The Straits Times, 21 December 2010

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    18 1 THE STRAITS TIMES. THE MICA(P)108/11/2010 TUESDAY, DECEMBER 21 2010 A SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS PUBLICATION ESTABLISHED 1845 90 CENTS
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    Lock icon Car-sharing boom
    51 1 CAR-SHARING firms are anticipating a surge in business as the soaring cost of certificates of entitlement (COEs) makes it harder for people to own cars. The number of inquiries at Singapore’s three car-sharing companies have gone up in the past few weeks, fuelling plans for expansion. LHOME PAGE
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    Lock icon Blast linked to fuel theft
    56 1 THE authorities in Mexico yesterday probed a massive pipeline blast which killed at least 28 people, injured dozens of others and engulfed surrounding homes in a raging inferno. The explosion in the town of Texmelucan was apparently caused by thieves trying to siphon off fuel
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    Lock icon Holiday soccer with heart
    43 1 MR ANG Thiam Hock’s quest to solve social problems in his neighbourhood has led him to start an unusual project: a holiday street soccer league for teenagers, many of whom are from poor and dysfunctional families. LHOME PAGE B5
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    Lock icon GIC eyes malls overseas
    57 1 THE Government of Singapore Investment Corporation (GIC) has reportedly put in an offer to buy shopping centres owned by Australia’s debt-ridden Centro Properties Group. GIC joined bidders from around the world in vying for the A$13.5 billion (S$17.6 billion) in assets, which are located in Australia
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    Lock icon TRAGIC END TO CAMERON HIGHLANDS TRIP
    94 1 A mess of twisted metal and strewn luggage marks the remains of a double-decker tourist bus that crashed into a ditch between the Cameron Highlands and Kuala Lumpur yesterday, killing at least 28 people. Apart from three Malaysians two drivers and a tour guide,
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    Lock icon North Korea won’t hit back over latest drill
    726 1 It has also reportedly agreed to allow return of nuclear inspectors REUTERS ASSOCIATED PRESS AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE YEONPYEONG ISLAND: North Korea backed off threats to retaliate against the South’s live-fire drill on a border island yesterday and told United States troubleshooter Bill Richardson
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    Lock icon No jail time for child porn scholar
    776 1  -  BY ALISON DE SOUZA FOR THE STRAITS TIMES LONDON: Jonathan Wong, the Singaporean undergraduate found with child pornography videos on his computer at the University of York, was yesterday given a suspended sentence for his offences. A few hours later, the university said
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    Lock icon Legal recourse for buyers of ‘lemons’ Ministry seeks feedback on proposed lemon law
    787 1  -  BY JESSICA LIM A CONSUMER here who buys a defective product, commonly called a lemon, may soon get some protection. A proposed law will make it compulsory for retailers to either repair or replace the item. But
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      99 1 TABLE TALK: ROBERT KLITGAARD Asian slopes to try out Stay alive to beauty, humour and music LIFE! PAGE C2 REVIEW, PAGE A18 ROHIT BRIJNATH SAYS Need inspiration? Read these books SPORT, PAGE B9 BREAKING NEWS: www.straitstimes.com INTERACT: www.stomp.com.sg EMAIL: stomp@stomp.com.sg VIDEOS: www.razortv.com.sg NEWS TIPS: 1800-*****28 CALL 6388-3838 TO SUBSCRIBE OR
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        Lock icon Japan right and wrong on defence posture
        60 2 WE SAY Japan’s new defence doctrine, focusing on rapid-response capability to meet contingencies, is what would be expected of the government, considering the changed North Asia equation. But Tokyo would have done better emphasising the defence of peace in the region rather than
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        Lock icon Don’t wake sleeping giant
        34 2 COLUMNS Full-blown conflict is not yet on the cards but driving Japan into a corner would be a short-sighted and counter-productive move, says Heng Yee Kuang. L REVIEW PAGE A17
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        Lock icon Globalisation nightmare
        54 2 What makes the Dreamliner saga a cautionary tale is that it is the world’s largest and most ambitious product based on outsourcing and the global supply chain. What went right and wrong with its outsourcing strategy may hold lessons for all involved in globalised manufacturing, says Nayan Chanda.
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        Lock icon Let market forces decide
        45 2 OUR READER SAYS The right price for a pay-TV channel should be determined by market forces. If prices of certain channels are too high, this may be the proximate cause of their extinction, says Koh Kia Jeng. L FORUM PAGE A19
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        Lock icon ONLINE BLOGS
        14 2 www.straitstimes.com L Lai Han-Wei explores whether social networking is making people abusive.
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      Lock icon Bye bye to all that Hindi Chini bhai bhai
      1023 2  -  Despite Chinese PM’s recent visit to India, bilateral ties are fragile BY RAVI VELLOOR SOUTH ASIA BUREAU CHIEF velloor@sph.com.sg WHAT am I to you? Last week, as the world watched, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao and his Indian counterpart, Dr Manmohan Singh,
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      Lock icon Smuggler filled with Ecstasy
      84 3 Customs staff escorting Shopawat Ueamduean, 24, at Ngurah Rai Airport in Kuta, Bali, yesterday. The Thai woman allegedly swallowed more than 1,200 Ecstasy pills and tried to smuggle them into the Indonesian resort island, officials said yesterday. They said she appeared nervous and was found to
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      Lock icon Malay students best improved at O, A levels
      648 3  -  Ethnic group records biggest jump in grades over the past decade BY LEOW SI WAN siwan@sph.com.sg MALAY students have registered the most significant improvement when it came to passing the O- and A-level examinations over the past decade. The percentage of Malay
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      Lock icon Kayakers go missing for six hours on trip
      563 4  -  Close call for group of S’poreans and friends on Philippines excursion BY CHERYL ONG ongyiern@sph.com.sg A KAYAKING expedition in the Philippines by a group of eight Singaporeans and their friends threatened to go awry when two of them went missing for six
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      Lock icon Bus overturns in Malaysia, killing 28
      535 8  -  Most of the victims are Thai tourists returning from Cameron Highlands BY HAZLIN HASSAN MALAYSIA CORRESPONDENT hazlinh@sph.com.sg KUALA LUMPUR: A tour bus overturned on its way down from the Cameron Highlands yesterday, killing at least 28 people in one of the country’s worst bus
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      Lock icon Austria arrests 107 in child porn ring
      336 8 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE VIENNA: A huge child pornography ring involving more than 100 men, including four teachers and a kindergarten employee, has been smashed in Austria. The 107 suspects, aged between 18 and 70, are accused of downloading images of child sex abuse from
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      Lock icon Travellers in Europe still stranded
      692 6 Passengers frustrated as winter weather wreaks havoc for a third day AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE ASSOCIATED PRESS LONDON: Stranded travellers slept on makeshift beds at European airports as wintry weather continued to wreak travel havoc that disrupted, if not dashed, their Christmas holiday plans. In London, Paris,
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      Lock icon Anxious and frustrated passengers at Changi Airport
      598 6  -  BY KARAMJIT KAUR AVIATION CORRESPONDENT HEAVY snowfall in Europe continued to wreak havoc on Singapore-London services for the third day running, with at least eight out of 14 scheduled flights either cancelled or delayed yesterday. British Airways axed three flights while Singapore Airlines
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      Lock icon SUMMER FREEZES OVER
      410 6 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE SYDNEY: Snow fell in Australia yesterday, as the usual hot and summery December weather was replaced in parts by icy gusts sweeping up from the Southern Ocean, giving the country a taste of a white Christmas. Snow has fallen in parts of east coast states
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      Lock icon Indian PM’s intriguing silence on corruption
      846 10  -  His inaction contrasts with his party chief’s call to fight menace NEWS ANALYSIS BY RAVI VELLOOR SOUTH ASIA BUREAU CHIEF velloor@sph.com.sg NEW DELHI: Mrs Sonia Gandhi’s broadside on corruption at her party’s plenary underscores once again her grasp of India’s pulse in contrast to
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      Lock icon Medvedev to make pitch for nuke deal, jet sale in India
      413 10 REUTERS BLOOMBERG NEW DELHI: Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will try to convince India to buy Russian fighter planes and seal a nuclear deal during his two-day visit for talks aimed at boosting ties with the second fastest-growing economy in
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      Lock icon WHAT’S ONLINE MOST READ, YOUR SAY AND MORE
      100 10 www.straitstimes.com MOST-READ ONLINE L Murderer executed with animal drug L Assange freed and back to leaking secrets YOUR SAY L South Korea fired artillery in a 90-minute drill from a front-line island on Monday and launched fighter jets to deter attacks after
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      Lock icon Power cuts hit China as it runs out of coal
      480 11 Cold snap and producers’ unhappiness over price controls cause shortage AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE ASSOCIATED PRESS REUTERS BEIJING: A severe coal shortage has forced power cuts in northern and central regions in China as demand surged due to a cold snap across
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      Lock icon Gundam lookalike in China ‘brought down to earth’
      268 11 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE TOKYO: Japan’s 18m-tall Gundam combat robot, hero to millions of sci-fi animation fans, emerged victorious yesterday, after apparently banishing a lookalike rival from a Chinese amusement park. Japanese devotees of the Mobile Suit Gundam (below) anime series had been up
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      Lock icon Ozawa rejects PM’s plea on ethics panel
      695 12  -  Ruling party faces split as kingpin declines to testify before House panel BY KWAN WENG KIN JAPAN CORRESPONDENT wengkin@sph.com.sg TOKYO: Beleaguered Prime Minister Naoto Kan yesterday failed to persuade political kingpin Ichiro Ozawa to testify before a parliamentary ethics panel in a test
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      Lock icon Video leak: Japan may punish coast guard officials
      314 12 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, XINHUA TOKYO: Japan is considering punishing more than 50 coast guard officials over the leak of a video showing a collision between Japanese and Chinese vessels that sparked a Sino-Japanese row, reports said yesterday. The officials include a 43-year-old officer
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      Lock icon Great way to roll around town
      37 12 Curious onlookers surrounding an egg-shaped electric-powered vehicle in Liaocheng, Shandong province in China on Sunday. The unusual-looking vehicle, with a maximum speed of 35kmh, is popular among elderly people. PHOTO: XINHUA
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      Lock icon S. Korea cracks down on illegal Chinese fishing
      203 12 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE SEOUL: South Korea’s coast guard yesterday announced a new crackdown on illegal fishing in the Yellow Sea, following a deadly clash with Chinese fishermen last week. The three-day exercise involves 18 ships, two helicopters and about 200 personnel, a coast
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      Lock icon Cross-strait ties get a booster jab
      615 13  -  Hope is that health pact will pave way for more meaty accords BY LEE SEOK HWAI TAIWAN CORRESPONDENT seokhwai@sph.com.sg TAIPEI: China’s top envoy for Taiwan affairs yesterday called for further cooperation between the two sides, as tougher issues loom in increasingly complex cross-strait talks.
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      Lock icon All Japan wants for Christmas is KFC
      225 13 TOKYO: This Christmas, Japanese would either be licking their fingers or their wounds depending on whether they get to tuck into a KFC meal. So popular is Kentucky Fried Chicken over the festive season that the fast-food chain’s Christmas Party Barrels can be
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      Lock icon Malaysia may charge 200 detained Shi’ites
      421 14 They face jail for breaching Islamic laws; some scholars slam hard-line stance ASSOCIATED PRESS KUALA LUMPUR: More than 200 Muslim Shi’ites including Iranians, Indonesians, Pakistanis and locals who were detained in one of the biggest swoops on outlawed Muslim sects in Malaysia may be
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      Lock icon Note the artistic licence at play in new peso bills
      487 14 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE MANILA: President Benigno Aquino yesterday defended the Philippines’ new peso notes, mocked by critics for featuring error-strewn maps and apparently inventing a new species of parrot. “If I want to find a particular area, I’d look at a
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      Lock icon Former top immigration official jailed for bribery
      421 14 THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK BERNAMA AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE KUALA LUMPUR: A former deputy director-general of the Immigration Department was sentenced by the Sessions Court here yesterday to 56 years in prison and fined RM620,000 (S$260,000) for 14 counts of bribery, in a rare successful
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      Lock icon Woman dies after caning; Bangladeshi cleric arrested
      240 14 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE DHAKA: A Muslim cleric has been arrested in north-west Bangladesh, following the death of a woman who was publicly caned as punishment by an Islamic court for an extramarital affair, police said yesterday. Ms Sufia Begum, 50, was accused of having
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      Lock icon India, China can transform Asia with good ties: George Yeo
      287 14 KOLKATA: If India and China cooperate and resolve disputes peacefully, it could lead to a transformation of Asia, said Foreign Minister George Yeo yesterday. Good relations between the two Asian giants, he said at a conference in Kolkata, would benefit
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  • world.international
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      Lock icon Grave ‘uprising’ on West Bank
      583 15  -  Palestinian group calls for new cemeteries, reburials there to block Israeli permanent control BY ABRAHAM RABINOVICH FOR THE STRAITS TIMES abra@netvision.net.il JERUSALEM: Palestinians are hoping to mobilise their dead, both past and future, to their national cause by burying them in new cemeteries on West
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      Lock icon Thieves target users of BlackBerrys, iPhones
      187 15 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE PARIS: The fashionable folk tapping on BlackBerrys or using apps on iPhones in New York, Paris or Barcelona have more in common than a taste for expensive handheld devices. They are also likely to be targeted by thieves in a crime wave
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      Lock icon Fuel thieves spark killer pipeline blast
      404 15 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE PUEBLA (Mexico): The authorities yesterday probed a massive pipeline blast which killed at least 28 people, injured dozens of others and engulfed surrounding homes in a raging inferno. Victims included five children and an entire family caught by surprise when the explosion
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      Lock icon Britain detains 12 suspected of terror plot
      600 16 The men, aged 17 to 28, said to be planning large-scale attack in UK AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE LONDON: Twelve young men were arrested in Britain yesterday on suspicion of plotting a large-scale act of terrorism, police said following pre-dawn raids across the country. The
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      Lock icon Hundreds arrested in Belarus protest
      396 16 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE MINSK: Belarus police yesterday arrested hundreds of protesters, including four opposition candidates, as they forcibly broke up a mass demonstration against the re-election of President Alexander Lukashenko in disputed polls. Mr Lukashenko was re-elected for a fourth term in office in Sunday’s poll
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    • IN BRIEF
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        Lock icon Female serial killer hanged
        77 16 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE TEHERAN: Iran has hanged a woman serial killer, convicted of murdering five middle-aged women, in a prison in the central city of Qazvin. Mahin Qadiri, who went on a killing spree between February 2008 and May last year, murdered her victims by rendering them
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        Lock icon Judge okays court tweets
        122 16 ASSOCIATED PRESS LONDON: It is the tweet smell of success for courtroom microbloggers. The head of the judiciary in England and Wales has ruled that there is no ban on using Twitter in court. Lord Chief Justice Igor Judge said on Monday the use of “unobtrusive,
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        Lock icon No felling of coconut trees
        91 16 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s government yesterday banned the felling of coconut trees as the island battles a severe shortage of the dietary staple and ordered imports for the first time. It said it was necessary to outlaw the cutting down of coconut trees in
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        Lock icon Civilian nuclear pact inked
        112 16 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE TOKYO: Japan and South Korea sealed a civilian nuclear pact yesterday, paving the way for the Asian neighbours to share nuclear-power technologies and equipment, Japan’s foreign ministry said. Foreign Minister Seiji Maehara and South Korean ambassador to Japan Kwon Chul Hyun signed the agreement
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        Lock icon Poor hygiene hurts India
        64 16 REUTERS NEW DELHI: A lack of toilets and poor hygiene practices in India cost Asia’s third-largest economy almost US$54 billion (S$71 billion) every year, the World Bank said in a report yesterday. Premature deaths, treatment for the sick, wasted time and productivity, as well as lost
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        Lock icon 6 jailed for Aceh terrorism
        67 16 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE JAKARTA: An Indonesian court yesterday jailed six men for up to nine years for their involvement in a terror cell known as “Al-Qaeda in Aceh”. The group was allegedly training to carry out Mumbai-style attacks by small groups of suicide gunmen on Western
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        Lock icon Fake vaccines killed boy
        63 16 XINHUA BEIJING: Eight people in China have been sentenced to prison terms of up to 21/2 years for selling fake rabies vaccines that contributed to the death of a five-year-old boy. The fake vaccines were mostly water. The court also partially blamed the victim’s parents for
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      123 15 Congratulations Team Singapore for your efforts at the Guangzhou 2010 Asian Para Games! Our Bronze Medallists: Theresa Goh Swimming (Women's 50m Backstroke S5) and (Women's 50m Freestyle S5), Mohammad Ismail Bin Hussain and Thomas Yong Phen Chong Bowling (Doubles TPB1+TPB3), Mohammad Taufik Bin Ahmadini and Rex Tan Swang Hee Bowling
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  • REVIEW & FORUM.
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      Lock icon Japan right and wrong on defence posture
      435 17 ANY Japanese government would be mindful that raising the nation’s military preparedness, however justified, will cause unease. First is the arms buildup in North Asia extending to the subcontinent and South-east Asia. Japan’s latest defence review stressing a rapid-response capability will accelerate the
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      Lock icon Best not to push Japan into a corner
      836 17  -  BY HENG YEE KUANG The writer, a Singaporean, is assistant professor of international relations at the University of St Andrews, Scotland. He is now a visiting scholar at Waseda University in Tokyo. JAPAN’S announcement of sweeping changes to its defence postures last
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      Lock icon The dog that didn’t bark
      785 17  -  BY ROBERT KARNIOL DEFENCE WRITER rkarniol@gmail.com SOMETIMES the deeper significance lies in something that doesn’t happen, not in what does. In Arthur Conan Doyle’s detective novel Silver Blaze, Sherlock Holmes deduces an important clue to the crime he is investigating from the actions of a
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      374 7 LONDON: Roy Hodgson has tried to reject criticism of his reign by insisting that the Liverpool squad cannot yet be described as his own. He is instead desperate to utilise the January transfer window to remodel it. Since taking over from
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      457 8 ASSOCIATED PRESS DUBAI: When Michael Phelps won eight golds at the 2008 Olympics, it was a record people thought would last decades or at least a generation. Ryan Lochte had other thoughts, completing a Phelps-like programme at the short-course World Championships and posted impressive
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      648 8  -  Chee Hean holds sport up as role model; more sponsorship a challenge BY TERRENCE VOON tvoon@sph.com.sg DESPITE a topsy-turvy year on and off the water, sailing has been held up as a role model for other sports to emulate in Singapore. Speaking at a reception for
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      356 8  -  BY LIN XINYI A WORLD team title, the Pro Tour Grand Finals women’s singles crown and two golds at the Commonwealth Games. But, despite making history for Singapore and herself, Feng Tianwei said she deserves only 85 out of 100 marks for 2010.
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      328 8  -  BY LIN XINYI SINGAPORE sprinter Dipna Lim-Prasad is a step closer to breaking the longstanding national women’s 200m record. She clocked a personal best 24.61sec at the Asean University Games in Chiangmai yesterday, en route to winning bronze. It was the closest any Singaporean
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      211 8 REUTERS MILAN: Inter Milan president Massimo Moratti was coy when asked if coach Rafael Benitez was to be sacked following his outburst over signings. He told the club’s official website yesterday: “I will not speak today. I do not wish to create any controversies
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        60 8 LONDON: Tottenham Hotspur manager Harry Redknapp may offer Newcastle £20 million (S$41 million) and striker Peter Crouch in return for Andy Carroll, the Daily Express reported. Chelsea is also interested in the rising striker. West Ham, meanwhile, want to take Togo player Emmanuel Adebayor
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      371 9 ASSOCIATED PRESS OKLAHOMA: Kevin Durant remembers how his Christmases as a kid always had a degree of uncertainty on whether there would be presents under the tree. Now that he is an NBA All-Star and a multimillionaire, he wants to make the holidays a little bit brighter
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      312 9 ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW DELHI: India lost badly, but Sachin Tendulkar’s 50th Test century was greeted with front-page newspaper headlines yesterday heralding the landmark by the master batsman. News channels and websites started the celebrations for Tendulkar’s half-cen-tury of centuries on Sunday when he reached the three-figure
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      234 9 REUTERS SYDNEY: After months of recrimination, Australia rejoiced in the rebirth of “Aussie mongrel” and a thumping victory in third Ashes Test over England on Sunday. The win by 267 runs in Perth that levelled the five-match series at 1-1 was satisfying enough, but
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      567 16  -  BY KARAMJIT KAUR AVIATION CORRESPONDENT SINGAPORE Airlines (SIA) Cargo aims to grab a significant share of China’s thriving air cargo market after inking a deal to pay 328 million yuan (S$64.5 million) for a 16 per cent stake in Shanghai-based China Cargo Airlines.
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        566 12  -  Selling up is order of the day but analysts say dip is typical for this period BULLS AND BEARS BY YASMINE YAHYA yasminey@sph.com.sg IT COULD be a long Christmas week if yesterday’s glum showing is anything to go by. Selling up was
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      525 6 OPEN HSE FULL sea view, Sentosa Cove. ***** sqft, beautiful hse, good finishing, just TOP Motivated seller! Call K H Tan 9456-7348 Newsman Sole agt SENTOSA COVE DRIVE. Land 9100 sqft/ Built-in 7200 sqft. 5+1+1 rms. 2 pools. Overlook golf course. New. Call *****189 OFF PASIR PANJANG 3-storey full attic
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      640 6 *****772 ECG Dynamic Alliance 1) 2-storey Semi-D with attic Limau 3520/ 4000 sqft 4 yrs A&A 2) 3-storey Semi-D Kew. 2420 sqft. 6+1 rms. All spacious layout. 3) 2-storey Semi-D Siglap. 3540 sqft. Wide frontage. Quiet. Serene 4) 3-storey Corner terr Limau. 5) 2-storey corner terr with attic Limau 2700
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      676 6 1) S’GOON GARDENS. Sale/ Rent, Beautiful 3 storey bunglw. 4200 4500 sqft. 6 rms. Park 4 cars. Int’l Schs, Amenities. $4.9M neg 2) S’goon Garden New Luxurious 3storey bunglw 7200/ 7300 sqft 7 big rms. Pool, Sauna, Jacuzzi. Park 4 cars $7.5Mneg *****128 CORNER TERR Thomson Gdn 1500 qft 3yrs
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      573 7 BOTANNIA WEST Coast. 3+1. F/furn. Renovated. High flr. Quiet. Face greenery. Immed. Shuttle to MRT. $4.2K. 9299 6260 DIRECT SEAVIEW LOVER! New list Blue Horizon 3-bdrm. F/P/Furn. Brand New Furnishing. Immed Call now! Edwin Pang 9871-1566 THE LUMIERE NEW 969 sqft. 2rm. High flr. P/furn. Near MRT. $6K/ Metropolitan 1050
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      703 7 Newton Suites 1238sqft. 3+1. Next United Sq Mall. MRT....$7K )The Tiara 1507sqft. 3+1 high flr Partial/ fully furn.....$6.5K/$7K )Manhattan 2300sqft. 4+1 $7.5K )Paterson Suites. 1679 sqft. 3+1 New. Near Ochard MRT.......$10K )Melrose Park. 2863 sqft. 4+1. High flr. Maisonette........$13.5K )Caribbean at Keppel 4+1, 3122 sqft. Penthse. Seaview...$13.5K )Paterson Res 3+1
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      770 8 PATERSON EDGE RENOVATED/ furn 2rm $5.4K. Valley Pk 3/3+1 Immed $4.5K/ $5.7K. *****963 ST REGIS 3757/ 2760 sqft 4+1, high flr, unblocked greenery view. Orchard MRT. 9456-8066 EMERALD HILL APT (studio), behind Centrepoint. F/furn/ aircon. Cheap $2.6K incl PUB. *****944 D.10 TANGLIN HILL Condo 3bdrm walk-up. 1500 sqft. F/facilities/ amenities.
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