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  • 20 1 TODAY MICA (P) 031/10/2011 A PUBLICATION OF NEWS HOTLINE 6822 2268 Thursday December 22, 2011 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking
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  • 354 1  -  TANYA FONG tanyafong@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Prices of all NTUC FairPrice’s housebrand rice from Thailand will remain unchanged until the end of February after the Chinese New Year celebrations. Last month, amid consumer fears that floods in Thailand would result in more
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  • 675 1 SINGAPORE With 11 of the 13 faulty trains repaired and returned to service, commuters can expect, from today, average waiting time on the North-South Line to be reduced from the current six minutes to 2.5 minutes during two 30-minute belts
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  • HOT NEWS
    • 586 2 Arrangement marks first time N Korea will not be led by single AGENCIES BEIJING North Korea will shift to collective rule from a strongman dictatorship after the death of Kim Jong Il, although his untested young son will be at the head
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    • 244 2 REUTERS Like his father before him, Kim Jong Il’s body will likely be embalmed and put on display as a lasting reminder of the bloodline of the family that founded one of the world’s most reclusive states. The “Dear Leader’s” body is
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    • 405 2 AP SEOUL Mr Kim Yu Sik fled North Korea for the South some 60 years ago during the war that divided the peninsula. The 75-year-old now hopes Kim Jong Il’s death will finally allow him to live a dream and return to
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    • 430 3 AGENCIES HONG KONG Workers began slaughtering more than 17,000 chickens at a wholesale poultry market in Hong Kong yesterday after a dead chicken there tested positive for the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus, as a new mutant avian flu strain was found in seals in
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    • 133 3 The risk of bird flu to Singapore is, for now, “very low as no human cases have been reported in Hong Kong”, said the Ministry of Health (MOH) yesterday. Saying that it is monitoring the situation closely, the MOH also advised travellers to Hong
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    • 365 4 AGENCIES KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia will open up its banking sector to more foreign investment, in a move by the government to put the economy back on investors’ radar ahead of general elections expected next year. In a 10-year blueprint, Malaysia Prime Minister Najib
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    • 402 4 AGENCIES BEIJING China’s Premier Wen Jiabao (picture) has told the nation’s banks to clean up lend- ing policies that have left some businesses strug- gling with excessive borrowing costs as slowing export growth and other pressures eat into profits, state newspapers
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    • 352 4 AGENCIES WASHINGTON Hackers in China broke through the computer defences of the United States Chamber of Commerce last year and were able to access information about its operations and its three million members, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported yesterday. WSJ,
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    • 248 6  -  ALVINA SOH SINGAPORE A jobless man stole a private bus and took his friends on a three-hour spin. For that, 23-year-old Nasrul Hisyam Nezarwan (picture) was sentenced to 15 months in jail and fined S$1,000. He has also been disqualified from driving for
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    • 516 6  -  TEO XUANWEI xuanwei@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE A former car trader, who was charged with 1,116 counts of evading excise duty and goods and services tax amounting to over S$1 million, has been acquitted of 350 of these charges. A District Court
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    • 461 8 AP BEIJING Southern Chinese authorities have given in to key demands of protesting villagers after a nearly two-week standoff with the police, agreeing in a rare compromise to release detainees and return some confiscated land to farmers. Guangdong’s deputy Communist Party secretary Mr
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    • 268 8 AGENCIES MANILA The Philippines will seek a squadron of F-16 fighter jets and a third coast guard ship from longtime ally Washington amid simmering territorial disputes in the South China Sea. Philippine Foreign Secretary Albert del Rosario said yesterday
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    • 359 10  -  HIRANAND SUNNY SINGAPORE A local game developer has done in two-and-a-half weeks what other app developers can only dream of. When the Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab launched Dark Dot on Apple’s iTunes app store in October, it became the top action game in 48
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  • COMMENT&ANALYSIS
    • 1074 12  -  A deeper dialogue needs to start, and this might be the perfect moment CHRISTOPHER HILL Christopher Hill was former US Assistant Secretary of State for East Asia, and a former US Ambassador to Iraq, South Korea, Macedonia, and Poland. He was chief
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    • 940 14  -  WILLIAM PESEK William Pesek is a Bloomberg View columnist. The opinions expressed are his BLOOMBERG If Asians got together to name a person of the year, someone who brought surprise, intrigue and economic impact to the region, the choice would be obvious: Mother
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    • 764 16  -  RICHARD HARTUNG Richard Hartung is a consultant who has lived in Singapore since 1992. “Rush-hour commuters hit as fresh MTR cracks show”, a headline in The Hong Kong Standard blared in February. “Hardware failure triggers Sydney train chaos”, the Sydney Morning Herald reported in
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    • 635 17 BLOOMBERG BLOOMBERG EDITORIAL Few things try the modern soul like air travel. The endless and arbitrary security hassles. The officious flight crews. Bag fees, shrinking seats, shrieking infants. Then, once you’re ready for takeoff, the verbatim diktats about turning off portable electronic
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    • 1038 17  -  JEFFREY D SACHS Jeffrey D Sachs is Professor of Economics and Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University. He is also Special Adviser to United Nations Secretary-General on the Millennium Development Goals. PROJECT SYNDICATE The world’s greatest shortage is not of oil, clean
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  • VOICES
    • 442 20  -  All involved should give Singaporeans a chance to study medicine locally Letter from Shawn Tan Wei-liang THE article “Once abroad, hard to return?” (Dec 15) asks why overseas-trained Singaporean medical students do not return despite the “incentives” given. The answers are obvious to prospective
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    • 218 22  -  Letter from Yee Yee Kok Keong THE recent train disruptions have shown how self-centred Singaporeans are. Commuters who complained that the late start to services on Sunday had disrupted their lives have not thought of those recalled to work through the night to check
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    • 237 22  -  Letter from Tan Kin Lian I AGREE with Lyn Tai, in her letter “Taxi issue not solved, do away with booking fees”, that these fees should be capped at $1. Singapore’s model of deregulated taxi fares is clearly unsatisfactory: Poor service, lower
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    • 166 22  -  Letter from Koh Wee Sing Head, Public Internal Communications, Corporate Communications Division, Immigration Checkpoints Authority WE REFER TO Ms Cecilia Yong’s letter “Better to have face-to-face PR interviews” (Dec 17). In assessing applications for citizenship, permanent residence (PR)
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    • 382 22  -  Letter from Chua Soo Kiat THE latest property measures bring both hope and despair, depending on whether you own private property or are hunting for one. As the debates go on, it is timely to take stock of the Housing and Development Board
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    • 159 22  -  LETTER FROM GENETTE KOH LETTER FROM GENETTE KOH, SENIOR EXECUTIVE, CORPORATE COMMUNICATIONS, STARHUB We refer to Mr Jason Lee’s letter “Telco regulation seems needed to ensure professionalism” (Dec 16, online), concerning international call charges. StarHub understands that the charges were incurred
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 266 25  -  MONICA KOTWANI SINGAPORE Mobile users need to manage their smartphones and data plans properly when travelling overseas, said consumer watchdog Consumers Association of Singapore (CASE). This includes disabling functions like data roaming, turning off push notification settings and working with their telecommunications
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    • 384 25  -  Environmental Water Technology innovation centre gets SUMITA SREEDHARAN sumitas@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The Environmental Water Technology Centre of Innovation (EWTCOI) at Ngee Ann Polytechnic has secured S$10.3 million in funding to enhance its researchers’ capability to work on industry projects in the next three years.
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    • 369 27 SINGAPORE The consumer watchgroup has brought a timeshare company to court, alleging that the firm had exerted undue pressure or influence on consumers, as well as making misleading and false claims. The Consumers Association of Singapore (CASE) filed the writ yesterday
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    • 113 27 Twenty-four members of the Rotary Club of Singapore West set out yesterday to demonstrate that people on wheelchairs can move about normally in most public places, if given the means, support and encouragement to do so. They hosted and accompanied a group of 14 wheelchair-bound
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    • 220 28  -  JOANNE CHAN SINGAPORE A new English radio station which caters to women and families will hit local airwaves in nine months’ time. SPH Unionworks will operate FM92.0, after it won an open tender by the Media Development Authority (MDA). The addition of a
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    • 236 28  -  ALVINA SOH alvinasoh@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE A cleaner with a string of brushes with the law for violent behaviour has been sentenced to 10 months’jail for hitting his wife even though she has a personal protection order against him. Anandan Palnisamy Manikam (picture), 45,
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  • WORLD
    • 294 32 AGENCIES BEIJING China has ordered local governments to reduce emissions of “major pollutants” by as much as 10 per cent by 2015, amid growing public anxiety over the country’s bad air. The authorities will also start to monitor the smallest and most dangerous
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    • 557 32 AGENCIES CAGAYAN DE ORO Relatives and friends of flood victims in one of the worst-hit areas in the southern Philippines are outraged after a Mayor decided to let unclaimed bodies be left in a garbage dump. Cagayan de Oro Mayor Vicente Emano gave
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    • 291 34 AP BEIJING Batman star Christian Bale should feel embarrassed for trying to visit a human rights activist while he was in China to promote a movie the country has submitted for an Oscar, a government spokesman said yesterday. Bale was physically stopped by
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    • 327 34 REUTERS TOKYO Decommissioning Fukushima Dai-ichi will take three or four decades, Japan’s government said yesterday as it unveiled plans for the next phase of a huge and costly cleanup of the wrecked nuclear plant. The plant, 240 km northeast of Tokyo,
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    • 169 38 The first batch of Indonesian maids after the lifting of the moratorium is expected to arrive in Malaysia at the end of February, according to Malaysia’s human resources minister, Dr S Subramaniam. He said agencies have begun processing applications and facilitating the
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    • 120 38 AP Police say a blast near a busy intersection in Myanmar’s main city of Yangon has killed one person and injured at least two others, one of them seriously. Security officials at the scene say the explosion in a public toilet
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    • 344 38 AGENCIES AMBON (Indonesia) —A wooden ferry carrying 130 people home for the Christmas holidays sank yesterday in stormy weather in eastern Indonesia in the second fatal marine incident in the country’s waters in a week. Mr Nus Sileti, a transportation official, said more
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    • 275 41 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH LONDON A pregnant British mother who had suffered several miscarriages has given birth to a girl, after lying upside down for three months. Ms Donna Kelly, 29, suffered from a weak cervix believed to have been caused
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    • 380 41 AGENCIES LONDON About 45,000 British women known to have faulty breast implants produced by a French manufacturer have been advised to have them removed over concerns they could burst and leak. The now-defunct Poly Implant Prosthesis (PIP) was shut down last year
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    • 168 42 AP French airport security personnel are on strike for a sixth straight day leading to long lines and potential delays at Paris’ busiest airport. Around 119,000 travellers were expected to crowd Paris’ Charles de Gaulle and Orly airports yesterday ahead of the Christmas holiday
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    • 201 42 AP WASHINGTON The United States government paid scientists to figure out how the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus might mutate to become a bigger threat to people, and two laboratories succeeded in creating new strains that spread more easily. On Tuesday,
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    • 254 42 AP HARTSDALE (New York) Life is good again and death is looking better for animal lovers in New York who want to be buried with their Persians, Pomeranians or potbellied pigs. The state Division of Cemeteries has issued regulations that once again
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    • 246 43 AP MEXICO CITY There are just 52 weeks to Dec 21,2012, the date some believe the Maya predicted the end of the world. Unlike doomsday enthusiasts who suggest putting together survival kits, southeastern Mexico, the heart of Maya territory, have
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    • 171 43 AGENCIES A 76-year-old British woman went to the hospital complaining of weight loss and diarrhoea, only to find she had a felt-tipped pen lodged in her stomach (picture). The discovery was published in the British Medical Journal. The woman was
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    • 114 43 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH Scientists on Antarctica have discovered a fossil of a tail bone belonging to a titanosaur, the family of giant plant-eating dinosaurs. Titanosaurs were sauropods four-leg-ged herbivorous dinosaurs with long necks and tails. Their remains have been found around the world
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    • 141 43 REUTERS British scientists have developed an experimental malaria vaccine that may have the potential to neutralise all strains of the most deadly species of malaria parasite. Results from very early tests of the vaccine in mice and rabbits show it induces an antibody response
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  • BUSINESS
    • 294 44 AGENCIES LONDON Banks took a huge €489 billion (S$830.3 billion) at the European Central Bank’s first ever offering of three-year loans yesterday, raising hope a credit crunch facing banks will be eased. A total of 523 banks borrowed money at the tender
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    • 257 44  -  MILLET ENRIQUEZ emelita@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Economists are forecasting a difficult year for Singapore in 2012 as it faces the brunt of a slowdown in export demand. “Our prognosis is for the Singapore economy to actually bottom out in the second quarter of
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    • 136 44 DOW JONES SINGAPORE Singapore investment firm Temasek Holdings has acquired a 6.5 per cent stake in Mosaic Co, a regulatory filing showed, making it the largest shareholder in the New York-listed fertiliser maker. The statement, filed Tuesday, said Temasek now owns 17.9
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    • 109 44 AGENCIES Jetstar Airways, a subsidiary of Qantas Airways, said yesterday it has applied for an operator’s certificate for its planned Japan venture and expects domestic flights to begin by the end of next year. Jetstar Japan is also
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    • 160 46 AGENCIES KUALA LUMPUR CapitaLand’s serviced residence unit The Ascott may group its Malaysian assets and list them on the local stock exchange, the New Straits Times daily reported yesterday. It may also inject the assets into Ascott Residence Trust, a real estate investment
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    • 261 46  -  WONG SIEWYING siewying@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Rents for prime retail space along the Orchard Road remained stable in the last quarter of the year and are expected to keep firm early next year due to limited supply, real estate consultancy firm CBRE said in a
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    • 59 46 DOW JONES Singapore-listed Wee Hur Holdings said yesterday its unit was awarded a tender for a residential site at Punggol district for S$206.2 million. Wee Hur Development, which intends to develop condominiums on the site, will fund the acquisition with internal funds
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    • 50 46 STOCK CALLS Neutral S$3.10 DMG keeps its rating and S$3.13 fair value. House says SingTel’s recent launch of its 4G mobilebroadband service, which marks a pricing-strategy shift, will help it gain revenue on heavy data usage in ways it has not been able to with current 3G price plans.
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    • 247 48 AGENCIES TOKYO HSBC Holdings, Europe’s largest lender by market value, has agreed to sell its Japanese private banking business to Credit Suisse as it seeks to cut assets and reduce expenses in preparation for tighter capital rules. The sale of
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    • 206 48 AGENCIES TOKYO Japanese prosecutors raided the headquarters of disgraced firm Olympus and the home of its former president yesterday in a probe into a US$1.7 billion (S$2.2 billion) accounting scandal that has threatened the survival of the camera and medical equipment maker. Tokyo prosecutors, police
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    • 182 48 REUTERS China overtook the United States and Japan as the world’s top patent filer this year, as it steps up innovation to improve its intellectual property rights track record, a Thomson Reuters research report showed yesterday. The report said the world’s second-largest
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    • 220 50 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH Google will release a flagship Android tablet in the next six months to challenge Apple’s iPad, its chairman Eric Schmidt has revealed. In an echo of the firm’s smartphone strategy, whereby its own Nexus range
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    • 505 50 REUTERS TORONTO, NEW YORK Research In Motion (RIM) has turned down takeover overtures from Amazon.com and other potential buyers because the BlackBerry maker prefers to fix its problems on its own, according to people with knowledge of the situation. Amazon hired an investment bank
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    • 686 52 SINGAPORE “You make changes when you are doing well, because not every change will deliver a positive result and it’s better to absorb failures when things are going well than when you’re in a desperate situation,” says Mr Thomas Chua, chairman and managing director ofTeckwah Group.
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    • 448 54 England and Chelsea captain will go to court on Feb 1 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH LONDON The Crown Prosecution Service yesterday authorised criminal charges to be brought against John Terry in relation to allegations of racial abuse of Anton Ferdinand after deciding that there
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    • 536 54 AGENCIES LIVERPOOL An “upset” Luis Suarez (picture) was fiercely defended by Liverpool yesterday after he was handed a lengthy eight-match ban for racially abusing Manchester United defender Patrice Evra. Suarez was also fined £40,000 (S$81,460) after an independent regulatory commission found him guilty of
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    • 541 55 A win against Chelsea will show Spurs have what it takes to nick the title AGENCIES ENGLISH PREMIER LEAGUE Tottenham vs Chelsea LONDON Tottenham will cement themselves as the capital’s top club if they beat London rivals Chelsea today (tomorrow morning, Singapore time) at
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    • 205 55 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH LONDON Huang Junjie, an experienced Chinese referee, admitted receiving bribes to fix a friendly match between Manchester United and China’s Shenzhen FC in 2007, as well as a 2009 fixture between Australian A-League club Sydney FC and China’s Shanghai Shenhua. United
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    • 410 55 AGENCIES ENGLISH PREMIER LEAGUE Blackburn 1 Bolton 2 BLACKBURN Steve Kean is one foot out the door following his team’s 1-2 defeat to Bolton at Ewood Park yesterday, with the club’s owners, Venky’s, understood to be exploring the possibility of offering Mark Hughes a return
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    • 672 56  -  Ong finalises squad and sets personal target for his team’s debut season in the S-League SHAMIR OSMAN shamir@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE It may be their debut season in Singapore, with the development of their youngsters the primary aim. But that has not stopped Young Tigers coach
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    • 539 56  -  Paul Dale once coached Thai star Paradorn Srichaphan PHILIP GOH philipgoh@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Paul Dale, who once coached former Thai tennis star and world No 9 Paradorn Srichaphan, has been appointed technical director at the Singapore Tennis Association (STA). The two-year deal, which takes effect
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    • 199 56  -  SHAMIR OSMAN SINGAPORE The Football Association of Malaysia (FAM) have yet to finish their inspection of Malaysia Super League (MSL) stadiums, hence delaying the release of the 2012 season schedule till Friday. Originally planned for release yesterday, FAM vice-president Datuk Hamidin Haji Amin
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    • 94 55 For fixtures of all A League, please visit Singapore Pools website. LIVE TELECAST AT LIVEWIREfMARINA BAY SANDS RESORTS WORLD SENTOSA) SPORTSBUZZ(POMO) A League Sydney FC Adelaide Thu, 22/12/11 4.30pm LIVE TELECAST AT LIVEWIRE(MARINA BAY SANDS RESORTS WORLD SENTOSA) E Premier Tottenham Chelsea Fri, 23/12/11 4.00am Always play with care. [responsibly!
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    • 58 1 ARTS MUSIC MOVIES TELEVISION WINE DINE STYLE DESIGN HEALTH TECH TRAVEL CARS PARTIES, PRESENTS THE FAMILY CIRCLE ZOE TAY, JADE SEAH AND OTHER STARS REVEAL THEIR CHRISTMAS PLANS DECEMBER 22, 2011 A PUBLICATION OF WHY THE NOOSE WORKS LIKE A CHARM T3 THE RETURN OF MAT YOYO T4 TRAVEL SPEND
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    • 1052 2  -  All our celebs want for Christmas is family time and fabulous nosh MAY SEAH may@mediacorp.com.sg GRINCHES and pre-enlightenment Scrooges aside, everybody loves Christmas. And although celebrities could hypothetically afford to celebrate every day like it was Christmas, they are also suckers for the festive atmosphere that
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    • 576 3  -  The Noose’s head writer, Prem Anand, attributes the show’s success to clownish inspiration May Seah may@mediacorp.com.sg THE antics of Barbarella Posh-Beckham are eye-catching to say the least, but her popularity is due to a man called Prem Anand. Who, you may ask? Well,Anand is the creator
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    • 637 4  -  The old-time favourite children’s programme is coming back this time, in four languages MAY SEAH IF YOU were a child in the ’80s, you will remember what a hit the Malay-language children’s television show MatYoyo was. In fact, it was so popular that it ran for
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  • ENTERTAINMENT
    • 182 7 CONCERT organisers Running Into The Sun (RITS) and Conceptual today announced that due to a slight change in schedules, top Korean boy band Super Junior who recently won the Singapore’s Choice for Most Favourite Korean Artist at the Mnet Music
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    • 668 7 JUDE LAW 6311 9162 www.gv.com.sg Be mesmerized by Lang Lang’s performance at the Franz Liszt’s 200th Birthday Concert. One night only at GV! Buy your tickets from www.gv.com.sg or any GV Box Offi ce. m.gv.com.sg Date: Saturday, 7 January 2012 Time: 8.30pm Venue: GV VivoCity GV Grand Ticket Price: Members
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    • 790 8  -  All is quiet on New Year’s Day in the French town of Aix-en-Provence Anthony Peregrine features@mediacorp.com.sg THE DAILY TELEGRAPH WITH Christmas subsiding, New Year’s Eve heaves immediately into view.We must now gear ourselves up for a second bash.This is okay if you’re young, resilient and,
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  • 593 12 Mapping the Homeland: We are Proud of You Check out Malaysian painter Phuan Thai Meng’s first exhibition in Singapore. Mapping the Homeland: We Are Proud of You is a showcase of his signature brand of photorealist paintings laced with socio-political commentaries. Creating a visual representation of Malaysia
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    • 32 12 SUDOKUplus DIFFICULTY RATING: HOWTO PLAY The rules are easy. Fill in the grid so that every row, every column, and every 3x3 box contains the digits 1 through 9. COPYRIGHTUCLICK YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION
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    • 264 13 ON MEDIACORP THE X FACTOR USA Channel 5, 10pm The final three contestants take to the stage to battle it out for the last time. Who will emerge the first winner of The X Factor USA and who will buckle under pressure? Tune in tonight to find out. I SHOULDN’T
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    • 207 13 ON MEDIACORP BLOGTV.SG VI Channel NewsAsia, 1.02pm Today file With taxi fares going up, up, up just who is hitting pay dirt? Are cabs on the inflation highway or this just purely greed-motivated price-fixing? POINT OF ENTRY II (PG) Channel 5, 8pm An abandoned baby leads to the discovery of
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