The Straits Times, 13 June 2012

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  • 24 1 THE STRAITS TIMES SINCE 1845 WEDNE S D A Y J UNE 13 201 90 cents A Singapore Press Holdings publication MICA (P) 002/02/2012
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  • 627 1  -  He is accused of obtaining sexual favours from sales manager By LEONARD LIM, THAM YUEN-C limze@sph.com.sg yuenc@sph.com.sg FORMER Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB) chief Ng Boon Gay yesterday became the second senior public servant in a week to be charged with using his position to
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  • 52 1 SINGAPORE’S proud, eight-year unbeaten streak against Malaysia came to an end last night when the Lions were beaten 2-0 by the Tigers in Shah Alam. The first leg of the Causeway Challenge at Jalan Besar last Friday had ended in a 2-2 draw. L
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  • 54 1 A DURIAN tree at Block 69, Moulmein Road, has put residents in a prickly mood. A woman called the police last week after a fellow resident, who claims to own the tree, apparently hurled expletives at her when she tried to take a durian
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  • 297 1  -  By ESTHER TEO PROPERTY REPORTER esthert@sph.com.sg RELIGIOUS activities can now be held in industrial buildings under new guidelines aimed at alleviating a shortage of suitable sites. Groups such as churches will be able to rent facilities such as meeting rooms in industrial buildings as
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    • 443 2/3 1,600 houses razed and 21 killed as ethnic clashes rage on in Rakhine ASSOCIATED PRESS AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE SITTWE (Myanmar) Terrified residents fled their burning homes and Myanmar’s security forces struggled to contain communal violence in a western region where the death toll reportedly climbed to
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    • 559 2/3  -  By TAN HUI YEE tanhy@sph.com.sg NAYPYIDAW Eradicating poverty is a key priority of Myanmar’s recent reforms, and the country is “on track” in its political and economic development, Emeritus Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong said after meeting Myanmar President Thein Sein. Thus,
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    • 626 2/3  -  Bridge ‘needs to be created between austerity and stimulus approaches’ By ALVIN FOO alfoo@sph.com.sg TACKLING the global economy’s woes is not a simple choice between austerity and stimulus measures, Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam said yesterday. The key to resuming
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    • THE NEWS IN 5 MINUTES
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        • 60 4 GUNSHOTS rang out and residents fled blazing homes in western Myanmar yesterday as security forces struggled to contain deadly ethnic and religious violence that has killed at least 21 people and forced thousands to flee. PAGES A2-3 Mr Tharman spoke after a bailout of Spanish banks failed
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        • 48 4 RESOLVING the global economy’s woes requires creating a bridge between the two extremes of austerity and stimulus measures, said Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam, who was giving a keynote address at the Economic Conference 2012 in Berlin yesterday. PAGE A3
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      • WORLD
        • 42 4 THEY represent the creme de la creme of China’s aviation industry. Now, Ms Wang Yaping, 32, and Ms Liu Yang, 34, are waiting to see which of them will be selected to become China’s first female astronaut. PAGE A12
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        • 59 4 LINDY Chamberlain, who was accused of killing her baby girl Azaria in the Australian outback 32 years ago, spoke of her relief after a coroner’s finding confirmed her claim that a dingo had killed her child, ending decades of speculation. PAGE A16 Mrs Chamberlain, now
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        • 46 4 UNLIKE the late Steve Jobs, Apple boss Tim Cook did not hog the keynote speech at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference. Instead, his deputies showed off the latest razor-thin Macbook Pro and Apple’s next operating system to a cheering crowd. PAGE A18
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      • 39 4 OPINION THE growing strategic partnership between Russia and China is a natural one, despite some residual distrust. The world, and the United States especially, will have to get used to it. PAGE A24
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      • HOME
        • 62 4 ABOUT 150 passengers of a Jetstar flight bound for Singapore have been stranded in Guangzhou for two days because of a fault in the plane. Flight 3K842 was to have taken off from the southern Chinese city early on Monday. With the plane stuck in Guangzhou, two
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        • 49 4 THE National Cadet Corps is setting up clubs in junior colleges, polytechnics and institutes of technical education to give young men who are less fit a chance to get in shape to prepare to serve in the armed forces. PAGE B3 ST PHOTO: MUGILAN RAJASEGERAN
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        • 38 4 LENGTHY court trials often conjure up images of towering stacks of paper. However, a new computer software being adopted by some British law firms may soon cut down on all that paper. PAGE B4
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        • 79 4 A KILLER who was on the run from justice had helped one of his accomplices to escape by getting a man who had nothing to do with the case to take the rap. As such, Leong Soon Kheong, 37 who has now served seven years in
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      • 40 4 MONEY MONDAY’s relief rally triggered by the ¤100 billion (S$160.1 billion) rescue of Spain’s wobbling banks turned out to be a one-day wonder, with many markets falling yesterday, However, Singapore managed to buck the trend. PAGE B7
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      • 52 4 SPORT ARE the Dutch starting to implode at Euro 2012? Rafael van der Vaart (right) became the latest player to voice his discontent at not starting Holland’s opener against Denmark. This follows striker Klass-Jan Huntelaar’s outcry after Robin van Persie started ahead of him. PAGE B24 PHOTO:
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      • LIFE!
        • 82 4 SINCE the release of his last album, Sang Penyanyi, in 2009, singer Hady Mirza has been busy with concerts, and starred in Wild Rice’s pantomime, Aladdin, last year. Now, he is working on a new album and will perform at the Straits Times Appreciates Readers (Star)
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        • 47 4 DURING their four-year hiatus because of compulsory military service, members of Korean boyband Shinhwa found themselves overtaken by other Korean groups. But they are back: Their 10th album was released in March, and they will perform at Resorts World Sentosa. PAGE C3
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      • WHAT’S ONLINE
        • 38 4 www.straitstimes.com www.facebook.com/ thestraitstimes twitter.com/stcom L Woman’s leg stuck in MRT platform gap L Google, Apple snap sunbathers in back gardens L Xiaxue: So what if I amQRcodegeneratedonhttp://qrcode.littleidiot.be opinionated and vain? QR code generated on http://qrcode.littleidiot.be
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        • 19 4 www.stomp.com.sg L Plane delay strands Singaporeans for two days L Kiasu woman stands in carpark
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        • 21 4 www.razortv.com.sg L Four to plead guilty in online vice ring case L Ex-CNB chief faces four charges of corruption
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      • 123 4 OUR Sunday report, “URA amends plans for Dairy Farm site”, said the URA plans to remove a planned road that would have cut into a canal-side jogging trail. This is wrong. The URA said that while there is no immediate need for an extension, land
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    • 396 6  -  SEX-FOR-CONTRACTS CASE By THAM YUEN-C, LEONARD LIM yuenc@sph.com.sg limze@sph.com.sg HER identity was outed months ago as one of the women allegedly linked to a sex-for-contracts corruption case. But Ms Cecilia Sue Siew Nang has not left her current job. Described by friends as
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    • 704 6  -  NTUC Foodfare looking into price caps at Bukit Panjang outlet By FENG ZENGKUN zengkun@sph.com.sg THE operator of the new hawker centre to be built in Bukit Panjang plans to keep the food there good and affordable. NTUC Foodfare, picked by the
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    • 521 6 BLOOMBERG AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE PARIS Tokyo has regained the unenviable title of the world’s most expensive city for expatriates, while the euro zone crisis has made many European cities cheaper, according to a survey by research firm Mercer. The oil-boom Angolan capital of Luanda
      BLOOMBERG; AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE; PHOTO: AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE; ST PHOTO: TED CHEN  -  521 words
    • 669 7  -  Changes offer more options at a time when demand for space has risen RELIGIOUS ACTIVITIES IN INDUSTRIAL BUILDINGS By ESTHER TEO, AMANDA TAN, WALTER SIM esthert@sph.com.sg tamanda@sph.com.sg waltsim@sph.com.sg RELIGIOUS organisations have welcomed the new guidelines that will allow greater use of industrial sites for their
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  • WORLD
    • 678 8  -  Authorities should uphold law but not go overboard, says Yudhoyono By WAHYUDI SOERIAATMADJA INDONESIA CORRESPONDENT wahyudis@sph.com.sg JAKARTA Indonesia’s President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono yesterday voiced concern over the mysterious killings of six men in two weeks on the streets of restive Papua province. While no one has
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    • ASIA
      • 574 9  -  Strategic move ahead of talks follows cuts by India in Iranian oil purchases By TRACY QUEK US CORRESPONDENT tracyq@sph.com.sg WASHINGTON Two days before the United States and India hold high-level strategic talks, Washington has paved the way for smoother discussions on a range of
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      • 360 9 BLOOMBERG AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE WASHINGTON Singapore is in talks with the United States to get an exemption from economic sanctions on Iran’s oil trade, even as the US added seven economies to the list of nations qualifying for the exemption. A Singapore Foreign
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      • 186 9 REUTERS ISLAMABAD Pakistan’s civilian government should “bite the bullet” and re-open supply routes to Nato forces in Afghanistan in order to ease tensions with the United States, a senior US government official said yesterday. The US withdrew its team
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      • 1007 10  -  PM’s active presence on social media a far cry from clueless BN of 2008 UPCOMING MALAYSIAN GENERAL ELECTION By LESTER KONG MALAYSIA CORRESPONDENT lestkong@sph.com.sg KUALA LUMPUR From updates on the economy to discussing what to name the family cat, Prime Minister Najib
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      • 343 11  -  UPCOMING MALAYSIAN GENERAL ELECTION By CAROLYN HONG MALAYSIA BUREAU CHIEF carolynh@sph.com.sg KUALA LUMPUR Prime Minister Najib Razak has tried Twitter, Facebook, radio interviews and phone-ins. Yesterday he extended his public engagement by chatting live on the Internet with Malaysians. He teased a
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      • 605 11 Malaysia set to beat Hong Kong with Felda’s $4 billion initial share sale BLOOMBERG KUALA LUMPUR South-east Asia is weathering a slump in initial share sales better than other markets, including Hong Kong, with a public offering by Malaysia’s biggest plantation owner set
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      • 636 12  -  One of two will be picked to blast off on Shenzhou IX on Saturday By PEH SHING HUEI CHINA BUREAU CHIEF shpeh@sph.com.sg BEIJING Seconds after taking off on a routine practice flight, air force pilot Liu Yang heard a loud thud. A burning smell filled
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      • 200 12 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE SEOUL A South Korean court has ordered a casino to repay about half of the total amount of 2.47 billion won (S$2.72 million) that two problem gamblers had lost at its tables over two years, a court official said
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      • ASIA BRIEFS
        • 95 12 ASSOCIATED PRESS ISLAMABAD A Pakistani judicial investigation has found that its ex-envoy to US Hussain Haqqani did indeed write to American officials requesting help to ward off an alleged army coup after US Marines killed Osama bin Laden in a midnight raid in Pakistan
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        • 103 12 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE OSLO Former Norwegian prime minister Kjell Magne Bondevik has been denied a visa to enter China, Oslo said yesterday, in what appeared to be continued fallout from a diplomatic row over the award of the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize to Chinese dissident
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        • 136 12 THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK KUALA LUMPUR The Malaysian government is fuming over the involvement of Malaysia-based foreign diplomats in the Bersih 3.0 rally on April 28. Foreign Minister Anifah Aman said that such involvement by diplomats, whether for information gathering or otherwise, was
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        • 94 12 XINHUA BEIJING China’s biggest salt producer yesterday launched a plan to reduce the nation’s salt consumption, as the Chinese eat about three times the amount of salt recommended by the World Health Organisation. The China National Salt Industry Corporation said that it would
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    • 739 14  -  Thousands stranded, five killed as rain cuts off roads and causes flash floods By LEE SEOK HWAI TAIWAN CORRESPONDENT seokhwai@sph.com.sg ADDITIONAL REPORTING BY BRENDA WU TAIPEI Chaos reigned across Taiwan yesterday as monsoon rains soaking the south spread north, paralysing traffic, disrupting flights and train
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    • 456 15 Their collaboration results in arrest of 26 suspects, including 3 from US AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE ASSOCIATED PRESS BEIJING China and the United States said they have busted an international arms trafficking ring and arrested 26 suspects, three of them stateside, in a rare
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    • 402 15 BEIJING A high-flying businessman in eastern China, who once made false claims about his company’s acquisition of a US bank, has been detained in a tax fraud scheme involving hundreds of millions of yuan. Lin Chunping, 42, was suspected
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    • 759 16  -  Finding validates parents’ account of tragedy, ending three-decade ordeal By JONATHAN PEARLMAN FOR THE STRAITS TIMES jonathanmpearlman@gmail.com SYDNEY After a “terrifying” 32-year ordeal that divided the nation, Mrs Lindy Chamberlain has finally received an official finding from a coroner in Australia that a dingo
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    • 302 16 ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWARK A Ukrainian man, who prosecutors say may be the most significant distributor of child pornography ever prosecuted in the United States, has been charged with operating a network of websites. Maksym Shynkarenko, 33, founded and operated a Ukraine-based child
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    • WORLD BRIEFS
      • 80 16 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE PARIS France’s new First Lady took a very public swipe at the President’s former partner Segolene Royal with a good luck tweet sent yesterday to the politician standing against her in parliamentary polls. Ms Valerie Trierweiler’s message on Twitter to Socialist dissident Olivier
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      • 68 16 ASSOCIATED PRESS GENEVA United Nations-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan has asked governments with influence to “twist arms” to stop escalating violence in Syria, his spokesman Ahmed Fawzi said. Mr Annan has invited governments to raise the bar to “the highest possible level” to
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      • 66 16 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE AMMAN A Frenchman who lost all of his limbs said he plans to swim 25km across the Red Sea from Taba in Egypt to Jordan’s Aqaba this week as part of a global challenge. Using prosthetic limbs with flippers attached, Mr Philippe
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      • 60 16 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE TEHERAN Iran has taken “initial steps” to design its first nuclear-powered submarine, a naval official claimed yesterday. Deputy navy chief Admiral Abbas Zamini told the Fars news agency Iran had initiated steps to build nuclear submarine propulsion systems. Iran’s navy needs the
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      • 67 16 ASSOCIATED PRESS LONDON The Falkland Islands government plans to hold a referendum next year on its political future, seeking to end Argentina’s claims of sovereignty and to secure its status as a British territory. The announcement was made yesterday, ahead of tomorrow’s 30th anniversary of the
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    • 526 18 Move seen as biggest challenge to Putin’s 12-year domination of Russia ASSOCIATED PRESS AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE MOSCOW Tens of thousands of protesters chanting “Russia Will be Free” rallied in Moscow yesterday against President Vladimir Putin’s third term despite a police crackdown on opposition leaders a day
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    • 195 18 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE LONDON Former British prime minister John Major told a public inquiry that Mr Rupert Murdoch had demanded he change his policy on Europe, directly contradicting the News Corp chief’s own testimony. Mr Major, the Conservative prime minister from 1990 to 1997, said he had
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    • 446 18  -  By TREVOR TAN trevtan@sph.com.sg SAN FRANCISCO It was only a year ago at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) that the late Apple chief executive officer Steve Jobs made his last keynote address, wowing the audience with his usual charisma. Successor Tim
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    • 216 18 L iOS 6: Apple’s new mobile operating system, iOS 6, has more than 200 new features, including an enhanced Siri, a virtual personal assistant. You can now ask Siri to launch apps, tweet your status, or give
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    • 650 20 Recession, housing crash bring down net worth to the level it was 20 years ago NEW YORK TIMES BLOOMBERG WASHINGTON The recent recession has wiped out nearly two decades of Americans’ wealth, according to government data. The median net worth of US families plunged
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    • MONEY BRIEFS
      • 82 20 REUTERS HONG KONG The government vowed to stick to its near 30-year currency peg to the US dollar after Mr Joseph Yam, a former central bank chief, recommended possible changes to the Chinese city’s monetary system. “There’s no need whatsoever to make any change,”
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      • 44 20 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE JAKARTA Indonesia’s inflation-wary central bank left its overnight benchmark rate unchanged at 5.75 per cent. Year-on-year inflation eased to 4.45 per cent last month from 4.5 per cent in April as basic food prices fell during harvest season.
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      • 54 20 BLOOMBERG BEIJING Volkswagen plans to increase production capacity to four million cars by 2018 in China, the world’s biggest vehicle market. VW said it would increase annual capacity to three million cars by 2016, in a plan to invest ¤14 billion (S$22 billion) to expand
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      • 69 20 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE WASHINGTON Bankrupt photography giant Kodak said it has started moves to auction more than 1,100 patents by filing a motion for approval for a blind bidding process. One bundle of some 700 patents includes image capture, processing and transmission technologies for digital cameras and
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    • 625 23 Fitch issues warning over Spain’s banks as concerns over Greece, Italy prevail AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE REUTERS BLOOMBERG MADRID Fitch Ratings has downgraded 18 Spanish banks, less than a week after the agency cut Spain’s sovereign debt rating, adding to woes in Europe where
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    • 421 23 REUTERS ASSOCIATED PRESS BRUSSELS With just a few days to go before Greece’s election this weekend, European finance officials have discussed limiting the size of withdrawals from ATM machines, imposing border checks and introducing euro zone capital controls as a worst-case scenario
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    • 469 24 EVEN if there exists residual distrust between China and Russia as a legacy of Mao Zedong’s split with Nikita Khrushchev, the two nations have much to gain from strategic cooperation. The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, of which Russia is a founder member, is one platform
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    • 1141 24  -  BY INVITATION By MICHAEL VATIKIOTIS FOR THE STRAITS TIMES The writer is the Asia regional director of the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue based in Singapore. By Invitation features leading thinkers and writers from the region and Singapore. AS THE world watches and encourages Myanmar’s
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    • 1178 26  -  By TAN KHEE GIAP, TAN KONG YAM The writers are co-directors of the Asia Competitiveness Institute, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore. NOT all economies are ready as the process of globalisation intensifies. Some developed countries have been found wanting
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    • 777 26  -  By BRUCE GALE SENIOR WRITER bruceg@sph.com.sg JAPAN’S electronics giants, say the pundits, are on the brink of collapse. Not only have they become less competitive than their cheaper South Korean rivals, they have also lost the lead they once held in cutting-edge technologies. But
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    • 1257 27  -  EUROPEAN DEBT CRISIS By NIALL FERGUSON, NOURIEL ROUBINI FINANCIAL TIMES IS IT one minute to midnight? We fear that the German government’s policy of “doing too little too late” risks a repeat of precisely the crisis of the mid-20th century that European integration was designed to
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    • FORUM
      • 231 28  -  Mei Ding (Ms) THERE have been some recent negative reports about shoebox units (“Tiny ‘shoebox’, big questions”; Monday), and calls for the Government to limit their numbers. The most common reason cited is that they are too small for families. Shoebox units have been built
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      • 315 28  -  Phoebe Huang (Ms) AS FIRST-TIME home buyers, my husband and I applied for a Build-to-Order (BTO) flat in 2008, but were unsuccessful several times in the balloting exercise. Though we considered buying a resale flat, prices were very high then. Eventually, we applied
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      • 218 28  -  Sin Lye Chong Controller of Housing Urban Redevelopment Authority Chin Chi Leong Commissioner of Buildings Building and Construction Authority WE THANK Madam Tan Yee Peng for her letter (“Condo facades: It should be safety first”; last Thursday). We agree that safety is
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      • 202 28  -  Ng Chee Kheon I EMPATHISE with the employers of low-wage earners, like cleaners and security guards, who are willing but unable to pay their workers more (“Tough to raise low-wage staff’s pay, say firms”; last Thursday). It appears that the main
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      • 90 28 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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      • 88 28  -  MYPOINT Goh Kian Huat IN ADDITION to certificate of entitlement prices, the biggest contributor to inflation has been accommodation costs, which include imputed rentals on owner-occupied homes. Leasing contracts continue to be renewed at rentals that are considerably higher than those under existing contracts, especially in
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      • 379 29  -  Dylan Tan Senior Corporate Communications Manager SingTel WE HAVE contacted Mr Eddy Tan (“Penalise the few, not the many”; last Friday) and helped him to determine his data usage, which has been significantly less than 2GB every month. Like Mr Tan, 90 per cent of
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      • 310 29  -  Irene Low (Ms) IT IS a shame that the National Parks Board (NParks) is looking into culling wild boar (“Crossbows to cull wild boar”; Monday). The proposal seems arbitrary and unnecessary. In the absence of quantitative studies on the impact of wild boar on
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      • 96 29 More letters on www.straitstimes.com 1. MR LIU WENHUI: Data cap cut a regressive move by telcos. 2. MR WONG KAH KHOON: Shoebox units not a threat to property market 3. MR HO MING WOEI: Shoebox unit the right fit for him. 4. DR CHONG SHIN MIN: More research
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    • 144 29 Have a story? Let us know TEXT E-MAIL CALL 8282-3343 stnewsdesk@sph.com.sg 1800-*****28 “My Tip-Of” on CLICK www.straitstimes.com NOWIN SINGAPORE... BOSLEY HAIR RESTORATION CLINIC Bosley Hair Restoration Clinic is part of Bosley, a provider of medical hair loss solutions based in the United States. With an exclusive focus on hair restoration
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    • 35 29 PUNCHLINES From NTUC Foodfare Bukit Panjang residents What would you like from the upcoming hawker centre in your estate? Brown rice? Herbal soup? SURVEY A ban on the use of tissue packs to “chope” seats!!
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    • 869 30 INITIAL PUBLIC OFFERING LEADER and INNOVATOR in the Pawnbroking Industry Singapore’s largest network of pawnshops in 24 strategic locations which provides customers with modern, professional and “bank-like” pawnbroking services to meet their financial needs MAXI-CASH FINANCIAL SERVICES CORPORATION LTD (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore on 10 April 2008) (Company
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  • HOME
    • 718 1  -  Residents of HDB block trade barbs over fruit from tree on public land By GOH SHI TING stgoh@sph.com.sg A DURIAN tree at Block 69, Moulmein Road has proven to be a thorn in relations among the residents as they fight over who has the
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    • 567 2  -  Two days’ wait in Guangzhou after plane fault grounds flight By POON CHIAN HUI chpoon@sph.com.sg PASSENGERS on a Singa-pore-bound Jetstar flight have been stranded in Guangzhou for two days because of a fault in the plane. The budget airline has put the 149 passengers in
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    • 319 2  -  SARAH GIAM GAYATHRI Kavidmannan, 11 and in Primary 5, now studies in the quiet of the bedroom she shares with her two siblings. There, she now has a new study table and a double-decker bed. Out in the living room, where she used
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    • 318 2  -  STACEY CHIA HIGH school students have written a book about the brain that aims to give their peers food for thought. About 30 youngsters in Singapore worked on the project, with the help of postgraduate mentors. Called The Brain Book, the 65-page primer answers questions
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    • 307 2  -  By ROYSTON SIM roysim@sph.com.sg TRAIN service on the North-South Line was delayed for eight minutes yesterday evening after the cover of a train component fell off onto the tracks. But the incident, at about 6.30pm, did not pose any
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    • 856 3  -  Apex-I clubs will offer chance to get in shape and ease into BMT By JERMYN CHOW DEFENCE CORRESPONDENT jermync@sph.com.sg CLUBS linked to the National Cadet Corps are being set up in junior colleges, polytechnics and the Institute of Technical Education (ITE) to prepare young men
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    • 595 4  -  Web-based service lets judge and lawyers access documents online By K.C. VIJAYAN LAW CORRESPONDENT vijayan@sph.com.sg LENGTHY court trials often conjure up images of towering stacks of paper. A new computer software being adopted by some British law firms, however, may reduce the need
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    • 316 4  -  FENG ZENGKUN GRAPHENE, a type of super-thin carbon, has been the darling of scientists globally for its versatility. It has been used in research to make cheap malaria-detection kits, faster computer chips and super batteries that can hold up to 10 times
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    • 380 4  -  By IRENE THAM TECHNOLOGY CORRESPONDENT itham@sph.com.sg THE spotlight at this year’s CommunicAsia will be on smartphones and everything they can do except making phone calls. The region’s largest communications trade event, which begins its four-day run next Tuesday, is making a shift from mobile
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    • 567 5  -  Participants discuss limits of artistic licence; some blast mainstream media By CORRIE TAN corriet@sph.com.sg MORE than 70 people squeezed into the White House, an arts centre on Emily Hill, last night to discuss street art, vandalism and the limits of artistic licence here. It
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    • 108 5 AXA Singapore employees, decked out in white, blue and red company T-shirts, leaving the AXA Tower yesterday for a 7km walk to the Singapore Flyer and back. The event, which included running and cycling segments, was part of the company’s Corporate Responsibility
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    • 351 6  -  He gave police false info after getting another to take rap for accomplice By ELENA CHONG COURT CORRESPONDENT elena@sph.com.sg A FUGITIVE killer helped one of his accomplices to escape by getting a man who had nothing to do with the case
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    • 457 6  -  CULTURAL MEDALLION WINNERS’ COURT CASE By KHUSHWANT SINGH khush@sph.com.sg A LIBEL suit filed by one Cultural Medallion winner against another has concluded. Yesterday, the 2003 Medallion winner for literature Yeng Pway Ngon, 64, was ordered to pay $10,000 in damages and $20,000 in
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    • 277 6  -  ELENA CHONG JILTED by her girlfriend, a woman stabbed a man she believed had come between them. On Jan 1, graphic designer Teo Ming Min, 29, went to the Bedok flat of her girlfriend, Ms Lin Pei Ying, 27, to return a
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  • MONEY
    • 592 7  -  Investors bail as worries surface over the way $160b deal is structured By GOH ENG YEOW SENIOR CORRESPONDENT engyeow@sph.com.sg EUPHORIA one day, despair the next; so much for the relief rally triggered by the ¤100 billion (S$160 billion) rescue of
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    • 296 8 CUTS to industrial land tenures announced on Monday, while cushioning a rise in prices, may make it harder for industrialists to get funding, UBS analysts said. The Ministry of Trade and Industry said that all sites to be sold in the
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    • 496 8  -  Family sees lessons in his hard work and humility By YUNITA ONG yunitaso@sph.com.sg INDONESIAN tycoon Liem Sioe Liong’s legacy extends well beyond the business empire he built up over a lifetime, his relatives said yesterday. Mr Liem, who died here on Sunday aged 97, also
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    • 626 9  -  By JONATHAN KWOK jonkwok@sph.com.sg MAXI-CASH Financial Services aims to become Singapore’s first listed pawnshop, with an initial public offering (IPO) to raise $15.1 million in net proceeds. Despite uncertain capital market conditions, the young company, which opened its first outlet only in 2009,
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    • 455 9  -  Bid figures reflect confidence in projects near MRT stations: Analysts By AMANDA TAN tamanda@sph.com.sg A RESIDENTIAL site near Buangkok MRT station had drawn five decent bids by the time the tender closed yesterday. Market experts say although the number of bids was lower than
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    • MONEY SME SPOTLIGHT
      • 855 10  -  Private school head hopes to raise productivity by taping classes automatically By YUNITA ONG yunitaso@sph.com.sg AS A former high-flier with American computer giant Dell, Dr Andrew Chua knows better than most how technology can lift productivity. Dr Chua, who was Dell’s South Asia managing director
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      • 946 11  -  In the sixth of an eight-part series sponsored by Spring Singapore, we examine how various companies have benefited from the initiatives to lift service quality. Joyce Teo looks at the journey undertaken by Giamso International Tours. Joyce Teo joyceteo@sph.com.sg A SMALL tour operator
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      • 451 12  -  Focus on management, productivity, long-term planning, experts suggest By LESTER HIO lesterh@sph.com.sg SMALL and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) probably feel all at sea in these turbulent times, wondering how to navigate the stormy waters, but guidance is at hand. Experts have told The Straits
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      • 590 12  -  Mr Lawrence Au Mr Lawrence Au, director of Oriel Management Consulting L I am a retailer selling bags under my own brand, Leonistar. I have been selling them through pushcarts at shopping malls for the past three years and have been wondering how to take my business to
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    • COMPANIES MONEY
      • 406 13  -  Republic well placed to support currency opening up: MAS’ Ong By MAGDALEN NG songyuan@sph.com.sg SINGAPORE is well placed to support the internationalisation of the Chinese currency, the yuan, a local central banker said yesterday. Mr Ong Chong Tee, deputy managing director at the Monetary
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      • 453 13  -  By LESTER HIO lesterh@sph.com.sg SINGAPORE Airlines (SIA) has maintained its top spot in a ranking of Singapore’s top 100 brands despite a fall in its brand value. This year’s Top 100 Singapore Brands report, compiled by London-based consultancy Brand Finance, was unveiled yesterday
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    • MONEY MARKETS
      • 450 14  -  Early rises in Europe and gains in US index futures give a boost BULLS AND BEARS By JONATHAN KWOK jonkwok@sph.com.sg SINGAPORE shares spent most of yesterday’s session in negative territory, but eventually struggled back into the black. The late-session boost came on the
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      • COMPANY BRIEFS
        • 133 14 ENERGY services firm Kreuz Holdings has won US$142 million (S$182 million) worth of contracts, including subsea installation for the Swiber Group. The contracts are largely for work in South-east Asia and are scheduled to start in the third quarter of this year with completion expected in the fourth
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        • 133 14 CABLING solutions firm Lantrovision has proposed a rights issue which could raise up to $22.2 million in net proceeds to be used for business expansion and working capital. It will issue up to 250.4 million rights shares at an issue price of nine cents a share on the basis
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      • MARKET SUMMARY
        • 97 14 STI TRADING VOLUME 343 million shares STI UP DOWN Gainers: 18 Losers: 11 Unchanged: 1 Points Change Mid Cap Small Cap Fledgling Catalist China China Top Maritime 647.03 425.07 619.11 841.31 213.79 189.90 273.80 1.65 0.74 -3.56 -8.42 0.06 -0.32 -0.59 Points Change Basic materials Consumer goods
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        • 73 14 STOCK TRADING VOLUME 1.4 billion shares worth $1.03 billion UP DOWN Gainers: 134 Losers: 170 Unchanged: 477 Yesterday’s close Index Change Hang Seng Nikkei 225 Seoul Kospi Shanghai Comp Shenzhen Comp Bursa M’sia KLCI 18,872.56 8,536.72 1,854.74 2,289.79 942.18 1,576.07 -81.07 -88.18 -12.30 -16.07 -3.44 -2.34 Yesterday’s close
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      • SINGAPORE STOCKS
        • 179 14 For a full list of SGX stocks, warrants and bonds, visit btstocks.asiaone.com TRANSACTION DATE: JUNE 12, 2012 Top Rises Jun 12 CENTS IS MS India 100US$ 532 145.1 27.0 DBXT S&P Short 10US$ 3897 89.9 1.8 Jun 12 Lyxor Asia EX 10US$ 385 24.4 5.2 UOB 5.05%NCPS
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        • 56 14 52-WEEK CURRENCY LAST 'VOL DAY GROSS NET M CAP HIGH LOW COMPANY TRADED SALE +OR-'000 HIGH LOW YIELD P/E $MIL CURRENCY LAST 'VOL DAY GROSS NET M CAP HIGH LOW COMPANY TRADED SALE +0R'000 HIGH LOW YIELD P/E SMIL 173 112.5 CapMallsAsia 144 +2 2935 144.5
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        • 80 14 52-WEEK CURRENCY LAST 'VOL DAY GROSS NET M CAP HIGH LOW COMPANY TRADED SALE +OR-'000 HIGH LOW YIELD P/E $MIL COMPANY C0RRENCV LAST TRADED SALE +0R'VOL '000 DAY GROSS HIGH LOW YIELD NET P/E M CAP $MIL 164 101.5 ARA 144 -1 257 144 142.5
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        • 49 14 June 12 AgainstS$ Against US$ Currencies Bid Offer Bid Offer S$/US$toone unitofforeigncurrency: Against US$ Bid Offer S$/US$ to one unit of foreign currency: S$/US$to100units offoreigncurrency: 1.2704 1.2715 0.9895 0.9897 1.2461 1.2474 0.9706 0.9710 1 6040 1.6054 1.2493 1.2496 UNIT TRUSTS TABLE APPEARS ON MONDAYS Source: OCBC
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      • 1425 24 FOLLOW THE ACTION WITH ST L News www.straitstimes.com L Connect www.facebook.com/thestraitstimes L Follow twitter.com/stcom Unhappy van der Vaart, Huntelaar and de Jong hold talks with coach AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE REUTERS KHARKIV (Ukraine) Vice-cap-tain Rafael van der Vaart added to the turmoil within the Netherlands’ Euro 2012 squad
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      • 602 24 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE LVIV (Ukraine) Real Madrid superstar Cristiano Ronaldo understandably cannot win matches for Portugal on his own. But fans of the Seleccao will hope that after their opening Euro 2012 Group B loss to Germany, he and his former Manchester United
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      • 556 23 Their defensive tactics frustrate French attacks but win few admirers ASSOCIATED PRESS REUTERS DONETSK (Ukraine) England’s opening 1-1 draw with France on Monday showed just how hard it will be to break them down at the European Championship. But their exhausting, defensive tactics rely on veteran players and
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      • 330 23 ASSOCIATED PRESS DONETSK (Ukraine) Having missed an opportunity to beat England in their European Championship opener, France are under severe pressure heading into Friday’s match against Ukraine. After a shaky start, France dominated but failed to take advantage of long spells of possession
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        • 68 23 XINHUA GUANGZHOU The state-owned provincial TV station of China’s Guangdong Province provoked cheers and outrage on Saturday when it chose to hire bikini models to deliver weather forecasts for Ukraine and Poland, where the European Championship is being held. Photos and videos depicting the women spread
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        • 54 23 REUTERS TOMAS Rosicky will not be singing the national anthem at Euro 2012 because the last time he belted it out before a match, his team lost, the Czech captain revealed on Monday. “I haven’t sung it for a very long time,” he said. “I sing
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        • 63 23 ASSOCIATED PRESS ENGLAND’S injury curse extends to the coaching staff at Euro 2012. Roy Hodgson has already lost four members of the squad to tournament ending injuries and now goalkeeping coach Ray Clemence is going home for surgery. The former England goalkeeper snapped an Achilles’ tendon
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        • 67 23 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE ITALY striker Antonio Cassano caused a stir yesterday when he was asked if there are two homosexuals and two metrosexuals in the squad. “What’s a metrosexual?” he replied. “If they’re queer, that’s their problem. Are there any in the national team? I don’t know. I
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      • 354 23 REUTERS KIEV Ukraine coach Oleg Blokhin must keep his young players’ feet firmly on the ground at Euro 2012 after a 2-1 victory over Sweden on Monday put them top of Group D and sent the co-hosts into raptures. He also has some work
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      • 136 23 THE TIMES, LONDON WARSAW An investigation has been launched by Uefa into allegations that Mario Balotelli and other black players have been racially abused by spectators at the European Championship. Fans’ Embassy of Football Supporters Europe (FSE) has detailed the abuse it claims the Italy
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    • 461 20 His confidence is back but recent form’s been patchy U.S. OPEN REUTERS SAN FRANCISCO The fist pump is back and much of the old swagger, but several question marks still hover over Tiger Woods’ prospects of ending a Major title drought of four frustrating years at
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    • 219 20 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE REUTERS SAN FRANCISCO Chinese 14-year-old Andy Zhang is poised to become the youngest golfer to play in the US Open since World War II after the withdrawals of Brandt Snedeker and Paul Casey on Monday. The previous youngest competitor in the post-war
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    • 975 21 James, Durant insist it’s not a 1-on-1 match-up ASSOCIATED PRESS OKLAHOMA CITY LeBron James is quickly racking up Most Valuable Player (MVP) awards while Kevin Durant is collecting scoring titles at the same pace. Either of them could make a case as the best player
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      • 76 21 COLOMBO Singapore’s Shanti Pereira finished third in 25.09 seconds in the women’s 200m final at the Asian Junior Athletics Championships yesterday. Lin Huijun of China was first in 24.69 and Kazakhstan’s Adreyeva Olga second in 25.05. Singapore’s 4x400m boys’ team broke the national junior record when
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      • 49 21 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE KINGSTON Usain Bolt could face criminal charges after he slammed his luxury BMW into a guard rail on Sunday. Deputy Commissioner of Police Glenmore Hinds said criminal charges can be laid if investigations suggest that he was at fault for the accident.
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      • 37 21 REUTERS LONDON Former Scottish football champions Rangers face a three-year ban from European competition after British tax authorities rejected a plan to settle their liabilities yesterday. The Glasgow club’s parent company now faces liquidation.
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    • 141 21 Today Basketball NBA Finals, Game 1: Oklahoma City Thunder v Miami Heat (Live, StarHub Ch202, 9.30am). Cricket 3rd ODI: Sri Lanka v Pakistan (Live, StarHub Ch235 and mio TV Ch122, 5pm and 9pm). Football Euro 2012 Gp B: Denmark v Portugal (11.30pm), Netherlands v Germany (tomorrow, 2.15am)
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    • 210 21 Badminton Indonesia Open In Jakarta, 1st qualifying rd (Singaporeans only) Men’s singles: Sourabh Varma (Ind) bt Ashton Chen 21-17 21-17, Brice Leverdez (Fra) bt Derek Wong 21-19 16-21 21-14. Women’s singles: Xing Aiying bt Renna Suwarno (Ina) 21-19 21-15, Chen Jiayuan bt Febby Angguni (Ina) 21-16 12-21 21-18. Doubles:
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    • 412 21 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE PARIS Rafael Nadal believes that a deep-seated fear of failure drove him to a record seventh French Open title and will keep him playing until his love of tennis finally drains away. Despite beating world No. 1 Novak Djokovic 6-4,
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    • 645 21  -  HORSE RACING Written by. Michael Lee TRAINER Steven Burridge keeps cementing his reputation as a big fan of Malaysian racing as he sends yet another runner across the Causeway this weekend. The 2010 Singapore champion trainer, who honed his craft in Kuala Lumpur before relocating
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    • 604 22  -  Singapore’s largely senior Lions side lose unbeaten streak to arch-rivals By SANJAY NAIR nsanjay@sph.com.sg SHAH ALAM Singapore’s unbeaten streak against Malaysia was snapped last night, but more worrying for the Lions is not the loss of a proud record which had stood for eight years. What will
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    • 458 22  -  By CHAN U-GENE ugenec@sph.com.sg IF VIETNAM’S Hoang Quy Phuoc makes the Olympic ‘A’ time at this week’s SEA Swimming Championships, Joseph Schooling would have had a small part to play in that achievement. Phuoc, 19, trained for three months with the Singaporean in March
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    • 328 22 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE LAS VEGAS Boxing promoter Bob Arum is going to ask the Nevada attorney general’s office “for a full and complete inquiry” into the controversial Timothy Brad-ley-Manny Pacquiao title fight. Arum, who promotes both fighters, was among the many who voiced shock
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    • 323 22 ASSOCIATED PRESS HAVANA Cuban boxer Teofilo Stevenson, the three-time Olympic heavyweight champion with a devastating right hand and a gentlemanly demeanour, has died. He was 60. “The Cuban sporting family was moved today by the passing of one of the greatest of all time,” said a
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    • 353 2 Reuters Los Angeles Emmy-winning drama Mad Men drew a record 2.7 million viewers for its low-key Season Five finale, bringing to an end its most watched and most controversial season yet. Cable channel AMC said on Monday that the TV show, set
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    • 830 3  -  Having completed their military service, South Korean boyband Shinhwa are staging a comeback Rachael Boon rachaelb@sph.com.sg Over the last four years, South Korea’s oldest surviving “boyband” Shinhwa nervously watched as K-pop’s popularity exploded, but they could not do anything about it. The six-member group, credited with helping
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    • 400 3 Associated Press Mexico City Thousands of tween girls jammed a vast square with their parents and screamed in unison throughout teen superstar Justin Bieber’s free concert on Monday night, an event that was expected to draw 200,000 people to the historic centre of Mexico’s capital.
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      • 717 4/5  -  Review Comedy THE DICTATOR (M18) 83 minutes/Opens tomorrow/ The story: North African ruler Admiral General Hafez Aladeen (Sacha Baron Cohen), supreme ruler of the rogue state of Wadiya, pushes his scientists to develop nuclear weapons as only he knows how: through torture and execution. The United
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      • 1711 4/5  -  Art collides with life in Sacha Baron Cohen’s The Dictator, which depicts a people’s revolt, mirroring the Middle East uprisings Tan Shzr Ee In New York stlife@sph.com.sg In the world of General Aladeen of Wadiya, women do not drive, nuclear warheads are pointy and journalists pre-selected by Paramount
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      • 847 6  -  Director Stephan Elliott embraces the fact that he has made only one hit and takes part in a show based on it Boon Chan Media Correspondent bchan@sph.com.sg Australian writer-director Stephan Elliott has accepted the fact that there is an 800-pound gorilla on his resume called
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      • 437 6  -  Review Comedy A FEW BEST MEN (M18) 91 minutes/Opens tomorrow/ The story: There is trouble afoot when David (Xavier Samuel) invites his best friends from England to his wedding in Australia. His pals, the caddish Tom (Kris Marshall), the shy Graham (Kevin Bishop) and the
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        215 6  -  Review Horror PIRANHA 3DD (M18) 84 minutes/Opens tomorrow/ Dave Chua Near the start of this film, Maddy (Danielle Panabaker) asks her stepfather Chet (David Koechner) if he thinks his decision to replace lifeguards with strippers “is a very expensive joke”. She could be talking about this pointless sequel to
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      • 726 8  -  While My Way offers up heroes, Guns N’ Roses is more like an absurd Hong Kong comedy Review Drama MY WAY (NC16) 143 minutes/Opens tomorrow/ The story: Korean Joon Sik (Jang Dong Gun) and Japanese Tatsuo (Joe Odagiri) are marathon competitors in a sensitive time and
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      • 301 8 Associated Press Los Angeles The venue for the Oscars has a new name and sound. The posh 3,400-seat theatre formerly known as the Kodak Theatre reopened on Monday with a new audio-visual system and new signage as the Dolby Theater. Dolby Laboratories Inc announced a
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    • 697 9  -  Singer Hady Mirza’s new song, Betapa Berat Cintaku, is a self-written piece on life after winning Singapore Idol Rachael Boon Who: Local singer Hady Mirza, 32, crowned the second Singapore Idol in 2006, appears to have been under the radar since the release of his
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    • 325 9 New York Times New York Frank Cady, a character actor best known for playing the down-home shopkeeper, Sam Drucker, on the popular 1960s sitcoms Petticoat Junction and Green Acres, died on Friday at his home in Wilsonville, Oregon. He was 96. Ms Catherine Turk, his daughter,
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    • 134 10 ‘I will tell you before the end of the world’ Actor Ekin Cheng (left), asked about his plans to wed actress Yoyo Mung ‘I was a soldier in Korea when I was 19... You don’t know what you will be like in any situation. I wasn’t
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    • 585 10  -  Della Ding Dang’s love songs are not about slamming her exes, but about Kenneth Goh kengohsz@sph.com.sg Former boyfriends of Chinaborn singer Della Ding Dang can rest easy. She is no Taylor Swift when it comes to singing about her past relationships. Instead of slamming her
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    • 313 10 Associated Press Los Angeles When Grammy Awards producers learnt of Whitney Houston’s death less than 24 hours before the live telecast, they scrapped parts of the script, added performances and puzzled over how best to honour the singer, who died unexpectedly at age 48. Host
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    • 357 11 The iconic American artist’s works will be displayed first in Madrid and then Paris Agence France-Presse Madrid The city’s Thyssen Museum opened yesterday an exhibition of works by Edward Hopper, one of the largest retrospectives by the iconic American artist to be shown in Europe.
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    • 469 11 Associated Press New York Aerosmith have flown with turbulence for most of the group’s 40-year career, but things in the band seem to be absolutely blissful as a summer tour begins. “We’ve already gone through all our problems,” Steven Tyler said in a
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    • 811 12 A Salvatore Ferragamo fashion show will take place inside the museum in Paris for the first time International Herald Tribune Paris For the first time in its long history of grandeur, gore and artistry, the Louvre is hosting a catwalk fashion show. Designers have shown their
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    • 598 12 International Herald Tribune Dubai This year, for the first time among the nearly 300 galleries finetuning their last-minute preparations for Art Basel, there are two galleries from the Gulf region. The inclusion of Green Art Gallery and Gallery Isabelle van den Eynde, both
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        • 82 14 The battering of Battleship at the box office is not scaring Sony away from making movies based on toys. On Monday, the studio announced it would make an animated movie called Tonka, based on the 65-year-old Tonka truck line of toys. It
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        • 145 14 Stephen Baldwin testified on Monday in New Orleans that no one asked him to invest in an oil device firm or join Kevin Costner in lobbying BP to use oil clean-up devices that the two actors were touting following the 2010
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      • 365 14 Bloomberg Hong Kong Chinese star Zhang Ziyi sued two media outlets for defamation over stories alleging she was paid to have sex with suspended Politburo member Bo Xilai and other Chinese leaders. She suffered “immense grievance and distress” because of the stories, which
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      • 336 14 Agence France-Presse Jakarta Mr Bean fans in Indonesia have been warned to beware of a locally made spoof horror film called Mr Bean Possessed By D.P. that stars an unknown actor who bears a resemblance to the popular character. The official Facebook page for
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    • 22 13 THINGS TO DO: To find out what's happening in and around Singapore, go to www.straitstimes.com CALL US: Life!/SundayLife!, tel: 6319-5416 fax: 6319-8276
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      • 602 2  -  Seow Tein Hee teinhee@sph.com. sg SingTel’s move to shrink the data bundled with its subscription plans was met with strong resistance and cries of outrage from its subscribers, who include Digital Life’s readers. But how many of us actually exceed, or for that
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    • 209 2 On SingTel’s new 4G plans and its revised data bundle at 2GB, 3GB, 4GB and 12GB for different tiers: If they lower the data bundle, they should lower the price too. This is messed up. I am bailing on SingTel. Anthony-Gideon Tan Personally, my usage of the
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    • News
      • 471 3  -  Exciting new gadgets will be unveiled at the annual twin infocomm and broadcast trade shows. reports SEOWTEIN HEE teinhee@sph. com.sg Expect major changes at this year’s CommunicAsia and BroadcastAsia, which are scheduled to be held later this month. Nokia and NTT Docomo are giving this
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      • TECH BYTES
        • 78 4  -  Compiled by Tan Chong Yaw Fuji Xerox has shown off a prototype electronic paper (e-paper) that displays colours without using colour filters, Japanese news portal Tech-On! reported. Instead of using filters to add colour, the Fuji Xerox e-paper uses colour particles of red and cyan for
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        • 78 4 Women’s lifestyle site Diva (Divaasia.com) and health site YourHealth (Yourhealth.com.sg) topped Internet monitoring service Experian Hitwise’s ranking for their respective categories last month. Both sites are part of AsiaOne, a Singapore Press Holdings news and lifestyle portal featuring content from Singapore
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        • 81 4 Glass maker Corning of Gorilla Glass, the tough glass used in many smartphones, has a new product that is both paper-thin and flexible. It has been dubbed Willow Glass. The 100 micron-thick glass, which is about as thin as a sheet of photocopy
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        • 93 4 Google announced a service via its online security blog last Tuesday that it will automatically prompt users if their Google account has become the target of state-sponsored phishing or malware attacks. The warning will be in the form of a red banner
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        • 86 4 LCD display maker Japan Display has announced a super-sharp 2.3-inch LCD panel with a resolution of 651 pixels per inch (ppi) double that of the 326ppi retina display of Apple’s iPhone 4 and 4S models, reported the Japanese news portal Tech-On!. The LCD panel, which
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        • 84 4 Last Wednesday, Google announced that it is buying mobile productivity start-up Quickoffice, the online technology blog VentureBeat reported. The app, which is also called Quickoffice, enables Android, iOS and Symbian devices to view, edit and synch all kinds of documents including those created using Microsoft Office. Quickoffice
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        • 45 4 Instead of the usual Facebook campaign, DBS Bank used photo-sharing app Instagram to raise awareness of the DBS Marina Regatta held last month. The Instagram competition for the two-day inaugural dragon boat regatta received more than 1,600 photo submissions.
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      • 457 4  -  By Sherwin Loh sherwinl@sph. com.sg First, the bad news: Hackers have posted online more than 6.5 million passwords for the professional social networking site LinkedIn. The good news is, the password list is in the form of hashes that is, cryptographic representations of passwords and are
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        • 950 6  -  Companies tout the second screen as the future of gaming at the annual E3 event, report OO GIN LEE and TREVOR TAN from Los Angeles report OO GIN LEE and TREVOR TAN Second screens were the buzzwords at the annual E3 games show in
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        • 1849 8/9  -  OO GIN LEE and TREVOR TAN pick their top 12 games in no order of merit OO GIN LEE, TREVOR TAN Seen at the show DL had a hands-on session More games on page 10 1 Halo 4 Available on Nov 6; genre: shooter; platform:
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        • 336 12/13  -  It doesn’t matter if your dad is a golf lover, a thrill-seeker or a busy executive in the concrete jungle. There will be a gift guaranteed to bring a smile to his face. DIGITAL LIFE pays tribute to fathers by showing you some fantastic presents for Father’s
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        • 311 12/13  -  By Seow Tein Hee 2 Is dad an adventurer who embraces the great outdoors? Then this is a fine gift for him. This camera comes with an 11-megapixel sensor packed in a compact form factor. Images and video are captured on an SD card
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        • 330 12/13  -  By Tan Chong Yaw 3 This one is for Indoor Dad who loves watching movies at home. But just count the number of remote controls for the devices he needs for the hobby: 3-D TV, Blu-ray player, set-top box and sound system. A universal remote
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        • 321 12/13  -  By Tan Chong Yaw 4 If daddy’s passion is golf, this device will give him the edge. It measures the distance to the next hole on the green, helping him decide which club to use and how much power to punch into his swing. This
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        • 305 12/13  -  By Trevor Tan 5 You probably find flossing troublesome and time-consuming. So don’t expect dad to floss his teeth, as he is busier than you. Philips has thought about that and come up with a faster and easier way to get the job done. The Sonicare
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        • 254 12/13  -  By Seow Tein Hee 6 Make life easier for your dad with this gadget. This Bluetooth-enabled speaker phone, with an accompanying Plantronics A50 Bluetooth microphone, links your mobile devices, PC and any other Bluetooth headsets to a central speaker phone. The 2.4-inch display offers a user
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      • 661 14  -  By Trevor Tan trevtan@sph.com. sg MotoActv is a lightweight fitness performance tracker and portable music player rolled into a sleek touchscreen device. At first glance, it reminds you of Apple’s sixth-generation iPod Nano. However, a touch-sensitive Back button in front immediately tells you that this is no child
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      • 409 14  -  By Trevor Tan The “barefoot” running shoes, which encourage a more “natural” running style with midfoot strikes, have exploded in popularity in recent years. But such shoes, lacking proper protection, are not for everyone. The minimalist genre of running footwear that has emerged offers a middle
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      • 661 15  -  To ride on the popularity of tablets, PC makers are pushing out hybrid devices that combine the power of laptops and the touchscreen capability of tablets. reports ALFRED SIEW Alfred Siew is a freelance writer Deciding if you should take the laptop or the tablet on
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      • Article, Illustration
        706 18  -  By Oo Gin Lee ginlee@sph.com.sg The Razer Blade is beautiful. Actually, it is more than that. It simply oozes sex appeal. I am confident that anyone who catches a glimpse of it will want to touch it. With a body milled from pure aluminium, the matte black gaming
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      • 853 16  -  OO GIN LEE rounds-up what he likes and dislikes about Microsoft’s latest tablet-focused operating system OO GIN LEE ginlee@sph. com.sg The third and final pre-release version of Windows 8 has a Metro-tiles interface similar to its predecessors’, but with some neat improvements. It now takes about
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      • 474 17  -  By Sherwin Loh sherwinl@sph. com.sg Let me be very honest. You are not going to buy this phone because of its design, operating system (OS) or processor. For the price, there are plenty of slimmer, sleeker alternatives to the Symbian OS from Nokia. The draw is the
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    • SME Tech
      • 528 20  -  Sound intellectual property laws and strong government support are some of the factors that attract global investors. reports TAN CHONG YAW cytan @sph. com.sg Singapore is becoming the region’s go-to place for a tech start-up to seek funds and partners. “Singapore is the
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      • 95 22 NOTEBOOK From $1,599, available end of the month The idea is simple: make it slim, make it portable. This Lenovo Ultrabook is 21mm thick, weighs 1.8kg and should keep working for up to nine hours on a single charge. A 14-inch display complements the Nvidia GeForce 610M
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      • 121 22 SHOES $329 Just in time for Euro 2012 comes a major upgrade for the Predator, Adidas’ iconic football boot. Its name, Predator Lethal Zones, refers to five zones with super-light rubber and memory foam which supposedly give a player perfect ball control. One zone is for
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      • 105 22 MOBILE PHONE Price not available, available next quarter This rugged Android 4.0 smartphone can survive being dunked in water up to a metre deep and for up to 30 minutes. Its interior is also well protected against dust. The Xperia Acro S hardware features a 4.3-inch
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      • 67 22 EARPHONES $169 Go small and light with Plantronics’ latest BackBeat Go earphones, which connect to your mobile devices via Bluetooth. They come with cushioned eartips in three sizes; and inline controls which will let you adjust volume, skip tracks or interrupt the music to take calls. The
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      • 101 22 SPEAKERS $199, available end of next month Creative has reinvented its Sound Blaster brand with a new series of speakers built for PC, Mac and mobile devices. Its mid-range Creative Sound BlasterAxx SBX 10 takes a simple approach. A USB port acts as the power
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      • 76 22 $299 Your iPod or iPhone can sound even better with Panasonic’s SC-GT07 Docking Speaker System. Its appearance reminds you of those wonderful guitars of old. A rotating dock lets you insert your iPod or iPhone either vertically or horizontally. With an output of 40W and
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      • 85 22  -  DESKTOP Compiled by Trevor Tan, Seow Tein Hee From $2,199 Dell’s latest all-in-one PC has a 27-inch display with a screen resolution of 2,560 x 1,440 pixels. The XPS One 27 is equipped with an Nvidia GeForce GT 640M graphics card with 2GB of DDR5 RAM.
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      • 713 23  -  By Seow Tein Hee Bchannelriton Oli Pettigrew has been driving cabs and ferrying people around Singapore. Not as a cab driver, but as the host of Cash Cab Asia, a game show on cable channel AXN that lets unsuspecting passengers answer general knowledge questions and
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    • 227 7 OASIS GARDEN. MUST Sell! 4-rm. 1475 sqft. Pool view. Near Bartley MRT/amenities. Tenanted $4.9K til 2/13 CHUAN PK 2045 sqft townhouse 3/4 rms, renovated, patio. MRT *****000 Z.Ng COMPASS HGT. 1324 sqft 3+ maid, nice layout. MRT. Jeffrey *****909 APPC F’HOLD. FORTUNE PK. 3 rm 958 sqft. 10 mins to
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    • 368 7 THE LINEAR. 1227 sqft. 3bdrms. Near LRT, future MRT, shpg mall, amenities. VTO. Ethann 9769-0125 *LOW MAYSRPINGS Condo 2 bdrms. Mid flr. Near Bt Panjang LRT/ future MRT. Andy ***** 339 *LAKESHORE 3+1, 1152 sqft. Pool view, mid flr. no west sun. Tenanted Val match. View Thur 7pm 9766-0114 CASHEW
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    • 545 7 BLK 502 BEDOK Nth 3’I’ unblock view mid flr lift landing well kept opp sch near hawker ctr mkt *****937 5’I’ BLK 621 Bedok Reservoir. Low flr Fully reno. Lift upgrading Future MRT. Val All race. Edmund *****311 5’I’ 774 BEDOK Res. Reno. F/aircon. Val $515K. Beautiful!! Cecilia L *****792.
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    • 552 7 PR OK 5’I’ Corner 567, high flr. Mins MRT. Val $470K. VTO. SMS Ang *****788 $9K CASH ONLY! 5 rms. Blk 685B. #18. Beautifully reno. 9 yrs. MRT. *****024 ***LHG HDB SALES Team. 3’NG’ 308 Lift flr. A1 decor. Move-in cond. Unblocked. Val $365K. Ho 9795-1608 LOW CASH 457 Clementi
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    • 471 7 RARE! HDB TERRACE. 58 Stirling Rd. 2-sty. 79 sqm. Q’town MRT. Reno. All races. Chris Yit *****122 ***LHG HDB SALES Team. 4’A’ corner 425 Unblock A1 decor, windy. Mins MRT. 4’A’ 317 MRT/ Sun Plaza. 5’I’ corner 509 High flr. A1 decor,windy. Ho *****608 EA BLK 359B, 131sqm, Mid Flr,
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    • 1491 8 TampinesHDB Apts for Sale TampinesHDB Apts for Sale TampinesHDB Apts for Sale CATS Classified Tampmes HDB Apts for Sale TampinesHDB Apts for Sale TampinesHDB Apts for Sale GUIDE TO HDB TOWNS CLASS CODES SEMBAWANG WOODLANDS BUY IT-SELL IT-FIND IT YISHU CHOA CHU KANG PANJANG ANG MO KIO SENGKAN JURONG WEST
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    • 270 8 GCB MARGOLIOUTH 2½ sty Bunglw. 7,500/ 12,000 sqft. 7+1. Designer kitchen. Sole agt, Helen 9026-1800 NEW! BOTANIC GDN. MRT. 5+1. Bunglw Lift. Pool. Owner *****027/*****605 BT TIMAH BUNGLW. 3½ Sty. Pool. 4+1. P/furn. $16k. Owner *****027/ *****605 SEMI-D DUNEARN Road. 5 rms ensuite. 1 July. Pool optional, Chris 9455-7627 HOLLAND
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    • 451 8 KEW CRES 3-STY Terr. 6rm, 5 attached toilets, spacious, wet dry kitchen. P/furn. Tanah Merah MRT JLN USAHA, UPPER Paya Lebar. Terr 3rm. New reno Unfurn. Bartley MRT $3.9K nett. Call Ben 9825-8500 EASTWOOD WAY SEMI-D 6+1 6 attached baths. 4455 sqft. P/furn. Quiet. Immed. $10K. Call Eric 9008 0132
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    • 419 8 ALEXIS JUST TOP. 1 rm/ 1+Study, 2 rm/ 2+Study Queens 2 rm $4.5k f/furn. Caribbean 2/3/ Penthse Desmond *****335 SOHO FARRER 484 sqft, $3.3K, 506 sqft, $3.5K. Soho 188, 464 sqft, $3.3K, 388 sqft, $3K. Mins to MRT. Fion 9101-9188 ANCHORAGE 1-RM $3.3K Citylights 1-rm furn $4.3K. Sail 2/ 3-rm
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    • 482 8 MERAPRIME 2-RM 840 sqft, f/furn #30+ Vacant. Facilities. Opp Tiong Bahru Mrt $4.8K Rosa *****803 DW *3+1 REFLECTIONS $9000! Fully/ P/ furn. Yachts, sea! Marina Club! Resort living! $6K Rochester. *****608. D.01 MARINA BAY Res 4+1 2368sqft $16K high flr; 5+1 Penthse. 3972sqft f/furn $35K; *****998 Katherina ALEXIS 1-BDRM, 398
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    • 533 8 CENTRAL GREEN MRT 2/3+1 rm/ Penthse 826/ 1292/ 2100 sqft. Delia *****887 CARIBBEAN 1900 SQFT, 4+1. P/furn. Full sea view. $11K. Immed. Sherlyn 8188-8783 HERITAGE VIEW #01, Patio 3 bdrm, 1315 sqft, good cond $5K. Lydia *****158 CITYLIGHTS 3+1, 1356 sqft. High flr. Sea view. P/furn. Immed. Ronald 9665 0620
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    • 1051 9 D01-08 City South-West Pte Apts for Rent D01-08 City South-West Pte Apts for Rent D01-08 City South-West Pte Apts for Rent D01-08 City 81 South-West Pte Apts for Rent D01-08 City 81 South-West Pte Apts for Rent WATS Private Apartment Rentals I in Districts 1 -11 (1Q12) The property data
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    • 187 9 SPRING GROVE 2+1 1012sqft Unblocked. P/furn. Mins to Orchard. Immed. Sherry 9844 4400 marshe.sg COSMOPOLITAN 1324 SQFT. 3+1. High floor. $7.3K Cliveden 2842 sqft. 4+1. $15K. Ivy 9691 6893 DTZ 1 BDRM BALCONY Riverside 48. Nice, bright, spacious. 1033 sqft. Good finishing $4K only. Grab! 9815-0676 1 BDRM LUSH greenery,
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    • 404 9 JC DRAYCOTT 2-RM $4K. Dynasty Lodge 1883 sqft 3+1 walk-up new reno. $6K. Steven 9091-1717 Landz SPRING GROVE (GRANGE Rd) 4+1 rms, high floor, p/furn. 1787sqft, amenities Susan Lam 9628-0905 PN MILL POINT, STUDIO. 528 sqft. High flr. F/furn. Avail 15/6. Min Great World City/ amenities. Kate *****720 VALLEY PARK
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    • 616 9 PALM SPRING. 1496 sqft 3+1. Pool view. P/furn. Immed. Angela 9690-9760 SPRING GROVE 1389 sqft. 3+1. Near Orchard. F/furn. Pool view. 6356-5766 BELMOND GREEN 980 sqft. 2+1. Top flr. P/furn. Immed. $4.8K. Sherlyn 8188-8783 OPEN HSE! ONE Devonshire 2400 sqft 4+1 $neg/ Also rent. Lee Ong *****060 LIGHTS CAIRNHILL 4+1+
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    • 1063 10 Dll &21 Newton/ BtTimah/dementi Pte Apts for Rent Wffik Dll &21 Newton/ BtTimah/dementi Pte Apts for Rent Dll &21 Newton/ BtTimah/dementi Pte Apts for Rent ASC ADI A E X CLU ISITELY REDEFINED r. 0* :r? S3 IMMEDIATE OCCUPATION FREEHOLD FOREIGNERS ELIGIBLE A prestigious winner of the BCA Construction Excellence
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    • 457 10 GEYLANG LOR 3. Approx 1600 sqft, 3-rm. Move in, aircon. Avail 1/7. Workers/ Students. 9768-6779 Rina SIMS GREEN. MINS to MRT. Nice 3+1. 1303 sqft. F/furn. All races. Immed. neg. Grab now! Ray 9647 5553 TOPAZ MANSION 3RM 1208 sqft. Near Potong Pasir MRT. F/furn. Avail July. Call Andrew *****104
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    • 550 10 MEIER SUITES. NEW list! 4 rms. 2207 sqft, p/furn, full facilities. Immed. Expats’ choice. Adele 9105 7276 COSTA DEL SOL Rare! 4+1 1755 sqft. P/furn. High flr. A1 view. End June. $7.5K. Angie Chew *****555 KF MARELLE 3RM 1200+ sqft. Min Paya Lebar MRT. Immed. $4.5K! Call Ennily 9665 3089
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    • 457 10 3+1 BALLOTA Park (Changi Biz Park) Mid level. F/furn. Immed. Well-reno. New listing! Michael 9857-7411 EASTVALE CONDO 3-RM, 1135 sqft. Nice cond. Near MRT Shpg Malls. F/ facilities. 9792-8821 Carenline BALLOT PARK. 3+1. F/furn. Mid flr. Bright/ windy. All races. 6348-2919 Jireh LOYANG VALLEY. RENO. F/ furn. 1500/1980 sqft 2/3+1
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    • 470 10 BRAND NEW! NICE View! Mi Casa. CCK MRT/ Amenities Mall. 2 bdrm penthse/ 4 bdrm. Kelly 9108-4881 GUILIN VIEW 2 bdrm. Panoramic view. P/furn. Mins to MRT. Condo facilities. Avail 1st Aug. 9068-1108 Wendy REGENT HGTS 3-BDRM. F/furn. Aircon. Unblocked. High flr. Beautiful hse. Pls Call Haridas 9189-2437 OT PARC
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    • 562 10 MEADOWS PEIRCE Brand new 1216 sqft 3 rm. Pte lift. P/furn. Immediate. Sherry 9844 4400 marshe.sg MEADOWS PEIRCE. 1195 sqft. 2+1 rms. Just TOP! Immed. *****966 Rayson ORCHID PARK 2+1. 980 sqft. F/furn. Avail 1 Jul. $2.6K up. JTan 9147-2073 SUNPLAZA 2+STUDY, 1 min to MRT. Above shop. Furn. Pool.
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    • 623 10 COMMON RM FOR rent. F/furn. Woodland MRT. 1 or 2 pax. No aircon. Immed. Owner 9478 7350 No agt. BEDOK, AMK, TOA Payoh, Hougang, Punggol, Pasir Ris, Tampines, Ubi, S’goon, Aljunied. 9380 2800 Elsie COMMON RMS @Boon Keng, Bendemeer, AMK, Yishun, Sembawang, Loyang, Pasir Ris. Call Ethann 9769-0125 230 BT
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    • 497 10 APPROVED 4’A’ 645 near Admiralty MRT $2.3k, avail 16 June *****206 Daniel IMMED! $2388 ONLY! 5 rms Blk 485 Sembawang. Mins MRT. Aircon. 9455-5133 BOON TIONG 5-RM Walk to MRT, near Orchard. Reno, furn. $3.7K neg. Avail 25/5 2 yrs Gelene *****080 Agt 2+1 BLK.3 GHIM Moh. Very high flr.
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    • 590 11 2+1, BEDOK N Blk 116, 526. Chai Chee Blk 32. 3+1, Bedok Res Blk 119. Avail immed. Azman 9060-3759 214 BEDOK N St 1. 3’NG’. Nice reno/ aircon. Furn. MRT/ amenities. Ask $2.4k neg. Sean 9387-0005 ERA BLK 227 BEDOK Res 5-rm. Approved unit. P/furn. High flr. Bright. Windy. Immed.
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    • 443 11 3+1 BLK 275 Bt Panjang/ Blk 61 Marine Drive/ 2+1 184 Bishan/ 2+1+1 Sin Ming Rd. 9436-2958 Mdm Ang 357 CLEMENTI, $3500. 682B Woodlands, $2500, Both units, 5rm, high flr, P/full furn. Sim *****888 PROFESSIONALS/ PR/ STUDENTS urgently need rms. High budget. Fast reliable. Peter Tan 9144-6215 URGENT MASTER/ COMMON
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    • 593 11 Factory/lndustrial Space for Rent Factory/lndustrial Space for Rent Factory/lndustrial Space for Rent Factory/lndustrial Space for Rent Factory/lndustrial Space for Rent I PROPERTIES FOR LEASE .fn* r> ■> i. i i CORPORATION .ACE Elizabeth 6508 8772 9025 5327 r r r r-r rr *vv r r rr c mn mmt|^ A)
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    • 359 11 NEW TECH PARK. Lor Chuan. Gd corporate image with foodcourt, 2 min walk to Lor Chuan circle line MRT. 6877-8408 6877-1818. SPLENDOUR BUKIT Batok Cres 4sty 8439 sqft $12.8k neg. Westlink 1 Tuas 2x 2750 sqft. Adjoin units. Ask $5.5K each. Owner 8276-1959. Agts welcome!! DEFU LANE 10 HDB Terrace
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    • 378 11 WESTLINK ONE, TUAS view place. 5560 sqft, adjoining unit. View to offer. B1/ B2. Also sale. Ben 9029-2790 *1862 2045 sqft ramp-up fty/ warehse Northstar. From $4.2K. Immediate. Patricia ERA 9793-6097 TRADEHUB21 JURONG 2045 sqft. Partial fitted, Drive-up. Corporate image. Immed MF Ong 9828 4055 GS BLDG IN Lor Ampas
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    • 429 11 NORTHSTAR, 1852SQFT #07 Good facing. Own parking. Avail 1/07. 9677-8086. $1.90 PSF GROUND flr! Ubi Frontier 3778sqft w/Mezzanine/ Carpark. *****455 FOOD FTY 2777/ 5574/ 12K sqft. NEA/ AVA. Vacant. Immed.9144-2389 Samuel ALJUNIED/ MACPHERSON/ PAYA Lebar 850/1k/ *****4000 sqft. *****776 FRN 9 TAGORE. Brand New! (B1) 2411 2605 sqft. Bare 6m
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    • 1014 13 Office Space for Rent Office Space for Rent HUB SUITES Fully Equipped Serviced Office WIFI Internet Access 24/7 Security Air Con Car Park Available Gym Facilities 5 mins from Tanjong Pagar MRT NO HIDDEN COST ONE PRICE FOR ALL www.hubsuites.com Call; 6224 1302 SAMSUNG HUB 3 CHURCH STREET Grade A.
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    • 653 13 MIDDLE RD FITTED office, furn, aircon. Avail Aug. near MRT, approx 1350sqft $6k neg. *****800 Leong TRADEHUB BLK 8. 1927 sqft. High flr. Fully fitted/ furn. Asking $5.2K. Immed. Tracia 9476-5244 BUFFALO RD SHOPHSE Human crowd/ MRT. Approx 400 sqft. Reno. Move in immed. *****745 Muthu 3700 SQFT. NEAR to
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    • 505 13 $2.5K! ORCHARD PLAZA 372 sqft #03. Water point, flr trap, glass frontage, all trades. 9061-7448 Sim PEARL CTR #01 Chinatown 150 sqft. Good crowd. MRT $2.3K. *****019 Tee HB NEW THOMSON V II, #01, 605sqft, beauty fashion 9685-7748 9388-6383 245 JLN BESAR. Shop spaces, for retail/ office. Call: *****108/ *****920
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    • 470 13 OVER 4% YIELD. Below val. S’goon 879 1079 sqft. MRT rent 1700 sqft. Sch, bridal. Dennis *****092. MACPHERSON LANE BLK 82. Approx 1300 sqft. 1 level. Wide frontage. Own toilet. Call Joe Chin *****716 BALESTIER POINT F’HOLD, 1) 323 sqft Dual frontage. 2) 398sqft. Reno. Main Rd frontage. *****560 A.Tan
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