The Straits Times, 9 February 2010

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  • 19 1 THE STRAITS TIMES. MICA (P) 094/11/2009 TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 9 2010 A SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS PUBLICATION ESTABLISHED 1845 90 CENTS
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    • 66 1 TEMASEK Holdings is stepping up its efforts to raise money by selling another $1 billion in bonds, even as it lays the ground for more sales in the near future. The state investment company said yesterday that its latest offering the fifth in as many months
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    • 49 1 AUSTRALIA has tightened its migration rules in favour of English speakers and professionals, saying that the country has been attracting too many hairdressers and cooks, and too few doctors and engineers. About 20,000 applications were axed as part of a major overhaul. PRIME PAGE A7
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    • 68 1 AN UNCLE has taken his nephew to court, accusing him of publicity gimmicks that mislead the public about his famous Crawford Lane minced meat noodles stall. Mr Tang Chay Seng, who runs Hill Street Tai Hwa Pork Noodles, wants his nephew, who operates a fishball noodle
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    • 55 1 ERRANT bosses had to pay back more than $1.5 million to about 1,500 local workers last year. Most of the claims against them were over salary arrears. The Ministry of Manpower said that despite the economic downturn, it did not see an increase in claims from
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  • 821 1  -  Leader of independent church apologises to Buddhists and Taoists BY YEN FENG zengyan@sph.com.sg THE Government called up a Christian church leader yesterday after receiving complaints about online video clips that show him making insensitive comments about Buddhism. The Internal Security Department yesterday met
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  • 655 1  -  BY MAVIS TOH, SUJIN THOMAS THERE has been a sharp rise in the number of young girls aged between 12 and 14 having sex, and this trend is likely to continue, the police have warned. Police reports
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  • prime.commentary
    • VIEWPOINTS
      • 103 2 WE SAY Planners obsess ceaselessly about making Singapore a global city of infinite appeal, to its citizens and to smart people coming here to create wealth and to enrich its cultural life. Actually it has done pretty well for itself, having so little to work with.
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      • 31 2 COLUMNS It will take some time before the actual social impact of casino gambling in Singapore can be assessed properly, says Derek da Cunha. REVIEW PAGE A18
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      • 29 2 The idea of winter sports may be alien to most here, but that is no reason not to tune in, says Rohit Brijnath. SPORT PAGE B7
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      • 31 2 OUR READER SAYS As long as the PAP maintains its moral probity, it should retain a handsome mandate to rule, says Dr Yik Keng Yeong. FORUM PAGE A20
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      • Article, Illustration
        15 2 www.straitstimes.com Niki Bruce wonders if Singapore is ready for another quirky advertising campaign.
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    • 938 2  -  Taiwan, Tibet and trade issues at a boil, but both will weather the conflicts BY CHING CHEONG SENIOR WRITER chingcheong@gmail.com THE three Ts Taiwan, Tibet and trade that have roiled Si-no-American relations in the past three decades did so again early this
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  • prime.news
    • 996 3  -  Pasir Ris, Tampines residents upset over lack of consultation and effect on property values BY MELISSA KOK,ANG YIYING melk@sph.com.sg ayiying@sph.com.sg Additional reporting by Zeslene Mao IN THE space of a week, residents in two housing estates dismayed to learn that new rental blocks
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    • 531 4  -  Pastor did right thing by apologising, but Buddhist group wants to make sure there is no repeat BY GRACE CHUA caiwj@sph.com.sg THE Singapore Buddhist Federation said Senior Pastor Rony Tan’s act of apologising was the right thing to do for a start. But
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    • 487 4  -  BY JENNANI DURAI SENIOR Pastor Rony Tan, founder of the Lighthouse Evangelism church, was born into a Taoist family. In an online biography on his website, he wrote of how his childhood was a time when he was lost and bewildered, and how he “blindly
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    • 757 6 Less than half recovered as products from earlier scandal go back on sale ASSOCIATED PRESS AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE REUTERS BEIJING: China has discovered some 170 tonnes of tainted milk powder in an emergency crackdown that has made it increasingly clear that many products from the country’s
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    • 376 6  -  BY TEO CHENG WEE REGIONAL CORRESPONDENT KUALA LUMPUR: A Malaysian businessman and his family of five were burnt beyond recognition when his car exploded in flames after ploughing into a stationary trailer early yesterday morning. Mr Suhaimi Ghazali, 41, his
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    • 596 6  -  Additional reporting by Christopher Tan in Singapore REUTERS ASSOCIATED PRESS TOKYO: Toyota is preparing to announce a recall of its new Prius hybrid in Japan as early as today, to be followed by similar steps in the United States and markets
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    • 602 7 20,000 applications axed as Canberra seeks to woo more professionals ASSOCIATED PRESS REUTERS AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE CANBERRA: Australia has tightened its migration rules in favour of English speakers and professionals, saying that the country has been attracting too many hairdressers and cooks, and too few doctors and
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  • WORLD.
    • 773 8  -  Cleared in preliminary findings but lawmakers still call for legal action BY SALIM OSMAN INDONESIA CORRESPONDENT salim@sph.com.sg JAKARTA: An ongoing inquiry into the controversial bailout of a troubled bank has appeared to clear Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono of any wrongdoing, but analysts say it
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    • 112 8 www.straitstimes.com MOST-READ ONLINE Girl, nine, gives birth MOST COMMENTED ON China warns Obama: Don’t meet Dalai Lama. Says IamSpeaking: “Western countries are using him to irritate China. The Dalai Lama knows this and is also using the international attention to irritate
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    • world.regional
      • 602 9  -  Move to set down maritime claims raises fears following gas field spat with Japan BY PEH SHING HUEI CHINA BUREAU CHIEF shpeh@sph.com.sg Additional reporting by Lina Miao BEIJING: China has erected 12 permanent monuments to mark its maritime baseline in the disputed East
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      • 485 10 Investors take advantage of slump in property market to clinch bargains TOKYO: Japan’s real estate market may be in a slump, but that is not deterring the Chinese from scooping up properties. Chinese money that is, from ethnic Chinese living in Japan is
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      • 308 10 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE HONG KONG: A family lunch outing ended in tragedy when a mother hurled her four-year-old daughter from the seventh floor of a Hong Kong shopping mall, before leaping to her death, police said yesterday. The girl was thrown from the mall’s balcony
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      • 192 10 ASSOCIATED PRESS AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE BEIJING: Police in Hubei province have shut down a hacker training operation that openly recruited thousands of members online and provided them with cyber attack lessons and malicious software, state media said yesterday. The crackdown comes amid growing concern that China is
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      • 471 12  -  He claims judge is biased in not censuring paper for its trial reports BY CAROLYN HONG MALAYSIA BUREAU CHIEF carolynh@sph.com.sg KUALA LUMPUR: Four days into his trial on a charge of sodomy, opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim yesterday filed an application to disqualify the judge for
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      • 618 12  -  REP O RTER S N O TEB OO K BY CAROLYN HONG MALAYSIA BUREAU CHIEF KUALA LUMPUR: Eleven-and-a-half years ago, I covered the first Anwar Ibrahim trial. It began on Nov 2, 1998, and he was charged with corrupt practices for allegedly using the police
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      • 384 13 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE ASSOCIATED PRESS REUTERS COLOMBO: Sri Lanka arrested former army commander and losing presidential candidate General Sarath Fonseka at his office last night. The retired four-star general, who lost to President Mahinda Rajapakse in the Jan 26 vote, was taken into custody by troops who
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      • 565 13  -  Manila exchanges draft deals again with Muslim rebels to end 40-year rebellion MINDANAO CONFLICT BY ALASTAIR MCINDOE PHILIPPINES CORRESPONDENT amcindoe@yahoo.com MANILA: When peace talks to end the Muslim insurgency on the main southern island of Mindanao last broke down, the farming village of Montay found
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      • 571 14 Major assault on Marjah, one of the militants’ last bastions, likely this week AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE REUTERS KANDAHAR: Nato commanders called on the Taleban to surrender as troops dug in yesterday for a major assault on one of the last insurgent strongholds in southern
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    • world.international
      • 521 16 Discovery of such genetic variants could shed light on age-related diseases REUTERS LONDON: Scientists have found specific genetic variants which may explain why some people age earlier than others. The findings could be the key to understanding not only why some people look younger
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      • 424 16 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE ASSOCIATED PRESS MIDDLETOWN (Connecticut): Rescuers hunted yesterday for survivors or more dead in the rubble of an unfinished power plant in the United States after a massive gas explosion blew out its walls and killed at least five workers. Officials cautioned that
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      • 369 16 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE ASSOCIATED PRESS DUBAI: The Burj Khalifa’s owner said yesterday that the observation deck of the world’s tallest tower had been unexpectedly shut down, disappointing visitors and marring the spire’s reputation just a month after it opened. In a brief statement responding to questions,
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      • 425 17 Family stunned by news of fatal car crash, which was on website before police told them AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE SYDNEY: Twins Angela and Maryanne Vourlis found out on Facebook that their teenage brother had died in a car crash, after a police delay in
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      • IN BRIEF
        • 51 17 Australian Chayne Hultgren set a new Guinness World Record yesterday by simultaneously swallowing 18 swords, each measuring 50.8cm by 1.3cm. Also known by his stage name The Space Cowboy, the 31-year-old beat the record he had set in 2008. PHOTO: AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE PHOTO: AGENCE
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        • 111 17 AGENCE FRANCE–PRESSE WASHINGTON: The United States east coast is bracing itself for a new storm after record snowfall had already left tens of thousands of people without power, paralysed transportation and shut down the federal government. Businesses and schools were closed throughout the mid-Atlantic region
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        • 90 17 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE TEHERAN: Iran plans to build 10 new uranium enrichment facilities during the next Iranian year, atomic energy chief Ali Akbar Salehi has said. Sunday’s disclosure raised stakes in Iran’s dispute with the West, but President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said talks were still possible on a
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        • 51 17 REUTERS SAN JOSE (Costa Rica): Ms Laura Chinchilla, a protege of President Oscar Arias, has won a landslide polls victory in Costa Rica to become its first woman elected President. She has vowed to continue his pro-business policies. Ms Chinchilla won 47 per cent of Sunday’s
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        • 53 17 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE KIEV: Ukraine has narrowly chosen the pro-Russia Viktor Yanukovich as its next president, results showed yesterday, after elections that rejected the West-leaning policies of the Orange Revolution. His margin of victory over challenger and Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko was just over 2 per cent, according
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        • 60 17 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE BERLIN: Four pensioners were accused yesterday of tying up, kidnapping and holding their financial adviser hostage for four days after suffering heavy losses in the US property market. The two couples, aged between 63 and 79, also forced the adviser to sign papers promising
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  • REVIEW & FORUM.
    • 427 18 PLANNERS here obsess ceaselessly about making Singapore a city of commercial and cultural distinction, on a scale that is global. Benchmarks often cited are the multi-ethnic and multi-talented vitality of New York and Europe’s financial and cultural centres. They also want the city to be “liveable”, such
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    • 857 18  -  ECONOMIC WATCH BY DEREK DA CUNHA Derek da Cunha is the author of Singapore Places Its Bets: Casinos, Foreign Talent And Remaking A City-state. ANEW buzz is beginning in Singapore as legalised casino gambling takes off in the city state. Virtually overnight, Singapore’s
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    • 887 18  -  BY MATTHEW DEBORD Matthew DeBord writes the Shifting Gears blog for The Big Money. NEW YORK TIMES TOYOTA is in serious trouble. It should be celebrating its recent ascension to the top spot among global automakers. Instead, it is slogging though a multistage recall of
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    • review.
      • 1682 19  -  TABLE TALK WITH ANINDYA DATTA BY CHEONG SUK-WAI SENIOR WRITER suk@sph.com.sg COMPUTER scientist Anindya Datta’s daughter Diya, 12, once asked him: “What’s a word for ‘blue sky’?” That inspired him to create a program that would give her an answer. It has resulted in his
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      • 740 19  -  S T N U S E CO N O MI CS DEP A RTMENT S ERIE S O N C HIN A S E CO N O MY BY SARAH Y. TONG The writer is an assistant professor at the NUS Department of Economics,
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    • forum.
      • 175 20  -  John Lee THE ugly impulses Ms Rachel Chang mentions in her commentary last Thursday (“Power of the Net to polarise”) may occur because the Web is one of the few areas where people can express their views, although that should not justify an
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      • 344 20  -  MANDATE ASSURED... Dr Yik Keng Yeong IN HIS letter last Saturday, “Life after PAP”, Mr Ng Kok Lim asserts that Singaporeans have the inherent and innate ability to prosper and flourish, no matter who leads the country. In support of his argument, he mentions
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      • 373 20  -  Goh Siang Hiong Associate Professor Deputy Chairman, Medical Board (Ambulatory) Changi General Hospital MRS Jennifer Foo’s father (“No apology from CGH after dad’s traumatic experience”, yesterday) was brought to Changi General Hospital (CGH) A&E department for a dislodged percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) tube at about
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      • MY POINT
      • Article, Illustration
        106 20 More letters on www.straitstimes.com 1 MR PATRICK SIO: Buybacks from owners who go private 2 MR LEE SECK KAY: Coaches, let’s get back on track 3 MR PHANG CHIN MING: Many crashes at Sims Ave-KPE junction 4 MR LIM FUNG MING: Keep kerbs and walkways free for pedestrians
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      • 55 20 Letters should be sent only to The Straits Times. They should be no longer than 400 words and must include the writer’s full name, address and phone numbers. The Forum editor reserves the right to edit a letter. For women, please indicate Miss, Ms, Mrs or Madam. Please
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  • HOME.
    • 842 1  -  Poorest families see steepest fall in consumer prices mainly for housing and food bills BY KOR KIAN BENG kianbeng@sph.com.sg THE scourge of inflation eased for Singaporeans in every income group in the second half of last year, with the poorest households enjoying the
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    • 100 1 www.straitstimes.com MOST-READ ONLINE Tycoon Ng Teng Fong dies MOST COMMENTED ON Reality check on foreign talent. Says Charro_1968: “The writer suggests that there are some drawbacks in our education system the system imparts knowledge but does not encourage creative thinking or
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    • 340 2  -  TAN CHONG YAW A NEW magazine is being launched today. Called Roam, this users’ guide for mobile phone owners comes free with today’s edition of The Straits Times. Think of Roam as that missing user manual and guide with insider tips on which handset, services
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    • 545 2  -  Parents welcome new addition to childhood immunisation scheme BY JUDITH TAN juditht@sph.com.sg MORE than 1,100 Medisave claims were made between Nov 1 and Dec 31 last year for the vaccination of babies against the pneumococcal bacteria that attacks the brain, lungs, blood and
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    • 510 2 SINGAPORE’S newest cancer centre will help battle the scourge that will see the number of new patients rise by nearly 50 per cent in the next five years. Aside from treating patients, the National University Cancer Institute, Singapore (NCIS) at the
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    • 525 3  -  Almost eight in 10 claims against errant bosses involved salary arrears BY NUR DIANAH SUHAIMI ndianah@sph.com.sg THE Ministry of Manpower (MOM) recovered more than $1.5 million for about 1,500 local workers who filed claims against their employers last year. Almost eight in 10 of
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    • 433 3  -  BY KOR KIAN BENG THE newly elected leadership of the National Solidarity Party (NSP) includes three new faces who joined from other opposition parties including sec-retary-general Goh Meng Seng, a former Workers’ Party (WP) member. The other two are council members Lee Wai Leng,
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    • 796 4  -  5 projects get NEA grant to tap new technology in disposing of waste BY VICTORIA VAUGHAN vvaughan@sph.com.sg SINGAPOREANS are tossing out 7,200 tonnes of waste a day, about the weight of 970 elephants. This is 51/2 times what we have been discarding
      SOURCE: NATIONAL ENVIRONMENT AGENCY; GRAPHICS: MIKE M DIZON and JEANETTE WANG  -  796 words
    • 353 4  -  JERMYN CHOW SAFETY auditors will get more teeth from next month to keep the workplace safe. They will fan out to inspect construction sites, shipyards and factories to spot shortfalls in safety measures; when these are identified, they will require site supervisors
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    • 513 5  -  He claims nephew is trying to pass new stall off as the original BY SELINA LUM selinal@sph.com.sg THE owner of a famous bak chor mee (minced meat noodles) stall in Crawford Lane has taken his nephew to court over the latter’s outlet in a
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    • 384 5  -  BY KHUSHWANT SINGH TWO art dealers, who were once involved in a relationship, are now battling it out in the High Court over hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of antiques and artefacts. The managing director of Art of the Past, Mr Subhash Kapoor,
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    • 264 5 TWO OCBC Bank officers, who met an elderly customer to determine a course of action with her bank accounts, said her answers were inconsistent with her actions, raising doubts about her mental capacity. Madam Hwang Cheng Tsu Hsu, 93, is suing the bank for
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    • 197 6 www.straitstimes.com.sg MOST-READ ONLINE STORIES Athletics coach quits Show cause, Terry told Fergie to Arsenal: Batter Chelsea MOST COMMENTED ON Reds claim derby with 10 men Said Bullethead: “This was certainly not an entertaining match for the neutrals. It was win the
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    • 163 6  -  Balestier Khalsa 1 Gombak United 2 JEFF ANG AFTER a winning start to their S-League campaign last week, Balestier Khalsa were brought back to earth last night by a 1-2 defeat by Gombak United. Alas for Balestier, the act took place in their own backyard the
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    • 377 6  -  BY GERARD WONG WHEN Goh Weining crossed the line during the women’s Under-18 100m hurdles final during Sunday’s Singapore Athletic Association (SAA) All-Comers’ meet at Gombak Stadium, she did more than just win the race. The 15-year-old Singapore Sports School student also became the first athlete
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    • 674 7 Woods gets to be with wife and kids after rehab therapy at clinic LOS ANGELES: Tiger Woods has been reunited with his family for the first time in over a month after leaving a rehabilitation clinic. The troubled world No. 1 golfer was picked up by
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    • 870 7  -  SPORTINGLIFE BY ROHIT BRIJNATH rohitb@sph.com.sg SUMMER Olympic people tend to sneer at the Winter Games. Like right now. We look at trucks carrying snow into Vancouver and wonder, what sort of Games are these? A sports competition whose surface has disappeared? This
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      • 59 7 SINGAPORE’S Roy Tay, 26, and Terence Koh, 22, have won the silver medal in the 470 open category at the Singapore Airlines Sail Auckland Regatta, which ended on Sunday. The duo 2012 Olympic Games aspirants finished behind New Zealand Olympic squad members Jo Aleh and Olivia Powrie
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      • 49 7 REUTERS PACIFIC PALISADES: Steve Stricker shot a one-under 70 for a total score of 268 to win golf’s Northern Trust Open in California on Sunday. The two-stroke win over Britain’s Luke Donald meant Stricker wrested the world No. 2 ranking from fellow American Phil Mickelson.
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      • 40 7 ASSOCIATED PRESS VANCOUVER: Convicted former Samsung chairman Lee Kun Hee was reinstated on Sunday as a full member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), a boost for South Korea’s bid to host the 2018 Winter Games.
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    • 381 8  -  BY FRANKIE CHEE THIS race may not hit the speed or sounds of the Formula One. But spectators at the F1 Pit Building at Marina Bay will still be in for some world-class action, when Travis Meyer and Malcolm Elliott whiz past
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    • 524 8 Chelsea boss won’t rule Arsenal out as they can overturn deficit again AGENCE-FRANCE PRESSE ASSOCIATED PRESS LONDON: Carlo Ancelotti insists Chelsea’s 2-0 win over Arsenal has not reduced the fight for the English Premier League title to a two-horse race between the Blues and Manchester United.
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    • 442 8 AGENCE-FRANCE PRESSE MANCHESTER: Manchester City are set to hand home debuts to Patrick Vieira and Adam Johnson as they try to revive their faltering Premier League campaign against Bolton today. A surprise 1-2 defeat at struggling Hull on Saturday has dented City manager Roberto
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    • 362 8 American football Super Bowl XLIV In Miami: New Orleans 31 Indianapolis 17. Basketball NBA Toronto 115 Sacramento 104, Boston 89 Orlando 96. Cricket 1st Test In Nagpur, 3rd day: South Africa 558-6 dec. India 233 (overnight 25-0: V. Sehwag 109, S. Badrinath 56; D. Steyn 7-51) 66-2 (follow-on). Football
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    • 93 8 REUTERS NAGPUR (India): India were forced to follow on, after being dismissed for 233 in their first innings after tea on day three of the first Test against South Africa at Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium yesterday. South African fast bowler Dale Steyn (left) struck twice
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    • 35 8 International Olympic Committee spokesman Mark Adams, after the IOC allowed the Australian Winter Olympic team to display their giant boxing kangaroo flag at the Winter Games
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    • 443 9 BLOOMBERG NEWS VALENCIA: Billionaires Larry Ellison and Ernesto Bertarelli have turned an America’s Cup boom into bust. A 30-month wrangle over rules cancelled a 19-team qualifying event, scared off sponsors like Banco Santander, UBS and Nestle and shrank the organising budget to just ¤8 million
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    • 576 9 Once-flooded New Orleans celebrates Saints’ success ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW ORLEANS: The New Orleans Saints almost left when their city flooded and their stadium was turned into a shelter, a disaster seeming to provide the perfect escape route for a team in search of a better stadium and
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    • 332 9 ASSOCIATED PRESS MIAMI: Peyton Manning spent the whole season building towards a Super Bowl crown, a win that certainly would put him among the greatest quarterbacks in National Football League history. And then he threw it all away. Blocked out of the play,
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      • 536 11  -  But trading here is listless as regional bourses head south BULLS AND BEARS BY DAWN ZENG dzeng@sph.com.sg GREECE’S financial woes and the possible contagion effect of the rising risk that some governments might default on debt left markets skittish again yesterday. Talks by finance
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          99 11 STOCK TRADING VOLUME 1.66 billion shares worth $1.38 billion UP DOWN Gainers: 186 Losers: 318 Unchanged: 759 FTSE ST INDEXES Mid Cap Small Cap All Share Fledgling China China Top Oil and gas Points Change Points Change Points Change Basic materials 0.54 651.64 Utilities -4.80 -1.19 510.27 1.98 -9.69
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        • 227 11 REUTERS BLOOMBERG BERNAMA Tokyo Nikkei 225 Yesterday’s close: 9,951.82 (-105.27) Japanese stocks fell 1.1 per cent, with exporters hurt by a stronger yen, while anxiety over Europe’s fiscal woes continued to dent investor confidence. Kuala Lumpur KLCI Yesterday’s close: 1,235.22 (-12.68) Malaysian stocks fell 1 per cent, tracking the
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      • 428 11  -  BY ESTHER TEO A NEW real estate investment trust (Reit) is headed for a listing on the Singapore Exchange (SGX), this time investing in logistics properties. Cache Logistics Trust (CLT) has obtained a letter of eligibility to list on the mainboard, said a
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        • 182 11 By Volume CENTS Vol Genting SP 109 -2.0 -1.8 255,121,000 Golden Agri 50 -0.5 -1.0 94,834,000 Eastgate Tech 0.5 0.0 0.0 60,570,000 Transcu Grp 13 1.0 8.3 52,812,000 ChinaHuAn 41 0.0 0.0 47,745,000 Sin Heng 34.5 0.5 1.5 40,453,000 RafflesEdu 33.5 0.0 0.0 38,775,000 ChinaACorp 6 0.5
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      • 571 12  -  Two lawyers question relevance of trust structures in article BY K. C. VIJAYAN LAW CORRESPONDENT vijayan@sph.com.sg TWO lawyers argue in a new article that real estate investment trusts (Reits) in Singapore could better protect creditors and unitholders if they were corporatised instead
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      • 374 12  -  BY DICKSON LI A HUGE oversupply of ships coming on stream this year is creating uncertainty in the struggling global freight business, according to the boss of a Danish shipping company. Mr Peter Borup, managing director of Norden, said that “order books suggest
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      • 155 12  -  JOYCE TEO BOUSTEAD Singapore yesterday reported a 15.5 per cent drop in net profit to $8.66 million for the three months ended Dec 31. Revenue fell 9.6 per cent to $103.6 million in the same third quarter mainly due to the 15.3 per cent fall in
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    • 511 13 Tokyo hits lowest point in 2 months; eurozone woes weigh on markets AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE REUTERS LONDON: European stocks staged a fragile rebound yesterday after sharp falls last week caused by mounting debt fears in Europe, but Tokyo hit the lowest point in
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    • 374 13 BLOOMBERG WASHINGTON: US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said the United States is in no danger of losing its “Aaa” debt rating even though the Obama administration has predicted a US$1.6 trillion (S$2.3 trillion) budget deficit this year. “Absolutely not,” Mr Geithner said, when
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    • 184 13 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE SEOUL: A South Korean court yesterday ordered Hyundai Motor chairman Chung Mong Koo to pay 70 billion won (S$85 million) in damages to his company for loss-incurring deals. The Seoul central district court, ruling on a damages suit brought by shareholders,
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    • 525 14  -  Surprise departure of Europe chief triggers changes in senior council BY ROBIN CHAN chanckr@sph.com.sg CHANGES are afoot at port operator PSA International after one surprise departure and the shuffling of several senior management positions, The Straits Times has learnt from an internal memo. The head of
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    • 535 14  -  BY LEE YEN NEE A STARTLING 13,000 new jobs, and $4.5 billion worth of extra value to Singapore’s economy. That is the broad extent of help given by productivity agency Spring Singapore to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) amid last year’s
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    • 435 14  -  BY JESSICA CHEAM SOUTH Korea’s Samsung C&T Corporation has clinched a contract to build Singapore’s first liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal. The deal is to handle the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) of the Jurong Island facility and could be worth up to $1
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    • 696 15  -  Move to boost Asian revenue to 30%; Indonesian bank seen as prime choice BY GABRIEL CHEN gabrielc@sph.com.sg DBS GROUP Holdings is likely to make an acquisition in Asia to make revenue from the region a far higher proportion of its overall business. Revenue from
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    • 295 15  -  GABRIEL CHEN MARKET talk has it that veteran banker Peter Seah will take over from Mr Koh Boon Hwee as DBS Group Holdings chairman in April. Sources within DBS said the exact date has not yet been pinned down, but the announcement is
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    • 231 15 THE manager of Mapletree Logistics Trust (MapletreeLog) has filed a bankruptcy petition against Mr Ang Chee Seng for defaulting on a lease agreement. Mr Ang is the guarantor and company director of Elchemi Assets, which used to occupy the industrial property at 9
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    • 360 15  -  BY MARISSA LEE THE growing war over private banking talent is hotting up. Barclays Wealth, the global wealth management division of the British bank, has snared three senior private bankers from Swiss rival UBS to beef up its Singa-pore-based South Asia team
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    • 755 16  -  Coupon rate is 3.265%; over $4b raised since last October through bond issues BY FIONA CHAN fiochan@sph.com.sg TEMASEK Holdings is stepping up its efforts to raise money by selling another $1 billion in bonds, even as it lays the ground for more sales
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    • 107 16 www.straitstimes.com MOST-READ ONLINE How will the ESC report affect business? MOST COMMENTED ON AIG’s $140m bonus plan sparks outrage. Says NoodleWon: “It is sad that the fat cats are enjoying the fruits of the ‘bloodsucking’ while the poor all over the
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    • 137 1 Pageant queen to politician Meeting the former Miss Slovakia in her home country C2 Little Oman in S’pore? Muscat Street set for revival C7 Drama mama Florence the wailing machine C8 That’s how much Ms Nicole Ho paid to join the 10-month Clipper yacht race around the world. But she
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      • 1547 2  -  Populated with castles, the country has a laidback charm that is simply memorable irene hoe stlife@sph.com.sg Irene Hoe is a former Straits Times journalist and currently a freelance writer. Mere days before my friends an I left for Slovakia, it clinched its place in this year’s
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        443 3 I am planning a self-drive family vacation to Melbourne and the Gold Coast in Australia in June. Can you recommend a reasonably priced caravan motorhome? Also, what caravan parks are easily accessible in those cities? Tan Chuen Huat Campervan rentals start from about A$80 (S$98) a day, depending
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        501 3  -  Cheryl Tan, Lin Wenjian HEIGHTS OF YORKSHIRE A rare 1877 edition of Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights displayed at the National Library of Singapore marks the inaugural year-long cultural exchange programme between Singapore and Yorkshire. The copy of the classic 18th-century love story set in the desolate moors of
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      • 348 4 MS KARAN TEO, 32, Keppel Ambassdor and marketing executive She trimmed her waist-long hair so it would not get in the way during the Clipper race. “I still had long hair during the training in Singapore but it was very hard to maintain it. It
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      • 905 4  -  Pay $10,000 to $100,000 to race in a yacht and live out of a can? Why not, say these Singaporeans cheryl tan tcheryl@sph.com.sg One hundred thousand dollars is not the only price Ms Nicole Ho is paying to go on a journey around the
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      • 368 4 Mr Stephen Lam, 52, retired banker Retiree Stephen Lam climbed Mount Kinabalu last April, stopping just short of the peak because of the thin air. In two months, he will be flying to San Franciso to start his leg of the Clipper race. He will end the
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      • 382 5 Mr James Lim, 48, operations manager for a yacht charter company Mr Lim completed the round-the-world race nearly five years ago but it was not just a once-in-a-lifetime experience for him. It changed his life. The former commando officer loved the maritime life so much, he
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      • 561 5 Ms Nicole Ho, 35, former vice-president (Asia) of an IT company She and her fellow crew members battled metre-high crashing waves in the Atlantic and Indian oceans that threatened to tip everyone overboard. That kind of experience was exactly what Ms Ho needed to
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      • 91 6 ‘There’s a lot of good things about not having to wear pants up to your nipples’ Actor Jon Hamm (left) on the perks of his time off from the period drama Mad Men ‘He’s actually meaner than I thought’ Ellen DeGeneres (left) on fellow American Idol
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      • 534 6 More travellers are looking for hotels which offer yoga amenities New York Times New York Like Wi-Fi, ondemand movies and fitness centres, yoga is becoming an amenity many hotels and resorts just cannot do without. “Yoga is becoming a must-have amenity”, on the order of Internet
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    • 560 7  -  The street named after Oman’s capital might get a new look with the country’s help cheryl wee cherylw@sph.com.sg Rows of parked motorcycles line both sides of Muscat Street like soldiers standing to attention, while pedestrians stream by slowly on a weekday afternoon. Located just behind Sultan Mosque,
      ST GRAPHICS; PHOTOS: CHERYL WEE  -  560 words
    • 383 7  -  reviewconcert TRANSFIGURATION Singapore Symphony Orchestra Esplanade Concert Hall/Last Friday chang tou liang It was an inspired stroke of programming by the Singapore Symphony Orchestra to pair music by Johannes Brahms and Arnold Schoenberg. The former was a staunch upholder of the classical tradition, while
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    • 606 8  -  The xx sound cool and controlled while Florence And The Machine grate on your nerves reviewconcert FLORENCE AND THE MACHINE THE XX Esplanade Theatre Sunday eddino abdul hadi dinohadi@sph.com.sg They are both new acts on the British indie circuit who had released debut albums in
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    • 429 8 Bloomberg London Russian collectors and a UK-based diamond dealer emerged as big buyers at this month’s record-breaking London art auctions. They battled for trophies by 20th-century artists such as Alberto Giacometti and Pablo Picasso, pushing up prices and the sales’ total to double last
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      • 491 10 Associated Press New York Times New York Super Bowl viewers were rubbing their eyes at the sight of a TV spot pairing CBS late-night host David Letterman with long-time NBC arch rival Jay Leno, plus media magnate Oprah Winfrey. Appearing early in the CBS-aired football game
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      • 216 10 Reuters Associated Press Los Angeles It had to happen some time, but nobody expected the biggest film of all time to lose its North American box-office crown this weekend to Dear John, a low-budget chick flick with a pair of little-known stars. The romantic drama
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        • 77 10 British jazz composer saxophonist John Dankworth (right), who had worked with Nat King Cole and Ella Fitzgerald, died last Saturday at a London hospital after being unwell for months. He was 82. He and jazz singer Cleo Laine were one of the best-known couples in jazz
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        • 34 10 Actress Christy Chung gave birth to her second daughter Cayla with her music producer husband Jon Yen in Beijing last Saturday. She has another daughter from a previous marriage.
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        • 64 10 Singer Pete Doherty has been voted Britain’s least desirable celebrity neighbour after a string of lurid headlines about his wild parties. His bashes that have left his homes filled with litter and covered in blood pushed him to the top of a poll by property
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    • 56 3 Want to win a guidebook from Lonely Planet? E-mail your travel questions to stlife@sph.com.sg and writers of the letters chosen for Dr Hols will get a copy each. Include your contact details, identity card and phone numbers, and state which country’s guidebook you would like to have. p Harvard University
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    • 58 1 A quarterly mobile phone publication of □L STRAITS TIMES. worth of phones in Roam s Hongbao bash TUESDAY FEBRUARY 9, 2010 TH/IM yUEN-C details Samsung's eco-friendly Blue Earth phone RIVCaE «-4 TAN CHONG V tells you how easy it is to use the free Ovi Maps ii. SHERWIN LOH teaches
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        520 2  -  Grace Chng T he first thing I do in the morning is to check my iPhone for messages or missed calls. It is also the last thing I do before I go to bed at night. A few years ago, I even played Tetris so often on one
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      594 3 *All phones available at authorised retailers unless otherwise Samsung CorbyPRO $398 Navigate with both the touchscreen and slide-out Qwerty keypad on this phone. It even recognises Chinese handwriting so you can scrawl on its 2.8-inch LCD screen instead of using phonetics. Another feature on this 7.2Mbps HSDPA phone
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        284 4  -  Tham Yuen-C Maemo browser This is a Web browser powered by Mozilla technology (the same one used in Firefox browsers) so websites are displayed as they should be. There is also support for Flash 9.4 so you can watch videos straight from the browser. Plus, you can almost
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      • 637 13 Communicate via e-mail and instant messaging anywhere and anytime with just your mobile phone today. Nokia Messaging gives you the power to respond as you wish. You can expect your mobile phone to let you receive that important e-mail from your boss even if you are out for
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      • 366 10  -  By Chan Chi-Loong There are many things to like about the first Samsung Android phone to be released here (Singapore is the fourth country in the world to sell the phone). However, the best thing about the Samsung Galaxy Spica i5700 is its price. At $498, or free
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      • 396 10  -  By Tan Chong Yaw Navigation on your Nokia. For free. Forever. This slogan for Nokia’s map and satellite navigation service, announced worldwide on Jan 21, made fans of this Finnish phone maker perk up. In a nutshell: Nokia is giving away its voice-guided drive and walk
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      • 438 11  -  By Sherwin Loh The Dext is Motorola’s first Android handset. If you have not heard of it, that is because it is named the Cliq in the United States. Running on the Android 1.5 operating system, the Dext boasts a 3.1-inch screen, 5megapixel camera, a slide-out Qwerty
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      • 421 11  -  By Sherwin Loh fter the ho-hum release of the original BlackBerry Storm, Research In Motion (RIM) has come back with a vastly improved Storm 2. Packed with 256MB of A application memory (twice that of the original’s), the new Storm runs on the updated 5.0 operating system
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        • 376 14  -  Edvard Heng Edvarcl Heng is an iPhone evangelist Sugarsync, free (2GB storage), from sugarsync.com Access files on your computers remotely when you do not have your laptop handy. First, you need to install the Sugarsync desktop client which will back up files from your
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        • 413 15  -  Jimmy Yap Jimmy Yap blogs about the iPhone on his blog iMerlion.com; you can follow him on Twitter at @imerlion. Tweetie, US$2.99 (S$4.16), from www.atebits.com/tweetie-iphone/ Tweetie stands out for a Twitter fan like me because of how usable it is. A horizontal strip at the bottom
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        • 313 16  -  Billy Teo Shazam Free, from shazam.com Shazam strikes you like a lighting bolt with its smarts. Its claim to fame: identifying songs just by the melody alone. Just launch the app, hold the phone the microphone bit close to the music source like a radio,
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        • 310 16  -  Tan Chong Yaw MyMobiler Free, from mymobiler.com So your phone has a large LCD screen and its Qwerty keys are well-designed. But they cannot beat the screen and keyboard of a PC for ease of use. Enter MyMobiler. Install this freeware and connect the phone
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        • 489 17  -  Sherwin Loh Gwabbit US$9.99 (S$13.90), from www.gwabbit.com An integrated, mobile office is what the BlackBerry brings and part of it is having your contact information from office phone and cellphone numbers, e-mail addresses to office addresses in one device. Forget the tedious copy-and-paste method. This software
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        • 540 18  -  GRACE CHNG says apps are what it is all about and the iPhone has them in loads Five platforms, which one to choose? Our experts face off on iPhone, Android, Symbian, Blackberry and Windows Mobile smarts GRACE CHNG Apps are what defines Apple’s iPhone platform. To
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        • 479 19  -  If you cannot live without Google and its apps, OO GIN LEE says there is only one choice OO GIN LEE One question dogs me these days: Should I get the iPhone or the Nexus One? Since a couple of weeks ago, when I became,
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        • 367 19  -  Designed for cellphone, mobile experience on this OS is robust from the get go, says AARON TAN AARON TAN Aaron Tan is an information systems professional The hype is true: Symbian rules the mobile operating system (OS) kingdom. It does not make a show
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        • 412 20  -  SHERWIN LOH says a BlackBerry makes linking up cool and easy SHERWIN LOH There is a reason why businessmen love Blackberry devices and the text-savvy adore the gizmos too. It is not just for the undisputed security of the platform that is being used as a corporate
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        • 344 20  -  TAN CHONG YAW says it is like carrying an office setup in your hands TAN CHONG YAW People who live by their Microsoft Office programs will want the Windows Mobile platform on their cellphones too. The 13-year-old operating system (OS) first found on PDAs
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      • 192 22  -  BY SHERWIN LOH orget about the 160-character SMS text limit. The combination of a smartphone and data plan now means that no matter where you are, your friends can message you via instant messaging (IM) apps for mobile phones whether they are on Windows Live Messenger, Google Talk
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        323 22 Since Google created the Android platform, most Google apps like Google Talk sit in Android devices. When you fire up the pre-installed Google Talk, it will be linked to your Google account that is registered with the phone. So, all your contacts are already linked to the handset and
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        218 22 Both Windows Live Messenger and Google Talk can be downloaded via the BlackBerry App World. Sign in with your existing accounts and you are good to go. Native features for the Windows Live app include adding new contacts, sending files directly to your contacts and integration with the phone’s
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        193 23 Getting Windows Live Messenger on Nokia devices is possible and depending on which Nokia model you have, there are two official ways of getting the software. The first is the standalone app from: www.nokia.com.sg/support/ download-software/ windows-live-new It lists compatible phone models. Download the software and start texting friends. The
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        131 23 As with the Google Talk and Android union, Windows Mobile and Windows Live Messenger work in the same way, but not as efficiently. Windows Live Messenger is pre-installed on the phone and to access chats and e-mail messages, users have the option to link contacts and e-mail messages
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        198 23 Given the incredibly large number of apps available on the iPhone's App Store, it seems surprising that there is no official Windows Live Messenger or Google Talk app. There are, however, numerous third-party apps that boast they can do the job from the free ones like IM+ Lite and
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        525 24  -  ALFRED SIEW tells you how to surf the Net smartly and cheaply on your cellphone when overseas ALFRED SIEW Back from a short trip in Hong Kong last year, I found a shocking figure on my cellphone bill more than $400 for surfing the Net abroad. The
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        400 25  -  Soccer mum Monthida McCoole tells THAM YUEN-C why she never leaves home without her cellphone THAM YUEN-C Homemaker Monthida McCoole never leaves home without her phone. And when she goes on her weekly jogs at the Singapore Botanic Gardens, an iPhone 3GS is her running mate. Monthida, 41,
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      • 483 26  -  Apple, RIM, Google, Microsoft and Nokia set to fight for platform space this year. By OO GIN LEE WHEN Wall Street Journal’s Walt Mossberg wrote about the launch of the Google Nexus One last month, he said, in his opening salvo, that the search giant was fighting for
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      • 304 3 Singapore’s anti-drug body continues to nab both dealers and users of illegal drugs Sources: Central Narcotics Bureau The Straits Times DRUG dealers and users have few places to hide in Singapore, as a string of successful anti-drug operations last year showed. The Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB), Singapore’s
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        483 4  -  The five Ws and an H of the Youth Olympic Games. By ANDREW DUFFY 1 WHO WILL BE TAKING PART? About 3,600 athletes and 1,400 officials from 205 countries and territories will gather here. Each country can send only 70 athletes, so they are choosing which sports
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        124 7  -  The numbers, faces, events and places of the region. By AMANDA TAN 240,000 This is the number of people living in the mountains in southern China without drinking water. WHY IT MATTERS Some parts of China have had little rain since August last year and the drought
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        128 7 WHY IT MATTERS Imitation websites of the popular video-sharing site and Internet search engine have popped up in China as a result of a ban imposed on the original sites. Google, which is based in the United States, is in talks with China over censorship and cyber
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      • 190 14 The talent page featuring special reviews, original art, photos and contributions from you. Send your entries to stdot@sph.com.sg The Snowman By Gerard Nagulendran and Janald Ho, both 11, Primary 5, Saint Gabriel’s Primary School I met a snowman just today, And he asked me politely if I wanted
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      • 356 17  -  Try making raw pineapple tarts this Chinese New Year. By MALINI NATHAN Year. By MALINI NATHAN Sunday Times, Jan 31 1 Four steps in the recipe below are placed in the wrong order. Can you spot them? WARNING: DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME WITHOUT ADULT SUPERVISION!
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