The Straits Times, 23 December 2010

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  • 17 1 THE STRAITS TIMES. MICA(P)108/11/2010 THURSDAY, DECEMBER 23 2010 A SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS PUBLICATION ESTABLISHED 1845 90 CENTS
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    • 48 1 SINGAPORE’S 162-year-old Cathedral of the Good Shepherd will get a $40 million makeover to save the building. The first phase in the two-year project will involve laying a new foundation to save the cathedral’s cracked walls and crooked bell tower. L PRIME PAGE A6
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    • 71 1 A NEW report shows that China’s biggest beer breweries are buying up smaller domestic brands and slowly changing the shape of the beer industry, as well as reducing the range of options for beer lovers. Behind them are major foreign players, who see this as a
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    • 65 1 ANIMAL rights groups are bracing themselves for more abandoned bunnies as the Year of the Rabbit rolls around. They fear people will buy the animals believing they bring good luck, but be unable to look after them. Abandoned pet rabbits often die slow and painful
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    • 73 1 THE National Arts Council is seeking tenants for a new arts hub in Goodman Road even as local arts groups worry about losing the subsidised work spaces they now occupy. This is because the $9 million Goodman Arts Centre, a test-bed for an overhaul of the
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  • 592 1  -  BY CHRISTOPHER TAN SENIOR CORRESPONDENT christan@sph.com.sg IT IS going to be a blue, blue Christmas for car buyers and sellers alike after certificate of entitlement (COE) premiums continued their phenomenal spike. While two out of five COE categories ended slightly lower at the latest tender
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  • 49 1 Mr Aummarine Kamolkunpipat mourning his wife Piyanun Klingchuay as he hugs her coffin at the Ipoh hospital morgue. She was one of 25 Thai tourists who died after their Malaysian tour bus crashed on Monday. PHOTO: REUTERS L PRIME PAGE A8 PHOTO: REUTERS
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  • 570 1  -  From Jan 21, they can’t bill subscribers who forget to cancel services BY CHUA HIAN HOU chuahh@sph.com.sg www.facebook.com/hianhou TELCOS will no longer be allowed to reel consumers in with free trials, and then bill them if they forget to terminate the service after
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  • prime.commentary
    • VIEWPOINTS
      • 61 2 WE SAY After making dire threats, Pyongyang said South Korea’s artillery live-firing exercise this week “was not worth reacting to” at least at present. It appeared to be hewing to a rational cost-and-benefit playbook. But there is much reason for all to stand firmly against further upping
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      • 43 2 COLUMNS Even as some argue that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange should have been Time magazine’s “Person of the Year” over Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, William Pesek gives four of his own nominations from Asia. L REVIEW PAGE A26
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      • 68 2 Instead of insisting on a two-state solution, Israelis and Palestinians should look at one confederal state, says Robert Skidelsky, while Gwynne Dyer says the whole Middle East peace process is an absurd pretence but a necessary one for United States interests. And Roger Cohen says
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      • 36 2 OUR READER SAYS A case of lost bags and unanswered pleas for help shows how Tiger Airways does not even offer basic customer service, says Pang Cheong Yan. L FORUM PAGE A29
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    • 59 2 IN MONDAY’S article, “Business as usual for exec MBA classes”, we said the Singapore Institute of Management (SIM) was starting an executive MBA programme next year. This is wrong. SIM has been running the programme since 1996 with the University at Buffalo, The State University
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    • 1002 2  -  Schools, parents must teach balance between decency and victory BY ROHIT BRIJNATH rohitb@sph.com.sg SPORTING classiness arrived abruptly in a corridor last month. Roger Federer is walking to the dressing room in London when he collides with Rafael Nadal’s family. They greet him, hug him,
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  • prime.news
    • 346 3 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE SEOUL: Internet addiction led a fatigued woman to kill her three-year-old son in South Korea, police said. Last Saturday’s death is the latest in several such cases reported in recent years in one of the most wired societies in
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    • 736 3  -  3-year-old succumbs to injuries five days after attack at shophouse BY JAMIE EK WEN WEI, THAM YLIEN-C jaimeee@sph.com.sg yuenc@sph.com.sg A THREE-year-old boy was so badly battered that he died from his injuries five days later in hospital. A friend of the toddler’s 22-year-old
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    • 990 4  -  Lawyer M. Ravi to file writ today on behalf of Michael Fernandez BY TESSA WONG twong@sph.com.sg FORMER Internal Security Act (ISA) detainee Michael Fernandez wants to sue the Government for damages arising from alleged torture during the nine years he was
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    • 19 4 PARLIAMENT will sit on Jan 10 at 1.30pm, the Office of the Clerk of Parliament announced yesterday.
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    • 441 6  -  BY TEO CHENG WEE REGIONAL CORRESPONDENT KUALA LUMPUR: Singapore’s top Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) official Bilahari Kausikan yesterday played down the impact of leaked diplomatic cables on ongoing railway land talks with Malaysia, saying that discussions were going well. Both sides,
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    • 879 6  -  First phase will include laying new foundation for 162-year-old building BY YEN FENG ELIZABETH SOH zengyan@sph.com.sg SINGAPORE’S oldest Roman Catholic church will get a $40 million makeover starting next year to address serious structural problems in the 162-year-old building. The first phase of the two-year-long
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    • 264 6  -  YEN FENG THEY are the A-Team of all things old that need saving. Their mission: To rescue two precious 19th-century stained glass panels on the brink of shattering. Last week, a team of four volunteer experts swooped in on the Cathedral of the Good Shepherd at Queen
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    • 874 8  -  Foreign players aiding big local names in killing smaller brands BY PEH SHING HUEI CHINA BUREAU CHIEF shpeh@sph.com.sg BEIJING: China’s beer market, already the biggest and most lucrative in the world, is frothing in an aggressive battle of consolidation. Big players such as Tsingtao
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    • 414 8 CAMERON HIGHLANDS BUS CRASH KUALA LUMPUR: The bodies of 25 Thai victims of Malaysia’s worst bus crash were flown home yesterday aboard a Thai air force plane, as the Malaysian authorities announced an independent investigation into the accident. Some survivors of the crash,
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    • 671 8 REUTERS ASSOCIATED PRESS AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE SEOUL: South Korea yesterday announced land and sea military exercises, including its largest-ever live-fire drill near North Korea, just as tension on the peninsula was beginning to ease after Pyongyang’s attack on a frontline island. The land
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    • 849 10  -  KARAMJIT KAUR REUTERS ASSOCIATED PRESS AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE LONDON: Airline and train services limped back towards normal in parts of Europe yesterday, though fresh snow forecasts are threatening to prolong the widespread travel chaos across the continent. While airport operators and
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    • 863 10  -  National Library Board to archive the late Ivan Polunin’s photos and films in digital format BY BOON CHAN MEDIA CORRESPONDENT bchan@sph.com.sg Additional reporting by Tay Suan Chiang THE late British-born Dr Ivan Polunin had amassed a unique archive of colour images of
      PHOTOS: IVAN POLUNIN COLLECTION  -  863 words
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    • 179 9 S E N T O S A SINGAPORE Crane Dance -TheWorld's Largest Animatronic Show takes flight on Christmas Day Catch the two 10-storey tall cranes in a breathtaking dance of lights, sounds, water jets and pyrotechnic effects. Free nightly performance at the Waterfront at 9pm. vM r i >// \<x>
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  • WORLD.
    • 713 12  -  Many perks targeted at poorer folk; planned pay rise for MPs is criticised BY NIRMAL GHOSH THAILAND CORRESPONDENT deadly nirmal@sph.com.sg www.facebook.com/ST.Nirmal BANGKOK: Thailand’s ruling Democrat Party is showering citizens with goodies, in what is widely seen as softening the ground for
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    • 113 12 www.straitstimes.com MOST-READ ONLINE L Man kills bride, best man, self at wedding party L Dog gives birth to 17 puppies MOST COMMENTED ON L US review cites gains in Afghan war. Says gemini58: “The crucial question is whether the exit plan
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    • world.regional
      • 304 13 REUTERS NEW DELHI: Opposition -driven protests over corruption and high food prices choked parts of India’s capital yesterday, heaping more pressure on a beleaguered government struggling to protect its credibility. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s coalition faces multiple political crises, including multibillion-dollar
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      • 579 13  -  They use the medium to gain acceptance in a nation where having no faith carries a stigma BY ZUBAIDAH NAZEER INDONESIA CORRESPONDENT zubaidah@sph.com.sg JAKARTA: Mr Kosh (not his real name) has been living with a big secret for four years in Indonesia. Brought up as a
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      • 626 14 Teachers allege students in Taiwan school had made gun threats TAIPEI: A principal in northern Taiwan has been dismissed following accusations that she let her secondary school be taken over by thuggish students, including some who made death threats against teachers, the island’s media
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      • 898 18  -  Soaring prices there make it tough for retirees from Hong Kong to survive on their savings BY LEE CHOO KIONG leeck@sph.com.sg WHEN street hawker Ng Ching retired 13 years ago, he moved from Hong Kong to southern Guangdong province where he
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      • Article, Illustration
        63 19 Japan Airlines has come up with a novel way to help wheelchair users avoid setting off metal detectors at airport security gates by offering them bamboo wheelchairs instead. Completely handmade and with rubber wheels, the wheelchairs, costing about 600,000 yen (S$9,400) each, will be offered next year at
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      • 330 19 NEW YORK TIMES AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE BEIJING: Police have detained six men as suspects in the beating of a Chinese journalist who now lies brain-dead in a hospital in north-western Xinjiang region, an employee of his newspaper said. The assault was the worst on
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      • 336 19 Aircraft makers cheer move to open up skies for private jets AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE BEIJING: Wealthy Chinese and aircraft manufacturers are celebrating the opening up of China’s skies to private flights, after years of waiting for the authorities to lift heavy restrictions
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    • world.international
      • 849 20 Latest victory is Senate approval for nuke pact ASSOCIATED PRESS AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE REUTERS AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama is rebounding from his party’s drubbing in the congressional elections with the kind of victory list any White House would want: a tax deal, a landmark
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      • 246 20 ASSOCIATED PRESS AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE UNITED NATIONS: The United Nations General Assembly has voted to put gays and lesbians back on a list of vulnerable minorities who should be protected from unjustified killings, following a major United States-led diplomatic campaign. A mainly Arab and African-led
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      • 403 22 British PM strips him of powers for attack on media mogul AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE LONDON: Britain’s coalition government was under pressure yesterday after its business secretary was stripped of key powers following his remark that he had “declared war” on media mogul Rupert Murdoch. Conservative Prime
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      • 211 22 ASSOCIATED PRESS ROME: The Vatican has issued its most authoritative clarification on Pope Benedict XVI’s recent remarks that condoms could sometimes be used for disease prevention, saying the Pope in no way justified its use to prevent pregnancy. The statement on Tuesday appeared
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      • IN BRIEF
        • 100 24 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE TAIPEI: The United States is to resume talks with Taiwan on a trade pact, three years after it stalled over the island’s ban on US beef imports. Talks on the proposed pact, called the Trade and Investment Framework Agreement, “can be resumed next month”,
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        • 113 24 ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES: Forecasters expected heavy rain to lash across California yesterday, and the authorities began evacuations as concerns grew about potential mudslides in the wildfire-scarred foothills across the southern part of the state. Officials ordered the evacuation of 232 homes in the foothill suburbs of
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        • 81 24 ASSOCIATED PRESS JAKARTA: An Indonesian appeals court yesterday sentenced a man to death for mutilating as many as 14 street children. Baikuni, who goes by only one name, was arrested in January after the remains of his last known victim, a nine-year-old boy, were found in
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        • 90 24 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE BANGKOK: A man wanted in Britain for molesting children as young as 18 months old, and selling images of the abuse online, has been arrested in Thailand after more than a decade on the run, police said yesterday. Briton David Charles Taylor, 66, fled
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        • 101 24 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE ISLAMABAD: Pakistani police yesterday arrested two senior police officers for alleged dereliction of duty over the 2007 assassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, a prosecutor said. Ms Bhutto was assassinated in a gun and suicide attack after addressing an election campaign rally
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        • 78 24 ASSOCIATED PRESS BEIJING: Chinese Vice-Foreign Minister Zhang Zhijun has taken over as the ministry’s Communist Party secretary, a position that outranks the foreign minister, state media reported yesterday. Mr Zhang, 57, served almost his entire career in the party’s International Liaison Department, a type of shadow
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      • 403 24 WikiLeaks founder’s cameo a YouTube hit AGENCE FRANCE-PRESS REUTERS SYDNEY: The creators of Australian Internet hit Rap News are still pinching themselves after one of the most famous faces in the world now, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, appeared in a cameo role in one
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  • REVIEW & FORUM.
    • 435 26 IT MAY be ill advised, but taking North Korea’s words at face value for once might lend some clarity to what is happening on the Korean peninsula. After making dire threats, Pyongyang said that South Korea’s artillery live-firing exercise over disputed waters this week “was not worth
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    • 786 26  -  BY WILLIAM PESEK BLOOMBERG JULIAN Assange must feel like he was robbed. Time magazine looked past the suddenly ubiquitous founder of WikiLeaks.org to name Mr Mark Zuckerberg “Person of the Year”. The founder of Facebook was the safe choice honour the
      BLOOMBERG; PHOTOS: REUTERS, ASSOCIATED PRESS, BLOOMBERG  -  786 words
    • 872 26  -  BY TARA DAVENPORT FOR THE STRAITS TIMES The writer is a research associate at the Centre for International Law at the National University of Singapore. FIBRE-OPTIC submarine cables are the foundation of the world’s telecommunications systems. They are laid on the seabed,
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    • review.
      • 941 28  -  BY ROBERT SKIDELSKY The writer, a member of the British House of Lords, is professor emeritus of political economy at Warwick University. PROJECT SYNDICATE LAST month, while in New York, I happened to be staying in the same hotel as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. To accommodate his
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      • 915 28  -  BY GWYNNE DYER The writer is a London-based independent journalist. “THIS parrot is no more,” rants former Monty Python troupe member John Cleese, in the English-speaking world’s best-loved TV sketch. “It has ceased to be,” he tells fellow troupe member Michael Palin, playing a pet shop owner
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      • 865 28  -  BY ROGER COHEN NEW YORK TIMES AT THIS point, it is clear enough who invaded Iraq. Contrary to general opinion, it was Iran. After all, applying the Roman principle of cui bono “to whose benefit?” there can be no question that Iran, the greatest beneficiary of the
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    • forum.
      • 270 29  -  HORROR HOLIDAYS Pang Cheong Yan MY FAMILY and I took our first Tiger Airways flight last Thursday from Singapore to Hong Kong. When we could not locate our luggage on arrival at Hong Kong airport, we immediately informed Tiger Airways’ ground agent, Sats HK.
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      • 224 29  -  Rita Hasan (Ms) RECENTLY, I flew on Valuair from Singapore to Jakarta with my two children one aged eight years and the other 11 months. The Nov 21 flight was supposed to leave at 10.50am but we were told
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      • 271 29  -  Vivek Kumar Director, Membership National Trades Union Congress (NTUC) WE THANK Madam Lui Bee Gek for her feedback (“Education grant denied for want of results slip”; Monday). The National Trades Union Congress (NTUC) would like to clarify that the main objective of
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      • 144 29  -  Tan Ah Chuan I REFER to Mr Muhamad Noh Sapari’s letter about errant cabbies (“Waiting in the rain as cabs whizz past”; Dec 7). I have been a cabby for 10 years, and have had many experiences with passengers flagging down a cab at
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      • 172 29  -  Plenty of them around but... Loo Jia Min ON SUNDAY, I and many others had a hard time trying to get a taxi in the vicinity of Marina Mandarin hotel around 11.30pm. Many
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      • 115 29  -  Julie Sim (Ms) Deputy Director Corporate Communications Ministry of Health DR TAY Guan Tong was rightly concerned that autistic children could not get health insurance (“Autistic children need insurance cover”; Dec 13). He felt that insurance should at least cover non-autism-related illnesses. MediShield does cover
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      • 51 29 More letters on www.straitstimes.com 1 MADAM ANNEMARIE CLARKE: Christmas presents turn out faulty 2 MR FRANK YEO: In defence of Apple 3 CASE: Reject faulty items at once 4 MS YEO MIU EAN: Winter tours are not elderly-friendly 5 MR ANTONY ALEX: Waiting for a reply on ramp
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      • 122 29  -  Ooi Huey Tyng (Ms) Senior Vice-President Head Unsecured Lending Cards Consumer Banking Group (Singapore) DBS Bank WE APPRECIATE the feedback from Mr Fong Cheng Cheong (“Aged over 60? Sorry, no loan for you”; last Thursday). We would like to highlight
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      • 55 29 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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    • 910 1  - S.O.S Save Our Stalls, dear Government Bedok Food Centre hawkers fear for future when lease ends BY TEO WAN GEK wangekt@sph.com.sg STALLHOLDERS at Bedok Food Centre, famed for its chwee kueh (steamed rice cake with preserved radish) and chye tau kueh (carrot cake), have petitioned the Government not to tear
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    • 111 1 www.straitstimes.com MOST-READ ONLINE L More people going nude L ZoukOut “molester” arrested L Donor is wife’s lover OUR POSER L $1,000 fine per video In Singapore, there are no specific laws against the possession of child pornography. Should there be? YOUR
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    • 435 2  -  BY AMRESH GUNASINGHAM ROADWORKS to raise a 1.4km stretch of Orchard Road from Orchard Parade Hotel to Cairnhill are under way, a move the authorities hope will prevent a repeat of damaging floods in the area in June. The $26 million
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    • 383 2  -  BY CAI HAOXIANG THE new year will see the Central Provident Fund (CPF) requiring those turning 55 to leave a bigger amount in their Medisave accounts. From Jan 1, these members who want to withdraw the amount in excess of the minimum sum requirement
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    • 219 2  -  CAI HAOXIANG SINGAPORE and Uzbekistan held an inaugural meeting yesterday to cement their growing bilateral relationship. The meeting, the SingaporeUzbekistan Political Consultations, is a platform to exchange views on bilateral ties and developments in their regions. Both countries reaffirmed “warm and friendly relations” and discussed
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    • 723 3  -  Animal rights groups worry people will buy bunnies for good luck, only to desert them later BY AMANDA TAN tamanda@sph.com.sg ANIMAL rights groups are bracing themselves for more abandoned rabbits as the new year the Year of the Rabbit rolls around. They
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    • 268 3 THERE will be dancing in the streets on Christmas Day. Besides partygoers, there will be 500 performers singing and acting in Orchard Road, which will be closed to vehicles from 1pm to 1am the next day. The Celebrate Christmas in Singapore
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      • 1488 4  -  Only licensed agents can work by Jan 1, in bid to up standards BY JESSICA CHEAM, DARYL CHIN jcheam@sph.com.sg www.facebook.com/cheamjessica darylc@sph.com.sg COME Jan 1, Singapore’s real estate industry will mark not just a new year but a new dawn. Only licensed agents will be
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    • 371 7  -  Figure 47% more than last year’s, says STB BY JESSICA LIM limjess@sph.com.sg TOURISTS spent about $13.7 billion in the first nine months of this year, almost 50 per cent more than in the same period last year. The figures released by the Singapore
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    • 293 7 THE Housing Board has launched 1,010 eco-friendly Build-to-Order (BTO) flats near Punggol Reservoir, bringing the total number of BTO flats launched this year to nearly 18,000. Property experts expect healthy demand for the Punggol Topaz development since the prices of four- and five-room
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    • 673 7  -  BY KOR KIAN BENG WHEN Singapore People’s Party (SPP) chairman Sin Kek Tong publicly attacked his leader Chiam See Tong this week for not giving more of his MP’s income to the party, the question on many minds was: Why? Some in the opposition
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    • 268 10 A SUB-CONTRACTOR was jailed yesterday for making a false declaration to the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) so she could renew the work permits of her foreign workers. Nah Lee Guan, 56, pleaded guilty to lying to MOM officers in 2005 that her company, Scarbo
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    • 467 10  -  Member in group attack also gets one-year term for second drug offence BY KHUSHWANT SINGH khush@sph.com.sg A 21-YEAR-OLD man was jailed six weeks yesterday for being a member of an unlawful assembly that attacked a 20-year-old man in Downtown East in June. When Aminurrashid
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    • 487 10  -  KHUSHWANT SINGH AFTER the Commercial Affairs Department began investigating 18 people on suspicion of filing false personal-injury insurance claims with India International Insurance in January last year, the net slowly widened to include those cheating other insurance firms. Eight phantom “victims” from the initial group
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    • 216 10 A CABBY who reversed his taxi with the front door open, hitting a carpark warden on the shoulder, was jailed for three weeks yesterday. Dany Lu You Cong, 55, had been approached by enforcement team leader Kahar Sulong, who suspected him of tampering with
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    • 310 10  -  ELENA CHONG HOTEL employee Jennifer Chong Cheng Yoong was so blinded by love of her married boyfriend she forged 116 documents so he could claim money for work he allegedly did not do. Chong, 41, was jailed for six weeks yesterday after
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    • 217 11 www.straitstimes.com MOST-READ ONLINE STORIES L Ronaldinho in talks with Gremio L Tevez fails to inspire City as Everton end barren run L Big match in March MOST COMMENTED ON L C’mon, play like Lions Said TrueBeliever: “The FAS’ foreign talent scheme
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    • 801 11  -  Coaches say NCAP qualifications should be minimum requirement SAFETY IN SCHOOL SPORTS BY LIN XINYI linxinyi@sph.com.sg Additional reporting by May Chen SCHOOL coaches in Singapore have welcomed the call for them to upgrade their skills and qualifications. In a report released on Tuesday, the Committee on Safety
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    • 535 11  -  BY JEFF ANG ATHLETES who get injured while representing their school in sports are not the only ones who suffer. Very often, families are also saddled with the medical bills that follow. This was the case for St Joseph’s Institution judoka Tan Ser Yung. The surgery
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    • 764 12  -  Strange but true: Some teachers do lead sports they have no interest in SAFETY IN SCHOOL SPORTS BY FABIUS CHEN fabiusc@sph.com TAKEN from the Report on School Sports Safety released on Tuesday, this suggestion seems like a no-brainer. “Of course I would agree,” said Judy Kong of
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    • 438 12  -  BY ROYSTON SIM TEENAGE golfer Edgar Oh has been promoted from the development squad to the national team in recognition of his stellar performances this year. The 15-year-old was the only new face among the 11 for next year. The Singapore Golf
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    • SPORTS WORLD
      • 96 12 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE MADRID: The 2009 world steeplechase champion Marta Dominguez, who is suspected of trafficking in performance-enhancing drugs, yesterday insisted she was innocent after being questioned in court over the allegations. “I have never trafficked doping substances, I have never profited from this. I am innocent
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      • 116 12 THE TIMES, LONDON LONDON: Jamie Carragher, Gary and Phil Neville, Paul Scholes and David James are among a group of leading footballers who have been identified as having the potential to be fast-tracked into the England coaching set-up. The Football Association is keen to encourage experienced players,
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      • 91 12 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE BARCELONA: Athletic Bilbao ended Barcelona’s 10-game winning streak with a superb defensive performance in a 0-0 away draw in a Spanish King’s Cup last-16 match on Tuesday. With star striker Fernando Llorente out injured, Bilbao deployed six midfielders to smother their opponents’ attack in
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    • 401 12 REUTERS, AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE WINDSOR (Ontario): Manny Pacquiao will fight Shane Mosley, a former champion in three divisions, on May 7 in Las Vegas. The World Boxing Organisation title fight at the MGM Grand will be contested at the welterweight limit of 147 pounds (66.67kg). “Mosley is very
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    • 865 13  -  They slam player for hoping fans can help pay his traffic fines BY CHAN U-GENE ugenec@sph.com.sg LOCAL football supporters have blasted jailed footballer Aliff Shafaein for hoping that fans will help him settle $10,500 worth of traffic fines. Calling his lengthy list of traffic
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    • 305 13 THE TIMES, LONDON LONDON: Manchester City’s owners are preparing to give their manager unequivocal backing in the January transfer window to help him deliver the English Pre mier League title this season. Roberto Mancini, who celebrated a year in charge on Sunday, is
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    • 411 13 ASSOCIATED PRESS LONDON: A Manchester United director believes the Glazer family will eventually sell the club. However, that day is a “long way down the line”. The 18-time English football champions have faced mounting speculation about their ownership since last month, when the Glazers
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    • 269 13 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE ROME: Inter Milan are set to fire Rafael Benitez but, first, they want to slash his compensation payment. The Spaniard, who has struggled since becoming coach of the Italian champions six months ago, all but sealed his fate with a verbal
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    • 265 13 ASSOCIATED PRESS MELBOURNE: Kevin Pietersen says he is comfortable with the levels of sledging in the current Ashes series as Australia turn to their old tactic of using verbal aggression to unsettle opponents. The England batsman told a press conference yesterday there
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    • 300 14 REUTERS AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE TAIPEI: Hackers attacked the World Taekwondo Federation’s website soon after it punished Taiwan’s Yang Shu-chun for using unauthorised footwear at last month’s Guangzhou Asian Games. She was banned for three months, her coach Liu Tsung-ta suspended for 20 months, and the Chinese
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    • 31 14 Today Basketball NBA: Chicago v Washington (Live, Ch202, 8am), Oklahoma v New York (Live, Ch201, 8.30am). Tomorrow Basketball NBA: Milwaukee v Sacramento (Live, Ch202, 11am). Saturday No events/live.
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    • 49 14 The Times, a South African newspaper, using the above headline to describe South African star cricketer Jacques Kallis’ (left) car accident in the early hours of Tuesday morning. The all-rounder was driving his Audi home when he crashed into his neighbour’s gate
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    • 74 14 Basketball NBA Orlando 99 Dallas 105, Charlotte 81 Oklahoma City 99, Chicago 121 Philadelphia 76, Memphis 94 New Jersey 101, Sacramento 109 Golden State 117 (OT), LA Lakers 79 Milwaukee 98. Football French Ligue 1 Lorient 0 Montpellier 0. German Cup Last 16: FC Augsburg 0 Schalke 1, Hoffenheim
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    • 44 11 INTO THE BIG TIME Golfer Edgar Oh, 15, has been promoted to the national team. B12 LAKERS LOSE Los Angeles Lakers beaten by injury-hit Milwaukee Bucks. B14 URBANREAD ALL ABOUT IT TOMORROW JET SET Nine hot men’s looks for that last minute year-end vacation
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  • 1503 14 OBITUARIES Jesus said:" I am the resurrection and the life, he who believes in Me, will live, even though he dies John 11 25 PETER TANN LEE DAK Born: 23 July 1931 Age: 79 years old was called to eternal rest by the Lord at 1pm on 17 December 2010
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    • 644 20  -  Group is now largest shareholder in UIC after buying out UOB’s stake BY ROBIN CHAN chanckr@sph.com.sg BILLIONAIRE banker Wee Cho Yaw, 81, has moved to cement his control of the listed United Industrial Corp (UIC), a leading office landlord in Singapore. Yesterday, Mr
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    • 88 20 www.straitstimes.com MOST-READ ONLINE L Toyota fined extra $42.6m L New York may sue Ernst Young over Lehman L VW signs car assembly deal with DRB Hicom ST ON FACEBOOK L Play the ST challenge this week and see how well-versed you
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      • 518 16  -  STI flat amid muted turnover; most regional bourses range-bound BULLS AND BEARS BY YASMINE YAHYA yasminey@sph.com.sg A SUDDEN eruption of exuberance on United States markets has failed to lift Singapore out of its year-end doldrums. The local market stayed quiet and barely
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          99 16 STOCK TRADING VOLUME 1.1 billion shares worth $1.06 billion UP DOWN Gainers: 190 Losers: 216 Unchanged: 903 FTSE ST INDEXES Mid Cap Small Cap All Share Fledgling China China Top Oil and gas Points Change Points Change Points Change Basic materials 3.39 794.66 Utilities -0.52 -2.85 583.93 780.48 1.15
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        • 234 16 REUTERS AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Tokyo Nikkei 225 Yesterday’s close: 10,346.48 (-24.05) Japan’s Nikkei average dipped 0.23 per cent after downbeat comments by the Prime Minister on the economy, but underlying sentiment remained strong. HK Hang Seng Index Yesterday’s close: 23,045.19 (+51.33) Hong Kong stocks edged up 0.22 per cent despite
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      • 356 16  -  BY DHEVARAJAN DEVADAS POLITICAL unrest in the Ivory Coast has caused shares of rubber producer GMG Global to tumble. The company’s stock opened yesterday at 30.5 cents, but slumped to as low as 27.5 cents before closing at 28 cents 6.7 per cent
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        • 426 16 For a full list of SGX stocks, warrants and bonds, visit btstocks.asiaone.com TRANSACTION DATE: DEC 22, 2010 Top Rises Dec 22 CENTS DBXT Nifty 10US$ ***** 121.8 0.7 DBXT MSAsExJp 10US$ 3298 111.4 2.6 JMH 4406 102.2 1.8 JSH 2650 89.1 2.6 DBXT FTChina25 10US$ 3130 51.1
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        • 415 16 Top Rises Dec 22 CENTS ST Engg.ES.1012 333 8.0 2.5 SembMar BNPeCW*****4 41 5.5 15.5 KepCorp DBeCW*****1 59 4.5 8.3 KepCorp MBLeCW*****1 45 3.5 8.4 SembMar MBLeCW*****3 44.5 3.5 8.5 SembMar MBLeCW*****1 22.5 3.5 18.4 KepCorp DBeCW*****5 25 2.5 11.1 SembMar DBeCW*****6 19 2.5 15.2 CoscoCorMBLeCW*****1 11.5
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        • 175 16 By Volume CENTS Vol GMG Global 27.5 -2.5 -8.3 142,500,000 Tuan Sing 29 5.5 23.4 50,681,000 Genting SP 210 -1.0 -0.5 41,108,000 Wilmar 562 -30.0 -5.1 40,824,000 Transcu Grp 7.5 0.5 7.1 40,210,000 ChinaAniH 35 -2.5 -6.7 33,431,000 Gallant 42 0.0 0.0 32,501,000 Consciencefood 28.5 0.5 1.8
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        • 99 16 FOREIGN CURRENCY NOTE RATES: (9AM): S$ TO ONE UNIT OF FOREIGN CURRENCY Dec 22 2010 Selling Buying Aust dollar 1.351 1.275 Can dollar 1.314 1.264 Euro 1.752 1.685 Sterling pound 2.068 1.989 NZ dollar 1.002 0.955 US dollar 1.333 1.282 S$ TO 100 UNITS OF FOREIGN CURRENCY Chi renminbi
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      • 532 17  -  Trading of shares to resume today after month-long suspension BY JONATHAN KWOK jonkwok@sph.com.sg SHAREHOLDERS of Taiwanese lender Financial One can once again trade their shares, following the lifting of a monthlong suspension on buying and selling the firm’s stock. Financial One’s board
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      • 239 17  -  BY ROBIN CHAN BOUSTEAD Singapore has scaled back its planned investment in waste-water treatment firm Bio-Treat Technology. The company announced yesterday that its wholly owned subsidiary, Boustead Knowledge, had scrapped an agreement to buy from Giant Delight Holdings about $42.7 million of Bio-Treat
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      • 371 17 JONATHAN KWOK RIG builders Sembcorp Marine and Keppel Corp both announced sizeable contract wins yesterday. Jurong Shipyard, a unit of Sembcorp Marine, won two contracts worth a combined US$400 million (S$530 million) to build two jack-up rigs for a unit of Noble Corp, a
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    • 540 18  -  Pheim and founder to contest claim that they ‘set’ UET share price BY FRANCIS CHAN COMPANIES CORRESPONDENT franchan@sph.com.sg PHEIM Asset Management and its founder Tan Chong Koay have filed their submissions in their appeal against a High Court ruling that found them guilty
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    • 534 18  -  BY ROBIN CHAN ONE chapter closed and another opened at Thomson Medical Centre’s annual general meeting yesterday. In under half an hour and without any fuss, the firm held what was probably its last AGM as a listed company at the Holiday Inn
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    • 318 18 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE TOKYO: The pace of Japan’s economic growth will halve in fiscal 2011 from this year’s figure, as a stimulus-driven shopping rush eases and exports fall on a strong yen and softer demand, the government said yesterday. In its outlook report,
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    • 319 18 LONDON: As commodity prices soar to new records, the ability of a few traders to hold huge swathes of the world’s stockpiles is coming under scrutiny, reported The Wall Street Journal. The latest example is the copper market, where a single trader has
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    • 444 18 REUTERS NEW YORK: From Wall Street to the City of London to Hong Kong’s Central District, bankers are bracing themselves for bonuses to be down 7 per cent on average from those a year ago, and higher salaries will only partially cushion the
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    • 401 19 CAPITAMALLS Asia (CMA) will acquire a fourth mall in Malaysia for about RM658.3 million (S$276 million). The property, Queensbay Mall, will form the seed asset for the Singapore-listed Reit’s planned RM1 billion Malaysia retail property fund. CMA’s chief executive Lim Beng Chee said in
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    • 424 19  -  BY ESTHER TEO THE $36 million record deal for a Sentosa Cove bungalow that set tongues wagging in April this year seems to have fizzled out, with the buyer forfeiting a cool $500,000 deposit and more. Lianhe Zaobao reported yesterday that the buyer of
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    • 222 1 Culture Vulture More valet services for partygoers Drive me home Love comes to town The art of subversion C2 Cast of hit Taiwan series to perform here C6 C9 From the horrors of the Nanking massacre to the lessons learnt in a marriage, the theatre offerings in the M1 Singapore
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    • 674 2  -  New figure of $530m is almost double the original estimate deepika shetty deepikas@sph.com.sg Some arts insiders have reacted with concern to the news that The National Art Gallery is now expected to cost $530 million. The initial estimate for transforming City Hall and the
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      • 1489 4  -  Works in this M1 Singapore Fringe Festival not only empower the audience but also take the audience on an educational trip adeline chia arts correspondent chiahta@sph.com.sg Most artists will feel a degree of trepidation taking on a massive and bloody historical event such as the Nanking Massacre.
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      • 100 6 ‘I can’t do any celebrities. I need normal folks. I’m officially done. It was on my bucket list. Maybe I can check that one off my list’ Actress Jenny McCarthy (right) ruling out dating another actor after splitting from Jim Carrey (left) ‘I’d love to play
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      • 1046 6  -  Chinese artist’s sunflower seeds installation at the Tate is both poignant and controversial controversial culture vulture tan shzr ee stlife@sph.com.sg At first sight, it was a rough, grey carpet of gravel; an unevenly combed Zen garden. But as news reports have been eager to tell, the little
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        474 6 SIOW LEE CHIN KICKS OFF 2011 Singaporean violinist Siow Lee Chin, who is based in the United States, will perform here with the renowned Oberlin Orchestra for one night. The evening marks the first classical concert of 2011 at the Esplanade. It is also the final night of
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      • 876 10  -  Former actress Chong Soot Fong does not recall posing for late pioneer artist Chen Chong Swee view it CHEN CHONG SWEE: A LEGACY IN TRUTH, GOODNESS AND BEAUTY Where: Galleries 1 2, Nafa campus 1 When: From today to Jan 16, daily 11am to 7pm. Closed
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      • 507 10 eddino abdul hadi Grammy-winning American studio wizard Tony Maserati (right) is no stranger to high-tech recording techniques. In fact, the mixer of choice for pop acts such as Beyonce and Mariah Carey has an audio engineering software to his name. Still, he said in an
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    • 922 7  -  A time limit will be set on how long groups get to use subsidised premises akshita nanda akshitan@sph.com.sg Additional reporting by Magdalen Ng The National Arts Council (NAC) is seeking tenants for a new arts hub in Goodman Road even as local arts
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    • 723 9  -  The cast will appear on stage this Sunday, but little do they know that Singaporeans have fallen for the Taiwanese series cheryl tan tcheryl@sph.com.sg Taiwanese actress Liu Hsiu-wen had no idea how well received her long-running TV soap opera, Love, is among Singaporeans.
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    • 50 12 Radio 100.3 has grown by a massiVG. hit 355,000! Thank you for making us your favourite Chinese infotainment station! W* V I S3 <K=> 14 *2* V •m 11 7 to < J JO o V i V 3 0 V Source: Nielson Radio Diary, Wave 2, 2010, Weekly Cume
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    • 134 13 The weather Showers with thunder mainly over northern, eastern and western Singapore in the afternoon. SUNRISE 7.03am MOONRISE 9.03am SUNSET 7.05pm MOONSET 8.38am °C 32/25 AIR QUALITY PSI 24 (GOOD) FOR UPDATES AND MORE DETAILS, CALL METEOROLOGICAL SERVICES DIVISION, NEA: 6542-7788 OR GO ONLINE TO www.nea.gov.sg/metsin TIDES TODAY FIRST HIGH
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      • 404 2  -  Gloria Chandy Editor gloria@sph.com.sg Eat, drink and be merry may sound like a tired phrase, but it does warm the cockles of my heart. It’s like the starting pistol that gives the signal to begin the gourmandising. And why not after all? I can’t think
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      • 1179 4/5  -  Reduce your chances of getting one this party season. BENITAAW YEONG sifts the facts from the myths surrounding this problem BENITA AW YEONG benitaay@sph.com.sg It is the season where chances of waking up and feeling like a dog’s breakfast in the morning are high because of
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      • 827 6  -  Knowing which drinks contain more alcohol and sugar and substituting them with light versions will help you keep a cap on your calorie count. BENITA AW YEONG reports BENITA AW YEONG benitaay@sph.com.sg Much as you try, it could be hard to avoid being at
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      • 1025 8  -  Latest study paves the way for more doctors to prescribe cholesterollowering medication to kidney patients with slightly raised cholesterol levels. LEE HUI CHIEH reports LEE HUI CHIEH huichieh @sph.com.sg For the first time, taking cholesterol-lowering medication has been proven to reduce the risk
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        1186 10 / 11  -  Playgrounds, restaurant high chairs and petting zoos can all be germ-prone zones. Now that the holidays are here, your child is probably more in contact with these things than usual but you can protect him. SANDRA GORDON reports SANDRA GORDON Featurewell.com 1The playground The playground is more germ-infested
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      • 767 14  -  Medical experts warn patients to steer clear of untested herbal remedies in the wake of the death of a woman who consumed herbal medicine from Malaysia. BENITAAW YEONG reports BENITA AW YEONG benitaay@sph.com.sg They were black, round and came in a flimsy plastic bag.
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    • Health Bites
      • 271 7 The New York Times The claim: Multivitamins can disrupt sleep. The facts: Many people take multivitamins daily, looking to get all sorts of health benefits. However, when it comes to getting a good night’s sleep, can these pills do a disservice? Over
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      • 319 7 AP An American company in Connecticut has reported brisk sales of its soft toys this Christmas season. What is unusual about that, you might ask? Well, these are not cutesy versions of Winnie the Pooh, Snoopy or the Sesame Street Muppets. Mr Drew Oliver’s
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      • 200 7 Los Angeles Times The myths surrounding alcohol are numerous. These include the belief that vodka can keep you warm (a myth debunked in first aid books), that it can kill bees and that shampooing with beer gives you luscious-looking hair. Three scientists
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      • 237 9 The New York Times Most parents ban coffee from their kids’ diets because of the caffeine content. But they let their children have soft drinks as and when they want them. What they do not realise is that they may still be
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      • 472 17 Reuters So we have all heard corny jokes about marriage being bad for health. But does it make you fat and unfit? A new study suggests that it does. The research, which followed nearly 8,900 adults over three years, found that both men and women
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    • Cover Story
      • 1681 12 / 13  -  It is the season of gift-giving, music and bingeing. And everyone has a Christmas wishlist. For two Singaporeans a nine-year-old boy and a 56-year-old divorcee their most fervent wishes are to be healthy again and to get back to life’s mainstream.
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    • Doc Talk
      • 911 16  -  Dr Ang Peng Tiam angpt@pcc.sg Dr Ang Peng Tiam is the medical director of Parkway Cancer Centre. He has been in practice for 28 years. In 1996, he was awarded Singapore's National Science Award for outstanding contributions to medical research. There is a saying that
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    • Living
      • 728 18  -  Gary Hayden gary@garyhayden.co.uk Gary Hayden is a freelance writer who specialises in education, science, philosophy, health, well-being, travel and short fiction. Christmas the season of peace, goodwill, duplicity and deceit. Every year we receive unwanted gifts from family and friends, and every year we stick
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      • 424 19  -  DR YEAK HWEE LEE a medical director at Singapore Medical Group’s Singapore Aesthetic Centre QI am a 20-year-old female student and I have dark patches in my armpits. In primary school, I had body odour and I used deodorants to control it. The odour did go
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      • 146 19  -  DR CLEMENT TAN consultant at the department of ophthalmology, National University Hospital Q Recently, I felt my right eyelid twitching slightly on and off. This went on for many days. What could be the reason for it and what can I do to stop it? A
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      • 324 22  -  Being in the pink of health is reason enough to celebrate. APRIL CHONG picks eight items to help your loved ones stay that way APRIL CHONG Bluehills premium honey Sweeten someone’s day with this range of raw honey which hails from the pristine rainforests of Tasmania. Various
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      • 288 23 The Health Promotion Board has worked with several restaurants here to come up with healthier versions of 150 dishes. Italian restaurant Garibaldi concocted a mocha mousse. This version is healthier than the original as it is made with less sugar. It is also lighter as
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        536 24  -  FightingFITActor stuntman Jourdan Lee tells BENITAAW YEONG that confidence makes a person sexy BENITA AW YEONG benitaay@sph.com.sg What do you do to keep fit? Fitness is my lifestyle. As simple as it sounds, I eat and sleep well. I usually run or do cardio workouts such as basketball
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    • 254 2 Contents 4 Get over that hangover 6 Beware of empty calories in booze 7Fact or fiction: Multivitamins may cause sleep problems 8 Lowering cholesterol is good for kidney patients 10 Germ magnets 12 Cover Story: All I want for Christmas is my life back 14‘Purely herbal’ does not mean safe
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    • 95 2 Is it bad to pretend to like an unwanted gift? Page 18 The winners of last week’s MYB/Black Gold Trim contest are: 1 Lee Wei Kiat John; 2 Muhamad Husain; 3 Seah Ka Lin Caroline; 4 Lua Puay Yong, Justina; 5 Hong Yen Yen; 6 Goh Tze Wei; 7 Juay
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