Today, 31 December 2013, Afternoon Edition

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    22 1 AbdiaCorp TUESDAY, 31 DECEMBER 2013 MICA (P) 053/06/2013 TODAY TODAYONLINE.COM WE SET YOU THINKING A=D!AC0RP TUESDAY, 31 DECEMBER 2013 MICA (P) 053/06/2013
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  • Article
    Supply of two-room flats to double, fewer larger BTO units
    726 1  -  HDB to offer24,300 flats next year, 3 per cent fewer than the25,100 launched this year 700 STUDIO APARTMENTS AVAILABLE FOR SENIORS XUE JIANYUE xuejianyue@mediacorp.com.sg S I N G A P O R E —After three years of ramped-up supply of
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    Lock icon LTA moves to ease congestion, reduce confusion around MCE
    893 1  -  WOO SIAN BOON sianboon@mediacorp.com .sg SINGAPORE —Following two consecutive days of traffic congestion, frayed nerves and complaints from some confused motorists struggling to get their bearings on Singapore’s newest expressway, the Land Transport Author- ity last night made adjustments to the
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      102 1 WAN-IFRA Color Quality Club 2014-2016 114 TODAY looks at the major issues and events that will shape the year ahead in a two-part special report TRANSPORT Fare structure, COE system set to be tweaked EDUCATION Shift towards more holistic education to gain momentum HOUSING HDB policies ‘should shift to meet
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      201 1 IT WOULD BE TRAGIC IF S’PORE ONLY DEALT WITH RIOT AS LAW-AND-ORDERISSUE: EUGENE TAN COMMENT&ANALYSIS 20 THE COLOURED CIRCLES AT LEFT WILL APPEAR OCCASIONALLY ON OUR FRONT PAGE. THEY REPRESENT OUR ENTRY INTO AN INTERNATIONAL PRINTING COMPETITION TODAY wishes all its readers a Happy New Year. We will be back
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  • hot news
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      Lock icon By visiting shrine, Abe has ‘shut door on talks’
      682 2 S Korea will not take part in talks on shared defence, intelligence with Japan, initially plannedfor next month BEIJING URGES JAPAN PM TO ADMIT MISTAKES AGENCIES BEIJING —China said yesterday that its leaders will not meet Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe
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      DNC exemption order ‘aimed at serving consumers’ interests’
      553 4  -  Change ‘should not be seen as back-door approach’ to allow indiscriminate marketing TIMING OF ORDER WAS ‘LEAST DISRUPTIVE’ TO CONSUMERS, BUSINESSES NEO CHAI CHIN chaichin@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —The exemption for businesses to continue sending text and fax messages to existing customers even if
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      Schumacher remains in critical condition
      544 6 Helmet probably saved F1 greatfrom instant death in skiing accident, says doctor DOCTORS WORKING TO RELIEVE PRESSURE ON GERMAN DRIVER’S BRAIN GRENOBLE (FRANCE) —Doctors treating record seven-time Formula 1 world champion Michael Schumacher have refused to predict an outcome, saying they were taking his critical
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      Lock icon 14 killed in second bomb attack in Russian city
      385 6 AGENCIES VOLGOGR AD (RUSSIA) —A bomb ripped apart a bus in Volgograd yesterday, killing 14 people in the second deadly attack blamed on suicide bombers in the southern Russian city in 24 hours and raising fears of Islamist attacks on the
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    • 2014 LOOK AHEAD
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        Lock icon Fare structure, COE system set to be tweaked
        1881 8  -  Result of public transportfare review exercise expected by March TRIAL OF FREE MRT RIDES TO END IN JUNE WOO SIAN BOON sianboon@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The next 12 months are shaping up to be a major year for land transport here, as changes to
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        Lock icon Shift towards more holistic education to gain momentum
        1118 10  -  Slew of initiatives to kick in next year NEED TO RECOGNISE OTHER STRENGTHS: PARENTS NG JING YNG jingyng@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE With four children aged between 12 and 19 studying in schools from the primary to tertiary levels, Madam Norrazlin Hamim has a broad
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        Lock icon HDB policies ‘should shift to meet changing demand’
        1097 12  -  Needs of singles, elderly and single-parentfamilies must be considered in public housing schemes, say analysts ASPIRATIONS OF MIDDLE CLASS MUST ALSO BE ADDRESSED SUMITA SREEDHARAN sumitas@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE With demand from families largely satisfied by the increased supply of Build-to-Order (BTO) flats in
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        Lock icon Govt urged to do more for baby boomers, transnational families
        1296 14  -  Republic plans to ‘build capacities’ in response to changing demographics 40% OF MARRIAGES BETWEEN S’POREAN AND NON-CITIZEN IN 2012 ASHLEY CHIA ashley@mediacorp.com.sg benefit from,” he said. ADDITIONAL REporting BY AMIRHUSSAIN SINGAPORE Already, they make up four in 10 marriages in
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        Lock icon Major shake-ups to healthcare financing system unlikely: Experts
        923 16  -  Govt ‘reasonably satisfied’ that 3M system of Medisave, Medifund, MediShield is right MEDISHIELD LIFE RECOMMENDATIONS TO BE UNVEILED IN MAY TAN WEIZHEN, KOK XING HUI weizhen@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —If the discussions on Singapore’s healthcare financing system that have taken place over the past
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        Lock icon NGOs move to extend nature’s reach
        1596 18  -  Climate issues, human-wildlife conflicts couldfeature prominently in the year ahead ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES TO THE FORE NEO CHAI CHIN chaichin@mediacorp.com.sg ment head Angela Chow. ADDITIONAL REPORTING BYSIAU MING EN SINGAPORE It was a year in which the transboundary nature of environmental issues hit home and,
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        Lock icon Govt fine-tuning of Internet rules to be ‘closely watched’
        1245 19  -  Analysts agree harassment, bullying laws needed, but see some others as crimping debate SOCIAL MEDIA PLAYING BIGGER ROLE AMIR HUSSAIN amirhussain@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE With social media playing an increasingly influential role in Singaporeans’ lives, and more people wanting to air their views
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      137 2 COMMENT &ANALYSIS HOWTO PREVENTA WAR BETWEEN CHINA AND JAPAN 22 Do the Great Singapore ATM Card Upgrade and double your prosperity! Get prosperous this Chinese New Year! To usher in the New Year, we have doubled our prize money from S$100,000 to S$200,000 A this month only for 100 people.
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      345 9 D& W(VL m 0 W: O.A< 4 ®U u^y Ks f S§ (f J> 0 5T^ Jan 3 30, SWEET SURPRISES Receive an exclusively designed candy tray when you spend a minimum of $188* ($228* with supermarket receipts). Offer valid till Feb 2. DBS CAPITACARD MEMBERS EXCLUSIVE Festive Charge Redeem
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      559 13 ELECTRICITY TARIFF REVISION (1 Jan to 31 Mar 14) The electricity tariff for households will decrease by 0.43 cent per kWh to 25.65 cents per kWh for the quarter 1 Jan to 31 Mar 14. The average monthly electricity bill for families living in four-room HDB flats will decrease by
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  • comment && analysis
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      Lock icon Little India riot: The dog that did not bark
      1335 20  -  TIME TO DEAL WITH ‘BROADER QUESTIONS’ RAISED EUGENE K B TAN Eugene K B Tan is Associate Professor at the Singapore Management University School of Law and a Nominated Member of Parliament. In the aftermath of the Little India riot, the
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      Lock icon How to prevent a war between China and Japan
      960 22  -  TENSIONS IN EAST ASIA KISHORE MAHBUBANI Kishore Mahbu bani, Dean of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore, is author of The Great Convergence: Asia, the West and the Logic of One World. BLOOMBERG
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      37 20 Both China and Japan need to find a way to ratchet down their words and deeds. Japan can and should take a first, small step forward by ‘going back’ and selling the disputed islands. KISHORE MAHBUBANI 22
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      116 22 £S\ JAPANESE RESTAURANT WEEK Singapore T to O c e 1 cVV* e IUCKYDRAVVI. Let’s go JAPAN] pttX® v" 00 Kl0 Qne pair meal ticket L Pri D: ssr* ck1 There are also prizes for over 500 oth^ v other people Pri e E: hJSll 3 Ja P ane se
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  • voices
    • Article, Illustration
      Lock icon Streamline adoption process, form support groups for families
      255 24  -  FROM DARIUS LEE I agree with Mr Joseph Wong (“To help orphans, change our views on adoption”, Dec 27) and Mr Shafiq Abdullah (“Adoption: Point is to care for orphans, neglected kids”, Dec 30) that we should change our perspective of adoption
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    • Article
      People who mix languages not claiming to be bilingual
      271 24  -  FROM SOH AH YUEN I refer to the letter “To be a bilingual nation, don’t mix languages” by Mr Steven Lee Thien Poh (Dec 27). When my parents came to Singapore in the 1940s, locals communicated with them in dialects interlaced
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      Lock icon ‘Borrowing’ words from other languages aids understanding
      173 24  -  FROM JEFFREY LAW LEE BENG I refer to the letter “To be a bilingual nation, don’t mix languages” (Dec 27). Many of us would prefer to speak wholly in one language, but sometimes we find it difficult to do so. In any conversation,
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    • Article
      Correction
      71 24 In “AVA launches online system to facilitate quarantine applications” (Dec 19), we reported that last year, 56 per cent of 2,190 imported pets were quarantined and 55 per cent of 2,070 imported pets were quarantined in the previous year. The correct figures should be that 33 per cent of
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    • Article
      Actively promote use of all four official languages
      187 24  -  FROM THOMAS LEE CHEE CHEE I refer to the letter by Mr Steven Lee Thien Poh published on Dec 27 (“To be a bilingual nation, don’t mix languages”). I believe bilingualism is sputtering in Singapore. Proficiency in a language depends mainly on
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    • Article
      More outreach, medical services needed to combat depression
      279 26  -  FROM RICHMOND LEE According to a global survey on disease and mortality published in the Lancet medical journal, there has been an increase in death by suicide or selfharm. In the United States, self-harm has become one of the leading causes of
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    • Article
      Education on doing the right thing begins at home
      217 26  -  FROM AGNES KOH On Dec 28, I was taking a walk along the Simpang Kiri Park Connector on the path designated for pedestrians, which is marked clearly by an image of footprints. Suddenly, a young cyclist around the age of 11
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      Lock icon Better transport links needed for Singapore Flyer
      238 26  -  FROM COLIN TAN WEIJIAN One reason for the Singapore Flyer’s financial difficulties could be that its accessibility by public transport is not on par with that of other attractions. First, though the Flyer is within walking distance of Promenade MRT station, there are
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    • Article
      Ensure toilets at or near MRT stations are open
      116 26  -  FROM ANG CHUAN HENG We were at Tiong Bahru MRT Station recently. There was no toilet within the station and we were asked to use the one at Tiong Bahru Plaza. However, the toilets were not open at that hour. We
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      588 27 mi m National Heritage 71 I W Board YEARS of HERITAGE with YOU 1993-2013 USHER. AT THE MUSEUMS! IN THE NEW YEAR All visitors enjoy free admission to all exhibitions at the National Heritage Board museums and heritage institutions at our New Year's Day Open House on 1 January 2014!
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  • singapore
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      Lock icon Tighter guidelines on pet sale introduced
      803 28  -  Potential pet buyers and retailers must complete Pet Purchase Declaration form as part of pre-sale screening THOSE BELOW 16 MUST BE ACCOMPANIED BY PARENTS OR LEGAL GUARDIAN WHEN BUYING SELECTED ANIMALS SIAU MING EN siaumingen@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —Pet retailers will have to be more stringent
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    • Article
      Air quality to improve in next few days: NEA
      340 30  -  Dry weather conditions 110 hot spots around Asia the reasons behind haze SHOWERS EXPECTED KOK XING HUI xinghui@mediacorp.com. sg SINGAPORE —Despite a mild haze that was detected yesterday, air quality has remained in the “Good” range (0-50) and is expected to
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    • Article
      More cleaners deployed for New Year’s Eve countdown
      269 30 SINGAPORE —Event organisers of a New Year’s Eve countdown will place 120 more bins and deploy 50 more cleaners at the Marina Bay area to encourage party goers to dispose of their litter responsibly. The National Environment Agency (NEA) will also be
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      Lock icon 800,000 HDB households to receive S$135m in utilities rebates next month
      333 30 CHANNEL NEWSASIA SINGAPORE —About 800,000 Singaporean households living in Housing and Development Board (HDB) flats will receive S$135 million worth of utilities rebates next month. A Ministry of Finance (MOF) statement yesterday said eligible Singaporean households will each receive
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    • Article
      NUS student drowned in Kelantan: Malaysian police
      276 30  -  MELODY CHAN, KIMBERLY SPYKERMAN SINGAPORE —The National University of Singapore (NUS) student who fell off a slippery cliff in Kelantan, Malaysia last Saturday had drowned, said the Malaysian police. Lee Jun Jie, 23, also suffered a fracture on the left part of his
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      Lock icon SMRT bus driver charged over fatal Dairy Farm Road accident
      235 31 CHANNEL NEWSASIA SINGAPORE —An SMRT bus driver was yesterday charged in court over a fatal accident in Dairy Farm Road in July. Zhang Kun, 39, is accused of causing the death of Sasikumar Gunasakaran, a Malaysian who was 19 at
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    • Article
      Eye surgeon suspended for 4 months following conviction for tax evasion
      254 31 SINGAPORE —Prominent eye surgeon Currie Chiang has been suspended from medical practice for four months and censured by the Singapore Medical Council (SMC), following her 2011 conviction for tax evasion. Although the SMC noted that the under-declared tax amount
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    • Article
      Lock icon Man jailed, fined for threatening to harm lover’s child
      149 31 CHANNEL NEWSASIA SINGAPORE —A 57-year-old man who threatened to throw his lover’s child out of the window was yesterday jailed four months and fined S$61,000. Chung Kam Leong was also convicted on seven counts of assisting the operations of loansharks between
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    • Article
      Lock icon Alleged Little India rioter to seek judicial review on ICA conditions
      252 31 CHANNEL NEWSASIA S I N G A P O R E —One of the 25 men charged with rioting at Little India on Dec 8 intends to seek judicial review on the conditions that the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority
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      Lock icon Shane Todd’s death: US officials satisfied with audit of IME, says MFA
      297 31 CHANNEL NEWSASIA SINGAPORE —The United States’ audit of Singapore’s Institute of Microelectronics (IME) has been completed, with US officials satisfied with the outcome, said Singapore’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) yesterday. Part of Singapore’s Agency for Science, Technology
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      175 28 The Lion’s Roar 5 th JAN 2014 12 th JAN 2014 19 th JAN 2014 "HONOURING THE 6 DIRECTIONS BYBRO. SOON HAN "CHOOSING THE RIGHT MEDITATION OBJECTS FOR CONCENTRATION BY DR. NG WAI CHONG "WHAT BOSSES WANT" BY SIS. STELLA LIN [NO TALKS ON 26™ JANUARY 2 nd FEBRUARY 2014]
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  • education
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      Lock icon Computers jump to the head of the class
      1042 32 Intelligent machines could replace humans, undermining value of voca tion al education THE ‘ULTIMATE ELIMINATION’ OF WORK THE NEW YORK TIMES TOKYO —If a computer could ace the entrance exam for a top university, what would that mean for mortals with average
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      98 32 Computational Maths or Thinking Maths Which is more Relevant for your Child? You may be familiar with the maverick child who can count to 100, or perform impressive additions and subtractions at a young age. Question is, can they think critically, reason and discern? Can they articulate their solutions? Singapore
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      93 33 THE ALL-NEW NOW ON EVERY ANDROID DEVICE ANDROID NATIVE. Built from scratch to maximise your smartphone or tablet’s potential. SOCIALLY ADEPT. Share the latest breaking news on your network of choice, be it Facebook, Twitter or Google+. Or Bookmark a story so you can visit it at your own leisure.
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  • china&india
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      Lock icon Police kill 8 in Xinjiang ‘terrorist attack’
      571 34 Knife-wielding thugs attack police station, set cars on fire in latest outbreak of violence DEATH TOLL SINCE NOVEMBER RISES TO 35 IN ETHNICALLY-TENSE REGION AGENCIES BEIJING Chinese police shot dead eight people during a “terrorist attack” in the western region of Xinjiang yesterday,
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      Lock icon China bans officials from smoking in public
      555 34 AGENCIES BEIJING China, which has the world’s largest number of smokers, is making another effort at limiting smoking by banning officials from lighting up in public. This time, the edict is coming from the highest levels of the ruling Communist Party and government.
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      Lock icon More than 3 million hectares of China’s farmland ‘too polluted for crops’
      332 35 AGENCIES BEIJING —More than 3 million hectares of China’s farmland is too polluted with heavy metals and other chemicals to use for growing food, a Cabinet official said yesterday, highlighting a problem that is causing growing public concern.
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      Lock icon Former aide to ex-security chief investigated for graft
      523 35 AGENCIES BEIJING —A former aide to retired Chinese security tsar Zhou Yongkang has been placed under investigation for corruption, the government said, the latest move targeting people close to Mr Zhou, who is himself the subject of a graft probe. The ruling
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      Lock icon Xi to take charge of group leading reforms
      558 35 AGENCIES B E IJ I NG Chinese President Xi Jinping will head a group to steer economic and social reforms, the official Xinhua news agency said yesterday, underscoring his determination to push through change amid fears of resistance from vested interests. In
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  • world
    • Article
      Lock icon Thai police protest treatment by demonstrators
      576 36 Cops have remained patient, but they have dignity, want to protect that too, says leader RUMOURS OF COUP CAUSING CONFUSION AND SPECULATION: ARMY SPOKESMAN AGENCIES BANGKOK —Thailand’s powerful army yesterday sought to ease fears it might step in to resolve the country’s festering political
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      Lock icon Najib announces measures to curb public spending
      400 36 AGENCIES KUAL A LUMPUR —Malaysia will reduce the entertainment budgets of ministers and freeze applications to renovate government offices as Prime Minister Najib Razak widens efforts to cut public spending. Eleven measures to curb public spending expenditure will start on Wednesday, the Bernama
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    • Article
      Lock icon German magazine discloses NSA’s online spying tactics
      484 37 AGENCIES NEW YORK —A top-secret hacking unit from the United States National Security Agency (NSA) intercepted computer deliveries, exploited hardware vulnerabilities and even hijacked Microsoft’s internal reporting system to spy on their targets, a German magazine said. In its report on Sunday, Der
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      Lock icon Cambodian factories grapple with underage worker issue
      721 37 AGENCIES SIHANOUKVILLE (CAMBODIA) In a quiet Cambodian beach town, Ms Lim Loeung says she spends up to 80 hours a week gluing soles onto shoes at a factory which produces branded footwear for global names. Although the factory believes she is at least
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  • business
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      114 39 Thank you for making them smile Your generosity and kindness towards the Christmas Give charity drive have touched many hearts. Donations received will help support some of the programmes of the Alzheimer’s Disease Association in providing care for people with dementia as well as their caregivers. Thank you for bringing
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      289 43 AGENCIES LAS VEGAS —Anderson Silva, regarded as one of the greatest mixed martial arts exponents, is set to be out for as long as six months after suffering a horrific leg break. The 38-year-old Brazilian underwent successful surgery on his
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