The Straits Times, 22 January 2010

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    37 1 THE STRAITS TIMES MICA (P) 094/11/2009 FRIDAY, JANUARY 22 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 90 CENTS
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      Lock icon Vandals hit prayer rooms
      54 1 TWO prayer rooms in Johor were burnt yesterday in the latest attacks on places of worship in Malaysia. Both rooms suffered minor damage from the fires started by vandals. However, it was not clear if the attacks were linked to the “Allah” issue. Police are still
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      Lock icon Centre to resolve disputes
      39 1 MAXWELL Chambers, the building formerly known as the “White House”, has been converted into a top-notch facility to hear disputes between international companies. Five arbitration outfits from the United States and Europe have offices there.
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      Lock icon Nuisance calls: Telcos act
      45 1 TELCOS have begun taking action after some mobile phone users here complained about nuisance calls from foreign numbers. When answered, the anonymous calls, which originate from Timor Leste, end with a mysterious beep or get connected to an audio sex service.
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      Lock icon Ignoring heart disease
      59 1 AN INDEPENDENT survey has shown that 90 per cent of Singaporeans know that chest pain is a symptom associated with heart disease. But a fifth of the respondents would rather lie down than seek medical attention. More than half of the 400 surveyed also said they would
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      Lock icon Stern test for Gunners
      50 1 ARSENAL may be top of the English Premier League but the real test of their title credentials will take place over the next few weeks. The Gunners have four tough games coming up Aston Villa away, Manchester United at home, Chelsea away and Liverpool at home.
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    Lock icon STIFLING HER SCREAMS OF AGONY
    90 1 STIFLING HER SCREAMS OF AGONY, a victim of the earthquake in Haiti looks away as Singaporean volunteer Dr Tan Hun Hoe treats a festering wound on her knee. Dr Tan and seven other Singaporeans have been working almost round the clock in a makeshift clinic
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    Lock icon Better outlook for hiring and bonuses
    638 1  -  MNCs even willing to shell out more for good talent, new poll shows BY ESTHER TEO esthert@sph.com.sg OPTIMISM has taken hold of corporate Singapore, with bosses ready to kickstart hiring and even stump up for bigger pay packets, according to a survey out yesterday.
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    Lock icon China grows a breathtaking 10.7% in last quarter
    689 1  -  BY GRACE NG CHINA CORRESPONDENT BEIJING: China confirmed its pole position leading the world economy out of recession yesterday, posting a breathtaking economic growth of 10.7 per cent in the last three months of last year. But the performance, which trumped forecasts,
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      171 1 Time for English indie scene to soar LIFE! PAGES D2&3 Modern twists to classic staples Health Minister says it online FRIDAY INSIGHT, PAGE A28 IN URBAN BREAKING NEWS: www.straitstimes.com INTERACT: www.stomp.com.sg EMAIL: stomp@stomp.com.sg VIDEOS: www.razortv.com.sg NEWS TIPS: 1800-*****28 PRIME PAGE A10 PRIME PAGES A12-13 SEE PRIME PAGES A20-22 HOME PAGE
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        Lock icon China’s growth has space in reserve
        77 2 WE SAY China made 8.7 per cent growth last year, but what has frightened people was its fourth-quarter spurt of 10.7 per cent. The markets are signalling the economy is overheating, with property being the prime suspect. Worries are overwrought. The government is already
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        Lock icon Flying in the face of facts
        22 2 COLUMNS William Choong observes the flaws in a Malaysian academic’s claims of the Su-30 jet’s superiority.
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        Lock icon Other options available
        25 2 OUR READER SAYS Live Web streaming is an option given the confusion over TV broadcast rights to football games, says Irene Sim.
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        Lock icon ONLINE BLOGS
        15 2 www.straitstimes.com Loh Keng Fatt has some suggestions on how ICA could improve services.
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      Lock icon China’s World Expo a partly fulfilled dream
      839 2  -  Qing Dynasty thinkers years ago envisioned a showcase of material and spiritual wealth BY CHING CHEONG SENIOR WRITER chingcheong@gmail.com AFTER its success in hosting the 2008 Olympics, China is set to realise another centu-ry-long dream when it holds the World Expo in Shanghai
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      Lock icon What it should have been
      82 2 A Bloomberg report we carried yesterday, “S’pore ‘among 9 to say yes to climate deal’ quoted a United Nations spokesman as saying that Singapore was among nine countries that have told the UN they will accept the Copenhagen Accord. Singapore’s National Climate Change Secretariat has
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      227 2 EDITORIAL PAGE A24 REVIEW PAGE A26 FORUM PAGE A29 PUBLIC AUCTION SEIZED ASSETS ASSETS SEIZED BY THE COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA TO BE SOLD WITH OTHER CONSIGNMENTS OF FINE JEWELLERY AND WATCHES. 250 LOTS IN TOTAL TO BE OFFERED. SUNDAY 24 th JANUARY Viewing from 11 am Auction begins at 1
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      281 2 Curtinnovation Now’s the time to stand out Jrom the crowd S* Apply now for March intake Undergraduate and Postgraduate courses available in full time and part time study modes Course Preview: Saturday 23 January, 2pm RSVP at info@curtin.edu.sg Australia’s Curtin University’s business courses are cutting-edge, designed in collaboration with industry
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      Lock icon No change at NUS law faculty after all
      856 3  -  Dean, who had said earlier he was stepping down, to serve another term BY AMELIA TAN ameltan@sph.com.sg THE dean of the law faculty at the National University of Singapore (NUS), due to step down this year, will remain at the helm after
      ST PHOTO: LAU FOOK KONG; PHOTOS: ST FILE, COURTESY OF PROFESSOR JOHN PHILLIPS  -  856 words
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      Lock icon Obama to set curbs on size of banks, trading
      515 4 Proposals aim to cut excessive risk-taking at largest banks in US AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE BLOOMBERG WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama was to propose new limits on the size of US banks and their trading activities yesterday after spending billions of taxpayer dollars to
      AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE; BLOOMBERG  -  515 words
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      Lock icon Expect new plans to improve housing estates
      666 6  -  More will be done to spruce them up, promises PM Lee BY RACHEL CHANG rchang@sph.com.sg HAVING just completed renovations to his three-room flat in Ang Mo Kio Avenue 10, Mr Jackson Wee was reluctant to take up a Housing Board offer to make
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      Lock icon Law Society panel ordered to relook complaints
      279 6 THE High Court has overturned the decision of a Law Society inquiry committee to clear a lawyer accused of misconduct. Justice Belinda Ang ordered it to look again into the complaints lodged against Mr Andre Arul by a former client. The legal body
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      Lock icon Vandals hit two prayer rooms
      569 10  -  No suspects yet in Johor double attack BY HAZLIN HASSAN MALAYSIA CORRESPONDENT hazlinh@sph.com.sg KUALA LUMPUR: Vandals damaged two prayer rooms in Johor yesterday morning in the latest attacks on places of worship in Malaysia, although it was not clear if the attacks were linked to
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      Lock icon More heading to Singapore for arbitration
      836 12  -  Republic’s strengths are efficiency, neutrality and arbitration-friendly law BY SELINA LUM selinal@sph.com.sg SINGAPORE is becoming the location of choice for international companies hoping to get their disputes resolved. The figures on arbitration hearings are shooting up, and to make it even more attractive for
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      Lock icon One-stop centre has top-notch facilities
      608 13 Maxwell Chambers set to play key role in developing S’pore into top arbitration destination MAXWELL Chambers will be a one-stop shop for all arbitration matters a departure from days when such cases were heard in hotel rooms. Referring to what the four-storey facility will add
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      Lock icon Possible retreat on health care
      303 18 NEW YORK TIMES ASSOCIATED PRESS REUTERS WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama has signalled he might be willing to scale back his proposed health-care overhaul to a version that could attract bipartisan support. “I would advise that we try to move quickly to coalesce around those elements
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      Lock icon Obama rues out-of-touch presidency
      622 18  -  He vows to rekindle his connection with Americans MASSACHUSETTS SETBACK BY BHAGYASHREE GAREKAR US CORRESPONDENT bhagya@sph.com.sg WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama has admitted that he failed to connect with the American people in his preoccupation with policymaking during his first year in office. A day after his
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      Lock icon Not all gloom for Obama camp
      282 18 REUTERS DON’T expect the US Senate to grind to a halt now that the Massachusetts election has cost Democrats the 60th vote needed to clear Republican roadblocks. While much of President Barack Obama’s legislative agenda including health care and climate change is in jeopardy,
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      Lock icon Air pollution in Asia... ...worsens smog in America
      583 19 Powerful winds blow pollutants from East and South Asia to the United States AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE ASSOCIATED PRESS PARIS: Pollution from Asia is boosting levels of ozone in the skies above the western United States, threatening to add to the smog in America
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      Lock icon Scores of injured, sick turn up at S’pore clinic
      295 20  -  BY JUDITH TAN AN AFTERSHOCK measuring 6.1 on the Richter scale rolled through parts of Haiti early on Wednesday, rocking buildings and sending the Singapore relief team scurrying to safety outdoors. When the ground stopped rumbling, the eight volunteers like so
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      Lock icon Search for survivors in Haiti winding down
      646 20 Focus of aid efforts turns to provision of medicine, food, water and shelter REUTERS AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE ASSOCIATED PRESS PORT-AU-PRINCE: The search for survivors of Haiti’s killer earthquake has started to wind down as international rescue teams begin pulling back. Aid, though more plentiful,
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      Lock icon No answer, but relatives still keep calling
      387 21 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE MIAMI: With nothing more than a desperate hope, many of the Haitians living in Florida keep phoning home even if their calls go unanswered. “I telephone every single day, but nobody picks up on the other end,” said a distraught Ms
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      Lock icon ‘I kept thinking, what a pity to die so early...’
      442 21 ASSOCIATED PRESS AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE PORT-AU-PRINCE: Trapped for five days in the rubble of a hospital and pinned to the floor by the leg of a bed, Mr Benito Revolus thought about how he would live his life differently if he
      ASSOCIATED PRESS; AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE; PHOTO: ASSOCIATED PRESS  -  442 words
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      Lock icon Singapore schools lend a helping hand
      500 22  -  BY ANG YIYING A WEEK ago, Haiti was an island nation halfway around the world which students here would have been hard-pressed to place on a map. Now, flooded by information and pictures on how the impoverished Caribbean country has been torn by a
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      Lock icon Institute to study cost of disasters
      566 22  -  It then hopes to find ways to cut damage BY AMRESH GUNASINGHAM amreshg@sph.com.sg THE destruction in Haiti underscores the need for governments to better understand the risks associated with natural disasters. A new research facility at the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) is trying to
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      146 21 m We’re sorry, and we’re grateful. We could never have anticipated how passionate Singapore is about our Doraemon lucky charms. A happy community is important to us, and it was never our intention to offend anyone. Therefore we are grateful for your feedback. This, we believe, is the backbone of
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  • REVIEW & FORUM
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      Lock icon China’s growth has space in reserve
      456 24 CHINA cheered dependent economies yesterday with news that it made 8.7 per cent growth last year, paced by the fastest fourth-quarter gain (10.7 per cent) since 2007. That this was a feat is best viewed against 2009 being the year economies tanked. Remarkably, the
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      Lock icon Threat of terrorism likely to grow
      792 24  -  BY ROHAN GUNARATNA FOR THE STRAITS TIMES The writer is professor of security studies at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, NTU, and head of its International Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism Research. WHILE the insurgent threat in Asia, the Middle East
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      Lock icon Spirit of a pact lost in lobbying, red tape
      810 24  -  MATA JELI: A PERSPECTIVE ON INDONESIAN AFFAIRS BY BRUCE GALE SENIOR WRITER bruceg@sph.com.sg INDONESIA’S announcement earlier this month that it wanted to renegotiate parts of a new regional trade pact with China must surely have embarrassed the reform-mind-ed technocrats among the
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        Lock icon Jet claim flies in the face of facts
        905 26  -  FOREIGN MATTERS BY WILLIAM CHOONG SENIOR WRITER williamc@sph.com.sg IN 1990, Mr David North became the first Western journalist to fly one of the most advanced Soviet aircraft then the Sukhoi-27. The former United States Navy fighter pilot and editor-in-chief of Aviation Week
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        Lock icon Stop inflation scaremongering
        1047 27  -  BY ROBERT SKIDELSKY The writer, a member of the British House of Lords, is professor emeritus of political economy at Warwick University. PROJECT SYNDICATE HOW real is the danger of inflation for the world economy? Opinion on this matter is divided between conservative economists and official bodies
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        Lock icon When Khaw Boon Wan blogs, it’s official
        2054 28  -  He announces the arrival of a new stock of vaccines, explains a policy reversal, answers unasked questions and dispenses health advice. Health Minister Khaw Boon Wan puts all these messages and more across, not at press conferences or through press statements, but in
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      394 27 SINGAPORE AIRSHOW CARNIVAL A weekend of fun for everyone Public Days: 6-7 FEBRUARY 2010 Head on down to Asia’s biggest Airshow the Singapore Airshow to see the latest in aviation technology, spectacular aerobatic flying displays and enjoy a weekend of fun at the Singapore Airshow Carnival Changi Exhibition Centre www.singaporeairshow.com.sg
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      105 29 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 women, please indicate Miss, Ms, Mrs or Madam. Please
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      574 1 She calls on China to probe strikes on Google, US firms ASSOCIATED PRESS AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE REUTERS BLOOMBERG WASHINGTON: United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton yesterday called for global condemnation for those who carry out cyber attacks, as China sought to contain tension
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      115 1 www.straitstimes.com MOST-READ ONLINE _Megan Fox engaged again? MOST COMMENTED ON 9/11 was staged: Dr Mahathir. Says jotlims: “It is unbelievable a former leader of a great nation is able to utter such comments. Insinuating that Jews are a problem in Europe
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        57 2 Indian Border Security Force soldiers riding their camels during a rehearsal yesterday for the “Beating the Retreat” ceremony to be held in New Delhi on Jan 29. The annual ceremony marks the official end of celebrations for India’s Republic Day, which falls
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        195 2 BERNAMA NEW DELHI: India has asked Malaysia to keep the Strait of Malacca, one of the world’s busiest waterways, safe for international passage. Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who met visiting Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak in New Delhi yesterday, also sought
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        696 2  -  Compulsory survival training for Filipinos, who make up a third of world’s 1m seafarers BY ALASTAIR MCINDOE PHILIPPINES CORRESPONDENT amcindoe@yahoo.com MANILA: Captain Wilfredo Iligan, a seafarer for 36 years, is going back to the classroom to learn anti-piracy and hostage survival techniques to prepare
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        70 6 Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse waving to supporters from an electric car at yesterday’s opening of the Mahinda Rajapakse Sports Complex in Diyagama, about 25km east of capital Colombo. The country goes to the polls next Tuesday, with former army chief Sarath Fonseka pitted against Mr Rajapakse.
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        539 6  -  BN slow to reach out to IT-savvy voters BY TEO CHENG WEE REGIONAL CORRESPONDENT chengwee@sph.com.sg KUALA LUMPUR: If Malaysia’s government needed proof of the power of the new media, they got it on Twitter this week when Information Minister Rais Yatim who recently spoke
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        295 6 ASSOCIATED PRESS KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia’s national graft-fighting watchdog arrested scores of government employees and business officials for allegedly accepting bribes and sexual favours to help smuggle sand out of the country, an official said yesterday. The crackdown is the latest bid by the
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        156 6 PUTRAJAYA: Malaysia’s highest court yesterday reversed a controversial judgment made in 2000, plugging a loophole in the law that denied victims of land fraud their rights to reclaim their property. A five-man bench led by Chief Justice Tun Zaki Azmi unanimously decided to reverse the
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        471 7 Indonesian govt to let people keep captive-born animals as part of conservation plan AGENCE FRANCE-PRESS JAKARTA: The Indonesian government plans to save Sumatran tigers from extinction by allowing people to adopt captive-born animals as pets for US$100,000 (S$139,700) a pair, officials said. The
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        425 7 JAKARTA: To straighten or not to straighten? Women’s hairstyles have become a hot topic for Indonesia’s Muslims after calls from some Islamic clerics to have the procedure banned on the grounds that it invites moral danger. On Wednesday, the Fatwa Commission from the
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        277 7 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE BANGKOK: Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva yesterday confirmed that Thailand’s army headquarters was attacked last week and warned that more attacks could be expected on government buildings. Mr Abhisit said officers were investigating the incident, which took place in central Bangkok last
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        120 8 Li Jiangang (above right), the first person to get a real-name train ticket, and his cousin Liu Chao showing off their prized tickets in Guangzhou, Guangdong province. They are among the first batch of passengers to get real-name tickets under a pilot system launched
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        706 8  -  Ozawa and public prosecutors lock horns FUNDING SCANDAL BY KWAN WENG KIN JAPAN CORRESPONDENT wengkin@sph.com.sg TOKYO: The kingpin of Japan’s ruling party is being hounded by public prosecutors over alleged political funds violations in a high-profile case that smacks of a battle of egos
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        708 9  -  Observers suspect politics had a part in belated impeachment of Taiwan’s prosecutor-general BY HO AI LI TAIWAN CORRESPONDENT hoaili@sph.com.sg TAIPEI: He was supposed to investigate wrongdoing without fear or favour, but Taiwan’s top prosecutor Chen Tsung-ming did not shy away from mixing
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        204 9 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE BEIJING: The head of China’s scandal-rocked football association and two other top officials have been taken in for questioning amid a police probe into corruption in the sport, state media said yesterday. Mr Nan Yong, named to head the beleaguered
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        712 10 Chinese villagers hail boy as a hero but fail in appeal for leniency ASSOCIATED PRESS BEIJING: When Mr Li Shiming was stabbed through the heart by a hired assassin, few of his fellow villagers mourned the Communist Party official who many say made
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        272 10 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE BEIJING: An additional 300,000 people will be forced to move from their homes because of China’s controversial Three Gorges Dam and its huge reservoir, state media reported yesterday. China Daily said the relocations were aimed at preventing pollution from adjacent communities from
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        627 11 New code of conduct bans suicide bombings against civilians and arson attacks on schools, among other things NEW YORK TIMES KABUL: The Taleban has embarked on a sophisticated information war, using modern media tools as well as some old-fashioned ones, to soften its image
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        343 11 AGENCE FRANCE–PRESSE KARACHI: She has been dubbed Lady Al-Qaeda by United States media, but the family of a Pakistani woman who allegedly tried to shoot US soldiers at an Afghan police station insists she is a moderate Muslim who is more interested in flowers and
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        444 12 Demand for withdrawal of guns used by troops in Iraq and Afghanistan ASSOCIATED PRESS AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE WASHINGTON: Muslim groups reacted angrily after it emerged that American troops in Iraq and Afghanistan were using rifle sights inscribed with coded biblical references. The
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        379 12 ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK TIMES AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE SANAA: Yemeni jets pounded the home of a suspected Al-Qaeda leader, as a top United States official acknowledged that Sanaa has made a “decisive turn” against the extremists. A Yemeni tribal source confirmed the air strikes
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        526 13 Opponents see move as erosion of literary heritage REUTERS LA CHATRE (France): Amid the flat, wide fields of central France, a team of retrained secretaries and IT experts is packaging Europe’s literary heritage for the digital era. Put less grandly, they turn pages for
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        101 14 French Minister for the Economy, Industry and Employment Christine Lagarde called on visiting Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew in Paris yesterday. A statement from the Prime Minister’s Office in Singapore said they had a wide-ranging discussion on global issues, and exchanged views on how
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        481 14 Evacuation ordered amid fears of flash floods, landslides AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE BLOOMBERG LOS ANGELES: Hundreds of home owners in fire-ravaged areas across California have been ordered to evacuate as a powerful storm battered the region, triggering warnings of flash floods and mudslides. The storm, the third to
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        374 15 Report comes amid US push for policies to cut salt in processed foods NEW YORK TIMES NEW YORK: Reducing the amount of salt people eat by even a small amount could reduce cases of heart disease, stroke and heart attacks
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        568 18 Judge’s ‘act of mercy’ fuels debate on what is lawful in self-defence LONDON: A businessman who was jailed for savagely attacking a burglar who was part of a gang which broke into his home and threatened his family has been freed, a decision
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        238 18 LOS ANGELES TIMES APPOMATTOX (Virginia): A bomb squad discovered a multitude of explosives on Wednesday at the home of a man accused of shooting eight people to death, and crews were detonating the devices as more details about the suspected gunman came to light.
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        355 18 REUTERS UNITED NATIONS: Wars are less deadly than they once were and national mortality rates have continued to decline even during conflicts due to small-er-scale fighting and better health care, a report released on Wednesday said. The report by a Canada-based project sponsored by
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        187 20 ASSOCIATED PRESS DAYTON (Ohio): Two American men who have been certified as the world’s oldest living male conjoined twins are moving in with their little brother. A charity in Machias, New York, called the Christian Youth Corps, says it is helping 58-year-olds Donnie and Ronnie
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        842 20  -  The country is increasingly aligning itself with Islamic and anti-Western regimes NEWS ANALYSIS BY JONATHAN EYAL STRAITS TIMES EUROPE BUREAU jonathan.eyal@gmail.com LONDON: Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak visited Turkey earlier this week in an effort to mend relations after the public humiliation of the
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          111 21 BERNAMA KUALA LUMPUR: A Singaporean man was found dead on a toilet bowl in the bathroom of a budget hotel here on Wednesday. The 48-year-old man is believed to have died of suffocation from smoke emitted from burning charcoal inside the bathroom. Dang Wangi police chief Zulkarnain
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          103 21 ASSOCIATED PRESS RALEIGH (North Carolina): Former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards finally came forward yesterday to admit that he fathered a child with a woman whom he hired before his second White House bid. He confirmed this in a statement, after initially denying that he had
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          129 21 TOKYO: Japan’s Justice Ministry is planning to welcome highly educated foreign professionals to deal with the country’s expected population decline, reported the Asahi Shimbun newspaper. Under the proposed system, those who wish to work in Japan will be graded based on their education levels, professional skills,
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          112 21 ASSOCIATED PRESS LONDON: Organisers of a wildlife photography competition have disqualified the winning image of a leaping wolf after an investigation determined the animal was trained, not wild. Judges for the prestigious Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition had praised Spanish photographer Jose Luis Rodriguez’s image featuring
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          103 21 REUTERS HONG KONG: A former Chinese dissident leader who was handed over to Chinese police by the authorities in Hong Kong has been jailed for nine years, a human rights group said. Zhou Yongjun, a former student leader from the 1989 Tiananmen Square pro-democracy movement in Beijing,
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          155 21 ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES: A Los Angeles film-making couple faced lengthy prison terms yesterday when they were due to be sentenced for bribing Thai officials to run a film festival. Gerald, 78, and Patricia Green, 55, were convicted in September last year of conspiracy and money laundering
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          94 21 ASSOCIATED PRESS WARSAW (Poland): The infamous “Arbeit Macht Frei” sign from the Nazi German death camp of Auschwitz, stolen last month and recovered two days later, was yesterday returned to the museum there. Conservation experts will now determine how best to repair it. Five Poles are under
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        246 21 ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK: Photographs by the first person to capture the image of a single snowflake with a camera are going up for sale in New York, featuring examples from a life’s work of pioneering 19th-century images of thousands of jewel-like snowflakes no two
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        401 19 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE REUTERS SANTIAGO: A stock market surge has added hundreds of millions of dollars to the value of investments held by Chile’s new President-elect Sebastian Pinera, triggering outrage among left-wing opponents. Mr Pinera, a 60-year-old conservative billionaire who was elected president last weekend, has
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        216 19 ASSOCIATED PRESS ROME: Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi has said his trials in Milan are like firing squads and he has not decided whether to appear in court to defend himself. He faces charges of corruption and tax fraud in two trials tied to his
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        174 19 ASSOCIATED PRESS SYDNEY: Prince William joked on Wednesday that he was having such a fabulous time on his tour Down Under that he was ready to relocate to the sun-drenched country. “I have had the most warm welcome ever not just with the weather, but with
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        184 19 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE WASHINGTON: A United States couple who crashed President Barack Obama’s first state dinner refused to answer a Congressional committee’s questions about the incident. “On the advice of my counsel, I respectfully assert my right to remain silent and decline to answer your
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      506 2  -  There’s also a new software platform for easier viewing BY CHUA HIAN HOU chuahh@sph.com.sg STARHUB yesterday launched four new mobile TV channels, and a new user-friendly software platform for its mobile users to watch their favourite TV programmes on. The new channels, comprising
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      432 2  -  BY KOR KIAN BENG A NEW YORK-BASED rights group has criticised Singapore’s new Public Order Act, which gives the police powers to compel a person to move on and refrain from returning to a designated spot for up to 24 hours.
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      404 4 First-time highlights include lion dances on boats plying the river THE organisers of the Chinese New Year celebrations in Chinatown will extend the festive cheer to the Singapore River for the first time this year. Revellers can expect to see lion dances on boats
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      144 4 GRACO, the American maker of baby strollers, has recalled three ranges of its product, after at least seven children in the United States had their finger tips severed or cut. The recall will affect 1.5 million strollers those in Graco’s Passage, Alano and Spree ranges manufactured
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      867 7  -  15 of them told to move out despite some having spent a tidy sum doing up their units BY MAVIS TOH mavistoh@sph.com.sg ART collector Ivan Chin spent half a million setting up his gallery putting in landscaping, chandeliers, security and sound systems only to be
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      285 10  -  BY MAVIS TOH FIRE raged through a hardware store in Moonstone Lane in Serangoon late yesterday morning. The store, a corner unit in a row of about 10 shops, was badly damaged. The other shops were intact but business came to a halt for the
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      602 12  -  Grouping could also fine-tune its decision-making process, says Speaker Abdullah Tarmugi BY KOR KIAN BENG kianbeng@sph.com.sg FUTURE meetings of the Asia-Pacific Parliamentary Forum (APPF) may see the involvement of government ministers to give the regional grouping a higher profile, said Singapore’s Speaker
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      863 13  -  Data from 1,000 teens aged 14 to 19 suggests that this is the case though some disagree SURVEY ON TEEN SEX BY MELISSA SIM CHUANG BING HAN simlinoi@sph.com.sg cbinghan@sph.com.sg KEEPING teens in school and encouraging them to maintain an active school life could mean
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      556 14  -  ck Calvin Klein will show off its Spring 2010 collection at defunct jail BY KIMBERLY SPYKERMAN, TAY SUAN CHIANG kimspyke@sph.com.sg taysc@sph.com.sg THE former Queenstown Remand Prison, through which the last inmate tramped five months ago, will today host a new captive audience. They are
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      156 14 Pearl’s Hill Terrace Then: The Police headquarters, which included the former training centre for the Criminal Investigation Department. Now: Home to start-ups, a law firm and creative agencies. The former Bukit Timah Fire Station Then: The living and working quarters of firemen. Now: An arts
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      597 15  -  Complications arising from surgery will be insured under plan with wide age coverage BY JESSICA JAGANATHAN jessicaj@sph.com.sg A NEW insurance plan designed to benefit a wider group of patients will be launched soon at hospitals in the Parkway group. The plan, to be jointly
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      86 15 The Din Tai Fung restaurant at 313@Somerset was transformed into a dumpling-making classroom yesterday for 30 elderly folk from the Care Corner Family Service Centre. Assisted by in-house chefs, the senior citizens spent about an hour rolling dough, inserting red bean paste and moulding
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      514 16  -  Investment comes from German firm’s subsidiary and NRF BY LESTER KOK lesterk@sph.com.sg A $20 million venture fund has been set up to invest in Singapore’s nanotechnology sector. The fund comes from Nanostart Asia and the National Research Foundation (NRF), with each committing $10
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      400 16 Braces that are almost invisible A local start-up, BioMers, developed translucent braces and retainers in late 2008. Nanotechnology was used to create a polymer composite wire that works as well as metal wires currently used in braces. Its latest products come coloured, as these are more popular with
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      734 17 Arsenal top but tough run is up next LONDON: Four games to rule them all. There has been a touch of fantasy in Arsenal’s improbable rise to the top of the English Premier League. They were ninth in September following defeats by the two Manchester clubs, and
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      638 17  -  BY MATTHEW SYED THE TIMES, LONDON stsports@sph.com.sg WINNING Ugly. That was the title of Brad Gilbert’s book on tennis and, let’s be honest, it had quite a ring. It expressed an idea, you could even call it a philosophy, that winning is everything and sod
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      100 17 www.straitstimes.com.sg MOST-READ ONLINE STORIES _Benitez wants more signings Henry’s handball hasn’t changed Platini’s views Pay $100m to view World Cup? MOST COMMENTED ON Pay $100m to view World Cup? Said STOMPking: “We would be crazy to pay such prices! Fifa will
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      440 18 Kuyt reignites the hunt for Champions League spot AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE LIVERPOOL: Liverpool manager Rafael Benitez is confident that his team can grow in strength and push on for a spot in next season’s Champions League. Despite missing Fernando Torres, Steven Gerrard, Yossi Benayoun and Glen Johnson
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      440 18 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE BIRMINGHAM: Aston Villa manager Martin O’Neill said his side had grown up, after they booked a place in the League Cup final with an extraordinary 6-4 win over Blackburn in the semi-final second leg. The victory at Villa Park on Wednesday saw
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      256 18 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE LONDON: Manchester City striker Carlos Tevez has accused his former Manchester United teammate Gary Neville of being disrespectful ahead of next week’s stormy return clash in the League Cup. Tevez, who scored twice in City’s 2-1 win in the semi-final first leg on Tuesday,
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      220 18 Ryan Babel, 23, is ready to reconsider a £9 million (S$20.5 million) move to Birmingham City after initially rejecting a move to the Blues, reported The Sun. The winger is desperate to leave Liverpool to boost his hopes of playing for Holland at the World Cup Finals in
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      205 18 REUTERS LUBANGO (Angola): Mozambique yesterday sacked coach Mart Nooij after the team failed to reach the knock-out stages of the Africa Cup of Nations. Fezal Sidat, chairman of Mozambique’s football federation, told the Associated Press that the Dutch coach’s contract will not be renewed
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      792 19  -  COURTSIDE AUSTRALIAN OPEN BY ROHIT BRIJNATH rohitb@sph.com.sg MELBOURNE: Gael Monfils is not a tennis player but a Cirque du Soleil performer with a racket. He also hits the ball with a leaping, agile violence. He plays today, but yesterday his coach Roger Rasheed told
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      124 19 INBRIEF ASSOCIATED PRESS AMERICAN Taylor Dent hates to lose, but at least his second-round loss to Jo-Wilfried Tsonga has solved a tricky dilemma. His wife, former tennis pro Jennifer Hopkins, is due to have their first baby a week from
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      871 19 Slumping Ivanovic bows out of Australian Open after second-round loss THE TIMES, LONDON, REUTERS, AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE MELBOURNE: Just when Ana Ivanovic insisted it was time for tennis to be fun and rewarding for her again, the former world No. 1 suffered the most agonising of setbacks as
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      110 20 JOEY Poh (above) will tee it up at next month’s HSBC Women’s Champions for the second year in a row, after winning the local qualifying event at Tanah Merah Country Club’s Garden Course yesterday. The Singapore Sports School student, 16, shot a 76 for a
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      685 20 Man resembling golfer upsets some patients at sex addiction clinic ASSOCIATED PRESS AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE HATTIESBURG, Mississippi: That sure looks like Tiger Woods. The face. The rounded shoulders. The eyes staring out from under a cap. Celebrity website radaronline.com says the next issue of the National Enquirer will
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      789 20  -  BY CHRIS TALBOTT stsports@sph.com.sg ASSOCIATED PRESS TRYING to unwind after a 14-hour day last Saturday, I popped on the History Channel and watched hapless documentarians search in vain for the abominable snowman. Nothing, not even an extra-large footprint to report. I know how they feel. I’ve
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      918 21 Boxer cancels megafight and rushes to Haiti to comfort quake-hit kin ASSOCIATED PRESS LAS VEGAS: Andre Berto is heading to Haiti instead of Las Vegas, something that the welterweight champion could not have imagined 10 days ago. He has no choice because there is work
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      265 21 ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK: World welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao believes a showdown against Floyd Mayweather Jr will happen eventually, despite hard feelings over drug-testing demands that aborted negotiations. “I believe the fight will happen some other time,” he said. “It will happen.” He spoke about Mayweather
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        313 21  -  written by Craig Brennan IRISH jockey Fran Berry will ride at his last Singapore meeting at tomorrow's mixed Polytrack and turf meeting, two months before his licence was due to run out. Berry, who has enjoyed a good start to his first Singapore tenure, bagging four
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        142 21 The Singapore Turf Club has renewed jockey Olivier Placais' visiting jockey's licence for another one year. The French rider, whose current 10week licence runs out on 4 February 2010, will resume riding at Kranji from 1 March 2010through to 18 February 2011. Placais is returning to
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        279 21 THE $75,000 Chloride Cup, a Class 3 event over 1000m on the Polytrack tonight, has brought together an even bunch of sprinters. Heading the weights is Future Baby, a galloper of immense talent on his day, but one that can disappoint just as
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      365 22  -  BY CHAN U-GENE THE S-League curtain-raiser between Singapore Armed Forces FC and Swedish League and Cup champions AIK Solna last night may have ended in a 1-1 stalemate. But nobody was complaining. For yesterday’s football match at the Choa Chu Kang Stadium was no ordinary
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      499 22  -  That is the aim of S’pore’s new cricket head coach Atapattu BY V.K. SANTOSH KUMAR santosh@sph.com.sg SINGAPORE’S chances of success in cricket’s World League Division Five have received a boost with the appointment of former Sri Lanka captain and 1996 World Cup winning-team member Marvan Atapattu as head
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      131 22 MARVAN Atapattu, 39, was one of Sri Lanka’s premier opening batsmen. He played 90 Tests and 268 one-day internationals between 1990 and 2007. An elegant player to watch, he was noted for his high-elbow cover drive. He scored six double-hundreds in his Test career, a feat bettered only by
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      426 22 Today Badminton Malaysian Open: Q-finals (Live, Ch22, 7pm). Friendship Games: Fencing Singapore Cadet World Cup (Hall 601 602, Suntec International Convention Centre, 9.30am). Football Dutch Eredivisie: Eindhoven v Nijmegen (Live, Ch116, tomorrow, 3.40am). Golf Abu Dhabi C’ship: Day 2 (Live, Ch26, 5.15pm). Bob Hope Classic: Day 3
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      30 22 MICHAEL BEASLEY, the Miami Heat forward before his team’s 65-104 thrashing by the Charlotte Bobcats on Wednesday
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      427 22 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE ASSOCIATED PRESS ISLAMABAD: Former Pakistan cricket great Javed Miandad has urged the International Cricket Council (ICC) to take control of Twenty20 (T20) tournaments. His call comes after none of the nation’s players attracted bids from Indian Premier League (IPL) teams during the tournament’s
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      515 22 Badminton Malaysian Open In Kuala Lumpur, 2nd rd (selected) Men: Chen Jin (Chn) bt Chan Yan Kit (Hkg) 21-8 21-11, Nguyen Tien Minh (Vie) bt Bao Chunlai (Chn) 21-19 12-2111-6 (ret), Tanongsak Saensomboonsuk (Tha) bt Przemyslaw Wacha (Pol) 19-21 21-15 21-17, Boonsak Ponsana (Tha) Andrew Smith (Eng) 15-21 21-8
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      568 23 Treat gender ambiguity as a medical concern, IOC panel suggests NEW YORK TIMES NEW YORK: A panel of medical experts convened by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has recommended that the issue of athletes whose gender seems ambiguous be treated as a medical concern and not one
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        82 23 NEW YORK: Los Angeles Lakers star Kobe Bryant has retained top spot on the National Basketball Association’s Most Popular Jerseys list. He has held that ranking since the start of the 2008-09 season, reported NBA.com. Cleveland’s LeBron James stays at No. 2 while Orlando’s
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        94 23 ASSOCIATED PRESS SAO PAULO: Former Brazil great Zico is reconsidering his career as a football coach after being fired by Greek club Olympiakos. The 56-year-old said on his website that he was shocked by his sacking because he thought he had achieved good
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        55 23 REUTERS DUBAI: Competitors at this year’s Dubai Marathon will have the added motivation of a US$1 million (S$1.39 million) bonus prize should they set a world record at the event. The US$2 million event, which has attracted a top field including Ethiopian defending champions Haile Gebrselassie and
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        75 23 ASSOCIATED PRESS BARCELONA: Valentino Rossi (above) traded his motorbike for a Formula One ride on Wednesday as the MotoGP champion tested a Ferrari car. The Italian was “happy” after running 68 laps around the Circuito de Catalunya to set a fastest lap time of 1min 25.20sec.
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      410 23 ASSOCIATED PRESS AUBURN HILLS (Michigan):Rasheed Wallace walked into The Palace like he owned the place, strutting into his old locker room and joking around with former teammates. “This is my building,” he said before the game.” But his mood soured a few hours later. Rodney Stuckey
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      323 23 REUTERS AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE LONDON: Michael Schumacher has swopped racing numbers with Mercedes teammate Nico Rosberg for superstitious reasons. “Michael has a preference for odd numbers,” a team spokesman said on Wednesday. “He asked if he could be the odd number and we were happy to accept.”
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      764 30  -  They kept profits intact; larger firms took hit to bottom line BY HARSHA JETHNANI harshamj@sph.com.sg SINGAPORE’S best-performing small- and medium-sized enterprises (SME) defied the odds to keep profits intact through the downturn while larger firms took a hefty hit to the bottom line. Profits at
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      105 30 www.straitstimes.com MOST-READ ONLINE _Experts weigh in on raising productivity YOUR SAY _New figures suggest the labour market in Singapore will tighten significantly this quarter. One report shows 51 per cent of companies are now looking to hire, the biggest upswing in more
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        475 25  -  S’pore index falls 42pts, its largest one-day drop since end-October BULLS AND BEARS BY JONATHAN KWOK jonkwok@sph.com.sg CHINA proved to be the bogeyman once again as resurgent economic data from Beijing reignited fears that the authorities will introduce measures to cool the economy. Some
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        406 25  -  BY JOAN CHEW SINGAPORE’S health-care industry is in the pink these days with high-octane growth tipped for the next couple of years, according to new research. The sector should expand by 38 per cent to a value of US$1.8 billion (S$2.5 billion) by
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            20 25 STOCK TRADING VOLUME 2.27 billion shares worth $1.96 billion UP DOWN Gainers: 112 Losers: 425 Unchanged: 784
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            81 25 Mid Cap Small Cap All Share Fledgling China China Top Oil and gas Points Change Points Change Points Change Basic materials -9.84 701.52 Utilities -12.10 -8.56 564.60 -10.39 -12.09 337.53 528.96 Industrials Consumer goods Health care 707.25 -11.40 623.88 718.83 -2.74 Financials Technology Real estate -12.90 735.27
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          237 25 Tokyo Nikkei 225 Yesterday’s close: 10,868.41 (+130.89) Tokyo stocks rose 1.2 per cent, lifted by tech shares on a stabilising yen, but investor caution about policy tightening in China capped further gains. Kuala Lumpur KLCI Yesterday’s close: 1,308.36 (+1.74) Malaysian stocks hovered around 22-month highs, edging up 0.13 per
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          184 25 For a full list of SGX stocks, warrants and bonds, visit btstocks.asiaone.com TRANSACTION DATE: JAN 21,2010 Top Rises Jan 21 CENTS DBXT S&P Short 10US$ 5288 29.4 0.4 (0) OCC 5.1% NCPS 100 ***** 24.0 0.2 OCBC Bk 4.5%NCPS 100 9852 12.0 0.1 DBXT S&P Short 1DUS$
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          325 25 Top Rises Jan 21 CENTS STI 2950BNPePW*****0 41 4.5 12.3 STI 2900 DBePW*****1 37.5 3.0 8.7 SGX RB ePW*****9 20 2.0 11.1 STI 2750 DBePW*****1 15 2.0 15.4 CapitalaMBLePW*****4 26 1.5 6.1 STI 2850SGAePW*****8 5.5 1.5 37.5 STI 2800BNPePW*****9 22.5 1.0 4.7 Challenger W*****8 19.5 0.5 2.6
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          37 25 By Volume CENTS Vol CENTS Vol fifi R -2.0 -3.5 122.813.000 108.725.000 103.526.000 74,068,000 26 05 By Value CENTS Value CENTS o/o Value CapitaLand 419 -19.0 -4.3 156,747,931 Genting SP 123 -3.0 -2.4 128,057,038
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          60 25 FOREIGN CURRENCY NOTE RATES: (9AM): S$ TO ONE UNIT OF FOREIGN CURRENCY Jan 21 2010 Buying Selling Jan 21 2010 Buying 1.2660 Malaysian ringgit* 0.4151 0.4160 ,,1,3030 1.3320 S$ TO 100 UNITS OF FOREIGN CURRENCY 1.9640 ..1.9860 Indonesian rupiah 0.***** 0.***** NZ dollar 0.4151 ...0.4160 1.0030 ...1.0250 Source: HSBC
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          71 25 52-WEEK TEL CURRENCY LAST 'VOL DAY GROSS NET M CAP HIGH LOW CODE COMPANY TRADED SALE +OR-'000 HIGH LOW YIELD P/E $MIL TEL CODE COMPANY 169 125 5129 ComfortDelGro 162 unch 3322 165 161 3.1 16.9 3380.6 TRADED SALE +0R'VOL '000 DAY GROSS HIGH LOW YIELD
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        595 26  -  Michael Ruslim dies of dengue fever while in critical care in hospital BY LEE SU SHYAN ASSISTANT MONEY EDITOR sushyan@sph.com.sg INDONESIA’S business community is in shock after one of the country’s leading executives died of dengue fever in Singapore on Wednesday. Mr Michael Ruslim, who
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        365 26  -  BY DICKSON LI MINORITY shareholders of China Printing Dyeing are likely to end up with nothing as the troubled company has admitted it does not have the cash to make an exit offer. The firm its shares have been suspended from trading since
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        362 26 ANOTHER high-end condominium is set to hit the market following a number of recent upscale launches. Allgreen Properties will launch Holland Residences for sale next week, said marketing agent CB Richard Ellis (CBRE). The five-storey freehold development it is on Taman Warna and next
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        255 26  -  LEE SU SHYAN YTL Cement Singapore yesterday made an offer of $2.50 a share to the controlling shareholder of Jurong Cement in the latest instalment of a takeover battle between the company’s two largest shareholders. In an announcement yesterday evening to
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        133 26 DBS Group Holdings is bringing a full suite of banking services to Resorts World Sentosa from next Monday. It will be the first bank to open a branch there, while also adding 17 ATMs and four AXS stations in the just-opened integrated resort. The
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      559 27 In flip from last October, poll respondents now less enthusiastic about China BLOOMBERG WASHINGTON: Investors have turned bullish on the United States while tempering their enthusiasm for China as they worry about a market bubble there, according to a Bloomberg survey. An overwhelming
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      449 27 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE LONDON: China could overtake the United States to become the world’s largest economy as early as 2020, a top business consultancy said yesterday, underlining the “seismic change” in global economic power. PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PWC) also said in its report that by
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      273 28  -  FIONA CHAN THE fallout of the economic crisis will push 64 million more people into extreme poverty this year than if the downturn had not occurred, according to the World Bank. In its Global Economic Prospects 2010 report released yesterday, the international financial organisation
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      573 28  -  It raises 2010 growth forecast but warns that recovery is still fragile BY FIONA CHAN fiochan@sph.com.sg GLOBAL growth will slow in the second half of this year as the government spending packages that are driving the economic pick-up wear off, the World Bank
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      392 28  -  BY LEE YEN NEE A GERMAN manufacturer of flavours and fragrances for anything from ice cream to perfume opened a new facility here yesterday as part of an ambitious $40 million expansion plan. Symrise, whose Asia-Pacific headquarters is in Singapore, wants to boost
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      282 1 My favourite things Glambert digs sushi and tequila Grammys go 3-D Short film tribute to MJ to be aired a0 smif The independent music scene here is hopping but can it produce a Stefanie Sun or a JJ Lin, Chinese pop stars who regularly top the regional Chinese pop charts?
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        365 2 Not many bands on the Singapore indie scene last long enough to release five full-length albums. Hardly any have done so without any change in the band line-up. Pop-punk/indie quartet Plainsunset have done both. The same four members have been making music together for 14 years until now, apart
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        660 2  -  eddino abdul hadi dinohadi@sph.com.sg The local independent music scene has come a long way since the pioneering 1980s. Music veteran Patrick Chng, 42, frontman for home-grown band he Oddfellows, recalls: “In the early days, we used to play gigs where only 10 people would show
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        441 3 Whether it is creating music, running a record label or organising gigs, Patrick Chng has done it all. In an interview with Life! back in 1991, the songwriter proclaimed that he wanted to be “the spark that will set the Singapore music scene on fire”. While he has
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        299 3 Singer-songwriter Leslie Low is one of those edgy, intrepid artists who can do no wrong in the eyes of critics. Whether it is creating music with progressive electronic/rock outfit The Observatory, his former bands Hump- back Oak and Twang Bar Kings, or his own solo releases, he has
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        894 5  -  The American Idol sensation makes no apology for his sexy moves on stage and will go into acting, but not in Glee eddino abdul hadi dinohadi@sph.com.sg Other than the fact that he has to hide from the paparazzi every time he steps out to get
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        115 8 ‘All the forced removal of old neighbourhoods in China makes us the only earthlings today who can really feel the pain of the Na’vi’ China Daily columnist Hung Huang on how Avatar strikes a chord with the Chinese ‘Sweetheart, you make me go all maternal. I
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        842 8  -  They may hail from the London nu-folk scene but Mumford Sons seem more rollicking Americana sound bites yeow kai chai kaichai@sph.com.sg Singaporeans got a piquant taste of the emerging London nu-folk when the good guys at Love Da Music brought in Emma-Lee Moss aka Emmy The
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          138 9  -  Boon Chan The third time is the charm for actor-singer Alien Huang. The host of the popular Taiwanese variety show 100% Entertainment was once part of two short-lived groups. Both TV Asahi’s Japanese boyband HC3 and Taiwanese boyband Cosmos disbanded after releasing one record each. His hip,
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          157 9  -  Boon Chan Wu Bai has such a distinctive sound that he often leaves his stamp on material he writes for other people. His collaboration with pop queen Faye Wong for her 2001 self-titled album, for example, was not quite a success for that same reason. (Incidentally, Wong
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          133 9  -  Boon Chan The gymnastics theme of the photos featured in the lyric sheet is misleading because, instead of energetic offerings, you get mostly ballads on Sam Lee’s sixth album. The first plug, My Grandfather’s Clock, is the Mandarin version of Japanese singer Ken Hirai’s take on the
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          169 9  -  Chang Tou Liang The big news is Lang Lang’s recorded debut as a chamber musician, and there is no more appropriate repertoire than this. The Rachmaninov is an early single-move-ment work, heavily influenced by Tchaikovsky, not to be mistaken for his second and better-known trio. The Tchaikovsky has
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          209 9  -  S.Y. Whang The great trumpeter Freddie Hubbard died just over a year ago. Without A Song, a posthumous release, collects seven tracks from his quartet’s European tour in December 1969. All are previously unissued, bar one. The title track illustrates Hubbard’s modus operandi: After outlining the theme with
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      694 4 After she was spotted wearing high heels, Suri Cruise has sparked off a debate about young girls wearing adult shoes Associated Press Dallas A pair of sparkly, peekaboo shoes with heels two inches (5cm) high are favourites of six-year-old Helena Bell ever since she
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      148 4 Men are catching on to the fantastic plastic life in a big way, say aesthetic doctors here. Leading the pack are highfliers from the corporate and entertainment world, with more of them willing to admit to their nips and tucks instead of insisting they got their youth-
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        631 6  -  A nice-guy emperor, a smoothtalking courtier and self-serving eunuchs all add up to some fun telemad foong woei wan woeiwan@sph.com.sg The Eloquent Ji Xiaolan IV is a gossamer, worldly comedy on the art of managing your boss. It just so happens to be spun in the intricate
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        439 7  -  Wildlife series Night host Brandon McMillan’s challenge is to find animals after dark magdalen ng songyuan@sph.com.sg Having a grizzly bear walk through a crowded mall for a music video is the most dangerous request that Hollywood animal trainer Brandon McMillan has ever received. “These were regular people and
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          923 12 ART IN THE CITY: TAKE A MOMENT This series brings together nine artists from Korea and Singapore, whose works pay tirbute to the tranquillity of nature. Where: The Fullerton Heritage Precinct MRT: Raffles Place When: Today March 31, open 24 hours Admission: Free Tel: 6557-2590 Info: www.thefullertonheritage.com FINE ART
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          125 12 MAKAN DRAMA Actors, singers, dancers, comedians and storytellers aged from 16 to 60 are invited to audition for roles in various plays, musicals, standup comedy acts and performance poetry to be presented at Action Theatre’s Makan Drama Festival, from March 18 to 28. You have to prepare a two-minute
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          52 12 BOOK SIGNING AND FREE TASTING Nicolas Lin and Adhika Maxi, authors of Bachelor’s Banquet, which features more than 85 recipes for intimate dining, will sign books and hold a free food-tasting session. Where: 25 degree Celsius, 01-01, 25 Keong Saik Road MRT: Outram When: Tomorrow, 2 6pm Tel: 6327-8389
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          377 12 HEART CAR WASH (SINGAPORE HEART FOUNDATION) Have your car washed and your heart screened at this event in aid of the Singapore Heart Foundation’s annual Go Red For Women campaign, which aims to raise awareness of heart disease and stroke among women. Where: Stadium Walk Carpark F, outside Kallang
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          185 12 CARLSBERG LION PERFORMANCE ACTIVITIES AT HEARTLAND ROADSHOWS Chinese New Year roadshows held in collaboration with three Singapore Press Holdings Chinese newspapers Lianhe Zaobao, Lianhe Wanbao and Shin Min Daily. Where: Blocks 826 and 828, Tampines Street 81 (East) MRT: Tampines When: Today, 7 10.30pm Where: Block 293,
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          60 12 CARTOONING WORKSHOP WITH DUTCH CARTOONIST ISKANDER Learn to draw cartoons from the author of The Year In Singapore In Cartoons. Participants of the introductory class will get a free copy of the book. Where: PoMo, 05-01,1 Selegie Road MRT: Dhoby Ghaut When: Tomorrow, 2 3.30pm (introductory class) and 4
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          140 12 CONSERVATORY BRASS (CONSERVATORY LUNCHTIME CONCERT AT ACM) Enjoy Leonard Bernstein’s West Side Story performed by the Straits Brass Quintet, Enrique Crespo from Suite Americana by the Australian Brass Quintet, as well as other works. Where: Asian Civilisations Museum, Shaw Foundation Foyer, Empress Place MRT: Raffles Place When: Today, 12.30pm
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          118 12 KING OF SWING RETURNS TO FAIRMONT SINGAPORE Local jazz maestro Jeremy Monteiro, together with Tama Goh (drums), Brian Benson (bass) and Andrew Lim (guitar), is the resident act at Fairmont Singapore’s INK Club Bar. Where: Fairmont Singapore, Level 1, INK Club Bar, 80 Bras Basah Road MRT: City Hall
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          54 12 KTPH BICYCLE POST DESIGN COMPETITION The new Khoo Teck Puat Hospital, together with Temasek Design School and DesignSingapore, is holding a design competition for bicycle posts on its premises. Info: Download a registration form from www.ktph.com.sg. Submit your designs in four Jpeg images with a 500-word write-up to ktphbikepost@alexandrahealth.sg.
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          83 12 MEN IN TUTUS (LES BALLETS GRANDIVA) A comic dance performance by Les Ballets Grandiva, an international all-men troupe, spoofing classical and contemporary ballet. Where: Esplanade Theatre MRT: City Hall When: Till Sun, 3 8pm Admission: $48 $93 Tel: 6348-5555 SIMPLY BALLROOM THE CHAMPIONS TOUR Some of the best ballroom
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          208 12 INLAND EMPIRE BY DAVID LYNCH An actress (Laura Dern) prepares for her biggest role but finds herself falling for her co-star. Where: The Picturehouse, 5th Floor, The Cathay, 2 Handy Road MRT: Dhoby Ghaut When: Tomorrow, 11.30am Admission: Free for members of the Singapore Film Society. Pay $30 $90
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          331 12 OCEAN BUTTERFLIES Catch *Scape’s first Chinese concert in Orchard Road in collaboration with Ocean Butterflies, showcasing songs across multiple genres from xinyao, solo guitar, a cappella to beatbox. Accompanied by dancers from Ocean Butterflies. Where: *Scape at Orchard Road, stage on the main pedestrian walkway between Wisma Atria and
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          144 13 jp This frantic, high-energy comedy about crazy Japanese lovers is full of black humour. By Theatre Group Gumbo from Japan, winner of the Melbourne Fringe Commendation Award. Where: Esplanade Theatre Studio MRT: City Hall When: Today, 8pm Admission: $20 $30 Tel: 6348-5555 Info: www.esplanade.com SONIC FRINGE: OUR
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          474 13 PERSISTENT VISIONS London-based artist Erika Tan presents a view of British colonising missions in the East through a 24-minute three-screen installation work. Where: National University of Singapore Museum, University Cultural Centre Annex, 50 Kent Ridge Crescent MRT: Clementi When: Till Feb 1,10am 7.30pm (Tue Sat), 10am 6pm (Sun), closed
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          242 13 WAX ON WAX OFF (STASSH) Local jocks KFC and Dave Tan of music collective Stassh will helm the decks with good ol’ vinyl. Where: OverEasy, One Fullerton MRT: City Hall When: Today, 10pm Admission: Free Tel: 6423-0701 Info: www.overeasy.com.sg DJ TOMMY (LMF) From popular Hong Kong hip-hop band LMF,
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          49 13 NOMINATIONS FOR 2010 ARTS AWARDS Nominations are open for the 2010 Cultural Medallion and Young Artist Award in four categories: Literary Arts, Performing Arts, Visual Arts and Film. Info: To make a nomination online and for more information, go to www.nac.gov.sg. Closing date for nominations is Feb 26.
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          334 13 GAYA 2010: THE TALE OF SITTI NURBAYA This musical adapted from the classic Indonesian novel by Marah Roesli follows the struggles of a young girl as she has to choose between love and filial piety. Presented by SMU Komunitas Indonesia. Where: Lee Foundation Theatre, Nanyang Academy of
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          253 13 HIGH PERFORMANCE LEADERSHIP Learn to be a high-performing leader at this seminar with speakers Lindsay Adams, Dr Gian Casimir, Chris Fenney, Tim Wade and Arthur Carmazzi. By ST701, the e-marketplace of Singapore Press Holdings. Where: SPH News Centre, 1000 Toa Payoh North MRT: Braddell When: Today, 9am 5pm Admission:
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          200 13 CAUCASIAN CHALK CIRCLE IN THERUKKOOTHU German playwright Bertolt Brecht’s staging device of a play within a play is used in Therukkoothu, a dynamic form of traditional Tamil street theatre. This play is about a servant girl in a legal battle for child custody. Where: Young Musicians’ Society Auditorium, 54
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          131 12 show andy chen recommends Local magicians J.C. Sum “Magic Babe” Ning’s (both right) latest stunt is to predict 4-D lottery numbers, said to be the first-ever such prediction in Singapore. How this qualifies as magic is a mystery, but this might be fun for a
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          83 12 gig eddino abdul hadi recommends Merging folk, pop, experimental music and everything in between, critically acclaimed Chicago singer-songwriter Andrew Bird (left) is a multi-instrument-playing wonder. Be it for the melancholic strains of his violin, the joyous, jangly strumming of his guitar, or his artful whistling, his first
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          72 12 theatre christa yeo recommends Comedian Sebastian Tan (right) of Broadway Beng fame directs Just So: A Musical by George Stiles Anthony Drewe, based on the short stories of Rudyard Kipling. Xinyao stalwart Jimmy Ye is the vocal director for this opening show of the Singapore Management University’s
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        137 13  -  Tay Suan Chiang “Most people look at weekends simply as a time for rest. For me, there is no difference between time for work and time for peace and relaxation. Art is my passion. Never have I considered what I love to be a chore. Weekends are times
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        222 18 Associated Press London Hollywood sci-fi extravaganza Avatar, Iraq drama The Hurt Locker and British coming-of-age story An Education earned eight nominations apiece yesterday in the race for the British Academy Film Awards (Baftas), Britain’s equivalent of the Oscars. The three films are up for Best Picture
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          44 18 China said Avatar has become the most successful film in the country after grossing some 540 million yuan (S$110.5 million) since Jan 4. It broke the box-office record of 460 million yuan set last year by Hollywood disaster film, 2012.
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          34 18 Taiwanese girl group S.H.E (right) will be back with their new world tour on April 17 at the Singapore Indoor Stadium. Tickets from $88 to $168 are on sale at Sis tic.
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          40 18 Jennifer Lyon, a contestant on Survivor: Palau, died on Tuesday in Oregon, aged 37. She finished fourth on the reality show’s 10th season, which aired in 2005, the year she was diagnosed with stage three breast cancer.
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        298 18 Associated Press New York The Grammys will go 3-D for the first time with an unprecedented tribute in honour of Michael Jackson, including a 3-D film the singer made before his death. He made the 3-D mini movie for his hit Earth Song for the planned This
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        177 18 Hong Kong Hong Kong blockbuster Bodyguards And Assassins and South Korean murder mystery Mother lead the Asian Film Awards race with six nods each, including Best Film. Directed by Teddy Chen, Bodyguards is also in the running for Best Actor for Wang Xueqi, Best
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      792 14 Recession or not, local companies continue to venture overseas and make their mark The local market is just not big enough. This is the constant refrain of many small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) when asked why they have chosen to expand their businesses out of Singapore.
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      488 2  -  TEE HUN CHING Editor hunching@sph.com.sg With three days to go before my husband had to leave for a work trip to China recently, I found myself clucking like a mother hen. The temperature had plunged to minus 20 deg C in Shenyang, one of the two cities he
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        701 4  -  Ian Lee Local label Raoul is going places its goat skin Brill Clutch (above) made the Jan 5 cover (right) of respected New York fashion trade journal, Women’s Wear Daily (WWD). A happy Douglas Benjamin, Raoul’s creative director, says: “This is a defining moment for Raoul
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      148 6  -  Hong Xinyi Sigourney Weaver Meryl Streep may be getting all the awards but when it comes to red carpet style, she has a lot to learn from this statuesque 60-year-old actress. Weaver looks amazing in this one-shouldered draped forest-green number by Herve L. Leroux. Diane
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      223 6  -  Imran Jalal These two head-turners were spotted at the Harajuku Street Style event at Tangs Orchard on Jan 1 5 Tao Yiling, 27, fashion school graduate What are you wearing? My top is from Bysi and cost $23. The skirt, shoes and tights are all from Topshop
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      520 14  -  Lesley Teoh Sylvester Sim, 27, performer and Singapore Idol runner-up He may be a rocker with a bad-boy image but underneath that stage glitter and cocky grin, Singapore Idol runner-up Sylvester Sim is just as worried about the man in the mirror as anyone else. The
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      743 14  -  Hong Xinyi Jonathan lee, 22, runs his own business in the lifestyle industry Although he is barely in his 20s, Lee has already spent about $35,000 on plastic surgery and he is not done yet. It all began when he was 18. Having “always wanted
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      804 22  -  Guerlain has discovered a youthful secret in orchids, reports KAREN TEE in Siem Reap KAREN TEE karentee@sph.com.sg The universal quest for the secret to youthful good looks has led to a discovery flowering in Asia’s own backyard the orchid. The graceful flower, known for its delicate petals and
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