The Straits Times, 17 October 2011

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    17 1 THE STRAITS TIMES. MICA(P)108/11/2010 MONDAY, OCTOBER 17 2011 A SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS PUBLICATION ESTABLISHED 1845 90 CENTS
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      Lock icon PCF pre-schools’ new goal
      45 1 THE PAP Community Foundation (PCF), which runs half the kindergartens in Singapore and about a third of childcare centres, is making it a top priority to raise standards at the pre-school centres it runs across the country. L PRIME PAGE A3
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      Lock icon More eyes in the streets
      45 1 MORE closed-circuit televisions (CCTVs) will be set up in neighbourhoods across Singapore to help deter and solve crime. Police said the locations of the cameras will be picked based on crime, security and public order considerations. L HOME PAGES B1-2
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      Lock icon Japan boosts sea patrols
      53 1 JAPAN’S Coast Guard is boosting the security around the disputed Senkaku islands with China amid increased Chinese naval activities in the area. Its ageing air force is also expected to see a major overhaul with a new fighter deal by the end of the year. L
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      Lock icon ‘Wall St’ protests persist
      39 1 PROTESTS against the global financial crisis continued for a second day yesterday, as hundreds of people camped out in several cities in Europe and Asia and vowed to stay on “indefinitely”. L PRIME PAGE A4
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    Lock icon Kwong Wai Shiu Hospital to add beds
    709 1  -  It will become largest single-site nursing home operator by about 2015 BY MELISSA PANG melpang@sph.com.sg KWONG Wai Shiu Hospital (KWSH), one of Singapore’s oldest charity hospitals, is set to become the largest single-site nursing home operator by around 2015. It will be adding
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    Lock icon Burning devotion
    111 1 Braving the heat of a 4m-long fire pit of smouldering coal and sandalwood barefooted, about 4,000 devotees took part in the annual Firewalking Festival, also known as Thimithi, at the Sri Mariammam Temple in South Bridge Road yesterday. The Hindu festival, which originated from Tamil Nadu, south India,
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    Lock icon Over 100,000 S’poreans seek degrees at private schools
    1572 1  -  BY SANDRA DAVIE SENIOR WRITER sandra@sph.com.sg THE pent-up demand for a university place at home has pushed up the number of Singaporeans pursuing degrees and diplomas at private schools to more than 100,000. This is in stark contrast to the 12,000 places
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      141 1 A LIFE IN MUSIC BRUTAL DISPLAY NZ beat Australia 20-6 to reach World Cup final HEROIN MENACE Rising number of new addicts take heroin Alex Abisheganaden is a performer at heart LIFE! PAGE C4 SPORT, PAGE B9 PRIME, PAGE A8 BREAKING NEWS: www.straitstimes.com INTERACT: www.stomp.com.sg EMAIL: stomp@stomp.com.sg VIDEOS: www.razortv.com.sg T1
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        Lock icon Hawker relaunch meets a real need
        54 2 WE SAY The plan to build more hawker centres, after a break of almost three decades, is a notable policy change. It acknowledges above all else a need to keep cooked food affordable for more of the population at a time of persistent inflation.
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        Lock icon Saints aren’t ruthless
        40 2 COLUMNS Before rushing to confer sainthood on the late Steve Jobs, it’s worth remembering Apple’s early-80s ruthlessness in using legally dubious methods to force retailers to stop selling copycat machines, says Robert Karniol. L REVIEW PAGE A24
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        Lock icon Living to work
        46 2 Annual leave allowances in China are hardly generous to begin with, says Ho Ai Li, but the nature of the Chinese work culture means many people fail to take all, if any, of the days they are entitled to. L WORLD PAGE A15
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        Lock icon Perfect the ordinary
        45 2 OUR READER SAYS It makes no sense for GPs to pool resources and broaden the range of preventive services, according to Yik Keng Yeong, who says that they should instead be aiming to perform the ordinary extraordinarily well. L FORUM PAGE A25
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      Lock icon What it should have been
      38 2 IN OUR report on Saturday headlined “Surprise drop in retail sales”, we said that sales fell 3.3 per cent. This is incorrect. Sales rose 3.3 per cent. We are sorry for the error.
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      Lock icon Better station access may tip balance for rail
      1008 2  -  Improving reachability makes more sense than just building more lines BY CHRISTOPHER TAN SENIOR CORRESPONDENT christan@sph.com.sg TWO plans announced by the Transport Ministry last week are more intertwined than they appear. One: A slowing down of the rate at which new vehicles
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      Lock icon PCF to raise standards at all its kindergartens
      651 3  -  It wants to achieve greater consistency of quality at its centres BY TEO WAN GEK wangekt@sph.com.sg THE social arm of the ruling party is making it a top priority to raise and even out standards at the pre-school centres it runs across
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      Lock icon ‘Wall St’ protesters vow to keep going
      769 4 It’s just the beginning of global movement, organisers warn AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE ASSOCIATED PRESS BLOOMBERG REUTERS LONDON: Protests against the global financial crisis continued for a second day yesterday, as hundreds of people camped out in several cities in Europe and Asia and vowed
      AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE; ASSOCIATED PRESS; BLOOMBERG; REUTERS; PHOTO: ASSOCIATED PRESS  -  769 words
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      73 10  -  BY LIM WUI LIANG 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 on Monday entitled 6.39pm. While being carried
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      Lock icon Stable exchange rate, Wen pledges
      429 10 Promise to exporters may raise US tensions ASSOCIATED PRESS BEIJING: Premier Wen Jiabao has promised China’s struggling exporters a stable exchange rate in a move that might fuel tensions with Washington over Beijing’s currency controls as the global economy weakens. Mr Wen’s pledge, reported by
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      Lock icon SEA Games chief pulls no punches
      1034 11  -  Her grit and guts push govt to disburse funds BY ZUBAIDAH NAZEER INDONESIA CORRESPONDENT zubaidah@sph.com.sg JAKARTA: Last month, a feisty grandmother of 10 young children stood before Indonesia’s Parliament and issued a thinly veiled threat. Madam Rita Subowo, 63, asked no, demanded that funds
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      Lock icon Government subsidy would help, say students
      649 6  -  SANDRA DAVIE POLYTECHNIC graduate Alan Lim, 23, works three evenings a week and on the weekends so that he can put himself through the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology business degree course offered via the Singapore Institute of Management (SIM). The engineering diploma holder
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      Lock icon Heroin makes comeback among new addicts
      1369 8  -  Number nabbed in 2010 a 10-year record; they form a third of total heroin arrests BY YEN FENG zengyan@sph.com.sg HEROIN abuse among first-time offenders surged to a record high last year, raising fears that the drug is now luring younger users. Figures from the
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      Lock icon Japan to keep close eye on disputed isles
      578 12  -  It will send extra patrol craft, open new base to monitor its S-W flank BY KWAN WENG KIN JAPAN CORRESPONDENT wengkin@sph.com.sg TOKYO: Japan is boosting the security of the outlying islands at its south-western corner in the wake of increased Chinese naval
      PHOTO: ASSOCIATED PRESS; ST GRAPHICS  -  578 words
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      Lock icon WHAT’S ONLINE FOLLOW AND ENGAGE ST ONLINE
      86 12 News: www.straitstimes.com Connect: www.facebook.com/thestraitstimes Follow: twitter.com/stcom TOP THREE WORLD STORIES ONLINE L The end of an economic dream L Of swimming pools and the Greek crisis L Economic nationalism making a comeback More forum letters online at www.straitstimes.com PHOTO GALLERIES ONLINE L New
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      Lock icon Japanese air force set for upgrade
      291 12 ASSOCIATED PRESS HYAKURI AIR BASE (Japan): Warplanes bearing the bright red Rising Sun logo roared yesterday as Japan held a once-in-three-year display to showcase one of Asia’s best air forces. The only problem most of its jets were grounded. Underscoring Japan’s uphill battle in
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        Lock icon Chinese developers hurt by credit crunch
        741 14 They find it tough to get funding after govt efforts to cool sector AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE SHANGHAI: Property developer Zhang Xin made a fortune over the past decade, on the back of a building boom fuelled by China’s blistering economic growth and the privatisation of
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        Lock icon HK harbour swim back after 33-year suspension
        384 14 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE ASSOCIATED PRESS HONG KONG: Hong Kong’s iconic cross-harbour swimming race made its return yesterday after a 33-year suspension forced by pollution and heavy traffic on the famous waterway. The annual race, a tradition dating back to 1906 which in its heyday
        AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE; ASSOCIATED PRESS; PHOTO: CHINA NEWS SERVICE  -  384 words
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        Lock icon India firm warned against South China Sea oil deal
        341 14 REUTERS AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE BEIJING: India is playing with fire by agreeing to explore for oil with Vietnam in the disputed South China Sea, a major Chinese newspaper said yesterday, advising the Indian company to reconsider and pull out. India’s state-run explorer
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        Lock icon Take a break from work? Not for Chinese
        971 15  -  70% don’t take leave due to company culture and fear of losing job MEMO FROM BEIJING BY HO AI LI CHINA CORRESPONDENT hoaili@sph.com.sg Additional reporting by Lina Miao AS MANY as 300 million Chinese swarmed sandy beaches and charged into the Forbidden
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        Lock icon 1,140 boats used to quicken flow of Thai rivers
        709 16 Bid to ensure Bangkok escapes severe flooding even as 5th industrial estate is engulfed REUTERS ASSOCIATED PRESS AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE BLOOMBERG BANGKOK: Floods in Thailand engulfed another industrial estate yesterday but the capital, Bangkok, appears to have escaped the devastation seen elsewhere
        REUTERS; ASSOCIATED PRESS; AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE; BLOOMBERG; PHOTOS: AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE  -  709 words
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        Lock icon Crocodiles on the loose
        221 16 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE BANGKOK: The ancient Thai city of Ayutthaya, which has seen its famed temple sites engulfed in the kingdom’s flood crisis, has discovered a new menace lurking in the floodwaters crocodiles. Around 100 reptiles are thought to be on the loose after escaping from farms
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        Lock icon Malaysians call for more law reform
        787 18  -  Petitions for review of other laws pour in after decision to repeal ISA BY TEO CHENG WEE REGIONAL CORRESPONDENT chengwee@sph.com.sg KUALA LUMPUR: Encouraged by the government’s move to abolish the Internal Security Act (ISA), more Malaysians have followed up with calls to relook other
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        718 18  -  BY LESTER KONG MALAYSIA CORRESPONDENT KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak has reassured Gerakan and its embattled president of its survival within the ruling Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition, despite the party’s massive losses at the last general election. Challenging it to
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        Lock icon EU banks on Soviet rocket to launch GPS rival
        542 19 It’ll hoist 2 satellites for Europe’s Galileo system AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE PARIS: Prestige and a multibillion-dollar gamble in satellite navigation will be riding on a Soviet-era Soyuz rocket to be launched from Europe’s space base in South America this week. It will
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        Lock icon Fast facts on Galileo
        261 19 Sources: European Space Agency, European Commission, US government, Agence France-Presse L What it is: Galileo will consist of 30 satellites, six more than the US Global Positioning System (GPS). The system will offer several services from 2014, becoming fully operational in 2020 when the constellation of
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        Lock icon Israel acts to reverse brain drain
        987 20  -  Campaign aims to woo home 15,000 highly qualified citizens abroad BY JONATHAN PEARLMAN FOR THE STRAITS TIMES jonathanmpearlman@gmail.com TEL AVIV: On flights to Israel, an emotive on-screen advertisement shows a young Israeli woman in New York pining to return to her homeland. “They will
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        Lock icon Tel Aviv names those in prisoner swop
        356 20 REUTERS JERUSALEM: Israel yesterday made public the names of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners it will free in exchange for Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit as part of a deal it reached with Hamas. Israel’s Prison Service posted the list of those to be freed
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        Lock icon Awlaki’s son ‘killed in Yemen’
        408 20 NEW YORK TIMES AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE ADEN: Air strikes believed to have been carried out by US drones have killed at least nine people in southern Yemen, including a senior official of the regional branch of Al-Qaeda and an American, the 17-year-old son of Anwar al-Awlaki,
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        Lock icon The sticking power of online banking
        747 21 Convenience, difficulty of switching banks make for captive, if disgruntled, customers NEW YORK TIMES NEW YORK: Internet banking services that have been sold to customers as conveniences, like online bill payment, also serve as powerful tethers that keep customers from jumping to another institution.
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        Lock icon Reality TV spurs mean girl behaviour: US poll
        425 21 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE WASHINGTON: Girls who watch reality TV regularly expect and accept more bullying and drama in their lives. A just-released study in the United States suggests these girls also assign more value to physical appearances, and view themselves as leaders and
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          Lock icon Vote on Sarkozy’s rival
          102 22 REUTERS PARIS: French left-wingers voted yesterday to choose a candidate to challenge President Nicolas Sarkozy in the presidential election next year. The favourite is Mr Francois Hollande, a moderate Socialist Party veteran, little known beyond France. In a United States-style primary, the first of its kind
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          Lock icon Steve Jobs Day in US
          94 22 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE LOS ANGELES: The state of California declared yesterday Steve Jobs Day, amid global mourning over the death of the Apple co-founder. California Governor Jerry Brown said: “In his life and work, Steve Jobs embodied the California dream. “His innovations transformed an industry, and
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          Lock icon Tibetan torches himself
          90 22 REUTERS BEIJING: A young Tibetan man has set himself on fire in south-western China, an exiled Tibetan activist said yesterday, the eighth self-immolation this year in a region that has become the centre of defiance against Beijing’s religious controls. The 19-year-old former monk at the Kirti Monastery
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          Lock icon Tsunami debris found
          98 22 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE TOKYO: A Russian ship has found debris from a recent Japanese tsunami, including a fishing boat, floating adrift in the Pacific thousands of kilometres from the disaster zone, a Hawaiian research group said. The Russian training ship STS Pallada found the debris late last month
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          Lock icon Miners killed in gas blast
          84 22 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE BEIJING: A gas blast killed 11 at a coal mine in northern China yesterday, state media reported, in the mining industry’s latest accident. A total of 21 miners were working underground when the blast struck at the Tianyu Coal Mine in Tongchuan city,
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          Lock icon Wife severs man’s penis
          105 22 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE TAIPEI: A woman cut off the penis of her husband with scissors and threw the severed member into a river, in revenge for his affair with another woman and his physical abuse, the police in Taiwan said yesterday. The 30-year-old Vietnamese woman, identified only
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          Lock icon New Cabinet for Jakarta
          85 22 BLOOMBERG JAKARTA: Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono will announce his new Cabinet line-up tomorrow, and inaugurate the members the following day, his spokesman said on Saturday. Dr Yudhoyono, who helped secure a second five-year term in 2009 by promising to clean up graft, is trying to
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        Lock icon On a roll with the bunga bunga beat
        328 22 SLICEOFLIFE AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE GRUMELLO DEL MONTE (Italy): While his fellow businessmen moan about Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s constant sex scandals, Mr Carlo Pagani has decided to cash in. Inspired by the Italian leader’s “bunga bunga” parties reportedly a form of lap
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        838 23  -  BY BARRY WAIN FOR THE STRAITS TIMES The writer is writer-in-residence at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. ASEANandChinaraised high expectations in July when they announced a breakthrough in their relations in the South China Sea. But last week, a disappointed Asean rejected a
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        854 23  -  BY MICHAEL RICHARDSON FOR THE STRAITS TIMES The writer is a visiting senior research fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. THE United States has engaged Asia for most of the time since the end of World War II with its unquestioned economic strength
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        847 24  -  BY NICHOLAS KRISTOF NEW YORK TIMES IT’S fascinating that many Americans intuitively understood the outrage and frustration that drove Egyptians to protest at Tahrir Square, but don’t comprehend similar resentments that drive disgruntled fellow citizens to “Occupy Wall Street”. There are differences, of course: the
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        838 24  -  BY ROBERT KARNIOL DEFENCE WRITER rkarniol@sph.com.sg BEFORE conferring sainthood on Mr Steve Jobs, the iconic co-founder of Apple Inc who died earlier this month, consider the following anecdote. I knew little about computers in early 1983 but had a smattering of knowledge on copyright law.
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        563 24  -  LETTER FROM KYOTO BY JANICE TAY CORRESPONDENT tastingjapan@gmail.com TODAY is Oct 17 but two weeks from now, it will not be. It will be Oct 31, the day known as Halloween. Whatever the origins of this festival may have been, it has become a day
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        278 25  -  ‘UNDER-USED’ GPs Dr Yik Keng Yeong LAST Tuesday’s editorial (“A deficiency in primary care”) warns against general practitioners (GPs) being made irrelevant if there is no change in their modus operandi. Popular GPs prevent marginalisation and remain relevant by providing trustworthy holistic medical care competently. Their
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        84 25 More letters on www.straitstimes.com 1 MR NG YA KEN: Focus on mother tongue in pre-schools 2 MS PEH PING PING: Vital to build good foundation in English 3 MS SONIA TAN: Ease overcrowding to prevent train molestations 4 MR GOH CHAN YAK: Unfair to compare S’pore toilets with
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        230 25  -  Arthur Lim THE issues raised by Health Minister Gan Kim Yong in his ministry’s addendum to the President’s Address are relevant, but no timeline was offered apart from a vague promise to address them “in the coming years” (“S’poreans to get more help
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          189 25  -  Jeffrey Law I CAN empathise with Ms Evelynne Leong (“Have female-only train cabins”; last Saturday). However, her suggestion to have train carriages reserved for women to prevent sexual harassment or molestation may be a bit far-fetched. I find travelling on
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          142 25  -  Low Shien Ang I WAS one of the commuters left stranded at Tanjong Pagar MRT station last Friday (“Human jam at Tanjong Pagar”; last Saturday). Broadcasts on the public address system said only west-bound trains were temporarily affected. As a result of this misleading
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        213 25  -  Tay Xiong Sheng THE Chinese universities’ bid to win back students awed by elite Western universities, which upload lectures online and allow Internet users anywhere to access them free, could signal a fundamental shift in tertiary education (“Let 1,000 lectures bloom”; Oct
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          105 25 "The concern should not be Mandarin but the standard of English." MR ANTHONY LIM: “Former prime minister Lee Kuan Yew is worried that more parents are speaking English to their children at home instead of Mandarin (‘English in school, Mandarin at home’; Oct 8). To me, the Speak
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          96 25 "Most students attending public schools clean the toilets themselves." MS MIHO AIKAWA: “I am a Japanese citizen living in Singapore. Most Japanese students attending public schools clean the toilets themselves from as early as when they are in primary school. In Japan, we usually do not have
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          129 25 "Do not use Tokyo as a yardstick and proclaim that all of Japan is very clean." MR SHANKAR RAJAN: “Smaller cities in Japan do not have a similar high standard of cleanliness as Tokyo (‘Why S’pore fails’ by Mr Harry Ng; last Wednesday). In 1996, I
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          92 25 "The message should be relayed to those much younger." MR BENNIE CHEOK: “The Are You Ready campaign promoting the Central Provident Fund’s Minimum Sum Topping-Up Scheme is targeted mainly at those reaching 55 (‘More making voluntary CPF top-ups’; last Monday). However, the message should be relayed not only
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      1074 1  -  Most welcome extra surveillance but some concerned about loss of privacy BY YEN FENG zengyan@sph.com.sg IT HANGS over a back alley in Geylang, looking more like a street lamp than what it really is a police video surveillance camera that swivels 360 degrees, tilts, pans,
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      104 1 News: www.straitstimes.com Connect: www.facebook.com/thestraitstimes TOP THREE HOME STORIES ONLINE L Exit: Page One? L Some expect business to take a big hit L Janitor nabbed over death of S’porean Get your free breaking news from ST iPad and iPhone apps. Subscribers have More
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      477 2  -  Minister responds to call to hive off divisions of MCYS BY LEONARD LIM limze@sph.com.sg THERE are benefits chief of which is building social cohesion to having youth and sports grouped with community development in the same ministry, says Mr Chan Chun Sing. The
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      641 4  -  Increase partly because there’s no longer a stigma attached to habit: Experts BY JANICE TAI jantai@sph.com.sg MICHELLE Liang started drinking at 18. Then, she just wanted to enjoy a night out with her girlfriends. She went on to down five to seven drinks in
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      530 4  -  JANICE TAI IT WAS billed as the ultimate night out. A group of 40 young people, aged 19 to 29 boarded an open-top bus on Friday, ready to hit three clubs in five hours. The mission: Not to get drunk.
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      685 5  -  More signing contracts with farmers, even going beyond S.E. Asia BY JESSICA LIM IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA limjess@sph.com.sg PRICES of Australian carrots sold in FairPrice supermarkets are set to remain at 85 to 95 cents for a 500g pack in the next two years. Singapore’s largest
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      297 5  -  JESSICA LIM THE draw of farm stays is among the reasons behind a record surge of Singaporean visitors to Western Australia state. The 77,200 figure from July last year to June this year is the highest yearly number in the past
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      545 5  -  JESSICA LIM UNDULATING fields of cauliflower greet visitors at Manjimup Fresh Produce, a thousand-acre farm in Manjimup a town 307km south of Perth. Its owner Gary Ryan, 46, used to grow 600,000 heads of cauliflower a year in the 1990s. About 80 per cent
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      548 6  -  Volume documents his bid for presidency, sale proceeds go to charity BY ANDREA ONG andreao@sph.com.sg DR TAN Cheng Bock yesterday launched a book to commemorate his bid for the presidency earlier this year. Titled We Took Them On, the 100page book features photographs and
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      271 6 A SEVEN-YEAR-OLD boy was injured in an escalator accident yesterday afternoon. He was with his parents at around 2pm at Taman Jurong Food Centre when his toe was believed to have been severed after it got stuck in the escalator belt. A witness, a cleaner,
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      457 7  -  MARIA ALMENOAR AS THE population ages, one challenge will be to put in place a proper financing framework for long-term elderly care. Mr Lim Boon Heng, the former minister in charge of ageing issues, said yesterday that Singapore now has an elementary framework
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      502 7  -  New electric vehicle rental company to be launched; car sharing businesses expanding BY MARIA ALMENOAR mariaa@sph.com.sg CAR-RENTING is taking a new environmentallyfriendly route in January. That is when a business that provides electric cars and also electric scooters and electric bicycles for hire will be launched
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      667 8  -  Hair loss is caused by heredity as well as unhealthy lifestyles, illnesses, wrong shampoo and constant colouring, so know the problem to fix it BYAHMADOSMAN AHMAD OSMAN DON’T panic if you lose 50 to 100 of the 100,000-odd strands of the hair on your head every
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      230 8 TOY STORY Land opens at Hong Kong Disneyland next month and it will offer the biggest attractions to excite the young and old. The popular animated movie Toy Story comes alive as visitors are invited to step into the super-sized world of its characters
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      Lock icon Orchard Hotel gets $10 million makeover
      234 8 ORCHARD Hotel Singapore recently unveiled its new Claymore Wing, which saw a full refurbishment of all 331 guestrooms in the section, including its Executive Club floors. A member of Millennium Copthorne Hotels (M&C), Orchard Hotel’srefurbishmentispartofthe group’s growth through an asset enhancement scheme. Mr Lim
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      231 8 CLEAN your laundry, enjoy savings and play a part in keeping the environment green all at the same time with the right washing machine and dryer. Midea, a new electronics player in Singapore, has launched a new line of front load washing machines and dryers
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      234 8 GET ready for royal treatment when you take up the Asia’s Dining Destination hotel package from Marina Bay Sands presented by UOB Cards. Guests can expect champagne upon arrival to kickstart their twonight stay at the luxurious Club Room or Orchid Suite, before going
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        59 8 Enjoy great food and cool gadgets at the Singapore Expo Food Electronics Fair from Friday to Sunday at Singapore Expo Hall 4 from 11am to 9pm. For daily special deals such as 2,000 food and electronics items selling at $5, and 5,000 electronic devices at $49 each, each
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        52 8 Unity Denticare now has 13 branches islandwide with its latest clinic at NTUC Income Tampines Junction. It has state-of-the-art dental equipment and quality materials, and offers services such as scaling and polishing, gum and root canal treatments, surgical extraction, and tooth whitening and orthodontics. Call 6336-6222 to make
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        45 8 Visit the Baby Expo at Singapore Expo Hall 5B from this Friday to Sunday to enjoy unbeatable value on all you need for your pregnancy, baby and toddler. Opening hours from 11am to 9pm, except for Sunday when the expo ends at 8pm.
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        39 8 Celebrate Oktoberfest and Erdinger’s 125th anniversary with a special festive pack of five bottles of Erdinger beer and a limited edition Erdinger 125th Anniversary beer glass. Available at recommended retail price of $29.90 per pack from supermarkets.
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        40 8 Biolyn’s Scalp Balancing Serum has changed its packaging from a 60ml pump bottle to a travelfriendly 35ml bottle. The formula containing Peptides (protein) and Saccharides (sugar) remains the same. Sold at $28 in Watsons, Unity and FairPrice Finest.
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        57 8 Buy PEN Lite E-PL3 or PEN mini E-PM1 and get free gifts worth more than $168 from now till Jan 31, 2012. They include an 8GB SD card, PEN camera case, PEN voucher worth $18 and PEN gift set. Also check out chic PEN accessories at Olympus’ first
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      108 9 News: www.straitstimes.com Connect: www.facebook.com/thestraitstimes Follow: twitter.com/stcom TOP THREE SPORTS STORIES ONLINE L Tevez snubs offer L Victory on the cards for the two Manchester clubs L Ayre makes Reds look like greedy fools Get your free breaking news from ST iPad and iPhone
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      653 9 Wallabies no match for a New Zealand bent on making history at home RUGBY WORLD CUP REUTERS ASSOCIATED PRESS AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE AUCKLAND: New Zealand overwhelmed Australia 20-6 in a dazzling display of pace, power and possession at Eden Park yesterday to set up a rugby World Cup
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      381 9 REUTERS AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE ASSOCIATED PRESS AUCKLAND: Australian fly-half Quade Cooper saved his worst for last but had no regrets about a mediocre World Cup campaign which ended with a crushing defeat at the hands of the All Blacks. The talented New Zealand-born player was dubbed “public enemy
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      587 9  -  BY SANJAY NAIR IT WAS billed as “the real” Rugby World Cup final. The two best teams on the planet the Wallabies and the All Blacks facing each other. While most rugby fanatics flocked to the usual drinking holes at Clarke Quay and Orchard Road
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      573 10 Coach blasts team for breaking curfew and celebrating s-final win RUGBY WORLD CUP ASSOCIATED PRESS REUTERS AUCKLAND: The French squad are in turmoil again, with coach Marc Lievremont calling some of his players “spoilt brats” for defying a curfew and celebrating Saturday’s narrow Rugby World Cup semi-fi-nal
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      450 10 ASSOCIATED PRESS LONDON: Manchester United defender Patrice Evra has accused Liverpool’s Luis Suarez of racially abusing him during the 1-1 Premier League draw at Anfield on Saturday. Evra, a black French defender, claimed that the striker had made the same racist remark over and
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      497 10 Arsenal 2 Sunderland 1 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE ASSOCIATED PRESS LONDON: Robin van Persie reinforced his importance to Arsenal’s prospects this season with the two goals that secured a 2-1 victory over Sunderland at the Emirates Stadium yesterday. The Dutchman insisted in the club’s matchday
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      579 10 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE REUTERS ASSOCIATED PRESS LONDON: Shola Ameobi came off the bench to preserve Newcastle’s unbeaten start to the English Premier League season with a late equaliser in his side’s 2-2 draw with Tottenham at St James’ Park last night. Dutch forward Rafael van
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      608 11  -  Singapore Sailing still sure young squad will do well at SEA Games BY JONATHAN WONG jonwong@sph.com.sg MORE than half of Singapore’s sailors will be making their SEA Games debuts next month, but the Singapore Sailing Federation remains confident of a strong showing. However, it declined
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      552 11  -  BY MAY CHEN THE Singapore Canoe Federation (SCF) has set its athletes a target of finishing among Asia’s top three nations at this week’s Canoe Marathon World Championships. This, despite the fact that 20 members of the Republic’s 24-strong squad are not part of
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      430 11 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE ASSOCIATED PRESS TOKYO: Olympic high-bar gold medallist Zou Kai and teenager Sui Lu led one-two finishes for China in individual events at the gymnastics World Championships yesterday to prove they are a nation of specialists. China finished top of the table,
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        62 11 HOME United thrashed a 10-man Singapore Armed Forces FC 4-0 in an S-League football match at the Choa Chu Kang Stadium yesterday. Sherif El-Masri bagged a brace (fourth and 18th minutes), while Firdaus Idros (16th) and Yasir Hanapi (90th) also got on the scoresheet.
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        55 11 SINGAPORE’S women keglers continued to dominate the 25th Asian Intercity Bowling Championships by winning the women’s team of four event the Republic’s third gold medal. Amanda Ng, Bernice Lim, Fok Ka Wai and Iima Nur Jannah combined to total 5,038 at the Orchid Bowl, 464
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        41 11 ASSOCIATED PRESS BARCELONA: Argentinian Lionel Messi scored twice in Barcelona’s 3-0 win over Racing Santander in football’s Spanish Primera Liga on Saturday. Compatriot Gonzalo Higuain hit a hat-trick in Real Madrid’s 4-1 win over Real Betis.
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        60 11 ASSOCIATED PRESS OSAKA: French tennis player Marion Bartoli cruised to a 6-3, 6-1 win over Australia’s Samantha Stosur in the Japan Open final yesterday. Top seed Stosur and second seed Bartoli defeated China’s Zheng Jie and Germany’s Angelique Kerber respectively in the semi-finals, after
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        85 11 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE KUALA LUMPUR: South Korean golfer Na Yeon Choi held off a hard-charging world No. 1 Tseng Ya-ni to win the LPGA Malaysia tournament at the Kuala Lumpur Golf and Country Club yesterday. The world No. 4 carded a three-under 68 to
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        62 11 ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES: Bernard Hopkins was stopped for the first time in his boxing career on Saturday when Chad Dawson lifted him and tossed him to the canvas in the second round of their World Boxing Council light-heavyweight title fight. Dawson claimed the belt
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      664 12  -  ON THE DOUBLE: A MARATHON GUIDE BY JASON LAWRENCE stsports@sph.com.sg Jason Lawrence grew up with stories of New Zealand athletics’ glory days and spent six years working in the Japan running world as a coach and manager to African athletes. PB: 2:27
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      597 12 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE YEONGAM (South Korea): Two-time world champion Sebastian Vettel won the Korean Grand Prix in crushing fashion yesterday to help his Red Bull team retain the Formula One constructors’ title after a dominant season. Just a week after
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      272 12 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE YEONGAM: Lewis Hamilton said his return to form at yesterday’s Korean Grand Prix was down to his own self-discipline and concentration. The 26-year-old Briton finished second after failing to reach the podium in five successive races after winning in Germany in July. But, after
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      687 13  -  Murray now No. 3 in the world after Shanghai victory ROHIT BRIJNATH rohitb@sph.com.sg SHANGHAI: Andy Murray walked into the stadium yesterday through a curtain of smoke and amid pounding music. This was inappropriate for him, for he resembles more a stoic tennis scholar than a Las
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      97 13 Today Cricket 2nd Twenty20: Zimbabwe v New Zealand (Live, StarHub Ch235 and mio TV Ch122, 7.50pm). Football S-League: Tanjong Pagar v Balestier (Clementi, 7.30pm). Tomorrow Cricket 1st Test: Pakistan v Sri Lanka, day 1 (Live, StarHub Ch235 and mio TV Ch122, 2pm). Football S-League: Woodlands v Geylang
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      591 13 Badminton Yonex Dutch Open In Almere, s-final (only Singaporeans) Women’s doubles: Shinta Mulia Sari/Yao Lei bt Sandra Marinello/Birgit Michels (Ger) 21-18 24-22. Cricket 2nd ODI In Dhaka: Bangladesh 220 in 48.5 overs (M. Rahim 69, N. Hossain 50; K. Roach 3-49). West Indies 221-2 in 42.4 overs (L. Simmons
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      35 13 NEIL WARNOCK, the Queens Park Rangers manager, blaming the lack of support in football boots after losing striker DJ Campbell to a metatarsal injury
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      108 9 SPORTS FIXTURES For fixtures of all Spanish League, E League Champ and UE Champions, please visit Singapore Pools website. LOTTERY L W* I W* 7 Draw No 2684/2011 1 Vl J Draw Today. Monday, 17 October 2011 Group 1 Prize s650,000» Sales close today 6pm Draw Venue: Singapore Pools (Private)
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      38 15 Memory wanders as shadows fell Back to the days of h appiness, Days beyond recall. A vision comes before us, So calm, so dear, so sweet, Of her lips now silent And whose lids are closed in sleep.
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      12 18 Head to CATS FASTADS in The New Paper for job opportunities! CLA/Dec05/Sg
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      36 18 Genting ready to roll in New York Resorts World New York chief tells BT about Genting’s first casino in the US, to be opened soon, and about its massive bayfront resort in Florida THEBUSINESSTIMES Today in
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      30 18 FOUR-DIGIT DRAW Oct 16 2011 FIRSTN1660 SECONDN6869 THIRDN9161 STARTERS 0483 1553 1752 3705 4015 5381 5807 6366 7540 9400 CONSOLATIONS 0058 0264 2312 2829 3140 4093 6045 7552 7847 9124
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      172 19 Until pianist Kathryn Stott helps Yo-Yo Ma bring out the best in a composition, she will not rest. (Berlin, 2011.) h! m a What can your client advisor learn about chemistry from Kathryn Stott? Kathryn Stott knows every nuance of Yo-Yo Ma's playing style. She can anticipate the slightest change
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      717 20  -  Staying listed can be costly, especially if trading is tepid BY MELISSA TAN melissat@sph.com.sg THE share sell-down over recent months has made some listed firms appear undervalued and ripe for privatisation, say analysts. The move can be a win-win for both majority investors
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      89 20 News: www.straitstimes.com Connect: www.facebook.com/thestraitstimes Follow: twitter.com/stcom TOP THREE MONEY STORIES ONLINE L S-chips battered in market turmoil L Slower growth in retail sales L Money supply slows as China battles inflation More forum letters online at www.straitstimes.com Get your free breaking news from
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        622 16  -  Traders’ fear based on thin trading volumes in bourses worldwide MARKETS INSIGHT BY GOH ENG YEOW SENIOR CORRESPONDENT engyeow@sph.com.sg IT WAS a great week for the stock market. Over the past seven trading sessions, the benchmark Straits Times Index rose 8.5 per cent as
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        361 16 DEVELOPER GuocoLand has unexpectedly reversed into the red. It reported a net loss of $12.8 million in the first quarter compared to a profit of $40.9 million in the same period last year. Revenue for the three months ended Sept 30 fell by 55 per
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          95 16 Currencies Oct 14 CHNG YR 2011 CLOSE FR Oct 13 S$ LOW S$ HIGH US$ 1.2690 +0.73 1.4219 1.2003 Euro 1.7533 +0.20 2.0153 1.6758 Yen* 1.6494 +0.58 1.7145 1.4467 Rupiah* 0.***** +0.39 0.***** 0.***** Where S$ stands Oct 14 CHNG YR 2011 CLOSE FR Oct 13 S$
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        892 16 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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        1147 17  -  SGX safeguards aim to reassure retail investors about high speed trading C A I JIN BY GOH ENG YEOW SENIOR CORRESPONDENT engyeow@sph.com.sg MANY bystanders to the current market mayhem are baffled at how stock markets can crash by 5 per cent one day, then
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        348 17 LOS ANGELES TIMES-WASHINGTON POST LONDON: The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) is cancelling Christmas celebration for its investment bankers this year as the government-owned lender tries to reduce costs. It will stop subsidising holiday parties and has banned staff entertainment for the rest
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      816 18 Experts’ tip: Choose new firm carefully, be flexible in salary expectations AT WORK WITH JOYCE TEO joyceteo@sph.com.sg WHAT a difference a few months can make to the job outlook. A poll of employers by recruitment consultancy Michael Page released at the start
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      375 18 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE ASSOCIATED PRESS LONDON: China has made a “secret commitment” to prop up the crisis-hit euro zone in return for budget reforms and public sector cuts, Britain’s Sunday Times reported yesterday, amid ongoing turmoil over the region’s debt crisis. The paper
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      298 18 REUTERS PARIS: Finance chiefs from the world’s top economies have backed a mandatory capital surcharge on big lenders of up to 2.5 per cent to be phased in from 2016, dealing a blow to banks hoping for a rethink or delay. The communique
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      715 18  -  BY ESTHER TEO EMERGING markets will power future global growth and Royal Philips Electronics, the world’s largest maker of lights, believes it is well placed to tap it. But to do so effectively, its products must be in sync with the markets it
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      668 19  -  Employer wins lawsuit against counsel BY K. C. VIJAYAN LAW CORRESPONDENT vijayan@sph.com.sg SHE was a corporate counsel whose job scope included advising her employer on a civil suit against another company. But unbeknown to the employer, she was also advising the other
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        46 19 BASSKARAN NAIR: Retiring from his position as senior vice-president of group corporate marketing and communications at the end of this month. The 64-year-old has served more than 10 years in the company. Mr Nair said he is retiring to have more time for personal pursuits.
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        35 19 LAWRENCE YEO: Appointed group chief financial officer. Mr Yeo, 50, brings with him more than 20 years of financial management experience in various roles and capabilities, including 10 years of experience with Singapore-listed companies.
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        41 19 LEE WAN SING: Named executive director of Oriental Food. The 35-year-old will be responsible for investment policies and related matters, as well as public affairs of the group. Mr Lee has worked in various companies, including the Oceanus Group.
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      136 1 CPART Persistence pays off Viewpoint MONDAY, OCTOBER 17 2011 Forever young Writer collected more than 500 rejection letters C5 Can foreigners tell a Singapore story? C6 Susanna Kwan on her second childhood C2 Alex Abisheganaden is Singapore’s Mr Guitar Man. In the latest of Life!’s Singapore Pioneers series, he tells
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        1135 2  -  The singer is a natural at playing evil roles and got a Best Actress nod for acting as a conniving wife 8QUESTIONSWITH...SusannaKwan yip wai yee During her 16-year break from the entertainment industry, veteran Hong Kong singer actress Susanna Kwan was busy being a child
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        2321 4  -  the monday interview with Alex Abisheganaden Now 85, Mr Alex Abisheganaden continues to inspire students with his love for music SINGAPORE PIONEERS akshita nanda akshitan@sph.com.sg It is 40 years since he wowed audiences on television but classical guitarist Alex Abisheganaden remains a performer at heart. Asked to
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        1007 5  -  Ukrainian author Andrey Kurkov was questioned when his book about the poisoning of a president became fact corrie tan corriet@sph.com.sg As a child, Andrey Kurkov loved collecting things. He copiously collected stamps, badges and cacti plants. So when rejection letters of his works began to
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        346 5 Agence France-Presse Brussels Publishers of Tintin In Congo denied racism charges against the controversial comic book last Friday, telling a Belgian court that it reflected the “kind paternalism” of the 1930s, when it was penned. As movie buffs await this month’s release of Steven Spielberg’s
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        715 7  -  The Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman says Season 2 of the zombie TV series will be darker nicholas yong nicy@sph.com.sg Vampires are all the rage on the big and small screens these days, with viewers flocking to the likes of the celluloid Twilight saga and TV
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        784 7 Reuters Los Angeles When the body of former CIA director William Colby was found underwater near his vacation home in Rockpoint, Maryland, 15 years ago, no one suspected murder but his son, Carl, has never ruled it out. Carl Colby’s new film documentary, The
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      514 3 Singapore’s only maritime museum opened at Resorts World Sentosa last Saturday. Visitors to Mema, the Maritime Experiential Museum and Aquarium, can learn more about Singapore’s role in the bustling maritime trade that started from as early as the 9th century. Maritime Experiential Museum and Aquarium
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      743 3 Reuters Los Angeles It was a fairy-tale romance that turned into a stormy marriage, and now actress Dyan Cannon (right, with her Chihuahuas) has chronicled her relationship with Hollywood legend Cary Grant in her new book, Dear Cary: My Life With Cary
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      93 6 ‘When you face something you feel is insulting, don’t let go of this opportunity. See it as a lesson’ Former TVB actor Wong He (right) on being sidelined at the station ‘Man, he’s got a voice. A really soulful, very pure, very beautiful voice’ Hugh Jackman
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      1039 6  -  Singapura Lion City is a fine example of how foreigners zap the zing out of a native tale viewpoint adeline chia arts correspondent chiahta@sph.com.sg www.facebook.com/www.facebook.com/ chiahta There are certain shows that you get a bad feeling about even before seeing them. That transposing of
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      713 8  -  With fluid moves, dancer Sylvie Guillem was the undisputed star of the show reviewdance 6,000 MILES AWAY Sylvie Guillem Esplanade Theatre/Last Saturday tara tan stlife@sph.com.sg Sylvie Guillem has always been a free spirit. In her definitive years at the Royal Ballet and the Paris Opera Ballet, she strained
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      381 8  -  reviewdance SOLO Israel Galvan Esplanade Studio/Last Friday tammy wong Israel Galvan, the Spanish flamenco dancer, is simply sensational. In his dance, Solo, he strips flamenco of all its familiarity, cliches and ornamentation. Dancing to the persuasive power of silence, mapping intricate rhythmic patterns with his arms, hands,
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      417 8  -  reviewconcert AROUND THE WORLD IN 60 MINUTES Albert Lin, Piano Pasir Ris Elias Community Club/Last Saturday chang tou liang Titled A Voyage Of Piano Discovery, this piano recital by Albert Lin was a brave attempt to bring the arts into the heartland by performing at
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      660 8 Washington Post Washington When Ernest Hemingway left Cuba for Spain on July 25, 1960, he thought he would be returning. He was wrong. Less than a year later, on July 2, 1961, in Ketchum, Idaho, he levelled the barrels of his beloved W. C. Scott Son
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        299 10 Reuters Agence France-Presss Los Angeles Actress Hilary Swank (right) is donating to charity her fees for attending a birthday celebration for Chechen strongman Ramzan Kadyrov, after criticism from humanrights groups. A spokesman for Swank said last Friday that the two-time Oscar winner would give her personal
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          74 10 The revamped version of the 1970s hit Charlie’s Angels is being shut down after only four airings because of low ratings. Four more episodes remain to be aired in the action series that focuses on three female detectives in Miami. It is the network ABC’s first
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          107 10 Sonic Youth co-founders Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon have separated after 27 years of marriage and the future of the noise-rock band is uncertain, its label’s parent company said last Saturday. But the band, including indie rock pioneers Moore and Gordon, will go ahead with
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          58 10 Impresario and reputed ladies’ man Brian Chow, who counts singer A-mei and model Ana R among his ex-girlfriends, married a 25-year-old Brazilian model in Hong Kong last Saturday. Asked if his wedding with Giselle, who is from his modelling agency, would mean the end of his reported
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          125 10 Pop star Lady Gaga (right) has won an injunction stopping the makers of an online children’s game from promoting an animated character called Lady Goo Goo. The British company Mind Candy is behind the Moshi Monsters site, which allows children to adopt a
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        297 10 Reuters San Antonio, Texas Those who try to slip across the Rio Grande from Mexico into west Texas may find themselves arrested by newly sworn-in Hudspeth County Sheriff’s deputy and action star Steven Seagal. Seagal, currently starring in an A&E Network reality
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