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  • 20 1 TODAY MICA (P) 057/10/2010 A PUBLICATION OF NEWS HOTLINE 6822 2268 Wednesday March 23, 2011 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking
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  • 591 1  -  Government says AVA has stepped up surveillance of food imports S RAMESH rameshs@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE As global attention turned to the possible health risks associated with Japanese food imports, the Singapore authorities took further steps yesterday to allay concerns, reiterating that since the earthquake and
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    • 77 1 THE LATEST NEWS. NOW ON IPAD. DOWNLOAD YOUR FREE APP TODAY. NEWS 4 LIVERPOOL COMING TO ASIA BUT F1 COMING TO A BIG SCREEN NEAR NEWS 4 COMMENT&ANALYSIS ALEX WARREN GOING IN GUNS BLAZING, AND HALF BLIND 18 VENESSA LEE WE SHOULD VALUE STAY-HOME PARENTS MORE 20 PETER HELLER FUKUSHIMA:
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  • JAPAN CRISIS
    • 275 2 BLOOMBERG SINGAPORE Singapore Airlines (SIA) and Jetstar the budget unit of Qantas Airways have cut Tokyo services as a nuclear crisis dampens demand for flights to the Japanese capital. SIA, the world’s second-largest carrier by market value, will suspend one of its two daily
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    • 37 2 A man walking his dog in what remains of a residential area at Kesennuma in Miyagi Prefecture almost two weeks after it was devastated by a magnitude 9.0 earthquake and tsunami. REUTERS
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    • 365 2 The accidental nuclear samurai THE GUARDIAN YONEZAWA (Japan) To a world that doesn’t know him, Mr Shingo Kanno is one of the “nuclear samurai” a selfless hero trying to save his country from a holocaust. But to his family, he is a new father whose life is in peril just
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    • 345 3 AGENCIES TOKYO Rising temperatures around the core of one of the reactors at Japan’s quakecrippled nuclear plant sparked new concern yesterday and more water was required to cool it down, the plant’s operator said. Despite hopes of progress in managing
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    • 389 3 AGENCIES TOKYO Radiation has leaked into the sea from Japan’s crippled nuclear plant, raising concern that seafood may become tainted. Five kinds of radioactive materials released by damaged fuel rods were detected in the sea, Tokyo Electric Power Co said on
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    • 260 3 Hangzhou, West Lake s$t m m Jetstar celebrates inaugural flight to: Hangzhou (Shanghai*) U Oneway, for all-inclusive Sale ends 25 March 2011, unless sold out prior. Sale may be extended. Sale fare quoted is for travel from 1 October tot 5 November 2011. JetSaver Light A fare —carry on baggage
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  • NEWS
    • 236 4 TODAY EXCLUSIVE SINGAPORE Liverpool Football Club’s legion of fans in Singapore will have to travel to Kuala Lumpur if they want to catch their favourites in action, when the club visit Malaysia for a pre-season tour ahead of the 2011-12 Barclays Premier
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    • 443 4  - F1 coming to a big screen near you IAN DE COTTA ian@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Three years after Formula 1 ’s first night race was staged here, SingTel, its sponsor, is ready to take the next step: Bring some of the excitement to the heartlands. To kick off the programme, there will
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    • 180 6  -  S RAMESH SINGAPORE Singaporeans started receiving refunds for this year’s radio and television licence fees from yesterday. According to the Media Development Authority, some 1.1 million cheques will be mailed in batches. The final batch of cheques is expected to be
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    • 352 6  -  MUSTAFA SHAFAWI SINGAPORE Singaporeans are scanning the horizon when they look for jobs. According to a survey by recruitment firm Kelly Services, almost nine in 10 Singaporean respondents said they are willing to move within the country in
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    • 250 6  -  RACHEL KELLY Bank bonuses may be on the rise but not to the satisfaction of the employees of Singapore’s financial sector, most of whom are looking for change. A recent survey by the global career website, eFinancialCareers, revealed
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    • 594 8 SINGAPORE When he took office in 1959, then-Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew noted homes in fast-growing Asian cities comprised of small rooms which came with high rentals. “Therefore, they decorated their cars as if they were their homes. But these additions have no lasting
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    • 354 8 SINGAPORE From concerns about rising flat prices to options for home buyers; these are among some of the issues addressed by Mr Mah Bow Tan in a new book that will be distributed free to organisations such as public libraries and
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    • 326 10  -  HETTY MUSFIRAH SINGAPORE At Fairmont Singapore, the hotel’s maintenance staff not only take care of the usual maintenance issues, they also check the mini-bars in the guest rooms. This frees the mini-bar staff from having to check every room in the hotel thus helping not
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    • 207 10 SINGAPORE Some 3.39 million passengers passed through Changi Airport last month a 9.1 per cent increase from a year ago, said the Changi Airport Group (CAG) yesterday. Passenger traffic was boosted by strong travel demand during the Chinese New Year holiday, which was spread
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    • 277 10  -  MONICA KOTWANI SINGAPORE For the next three months, Singaporeans will be able to take a passage through time on overhead bridges in two of the country’s oldest precincts. The National Heritage Board (NHB) yesterday launched picture galleries on two overhead bridges in
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    • 362 12  -  NG JING YNG jingyng@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Troubled spa company Subtle Senses has begun legal action against its parent company, HealthTrends Medical Investments (HTMI), for the return of money allegedly owed to it but is now being countersued for a larger sum of money
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    • 157 12 SINGAPORE Gadget lovers here will not have to wait long for Apple’s latest iPad it is slated to be available here next month. Apple announced yesterday that the iPad 2 (picture) would be available in Hong Kong, Korea and Singapore in April.
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    • 171 12  -  ALVINA SOH SINGAPORE SingHealth and Singapore General Hospital have launched the Republic’s first smartphone health diary application for rheumatoid arthritis. The new mobile phone application aims to help sufferers play a more active role in monitoring their condition. Through their phones, patients can fill in
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    • 158 14  -  SHAFFIQ ALKHATIB SINGAPORE A former croupier at the Resorts World Sentosa casino and a full-time gambler were yesterday jailed for conspiring to cheat the integrated resort of nearly S$29,000 last October. Between Oct 2 and Oct 9, Ng Wuey Kiang, who manned a roulette table,
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    • 71 14  -  SHAFFIQ ALKHATIB A man and his girlfriend were each fined S$1,000 for having sexual intercourse in a public park last Sunday. Construction worker Ngernthaisong Phichet, 36, committed the act with Phloetphrao Somphan, 35, at the Harmony Hub, at Beach Road, at around
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    • 279 14  -  SHARON SEE SINGAPORE They came, they stole and they tried to send their loot overseas. That is what four Chilean men, aged between 29 and 39, are believed to have done. The men, who were arrested on Monday, are allegedly involved in
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    • 161 14  -  SHAFFIQ ALKHATIB SINGAPORE A woman was sentenced to 27 months in jail yesterday for being part of a scam to cheat Standard Chartered bank. Hazel Thea Puyaoan Vicente, a 32-year-old Filipina, used to be a direct sales agent with telemarketing company, Touch Tech.
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  • VOICES
    • 280 16  -  Letter from Marietta Koh Ai-meng I HAVE just returned from a vacation to Malacca and was struck by how affordably-priced its national attractions are. One in particular was the Melaka Zoo, the second-largest zoological park in Malaysia. It boasts an impressive collection of 1,200 animal
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    • 122 16  -  Letter from Daniel Chua THE Singapore Sports Council and Football Association of Singapore (FAS) should take a leaf from the Singapore Workforce Development Agency’s workforce skills qualifications system, and adopt a similar framework for its football development programme. The courses should cover all
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    • 426 17  -  Letter from Aaron Samuel Yong I READ Mr Raymund Koh Joo Guan’s letter “Cyclists should have to get licenced too” (March 21, Voices Online) with an odd mixture of empathy, bewilderment and ultimately disagreement. As an occasional motorist, avid cyclist and frequent pedestrian, I
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    • 245 17  -  a doctor that he may intend to sue. LETTER FROM TAN FAY-ANN, ASSISTANT MANAGER, TAN FAY-ANN FROM TAN FAY-ANN, ASSISTANT MANAGER, CORPORATE COMMUNICATIONS, SMC We refer to the article “SMC to explain decisions on complaints” (March 21). In the article, one Mr Lee
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  • COMMENT&ANALYSIS
    • 893 18  -  Shortage of reliable info makes it impossible for the West to assess complex situation in fractured Libya ALEX WARREN Alex Warren is a director of a Middle East research and advisory firm, Frontier, and has worked extensively throughout Libya since 2008. THE GUARDIAN
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    • 848 20  -  Kids growing up without being cared for by parents could lose the nurturing instinct themselves VENESSA LEE venessa@mediacorp.com.sg As we puzzle over how to boost our fertility rates, perhaps we should pay more heed to supporting different childcare choices, including stay-home parenting. At a
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    • 308 21  -  VENESSA LEE Young children played on the brightly-coloured blocks and muscle-stretching climbing equipment. Babies chuckled and fed (at least one at his mother’s breast). This was the unusual scene at a feedback session held in an unconventional setting—The Polliwogs, a children’s play centre along East Coast
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    • 657 22  -  PETER HELLER There is no place on Earth I would rather be right now than at Fukushima right in the atomic power plant, at the centre of the event. I say this because I am a physicist and there is no other place
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    • 860 23  -  There are no alternatives that are less harmful GEORGE MONBIOT George Monbiot is a best-selling author of books such as Heat: How To Stop The Planet From Burning. This is an abridged version of a longer commentary. THE GUARDIAN You
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  • WORLD
    • 335 26 THE NEW YORK TIMES REUTERS WASHINGTON An American F-15E fighter jet crashed in Libya on Monday night with one crew member recovered while the other is “in the process of recovery”, according to a spokesman for the United States military and a British reporter who
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    • 313 28 Yemen President willing to leave earlier but THE NEW YORK TIMES REUTERS SANAA Yemen President Ali Abdullah Saleh indicated yesterday that he would accept a proposal for his early departure from office but he remained at odds with opposition figures over the next stage in the country’s deepening crisis. Mr
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    • 181 28 REUTERS CAIRO Fire tore through a building in the Egyptian Interior Ministry compound in central Cairo yesterday. A ministry source said it was probably linked to a protest by police over pay and conditions. “It is likely to be related to the protests, but
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    • 225 29 REUTERS GAZA Israel launched air strikes in the Gaza Strip on Monday, wounding at least 19 people, after militants fired mortar shells and rockets into the Jewish state, witnesses and militant groups said. The number of raids and casualties in
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    • 196 29 AP GAZA CITY The United Nations (UN) has launched a new plan to teach the Holocaust in Gaza schools, drawing fierce condemnation from Gaza’s militant Hamas rulers, school teachers and even the body tasked with peace negotiations with Israel. If implemented, it
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    • 270 29 Turning ‘Trafalgar Square into Tahrir Square’ THE GUARDIAN LONDON Campaigners against public service cuts in Britain are calling for a 24-hour occupation of Trafalgar Square drawing inspiration from revolts in the Middle East to coincide with Saturday’s trade union protest in London. Student activists who organised last year’s demonstrations say
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    • 93 30 Two tourists from the United States were killed on Monday in an accident at the Iguazu Falls on northern Argentina’s border with Brazil, the authorities said. Laura Matejik Eberts, 28, and Philip Musgrove, 70, were in an inflatable boat that flipped over after hitting rocks
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    • 389 30 AP THE NEW YORK TIMES BEIJING China yesterday rejected accusations it was blocking access to Google’s e-mail (Gmail) services in the country amid an intensified Internet crackdown prompted by fears that unrest in the Middle East could spread. “We do not accept such accusations,” Foreign
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    • 227 30 REUTERS WASHINGTON China has missed a deadline to comply with a World Trade Organization ruling against restrictions on foreign companies distributing copyright-intensive goods like books, newspapers, films, DVDs and music, a United States official said on Monday. “The US government is disappointed that
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    • 139 30 THE BANGKOK POST T h a i l a n d ’s House of Representatives will probably be dis- solved by May 10 at the latest, with a general election likely on July 1 or 2, Deputy Prime Minister Suthep Thaugsuban said
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    • 185 31 THE BANGKOK POST AThai man could face up to 15 years in prison after he was arrested in Bangkok for selling copies of an Australian documentary about Thailand’s royal family, police said yesterday. Eakachai Hongkangwan, 35, was charged under Thailand’s strict lese majeste rules which
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    • 399 31 AGENCIES KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim yesterday lodged a police report and called for a thorough investigation into a video that allegedly showed him having sex with an unidentified woman. He also accused Prime Minister Najib Razak and Home Minister Hishammuddin
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    • 345 31 AGENCIES JAKARTA A key witness in the terrorism trial of Abu Bakar Bashir told the court on Monday that aides of the firebrand Indonesian cleric paid him to run a paramilitary training camp in Aceh, reported the Jakarta Post. Abu Tholut,
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    • 356 32 AGENCIES SANTIAGO United States President Barack Obama pledged to overcome past neglect and forge a stronger partnership with Latin America as the region’s economic progress boosts its importance to the US. “Latin America is not the old stereotype of a region in
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    • 110 32 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH A court official says Guatemala’s First Lady is ending her eight-year marriage so she can seek to succeed her husband as President. Guatemala’s Constitution prohibits members of a President’s extended family from running for the presidency. Judiciary spokesman Edwin
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    • 111 32 AP An Israeli court sentenced former Israeli President Moshe Katsav to seven years in prison for rape yesterday, making him the highest-ranking Israeli official sent to jail in a case that has riveted the country for nearly five years. The silver-haired
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    • 252 33 AP SPRINGFIELD (Massachusetts) A federal prosecutor told a jury on Monday that a man and two friends were racists who were so upset when Mr Barack Obama was elected President that they burned down a predominantly African-American church only hours after the
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    • 376 33 THE NEW YORK TIMES WASHINGTON Former Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty (picture) became the first major Republican to enter the 2012 United States presidential race, announcing an exploratory committee on Monday that formalises an ambition that has been steadily building for more than a year. “There
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    • 278 34 AP KABUL Afghan President Hamid Karzai (picture) said yesterday that his security forces will soon take charge of security in seven areas around the nation the first step towards his goal of having Afghan police and soldiers protecting the entire
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    • 175 34 REUTERS Mauritania, Kuwait and Jordan have the least secure water supplies, according to a ranking yesterday that said shortages in the Middle East and North Africa might cause political tensions and even higher oil prices. The list, by British
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    • 188 34 A step against corruption REUTERS MANILA Philippine lawmakers in the House of Representatives impeached the head of the anti-graft agency yesterday, a move likely to boost President Benigno Aquino’s anti-corruption campaign. Ombudsman Merceditas Gutierrez, who will now face trial in the Senate in two months, was widely perceived to be
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    • 125 34 AP South Korea has accepted North Korea’s proposal to hold talks on conducting joint research on volcanic activity at the North’s highest mountain. North Korea offered last week to meet and discuss joint studies, field surveys and academic forums on volcanic
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    • 156 35 REUTERS NEW YORK —Former Central Intelligence Agent (CIA) operative Valerie Plame (picture) will co-author a fiction spy series of books with a female undercover espionage operative as the central character, Penguin books said on Monday. Ms Plame, whose real life global espionage
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    • 352 35 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH LONDON The number of foreign students coming to the United Kingdom will be slashed by 100,000 a year under plans to crack down on the regime. Ms Theresa May, the British Home Secretary, was expected to announce a series of
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    • 133 35 AP A bride was arrested at her own wedding reception near Phoenix after she kicked a police officer, police in Gilbert, Arizona, said on Monday. Police spokesman Hugh White said that officers had to restrain 28-year-old Angela Davito around 9.30pm on Saturday, after she
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    • 417 36 AGENCIES SYDNEY The centre of Christchurch, the second-largest city in New Zealand, will become an area of low-rise, wider buildings after last month’s devastating earthquake, according to an architect advising on the rebuilding of the city. Plans to overhaul the city
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    • 363 36 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH LONDON A simple new technique could help improve diagnosis and treatment options for sufferers of lung cancer, researchers hope. It involves counting the number of tumour cells in blood samples before and after chemotherapy, allowing doctors to establish
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    • 115 36 REUTERS A 60-something albatross ranked as America’s oldest free-flying bird has thrilled biologists by surviving a tsunami that struck the Pacific island where it nests, the US Fish Wildlife Service said on Monday. The elderly bird named Wisdom and its recently-hatched chick were spotted alive
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    • 133 36 AP A South Carolina man who twice pleaded guilty to having sex with a horse has been released from prison after 16 months and ordered to stay away from the stable where the animal lives. Probation officials said on Monday that
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  • SPORTS
    • 547 38  -  Courts and Asean champions Malaysia will also feature in fund-raising effort for displaced Japanese children LOW LIN FHOONG linfhoong@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE South-east Asia’s football kings Malaysia will take on Etoile FC, the reigning champions of the Great Eastern-Yeo’s S-League, on Saturday in an effort to raise
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    • 299 38  -  LOW LIN FHOONG SINGAPORE The International Olympic Committee (IOC) will contribute towards Japan’s rebuilding effort after the March 11 earthquake and subsequent tsunami. Singapore’s Ng Ser Miang (picture), an IOC vice-president, was appointed by president Jacques Rogge to co-ordinate the organisation’s relief
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    • 217 38  -  LOW LIN FHOONG SINGAPORE The Republic’s sailors have notched their first international keelboat victory of the season, after beating Finland 2-0 in the Thailand Open National Match Race Championship final in Pattaya on Sunday. The team, made up of 2006 Asian Games men’s laser champion and skipper
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    • 417 39  -  Olympic team go down to Yemen, but S’pore football chief focused on SEA Games target IAN DE COTTA ian@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The Singapore Olympic team’s hopes of advancing in the preliminary stages of qualifying for the 2012 London Games ended on Monday (yesterday morning, Singapore
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    • 186 39 AGENCIES MONROVIA (Liberia) Liberian international Patrick Doeplah has been found dead in his hotel room in Monrovia after returning home from Israel to play for his country’s Olympic team. Officials said Doeplah, regarded as one of Liberia’s most promising young footballers, was found in his room
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    • 432 40 Capello to unleash big man-small man combo against Wales THE DAILY TELEGRAPH LONDON Andy Carroll will play alongside Wayne Rooney in England’s new strike force for the crucial Euro 2012 qualifier away to Wales on Saturday if he proves his fitness. England manager Fabio Capello expects
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    • 210 40 AGENCIES PARIS A whopping €31 million (S$56 million) that is how much Lionel Messi, the world’s best footballer, earns. The Barcelona forward is the highest paid footballer in the world while Real Madrid coach Jose Mourinho tops the managerial rich list, according to a
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    • 306 40 Blatter: I’ll quit in four years, if AP PARIS FIFA president Sepp Blatter (picture) says his next term will be his last if he is reelected in June. Blatter is running for his fourth term but is facing the challenge of Qatar’s Mohamed Hamman in the election to be held
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    • 570 41 Pakistan captain Afridi insists his team will not treat minnows lightly AP DHAKA (Bangladesh) Pakistan fans are already thinking of a possible semi-final showdown with India but Shahid Afridi is not looking that far ahead. There is the small matter of a quarterfinal clash
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    • 356 41 REUTERS SYDNEY Australia’s Mark Webber (picture), desperate to get racing after the delay to the start of the Formula 1 season, thinks he “probably” has his best chance of winning his home grand prix in Melbourne this weekend. Webber, third last year, and his world champion
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    • 233 41 REUTERS NEW YORK Boston gave New York Knicks fans further reason to grumble on Monday (yesterday morning, Singapore time after the Celtics produced a stunning fourth-quarter run to claim a 96-86 victory. Paul Pierce scored 21 points, including nine straight Boston points during a critical
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  • ENTERPRISE
    • 554 4 SINGAPORE The Government has broadened the definition of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). The Ministry of Trade and Industry yesterday announced the new definition, which is based on sales turnover and employment. Speaking at an industry conference, the Ministry’s Senior Parliamentary Secretary Sam Tan said that enterprises
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    • 659 4 SINGAPORE Few gourmands would associate Chinese cuisine with the fast food concept but TungLok Group has shaken things up and is now serving up this new variety to food lovers. It has opened Ruyi, a Chinese fast food outlet (and Singapore’s first) that whips
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  • BUSINESS
    • 557 3 BLOOMBERG SINGAPORE Mr Zain Fancy, who joined Och-Ziff Capital Management Group from Morgan Stanley in 2008, sued two units of the New York-based hedge fund manager in Singapore, claiming they withheld US$7.9 million (S$9.9 million) in pay and stock that he was
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    • 386 3  -  CHRISTOPHER HOWELLS christopherh@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Oil prices could go as high as US$120 a barrel on continued unrest in the Middle East and an expected increase in demand from Japan, analysts in Singapore said. The reconstruction in Japan is also expected to drive
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    • 251 3 BLOOMBERG HONG KONG PCCW has not decided on spinning off its telecommunication assets into a business trust, managing director Alex Arena said. It is too early to share details of the plan, he said in a briefing in Hong Kong yesterday.
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    • 110 3 BLOOMBERG Manchester United’s parent company had a record £104.7-million (S$216.8 million) fiscal-year loss because of costs related to swapping a long-term bank loan for a bond and lower income from player sales. Red Football Joint Venture, the holding company for the 18-time English
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    • 260 2  -  JO-ANN HUANG SINGAPORE One Finlayson Green, a freehold commercial building, has been sold to Kerisvale Pte Ltd for S$227 million. Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL), which brokered the deal on behalf of a fund managed by Lucrum Capital, said Kerisvale consists of a
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    • 338 2  -  STELLA LEE stellalee@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The Singapore dollar reached a record-high against the US dollar in late Asian trade. This came as investor sentiment turned bullish on Asian assets on news that progress had been made in cooling reactors at a stricken nuclear power
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    • 163 2 Mapletree Investments said yesterday that it will wait for market conditions to improve before proceeding with plans for an initial public offering of its commercial property trust. “Recent global events have caused much volatility in the capital markets. We are monitoring the
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    • STOCK CALLS
      • 66 1 Buy s$1.29 Nomura says it sees two potential strategic positives following news that K-Reit is buying floors of Prudential Tower for S$125.1 million. A majority stake (over 90 per cent) in Prudential Tower allows K-REIT to undertake asset enhancement initiatives to enhance the longer-term competitiveness of the property; a
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      • 59 1 Overweight s$1.79 JP Morgan upgrades CapitaMall Trust to Overweight from Neutral, with a S$2.15 target price, “on the back of its strong and stable growth profile and undemanding valuation”. In addition, JPM notes the key concern of the stock becoming a funding source for S-REITs’ strong equity fund-raising
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    • 685 1  -  JO-ANN HUANG joannhuang@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Shares in the Singapore Exchange (SGX) rose on news that the SGX-ASX merger deal is facing more political roadblocks. The SGX rose 3.5 per cent, closing at S$7.88 with six million shares changing hands. Uncertainty has been brewing about the proposed
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    • 57 1 TUESDAY CLOSE +3,002.75 (+0.64%) Monday 2,983.51 p 1.63% Friday 2,935.78 q 0.24% Thursday 2,942.88 q 0.95% Wednesday 2,971.00 p 0.85% TOP 5 BY VOLUME NAME VOL PRICE CHANGE GoldenAgr 119,135 $0.665 p 3.101% HPH Trust US$ 117,411 $0.970 p 1.042% Genting SP 60,379 $1.930 p 1.047% Vallianz 50,907 $0.060
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    • 30 1 HANG SENG 22,857.90 (+0.76%) Ç Ç Ç NIKKEI 9,608.32 (+4.36%) Ç Ç Ç SHANGHAI Ç 2.919.14 (+0.34%) AUSTRALIA 4,643.40 (+0.01%) MUMBAI 17,988.30 (+0.84%) MALAYSIA 1,509.10 (+0.01%) SEOUL 2,013.66 (+0.51%)
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    • 143 2 automechanika MALAYSIA j Discover new business opportunities at ASEAN's leading trade fair for automotive parts, equipment and services 0p ei Ur sde next 31 March 2 April 2011 Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre Malaysia Meet quality automotive manufacturers and suppliers from 18 countries regions including Australia, Bangladesh, China, Germany, Hong Kong,
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  • MOVIES
    • 1198 2  -  Crazy sexy cool is what Sucker Punch is all about, say the cast and yes, it is empowering SERENE LIM IN LOS ANGELES serenelim@mediacorp.com.sg IF THE eager fervour of fan-boys are any indication, the much-hyped movie Sucker Punch, directed by Zack Synder (300, Watchmen is a big
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  • ENTERTAINMENT
    • MOVIE REVIEW:
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      • 395 8  -  MOVIE REVIEW: SPACE BATTLESHIP YAMATO PG, 131MIN Christopher Toh christophertoh@mediacorp.com.sg THE year is 2199, and the old World War II battleship Yamato has been configured into a spaceship to bring back an anti-radiation device from the planet Iscandar, some 148,000 light years away. They’re doing this because a
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    • 173 11 REUTERS PRINCE William’s bride-to-be Kate Middleton will arrive at her wedding next month in the limousine attacked by students during riots in London three months ago, royal officials said. Middleton will travel to Westminster Abbey for the marriage service in the Rolls-Royce Phantom VI
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      151 11  -  CHRISTOPHER TOH THE HOBBIT: Oh we know, we’re meant to show movie scenes here, but we’re just too happy that The Hobbit is finally going into production to care. Joining director Peter Jackson for the much-awaited and much-delayed prequel to the Lord OfThe Rings will be other LOTR
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    • 96 11 CANADIAN singer-songwriter Avril Lavigne will be back to Singapore on May 9 for a concert at the Singapore Indoor Stadium as part of The Black StarTour to promote her fourth album, Goodbye Lullaby. Lavigne, best known for hits like Sk8r Boi, Complicated and Girlfriend, was last
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    • 302 6 New Business Career Opportunities Have you ever thought of running a part-time business while keeping your full-time job? “The Ministry of Education will implement a new framework to enhance the development of 21st century competencies in our students” Ministry of Education Press Releases, March 9, 2010 “Time and time again,
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    • 226 12 ON MEDIACORP CRISS ANGEL MINDFREAKV Channel 5, 8pm Criss attempts to “teleport” himself from one location to another in one continuous camera shot. Defying the laws of gravity, he will stand nearly 250 feet above the Las Vegas strip, drop an object and be at the bottom in time to
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    • 629 12 6.00AM Films Stars Asia 6.30 Prime Time Morning 9.30 Wheel Of Fortune 10.00 Style By Jury 10.30 Generation Ex 11.00 Urban Escape 11.30 Dinner Takes All NOON House And Home VII 12.30PM Essence Of Emeril 1.00 Shiver 2.00 Fleet Racing Tour 2011 CHANNEL 6.00AM Frontline 6.30 HDB Tai Tai 7.00
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  • THINGS TO DO
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  • FOOD
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