The Straits Times, 19 February 2015

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    31 1 THE STRAITS TIMES CELEBRATING 170 YEARS, SINCE 1845 THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2015 88 PAGES IN FIVE PARTS TO SUBSCRIBE: 6388-3838 www.sphsubscription.com.sg 90 cents A Singapore Press Holdings publication MCI (P) 032/02/2015
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    Lock icon Spreading Chinese New Year cheer to neighbours
    306 1  -  SAMANTHA GOH WHEN Mr Pang Wei Ling moved into his four-room flat 13 years ago, his Chinese New Year decorations consisted of simple wall hangings and paper couplets. Now he displays ornaments, a 2m-tall water feature and decorations stretching 30m from the door
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    Lock icon Jokowi drops scandal-hit nominee for police chief post
    70 1 INDONESIAN President Joko Widodo yesterday dropped General Budi Gunawan (right) as his nominee for the post of national police chief. The decision came after weeks of public outcry over Gen Budi’s implication in a bribery scandal. Mr Joko has been criticised for
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    Lock icon US going beyond use of force to defeat ISIS
    533 1  -  Biden stresses need for inclusive societies amid calls to attack militants By JEREMY AU YONG US BUREAU CHIEF IN WASHINGTON jeremyau@@sph.com.sg AS FRESH atrocities by the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) came to light, along with calls to go
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  • TOP OF THE NEWS
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      Lock icon LONG SERVICE
      105 2 / 3 HOME B4-5, OPINION A24 Ms Coco Chia (right), 29, has been a waitress at fine-dining Japanese restaurant Tatsuya since she was 18. She is part of the restaurant’s 25-strong team that has stayed an average of seven years each. There are several factors behind the length of their
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      Lock icon PM Lee discharged from hospital
      403 2 / 3  -  Surgeon says pathology report good, and PM should make full recovery By RACHEL AU-YONG rachelay@sph.com.sg PRIME Minister Lee Hsien Loong was discharged from hospital yesterday, two days after surgery to remove a cancerous prostate gland. A clearly delighted Mr Lee said in a post on
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      Lock icon Questions over foreign students behind site
      440 2 / 3  -  NUR ASYIQIN MOHAMAD SALLEH QUESTIONS were raised yesterday about the key players behind a website which puts up spoof news knocking Singapore. The Real Singapore (TRS) is said to be headed by an Australian-Japanese student with the help of others from Malaysia and one
      PHOTOS: THE NEW PAPER  -  440 words
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      Lock icon Website duo in trouble over inflammatory posts
      627 2 / 3  -  Remarks over Thaipusam event on TRS site could promote ill will: Police By NUR NUR ASYIQIN MOHAMAD SALLEH, AMIR HUSSAIN asyiqins@sph.com.sg amirh@sph.com.sg TWO persons believed to be behind socio-political website The Real Singapore (TRS) have been arrested under the Sedition Act for inflammatory
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    • THE NEWS IN 5 MINUTES
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        Lock icon Stepping up fight against ISIS
        54 4 A THREE-DAY summit on countering extremist ideology began in Washington as ISIS militants were reported to have burned 45 people to death in Iraq. The United States is seeking to clear the way to supply armed drones to allies in the fight against ISIS. TOP
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        Lock icon KL site for high-speed rail link
        49 4 MALAYSIAN investment fund 1MDB said it has identified a site at the edge of downtown Kuala Lumpur as the terminal station for a planned high-speed rail line from Singapore. The area will be turned into a transport hub. TOP OF THE NEWS A6
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      • WORLD
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          Lock icon CNY around the world
          49 4 CHINESE communities around the world are celebrating the new year with dragon dances, colourful lanterns and family gatherings. Our reporters look at the celebrations in New York, Manila and Bangkok, where Crown Princess Sirindhorn will ring in three days of raucous festivities. PAGES A12 A13
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          Lock icon Thailand’s trafficking woes
          47 4 IT WILL be a struggle for Thailand to move up from the bottom spot of the United States State Department’s annual Trafficking in Persons report due in June. Critics say there has been little success on the ground in combating human trafficking. PAGE A17
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          Lock icon Taking aim at tourists
          61 4 CHINA’S media has turned the spotlight on non-Chinese tourists misbehaving overseas, in what appears to be a move to pre-empt criticism against its own citizens behaving badly while holidaying abroad this Lunar New Year. PAGE A16 A foreigner posing for a picture at Shanghai’s Bund. The
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        • Article
          Lock icon ‘Fake monks’ scam
          52 4 “FAKE monks” linked to a Chinese syndicate have been targeting Australia and New Zealand, with people being recruited in China to roam the streets requesting money for sham charities. The syndicate trains people to masquerade as Buddhist monks, Taoist nuns, traditional Chinese medicine practitioners or fortune tellers.
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        Lock icon THE GREAT SME CHALLENGE
        53 4 State assistance remains a sine qua non for productivity improvements, as evident in the sentiments expressed by businessmen. The question, however, is whether more of the same will help small and medium enterprises to soar to the next level, as the restructuring effort demands. The Straits
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      • OPINION
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          Lock icon Recipe for sector change
          53 4 WHEN it comes to restaurants and foreign workers, says The Straits Times’ consumer correspondent Jessica Lim, there should be no raising of quotas. The sector needs to work smarter and review wasteful ways. The big winners will be those that can innovate to appeal to consumer
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      • HOME
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          Lock icon Facebook-page ruling
          58 4 IN THE first case of its kind here, the High Court ruled that a person who sets up a Facebook page does not have any ownership of it. This came after a Singapore content producer who set up two Facebook pages fell out with the billionaire fashion boss
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          Lock icon F&B labour crunch
          53 4 RENTAL prices and food costs may be high but what is hitting the food and beverage sector the hardest is a lack of manpower. Restaurant bosses, speaking to The Straits Times, said Singaporeans are shunning jobs in the sector despite higher wages and a rising number of
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          Lock icon Law helps protect debtors
          57 4 ANTI-HARASSMENT laws, which came into force in November last year, are being used to stop debt collectors from accosting people in their homes or workplaces. Three court orders have already been issued the latest to an interior designer to prohibit his former boss and a debt
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      • STRAITS TIMES DIGITAL
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          Lock icon Handmade goodies for the new year
          45 4 WHAT is Chinese New Year without indulging in some festive goodies like bak kwa and peanut candy? We show you some businesses that are still making these snacks the traditional way, by hand, at http://str.sg/oT2 ST PHOTO: ASHLEIGH SIM
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      • MONEY
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          Lock icon Listed firms rake it in
          50 4 SINGAPORE-listed companies have been buoyed by a strong showing in the past year. Of the 108 companies that reported full-year results ended Dec 31 at the end of the market day on Tuesday, 98 of them made profits and just 10 incurred losses. PAGE B14
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      • SPORT
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          Lock icon Chelsea escape with draw
          47 4 WHILE Chelsea drew 1-1 with Paris Saint-Germain in their Champions League last-16 tie on Tuesday, the Blues’ manager Jose Mourinho knows his team got off lightly. He said: “If somebody was closer to winning the game, it was Paris, not Chelsea.” PAGE B24
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      • LIFE!
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          Lock icon Indulgent nonsense
          79 4 IN DRAGON Blade, Jackie Chan plays a leader of a squad trying to keep the peace among 36 warring tribes along the Silk Road during the Han Dynasty. A peace-loving pacifist, he sings to rally others. It makes sense if you think of him as a proto-hip-pie. Alas,
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          Lock icon Meatier joint
          97 4 UNDER new owners Aztech Group, the popular Kay Lee Roast Meat Joint has gone upmarket it will open its first restaurant in Suntec City on Monday. The 2,500 sq ft restaurant can seat 100 diners and will serve its famed roast meats. Prices are higher, starting at $6.80
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      • VIDEO
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          Lock icon Chinatown buzz
          24 4 IF YOU missed this year’s Chinatown bazaar, watch our video to get a feel of the hustle and bustle at http:// str.sg/oTu
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      • PHOTOS
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          Lock icon Roma's Chinese New Year greeting
          36 4 ITALIAN Serie A club AS Roma players got into the Chinese New Year spirit during their match against Parma last Sunday. See the festive greeting on their customised jerseys at http://str.sg/oSi
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      Lock icon KL site for high-speed rail line from S’pore identified
      561 6  -  Bandar Malaysia location to include two upcoming MRT lines, says fund By REME AHMAD ASSISTANT MONEY EDITOR reme@sph.com.sg MALAYSIAN investment fund 1Malaysia Development (1MDB) has identified a site at the edge of Kuala Lumpur as the terminal station for a planned
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      Lock icon THE BIG FREEZE AT NIAGARA FALLS
      103 6 Niagara Falls has almost frozen over as Arctic temperatures took hold across the Great Lakes region on the US-Canada border. As temperatures dropped to minus 14 deg C on Tuesday, the famous waterfalls turned into a giant cascade of icy sheets. The mist generated
      PHOTO: REUTERS  -  103 words
    • Article
      Lock icon MAS could act against research firm over Noble claims
      338 6  -  By YASMINE YAHYA ASSISTANT MONEY EDITOR yasminey@sph.com.sg A RESEARCH firm that accused Noble Group of accounting irregularities could face action from the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) if it is found to have breached the Securities and Futures Act. The MAS
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      Lock icon Obstetricians offered more cover, but still seek fuller protection
      552 6  -  By SALMA KHALIK SENIOR HEALTH CORRESPONDENT salma@sph.com.sg www.facebook.com/ST.Salma OBSTETRICIANS who were left without insurance coverage after they retire have been given a short lifeline by the Medical Protection Society (MPS) an additional five-year coverage at a higher rate than the annual
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      Lock icon Subhas’ nephew steps up to further criminal law cause
      428 6  -  By LIM YI HAN limyihan@sph.com.sg THE nephew of criminal lawyer Subhas Anandan has stepped into his uncle’s shoes to lead the Association of Criminal Lawyers of Singapore (ACLS) and he already has a clear mission in mind. Mr Sunil Sudheesan wants
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      Lock icon Jokowi drops nominee for national police chief
      474 10 Move follows public outcry over candidate’s implication in graft case REUTERS JAKARTA Indonesian President Joko Widodo yesterday dropped his nominee for the post of national police chief after weeks of public outcry over the candidate’s implication in a bribery scandal. Mr Joko’s indecisiveness
      REUTERS; PHOTOS: AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE  -  474 words
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      Lock icon Pro-govt troops pull out of Ukrainian town
      582 10 REUTERS AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE BLOOMBERG KIEV Some pro-government forces yesterday began pulling out of the eastern Ukrainian town of Debaltseve, which is under siege by Russia-backed separatists, commanders of pro-gov-ernment paramilitary units said. “The withdrawal of forces from Debaltseve is taking place in a
      REUTERS; AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE; BLOOMBERG; PHOTO: REUTERS  -  582 words
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      Lock icon 2 students held in Malaysia over bombing threat
      279 10 THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK KUALA LUMPUR Two university students have been detained for allegedly posting a video threatening to “blow up” a courthouse in Malaysia. Inspector-General of Police Khalid Abu Bakar said the students from Universiti Selangor (Unisel) and Universiti Sains Malaysia
      THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK  -  279 words
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      Lock icon New rules ease export of armed drones to US allies
      535 10 NEW YORK TIMES WASHINGTON The United States government has issued new rules for the international export of armed drones, a move that seeks to preserve a US lead in a fast-growing market but one likely to speed up the proliferation
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      Lock icon ISIS ‘burns 45 people to death in Iraqi town’
      293 10 LONDON Islamic State in Iraq and Syria extremists have burned to death 45 people in al-Baghdadi after the western Iraqi town fell into ISIS hands last week, the BBC reported. It quoted local police chief Qasim al-Obeidi as saying that he
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      144 4 SATURDAY IN THE STRAITS TIMES PRINT ONLINE Unusual bright colours making their way into homes 4i te Continue to enjoy your news on the 2nd Day of Chinese New Year. 20 February 2015 The New Paper, Shin Min Daily News and Lianhe Wanbao are available at selected Buzz, 7-Eleven, Cheers
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  • WORLD
    • CHINESE NEW YEAR ACROSS THE WORLD
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        Lock icon US schools wake up to holiday as Chinese population grows
        669 12  -  By MELISSA SIM US CORRESPONDENT IN WASHINGTON simlinoi@s-ph.com.sg STARTING this year, New York students who wish to celebrate Chinese New Year need not skip school. That is because a new law signed last December allows schools there to declare the
        PHOTOS: LAS VEGAS CONVENTION AND VISITORS AUTHORITY, EMPIRE STATE BUILDING  -  669 words
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        Lock icon Little distinction between ethnic Thai and Chinese amid close ties
        910 12  -  By NIRMAL GHOSH INDOCHINA BUREAU CHIEF IN BANGKOK nirmal@sph.com.sg THAILAND’S popular Crown Princess Sirindhorn will open three days of raucous festivities in Bangkok’s Chinatown today, walk with the dragon dancers and mingle with the thousands of people who fill Yaowarat
        PHOTOS: EUROPEAN PRESSPHOTO AGENCY; ST PHOTO: NIRMAL GHOSH  -  910 words
    • ASIA
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        Lock icon Sea dispute no barrier to celebrations in the Philippines
        720 13  -  By RAUL DANCEL PHILIPPINES CORRESPONDENT IN MANILA rdancel@sph.com.sg ONE of the Philippines’ many ironies is that while Manila and Beijing are feuding over the South China Sea, a large chunk of the Philippine economy is kept alive by Filipinos with roots
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        Lock icon Mongolian model’s killer thinking of spilling the beans
        424 14 Malaysian fugitive in Sydney jail ‘in talks with Aussie networks’ SYDNEY A former police commando who claimed he was under orders to kill a Mongolian woman and blow up her body is “seriously considering” a tell-all interview, a potentially explosive move that
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        Lock icon Remember aid to Jakarta, spare convicts: Abbott
        356 14 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE SYDNEY Prime Minister Tony Abbott yesterday urged Indonesia to remember Canberra’s significant help in dealing with the devastating 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami as he ramped up pressure to spare two Australians on death row. The Indonesian authorities have confirmed that Andrew
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        Lock icon China targets badly behaved foreigners
        481 16 Photos show there is an uncivilised aspect among them too: Chinese media BEIJING China’s media have turned the spotlight on unseemly behaviours of foreign tourists in their country, displaying pictures of them doing something apparently uncivil in public, just when the Chinese New Year will
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        Lock icon Pampered recruits hinder PLA’s modernisation: Rand report
        647 16 NEW YORK TIMES BEIJING Many armies have trouble moulding capable soldiers from fresh-out-of-school 18-year-olds. But China, which is no exception, has a particular problem: pampered recruits. Senior officers in the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) recognise that as a result of China’s onechild policy,
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        Lock icon Modi auctioning controversial suit
        290 16 REUTERS AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE NEW DELHI Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is auctioning off a controversial suit that bears his name in gold pinstripes, which he wore at a meeting with US President Barack Obama, leading to criticism that he was out of touch in a nation
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      • ASIA BRIEFS
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          Lock icon Philippine rebels hand back rifles
          88 16 REUTERS MANILA The Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), the largest Muslim rebel group in the Philippines, has handed in 16 assault rifles taken from police commandos killed in the Jan 25 firefight that has jeopardised peace talks with the government. On Tuesday, international peace monitors
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          Lock icon Civilian death toll in Afghanistan rises
          91 16 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE KABUL The number of civilians killed or wounded in Afghanistan increased by 22 per cent in 2014, the United Nations said yesterday, as Nato troops withdrew from combat in the country, leaving government forces to battle the Taleban. The UN Assistance Mission
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        Lock icon US sending new combat ship for S. Korea drills
        206 16 BLOOMBERG SINGAPORE The US Navy will send its new combat ship tailored for Asia’s shallow coastal waters to join military drills with South Korea that North Korea calls a prelude for invasion. Carrying a helicopter, an unmanned aerial vehicle, a 57mm
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        Lock icon Civilians fleeing clashes allege attack on Myanmar aid convoy
        374 17 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE LASHIO (Myanmar) Civilians fleeing bloody clashes between government troops and ethnic rebels in north-eastern Myanmar yesterday described crouching in terror as a hail of bullets flew around them in an attack on a local aid convoy that wounded two
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        Lock icon Thailand ‘fails to tackle’ human trafficking
        612 17  -  It may face sanctions if it continues to stay at bottom rung of US list: Experts By NIRMAL GHOSH INDOCHINA BUREAU CHIEF IN BANGKOK nirmal@sph.com.sg THAILAND may not be able to escape a second year at the bottom rung of the United States State
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        Lock icon NZ, Aussie police on alert for fake monks, nuns in big scam
        661 18  -  Impersonators are hired and trained by China syndicate before trip abroad By JONATHAN PEARLMAN FOR THE STRAITS TIMES IN SYDNEY jonathanmpearlman@gmail.com ORANGE-ROBED “fake monks” linked to a Chinese syndicate have been targeting Australia and New Zealand, with people
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        Lock icon Obama immigration actions on hold after judge’s last-minute ruling
        559 18 NEW YORK TIMES WASHINGTON One day before hundreds of thousands of unauthorised immigrants were to begin applying for work permits and legal protection, administration officials postponed President Barack Obama’s sweeping executive actions on immigration indefinitely, saying they had no choice but
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      • WORLD BRIEFS
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          Lock icon Cop pleads not guilty
          64 18 MADISON (Alabama) A police officer in the US accused of forcing a 59-year-old visitor from India to the ground on Feb 6, causing partial paralysis, pleaded not guilty to third degree assault on Tuesday. Eric Parker, 26, stopped Mr Sureshbhai Patel, who speaks little English, claiming
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          Lock icon Obama rates hackers
          52 18 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE WASHINGTON President Barack Obama has said North Korea’s cyber- attack capability is not great but that even less skilled hackers can be dangerous. Online site “re/code” published an interview on Tuesday in which Mr Obama said Iran’s skills are “good,” and China and Russia’s are
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          Lock icon Princeton’s treasure trove
          45 18 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE NEW YORK Princeton University has been gifted rare books valued at nearly US$300 million (S$407 million). They include the first six printed editions of the Bible and the original printing of America’s Declaration of Independence and handwritten music by Beethoven.
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          Lock icon A teen dad risky for baby
          69 18 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE PARIS Teenage fathers are likelier to have children with problems such as autism, low IQ, schizophrenia or spina bifida, a study said yesterday. DNA analysis of more than 24,000 parents and their children in Germany, Austria, the Middle East and Africa found
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        Lock icon A smashing time seeking to shed light on dark matter
        526 18 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE GENEVA Excitement is mounting at the world’s largest proton smasher in Switzerland, where scientists are close to launching a superpowered hunt for particles that may change our understanding of the Universe. Physicists and engineers are running the final
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        Lock icon India offers hope as other markets stumble
        710 20 Whether its momentum is short-lived or sustainable hinges on Modi’s drive NEW YORK TIMES SRIPERUMBUDUR (India) China’s economy is slowing. Brazil is struggling as commodity prices plunge. Russia, facing Western sanctions and weak oil revenue, is headed into a recession. As other big
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        Lock icon Greece seeks deal extension without austerity conditions
        502 22 But Athens receives little sympathy from all its euro zone partners AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE ATHENS Greece is seeking to extend its European loan agreement without signing up to the loathed duties of a full-blown bailout, its finance minister has said, as Brussels pressures Athens
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        Lock icon Soros cuts US equity holdings, moves assets to Asia, Europe
        374 22 BLOOMBERG NEW YORK Soros Fund Management, the family office of billionaire hedge fund manager George Soros, cut its holdings in US stocks in the fourth quarter and shifted assets globally. Soros, which manages almost US$30 billion (S$40.7 billion), moved about
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      • MONEY BRIEFS
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          Lock icon Japan Post in $7b takeover
          86 22 BLOOMBERG TOKYO A US$1.3 trillion (S$1.8 trillion) stockpile of Japanese government bonds, combined with a near-zero return on assets, gives Japan Post Holdings the incentive for more deals after the biggest acquisition in its 144-year history. The state-owned financial and postal company, which is preparing
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          Lock icon Apple gets virtual reality patent
          89 22 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE SAN FRANCISCO Apple was on Tuesday awarded a patent on a headset that could let iPhones be part of augmented or virtual reality displays. The patent, titled “Head Mounted Display Apparatus For Retaining A Portable Electronic Device With Display”, depicts a large eyeglass-style
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      445 24 CONTINUING state assistance remains a sine qua non for productivity improvements, going by the sentiments expressed by businesses, including a call for a single authority to support small and medium-sized enterprises here. The question, however, is whether more of the same will help SMEs to soar
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      1459 24  -  EYE ON SINGAPORE Eateries need to look at other ways besides foreign worker flows to create value amid entrenched practices, low profit margins, lack of manpower and low productivity By JESSICA LIM CONSUMER CORRESPONDENT limjess@sph.com.sg STEP into the kitchen of most Cantonese restaurants
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      1002 25  -  By SOURAV ROY stopinion@sph.com.sg LAST Saturday, on Valentine’s Day, The Straits Times published an article I wrote, “Singapore respects us as few nations do”, in which I summed up why my wife and I moved here six years ago from the Middle
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      1064 25  -  S.E.A. VIEW By THITINAN PONGSUDHIRAK FOR THE STRAITS TIMES stopinion@sph.com.sg The writer teaches International Political Economy and directs the Institute of Security and International Studies at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok. S.E.A. View is a weekly column on South-east Asian affairs. AFTER eight uneasy
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      976 25  -  By MARTIN KHOR THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK TWO Bills introduced in the United States Congress last week could lead to a new kind of trade measure that in the short run may wreck the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement and in the longer run could
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        133 26  -  Lim Bee Khim (Ms) Director Corporate Communications Ministry of Health THE Advance Medical Directive (AMD) is a legal document that one signs in advance to inform the doctor treating him, in the event the patient becomes terminally ill and unconscious, that he does not
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        125 26  -  Patrick Nathan Vice-President Corporate Information and Communications SMRT Corporation THE SMRT bus service 857 cited by Mr Kuek Xiu Hao (“Bus service in need of improvement”; last Saturday) is indeed due for improvements. The improvements, which will include the deployment of double-deck buses in the
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        Lock icon ‘Kiasuism’ an obstacle to boosting productivity
        292 26  -  Tan Jit Khoon I AGREE with last Friday’s report (“Creativity and resolve needed in productivity push”). Business model innovation (BMI) is key to providing the quantum leap in boosting productivity. My company has been investigating BMI since 2008 and started our transformation three years
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        314 26  -  Chua Chuu Suh (Madam) I AM puzzled by the actions of the Singapore Table Tennis Association (STTA), with regard to 2014 Youth Olympian Yin Jing Yuan (“Stalemate leaves teens in limbo”; Monday). Despite being ranked much higher than his peers, Jing Yuan’s
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          122 26  -  Danielle Goh Zhi Jiao (Ms) THERE is a declining interest in Mother Tongue languages today (“Review points for Higher Mother Tongue” by Ms Ivy Tan Siew Hoon; Monday). Hence, awarding the two extra points was meant to encourage students who made the effort to take
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          169 26  -  Clara Chua Sieo Peng (Ms) I RECENTLY had to replace the ez-link concession card of my primary school child, as the card was unreadable. My first stop was Pasir Ris bus interchange, where I was immediately issued a replacement card. However, the balance in
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          199 26  -  Haslinda Samsudin (Ms) I HAD the same experience as Ms Beatrice Tang (“Not easy to recover ez-link deposit”; Monday). When I was issued the new POSB PAssion ez-link card, my old card was terminated and I went to a community centre to recover the
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          125 26  -  Ivan Goh THE total fertility rate (TFR) may have risen from 1.19 to 1.25 last year but it is still a low figure (“More marriages and babies last year bring cheer to S’pore”; Tuesday). I have noticed that my friends in the
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        77 26 More letters on www.straitstimes.com 1. MR GOH ECK HONG: Productivity, innovation not a panacea. 2. MR CHRISTOPHER LEDESMA CHOO: Co-locate high-speed rail terminus with MRT interchange. 3. MR MUHAMMAD DZUL AZHAN HAJI SAHBAN: National effort needed to curb smoking, alcoholism. 4. MR LER BOON KWANG: Some info needs
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        327 26  -  Malcolm Noronha THE recent article on underage smoking truly reflects the current sad state of affairs on smoking (“More students caught smoking; schools install detection devices” Monday). In my neighbourhood in Marine Terrace, smoking can be seen everywhere within a small area where
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        214 26  -  Tricia Lee (Ms) Senior Corporate Communications Manager Singtel LAST August, we launched a range of Combo Plans which provide mobile customers with additional talk time and SMSes, as well as access to Singtel’s premium Wi-Fi network (“Forced to recontract to suspend line”
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      564 1  -  High Court rules that Facebook Inc does; the person who sets up the page only owns the page’s contents By SELINA LUM selinal@sph.com.sg SETTING up a Facebook page does not give a person any “ownership” over the site. Instead, the page belongs to Facebook Inc,
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      678 2  -  Up to 1,000 cars may be exempted from vehicular taxes for 10 years By CHRISTOPHER TAN SENIOR TRANSPORT CORRESPONDENT christan@sph.com.sg THE Government stands to forgo $100 million or so in tax revenue in an electric car-sharing scheme it hopes to launch from
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      Lock icon Two test-bed vehicles yet to be scrapped
      287 2  -  CHRISTOPHER TAN TWO electric cars granted tax exemption for a test-bed programme (2001 to 2010) have not been scrapped as required. The two a Porsche 911 sports car and a Toyota RAV4 sports utility vehicle were converted to run on battery power alone.
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      Lock icon Counsel questions woman’s credibility
      342 2  -  DOC’S MOLESTATION CASE By SELINA LUM selinal@sph.com.sg ONE of Singapore’s top trial lawyers yesterday tried to poke holes in the credibility of a woman who has accused veteran doctor Winston Lee Siew Boon of molestation by squeezing her breast on two occasions. Senior Counsel Davinder Singh,
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      336 2  -  By K. C. VIJAYAN SENIOR LAW CORRESPONDENT vijayan@sph.com.sg THE Law Society of Singapore yesterday explained why it dropped lawyer M. Ravi as a speaker from an upcoming conference, saying it comes too soon after recent concerns surfaced about his medical condition.
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      366 2  -  By ELENA CHONG COURT CORRESPONDENT elena@sph.com.sg THE cries for help from a 65-year-old woman saved her from her daughter’s attempt to kill her. Yesterday, the 43-year-old daughter, Tina Goh, was jailed for six months for criminal intimidation. The former Singapore Airlines stewardess, who
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      813 4 / 5  -  Bosses cite manpower as biggest challenge, with many S’poreans shunning industry By JESSICA LIM CONSUMER CORRESPONDENT limjess@sph.com.sg SINGAPORE may be a food oasis, but ask any eatery owner here and they will tell you that the food and beverage (F&B) industry is starved
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      601 4 / 5  -  WHY THE SHORTAGE AW CHENG WEI WAITERS can rise to become assistant restaurant managers in less than a year but it is still a job that few Singaporeans are willing to take on. According to the latest job vacancies report by the Manpower Ministry,
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      295 4 / 5  -  FELICIA LEE MR SAMUEL Yik, managing director of casual Chinese restaurant Dian Xiao Er, is proud that his staff turnover rate is 10 per cent, despite the labour crunch. It means that for every 10 employees in a given year, only one
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      545 4 / 5  -  BEATING THE CRUNCH JESSICA LIM Additional reporting by Rachael Boon EATERIES are trimming menus, buying robots that stir-fry, going self-service, and even turning away customers to deal with the manpower crunch. After Chinese New Year, 24 cashiers will be freed up at casual eatery Han’s to
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      Lock icon Tough on the mind and legs
      609 4 / 5  -  By AW CHENG WEI awcw@sph.com.sg TABLE 27 wants chilli padi. Table 5 needs a teapot refill. Table 12 asks for a baby chair. And, is that a hand waving me over? I mentally repeat those requests, hoping that I will not forget them or
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      Lock icon Respect for staff key to low turnover rate
      413 4 / 5  -  JESSICA LIM VACANCIES may be rife and turnover high in the restaurant industry, but at Brazil Churrasco, staff stay an average of a decade. The Bukit Timah restaurant has 26 full-time staff 15 of them Singaporeans and 11 foreigners. Two employees have
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      320 4 / 5  -  JESSICA LIM WORKING at Tatsuya, a fine-dining Japanese restaurant, is not easy, especially under the stern eye of its own-er-chef Ronnie Chia, 49. But Ms Coco Chia, 29, who started serving there when she was 18 years old, would not change a
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      Lock icon From chef to assistant V-P of operations
      281 4 / 5  -  By FELICIA LEE fellee@sph.com.sg WITH an Electronics, Computer Communications Engineering Diploma from Nanyang Polytechnic, Mr Tan Boon Lock could have got a job in the well-paying engineering field. But he realised early on that engineering was not his passion and that he “would
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      Lock icon Family culture helps Kuriya retain staff
      394 4 / 5  -  RACHAEL BOON HIGH-END Japanese restaurant Kuriya Dining at Great World City has seen only one full-time staff quit in the past year. The restaurant has about 35 staff members, and six are Singaporeans.Its longest-serving staff member is Ms Lee Yock Eng, 46, a Malaysian
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      Lock icon Many eatery owners fail to do their homework
      449 4 / 5  -  By RACHAEL BOON rachaelb@sph.com.sg Additional reporting by Felicia Lee MANY restaurants fail simply because of their owners’ outsized dreams and inefficient kitchens, experts say. More often than not, would-be restaurateurs fail to do enough market research before plunging into the business. It
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      264 6 L Where: The Float Marina Bay, 20 Raffles Avenue L Date: Until Feb 28 L Time: 2pm to 11pm L Admission: Free TIGHTROPE WALKING Xinjiang acrobats Adili Wuxor (above) and Abulaiti-Maijun, who are Guinness World Record holders, will perform nightly on a 80m-long tightrope until Feb 22.
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      Lock icon NAILING THE GOAT FOR BLESSINGS
      74 6 Revellers are bedecking the island with more than just lanterns and spring couplets to usher in the Year of the Goat this Chinese New Year. Festive-themed manicures (above) are now in fashion, with smiling cartoon goats and the Chinese character for blessings painted on nails.
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      Lock icon No foul play in baby’s death in pram accident
      384 6  -  By IAN POH pohian@sph.com.sg A TWO-YEAR-OLD boy decided to push his baby cousin’s pram as he waited for his mother to finish preparing for a trip to the supermarket, but ended up contributing to an “unfortunate unfurling of events” which concluded
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      Lock icon Festive joy, feasting – and stress
      124 6 Festive joy, feasting and stress CHINESE New Year is a time of joy but can also be stressful for those who have to deal with inquisitive relatives or grapple with a recent loss, a medical condition or other problems. Today’s Mind Your Body offers a quick guide to surviving the
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      442 7  -  Anti-harassment laws curb threatening debt collectors By K.C. VIJAYAN SENIOR LAW CORRESPONDENT vijayan@sph.com.sg THE anti-harassment laws have emerged as the new weapon used to stop debt collectors from accosting alleged debtors at their homes or offices. Earlier this month, an interior designer
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      Lock icon SMU in top moot court contest for 3rd time
      383 7  -  By PEARL LEE leepearl@sph.com.sg FOR the third year running, the Singapore Management University (SMU) will represent the Republic at the world’s largest moot court contest. Five students from SMU’s law school, which was set up in 2007, beat the team from
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        Lock icon Dine at your convenience
        679 9  -  Some restaurants here stay open for business even on the first day of Chinese New Year, Yannling Lim reports Yannling Lim WHILE the rest of us take a break from work, some restaurants such as LingZhi Vegetarian Restaurant are open today the first day of Chinese
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        Lock icon The show goes on
        662 10  -  A slew of activities has been lined up for your entertainment during the festive period by aaron tan What’s on ASIAN TALES FLORAL DISPLAY Where: Flower Dome Gardens by the Bay When: Today to March 8,9am to 9pm Website: www.gardensbythebay.com.sg This floral showcase at Gardens by
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        Lock icon House visits
        726 12  -  Property hunting can be an activity for family bonding by yannling lim THIS time last year, besides the usual “house visiting” to exchange greetings with friends and relatives, Mr Huang Ziwei went “house hunting” for a new property. “I had my family, including my 8 6 year old
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        611 13  -  Get out of the house for some fun by yannling lim YES, you will dutifully devote your first and second days to filial piety, visiting your in-laws and relatives. Butmost of us “young-at-hearts” know that Chinese New Year (CNY) is, in fact, the time of the
        PHOTOS: CANDYLICIOUS, RESORTS WORLD SENTOSA, SINGAPORE SPORTS HUB  -  611 words
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      66 2 Billionaire showcase Shanghai couple splash out on twin museums How to get Issue 8 free: 1. Download “The Straits Times Star E-books” from App Store or Google Play for your iPad orAndroid device 2. Get The Life magazine inside the app Get your 5th ‘C’ here Choose from various club
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      46 3 3" UNVEIL A FRESH NEW YEAR WITH US I, f t. Jt WE ARE OPEN February 19 20 Except China Square, Funan DigitaLife Mall Takashimaya. Check online at www.coldstorage.com.sg for our shopping hours. MARKET PLACE A Whole New Supermarket Experience Cold Storage The fresh food people
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      92 6 A 1 2^2 te S'FINDTHE LUCKY RED PACKET from now till 5 March I 0 STDIRE STAND TO WIN upto$2650 WORTH OF PRIZES AT STDirectory.sg/cny YOU CAN ALSO FIND OUT WHICH ZODIAC FARES THE BEST IN 2015 G The Straits Times celebrates its 170th year this year with treats for
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      140 9 1 m A r -V 1 n I N-. A« W' •*> IT ft a v 4 -■N G O U B U LI SINCE 1858 Savour over 150 years of Chinese culinary heritage The culinary legacy of Goubuli began in 1858 with the establishment of its first outlet in
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      170 11 >N jTp^ IL* 19 22 Feb 2015 A *1 Spring into the year of fun Spring spells the start of fun, and fun always begins at Sentosa. Come on down to celebrate spring and all its fun and splendour. Festive Promotions Enjoy amazing deals at the State of Fun! sf
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      131 12 SUNDAY SSfcfcSH at Seasonal Tastes Enjoy a sensorial experience at The Westin Singapore’s Sunday Brunch with spectacular views of the city’s skyline and a plethora of decadent brunch mainstays. Indulge in a wide selection of the freshest seafood, Pate and Foie Gras stations, and delight in the Steak a la
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      896 14  -  98 of 108 firms report profits, with banks taking top 3 positions By MOK FEI FEI feimok@sph.com.sg THE global outlook may be uncertain but listed Singapore companies have been buoyed by a strong showing for the past year. Of 108 companies that reported full-year results
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      714 15  -  But Govt may also make off-Budget changes when needed, say analysts By MARISSA LEE marilee@sph.com.sg MANY market watchers reckon that next week’s Budget will be the last before the General Election is called. And even if a GE isn’t held this year, many Singaporeans
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      444 15  -  By RACHAEL BOON rachaelb@sph.com.sg DEVELOPER Rowsley has received special exemptions for its residential project Skies in Vantage Bay, in Johor, such as a lower minimum purchase price and higher foreign buyer quota. The 75-storey Skies has been exempted from the usual RM1
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      207 15  -  ONG KAI XUAN BRITISH-BASED hospitality group Millennium Copthorne Hotels is giving three of its North American hotels a makeover. The company is the Lon-don-listed property arm of Singapore’s City Developments. The renovations, costing more than US$23 million (S$31 million), are slated for this year
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        621 16  -  In seeking to protect small investors, MAS may deny them a good deal NEWS ANALYSIS By GRACE CHNG SENIOR CORRESPONDENT chngkeg@sph.com.sg THIS week’s move by Singapore regulators to put out a consultation paper on securities crowdfunding (SCF) is timely. SCF is a financial
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        362 16 BLOOMBERG NEW YORK Famed investor Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway has increased its stake in IBM by 9.2 per cent, affirming support for chief executive officer Ginni Rometty as she tries to reignite growth at the technology company. Berkshire boosted its stake
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        648 16  -  GRACE CHNG Get cash back via ShopBack SHOPPERS love discounts, so local start-up ShopBack has devised a way for them to use cashback credits. Instead of getting discounts upfront, shoppers are given back a portion of the total amount spent via cashback credit. Co-founder Lai Shanru said the
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        282 17  -  Jewel chain to distribute up to 74.1m shares in pawnbroker Maxi-Cash By JACQUELINE WOO tsjwoo@sph.com.sg ASPIAL Corporation plans to reward its shareholders by giving them shares in pawnbroker MaxiCash. The mainboard-listed jewellery chain will distribute up to 74.1 million Maxi-Cash shares to investors by
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        238 17 MAINBOARD-LISTED Acma has warned of a net loss for the fourth quarter ended Dec 31, mainly due to impairment provision on its investment in associated company Neftech. The associate’s principal business is developing and marketing its own proprietary cavitation and nano-additives
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        482 18  -  Blue chips rebound in half-day trade as Asian markets hit 5-month high BULLS AND BEARS By GRACE LEONG gleong@sph.com.sg POSITIVE leads from Asian bourses and a rebound in local blue chips helped shares here gallop to higher ground on the Year
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          161 18 For a full list of SGX stocks, warrants and bonds, visit btstocks.asiaone.com TRANSACTION DATE: FEB 18,2015 Top Rises Feb 18 CENTS SPDR S&P500 US$ ***** 127.5 0.4 DBXT MSEurope US$ 5864 108.5 1.4 Feb 18 DBXT MSCHINA US$ 1413 43.4 2.3 Lyxor ChinaH US$ 1653 28.5 1.3
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          68 18 Feb 18 Against S$ Against US$ Currencies Bid Offer Bid Offer S$/US$ to one unit of foreign currency: Australian dollar Bid Offer S$AJS$ to one unit of foreign currency: NZ dollar S$/US$ to 100 units of foreign currency: 1.0626 Danish krone 0.7816 1.0947 1.0958 0.8061 0.8058 1
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      657 24 But leave Paris largely unscathed thanks to ’keeper Courtois’ heroics THE TIMES, LONDON AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE PARIS According to witnesses, there was a terrible crunching noise as the Chelsea team bus got stuck in a tunnel beneath the Parc des Princes Stadium on Tuesday. That
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      272 24 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE LONDON Chelsea say they are prepared to ban self-pro-claimed racist fans who were filmed preventing a black man from boarding a Paris subway train. Amateur footage obtained by British newspaper The Guardian captured the incident in a Metro station shortly
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      435 24 THE TIMES, LONDON LVIV (Ukraine) Shakhtar Donetsk travelled more than 1,000km across Ukraine to escape the military conflict on their doorstep. And their journey deep into the Champions League may yet continue after they held German giants Bayern Munich to an unlikely goalless draw
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      457 24 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE MILAN AC Milan owner Silvio Berlusconi has rejected a Singapo-rean-led bid of €970 million (S$1.5 billion) for the embattled Italian football club. But a minority stake of the Serie A outfit could be sold if it
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      416 20 LONDON A window into the mind of world No. 4 Andy Murray has been opened after his motivational and tactical notes from the World Tennis Tournament in Rotterdam last week were revealed. “Be proactive during points”, “Focus on each point and the process” and “Try
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      520 20 Football Uefa Champions League Last 16,1st leg: Paris St Germain (Fra) 1 Chelsea (Eng) 1, Shakhtar Donetsk (Ukr) 0 Bayern Munich (Ger) 0. Tennis ATP Delray Beach International 1st rd: Steve Johnson (USA) bt Mikhail Kukushkin (Kaz) 6-3 4-1 (ret), Bernard Tomic (Aus) bt Malek Jaziri (Tun) 6-3 6-3,
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      269 20 REUTERS LONDON Formula One’s next rules revolution will have to wait until at least 2017 after a meeting in Geneva on Tuesday voted against significant technical changes before then. Although there was no formal statement issued by the International Automobile Federation (FIA),
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        59 21 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE MILAN Italy’s government on Tuesday called for an end to racism after comments by former AC Milan and Italy football coach Arrigo Sacchi attracted widespread condemnation. Comments by Sacchi that “too many blacks” played in Italy’s Under-20 leagues and that Italy no longer had
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        43 21 REUTERS NEW YORK The Sacramento Kings hired George Karl as their head coach on Tuesday. The 63-year-old, who has survived two battles with cancer, is among a select group of National Basketball Association coaches with 1,000 career wins.
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        64 21 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE RIO DE JANEIRO World No. 3 Rafael Nadal made an impressive return to tennis after his Australian Open quarter-final loss, dispatching Brazil’s Thomaz Bellucci 6-4, 6-1 at the ATP Rio Open on Tuesday. Defending champion Nadal, a 14-time Grand Slam champion, needed only
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        79 21 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE SOCHAUX (France) The Hong Kong investor company Tech Pro Technology Development announced on Tuesday that it wants to buy the historic French football club Sochaux from the Peugeot car company for €7 million (S$10.8 million), stepping up the Chinese march into international
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      464 21 REUTERS NEW YORK Tiger Woods ruled golf in 2000 in a way that may never be matched, but one of his peers has an insight into one of the reasons for that dominance. Frank Nobilo, who won 15 times globally, including once on the
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      456 21 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE WELLINGTON Eoin Morgan’s form has deserted him and now so has his name, after the England cricket captain was introduced as “Eoin Rogers” by the Mayor of Wellington. The embarrassing gaffe happened when the England squad arrived in the New Zealand
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      363 21 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE MELBOURNE Teenage golf sensation Lydio Ko, whose professional career is just over a year old, already knows when she will call it quits. The world No. 1 revealed yesterday that she plans to retire at 30 and is
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      197 22 THE STRAITS TIMES ATHLETE OF THE YEAR NOMINEE #3 SAMANTHA YOM (SAILING) Her year Samantha Yom finished a creditable seventh at the Byte CII World Championships in Lake Garda, Italy, in April. She then beat the Dutch world champion Odile van Aanholt at the Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing in
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      73 22 THE SLOG: Above, sailor Samantha Yom holding a hiking stance in the gym to simulate the position she often has to be in when she’s hiking out at sea. THE START: Samantha rigging her boat ahead of her training session at the National Sailing
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      808 23  -  With a YOG gold medal to her name, Samantha Yom eyes her race future NOMINEE #3| SAMANTHA YOM (SAILING) By MAY CHEN maychen@sph.com.sg SAMANTHA Yom has perfect vision but is squinting under the scorching sunlight, her eyes barely open as she lifts the protective covers
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      151 1 Upsized niangao Giant new year cakes on sale C2 Going upmarket Dragon Blade Jackie Chan’s new movie fails to make the cut Kay Lee Roast Meat to open at Suntec C2 C5 When the God of Fortune appears in public during Chinese New Year, many want to touch him for
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      653 2  -  People are buying enormous sticky rice cakes to display at home or in the office for luck Benson Ang bang@sph.com.sg For those who believe that bigger is better, this Chinese New Year might be the time to buy a giant niangao, a sweet and
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      338 2  -  Eunice Quek Under new owners Aztech Group, the popular Kay Lee Roast Meat Joint has gone upmarket, opening its first restaurant in Suntec City on Monday. The 2,500 sq ft restaurant can seat 100 diners and will serve its well-known roast meats.
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      412 2 Reuters Tokyo The world’s best restaurant moved to the world’s gourmet capital for five weeks and 2,800 diners in Tokyo made good use of it. Rene Redzepi (right), chef and co-owner of the Danish eatery Noma, temporarily moved the Michelin-starred restaurant and
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      318 5 Agence France-Presse Berlin German anatomist Gunther von Hagens (above, with his wife Angelina Whalley), dubbed Doctor Death for preserving and displaying dead bodies as artworks, was to open a museum yesterday in Berlin to showcase the grisly exhibits. After 20 years of touring the
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      2118 6 / 7  -  Under their outfits, Chinese Gods of Fortune come in all shapes and sizes. Life! speaks to five people who are spreading festive joy dressed as the character this year Gwendolyn Ng nggwen@sph.com.sg Attraction on stilts Who: Mr Royston Yap (above), 32, God of Fortune stiltwalker and
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      476 9  -  Nostalgic production has dazzling costumes and gymnastics feats Review Variety show GREAT WORLD CABARET Resorts World Theatre/Tuesday Ng Yi-Sheng stlife@sph.com.sg So far, a major part of SG50 has involved celebrating everything Singapore has destroyed in its march of progress, from kampung living to our home-grown rock
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      590 9  -  Jeffrey M. Zacks New York Times New York This year’s Oscar nominees for Best Picture include four films based on true stories: American Sniper (about sharpshooter Chris Kyle), The Imitation Game (about mathematician Alan Turing), Selma (about the passage of the Voting Rights
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