The Straits Times, 5 December 2009

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  • 19 1 MICA (P) 094/11/2009 SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5 2009 S|Si A SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS PUBLICATION ESTABLISHED 1845 $I.oo** THE STRAITS TIMES.
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  • INSIDE
    • 44 1 THE High Court jailed a 48-year-old odd job labourer for 24 years and imposed the maximum 24 strokes of the cane on him for battering and molesting an eight-year-old girl his wife had been babysitting. PRIME PAGE A 4
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    • 66 1 TRADITIONAL Chinese, Indian and Malay medicines and treatments are staging a comeback here. They are being used even by those in their 20s and 30s, with demand for such traditional cures fuelling increased imports of traditional herbs and drugs. Riding on this surge, makers of these
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    • 34 1 SOME seven million Taiwanese will cast their votes in today's local elections, the first major test for President Ma Ying-jeou, who won the presidential polls last year. WORLD PAGES Cl-2
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    • 29 1 SUICIDE attackers stormed a mosque close to Pakistan's army headquarters, killing at least 40 people during Friday prayers before blowing themselves up. PRIME PAGE AlO
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    • 33 1 ALTHOUGH it's been a rollercoaster ride for the Singapore stock market, most analysts agree on one thing the Straits Times Index will move above 3,000 points. MONEY PAGE C 26
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  • 737 1  -  Jermyn Chow Changes to length of recruit training for those not fully fit By BASIC military training (BMT) is being tweaked to ensure that more full-time national servicemen emerge combat fit. For seven in 10 enlistees, it remains a nine-week course. But for the
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  • 428 1 WASHINGTON: Employers in the United States cut the fewest jobs last month since the recession began and the unemployment rate unexpectedly fell, signalling the recovery is lifting the labour market out of the worst slump since World War 11. The
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    • 48 1 WBM And all along you people: lim chong yah Asafa Powell kA *^l thought it was Prof s big push for "€jL in town t\ t:#r > St Lim Chee Guan's needy students next week QP^BE^P^ PRIME, PAGE Al4 PRIME, PAGE A3O £k SPORT, PAGE C 44 f '^m
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    • VIEWPOINTS
      • 102 2 WE SAY The Government's move to make the teaching of Chinese more "fun" recognises the trend of more students coming from an English-speaking home background. Teachers should be empowered to adopt innovative methods more suited for such a clientele. Schools should also be aware that in
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      • 27 2 COLUMNS It is a mark of Indonesia's ailing politics that people with integrity are getting all the heat, says John Mcßeth. REVIEW PAGE A3B
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      • 23 2 OUR READERS SAY Praema Raghavan-Gilbert says every tree, not just those planted by YIPs, is sacred. FORUM PAGE A4O
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    • 121 2 IN WEDNESDAY'S report, "Clients of closed spa trying to get money back", we said the Consumers Association of Singapore (Case) received complaints from nine clients left holding defunct packages from companies like Pretticure. Case clarified that there are no defunct packages with Pretticure. The company
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    • 952 2  -  Sandra Davie Crackdown needed to maintain Singapore's status as education hub By SENIOR WRITER SINGAPORE should make it illegal to buy fake degrees and use them to seek jobs or business. At the very least, it should follow the example of Oregon in the United States,
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    • 89 3 I This band of onstage teddy bears is the contribution of five Singapore Polytechnic students to the SPH fund-raising concert, Child Aid. The box created by Ivan Chiok, 20, Paul Tan, 19, Yew Jing Yuan, 18, Muhammad Junaidi, 20, and Carolyn Phuar, 20 marks the fifth
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    • 556 3  -  K.C. VIJAYAN Incident during dialysis left her bedridden and brain-damaged By A KIDNEY patient who became bedridden and brain-damaged from a routine dialysis session gone wrong is suing the National University Hospital (NUH) for alleged negligence. Yesterday, lawyers representing the plaintiff and NUH attended
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    • 526 4  -  Khushwant Singh He gets 24 years' jail, 24 strokes of cane for beating, sexual abuse By AN EIGHT-YEAR-OLD girl left with a babysitter ended up being battered and sexually abused by the woman's husband. The child was removed from their home after a school counsellor spotted
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    • 768 6  -  Bhagyashree Garekar It's a cost-effective solution, says Obama By US CORRESPONDENT WASHINGTON: The Obama administration is examining whether it can export its way out of the severe jobs crisis roiling the American economy. "If we just increased our share of exports to Asia by
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    • 806 8 TalkisofUSssm payment and a revised pre-nuptial LOS ANGELES: Tiger Woods' transgressions appear to have burnt a hole in the pocket of the world's richest sportsman. The highly-successful golfer has accumulated a vast fortune during his professional career, estimated by Forbes magazine at US$l
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    • 618 9 TERROR IN PAKISTAN It is second assault on area, targeting army officials since October RAWALPINDI (Pakistan): Suicide attackers stormed a mosque close to Pakistan's army headquarters, killing at least 40 people during Friday prayers as they sprayed gunfire at worshippers and threw grenades before blowing
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    • 679 12  -  Huang Lijie Wholesaler opens own outlet after years of supplying to popular shop By THE secret is out. For years, some of the bak kwa sold by popular barbecued meat chain Lim Chee Guan has come from a supplier, Kirn Joo Guan.
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    • 382 12 A BLIND taste test was conducted on five brands of traditional sliced barbecued pork: Kirn Joo Guan, Fragrance, Bee Cheng Hiang, Kirn Hock Guan and Lim Chee Guan. The panel of testers comprised Straits Times restaurant critic Wong Ah Yoke, 48, Straits Times food critic Foong
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    • 567 19 30-year study of nearly 16 million Scandinavians fails to find any link WASHINGTON: A very large, 30-year study of just about everyone in Scandinavia shows no link between cellphone use and brain tumours, researchers say. Even though mobile telephone use soared in the 1990s and
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    • 420 19 SYANGBOCHE (Nepal): Nepal's top politicians strapped on oxygen tanks yesterday and held a Cabinet meeting amid the frigid, thin air of Mount Everest to highlight the danger global warming poses to glaciers. The event billed by Nepal's government as the world's highest Cabinet meeting
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    • 1069 21  -  Melissa Sim Jessica Lim FOSTER PARENTING SCHEME Interviews and home visits among measures to ensure kids' safety By and ONCE a month, a welfare officer drops by Mr Robin Lim's flat in Tampines. The spot check he is making is par for the course, said
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    • 203 21  -  MELISSA SIM AFTER being sexually assaulted by her foster father, the teenage girl was sent back to her natural parents even though it was her own father who had first assaulted her. The Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports (MCYS) said yesterday that the mother's
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    • 708 23  -  Esther Teo The casual wear chain is planning stores with large retail space By CONSISTENT AIM "The business potential and size that we're aiming for hasn't changecL.lt seems like it's scaled down but our first two stores have been very well-received, we're now looking for
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    • 402 25 FLOODS IN MALAYSIA The flood situation was the most serious in Terengganu, where rivers swelled to dangerous levels. But officials said yesterday that major roads including the Kuala TerengganuKuantan road and Kuala Terengganu-Kota Baru road were passable to all vehicles. 3,000 evacuated in Terengganu;
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    • 555 27 OBITUARY JAPANESE painter Ikuo Hirayama, a campaigner for the preservation of the world's cultural heritage and known for his works on the Silk Road and Buddhism, died on Wednesday, a spokesman said. He was 79. Mr Hirayama died of a stroke
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    • 1559 27  -  Radha Basu Prof Lim Chong Yah learned early on that a good education is surest passport to a better life By SENIOR CORRESPONDENT Growing up in poverty PROFESSOR Lim Chong Yah was born in Malacca in 1932. In 1951, he won a Malacca Settlement
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    • 678 30 WELCOME TO JAPAN PLEASE? "I really like Mr Feng (left). That is why I want him to enter Japan, for the sake of his health. My wish is that he voluntarily enters Japan. This is not a place to live. I really hope he
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  • THE STRAITS TIMES REVIEW & FORUM.
    • 419 31 FOR a language that has been neglected by some Chinese Singaporeans, it is ironic that a government proposal to make the teaching of Chinese more "fun" and less of an ordeal has touched off a storm. One section of the public has called for the bilingual
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    • 859 31  -  Bernard Loo By FOR THE STRAITS TIMES Given that the Taleban seeks to erode the will of its opponent, the identification of a timeline for the eventual withdrawal of forces will in essence concede defeat to the insurgents. It basically says to the Taleban: "We
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    • 896 31  -  Bill Durodie RISING ASIA By FOR THE STRAITS TIMES MUCH recent debate on whether there is a global power shift from the West to the East takes the conclusion for granted. But though writing off the United States as a spent force may
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    • review
      • 731 33  -  Hassan Abbas PAKISTAN'S WAR ON MILITANTS By THE terrorist sanctuary in the South Waziristan region of Pakistan's tribal frontier with Afghanistan is coming apart. It took a while for the Pakistani Army to move, but its campaign in South Waziristan is making progress. The
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        870 35  -  John McBeth BANK CENTURY SCANDAL By SENIOR WRITER IT IS time, yet again, to come to the defence of Indonesian Vice-President Boediono and Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati, the two key reformists in President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's new Cabinet. In the controversy swirling around last year's bailout
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      • 736 36  -  David Gorman MINDANAO MASSACRE By FOR THE STRAITS TIMES THE brutal slaying of almost 60 unarmed civilians in Mindanao, the Philippines, in the last week of last month is a stark reminder that violence is endemic to this troubled region and that Islamic extremism
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    • forum
      • 470 37 TENDING A GARDEN CITY WRITE IN: 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
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      • 418 37 FLOODS WE THANK Mr Narayana Narayana ("Floods a freak event, or could we have tracked it?", last Saturday) and Mr Thomas Lee ("Floods I would have thought such events were well within our ability to prevent or minimise", Tuesday) for their letters on the
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      • 115 37 I REFER to the Insight interview with me yesterday, "From rank outsider to public guardian". Unfortunately, what I said about my brother, Kenneth, in answer to the question on what I thought about his taking over the leadership of the Reform Party, was omitted. I
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      • 382 39 KIDS BORN OUT OF WEDLOCK I WRITE in response to Mrs Claudia Tan's letter on Thursday, "Changes to law add to problems". I fail to see any causative link in the letter writer's assertion that the alignment of the law pertaining to inheritance and the
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      • 445 39 THERE have been several letters recently from employers of maids who have complained about their behaviour and suggested they are too free to decide their conditions of work and who they will work for ("Are errant maids, agencies misusing free ride
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      • 449 39 I REFER to the letters, "mio TV's free offer isn't really free" by Mr Tan Yong Hua (Nov 10); "mio TV's price competitive? Not so sure" by Mr Tay Cher Hou (Nov 20); and "Set-top boxes I think many shared
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      • 258 39 THE system of property taxation in Singapore, apart from hotels, relies on an assessment of the "market rent" of a property called the annual value (AY). A rate (currently 10 per cent) is then fixed to the AY to arrive at the annual tax
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    • 681 42  -  April Chong Younger set drawn to traditional cures, now seen as complementary to Western medicine By TRADITIONAL medicine and treatments, once considered dying out, are making a comeback. These traditional cures, long used by older people, have staked a place in the future by
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    • 214 42 MR LIM Swee Say, speaking in Mandarin, on the national goal of helping students from different home language backgrounds become as proficient as possible in the Chinese language, as set out by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong: "I agree with the PM's view. Singapore is
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    • 364 43  -  JUDITH TAN WHO cocktail will be ready by next winter in Southern Hemisphere THE vaccine against the pandemic HINI virus is expected to be incorporated into the seasonal flu jab in about six months. The World Health Organisation is developing the combination
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      • 103 43 The Shooot Fiesta, which started yesterday, is the first digital media festival for youths here. The three-day event offers a showcase for young people's works, like 3D art, as well as outdoor 3D movies and digital media exhibitions that the public can attend. Classes and talks
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      • 85 43 STUDENTS at the Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School are now eligible for a new scholarship that will fund their tuition fees, books and living expenses. Ngee Ann Kongsi, a philanthropic group, has given $3 million to the school to train Singaporean and permanent resident medical students. The money
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    • 332 43  -  Jessica Jaganathan By VIDEO conferencing at Hougang Polyclinic is making eye checks a breeze for those with blurry vision. Patients who think they have eye problems can now do a comprehensive check without a face-to-face appointment with an ophthalmologist. The patient is taken to
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    • 686 45  -  Christopher Tan Number recalled here last year was one-third the annual average of previous five years By SENIOR CORRESPONDENT THE number of vehicles in Singapore affected by safety recalls has fallen dramatically in the last year or so, a possible indicator of improving quality. According to
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    • 475 47  -  Amelia Tan By AN INSTITUTE has been set up to understand human behaviour and provide research to help organisations and governments increase the performance and wellbeing of people. The Behavioural Sciences Institute (BSI) at the Singapore Management University (SMU) will draw on knowledge across
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    • 516 48  -  Mavis Toh People with money woes are urged to seek help from volunteer groups By FOR the 80 gamblers and their families who turn to this volunteer group every week, it is their last hope. The aptly named One Hope Centre turned five
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    • 156 48 THE body of a 32-year-old Indian national was found inside an office unit of a building construction company at 25 Kaki Bukit Crescent yesterday morning. Police said they received a call from an employee of the company at about 9.15 am.
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    • 272 50  -  ELENA CHONG A BUSINESSMAN was charged yesterday with 62 counts of fraudulent evasion of goods and services tax of about $2 million the biggest GST fraud case in Singapore to date. Indian national Mahesh Kumar Goenka, 53, is accused of helping his companies Lalasis
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    • 266 50 IT WAS a stormy marriage from the start. She confronted him about his alleged infidelity three months after their July 2007 wedding; he accused her of stealing his gold chain. In the months following that, senior staff sergeant Rohaizad Majnen, 40, would
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    • 219 50 A CLEANER who had a dispute with her lover over financial and personal matters torched his fish farm, causing damage of more than $200,000. Yesterday, Liv Gui Ling, 37, a Chinese national, was jailed for nine weeks by Community Court Judge Soh Tze Bian
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    • 354 50  -  K. C. VIJAYAN Justice Woo explains grounds for decision in drug trafficker case By LAW CORRESPONDENT THE judge who granted a stay of execution for a convicted drug trafficker explained yesterday why the High Court has the powers to do so. Justice Woo
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      • 812 51  -  Eisen Teo Nurse Josephine Teo continues to go on missions abroad By Get involved Sale of gift hampers to help needy children GIFT specialist Noel has prepared two Heart For Kids hampers this year in aid of The Straits Times School Pocket Money Fund
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      • 359 52  -  EUNICE NG THEY will not be jamming on a guitar or demonstrating their vocal prowess on stage, but five Singapore Polytechnic students have put their artistic talent to work for the annual fund-raising concert Child Aid. The second- and third-year Experience and
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      • 578 52  -  Jeanette Wang Running for charity is becoming a tradition at the Singapore Marathon By AMONG the things that typically feature on a midlife to-do list, marathon running is not usually one of them. But the MacFaddens are not your average 50-somethings, certainly not
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  • THE STRAITS TIMES WORLD.
    • 1152 54  -  Ho Ai Li TAIWAN LOCAL POLLS Poor showing may leave President with less leewa) on key policies By TAIWAN CORRESPONDENT What is at stake Election numbers Voters: Seven million or about 41 per cent of Taiwan's total electorate Posts up for grabs: Magistrates in 14 counties,
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      • 543 58 World Bank in talks with Beijing on setting up industrial zones to help African nations STRONG INTEREST "There is not only willingness but also strong interest among some in China...There may be possibilities of moving some of the lower-value manufacturing facilities to
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      • 540 60 Verdict is latest in nationwide crackdown on organised crime GUANGZHOU: Two mob bosses have been sentenced to death for murder and illegally running a business empire involving underground casinos, cement factories and poultry markets in southern China. The long-awaited verdict, which came on
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      • 99 60 People admiring colourful illuminated arches in a shopping street in Kobe, western Japan, on Thursday. The annual light festival, known as Kobe Luminarie, began in 1995 in remembrance of the more than 6,000 people killed in the Kobe earthquake that year. The festival aims to boost
        AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE  -  99 words
      • 347 60 JAKARTA: President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has said an idea floated years ago that the national administration centre be relocated from Jakarta to another part of the country should be reconsidered. "Some 15 years ago there was a consideration that the capital be
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      • 559 61 Citizens left with worthless bills due to exchange limit in currency revaluation SEOUL: North Koreans set piles of old bills alight in anger over their government's surprise move to redenominate the national currency, a report said, in a sign of growing frustration among citizens
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      • 516 62  -  Kwan Weng Kin Government aims to combat deflation and erosion of Japanese exports By JAPAN CORRESPONDENT TOKYO: The Japanese government is putting together an economic stimulus package worth a whopping 24 trillion yen (*****.2 billion) to combat the negative effects of falling prices and to
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      • 338 62 TOKYO: United States Ambassador John Roos yesterday called for a quick resolution of a dispute over the relocation of a US Marine base on the southern Japanese island of Okinawa. The issue is straining bilateral ties and raising tension within Japan's ruling
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      • 829 63  -  The Straits Times POLITICS AND NEW MEDIA Engaging netizens helps government manage dissent, say experts By China Bureau BUILDING BRIDGES "Blogging is closing the gap between citizens and their officials, and represents a step towards building a more transparent government." Prof Hu Xingdou of the
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      • 616 63  -  Carolyn Hong By MALAYSIA BUREAU CHIEF KUALA LUMPUR: Online news website Malaysiakini last week celebrated its 10th anniversary in grand style with politicians and celebrities in attendance. More than 1,000 people, including Information, Communications and Culture Deputy Minister Heng Seai Kie
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      • 467 66 Over a dozen crates of bullets seized, but patriarch not arrested MANILA: Philippine troops wearing body armour and carrying assault rifles yesterday stormed the homes of a powerful clan suspected of involvement in a massacre and seized more than a dozen crates of bullets.
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      • 542 67 General Motors partner Shanghai Automotive Industry Corp to invest $483 million in venture BEIJING: American auto maker General Motors (GM) and its key automotive partner in China yesterday announced a venture to sell vehicles in India, a fast-grow-ing but competitive market. Shanghai Automotive Industry
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      • 356 67 KOTA BARU: Kelantan Menteri Besar Nik Aziz Nik Mat yesterday attacked Prime Minister Najib Razak again, a week after saying he would pray for the demise of the Premier for not giving oil royalties to Kelantan. Malaysiakini online news reported that in front
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      • 48 67 Thai people wave national and the King's flags as they celebrate King Bhumibol Adulyadej's 82nd birthday and hail the end of the 76-day Thai United campaign at Supachalasai stadium in Bangkok, Thailand, Thousands of people took part in the ceremonies yesterday. PHOTO: ASSOCIATED PRESS
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      • 249 67 BANGALORE: The authorities in southern India plan to ban an age-old ritual that sees babies tossed from the top of a 9m temple, officials said yesterday. Every first week of December in a rural district in the state of Karnataka, villagers drop babies
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      • 91 68 Mr Chandubhai Dabhi (left), 53, may be physically handicapped, but that did not stop him from taking part in a finger painting event held to mark International Day of Persons with Disabilities. Taking place in Ahmedabad, India, on Thursday, the event was said to have
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      • 628 68  -  P. Jayaram Experts warn of more violent protests if perennial shortages are not addressed By india wkkusfondent NEW DELHI: Indian cities may be heading for "water wars" if the country's perennial shortages are not addressed, experts warned. The protest in Mumbai on Thursday by hundreds of
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      • 386 69 KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) chief commissioner Ahmad Said Hamdan is quitting his post five months ahead of his retirement in May. The resignation came after a bumpy year for the commission in which it received brickbats over its handling of the death
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      • 589 69 Move comes as EU gets set to begin 'sustained political dialogue' with ruling junta YANGON: Myanmar's Supreme Court agreed yesterday to hear an appeal against the extended house arrest of democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi, as the European Union said it wanted
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      • 1018 64  -  Carolyn Hong Falling number reflects XL's struggle to compete for foreign talent By MALAYSIA BUREAU CHIEF ATTRACTED WRONG PEOPLE "In the earlier years, some of the people who came were not those that we targeted. We are in the process of adjustment." Tourism Malaysia
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      • 579 70 Attack on Taleban first since troop surge announced KABUL: United States Marines and Afghan troops yesterday launched the first offensive since President Barack Obama announced an American troop surge, striking against Taleban communications and supply lines in a southern insurgent stronghold. Hundreds of US troops
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      • 317 70 BRUSSELS: United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton urged Nato and its partners in Afghanistan yesterday to rally behind a new strategy to combat the insurgency. "This is our fight together. And we must finish it together," she told Nato foreign ministers in Brussels,
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      • 889 71  -  Jonathan Eyal Putin-Medvedev clash means diplomats will have to tread carefully By STRAITS TIMES EUROPE BUREAU LONDON: When Russian leader Vladimir Putin stepped down as president in May last year, he hand-picked Mr Dmitry Medvedev his closest personal friend as head of
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      • 43 71 Fisherman Elson de Oliveira sits beside a dead alligator in a boat surrounded by dead fish floating on Brazil's Reis Lake in Manaus on Thursday. Severe drought in the Amazon Basin has killed thousands of fish. PHOTO: AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
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      • 355 71 WASHINGTON: A Cold War-era nuclear arms control agreement between the United States and Russia was to expire yesterday. But its key provisions are likely to remain in effect while negotiators work out the final details of a replacement treaty. Neither side anticipates security problems
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      • 538 72 A ban on construction in push for peace meets resistance in Israel-occupied West Bank KIRYAT ARBA (West Bank): Mayor Malachi Levinger does not consider himself a lawbreaker. However, when Israeli building inspectors arrived in his town earlier this week to check for compliance with a
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      • 445 72 SYDNEY: Teenagers who are addicted to the Internet are more likely to engage in self-harming behaviour, according to an Australian-Chinese study released this week. Researchers surveyed 1,618 teenagers aged 13 to 18 from China's Guangdong province about behaviour such as hitting themselves, pulling
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      • 581 73 Suicide attack raises doubts over whether moderate government could achieve stability MOGADISHU: A man dressed in a burqa dealt a devastating blow to Somalia's already shaky government when he blew himself up at a graduation ceremony, killing three Cabinet ministers and at least
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      • 553 74 British migration panel warns of abuse by dodgy colleges TIME FOR A REVIEW "What we think, without being overly elitist, is that we should have a good look at these institutions to see if it is legitimate for all the students studying there on
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      • 189 74 SYDNEY: A diver was critically ill yesterday after the irukandji, a tiny but deadly jellyfish, bypassed his full-body wetsuit to deliver a toxic sting to his face in waters off northern Australia, officials said. The 29-year-old experienced "severe pain" after diving from a tourist yacht into
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      • 228 74 SYDNEY: As the "Noughties" draw to a close, an Australian competition has found a new tag for the coming decade: the "One-ders". The news.com.au website received some 3,500 entries for its online contest. It rejected "Tentions", "Decnos" and "Tweens" in favour of the
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      • 461 75 Aussie PM notes effects of economic, strategic power shift to region SYDNEY: Growing competition for resources could threaten peace and security in Asia, whose economies and militaries are set to become the world's biggest, Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd warned yesterday. Mr Rudd,
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      • 177 75 VIENNA: A 33-year-old furry photographer is winning fans on social networking website Facebook for pictures of its daily life as an orangutan in a Vienna zoo. Orangutan Nonja's photos, taken with a camera that dispenses raisins as it snaps, have won over 20,000 fans
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      • 345 75 NEW YORK: In a finding that is sure to add to one of the longest-running debates in music, a detailed analysis of the varnish on five instruments made by Antonio Stradivari revealed that he coated the wood with a rather humdrum mix of oil
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      • 284 75 TURIN (Italy): A turncoat Mafia gangster told a Turin court yesterday that his boss in the Italian criminal organisation claimed to have "got everything" with the help of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. Gaspare Spatuzza, giving evidence in a long-awaited hearing, said his boss Giuseppe
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      • 358 76 LONDON: Eye contact and body language have long been considered tell-tale signs of cheating, nervousness, sexual attraction and lying. Now, a British psychologist says he has found a new body language in which humans use their feet to give out
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      • 305 76 CHICAGO: Children who get vaccinated against chicken pox may have a lower risk of developing shingles, a painful rash caused by the chicken pox virus, United States researchers said yesterday. A study found that of more than 170,000 children 12 years and
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      • 664 76 After being condemned in the early *****, this procedure is generating newfound excitement among the handful of doctors in the United States who offer it and patients keen to enlarge their breasts without resorting to implants. Once controversial procedure is approved by
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      • 314 77 WASHINGTON: The head of the Secret Service has asserted that the security breach at last week's White House state dinner was an aberration but has put three uniformed officers on leave. President Barack Obama said his confidence in the agency
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      • 485 77 Isolationism at 40-year high; more people also see China as world's top economic power WASHINGTON: Americans are turning away from the world, showing a tendency towards isolationism in foreign affairs that has risen to the highest level in four decades, a new poll has
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      • 132 78 LONDON: A top United Nations panel will probe claims that British scientists sought to suppress data backing climate change sceptics' views, its head said yesterday ahead of the landmark Copenhagen summit. Dr Rajendra Pachauri, head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, said the claims, which led
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      • 138 78 GSTAAD (Switzerland): Roman Polanski began his house arrest on a US$4.5 million (Ss6 million) bail yesterday, rolling into the luxury resort of Gstaad in a police convoy to a warm welcome from his wife and children at his Alpine chalet. Polanski persuaded the Swiss authorities to
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      • 109 78 WASHINGTON: A suspected serial killer has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to murdering 11 women whose remains were found in and around his Ohio home, prosecutors said. Court officials in Cleveland said Anthony Sowell, 50, pleaded not guilty on Thursday to 85 counts in the
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      • 99 78 Photographer Ellen Kaplowitz taking a bite out of a doughnut from Ms Jennifer RubelFs work, Old-Fashioned, at the Art Basel Miami Beach art show in Florida, the United States, on Thursday. The piece features 1,521 doughnuts on a wall of about 2.4 m by 18m. The
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      • 103 78 MEXICO CITY: Mexico City police have freed 107 people forced to work under slave-like conditions in a clandestine factory making shopping bags and clothing clasps, the authorities said. Police raided the factory, which was hidden inside an alcohol and drug rehabilitation centre, after a worker escaped
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      • 130 78 KUALA LUMPUR: A Malaysian court has cut the jail term of a housewife convicted of burning her Indonesian maid with an iron from 18 to 12 years because it was her first offence. The case is among the most well-known in a string of maid abuse
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      • 100 78 SEOUL: Suicidal South Koreans are increasingly jumping off bridges over the Han River in Seoul after platform screen doors were installed at many subway stations. The authorities began installing the barriers in 2005 at Seoul's 285 subway stations, and the job is due to be completed by
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      • 116 78 JAKARTA: Two neighbours in Cirebon, West Java, are suing each other after they got into a fight when one of them broke wind in the other's presence. The men, identified as OB and HS in Kompas.com, got into a fight after OB broke wind outside
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      • 109 78 BEIJING: China has sentenced 13 low-level officials to jail for an iron mine dam collapse days before the Olympic Games opened in Beijing last year, which was apparently hushed up despite killing at least 43 villagers. The tailings dam, used to retain mining waste, collapsed
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    • 769 79  -  Jonathan Kwok They expect growth momentum to carry into next year, but warn of pullback in mid-year By IT'S been a year like no other for Singapore shares with surprises at every turn but analysts are remarkably in tune for next year, with
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    • 724 80  -  Goh Eng Yeow Special audit team flags payments and interest-free loans made by bosses By NO PROPER OKAY "Based on PwC's review, payment post-May 2009 amounted to 190 million yuan. These payments appear to have been made without prior approval of the board and despite independent
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    • 330 80  -  Robin Chan By OFFICIALS from Singapore and the United States held their fifth annual review of the free trade agreement (FTA) between the nations yesterday and reaffirmed their commitment to enforcing its terms effectively. Bilateral trade has continued to grow overall despite
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    • 457 80  -  Dickson Li By WARNINGS abound that asset bubbles may be forming amid the rapid rebound especially on the stock market, for example, and, recently, in the property sector. But OCBC's head of treasury research and strategy Selena Ling says policymakers have
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    • 1023 81  -  Christopher Tan Tan Chong's new exec director to go beyond 'just selling cars' in tough Spore market By SENIOR CORRESPONDENT SERVICED apartments, multi-brand workshops, and establishing the Tan Chong brand name in more markets. Those are some of the long-term plans laid out by Mr Glenn
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    • 479 82 AIG hopes to list Asian unit in Hong Kong to repay US govt bailout AIA Group, the Asian life insurance unit of American International Group (AIG), could raise between US$5 billion and US$lO billion (556.9 billion and 5513.8 billion) in a
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    • 252 82  -  Gabriel Chen By THE adage "caveat emptor", or buyer beware, is often trotted out as a warning to consumers not to buy investment products about which they are not totally certain. But this may be asking too much of the average retail bank customer
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    • 594 83 Bank risks losing talent to rivals that have repaid bailout money NEW YORK: Life just got harder for Citigroup chief executive Vikram Pandit. A day after Bank of America announced that it would repay its federal bailout money, Citigroup and Mr Pandit were
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    • 511 83 LOS ANGELES: In a stunning step backwards, American retailers suffered an unexpected sales slump last month a poor start to the holiday season and an ominous sign for the fragile economic recovery. After two months of positive sales reports that spurred hopes that an
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    • 340 83 WASHINGTON: US Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke left a Senate confirmation hearing with support for a second term. But the central bank may soon be shorn of its powers to supervise financial firms. In backing Mr Bernanke on Thursday, Senate Banking Committee chairman Christopher
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    • 440 84 But national audit body says final cost to taxpayers still unclear POST-CRISIS ARRANGEMENTS "As the crisis begins to subside.the authorities need to put formal arrangements in place to evaluate the effectiveness of the support provided to banks in order to inform future policymakers." National
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    • 295 84 SHANGHAI: China looks set to overtake India as the world's largest gold consumer this year, with total demand for jewellery and investment forecast at 432 tonnes, a senior official at major metals consultancy GFMS said yesterday. High gold prices are putting a larger
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    • 297 84 LONDON: The Royal Bank of Scotland will bow to pressure to pay investment bankers substantially less than rival institutions, the Financial Times (FT) reported yesterday. The bank is 70 per cent state-owned. On Thursday, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown moved to allay
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      • 658 85  -  Fiona Chan Real estate and other interests guard against ups and downs of media business, says CEO By MEDIA group Singapore Press Holdings (SPH) will continue to pursue opportunities in real estate as a way to guard against the ups and downs of the
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      • 37 85 "We want to bill ourselves as a company with as many advertising platforms as possible, and we will also be harnessing our skills in property to enhance shareholder value." SPH chief executive Alan Chan
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      • 44 85 "We've been very careful not to over-extend ourselves and to embark on initiatives only when we are confident that we have financing and where it will add substantially, in due course, to SPH's revenue and profits." SPH chairman Tony Tan
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      • 318 85  -  LEE SU SHYAN THE shares of 29 firms listed on Catalist face suspension unless the companies sign up sponsors before Feb 5. The Singapore Exchange (SGX) revealed the number of laggards yesterday during an update on the progress of companies listed on the
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      • 538 86  -  Goh Eng Yeow BULLS AND BEARS Confidence buoyed by strong uptrend; STI dips on profit-taking By IT MAY have been a mixed bag on Asian bourses yesterday, but investors across the region are eagerly anticipating a festive rally to end the year. Singapore
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      • 385 86  -  Lee Su Shyan By E3 HOLDINGS executive chairman Ngo Gim Kang resigned because of concerns over the firm's operations and not because of ill health as he first stated, an announcement revealed yesterday. No further details were given. When Mr Ngo, 71, tendered
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        118 86 STOCK TRADING VOLUME 1.24 billion shares worth $1.4 billion UP DOWN Gainers: 170 Losers: 253 Unchanged: 827 STRAITS TIMES INDEX Mid Cap 665.35 1.07 Basic materials 314.62 0.10 Utilities 483.24 4.47 Small Cap 519.43 0.11 Industrials 604.99 T -0.93 Financials 726.40 T -3.60 All Share 686.80 T -3.17 Consumer
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      • 192 86 Yesterday's close: 10,022 (+44.92) Japanese shares rose 0.5 per cent, driven by a weaker yen that inflated corporate earnings. The index ended above 10,000 for the first time in five weeks. l'™ 2 (215) Malaysian shares closed 0.17 cent as m m narrowed gains jn b ue chips and
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        • 104 86 runi.mii uunnLiiLii iiuil nniLo: vcmm;: S$ TO ONE UNIT OF FOREIGN CURRENCY Dec 04 2009 Buying Selling Aust dollar 1.2640 1.3020 Can dollar 1.3010 1.3160 Euro 2.0710 2.0940 Malaysian ringgit* 0.4084 0.4093 NZ dollar 0.9890 1.0100 Sterling pound 2.2730 2.2980 US dollar 1.3750 1.3910 S$ TO 100 UNITS OF
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      60 87 I' I]/ With Deepest Sympathy Heartfelt Condolences to our Ml Director Mr Ang Hens Lye Eric Family IV v On the demise of his beloved father /VI 1V mm* ANG SHIAH SWEE Departed on 3 December 2009 I j> From: A U J The Management Staff of M I c
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      107 87 mm* ANG SHIAH SWEE Age: 77 Passed away peacefully on 3 December 2009 Dearly missed and fondly remembered by loved ones Wife: Ec Siew Eng Sons: Daughters-in-law: Ang Eng Huat Andy Ang Heng Chye David Kee Gek Hiang Sally Ang Heng Lye Eric He Siau Wee Chris Daughter: Son-in-law: Ang
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      90 87 LAWRENCE LIM PANG KHENG Age 52 passed away peacefully on 3 Dec 2009, leaving behind loved ones. Mother: Seah Kah Im Wife: Goh Kwee Bin, Janet Son: Daughter: Lim Jun Liang, Max Lim Hui Kin Sisters: Brothers-in-law: Urn Lek Hoon Yap Chong Wan Lim Lek Tlang Teo Siong Khim, James
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      89 87 2nd Anniversary In Loving Memory of COLIN KANG SENG KOK Departed on 05 December 2007 Our Lord Jesus knew what was best He took you home for eternal rest We wiped our tears and tried not to be sad And remember the precious times we had Always remembered by parents
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      23 87 In Everlasting Memory KOH YEW TONG QOEK YEW TONG Departed on sth December 1996 it Sadly Missed Always Remembered By Loved Ones ~tl
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      50 87 AL-FATIHAH Allahyarhamha HJH AMINAH BINTE MAHMOOD Departed on 1 December 2009 The family of the late would like to express their heartfelt thanks and appreciation to relatives, friends and colleagues for their kind, assistance, attendance, condolences and donations during their recent bereavement. May Allah bless her soul. Atnin. Tel: 9727-8049
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      101 88 OM NAMA SIVAYA MUTHULEDCHIMI SUB RAMAN lAM APPIAH (APPIAH MAM I) Age: 96 Passed away peacefully on 4 Dec 2009 Dearly missed and fondly remembered by all loved ones. Children Spouses: Rajeswari(Radha- Sri Lanka) V Ponnuthurai(Sri Lanka) Sarojini Paramanathan (X Paramanathan, deceased) A Suriakumaran(Australia) Kamaladevi(Rasathi) (Chandra Dcvi, deceased) S Manhaindra
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      66 88 S 11 The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.' Psalm 23:1 LIM MOY HEONG Age: 81 passed away peacefully on 3 December 2009. Wake was held at Singapore Casket, Jade Room 131 Lavender Street. Vigil service was held on 4 Dec 2009 at B.oopm. Cortege will leave on
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      39 88 Si 7th Anniversary fcfij In Loving Memory Of KALAVATHI D/O VISWALINGAM 05/12/2002 Dearly missed fondly remembered by Husband, Children all loved ones Prayers will be held tonight at The Holy Tree Sri Balasubramaniam Temple, Yishun at 7pm S m
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      32 88 otfl Anniversary In Loving Memory Of JUSA MARIAN ALEXANDER Departed 5 Dec 2001 Watch Over Us Dearest Papa Dearly missed always remembered by Children, Grandchildren Great-granddaughter L and Loved ones. L A
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      97 88 JAMES CHONG CHEONG FOH Age: 92 was called home to be with the Lord on 4 Dec 2009 leaving behind loved ones. (Wife: Ng Ii Tang, deceased) Sons: Daughters-in-law: Pancratius Chong Koh May Lin Sebastian Chong Tham Lai Toa Daughters: Sons-in-law: Rita Chong Peter Chay (Jacinta Chong, deceased) (William Wong,
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      31 88 In, Ever Loinvtq Memory of Dato V.V. Chellam D.p.M.j., S.M.J., f.i.S.p Born 16th June 1909 Departed sih December 1980 Sadly Missed and Fondly Remembered by Sons, Daughters, Daughters-In- Law and Grandchildren
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      92 88 LOH LAI MENG AGE: 78 passed away peacefully on 3 December 2009, leaving behind loved ones. Wife: Wong Wai Chun Sons: Daughters-in-law: Associate Professor Loh Wai Lam Ning Mm Brigadier General (NS) Loh Wai Keong Lim Lek Liew Daughter: Son-in-law: Loh Wee Lee Loke Siew Hoe Grandsons: Granddaughters: Loh Vi
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      173 88 With Deepest Sympathy and Heartfelt Condolences to the family of the late MR 001 TAY PENG Tay Peng passed away on 3rd December 2009, leaving behind bereaved family and friends. We mourn his leaving, but his cherished memory will remain in our hearts forever: His unfailing devotion to his loved
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    • 256 88 LONDON: Renault look almost certain to sell a controlling stake in their Formula One team to David Richards, the owner of Prodrive. He plans to run the outfit from their existing factory in Oxfordshire and continue to race them under the Renault banner.
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    • 432 88 Raikkonen to race for WRC team Citroen next year "I always wanted to compete in rally, especially in the World Rally Championship at some point in my career." KIMI RAIKKONEN, 2001 Fl world champion LONDON: Former Formula One world champion Kimi Raikkonen will compete for Citroen in
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    • 396 89 THOUSAND OAKS (California): lan Poulter is still looking for his first victory on the PGA Tour, but he will gladly settle for winning the Chevron World Challenge and its US$l.35-million (551.87 million) prize. First, though, he will have to master the 18th hole at
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    • 743 89  -  John Hopkins Woods is paying price for thinking he deserved special treatment By THE TIMES, LONDON When the world No. 1 hid from the police... it looked as though he was on the run, a 21st century Butch Cassidy or Ned Kelly. In his
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    • 251 89 LOS ANGELES: The transgressions of Tiger Woods have proved too much for one of the golf superstar's most fanatical fans, who is now disbanding a "church" set up in praise of the sports icon. John Ziegler, the "pastor" of the First Church of Tiger Woods www.
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    • 196 89 SAN ANTONIO: Boston Celtics' Kevin Garnett (right) blocking San Antonio Spurs' Dejuan Blair during the third quarter of their National Basketball Association (NBA) game in San Antonio, Texas on Thursday. The Celtics ended the five-game winning run of the Spurs with a 90-83 win, stretching
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    • 305 89 Badminton World Super Series Masters Finals In Johor Bam, Men's singles Gp A: Lee Chong Wei (Mas) bt Bao Chunlai (Chn) 21-13 21-11. Gp B: Peter Gade (Den) bt Boonsak Ponsana (Tha) 21-13 20-22 21-15. Doubles Gp A: Xv Chen/ Guo Zhendong (Chn) bt Tan Boon Heong/Koo Kien Keat
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    • SPORTSWORLD
      • 93 90 MUMBAI: India's Virender Sehwag (above) fell just short of becoming the first batsman to score three triple centuries in Test cricket as the hosts took firm control of the third and final Test against Sri Lanka yesterday. He was dismissed for 293 after offering a return
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      • 51 90 ROME: Former Inter Milan boss Roberto Mancini could take over as Nigeria's football coach after receiving an unofficial approach. There has been speculation that the Super Eagles could hire a foreign coach after qualifying for the World Cup in less than convincing fashion under Shaibu Amodu.
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      • 62 90 EINDHOVEN: An injury-time strike by Jonathan Reis sent Dutch football giants PSV Eindhoven into the Europa League knockout rounds with a 1-0 home win over Sparta Prague on Thursday. Portugal's Sporting Lisbon also left it late to seal their passage with substitute Leandro Grimi netting a
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      • 99 90 KHON KAEN (Thailand): Taiwanese golfer Chan Yih-shin remained at the top of the leaderboard at the King's Cup despite shooting a one-over 73 yesterday. Chan is on 137, just one shot ahead of a group of seven players including the Indian trio of Harmeet Kahlon (67), Rahil
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      • 58 90 MANILA: Filipino boxer Manny Pacquiao is likely to fight undefeated Floyd Mayweather Jr on March 13 after reportedly agreeing to a proposal from promoter Bob Arum during a breakfast meeting in Manila yesterday. If the bout goes ahead, it will match two men regarded as the
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      • 35 90 THE Singapore Recreation Club is organising an 11-a-side football tournament at the Padang from Dec 19 onwards. Please call Asrul at 6595-0513 (e-mail: asrul.sports@src.org.sg) or S. Mogan at 9858-4774 for more details.
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    • 591 91 Officials will meet Fifa to work out compensation over knockout by France "But you are right when you see this kind of matter where the whole world has seen foul play, then maybe there could be some kind of compensation." SEPP BLATTER, Fifa chief, on Ireland's
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    • 387 91 CAPE TOWN: England's World Cup preparations are being jeopardised by a dispute over the quality of the pitches at their training camp in South Africa. Just a day before yesterday's draw, England coach Fabio Capello was considering a last-minute move from England's planned base at
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    • 738 91  -  Rob Hughes INGOOD CONSCIENCE By Think of it, if Fifa is doling out such sums, then its own take is probably higher than Table Mountain. IT IS sometimes hard to tell whether Fifa president Sepp Blatter has his tongue in his cheek, or
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    • 607 92 "They're playing for their countries and they deserve to be there by right." GARY NEVILLE, on the criticism that Manchester United's younger players are not good enough Darron Gibson the only younger player ready for longer run in the league LONDON: Alex Ferguson is poised
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    • 433 92 LONDON: Injury was added to insult on Thursday as a testing week for Arsene Wenger was made worse by the news that Theo Walcott has picked up a hamstring injury and will miss the Premier League game against Stoke City today. Arsenal described the 20-year-olds latest injury
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    • 910 93  -  Richard Jolly THE BIG MATCH They have foreign cash like the Blues but have not turned it into results By English Premier League Today Portsmouth v Burnley Live, Ch27 Ch3o4, 8.40pm Blackburn v Liverpool Live, Ch27, 10.55pm West Ham United v Manchester United Live, Ch22,
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    • 731 93 Not a record to be proud of MANCHESTER City have equalled a Premier League record, last set by Southampton 15 seasons ago, by drawing seven consecutive matches. The run began commendably with a 1-1 draw at Aston Villa and continued with another 1-1 at
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    • 538 93 LONDON: Steven Gerrard will make his 500 th Liverpool appearance at Blackburn today. But the England midfielder will be in no mood to celebrate, after admitting that his side's Premier League challenge for the title is effectively over. The 29-year-old will reach
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    • 827 94  -  Lin Xinyi By Republic's No. 1 Derek will play the lead role, not supporting part, in Laos "What my father achieved was remarkable. But, after 26 years, we should have a new generation of shuttlers." DEREK WONG, on his father Shoon Keat's achievements Singapore won four silvers and
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    • 412 95  -  Lin Xinyi Singapore's paddlers will battle Liu's Indonesian team on Wednesday By The draw for the team event Men's team competition Group A: Singapore, Indonesia, Philippines, Cambodia Group B: Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, Laos, Myanmar Women's team competition Group A: Singapore, Vietnam, Laos, Philippines Group
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    • 80 95 THE Philippines water polo team are looking to make two statements in Laos. First, a fashion-inspired one with their heads after their seven rookies, including Juan Abelo (left) and Angelo Carandang, shaved their heads for the biennial Games. Next mission: To stop Singapore from
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    • 440 95  -  Jonathan Wong By "We have a job to do here." TERENCE TAN, who is in Laos despite his wife Pamela giving birth to their daughter just two weeks ago VIENTIANE: They say nothing beats the joy of fatherhood. Not even a gold
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    • 539 95  -  JONATHAN WONG VIENTIANE: When Singapore take on Indonesia today in Laos, it may seem like a mismatched case of boys against men. Not that skipper Isa Halim will care. "We probably look like a youth team compared to them in terms
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    • 704 96  -  Wang Meng Meng 56 top racers will be at the start line, followed by 50,000 other runners By "Every problem can be solved. Now... the athletes can focus on the race." WALTER ABMAYR THE tropical downpours and the spat over payments may have cast a pall
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    • 368 96  -  HE IS the reigning South-east Asia Games triathlon champion, a two-time National University of Singapore Sportsman of the Year and arguably Singapore's most prolific runner at the moment. Yet when Mok Ying Ren stands at the start line of the Standard Chartered
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    • 832 96  -  Jeanette Wang COMMENTARY By l The Singapore Marathon has always billed itself as a race for the masses. Unless it reduces its generous marathon cut-off time of eight hours, these so-called "plodders" definitely have a place in the race. ALEJANDRO Orino Co ran the Standard
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      551 97  -  Leonard Lim Olympic champions Powell and Campbell-Brown to visit Spore next week By Asafa Powell Olympic gold in 4xloom relay (2008) and former 100 m world-record holder veronica CampbellBrown Olympic golds in 200 m (2004 and 2008) and 4xloom relay (2004) HERE is an early Christmas present for
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      • 2896 127  -  Jessica Cheam CLIMATE CHANGE SUMMIT By, BBC The stakes are high but how to strike a balance? As seas rise along with jobless rates, leaders have to consider the future of millions and the present struggles of voters. CARBON JARGON: A LAYMAN'S GUIDE Industrialised countries and those
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        • 1450 130  -  Bhagyashree Garekar SAN FRANCISCO By US CORRESPONDENT IN POSSIBLY the easiest place on Earth to be green, Ms Gay Browne's quibble is that an organic business suit is tough to find. Ms Browne can say so with a note of authority:
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        • 1480 130  -  Sim Chi Yin DEZHOU (CHINA) By CHINA CORRESPONDENT A GIANT metal arch studded with solar panels sweeps across the sky, looming over a building that rises above bare fields like the sun. Inside the all-white, 11-storey office block dubbed the "solar
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      • 1370 131  -  Rachel Chang Spore caught between developed and less developed economies By LIKE it or not, Singapore has been portrayed by climate change critics as rich and polluting, but sitting on its hands. By gross domestic product (GDP) per capita, it ranks among the top
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      • 678 131 'CLEAN GREEN' SINCE 1963 LONG before climate change became the hottest issue on Earth, Singapore has been on a never-ending drive to keep the environment clean and green and to curb pollution. All these measures undertaken by the Government may not fit in with the lofty notions of environmentalists, but
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      • 1193 131  -  RACHEL CHANG FORGET about nuclear plants, giant windmills and other headline-making projects. For Singapore, the Herculean challenge to reduce carbon emissions lies in the terribly mundane: energy efficiency and conservation. Experts have been saying this for years, but their voices have been drowned out by
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      • 400 132  -  Grace Chua The Agency for Science, Technology and Research recently announced a $36 million fund for medical technology projects and collaborations. The Straits Times looks at three such projects being funded by the agency through this and other schemes. 'Mind-reading' rehab system for stroke
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      • 377 132  -  GRACE CHUA SOME day soon, your toilet seat may be able to alert you and your doctor to signs of diabetes or kidney disease. Scientists at the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*Star) are working on a toilet seat system for at-home
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      • 374 132  -  GRACE CHUA A TEAM of researchers from the Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Nanyang Technological University and National University Hospital (NUH) is trying to improve on a camera-in-a-capsule device. Such capsules, which contain tiny cameras, are already used to look inside patients' gastrointestinal tracts after
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      • 444 132  -  Judith Tan By RESEARCHERS in Singapore have unveiled the first genetic map of the Han or southern Chinese, the largest ethnic population in the world. The study, conducted at the Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS), drew from 8,200 DNA samples from ethnically
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      • 820 133  -  Ben Nadarajan Spore firm fits life-saving ECG device in phone By THE frequent use of a cellphone has been linked to health problems such as cancer, but a Singapore company has now turned the cellphone into a potentially life-saving device. Home-grown technology company Ephone
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        • 142 133 SCIENTISTS from Davos Life Science Singapore are studying the possibility that a natural compound found in palm oil kills breast cancer cells. The compound, called gammatocotrienol, is found at low levels in food sources such as palm oil, barley and rice bran. The company, which
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        • 91 133 A TEAM of Singapore-MIT Alliance researchers has developed mice whose blood cells resemble those of humans. They did so by injecting human genetic material into the mice, causing them to produce new cells. These mice can be used as models to study human blood-related diseases such
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        • 56 133 LOCAL biotech firm S*Bio this week announced results of a Phase 1 clinical trial for a drug called SBISIB to treat bone marrow disorders and lymphomas. After testing the drug on small groups of 35 and 17 patients, the company found it was safe,
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    • 26 98 Young and Mandarin Gallery reopens published With twice as many shops, including Schoolgirls launch^ Bathing Ape and Y-3 E14&15 their first books >^ modest engine I .JsaKkJS
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    • 551 99 'When you're small, people often tell you that you can't do it but that is not true' Steffina Yuli Suratso on the message in her story, Ricky Learns To Fly (above) Two winners, aged 11 and 16, of a children's writing competition land their first books
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      546 103 National Board of Review honours Up In The Air as the movie award season kicks off New York Director Jason Reitman's Up In The Air was chosen the Best Film of 2009 and Clint Eastwood was named Best Director for Invictus by the National Board of Review
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      372 105 The cast of musical Nine were initially anxious about performing in the film, but director Rob Marshall quelled their fears London Penelope Cruz, Nicole Kidman and Daniel Day-Lewis were among Hollywood stars who braved London's bitter cold on Thursday for the world premiere of their new movie,
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    • 654 106 Good boy Tobey Maguire has taken on an adult role in new war drama Brothers New York Hollywood has finally realised that Tobey Maguire has grown up. The actor, who gained fame as a teenager in the Spider-Man movies, has embraced fatherhood and a new role as
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      1009 114 The way they held a knife in their hands was like an extension of themselves' Powell (left), on her attraction to butchers' skills Butchery with a helping of infidelity in Julie Powell's follow-up book to her successful Julie Julia New York Julie Powell's new book is not for
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    • 341 114 New York A week after being dumped from a morning TV show on ABC, Adam Lambert is still in hot water for his racy performance on Nov 22 on its American Music Awards telecast. Now the glam-rocker says he has been dropped from ABC's Jimmy
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    • 900 119  -  neil humphreys Even when I'm in pain, knee-jerk politeness always gets the better of me at the doctor neil's world quote me 'Within 20 to 30 seconds, it wasn't longer than that, I I made the choice that I wasn't going to tell the
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    • 493 123 In the Wall Street sequel, Oliver Stone reiterates that greed is good and even legal in the world today 'The individual Gekko would no longer exist... The big players now are major banks and hedge funds...' Oliver Stone (left) Washington Hollywood director Oliver Stone is taking
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        443 102 Adam vs Kris As a fan of both Kris Allen and Adam Lambert, I am miffed by the comparison between them in the report Idols' Battle Of Debut CDs (Life! Nov 28). To compare Kris and Adam is like comparing apples to oranges, papayas to bananas, and pears
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      • 310 102  -  Norman Cho I refer to your review (Raw Baba Drama, Life! Nov 28) of the Baba Malay version of Bedrooms, The Peranakan Association's groundbreaking contemporary play. While I agree with your reviewer on several points, especially about one amateur cast member flubbing her
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      • 633 108  -  Nicholas yong German Werner Aisslinger has a new office furniture range aimed at getting workers to interact more Furniture designer Werner Aisslinger does not think office workers should sit at their desks all day. He says a company would benefit greatly from its employees' "constant
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      • 1058 109  -  tay suan chiang Features such as motion lighting sensors, solar panels and waterefficient loos have helped three new malls bag a green award Anew breed of malls is more than a stylish place to enjoy endless shops and restaurants the shopping adventure has been made more
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      • 705 111  -  tay suan chiang The stunning wavy, glass facade along Orchard Road now belongs wholly to its mall Old vs new Number of floors Old Mandarin Gallery: Four New Mandarin Gallery: Four Size of retail space Old Mandarin Gallery: 61,805 sqft New Mandarin Gallery: 126,211 sqft Number of
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      • 188 113  -  Akshita Nanda A touch of magic and liberal handfuls of flowers turned a fund-raiser into a fairy ball on Thursday. The Island ballroom of the Shangri-La Hotel became a floral fantasy world for a Christmas event held by Ikebana International Singapore Chapter 135. The society devoted
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      • 408 113 rnnt aumkening Biillvlllß Got a gardening query? E-mail stlife@sph.com.sg There are many unsightly brown patches on my pearl grass turf that are caused by my dogs' pee. Are there other types of grass that are more resistant to urine? Pearl grass is sensitive to the pH and constituents
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      • 712 115  -  Christopher tan Despite a relatively modest engine, the BMW 730 Li delivers comfort and driveability senior correspondent BMW 730 Li Price: $298,800 with COE Engine: 2,996 cc 24-valve inline-6 Transmission: Six-speed automatic with manual quick shift Power: 258bhp at 6,600rpm Torque: 310Nm at 2,600rpm 0-lOOkmh: 7.8
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      • 582 117  -  Christopher tan The new automatic Subaru WRX STI is rather tame compared to its wild manual sibling senior correspondent If you thought a 300bhp five-door would be just the car to put the heat on a certain popular German hot hatch, you would not win the Nobel
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        209 117 I hear that tyres need to be changed after some years, even though the tread is still good. Can you tell me more? Tyres do indeed have a shelf life. So, even if a tyre is technically brand new and unused, it may have serious deterioration that is
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        499 118  -  Christopher tan andre lam and AUDI UNVEILS A 8 Audi has taken the wraps off its latest A 8 at a press event in Miami. The new flagship is still made of aluminium, with a design that is sportier and more progressive (think of the A 5 and
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      • 350 125  -  John lui The hit Channel 8 serial The Little Nyonya won the Best Drama Series Award at the 14th Asian Television Awards, held at the Pan Pacific Hotel on Thursday night. The period drama shared the prize with Taiwan's Hakka Television Station's show, 1895 In
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    • 4323 160 Properties Wf\ Dl 5-16 EAST COAST Pfci Dl 7-18 Pfci Dl 9-20 P!K Dl 9-20 P!K Dl 9-20 Pftv Dl 9-20 Pfcv Dl 9-20 P|K Dl 9-20 P|K Dl 9-20 Pfci Dl 9-20 WJ HOUSES FOR SALE UM CHANGI/PASIR RIS VM SERANGOON/THOMSON Ujji SERANGOON/THOMSON Ujji SERANGOON/THOMSON |i SERANGOON/THOMSON SERANGOON/THOMSON SERANGOON/THOMSON
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