The Straits Times, 14 January 2010

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    38 1 THE STRAITS TIMES MICA (P) 094/11/2009 THURSDAY, JANUARY 14 2010 AS IN GA P O REPRE SS H O LDIN GS PUBLI CA TI O NE NE S T A BLI S HED1 8 45 90C ENT S
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      Lock icon Tiger IPO’s flying start
      56 1 LOW-COST carrier Tiger Airways celebrated the launch of its much-anticipated initial public offering yesterday by giving away air tickets for next to nothing. To commemorate the share sale, priced at $1.65 apiece, Tiger has released 16,500 one-way seats to some destinations, including Kuala Lumpur, Langkawi and
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      Lock icon JI man detained
      63 1 SINGAPORE has detained a man for terrorism-related activities. Mohd Azmi Ali, 41, is a member of both the Jemaah Islamiah (JI) and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), said the Home Affairs Ministry. It also said two JI detainees have been released on restriction orders, while another
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      Lock icon Ailing JAL gets new CEO
      77 1 JAPAN Airlines (JAL), whose shares plunged 90 per cent over two days on speculation that it will file for bankruptcy, will have a new chief executive. Mr Kazuo Inamori, the founder of electronics maker Kyocera Corp and Japan’s 28th-richest man, has agreed to take on
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      Lock icon S’poreans killed overseas
      46 1 TWO Singaporeans have been murdered abroad in the space of less than a week. Both were aged over 60. One was discovered bound and strangled in a field in Thailand, while the other was found in a Batam home with fatal stab wounds.
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    Lock icon Thousands feared dead in Haiti quake
    1081 1 “Everybody is just totally, totally freaked out and shaken. The sky is just grey with dust.” Mr Henry Bahn, a US Department of Agriculture official visiting Port-au-Prince ASSOCIATED PRESS REUTERS AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE PORT-AU-PRINCE (Haiti): Haitians piled bodies along the devastated streets of their capital
    ASSOCIATED PRESS; REUTERS; AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE; PHOTO: XINHUA; PHOTOS: AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, REUTERS  -  1,081 words
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    Lock icon Google may exit China after cyber-attack
    602 1  -  BY CHUA CHIN HON US BUREAU CHIEF chinhon@sph.com.sgAdditional Additional reporting by Sim Chi Yin in Beijing WASHINGTON: Internet giant Google will stop cooperating with Chinese censors and may soon exit the mainland, opening a new front in uneasy US-China ties. In a statement that
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      166 1 HUAYI FESTIVAL New take on old plays Rainy day workouts 10-year-old golf whiz-kid IN MIND YOUR BODY SPORT, PAGE B12 LIFE! PAGE C2 BREAKING NEWS: www.straitstimes.com INTERACT: www.stomp.com.sg EMAIL: stomp@stomp.com.sg VIDEOS: www.razortv.com.sg NEWS TIPS: 1800-*****28 I FRA INCQC zcno### The Straits Times is taking part in the IFRA International Newspaper
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      Lock icon Blurring of racial lines bodes well
      1031 2  -  It doesn’t matter, really, whether we hyphenate our race or not BY BERTHA HENSON ASSOCIATE EDITOR bertha@sph.com.sg LAST week, I took a closer look at my identity card. I wanted to check my race. Eurasian, it says. Well, well. Now, with the more liberal
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        Lock icon Body scans and a question of safety
        51 2 WE SAY Despite privacy and health concerns, most air passengers will likely submit to full-body scans when the controversy has died down. Security is paramount. Nevertheless, it is proper to recognise the doubts and improve the equipment’s capabilities so as to avoid negative
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      • Article
        Lock icon World in China’s image
        21 2 COLUMNS China will eventually change the world, which will reflect Chinese not Western values, says Dani Rodrik.
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        Lock icon Dawn of a new, old age
        28 2 Spending on health is an investment that can pay dividends in increasing our GDP, national savings and worker productivity, says Kanwaljit Soin.
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        Lock icon A fairer formula
        36 2 OUR READERS SAY In setting the income ceiling for buying HDB flats, it may be fairer to follow the formula used by the Education Ministry for deciding school fee subsidies, says Xavier Chua.
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        Lock icon ONLINE BLOGS
        11 2 www.straitstimes.com Tan Chong Yaw zeroes in on camera zooms.
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      Lock icon What it should have been
      64 2 IN OUR report on Tuesday, “Ex-rebel emerges among top Sec 5 scorers”, we said Marcus Neo was one of 14 in his class at Commonwealth Secondary School to be allowed to skip the N levels. This is incorrect. Marcus was in a class of 40
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      132 2 EDITORIAL PAGE A28 REVIEW PAGE A28 REVIEW PAGE A30 FORUM PAGE A31 Teirrts conditions apply. Result may vary. Asian S KIN OLUTIONS Asian Skin Methodology Asian Skin Solutions waves away skin problems Singaporeans face in the humid and unpredictable tropical weather. Using zinc oxide to treat pimple-prone skin, and tea
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      5 2 See also Home Page B2
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      Lock icon The day the sea froze over
      125 3 Fishing boats stuck in ice at a village in Yantai City on Zhifu Island in the coastal province of Shandong yesterday. Temperatures in parts of Yantai City dropped to as low as minus 15 deg C on Tuesday as a cold snap continued to
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      Lock icon HDB to conduct checks on landlords
      576 3  -  Home owners who flout sub-letting rule could be fined and even lose flats BY JOAN CHEW LESTER KOK joanchew@sph.com.sg lesterk@sph.com.sg THE Housing Board will conduct routine inspections and seek feedback from residents and tenants to enforce a new rule on sub-letting. It yesterday reminded
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      Lock icon Fourth Viet-S’pore township launched
      621 4  -  Hai Phong industrial park will house 150,000 residents BY ZAKIR HUSSAIN zakirh@sph.com.sg HANOI: The fourth Vietnam-Singa-pore industrial township was launched yesterday with the prime ministers of both countries marking the occasion. Speaking at the ground-breaking ceremony in Hai Phong, 90km east of Hanoi, Vietnamese Prime Minister
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      Lock icon Bodies pile up in streets of Haiti; scores missing
      627 7 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE REUTERS ASSOCIATED PRESS PORT-AU-PRINCE (Haiti): Outside a crumbled building, the bodies of five children and three adults lie in a pile. Stunned people wander the streets holding hands. Thousands gather in public squares to sing hymns. The horror was
      AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE; REUTERS; ASSOCIATED PRESS; PHOTO: REUTERS; PHOTO: AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE  -  627 words
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      Lock icon ISA detention for fanning racial tension
      623 8  -  Malaysian minister issues warning after church attacks; Sikh temple is the latest target BY TEO CHENG WEE REGIONAL CORRESPONDENT chengwee@sph.com.sg KUALA LUMPUR: Home Minister Hishammuddin Hussein has warned that the government will use the Internal Security Act (ISA) against anyone caught fanning racial tensions,
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      Lock icon Muslim blogger raises $3,000for church
      300 8 A BLOGGER who initiated a fund-raising drive for a church badly damaged in an arson attack raised more than RM8,000 (S$3,300) in four days. Dr Mohamed Rafick Khan Abdul Rahman, 45, decided to help the Metro Tabernacle Church after learning about the attack early last
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      Lock icon ‘Allah’ not the only word banned
      473 9  -  ROW OVER ‘ALLAH’ BY CAROLYN HONG MALAYSIA BUREAU CHIEF KUALA LUMPUR: “Allah”, which is Arabic for God, is not the only word prohibited for use in a non-Muslim context. In the case of the Catholic newspaper Herald, it is barred from using three other
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      Lock icon Member of 2 terror groups detained
      377 9 2 other men released on restriction orders; orders expire for trio SINGAPORE has detained a 41-year-old man who is a member of two terrorist organisations, Jemaah Islamiah (JI) and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF). Mohd Azmi Ali was arrested in November and detained
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      Lock icon WHAT’S ONLINE MOST READ, MOST COMMENTED ON AND MORE
      107 10 www.straitstimes.com MOST-READ ONLINE _‘Allah’ CD seizure disputed _Common currency for Asia _24m Chinese men may stay single MOST COMMENTED ON Muslims in France may be fined for wearing full veil. Says goaheadbingostan: “Foreigners who dress inappropriately in some Muslim countries can
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      Lock icon Sri Mulyani stands by her decision
      534 10  -  Minister appears before parliamentary panel to explain why bank had to be saved BANK CENTURY CONTROVERSY BY WAHYUDI SOERIAATMADJA INDONESIA CORRESPONDENT wahyudis@sph.com.sg JAKARTA: Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati, an icon of reform in President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono’s Cabinet, yesterday turned up before a parliamentary
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      Lock icon Controversial bailout
      216 10 BANK Century, once Indonesia’s 13th largest bank, defaulted on several large loan payments in October 2008. It was declared insolvent by the Financial Sector Stability Committee led by Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati (below, giving testimony in Parliament yesterday) and which included then central bank governor Boediono, who
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    • world regional
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        Lock icon One dispute after another
        169 11 2000: Google develops Chinese-language interface. 2002: Google.com becomes temporarily unavailable to Chinese users. Interference from domestic competition is suspected. July 2005: Google hires ex-Microsoft executive Lee Kai Fu as head of Google China. Microsoft sues over the move, saying he would disclose propriety information. They reach
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        Lock icon Mixed views in China over Google’s exit threat
        617 11  -  Netizens hail Internet giant’s resolve while analysts question reason behind move BY SIM CH1 YIN CHINA CORRESPONDENT simcy@sph.com.sg Additional reporting by Carol Feng BEIJING: Bravery or mere tantrum-throw-ing? The Chinese public’s reaction to Google’s announcement that it might exit China over alleged
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        Lock icon Baidu shares soar after pullout threat from Google
        346 11 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE REUTERS BLOOMBERG NEW YORK: Shares in China’s top search engine Baidu surged in pre-market trading yesterday after rival Google vowed to defy Beijing’s Internet censors and threatened to pull out of the country. The shares of Nasdaq-listed Baidu jumped 16.8
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        Lock icon Offices raided over Ozawa funds scandal
        624 12 Prosecutors probing if his ex-aide used $6m in unlisted funds to buy land, say reports REUTERS AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE BLOOMBERG TOKYO: Prosecutors searched the office of a fund-raising group for the Japanese ruling party’s No. 2 over a widening money scandal yesterday, media reported, adding
        REUTERS; AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE; BLOOMBERG; any wrongdoing. PHOTO: AGENCE FRANCE–PRESSE  -  624 words
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        Lock icon Chinese gangs using Japanese for phone scam
        419 12 TOKYO: For a few weeks between September and October, a middle-aged Japanese man based in China would talk on the phone to Japan from morning till night. The man, hired as a native Japanese speaker to work for a Chinese crime ring, would
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        Lock icon China is growing old before getting rich
        703 14 First generation of parents of one-child families is reaching age 60 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE BEIJING: At a nursing home in the suburbs of Beijing, 86-year-old Madam Ma Shufan, still sprightly despite her advanced age, is thrilled to have friends. At her son’s home, she
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        Lock icon S. Koreans now prefer daughters
        269 14 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE SEOUL: A longstanding preference for sons rather than daughters among South Koreans is changing amid new social trends. When couples expecting a child were asked whether they wanted a daughter or a son, 38 per cent of expectant mothers said they wanted a
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        Lock icon China’s jewellers go for cheap and toxic
        590 18 Many manufacturers have no qualms about using cancer-causing cadmium ASSOCIATED PRESS YIWU (China): For China’s low-cost jewellery makers, it was an open trade secret: The metal cadmium is shiny, strong and malleable at low temperatures, regardless of its health hazards. And it is
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        Lock icon Bangladesh PM’s visit cements ties with India
        784 21  -  Trip hailed as a major success as the two sides sign a host of agreements BY RAVI VELLOOR SOUTH ASIA BUREAU CHIEF velloor@sph.com.sg NEW DELHI: The Indira Gandhi Peace Prize. A US$1 billion (S$1.4 billion) credit line. Kinder treatment on everything from border
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        Lock icon ‘Victims shot even as they begged for mercy’
        626 22 Witness recounts how clan member and his family killed 57 people PHILIPPINE MASSACRE TRIAL ASSOCIATED PRESS MANILA: The first witness to testify against a powerful clan member, who is accused of leading a pre-election massacre of 57 people in the southern Philippines,
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        Lock icon How US will stay engaged in Asia-Pacific
        700 24  -  It wants role in regional groupings, which must include key stakeholders By BHAGYASHREE GAREKAR US CORRESPONDENT bhagya@sph.com.sg WASHINGTON: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has laid out the broad principles of US engagement in the Asia-Pacific, saying that a truly impactful regional grouping must
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        Lock icon Palin hits hard in TV debut
        214 24 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE NEW YORK: Former Republican vice-pres-idential candidate Sarah Palin came out swinging and swearing in her debut as a commentator for Fox News TV. The conservative former Alaskan governor and potential 2012 White House candidate played up her tough, homespun image in an
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        Lock icon Cabby returns small fortune, refuses reward
        378 24 ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK: When a Bangladeshi taxi driver in New York City found a lost bag containing more than US$21,000 (S$29,000) in cash and expensive jewellery, he drove 80km to try to find the owner. Mr Mohammad “Mukal” Asadujjaman, 28, saw rolls of
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        Lock icon British universities’ reputation ‘at risk’
        544 25 Report says $1.3b cut in higher education budget will see standards plunge ASSOCIATED PRESS LONDON: Oxford, Cambridge and other British universities have said that the government’s plan to cut millions from their funding would put their world-class reputations in jeopardy. In an article published in
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        Lock icon Seat of humiliation for Turkish envoy
        402 25 ASSOCIATED PRESS REUTERS JERUSALEM: Even in the tough world of Middle East diplomacy, it was a startling snub: The Turkish ambassador was seated lower than his Israeli host, denied not only a handshake but a smile all for the benefit of eager Israeli TV
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        Lock icon Yemeni forces kill Al-Qaeda kingpin
        334 26 He was leader of cell believed to be behind botched US plane attack AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE ASSOCIATED PRESS SANAA (Yemen): Security forces in Yemen have killed an Al-Qaeda kingpin in Shabwa province, during operations against the group believed to be behind the botched bombing of a
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        Lock icon Chemical in plastic linked to heart disease
        465 27 Bisphenol A, used in bottles and food packaging, can also cause diabetes REUTERS LONDON: Exposure to a chemical found in plastic containers has been linked to heart disease, scientists said yesterday, confirming earlier findings and adding to pressure to ban its use in
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      • IN BRIEF
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          Lock icon Sarkozy now a grandpa
          91 27 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE PARIS: French President Nicolas Sarkozy became a grandfather yesterday when the wife of his son Jean gave birth to a baby boy, a presidential aide said. “Yes, he had a grandson this morning,” said the aide, who could not provide details except to say
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          Lock icon Nik Aziz’s son quits posts
          113 27 BERNAMA KOTA BARU:Mr Nik Mohd Abduh, son of Kelantan Menteri Besar Nik Aziz Nik Mat, will relinquish all his politically appointed posts in the state administration effective immediately. Mr Nik Mohd Abduh, who is also a Parti Islam SeMalaysia Youth committee member, said he would
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          Lock icon Thaksin assets ruling soon
          60 27 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE BANGKOK: Thailand’s Supreme Court will decide next month whether the authorities can seize fugitive former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra’s frozen assets worth US$2.2 billion (S$3.1 billion), officials said. Mr Sekesan Bangsomboon, director-general of the Department of Special Litigation, said on Tuesday that the court
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          Lock icon Taipei to revamp Cabinet
          102 27 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE TAIPEI: Taiwan plans to cut eight ministry-level agencies and eliminate tens of thousands of jobs in the biggest revamp of its Cabinet system in six decades, the government said yesterday. The reorganisation law, which passed late on Tuesday and will take effect in 2012,
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          Lock icon Money talks in Iran
          141 27 ASSOCIATED PRESS DUBAI: Iran’s anti-government protesters have taken to a new venue: writing “Death to the Dictator” and other slogans on banknotes, while officials scramble to yank them from circulation. This is in response to efforts to halt public demonstrations and choke off the Internet and
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          Lock icon Villagers clash with cops
          102 27 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE BEIJING: A woman was killed and scores injured last week as police clashed with villagers in eastern China over the forced eviction of farmers from rural land, according to residents and a human rights group. The violence began last Thursday when about 100 hired
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          Lock icon Pope forgives attacker
          83 27 ASSOCIATED PRESS VATICAN CITY: Pope Benedict XVI yesterday met the woman who knocked him over during Christmas Eve Mass and forgave her, the Vatican said. Ms Susanna Maiolo, a 25-year-old with a history of psychiatric problems, and her family met the Pope in a private audience, Vatican
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      85 10 Prof. Phua Kok Khoo on His Election to APS (American Physical Society) Fellowship u Jo r tireless efforts to strengthen scientific research throughout Jisia and promote internationalphgsics education andschofarfg exchanges and for enriching science and education through the liOorfd Sc ten tific Gompang he founded” -APS Management Staff of World
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      442 28 DESPITE privacy and health worries about full-body scans, air travellers with safety foremost in mind are unlikely to object to these intrusive checks when the dust has settled. A USA Today/Gallup poll in the United States found 78 per cent of travellers
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      852 28  -  By DANI RODRIK The writer is Professor of Political Economy at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. PROJECT SYNDICATE THIRTY years ago, China had a tiny footprint on the global economy and little influence outside its borders, save for a few countries with
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      866 28  -  CHINA’S ECONOMY By WILLIAM PESEK BLOOMBERG IT IS good to be sceptical when virtually every major economist agrees on something. As the Great Recession wanes, there is no better example of the Great Consensus than China. The overwhelming view is that it can grow 10
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        887 30  -  By DAVID BROOKS NEW YORK TIMES JEWS are a famously accomplished group. They make up 0.2 per cent of the world population, but 54 per cent of world chess champions, 27 per cent of Nobel physics laureates and 31 per cent of medicine
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        214 31  -  Xavier Chua I REFER to the current discussion on the relevance and fairness of the $8,000 income ceiling for buying a Housing Board flat. The HDB should refine the calculation of the ceiling as it does not factor in the greater financial burden faced
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        320 31  -  COOLING-OFF PERIOD Dr Yik Keng Yong DR CATHERINE Lim’s interpretation yesterday (“Surprised by ‘cooling off’ idea”) of the People’s Action Party’s (PAP) announcement of a 24-hour cooling-off period before Polling Day is as striking in its perspicuity of human behaviour as it is jaundiced of the
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        259 31  -  Lim Choon Sai General Manager Singapore Network Information Centre I REFER to the reports, “Act fast on online security risks” (last Friday), and “Warning: .sg websites get red-flagged” (Jan 5). The Singapore Network Information Centre (SGNIC) provides an efficient and effective domain name
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        107 31 More letters on www.straitstimes.com 1 MR BRUNO SERRIEN: Naive to expect local fans to accept World Cup blackout 2 EZ-LINK: Why it takes 48 hours to deactivate a lost card 3 MR HAN CHAO JUAN: Feeling vulnerable and unappreciated after home loan episode 4 YELLOW PAGES: Doing our
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        321 31  -  WORLD CUP TV IMPASSE Han Lim Siew IT IS hard to argue against Mr Chua Hian Hou’s opinion last Thursday (“Time to say no to Fifa”) that the state should not subsidise this year’s World Cup television deal which is currently stalled by world football body
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      102 1 www.straitstimes.com MOST-READ ONLINE _More Singaporeans abroad returning _MRT shooting was justified: Court MOST COMMENTED ON _More Singaporeans have weekend homes in Johor. Says monginger: “Singaporeans are going over the Causeway for very good reasons the ever increasing and high cost of
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      636 1  -  Movie industry watchdog voices its concern about increased popularity of such sites By CHUA HIAN HOU chuahh@sph.com.sg NET-SAVVY Singaporeans are opting for paid file-hosting services to get their dose of pirated movies and software. Fans say these services which can range from US$10 (S$14) per
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      425 2  -  By JEREMY AU YONG ETHNIC-BASED self-help groups said yesterday they will have to wait for the details of the new policy allowing dou-ble-barrelled race classifications before assessing its impact on their operations. Even then, all four groups do not foresee any significant impact
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      473 2  -  By KOR KIAN BENG TO BE on time for her classes, Madam Faridah Ali had just 45 minutes to drive from Sims Avenue to Boon Lay through evening rush-hour traffic. With an empty stomach, the 50-year-old madrasah teacher would sit through three hours of
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      699 3  -  They are back after vanishing in 2006 when a more stringent emission standard kicked in By CHRISTOPHER TAN SENIOR CORRESPONDENT christan@sph.com.sg SMALL Japanese vans, the workhorses of choice for many small businesses, are making a comeback after an absence of four years. But their return
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      71 3 SHELL and Singapore Petroleum Company have followed Caltex and ExxonMobil in raising pump prices. By 11am yesterday, rates across the board were uniform, with the exception of Shell’s V-Power petrol, which now costs $2.089 per litre. A litre of 98-, 95- and 92-octane petrol
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      92 3 A shopper petting a calf at a cattle exhibition along Campbell Lane, in Little India. Cows regarded as sacred by the Hindus are a main feature of the Pongal harvest festival, which begins today. Tomorrow, the cattle will be decorated with flowers for special prayers
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      661 5  -  Spotlight on service staff’s poor English spurs sign-ups By ANG YIYING ayiying@sph.com.sg Additional reporting by Linus Lin LANGUAGE lessons run at community clubs are reeling in foreigners and new immigrants. Their top choices are classes in English and Chinese run by external trainers at
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      596 5  -  By LEOW SI WAN AIRLINES have welcomed a new programme at Temasek Polytechnic that gives students the chance to learn to fly. Carriers like Singapore Airlines (SIA), Tiger Airways and Jetstar Asia, which say there is a demand for pilots given the growing
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      397 6  -  By MARIA ALMENOAR SHE is no stranger to awards, having won eight in her nine years of service at Changi Airport. Yesterday, however, customer service executive Fauziah Mohd Ali finally bagged the top award of Service Personality of the Year from the
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      546 6  -  Divorcees believe community frowns on single-parent families, study finds By NUR DIANAH SUHAIMI ndianah@sph.com.sg DIVORCED Malays tend to remarry, often within two years, because they believe their community frowns on single parents, seeing them as unstable, according to a study. They also feel other
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          192 7 ABOUT one in five Institute of Technical Education (ITE) students drops out before finishing his course, Senior Minister of State for Education S. Is war an disclosed in Parliament on Tuesday. He said the 18 per cent dropout rate was “among the lowest in the
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          120 7 A TOTAL of 23 complaints were made against traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) practitioners in the last three years: 10 in 2007, seven in 2008 and six last year. The complaints included allegations of professional negligence, misconduct and the misuse of Western medicine, said Health
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          144 7 EVERY year, the Housing Board receives an average of 1,600 complaints of disputes among neighbours, or about four complaints a day. But this annual average between 2006 and 2008 works out to less than 0.2 per cent of all households in HDB estates, said National
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          130 7 SEXUALLY transmitted infections (STIs) are on the rise in Singapore, with most involving people in their 20s and 30s. In cases below age 20, two-thirds are female. Among those older than age 20, two-thirds are men. These trends were disclosed by Health Minister Khaw Boon
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        348 7  -  But onus is on S’poreans to buy within their means By RACHEL CHANG rchang@sph.com.sg ABOUT 13,500 HDB flats were sold last year, half of which were launched in the last three months to meet strong demand, said Minister of National Development Mah Bow
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      465 8  -  Teen’s mischief last year caused $3.3m in damage to mosque BY ELENA CHONG COURTS CORRESPONDENT elena@sph.com.sg A 14-YEAR-OLD boy, upset that his father thought so little of him, vented his frustration by setting alight two religious books in a mosque. The resulting inferno on Oct
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      284 8  -  LINUS LIN TWO Singaporean men have been murdered abroad in separate incidents in the past week, one in south-east Thailand and the other in Batam. The man killed in Thailand, Mr Teo Ah Yua, 65, was found naked in a field near the
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      296 5 You love Dim Sum we give you Singapore’s Top 10 TOP DETERMINED BY: 10 QOgowkei WEEK 2 V Photo courtesy of Hua Ting, Orchard Hotel Dim Sum Dim sum (which means “touch the heart”) refers to a wide variety of light Chinese snacks usually enjoyed with Chinese tea. Dim sum
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      176 6 o Head to CATS FASTADS in The New Paper for job opportunities! WATS BUY IT* SELL IT* FIND IT WORK siuvy Are you worrying that you cannot get a Degree with just your ‘N’/‘0’/ITE results? Are you troubled that you do not have a FULL TIME job? COME LET OUR
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      752 9  -  Response to United bonds lukewarm as they are unrated By TERRENCE VOON tvoon@sph.com.sg Additional reporting by Chan U-Gene HE IS a lifelong Manchester United fan. But entrepreneur Dennis Foo is saying no to an offer to own a slice of his favourite football club for US$100,000 (S$139,000). Earlier
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      245 9 MANCHESTER: The future viability of Manchester United appears to be highly contingent on the continued good health of Wayne Rooney. While Alex Ferguson insists that the club’s heavy debt is not affecting his decision to spend on new players, his hand could be
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      492 9 THE TIMES, LONDON LONDON: The deepest, darkest fears of Manchester United’s owners have been laid bare in a 322-page document circulated to potential investors in a proposed £500 million (S$1.12 billion) bond issue. It acknowledges the threats posed by factors as diverse as Alex Ferguson’s retirement,
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      590 10 Veteran set to sign for Arsenal as Wenger looks for defensive cover AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE ASSOCIATED PRESS REUTERS BLOOMBERG NEWS LONDON: Sol Campbell is set to complete a surprise return to Arsenal by the end of the week after impressing the club’s backroom staff in a 45-minute
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      473 10 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE BENGUELA (Angola): The pressure has increased on embattled Nigeria football coach Shuaibu Amodu after the Super Eagles crashed to a 1-3 defeat in their Africa Cup of Nations opener against defending champions Egypt on Tuesday. Amodu, who is in his fourth spell
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      150 10 REUTERS LONDON: West Ham face sanctions, after being found guilty on two charges of crowd trouble at a home League Cup match with Millwall last year. The Football Association yesterday said that its independent regulatory commission will decide on the punishment tomorrow. The Premier League club
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      233 10 Burnley have appointed Brian Laws as their new manager, the Premier League club announced yesterday. Laws a former Burnley player who was sacked by Sheffield Wednesday last month succeeds Owen Coyle, who quit earlier this month to take over as manager of Bolton. Liverpool have reportedly beaten interest
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      181 10 LIVERPOOL: Liverpool fans are up in arms after it was revealed that the club planned to sell the naming rights for their new stadium to a commercial sponsor. With the Reds seeking new revenue streams, Liverpool commercial director Ian Ayre admitted that he had
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      580 10  -  LIGHTERSIDE By NEIL HUMPHREYS stsports@sph.com.sg THE weather caught out the entire sports fraternity of Frozen Britain at the weekend. Sub-zero temperatures, in Britain, in January, in the middle of winter. Imagine that. I’m heading there next week for a book launch and I’m glad those
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      283 11 Today Football Africa Nations Cup: Mali v Algeria (11.55pm), Angola v Malawi (tomorrow, 2.25am) Live, Ch27. Golf Joburg Open: Day 1 (Live, Ch26, 6.15pm). Tomorrow Football Africa Nations Cup: Mozambique v Benin (11.55pm), Ivory Coast v Ghana (Saturday, 2.25am) Live, Ch27. Golf Sony Open: Day 1 (Live,
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      415 11 Basketball NBA Charlotte 102 Houston 94, Washington 90 Detroit 99, Memphis 104 LA Clippers 102, San Antonio 105 LA Lakers 85, Sacramento 88 Orlando 109. Football Africa Nations Cup Group C, in Benguela: Egypt 3 Nigeria 1, Mozambique 2 Benin 2. English FA Cup (Premier League unless stated, Roman
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      43 11 CIRO FERRARA, the Juventus coach, who is under pressure after his team lost six of their last eight games
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      227 11 REUTERS JEREZ (Spain): Seven-time world champion Michael Schumacher set out on the road back to Formula One on Tuesday by testing a GP2 development car in Spain. The German, who is returning with Mercedes after retiring in 2006, completed 52 laps at Jerez before
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      377 11 Serena dominates Dushevina to reach Sydney semi-finals REUTERS SYDNEY: Serena Williams continued her smooth lead-up to next week’s Australian Open with a 6-2, 6-2 quarter-final win over Vera Dushevina at the Sydney International yesterday. The world No. 1, playing her second match in 24 hours after
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      165 11  -  JONATHAN WONG AFTER two days of talks in Singapore, the dispute between bitter rivals BMW Oracle Racing and America’s Cup winners Alinghi has not been resolved. Members of both teams, along with representatives from the International Sailing Federation, had met at Sentosa’s One
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        110 11 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE NEW DELHI: The Indian men’s hockey team yesterday ended a week-long strike and agreed to resume training today for the Feb 28-March 13 World Cup. “Hockey is our national game, it cannot be a national shame,” said Indian Olympic Association president Suresh Kalmadi
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        63 11 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE LONDON: Aaron Mokoena scored right at the end of extra-time, as Portsmouth Football Club beat Coventry City 2-1 in an English FA Cup third-round replay on Tuesday. Portsmouth, who will host top-flight rivals Sunderland next, had forced extra time when a Stephen Wright
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        298 15 REUTERS JAKARTA: Eleven firms, including a unit of palm oil giant Wilmar International, plan to invest a total of 27.5 trillion rupiah (S$4.2 billion) in Indonesia’s sugar industry, a senior ministry official said yesterday. The firms plan to develop 187,000ha of sugar cane
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      509 17  -  By JOYCE TEO THE value of contracts awarded in the construction sector hit $21 billion last year less than forecast, and underpinned by public sector works. Total deals this year are likely to hit as much as $27 billion, with public sector projects
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      349 19  -  By GABRIEL CHEN DBS Group Holdings chairman Koh Boon Hwee seems to have adopted the maxim of “keep them guessing” when it comes to naming his successor, if any. Market speculation has been swirling that Mr Koh will step down and be replaced by
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      540 19  -  By FIONA CHAN THE New York apartment complex that proved an ill-fated investment for the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation (GIC) may face foreclosure after its owners defaulted on a debt payment last Friday. Some of the debt holders are now demanding payment
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      337 1 Menu for murderers Wind and water Sculptor Ned Kahn’s stunning work for Marina Bay Sands What Ted Bundy and others ate before they died C7 C4 Bolly good show Standing ovation for Merchants Of Bollywood C8 The Esplanade’s Huayi festival this year celebrates Singapore’s Chinese theatre scene. Four directors take
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        1879 2  -  Younger directors are restaging iconic plays at this year’s Huayi festival magdalen ng songyuan@sph.com.sg The Esplanade’s Huayi Chinese Festival of the Arts this year will mark an important milestone for the Chinese theatre scene here. For the first time, the eight-year-old annual festival will look at
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        352 2 MAN AND WOMAN, WAR AND PEACE What: It is war between the sexes when show hosts of two competing TV shows on relationships turn the practice of love into a battlefield. Featuring Taiwanese idol-drama actress Ariel Lin (far right), theatre actor David Wang (left) and Cantopop singer Denise
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        292 4 Agence France-Presse Frankfurt Mr Barack Obama has been serenaded by stars such as Aretha Franklin and Beyonce. Now, a stage version of him will sing in a new musical to open on Sunday in Germany, where many consider the United States President a role
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          147 6 Explore Singapore’s backlanes and alleys in Singaporean painter Tan Ai Ngin’s works, featured at her fourth solo exhibition (below). For the exhibition, she looked at the hidden communal spaces and forgotten backstreets of Geylang and Tanglin Halt in addition to her usual forays into Tiong Bahru and
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          125 6 Explore the various aspects of traditional Peranakan life and culture through the works of local sculptor Lim Leong Seng and Malaysian artist Kuen Stephanie. Peranakan In Plays, a group exhibition by the two, also features a collection of vintage batik. Lim will showcase his bronze sculptures
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        545 7  -  Director Noor Effendy Ibrahim explores themes of sex, hunger and trust in the triple-bill Bilik Ahmad Berdaki christa yeo mpyeo@sph.com.sg Plus-sized actors and sexual tension may not seem to go hand in hand, but then theatre director Noor Effendy Ibrahim wants to make his audiences squirm a little.
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        499 8  -  Mind-boggling logistics of The Merchants Of Bollywood include a fully equipped tailor on site deepika shetty deepikas@sph.com.sg Most travellers arm themselves with a sewing kit on the road. The cast and crew of The Merchants Of Bollywood go one better they travel with their own tailor
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        451 8  -  deepika shetty review musical THE MERCHANTS OF BOLLYWOOD Esplanade Theatre Tuesday Sizzling dance moves, shimmering costumes, buff bodies, pretty faces and foot-tapping songs what is there not to like about the international smash hit, The Merchants Of Bollywood? The show, endorsed by Indian superstar Amitabh Bachchan, arrived
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      594 10  -  Short-film competition joins other film fests in recognising local movies John lui johnlui@sph.com.sg A recently launched local short-film competition aims to be the most open contest in the country, with the fewest restrictions to entry. The Singapore Short Film Awards is about lowering the bar
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      429 10  -  eunice quek A new film festival has been launched in Singapore without any sponsorship. The organisers of the inaugural Design Film Festival, which is held this month, are so passionate about promoting the appreciation of design through film that they said it does not matter
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      162 10 Herb Dorothy A story of postal clerk Herbert Vogel and librarian Dorothy Vogel, who build one of the most important contemporary art collections in history. Milton Glaser: To Inform And Delight A documentary of Milton Glaser, who co-founded New York Magazine and created the I Love New
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        477 12 Bloomberg Reuters Los Angeles Conan O’Brien said he would not move his Tonight Show back a half-hour to accommodate NBC’s plan to move Jay Leno out of prime time, forcing the network to choose between the two late-night performers. “For 60 years, The Tonight
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        366 12 Associated Press Vatican City Avatar, the second highest-grossing movie ever, is wooing audiences worldwide with its awe-inspiring special effects. But the Vatican newspaper and radio station are criticising James Cameron’s 3-D film for flirting with the idea that worship of nature can replace religion. “Not
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          23 12 Musician Kitaro will perform at the Singapore Indoor Stadium on March 9. Tickets at $68 to $168 from Sistic.
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      137 11 The weather Partly cloudy, showers with thunder mainly over northern and western Singapore in the afternoon. SUNRISE 7.13am MOONRISE 6.13am SUNSET 7.16pm MOONSET 6.32pm °C 32/24 AIR QUALITY PSI 31 (GOOD) FOR UPDATES AND MORE DETAILS, CALL METEOROLOGICAL SERVICES DIVISION, NEA: 6542-7788 OR GO ONLINE TO www.nea.gov.sg/metsin TIDES TODAY FIRST
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        587 19 The higher a person’s resting heart rate, the higher the risk of heart attacks, a Norwegian study has found A rapid heartbeat could increase your chances of suffering a fatal heart attack and this is more so for women, according to a new study.
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      243 2 contents Supervising Editor Sumiko Tan Editor Gloria Chandy 4DOC TALK Cover photo: Istockphoto Design Zulaiha Jumari 6FIBRE FACTS Writers June Cheong Stacey Chia 16MAKE-UP PASSES MUSTER 18LIVING 19HEART RATE LINK TO HEART ATTACKS 8SMOKING LINKED TO MANY DISEASES Sub-editors Lee Yee Hwa Julie Kee Yu Sheng Sin Mak Mun San
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      260 2 Health diary FRIDAY, JAN 15 Home Safety For The Elderly: Free talk by an occupational therapist on how to make the home a safer place for the elderly. 5 Lower Kent Ridge Road, Health Education Hub, Main Building 1, Level 1, National University Hospital. 1 to 2pm. Call 6772-2184 for
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      788 8 Feature by MDT Degenerative spinal stenosis how it affects the function of the back and the legs v Lumbar spinal stenosis (narrowing of the space for the nerve) is a disease affecting mainly the middle aged and beyond, and is due to the gradual narrowing of the spinal canal from
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      424 11 Pacific Womens Day CELEBRATING HEALTH Date: Saturday, 16 th January 2010, Time: 10.30am to 1.00pm Venue: Pacific Healthcare Specialist Centre, Level 19, Paragon Medical i 'V /r ms* n mw at i* PACIFIC HEALTHCARE invites you to celebrate health at Pacific Healthcare’s Women’s Day educational forum. Our team of specialists
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      32 16 / 17 ..since we lack Physical activity I’ve suggested some exercises that we can do in the office. and they’ve fired Mr Tan.. ..and we have been told to double up as office assitants
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