The Straits Times, 18 October 2010

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    19 1 THE STRAITS TIMES. MICA (P) 094/11/2009 MONDAY, OCTOBER 18 2010 A SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS PUBLICATION ESTABLISHED 1845 90 CENTS
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    Lock icon Critics slam Fed’s money-printing plan
    819 1  -  They say US move is self-centred but others say it may spur growth BY FIONA CHAN ASSISTANT MONEY EDITOR AS THE United States gave its strongest indication yet that it will embark on a spree of printing money to spur its economy and avoid deflation,
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    Lock icon STAR POWER FOR PRESIDENT’S STAR CHARITY
    97 1 SHAOLIN monks joined Hong Kong star Karen Mok and Singapore celebrities in performing before President S R Nathan at last night’s President’s Star Charity concert, which raised $510,000 in public donations. Overall, the show raised $5.647 million. This year’s tally is short of last
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    Lock icon Marine Cove tenants get quit notice
    794 1  -  BY JESSICA LIM limjess@sph.com.sg THE clutch of pubs and restaurants and the bowling alley surrounding the McDonald’s outlet in East Coast Park may be no more by March. The 32 tenants of Marine Cove, as the place is called, were told by their master
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      91 1 SUBSCRIBE Call 6388-3838 You’ll get a gift when you subscribe to The Straits Times Two-week series kicks off today THE MONDAY INTERVIEW Amanda Heng’s body of work LIFE! PAGE C4 WORLD, PAGES A16 AND 17 SPECIAL REPORT Keepingfloods at bay PRIME, PAGES A6 AND A7 BREAKING NEWS: www.straitstimes.com INTERACT: www.stomp.com.sg
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      Lock icon No win for new owners
      59 1 LIVERPOOL were beaten 2-0 by Everton in the Merseyside derby yesterday as the English footballing giants’ new era of ownership got off to a bitterly disappointing start. The club was sold to New England Sports Ventures on Friday after a legal battle with unpopular former
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      Lock icon Mired in mud
      42 1 MORE than four years after an eruption of mud swept through villages in Sidoarjo, East Java, Indonesia correspondent Wahyudi Soeriaatmadja, who recently visited the disaster site, found out that life has not improved for the victims. WORLD PAGE A10
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      Lock icon Social crisis in Germany
      41 1 ATTEMPTS to build a multicultural society in Germany have “utterly failed”, said Chancellor Angela Merkel. She also called on immigrants to do more to integrate. Her comments came amid rising anti-immigration feeling in Germany. WORLD PAGE A19
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      Lock icon Serving seniors – for a fee
      51 1 Serving seniors for a fee COMMERCIALLY run senior service centres are to come up in Ang Mo Kio, Queenstown and Jurong West. They will provide free information and referrals and respond to emergency calls. But they can also provide a range of other services and price them accordingly. HOME PAGE
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      Lock icon SGX stocks’ turn to shine
      55 1 SHARES of the Singapore Exchange have swung from being laggard blue-chips to star performers, rising a stellar 21.7 per cent since the start of the year. With a market value of almost $11 billion, rhe SGX has become one of the most valuable bourses in
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        Lock icon ADMM-Plus: A mouthful but useful
        101 2 WE SAY Its abbreviation may be a mouthful, but the ADMM+8 meeting got off to a fine start last week. At first glance, a new dialogue platform in Asia focusing on security seems a tad unnecessary, considering that the regional diplomatic calendar is already packed
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        Lock icon No longer tied to history
        55 2 COLUMNS The decision by the High Court of Uttar Pradesh on a 61-year-old suit over possession of a disputed site in Ayodhya shows that India is ready to leave behind the problems of the 16th century as it takes its place in the 21st, says
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        Lock icon Striking a balance
        32 2 *Scape could balance its not-for-profit roots with the need to keep its retailers happy by picking an anchor tenant that appeals to youth, says Jessica Lim. HOME PAGE B8
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        Lock icon Gen Y soldiers not soft
        38 2 OUR READER SAYS Crying does not mean one is soft, says Eruza Tan, explaining why members of his basic military training company cried after successfully completing a gruelling field camp. FORUM PAGE A24
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        15 2 www.straitstimes.com Abdul Hafiz notes how New Delhi has changed since his last visit.
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      Lock icon Combat cyberbullying from the classroom
      1000 2  -  Schools should set rules on Internet behaviour as interactions move online BY SANDRA LEONG sandral@sph.com.sg FROM the playground to the Internet, the archetypal schoolyard bully has found a new lair. Discussions on the phenomenon of cyberbullying which is the use of information technology to harass,
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      Lock icon Rotten parents cannot expect financial help from children
      567 3  -  MPs to propose changes to Maintenance of Parents Act BY LIEW HANQING hanqing@sph.com.sg PARENTS who approach the Tribunal for the Maintenance of Parents for help may not be successful if they were remiss in their duties as parents. This is because the
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      117 3  -  BY LIM SIN THAI PHOTOJOURNALIST It’s that golden time of the day when things start to wind down, people head home, and friends and family start getting together. Straits Times photographers show their take on that moment in the Prime pages every Monday entitled 6.39pm. A crane stands
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      Lock icon Thai ‘red shirts’ rally as ruling party faces financial probe
      630 4  -  PM Abhisit to testify today in trial that could see party dissolved BY NIRMAL GHOSH THAILAND CORRESPONDENT nirmal@sph.com.sg BANGKOK: More political uncertainty is threatening divided Thailand, with thousands of anti-government “red shirts” rallying yesterday amid risks that Premier Abhisit Vejjajiva’s
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      Lock icon Opposition parties gear up for polls
      551 8  -  Efforts made to woo volunteers and identify possible candidates BY KOR KIAN BENG, TESSA WONG, ANDREA ONG twong@sph.com.sg andreao@sph.com.sg kianbeng@sph.com.sg TO PREPARE for the possibility of a general election in the next few months, opposition parties have ramped up efforts to recruit members and
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      Lock icon Fifa president vows probe into World Cup bribing claims
      512 8 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE ASSOCIATED PRESS REUTERS LONDON: Fifa president Sepp Blatter has promised an “in-depth investigation” into allegations by a British newspaper that two Fifa executive committee members offered to sell their votes in World Cup bidding, calling the claims “very negative”.
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      Lock icon Super typhoon roars towards Philippines
      538 9 Megi is strongest typhoon to threaten country in 4 years ASSOCIATED PRESS AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE MANILA: The strongest typhoon to threaten the Philippines in recent years roared menacingly towards the country’s north yesterday, forcing thousands of villagers to flee to safety and sparking massive emergency preparations.
      ASSOCIATED PRESS; AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE; PHOTO: AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE  -  538 words
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      Lock icon $2b flood control
      568 6 The total flood-prone area in Singapore today is 2% of its size in 1970, with $2 billion being spent on flood prevention in the last 30 years. The Straits Times looks at the measures behind the success story, and also at why some floods are still inevitable.
      Sources: PUB and NEA; GRAPHICS: MIKE M DIZON TEXT: FENG ZENGKUN PHOTOS: MIKE M DIZON and PUB  -  568 words
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      Lock icon Long-term planning cut flood-prone areas
      1432 7  -  PUB veteran helped design drainage system that has reduced such areas by 98% BY CHANG AI-LIEN SENIOR CORRESPONDENT ailien@sph.com.sg PUB veteran Yap Kheng Guan knows Singapore’s extensive network of drains like the back of his hand after all, he built many of them. Drains have
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  • WORLD.
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      Lock icon Mud, sweat & tears
      1658 10  - Mud, sweat tears It has been more than four years since an eruption of mud swept through villages in Sidoarjo, burying houses in its wake. The Straits Times revisits the area to find out how the people are coping now BY WAHYUDI SOERIAATMADJA INDONESIA CORRESPONDENT wahyudis@sph.com.sg THE humid air is
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      Lock icon WHAT’S ONLINE MOST READ, MOST COMMENTED ON AND MORE
      102 10 www.straitstimes.com MOST-READ ONLINE Horror event depicted as child’s play MOST COMMENTED ON Territorial spat a risk to peace in Asia-Pacific. Says GhostRider666: “The territorial disputes are not ultimately bilateral. Many countries have staked claims on those islands. The countries involved need
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        Lock icon Hope fades for 11 trapped miners in Henan
        362 12 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE BEIJING: Rescuers said yesterday there was little hope that 11 missing miners survived a gas leak in a coal mine in central China that killed 26 of their colleagues, just hours after Chile offered help in the rescue. Mr Du
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        Lock icon Vent anti-Japan sentiments ‘rationally’
        542 12 Anger ‘understandable’ but protesters must not violate laws, says China REUTERS BLOOMBERG ASSOCIATED PRESS BEIJING: China yesterday called on its people to keep within the law in expressing their “understandable” anger at Japan, a day after protesters in both nations rallied to claim sovereignty over disputed
        REUTERS; BLOOMBERG; ASSOCIATED PRESS; PHOTO: ASSOCIATED PRESS  -  542 words
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        Lock icon Nobel panel ‘blind to true state of human rights in China’
        328 12 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE XINHUA BEIJING: China’s official news agency blasted the Nobel committee yesterday for ignoring the country’s human rights development by honouring “convicted Chinese criminal Liu Xiaobo”. In one of its first English commentaries since the jailed activist won
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        Lock icon Hot Chinese economy spawning bubbles
        761 13  -  Eager speculators with abundant cash drawn to profiteering schemes BY GRACE NG CHINA CORRESPONDENT graceng@sph.com.sg BEIJING: China has never looked more like bubbleland. It is not just its roller-coaster stock markets and sky-high property prices that seem suspiciously bloated. Valuable teas like dahongpao, Commu-nist-era stamps
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        Lock icon Grouses over slots, landing charges at Haneda Airport
        324 13 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE TOKYO: The city’s Haneda Airport will get a new runway and terminal on Thursday, which will boost its capacity for international flight services, but some carriers are unhappy with the landing charges and slotted departure times. Slots for airlines from
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        Lock icon Myanmar to build China rail link
        232 13 YANGON: Myanmar has planned to construct a railroad that will link a deep-sea port in its western Rakhine state with Kunming city in south-west China, a local weekly has reported. The Kyaukpyu-Kunming railroad, which is part of the Kyaukpyu-Ruili platform project and Myanmar’s railroad
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        Lock icon At least 21 die in Karachi shootings
        371 14 ASSOCIATED PRESS AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE KARACHI: Gunmen have killed at least 21 people in Pakistan’s largest city in the past two days, raising tensions as voters cast ballots yesterday to replace a lawmaker murdered in August. Police said they were still investigating the motives
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        Lock icon Dismay over KL’s skyscraper project
        506 14  -  But other parts of Malaysian budget, such as sales tax breaks, get thumbs-up BY HAZLIN HASSAN MALAYSIA CORRESPONDENT hazlinh@sph.com.sg KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia’s plans for a 100-storey skyscraper announced in the new budget have set off ripples of dismay, with many calling it an unnecessary extravagance.
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        Lock icon 3 contenders vying for PKR No. 2 post
        496 14 THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia’s opposition Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) is gearing up for a three-corner fight for the No. 2 post in its internal elections. PKR vice-president Azmin Ali, said widely to be backed by the party’s de facto
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        Lock icon Indian cities in the grip of gridlock
        941 15  -  Rapidly rising car-ownership causing jams and millions of dollars in lost productivity BY NIRMALA GANAPATHY INDIA CORRESPONDENT gnirmala@sph.com.sg EVERY morning in the cities of Mumbai, New Delhi and Bangalore, around 50 young men and women turn up along busy roads at 8am, to
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        Lock icon Does money still talk in US politics?
        962 16  -  In about two weeks, on Nov 2, voters across the United States go to the polls to elect senators and representatives, governors, state lawmakers and local officials. The Straits Times Foreign Desk kicks off its coverage of the event today ON THE CAMPAIGN
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        Lock icon Obama campaigns ahead of Nov 2 polls
        669 17 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE SOURCE: BBC REUTERS ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON: United States President Barack Obama yesterday pursued a coast-to-coast campaign blitz through key battlegrounds, looking to energise Democrats and stave off a likely drubbing in elections barely two weeks off. “This is a tough political
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        Lock icon Germany’s multicultural model ‘fails’
        570 19 Merkel adds fuel to debate over Islam and immigration REUTERS POTSDAM: Germany’s attempt to create a multicultural society has “utterly failed”, Chancellor Angela Merkel said, adding fuel to a debate over immigration and Islam polarising her conservative camp. Speaking to a meeting of young members of
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        Lock icon Make-or-break week for Sarkozy as strikes persist
        537 19 REUTERS ASSOCIATED PRESS PARIS: French President Nicolas Sarkozy faces a make-or-break week for his unpopular pension reform as rail and refinery workers, truck drivers and street marchers ramp up pressure to scrap it before a crucial Senate vote. Throughout months of opposition to
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        Lock icon Terrorist was a US agency informant
        520 20  -  FBI knew of his terrorist ties, but officials said it could not confirm any NIRMALA GANAPATHY WASHINGTON POST NEW YORK TIMES ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON: Federal officials have acknowledged that David Coleman Headley, the United States businessman who confessed to being a terrorist scout in
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        Lock icon Pilgrims hail first Australian saint
        136 20 Pilgrims holding a poster of Australia’s first saint, Mary MacKillop, during a canonisation mass led by Pope Benedict XVI in Saint Peter’s Square at the Vatican yesterday. “Through her intercession, may her followers today continue to serve God and the Church with faith and humility,”
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          Lock icon Titanic survivor tale sold
          70 20 ASSOCIATED PRESS LONDON: A first-person account of the Titanic disaster has fetched £20,000 (S$41,000) in a British auction. The affidavit signed by Laura Francatelli, who got away in a lifeboat, easily topped its pre-sale estimate of £15,000. In it, she described an “awful rumbling” as the
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          Lock icon Putins’ show of unity
          108 20 REUTERS MOSCOW: Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and his wife Lyudmila made a rare joint public appearance at the weekend, seeking to end persistent divorce rumours. In a video posted on the government’s website yesterday, the couple jointly answered questions from a census-taker who visited Mr
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          Lock icon Stampede in temple
          95 20 ASSOCIATED PRESS PATNA: An argument over sacrificing goats during a Hindu festival triggered a stampede that killed 10 people yesterday in a packed temple in northern India, officials said. More than 40,000 people had taken their goats to the Tildiha village temple in Bihar state to offer
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          Lock icon Seoul on G-20 high alert
          80 20 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE SEOUL: South Korea will go on maximum alert for next month’s Group of 20 (G-20) summit in Seoul against any possible terror attacks or disruption by North Korea, military officials said yesterday. Tens of thousands of police and troops will guard public areas
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  • REVIEW & FORUM.
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      Lock icon ADMM-Plus: A mouthful but useful
      409 22 ITS abbreviation is a mouthful, but the ADMM-Plus meeting got off to a fine start last week. Amid rising tensions in the region, defence ministers from the 10 Asean member-states, along with their counterparts from the United States, China, Russia, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, India
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      Lock icon India: No longer handcuffed to history
      860 22  -  BY SHASHI THAROOR The writer, a former Indian minister of state for external affairs and UN Under-Secretary General, is a member of India’s Parliament and the author of several books, most recently Nehru: The Invention Of India (in German). A RECENT court ruling has
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      Lock icon The coming water crisis in Asia
      847 22  -  BY MICHAEL RICHARDSON The writer is a visiting senior research fellow at the Institute of South East Asian Studies. PHOTOGRAPHS from satellites in space show Asia and the other great land continents as a spectacular sight, with vast tracts that show water resources in
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      63 5 PERANAKAN culture was firmly in evidence in the northern housing estate of Sembawang yesterday. Residents enjoyed traditional fare like ondeh-ondeh and a Peranakan skit and sing-along, among activities organised by Sembawang Women’s Executive Committee, True Blue Cuisine restaurant, and the North West Community Development
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          42 6 If you haven’t planned your year-end holiday, get good deals at Chan Brothers’travel fair this Sunday.There are early bird discounts for those who buy tour packages for next year. The fair is open from 10am to 8pm at Suntec Singapore’sLevel3concourse.
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          39 6 Enjoy huge discounts when you visit the Electronics Sports Expo 2010 from Oct 22 to 24,11am to 9pm at Singapore Expo Hall 4. DVD players, hair dryers and digital cameras are going at $5 each. Limited stock.
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        99 6 JEANS lovers here are among the first in the world outside the United States to wear a pair fromdENiZEN. Denim giant Levi Strauss Co. brought in the stylish wear’sFall/Holiday2010collection to the local stores recently. Designed for young people, the new collection is inspired by the colours
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        175 6 FROM now till Oct 31, open a Step-Up Time Deposit (TD) account with Standard Chartered Bank and you could enjoy higher interest rates if the TD is held to maturity of 12 months. This promotion is applicable only to those who open a
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        141 6  - Sheraton Nha Trang Hotel Spa opens in Vietnam Leong Phei Phei LEADING international hotel chain Starwood celebrated the official opening of Sheraton Nha Trang Hotel Spa recently. Located on the south-central coast of Vietnam, the 30-storey Sheraton Nha Trang Hotel Spa is downtown Nha Trang’s first five-star hotel. Each of
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      478 7  -  Project to provide new roof, sculptures after obtaining govt approval BY LIN YANG lyang@sph.com.sg AFTER 30 days at sea, Chinese coolies disembarking at Singapore’s old harbour headed for one important landmark to thank their deities for the safe passage: the Yueh Hai Ching Temple. Built
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      248 7 THE Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) completed and handed over a clinic they had funded and constructed to the Afghanistan authorities on Saturday. The completion of the clinic in Bamiyan province in central Afghanistan also marks the end of SAF’s deployment in the
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      284 9 THE TIMES, LONDON LONDON: Roy Hodgson’s job appears to be safe for the time being after Tom Werner, the new Liverpool co-owner, pledged that he will be given time and money to turn things round at Anfield. John W. Henry, a fellow co-owner, has also backed
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      636 9 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE LONDON: Manchester United were yesterday forced to dismiss claims that they will sell under-fire striker Wayne Rooney during the January transfer window. The England man was left on the bench by manager Alex Ferguson for Saturday’s Premier League clash with
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      164 10 REUTERS LONDON: Arsenal midfielder Jack Wilshere became the unlikely pin-up for the campaign to keep tackling in football after the teenager delivered an appalling challenge that earned him a straight red card on Saturday. The 18-year-old, known for his deft touch, looked more like a Sunday
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        42 11 REUTERS HAMBURG: Ukraine’s Vitali Klitschko, 39, retained his World Boxing Council heavyweight title by beating American Shannon Briggs on points on Saturday. Klitschko has now won 41 of 43 fights in his career, 38 of them by knockout.
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        55 11 JOHOR BARU: Singaporean golfer Mardan Mamat shot a four-under 68 to finish fourth at the Iskandar Johor Open on 15-under 273. He was five strokes behind winner Padraig Harrington, who shot a 69. Korean Noh Seung Yul (65) was second on 271, and Taiwan’s Lin
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      785 11  -  ARUNNER’S DIARY ST/100PLUS SWEET 16 MARATHON PLAN BY JEANETTE WANG jwang@sph.com.sg The writer is the associate editor of Shape, Singapore’s premier health, fitness, wellness and nutrition magazine for women. GOT a niggle in your knee or a heel that hurts?
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      927 12 NEW YORK TIMES NEW YORK: In a recent pre-season game against the New Jersey Nets, Boston Celtics’ Paul Pierce punched the air in frustration after being whistled for a foul. He then looked around in curiosity after hearing the whistle again. In a circumstance
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    958 13 OBITUARIES “Surely Goodness Mercy shall follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.’’ Psalm 23.6 FLORENCETEO nee BENG SUAT BOEY 1921 2010 Was called home to be with the LORD on 16 October. She will always be cherished by
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        545 14  -  Focus on GLP and MIT as rest of market turns quieter ahead of results MARKETS INSIGHT BY GOH ENG YEOW SENIOR CORRESPONDENT engyeow@sph.com.sg NEW listings are likely to take centre stage this week, as investors hold back on further purchases in the rest
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        98 14 Currencies Oct 15 CHNG YR 2010 CLOSE FR Oct 14 S$ LOW S$ HIGH US$ 1.2963 -0.05 1.4219 1.2956 Euro 1.8266 -0.10 2.0153 1.6886 2.0796 -0.01 2.2831 2.0003 A$ 1.2903 +0.09 1.2960 1.1515 Yen* 1.5958 +0.12 1.6080 1.4467 Rupiah* 0.***** -0.05 0.***** 0.***** Where S$ stands Oct 15
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        2689 14 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS A unit trust or investment-linked insurance policy qualifies for inclusion under the CPF Investment Scheme if it has: a three-year track record, top quartile performance, a sales charge not exceeding 3 per cent and an expense ratio that is lower than the median of existing funds in
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        199 14 Week's Top Rises CENTS CityDev.ES.1010 1364 118.0 9.5 SGX.ES.1010 995 47.0 5.0 Wilmar.ES.1010 637 36.0 6.0 SGX RB eCW*****1 95 29.5 45.0 SGX DB eCW*****8 74.5 22.0 41.9 SGX MBL eCW*****4 59 20.0 51.3 YangzijiMBLeCW*****2 65 20.0 44.4 SGX MBL eCW*****1 43.5 18.5 74.0 ManhattanRes W*****9 41
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        204 14 Week's Top Rises CENTS GLD 10US$ ***** 574.0 3.4 DBXT iBoxxUSTr 5US$ ***** 316.1 1.3 DBXT MSEurope 10US$ 4475 206.0 3.7 DBXT FTChina25 10US$ 3344 190.5 4.6 DBXT AUD Bonds 5AU$ ***** 175.3 0.9 DBXT USDIGInfl 5US$ ***** 155.5 0.5 DBXT Nifty 10US$ ***** 143.8 0.8 Lyxor
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        360 14 BLOOMBERG WASHINGTON: Builders in the United States probably started fewer homes last month, while production rose for a seventh month evidence of uneven growth, economists said before reports this week. Work began on 580,000 houses at an annual rate, down 3 per cent
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      813 16  -  Need to shore up investor confidence, safeguard Singapore’s name in wake of corporate scandals C A I JIN BY GOH ENG YEOW engyeow@sph.com.sg Cai Jin runs every Monday and covers financial matters and corporate governance issues that can affect investors. The two Chinese characters
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      273 16 BLOOMBERG SAN FRANCISCO: The Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago’s president, Mr Charles Evans, said the United States is in a “bona fide liquidity trap” and needs “much more” monetary accommodation in the face of high unemployment and too-low inflation. “If you
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      219 16 BLOOMBERG RIMINI (Italy): European Central Bank (ECB) president Jean-Claude Trichet said the “overwhelming majority” of the bank’s 22-member governing council still back government bond purchases, rebuffing a call from Bundesbank head Axel Weber to terminate the programme. Asked in an interview with
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      599 18  -  Research by local firm may finally allow mass production of jatropha BY JESSICA CHEAM jcheam@sph.com.sg A SINGAPORE-BASED company has developed a home-grown technology that will for the first time commercialise mass production of the jatropha plant. This breakthrough by JOil, a
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      448 18 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE REUTERS BLOOMBERG HONG KONG: AIA Group said yesterday it could raise up to US$20.5 billion (S$26.5 billion) in its global initial public offering (IPO) this month the world’s third-largest. At a press conference in Hong Kong, the Asian unit
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      810 19  -  The legal profession is attracting some mid-career workers WORKING LIFE BY DHEVARAJAN DEVADAS ddheva@sph.com.sg AFTER 13 years in the television industry as a news producer, Mr Darren King felt his career had stagnated. He sensed he did not have much opportunity to climb the ladder
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        91 19 Appointed chief executive of HSBC Global Asset Management, Asia-Pacific. Ms Munro will take up her new role in the second quarter of next year, and will be based in Hong Kong. She succeeds Mr Rudolf Apenbrink, who was appointed chief executive of HSBC Global Asset Management
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        53 19 Appointed K-Reit Asia Management’s chief financial officer last Friday. Ms Chan has more than 18 years of industry experience, with roles in group finance, tax, accounting, corporate finance and treasury. She has also held various senior finance positions, with portfolios spanning the Asia-Pacific and Middle East regions.
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      304 19  -  FIONA CHAN WITHIN an hour of opening its doors on Saturday, The Canopy in Yishun had sold all the 20 units allocated to upgraders. Another 80 or so units were booked by first-time buyers over the weekend, said Mr Tan Zhi Yong, managing
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      826 20  -  It has become one of world’s most valuable bourses, with a 21.7% rise so far this year REVERSAL OF FORTUNE BY GOH ENG YEOW SENIOR CORRESPONDENT daily engyeow@sph.com.sg THE Singapore Exchange (SGX), the firm that operates the local bourse, has swung from being a laggard
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      101 20 www.straitstimes.com MOST-READ ONLINE Freehold city condo in the works Investor stampede for new DBS issue Multi-millionaire’s credit card launch MOST COMMENTED ON Averting a new world ‘war’. Says Hamm3rSg: “It is time for the Obama administration to clean up its own
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      687 15 Contracts for difference (CFDs) are a relatively new financial product that has quickly grown in popularity. Originally developed as a hedging tool in the 1990s, they are used to speculate on the changes (both long and short) in an asset’s price. If the price
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      742 15 Exchange-traded funds (ETFs) are considered a highly desirable addition to an investor’s portfolio. They offer an easy way to gain exposure to a wide range of securities, including stocks that may not normally be withintheaverageinvestor’sreach;theyareflexibleand provide diversification with a low level of risk; and
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      730 15 Over recent years, investors have become more sophisticated as they gain exposure to different global investment instruments. Asset classes with good liquidity, such as forex and futures, are beginning to appeal to more and more retail investors. Forex trading is the buying and selling
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      Lock icon The Philosophy Of Option Trading
      761 15 George Fontanills, co-founder of investment education centre Optionetics, shares his philosophy from a lifetime of trading How did you first get into options trading? What were your early trading days like? After graduating from Harvard Business School, I went to work for my father’s real
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      46 19 Mega ship financing deals splash into S'pore China's banking giants which dwarf their lending peers in the West in ship financing are involved in some of the industry's biggest deals wrapped up in Singapore 1^3 L 1 Today in THE BUSINESS TIMES A publication of srfl
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      365 1 Veteran’s Silver Lining Revisit 1980s J-rock Boys to men Richard Ng on family and ageing C2 Anzen Chitai reunite for concert tour C5 Macho men are back in vogue C8 Artist Amanda Heng, who received the Cultural Medallion last week, tells ADELINE CHIA about surviving uterine cancer and using her
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        878 2  -  For his latest Channel 5 series, veteran comedian Richard Ng plays a no-nonsense grandfather 8QUESTIONSWITH...RichardNg rachael boon rachaelb@sph.com.sg Behind every successful man is a woman of steely determination and strength, and that man has to be prepared when his strong woman threatens to wrestle the telephone away
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        418 3  -  yip wai yee Who: Toby Chan (above), 22, Miss Hong Kong 2010. She was crowned the winner of the annual beauty pageant on Aug 1 but Netizens have labelled her “zhu pa”, which literally means “pork chop” in Cantonese and is used informally to mean “ugly
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        595 3  -  Despite being lauded with accolades by fans, Taiwanese veteran singer Fong Fei-fei says all she really has is experience rachael boon Who: Veteran Taiwanese songstress Fong Fei-fei, 57, is known not only for her singing prowess but also her myriad collection of stunning hats. Having
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      436 5 Agence France-Presse Wellington The long-awaited movies based on J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit were given the green light on Saturday but no location was named amid an ongoing union threat to boycott the production in New Zealand. The announcement by New Line Cinema and its parent
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      122 6 ‘To do things well, first the brain has to be willing, then the mouth has to agree, and then the hands and feet have to be happy’ Television cook So Sze Wong (left) ‘My least favourite thing is that “duck lip” look that is so prevalent.
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      710 6  -  While Othman Ibrahim got a special mention in the playwriting contest, many did not make the cut natasha ann zachariah natashaz@sph.com.sg Being unfamiliar with laptops did not stop bus driver Othman Ibrahim from writing a play in 24 hours. All he needed was a
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      332 6 Reuters London Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards says in his new autobiography that Mick Jagger became unbearable over the years and reveals he also calls the imperious lead singer “Your Majesty” and “Brenda”. The memoir is peppered with references to other celebrities from Johnny Depp to John
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      619 7  -  Forget fancy sentimentality. This Giselle, who checks into an asylum, is dark and poignant reviewdance GISELLE Lyon Opera Ballet (France) Esplanade Theatre/Last Saturday tara tan stlife@sph.com.sg Prudes, beware. Swedish choreographer Mats Ek’s Giselle is a wolf in sheep clothing. A very, very lewd wolf. In this
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      437 7 Associated Press Berlin A rare sheet of 10 stamps depicting Audrey Hepburn fetched ¤430,000 (S$779,045) at a charity auction in Berlin, two-thirds of which will go to help educate children in sub-Saharan Africa. The mint-condition stamps feature Hepburn with a smile and
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      336 8 Associated Press London Chinese artist Ai Weiwei’s exhibition involving 100 million porcelain sunflower seeds has been closed to visitors because it is generating dust that is a potential health hazard, the Tate Modern gallery said last Friday. Ai filled a giant hall at the London gallery
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        368 10 Nanjing Chinese actress Vicki Zhao was crowned Best Actress but it was an appearance by Chinese star Zhang Ziyi that titillated the media. At the 30th Hundred Flowers Awards last Saturday at Jiangyin city in Jiangsu province, Zhao wiped away tears of joy after winning
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        413 10 New York Times New York Barbara Billingsley (right), who as June Cleaver on TV series Leave It To Beaver personified a Hollywood postwar family ideal the ever-helpful suburban stay-at-home mother died last Saturday, aged 94. She died of polymyalgia, a rheumatoid disease, at
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          84 10 Taiwanese actress Tien Niu, 53, said a romance with a man 20 years her junior has “invigorated” her and made her “younger”. At a press conference in Taiwan to endorse a product, she said he is in the media and entertainment line and is over
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          46 10 TV star Neil Patrick Harris said he and partner David Burtka’s surrogate twins arrived last Tuesday. “Babies!! On 10/12, Gideon Scott and Harper Grace entered the Burtka-Harris fold,” he tweeted. “All of us are happy, healthy, tired, and a little pukey.”
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          25 10 Singer Alicia Keys has given birth to Egypt Daoud Dean, her son with husband, music producer-rapper Swizz “Kaseem Dean” Beatz.
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