQ Write and Edit Copy for Interactive Media Projects Course Duration: 3 days Course Fee*: S$674.10 WSQ Write
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      649 50  -  CUSTOMER-CENTRIC INITIATIVE HELPS RETAILERS IMPROVE BOTTOM LINES WONG WEI HAN wongweihan@mediacorp.com.sg S I N G A P O R E —It really does pay to be nice. Retailers who tapped a government initiative to improve service quality across the industry are
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      238 51 AGENCIES SINGAPORE —The Singapore Exchange (SGX) said yesterday it is investigating the short-selling in shares of Blumont Group and Asiasons Capital on Monday, despite the trading curbs imposed on the two stocks. Asiasons and Blumont are among three stocks subjected by SGX to trading
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      367 51 AGENCIES WASHINGTON —Most Federal Reserve policymakers said the central bank was likely to taper its bond purchases this year, even as they unexpectedly refrained from such a move last month. But worries about whether a delay would confuse financial markets made
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        A CREDIT CARD THAT TRULY REWARDS YOU
        284 52 Get a free Tigerair travel ticket simply by applying for the Standard Chartered Tigerair Platinum Credit Card. The credit card offers a unique Upfront Rewards plan that allows you to redeem air tickets and enjoy travel perks even before you start spending on
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        THE PERFECT BIRTHDAY PARTY
        131 52 SWensen’s is offering a one-stop solution for birthday parties, complete with entertainment and invitation cards. Customers can customise their party or choose from a Variety of packages. The SWensen’s Children Birthday Tea Party Buffet (S$16.90++ per person) includes main courses, free flow of soft drinks, coffee
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        A DREAM COME TRUE
        153 52 Three youths, who took part in the H-TWO-O Ultimate Champions League, will get to enjoy a fully paid trip to Real Madrid, Spain. They will enjoy a guided tour of the Real Madrid football club and attend a La Liga derby match. Muhammad Shafiq Bin Sazali
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        PHILLIP FUTURES OPENS IN PENANG
        122 52 Phillip Futures has increased its presence in Malaysia with a new branch in Penang. Earlier this year, Philip Futures had opened two other branches, Taman Molek and Sutera Utama, in Johor Bahru. With the new branch, Phillip Futures is able to bring its products and
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        A DECLARATION OF YOUR LOVE
        115 52 Forevermark celebrates eternal love with its latest Cornerstones collection. At the centre of each piece of jewellery is 21 Forever diamond, l which represents the love between two people. The diamond is held tightly in place by four prongs that represent honesty, trust, respect and
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        127 52 Allure Beauty has opened its third outlet at #03-29/30 City Square Mall. Spread across 125sqm, the new outlet boasts an elegant setting with four facial rooms, two couple rooms, two makeup counters, and two body rooms with Jacuzzi and steam bath tub. Eyebrow treatments include classic eyebrow embroidery,
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        SHOPPING CONVENIENCE
        119 52 The new Giant online website features more than 8,000 items, including fresh produce, home furnishing and apparel. It is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week for your convenience. If orders are made before 11am, you’ll enjoy same-day delivery, which is also available on Sundays and
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      489 51 -■■V. L* p ERlEN CF On m FRO M n Diff EREN m RERspf 8JS.T CTlVE m U m 31 3 *£yo n s •»Ow •tel This Fall, fashion isn’t everything it appears to be it’s all about how you look at it. From 2 to 12 October, get an
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      962 54 Property tycoons showing strong support, but others say rural habitats give city its edge S’PORE ALSO EYEING SUBTERRANEAN DEVELOPMENT REUTERS HONG KONG —Wild boar and water buffalo are not creatures most people associate with one of the world’s great global financial centres. Yet
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      Experts to headline property seminar next month
      166 56 SINGAPORE The Council for Estate Agencies (CEA) and the Consumers Association of Singapore (CASE) will hold a seminar on the property sector next month, covering topics such as the market outlook, dispute resolution and financing options. The second of a four-part series that
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      120 54 Co mo ii>r a /*V* siamriospiiaii r0 0 0 ri ik visit 2014 MALAYSIA Truly Aaul Organised by: Global Exhibition Organisers Sdn Bhd Supported by: Malaysia Truly Asia Fair 11 th -13 th Oct 2013 (Fri Sun) 10.30am 9.30pm Basement Atrium, Changi City Point Play Traditional Kampung Games at TM
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      109 55 Cold Storage The fresh food people or Or m mm 0 tiff W5 Hi for 2 fox 2 I 22 0 0 rjj 00 smf= Yi 2 29 0 NESTLE Smarties Vice Versas 126g U.P. $3.20 each 0 FREE NESTLE Kit Kat 2 Fingers Sharepack 204g U.P. $6.40 each Smarties
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      123 56 THE BVI BUSINESS COMPANIES ACT ,2004 NEWDAY INTERNATIONAL LIMITED (the “Company”) NOTICE OF LIQUIDATOR’S APPOINTMENT NOTICE is hereby given pursuant to Section 204(1 Xa)(i) that Teo Peng Huat of 8 Temasek Boulevard #42-00 Singapore *****8 has been appointed liquidator of the Company by a resolution of Directors dated 1 October
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      109 57 Cold Storage The fresh food people 31 SB Merries Walker Pants M33/L27/XL24 UP. $17.80 M otvn u27 »Kli Merries.SG Kao II NN n sH o 16 O yU-Jt ■A: i WIN 1 §j/ V (M\0^ erS i Bright Starts Sunnyside Safari Saucer worth $239 —zsssy•.KOOJ Merries ITpUtsm:. r *2425 Merries
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      Lock icon ‘Mum, the cactus on TV just pricked me’
      704 58 Disney is developing technology that will allow viewers to feel images as they watch them ONE STEP BEYOND TOUCH-SCREEN TECHNOLOGY THE DAILY TELEGRAPH BURBANK (CALIFORNIA) Forget 3DTV, Disney wants to bring the world Texture TV. Researchers at the company have developed technology
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      321 58 REUTERS S TA M FO R D (CO N N EC T I C U T Lenovo Group held on to its position as the world’s No 1 personal computer-mak-er in the latest quarter despite a drastic dip in its
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      65 58 SCAN ME WITH THE MEclub MOBILE APP AND GET REWARDED! Win a set of restaurant dining vouchers worth S$200 each in October 2013 Lucky Draw* 150 Star Points* when you update your profile! Visit www.MEclub.com.sg for more details. *Terms and conditions apply. Not yet a member? Register now at MEclub.com.sg.
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      59 59 mmmm ONLINE WWWt s How-to-WIN: 1. Register and login as a member 2. Start shopping Giant Online 3. One daily lucky winner will enjoy his/her online purchase for FREE I Cam I FAQ feedback I Contact Us mm SCAN SIGN UP *Valid at Giant Online till 27 October 2013. Other
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      Lock icon SCOTT WONG DITCHES DISCUS FOR WEIGHTS
      690 60  -  S’pore’s leading young thrower cites lack of support for weightlifting switch ATHLETE EYES GOLD AT 2015 SEA GAMES LOW LIN FHOONG linfhoong@mediacorp.com.sg S I N G A P O R E The national track and field team is set to lose discus thrower Scott
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      Lock icon TENDULKAR TO STOP AFTER 200TH TEST
      321 60 REUTERS MUMBAI —Indian Sachin Tendulkar, the world’s most prolific international run-scorer, will retire after playing his 200th test match at home against West Indies next month. “All my life, I have had a dream of playing cricket for India. I have been living this
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      Lock icon SPORTS HUB’S HOLD ON TICKETS
      683 64  -  Operators unveil system that ushers new way of delivery and doing business NEW SYSTEM TO GIVE 3-D VIEW OF ARENA IAN DE COTTA ian@mediacorp.com.sg S I NG A PO R E When it opens next April, the Sports Hub will usher in the next generation
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      Lock icon S’PORE LABOURTO VICTORY OVER LAOS
      325 64  -  PHILIP GOH SINGAPORE —Khairul Amri’s strike after just two minutes was enough to give Singapore a 1-0 win over Laos in a friendly at the Jalan Besar Stadium last night. The result ended a recent run of three straight losses, although even the most ardent
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      487 66  -  Gerrard Lin will finish two treadmill marathons to raise awareness for charity PUBLIC INVITED TO JOIN THE MARATHON ADELENE WONG adelenewong@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —He drew stares at last year’s Standard Chartered Marathon when he ran the full 42.195km distance while dragging a 17-inch, 14kg
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      Lock icon SCHUMI MORE DOMINANT: VETTEL
      178 66 REUTERS SUZUK A (JA PA N Sebastian Vettel has rejected comparisons between his current dominance with Red Bull and the days when Ferrari and Michael Schumacher had the sport in a stranglehold. Vettel, who can win his fourth world title in a row at the Japanese
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      WORLD’S FASTEST FEMALE SWIMMERS SET FOR S’PORE
      367 66 SINGAPORE Four of the world’s fastest female swimmers will battle at the coming Nov 5-6 FINA/ Arena Swimming World Cup at the Singapore Sports School. It will be the first time that Britain’s Francesca Halsall, Sweden’s Sarah Sjostrom, Aleksandra Gerasimenya of the Belarus
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      Lock icon GAMES WILL BE FIXED THIS SEASON, WARNS LA LIGA CHIEF
      510 67 AP LONDON —Match-fixers will successfully manipulate at least eight matches in Spain’s top two divisions this season, the league’s chief warned on Wednesday (yesterday morning, Singapore time). La Liga President Javier Tebas announced his fears at a conference of football
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      Lock icon OUT OF POSITION, OUT OF SORTS
      636 68 Rooney says he was unhappy at United last season because Ferguson played him in midfield ‘NO CONSISTENT RUN UP FRONT’ REUTERS LONDON —Wayne Rooney has confirmed that he was indeed unhappy at Manchester United last season and this was because he was often played
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      Lock icon SUAREZ WANTS TO AVOID PLAY-OFF ROUTE TO WORLD CUP
      449 68 REUTERS BUENOS AIRES —Uruguay, semi-final-ists at the last World Cup in South Africa, will be aiming to avoid trying to qualify via the play-off for the third time in row. The two-time winners are level on 22 points with Ecuador, and
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      181 67 DAY OKTOBERFEST ASIA Marina at Keppel Bay Oct 16-19, 2013 \j oK TOB« f£s? 2013 Taking centrestage this year are 10 quality beers produced by the finest breweries from Germany’s Bavaria region. EVENT HIGHLIGHTS Feast on Bavarian Beers Food German eateries dish out fine brews and traditional bites like crispy
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      93 68 I_l t v i n g Adjustable Extendab e Seat END SUMMER MODEL 100% Genuine Leather Now *2999 6 Seaters Top Grain Leather is leather from the uppermost layer of a hide, which is the highest quality part of the hide and the most preferred for the leather upholstery Designer's
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      96 69 Singapore, Italy, Australia, Egypt, Spain, Netherlands, Mexico, Scotland, Japan... from different countries to fulfill one dream. v > E l in Imi lai n mi in *111 in lllilftllilililiJNlJilJiliHlwiliWir Im Will iiii FIRST u. t y i N_ mourn in Wed S3 Oct 1pm /1 le MediaOorp deception IB Cain
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      289 70 liime 'MEmm EJFI g ii -j Wrrarocra Rea ore RCLL.Li.Ui z*.. '4s>g*~C% (rJc^r. xm\ XT'G Beat i -'-~Wsg s Dolphin Island Here’s your chance to interact with Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins while learning more about them. $198 Dolphin Discovery (For iheJirsl 300 bookings) For the third year running, we arc TTG
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      45 1 FRIDAY, 11 OCTOBER 2013 SCENT OF A WOMAN WE GET THE GOSS ON BLAKE LIVELY, THE FACE OF GUCCI PREMIERE PERFUME 5 QUESTIONS WITH SERANGOON ROAD’S PAMELYN CHEE LOVES THE 1930S 6 STING OPERATION HIS LIFE-CHANGING MOMENT WITH THE QUEEN MOTHER 8 2 PHOTO: GUCCI
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        Lock icon MAKING SCENTS OF BLAKE LIVELY
        1417 2  -  THE FACE OF GUCCI PREMIERE TALKS FRAGRANCES, BEAUTY, STYLE AND THOSE GORGEOUS LOCKS OF HERS ZHANG WEIFANG IN SHANGHAI weifang@mediacorp.com.sg When friends are late, I really don’t mind waiting for them. However, waiting for my interview with Blake Lively to start was another thing altogether.
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        403 4  -  Slap, slather and spritz on latest beauty and grooming must-haves LOOKING GOOD BY ZHANG WEIFANG 1 Nude variations Nudes are never boring, especially when they come in different shades. Yves Saint Laurent’s Rouge Pur Couture Vernis a Levres Rebel Nudes collection has eight variations, including Pink No Taboo,
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        New beauty brands in Singapore
        186 5  -  ZHANG WEIFANG SINGAPORE —Beauty junkies can rejoice as four new brands are set to make their debut in Singapore over the next few months. tarte, known for its eco-chic branding, will be available from Nov 14 at all Sephora stores. Be sure to get your
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        95 5  -  ZHANG WEIFANG S I N G A P O R E New York-based label Proenza Schouler (pronounced school-ler) will launch its collaboration with M.A.C in April 2014. The highly coveted American label posted a sneak peek of an image on their Instagram account (@proenzaschouler)
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        389 6  -  5 QUESTIONS WITH ZHANG WEIFANG S I N G A P O R E Serangoon Road will probably be actress Pamelyn Chee’s last project in the region (the drama was filmed in Singapore and Batam) for a while before she jets off to Los Angeles. “It seems like
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        287 6  -  Latest digs around town GET IT NOW BY KENNETH CHOY 1 Crown Jewels If you love your baubles and precious gems, check out some luxurious and carefully curated pieces at the Singapore JewelFest 2013. Expect fine craftsmanship and design artistry from participatingjewellery houses, designers and brands such as
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        940 8  -  The singer talks about his first album in nearly 10 years and how the Queen Mother changed his life ROCK ICON ROB FITZPATRICK features@mediacorp.com.sg THE GUARDIAN LONDON Back in 1987, Sting, then a 36-year-old superstar promoting a new album, Nothing Like the Sun, declared: “I don’t
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