The Straits Times, 27 December 2011

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    20 1 THE STRAITS TIMES. MICA (P) 073/11/2011 TUESDAY, DECEMBER 27 2011 sph A SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS PUBLICATION ESTABLISHED 1845 90 CENTS
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  • INSIDE 68 PAGES IN FOUR PARTS
    • Article, Illustration
      Lock icon Life after the military
      55 1 SIX months. That is how long, on average, that eight in 10 servicemen retiring from the Singapore Armed Forces take to find a new job. They get help from the Defence Ministry, which has a career transition resource centre to prepare the outgoing employees for second
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      Lock icon Australia’s next ‘food bowl’
      42 1 WITH Australia’s main “food bowl” devastated by drought, the Gillard administration has proposed a scheme for a secondary source of fresh supplies in the tropical north by harnessing floodwater and monsoon rains in Queensland. L WORLD PAGE A11
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    • Article
      Lock icon Tiger Airways soars again
      52 1 TIGER Airways is taking off into a brighter future. Progress has been made in tying up with partner airlines in Indonesia and the Philippines. In Australia, Tiger expects to up the number of planes it operates to 10 by the middle of next year. L PRIME
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    • Article
      Lock icon En-bloc sales cross $3b
      60 1 THE value of en-bloc sales this year has surged past the $3 billion mark, powered by the sale of smaller sites. Data from Credo Real Estate found that 49 sites were sold this year for a total of $3.04 billion well ahead of the 36 sites
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    Lock icon Japan urges China to help stabilise N. Korea
    856 1 Noda also asks key ally of Pyongyang to share information on transition REUTERS ASSOCIATED PRESS BEIJING: Visiting Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda yesterday urged China to shoulder a big role in ensuring that North Korea avoids volatility after the death of its
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    Lock icon Fear after Nigeria Christmas blasts kill 40
    745 1 CHRISTMAS DAY HORRORS AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE NEW YORK TIMES REUTERS ABUJA: Fear gripped Nigeria after a wave of Christmas Day bombings blamed on a militant Islamist group killed at least 40 people, including worshippers who were leaving a packed church after mass. Hundreds of
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      308 1 LOOKING BACK, LOOKING AHEAD Best holidays for the year Back to basics for education China’s big hope: Do not disturb Challenges for S’pore banks LIFE! PAGES C6&7 HOME PAGE B4 Moments to remember SPORT PAGES B8&9 MONEY PAGE B14 WORLD PAGES A16&17 BREAKING NEWS: www.straitstimes.com INTERACT: www.stomp.com.sg EMAIL: stomp@stomp.com.sg VIDEOS:
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  • Article
    Lock icon More community health centres to support GPs
    679 1  -  BY SALMA KHALIK HEALTH CORRESPONDENT www.facebook.com/ST.Salma THERE will be at least three more community health centres (CHC) next year offering support services to general practitioners (GP). The Ministry of Health (MOH) is also looking at ways to allow some patients of GPs to
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    • VIEW POINTS
      • Article
        Lock icon Next, parking in the sky
        60 2 WE SAY Car owners in HDB towns should prime themselves for a new parking option multi-level mechanised systems. At the rate car ownership and pressures on land use are growing, vertical parking is looking inevitable, going by what National Development Minister Khaw Boon Wan has
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      • Article, Illustration
        Lock icon Tale of two women
        57 2 COLUMNS The case of retired banker Miranda Goeltum and flamboyant socialite Nunun Nurbaeti being implicated in a corruption implicated corruption scandal shows that for all the reforms and spring-cleaning of the past 13 years, collusion between politicians and businessmen in Indonesia is as strong as ever,
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      • Article
        Lock icon ‘Dear Leader’ dead, again
        49 2 It is sickening to see the echoes of Mao Zedong’s tyranny still being played out in North Korea, with many people trying to force out a tear over Mr Kim Jong Il’s death for fear of being denounced, says Wenguang Huang. L REVIEW PAGE A21
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      • Article
        Lock icon Streaming by a new name
        35 2 OUR READER SAYS The Integrated Programme has become an added streaming mechanism that intensifies the anxieties of parents and pupils, and misallocates resources, says Philip Tan. L FORUM PAGE A23
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        Lock icon ONLINE BLOGS
        20 2 www.straitstimes.com L Photojournalist Desmond Lim talks about his experience working on a story about Chinese nationals in Singapore.
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      Lock icon Time to review rail model too?
      1054 2  -  Amid probes, a chance to rethink way system is planned, built, operated BY CHRISTOPHER TAN SENIOR CORRESPONDENT christan@sph.com.sg AS THREE separate investigations begin on the cause of this month’s disastrous MRT breakdowns, it may be an opportune time for Singapore to re-examine the way
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      Lock icon Tiger ‘in better shape after Aussie suspension’
      992 3  -  New ventures set to take off, while Australian situation is improving: CEO BY KARAMJIT KAUR AVIATION CORRESPONDENT karam@sph.com.sg SIX months after it went into a tailspin when its Australian arm was grounded, Tiger Airways is gaining altitude again under new management. A partnership
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      Lock icon Arab League observers face tough task in Syria
      711 4 20 people killed just before they arrive to enforce peace plan AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE REUTERS ASSOCIATED PRESS DAMASCUS: Heavy gunfire killed 20 people in Syria’s flashpoint city of Homs yesterday, hours before Arab League observers were scheduled to arrive to oversee a deal
      AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE; REUTERS; ASSOCIATED PRESS; PHOTO: REUTERS  -  711 words
    • Article
      Lock icon Delays on NEL and North-South Line
      369 4  -  BY DARYL CHIN TRAINS operated by both SMRT and SBS Transit experienced delays yesterday at the tail-end of the long Christmas weekend. On the North-East Line, an electrical fault had a knock-on effect on the trains that followed. A spokesman for SBS Transit, which
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      Lock icon Changi ‘in talks to buy stake in Indian airport business’
      487 4 REUTERS MUMBAI: Changi Airport Group (CAG) is in talks to buy a 26 per cent stake in the airport business of GVK Power Infrastructure, the Economic Times reported, potentially giving it the chance to tap into India’s fast-growing air travel
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      Lock icon Seven shot dead in Dallas after opening Christmas gifts
      461 8 NEW YORK TIMES ASSOCIATED PRESS GRAPEVINE (Texas): Police officers, responding to a silent call from someone who dialled 911 in a Dallas suburb on Sunday morning, found seven people dead in an apartment all shot shortly after opening their Christmas presents.
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    • Article
      Lock icon Hackers steal info from Stratfor intelligence firm
      412 8 NEW YORK TIMES ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK: While the rest of the world engaged in merriment and good cheer, hackers used the holidays to attack a United States research group that puts out information on security issues. On Saturday, hackers who say they
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      Lock icon US-Pakistan security alliance ‘over’
      769 10 Washington to cut aid, anti-terrorism efforts as Islamabad reviews ties NEW YORK TIMES BLOOMBERG ISLAMABAD: The United States is seeking to salvage a more limited counter-terror-ism alliance with Pakistan, as officials believe that its broad security partnership with the Asian country is over. “We have closed
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      Lock icon More risking everything to have another baby
      989 10 CHINA’S ONE-CHILD POLICY ASSOCIATED PRESS ZHUJI (China): Seven months’ pregnant, Ms Wu Weiping sneaked out early in the morning carrying a shoulder bag with some clothes, her laptop and a knife. “It is good for me I was not caught, but it is
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      147 7 LIVE FOR GREATNESS EVERY ROLEX IS MADE FOR GREATNESS. THE COSMOGRAPH DAYTONA, INTRODUCED IN 1963, WAS DESIGNED TO MEET THE DEMANDS OF PROFESSIONAL RACECAR DRIVERS AND QUICKLY EARNED ITS ICONIC STATUS. WITH ITS PATENTED CHRONOGRAPH MECHANISM AND BEZEL WITH TACHOMETRIC SCALE, IT ALLOWS DRIVERS TO PERFECTLY MEASURE ELAPSED CIRCUIT TIME
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    Lock icon Radical group ‘has support of many Nigerians’
    186 8 NEW YORK TIMES BOKO Haram, whose name means “Western education is forbidden”, seeks to impose a stricter application of syariah law in northern Nigeria, which is largely Muslim. The radical Islamist group came to national prominence in 2009 when it rioted and burned
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  • WORLD.
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      Lock icon Australia looks north for fresh food bowl
      982 11  -  Plan to harness Queensland’s vast water supplies BY JONATHAN PEARLMAN FOR THE STRAITS TIMES jonathanmpearlman@gmail.com SYDNEY: With Australia’s main “food bowl” devastated by drought, the Gillard administration has proposed a scheme that will produce a secondary source of fresh supplies in the tropical
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      Lock icon WHAT’S ONLINE FOLLOW AND ENGAGE ST ONLINE
      80 11 News: www.straitstimes.com Connect: www.facebook.com/thestraitstimes Follow: twitter.com/stcom TOP THREE WORLD STORIES ONLINE L Irish, Greek, Portuguese looking to leave home L Some VW staff get BlackBerry time-out L Thousands stranded by strikes More Forum letters online at www.straitstimes.com PHOTO GALLERIES ONLINE L Thousands enjoy
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        Lock icon Kim Jong Un strengthens grip by taking top party post
        691 14 He will lead powerful Central Committee NEW YORK TIMES AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE ASSOCIATED PRESS SEOUL: North Korea indicated yesterday that Mr Kim Jong Un, the son and successor of its late leader Kim Jong Il, is being elevated to the top
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        Lock icon All eyes on funeral as elite jockey for power
        605 14 NEW YORK TIMES AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE SEOUL: The funeral of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il tomorrow will be closely watched for clues on the powers behind the throne as his untested son Jong Un takes the helm. The new leader likes
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      • IN BRIEF
        • Article
          Lock icon S. Korea to buy spy planes
          114 14 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE SEOUL: South Korea will buy two French spy planes capable of intercepting radio messages from the North and detecting its missile launches, a state agency said yesterday. The Falcon 2000 reconnaissance planes will be purchased from defence firm Dassault, probably in 2017,
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          Lock icon Senator fears nuke sales
          65 14 ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON: The top Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Mr Richard Lugar, said he fears someone in North Korea might try to sell that country’s nuclear materials or nuclear weapons because of the North’s economic crisis. Appearing on Sunday on CNN’s “State of
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          Lock icon Seoul reps meet Jong Un
          223 14 ASSOCIATED PRESS PYONGYANG: The heads of two private South Korean delegations met new North Korean leader Kim Jong Un during a visit to Pyongyang yesterday to pay respects to his late father Kim Jong Il, Seoul’s Unification Ministry said. Ms Lee Hee Ho, widow of
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          Lock icon Altar for Kim: Cops bar bid
          96 14 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE SEOUL: South Korean police yesterday said they had prevented an attempt by pro-North Korean activists to set up an altar to mourn Mr Kim Jong Il in Seoul. The authorities cordoned off the site near the city hall and turned away the
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        Lock icon Village revolt could be a harbinger for China
        1142 15 Wukan protests reveal systemic defects in local govts; without reforms, dissent likely to spread NEW YORK TIMES BEIJING: China’s state media has been all but mute on Occupy Wukan; on why 13,000 citizens, furious over repeated rip-offs by their village elite, sent
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        Lock icon Ice fishing is cool...
        62 15 Anglers catching fish during the annual winter fishing festival in Changchun, north-east China’s Jilin province, on Christmas Day. During the event, dozens of people work together to cut the ice and cast fishing nets which can measure as long as 2,000m. A single netting can yield
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        Lock icon Manhunt in Philippines for ex-general
        730 18  -  Suspect linked to alleged abduction of two female varsity students in 2006 BY ALASTAIR MCINDOE PHILIPPINES CORRESPONDENT amcindoe@yahoo.com MANILA: For five dread-filled years, the mothers of two women waged a relentless campaign to find their missing daughters whom they fear had been abducted by the
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        Lock icon 3,800 flee flood-hit homes in Malaysia
        431 18 ASSOCIATED PRESS REUTERS THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK KUALA LUMPUR: Floods forced some 3,800 people to flee their homes in parts of Malaysia yesterday, as the country continued its battle against the year-end monsoon rain. The authorities said that 1,236 evacuees were from the southern
        ASSOCIATED PRESS; REUTERS; THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK; PHOTO: THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK  -  431 words
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        Lock icon Report slams Japan’s response to nuke crisis
        402 18 ASSOCIATED PRESS TOKYO: Japan’s response to the nuclear crisis that followed the March 11 tsunami was confused and riddled with problems, including an erroneous assumption that an emergency cooling system was working and a delay in disclosing dangerous radiation leaks, the first official
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        Lock icon DO NOT DISTURB
        1082 16  -  Clenched fists raised in fury: the image is an emblem of the mood in 2011. It is seen among demonstrators in Occupy Wall Street protests across the United States, among Egyptians demanding political change in Tahrir Square and among outraged Chinese demanding justice in Wukan village and
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        Lock icon THE YEAR AHEAD: 5 KEY DATES IN EAST ASIA
        373 16  -  LEE SEOK HWAI, PEH SHING HUEI, LEE SUN YOUNG LJan 8: New North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s birthday. With Pyongyang’s habit of making grand gestures on key dates, will he be getting more key party and state titles to strengthen
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      • TREND WATCH
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          Lock icon Curbing the chatter
          87 16 MICROBLOGS took off in China this year, growing from 75 million to 300 million users and playing a pivotal role in spreading news and views of the kind the government would rather control. For example, in the July 23 Wenzhou high-speed train crash which killed 40 people
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          Lock icon Home-owners’ blues
          84 16 FOR years, those who could not afford homes complained about soaring property prices. Now as prices drop in the wake of tough government restrictions, it is home owners’ turn to be unhappy. In Shanghai, home owners smashed a sales office of developer Longfor after it cut prices by
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          Lock icon Push to clear the air
          93 16 THE way air pollution is measured in China has long been a bone of contention. It does not take into account airborne particles of 2.5 micrometres or less (PM2.5), which are more dangerous as they go right into people’s lungs. Instead, it uses PM10 as
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          Lock icon Rural-urban divide
          92 16  -  HO AI LI CHINA’S 53-year-old hukou system is widely seen as rigid and discriminatory as it ties a person to where he or she is registered and parcels out social benefits accordingly. As more country folk pour into the cities, discontent over their unequal access to schools and
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        Lock icon THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY
        195 17 A look at the highs and lows in China in the past 12 months BEARING WITH THE NEW LIFE: A group of giant panda cubs napping in a nursery at the research base of the Giant Panda Breeding Centre in Chengdu in September.
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    • world.international
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        Lock icon Legal tussle over Twitter account in US
        874 19 Case may set precedent relating to ownership of social media accounts NEW YORK TIMES NEW YORK: How much is a tweet worth? And how much does a Twitter follower cost? In base economic terms, the value of individual Twitter updates seems to be
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        Lock icon Holland taps nature to fight coastal erosion
        417 19 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE KIJKDUIN (Netherlands): In its war to keep back the sea, low-lying Netherlands has dumped sand onto a surface larger than 200 football fields just off the coast and will wait for nature to do the rest. The wind, waves and ocean
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        Lock icon Gorbachev: Putin should quit
        338 19 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE MOSCOW: Two decades after he appeared on Soviet TV to announce he was resigning as president of the Soviet Union, Mr Mikhail Gorbachev (below) has told Prime Minister Vladimir Putin it is time he took the same bitter medicine. After finally admitting that the
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        Lock icon Tidings of comfort and joy
        179 20 From Pakistan to the Vatican City, people all over the world celebrated Christmas last weekend in their own ways. Pakistani Christians (above left) attending mass at Sacred Heart Cathedral in the city of Lahore on Christmas Day. In Tokyo, the Yuletide festivities hit a high
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      • IN BRIEF
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          Lock icon Yasukuni gate set ablaze
          89 20 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE TOKYO: Tokyo’s controversial Yasukuni shrine, often seen as a symbol of Japan’s wartime aggression, had its main wooden gate set on fire early yesterday in a suspected arson attack, a shrine official said. The gate, built in 1934 and adorned with huge gold-leaf chrysanthemums
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          Lock icon Toxic milk in China again
          81 20 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE SHANGHAI: China has found excessive levels of a cancer-causing toxin in milk produced by one of the nation’s leading dairy companies, the latest in a series of food safety scares. The government’s quality watchdog found high levels of aflatoxin, which is caused by
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          Lock icon Da Vinci fine ‘warranted’
          109 20 SHANGHAI: The Shanghai authorities have insisted a hefty fine it slapped on Singapore-registered furniture retailer Da Vinci Group was legitimate, and vowed to defend the matter in court. Mr Zhang Yusong, press officer for the Shanghai Administration for Industry and Commerce, told the Global Times on
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          Lock icon Dissident ‘jailed 10 years’
          96 20 REUTERS BEIJING: A court in China yesterday sentenced veteran dissident Chen Xi to 10 years in jail for subversion, his wife Zhang Qunxuan said. Chen, 57, was convicted over 36 essays critical of the ruling Communist Party that he published on overseas Chinese websites, said Ms
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          Lock icon China tests bullet train
          72 20 REUTERS BEIJING: China launched a super-rapid test train over the weekend which is capable of travelling at 500kmh, state media said yesterday. The announcement comes as the country moves ahead with its railway ambitions despite serious problems on its high-speed network. In July, a collision between
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          Lock icon Brisk sales despite strike
          68 20 REUTERS LONDON: Retailers in the British capital’s prestigious West End shopping district reported brisk trading on Boxing Day one of the key dates in the year for the sector, despite a strike on the city’s underground transport system. Members of the London Underground train drivers’ union
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    • REVIEW & FORUM.
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        Lock icon Next, parking in the sky
        431 21 THE ever-imaginative Mr Khaw Boon Wan is thinking vertical as a long-term solution to the imminent car parking crunch in older Housing Board towns. Building upwards or underground, if the cost and worksite disruptions are not too big a turn-off is an obvious way to
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        Lock icon A year of transition, not change
        1197 21  -  BY RICHARD N. HAASS The writer is the president of the Council on Foreign Relations and a former director of policy planning at the US State Department. He is the author of War Of Necessity, War Of Choice: A Memoir Of Two Iraq Wars.
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        Lock icon The Dear Leader is dead, again
        953 21  -  BY WENGUANG HUANG The writer is a translator and the author of the forthcoming The Little Red Guard: A Family Memoir. NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE WATCHING the outpouring of grief over North Korean leader Kim Jong Il’s death on YouTube transported me back
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          Lock icon A prisoner’s Christmas
          908 22  -  BY YULIYA TYMOSHENKO The writer, twice prime minister of Ukraine, is the leader of the country’s political opposition. PROJECT SYNDICATE IT HAS been said that there are no atheists in a foxhole. Here, after my show trial and more than four months in a cell, I have
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          Lock icon An intriguing tale of two ladies
          881 22  -  BY JOHN MCBETH SENIOR WRITER thane.cawdor@gmail.com THE last time we met, Ms Miranda Goeltom was on a Garuda flight from Bali to Jakarta. Exquisitely dressed as always, and spectacularly made up, she was carrying one of those large designer bags in which women habitually
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          Lock icon Spicy option for a fraught climate
          829 22  -  BY MICHAEL RICHARDSON FOR THE STRAITS TIMES The writer is a visiting senior research fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. WILL 2013 mark the start of the Spice project, one of the world’s first practical tests of a relatively low-cost geoengineering technique
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    • forum.
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        Lock icon Streaming by another name?
        390 23  -  MORE THROUGH-TRAIN SCHOOLS Philip Tan THE Ministry of Education’s reply (“O levels still the best way for most: MOE”; last Friday) offers only a partial snapshot of the consequences of the Integrated Programme (IP). The plain truth is that more good schools are getting onto the
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      • Article
        Lock icon Brazen loan sharks haunt neighbourhood
        281 23  -  Chiam Tat Peng MY NEIGHBOUR lost his identity card about two years ago and subsequently loan sharks started calling, asking him to repay money which he had not borrowed (“New loan-shark tactic: Harass the neighbours”; Dec 10). When he refused to pay what he did
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        Lock icon Don’t give in to pressure against new insurance test
        306 23  -  Jimmy Koh I AM disappointed that associations representing financial products salesmen are not welcoming the newly introduced Capital Markets and Financial Advisory Services Examination Module 9A (“New insurance test: Agents fear they can’t measure up”; Dec 19). This exam is to
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      • Article
        Lock icon Slow growth comes with its own perils
        416 23  -  Ng Ya Ken SOME experts have opined that slow growth may not be bad, especially if it allows the Government to tackle some of the nation’s woes (“The slow and steady way to grow”; Dec 16). However, a drop in economic growth from
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        Lock icon Road to effective communication is paved with simple words
        184 23  -  Sarah Faizah Reduan (Ms) THE commentary (“Pushing the US govt for plainspeak”; Dec 10) is timely and noteworthy for the points it has raised. Sending complicated messages just adds to communication barriers. Effective communication does not happen with bombastic words. Messages
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        Lock icon Emas traffic panels hardly help to avoid congestion
        281 23  -  Chen Bin RECENTLY, I was caught in a massive traffic jam along the East Coast Parkway (ECP) towards the city. I then tried to get off at the next exit so that I could use Nicoll Highway instead. It took me almost
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        Lock icon FORUM ONLINE
        79 23 More letters on www.straitstimes.com 1 MR CHUA JUN YAN: Fine-tune IP to realise its potential 2 MISS WOO JIA QIAN: One student’s experience 3 MR DUDLEY AU: Right to choose versus right to be free of harm 4 MR GABRIEL YEE: Debate should be about how to smoke
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        Lock icon WRITE IN
        90 23 LETTERS should be meant for exclusive publication in 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
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      829 16  -  But cooling measures likely to cast shadow on large sites, prime areas next year, say experts BY ESTHER TEO PROPERTY REPORTER esthert@sph.com.sg THE value of collective sales this year has surged past the $3 billion mark, powered to a great extent by the sale
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      335 13 TAKING PULSE WITH ANDY MUKHERJEE From the enthusiastic response of global stock markets week to the 9.3 per cent gain in new private housing starts in the United States in November, it would appear that the debris of the real-estate bubble that
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      501 13 Industrial development won’t be optimistic, partly due to uncertain world economy: Minister REUTERS BEIJING: China’s industrial output is expected to grow 11 per cent next year, easing from an estimated 13.9 per cent this year, the country’s industry minister said yesterday. The
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      397 14  -  BY CHERYL LIM GLOBAL health-care firm MSD will be introducing new products and ramping up the production of several other items as part of a $1 billion investment in Singapore announced earlier this year. The American firm has launched 17 products here over the
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      891 15 Experts’ tip: Get friends’ advice, listen to inner voice, evaluate strengths AT WORK WITH JOYCE TEO joyceteo@sph.com.sg YOU have toiled all year and it is finally time to wind down and relax before heading back to the same old slog in the new
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        127 15 REUTERS TOKYO: Sony Corp has agreed to sell its nearly 50 per cent stake in an LCD joint venture with Samsung Electronics to the South Korean firm for US$940 million (S$1.2 billion), as it struggles to slash huge losses at its TV unit.
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        131 15 NEW YORK TIMES WASHINGTON: The United States Justice Department has reversed its opposition to many forms of Internet gambling, removing a big legal obstacle for states that want to sanction online gambling to help fix their budget deficits. The legal opinion, issued in September
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          99 2 Trans Asia Airways, which recently launched a Singapore-Taipei flight, is offering two value packages that showcase the best of Taiwan. From NT$19,800 (S$845) a person, the six-day Taiwan Recreation Tour allows travellers to explore up to six cities including Taipei (above), Tainan, Hualien, Nantou, Taitung
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          370 6 Who: Dennis Foo, 58, chief executive officer of St James Holdings October was a special month for Mr Foo, who usually takes only one business-cum-pleasure trip in a year. Not only did he travel to France to visit the vineyards in Bordeaux, but he also flew
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          465 6  -  Catching the Rugby World Cup finals, sailing the Arctic Ocean and visiting coffee farms in Brazil are among the memorable trips for some this year nicholas yong nicy@sph.com.sg The new year is less than a week away and it is time to plan the
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          353 6 Who: Albert See, 72, managing director of ASA Holidays Mr See’s best trip this year was to Huaxi Village, a 90-minute drive from the Chinese city of Shanghai. Mr See, who has been working in the travel industry since 1962, was there for the village’s
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          423 7 Who: Keith Loh, 37, owner of Oriole Cafe and Bar, Aerin’s and Bedrock Bar Grill If you think you take your coffee seriously, Mr Loh will beat you hands down. He travelled for 331/2 hours alone, across two oceans and more than 16,000km to northern
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          396 7 Who: Robert Khoo, 60, chief executive officer of the National Association of Travel Agencies (Natas) In his 12 years as Natas CEO, Mr Khoo has been to his share of far-flung locations in the course of work and for holidays. Last year, for example,
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          450 7 Who: Ken Low, 25, 100.3 DJ Low says his best holiday this year was a diving trip in Perhentian, Malaysia, in June with his fiancee, fellow DJ May Lau, 29, who works for Radio 988 in Malaysia. But the 25-year-old, better known to his
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          409 7 Who: Dr Woffles Wu, 51, plastic surgeon It was meant to be a work trip when Dr Wu (right) travelled to Prague last month for a plastic surgery conference. But he managed to do plenty of sightseeing and ended up being charmed by the beauty of Prague,
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          323 7 Who: Adrian Pang, 45, actor Pang was so weighed down by work commitments this year that he did not have a chance to take a family holiday till last month. And his verdict: “Boy, was it worth waiting and working for.” The destination: the Maldives in
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          413 7 Who: George Quek, 55, managing director and founder of BreadTalk Mr Quek goes on business trips around Asia once every fortnight. This means that the only opportunity he has to go on holiday with his wife Katherine, in her 40s, and their three children is
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      743 3  -  The Taiwanese towns of Shifen, Jingtong and Pingxi are resplendent with giant lanterns and noisy fireworks during the annual lantern festival BY KOH JOH TING Every year for two weeks starting from the 15th day of the Lunar New Year, the
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      578 8  -  The last chord of The Philharmonic Orchestra’s countdown concert will be played at midnight akshita nanda akshitan@sph.com.sg Ring in 2012 with wine and classical waltzes as The Philharmonic Orchestra Society has its first countdown concert on Saturday. At the School of the Arts Concert Hall
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      569 8 Reuters Mumbai Bollywood struck gold in 2011, revving up lacklustre box offices in India with help from its leading men who wooed audiences back to cinemas after a dismal 2010. Domestic revenues hit 19.25 billion rupees (S$47 million) this year, up from 14.5 billion
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        206 9  -  A fairy-tale royal wedding and the scandal of a governor and his love child. Life! recaps five of the year’s biggest stories in the world of entertainment foong woei wan woeiwan@sph.com.sg It has been a year of the spectacular sequel. The world is mad about another British
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        297 9 1. KATE AND WILLIAM Who was invited, who wasn’t and which designer would dress the bride? In the end, the wedding of Prince William and commoner Kate Middleton at Westminster Abbey on April 29 was as solemn and sweet as the countdown to it had
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        470 9 2. NICHOLAS TSE AND CECILIA CHEUNG The Hong Kong tabloids smelt trouble when actress Cecilia Cheung chatted with actor Edison Chen her one-time co-star in a nude photo scandal who she denounced on television in 2008 on a flight from Taipei to Hong Kong on
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        286 9 3. ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER It was a surprise when former California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and his wife of 25 years, journalist Maria Shriver, announced on May 9 they were separating. Then came the shocker: Schwarzenegger, 64, admitted a week later he had fathered
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        363 9 4. CHARLIE SHEEN He is the “Malibu Messiah”, a “rock star from Mars”, a “Vatican assassin warlock” with “tiger blood and Adonis DNA”. He is Charlie Sheen, the hell-raising Hollywood bad boy who parlayed career suicide into some sort of outlandish performance art. The 46-year-old had
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        347 9 EDISONGATE: PART 2 NOW WITH YOUNGER MODEL 5. EDISON CHEN Edison Chen, a girl and a camera: Pry them apart and the world will be safer, but a great deal duller, probably. If the 2008 sex photo scandal was Chen’s blockbuster (seven women, several of them well-known and most of
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      711 10  -  After encountering the elusive creature, Matt Moneymaker now leads expeditions in search of it rachael boon rachaelb@sph.com.sg In 1994, American law student Matt Moneymaker came within 5m of Bigfoot in Ohio. Or so Moneymaker, now 46 and a researcher of the elusive ape-like creature of
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      630 10 New York Times Los Angeles With just days left this year, ticket sales in North America are running about US$500 million (S$648 million) behind last year despite higher prices prompting a round of soulsearching by studios trying to determine what went wrong and how
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        365 12 New York Lady Gaga is a monster to work for, claims her former personal assistant who has sued the mega star for US$380,000 (S$491,910) in unpaid overtime. Jennifer O’Neill, 41, filed suit in Manhattan federal court last week against the Monster singer’s Mermaid Touring company, reported the
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        179 12 Associated Press London Britain’s royal family celebrated Christmas on Sunday with one notable absence Queen Elizabeth II’s husband Prince Philip, who was hospitalised following a heart procedure. The 90-year-old prince was recovering in Papworth Hospital from having a coronary stent put in. He had gone to
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        187 12 Reuters London A choir of wives of soldiers serving in Afghanistan topped the British singles charts on Sunday, beating X Factor winners Little Mix to the Christmas No. 1 spot and outselling the rest of the top 12 put together. Wherever You Are by Military Wives,
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          32 12 American folk-pop songstress Rachael Yamagata is back with a new album, Chesapeake, and will perform at the Esplanade on Feb 23. Ticket sales will start on Jan 6.
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          31 12 American indie band Death Cab For Cutie will perform on March 7 at Fort Gate at Fort Canning Park. Ticketing details are not yet available.
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          54 12 Actor Robert De Niro, 68, and his wife, Grace Hightower, 56, have welcomed their second child, a girl named Helen Grace, reports said. People magazine said the baby was born through a surrogate mother and was in good health. The couple’s son Elliot
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