Today, 10 December 2009, Afternoon Edition

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    30 1 TODAY MICA (P) 160/10/2009 A PUBLICATION OFyV__E>//_ CORP > NEWS HOTLINE 6822 2268 Thursday December io, 2009 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking TODAY Thursday December 10,2009 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking
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      THE GAMES BEGIN...
      115 1 Host nation Laos hopes to make a big push in sport, and the vehicle is the 25th SEA Games, which was officially declared open last night by President Choummaly Sayasone at the new 20,000 seating capacity National Stadium built especially for the region's biggest sporting spectacle. Brunei
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      Shape of growth next year
      648 1  -  LEONG WEEKEAT MAS SURVEYOF PROFESSIONAL FORECASTERS Economists raise forecast to 5.5%, but diverge widely on some sectors 7 prospects weekeat@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE With each new forecast since the recession ran out of wind, Singapore's recovery next year appears to gain firmer footing. But despite revising their
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      CAN EU DO WONDERS FOR COPENHAGEN?
      245 2 Europe's leaders will attempt to agree on a €2 billion ($4.1 billion) annual endowment to the world's poorer countries in order to jolt Copenhagen climate negotiations into a new gear today. But with many uneasy about dipping into depleted national budgets in post-recessionary times,
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      Lock icon 'Danish text' causes fury
      517 2 AGENCIES COPENHAGEN CLIMATE TALKS COPENHAGEN Negotiators at the United Nations climate marathon tried to steer into calmer waters yesterday after developing countries blasted an early draft accord, dubbed the "Danish text", as favouring rich carbon emitters and sidelining the poor. The so-called Danish text calls, among
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      Lock icon NOW HE'S LOST HIS CONGRESSIONAL MEDAL
      79 3 AP A United States congressman is dropping his effort to honor Tiger Woods with a Congressional Gold Medal.California Representative Joe Baca proposed legislation in March that called for Woods to be recognised for promoting good sportsmanship and breaking down barriers in golf. Mr Baca
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      ALSO IN 2010
      155 3 •The consumer price index (CPI) could rise 2.8 per cent, as pressure on commodities and oil prices grow and private consumption increases. Economists' inflation forecasts ranged from 0.8 to 3.7 per cent. "If fuel goes all the way to US$lOO per barrel, it may add up to
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      Lock icon A peace prize, you say?
      425 3 BLOOMBERG OSLO United States President Barack Obama will accept his Nobel Peace Prize in Norway later today... with a speech that will focus largely on war. Mr Obama, 48, receives the honour as a national leader presiding over one war he is seeking to end
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      Lock icon iPhone rush as plans are matched
      424 4  -  RON HO TAN HUI LENG TEOXUANWEI BYI byronho@mediacorp.com. sg SINGAPORE The long queues of Ml customers that formed before the midnight launch on Tuesday continued well into yesterday as iPhone sales got off to a feverish start for Star Hub and Ml. Some 1,500
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      Managing expectations
      525 4  -  LINYANQIN HIRING OUTLOOK Bonuses may not be as good as you think yanqin@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Are employers and employees going to end up on different wavelengths at the end of the year when it comes to bonus and salary expectations? Employees will be noting the rosier hiring outlook now
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      Syariah Court and TMP to relocate
      210 6 SINGAPORE To serve the public better, the Syariah Court and the Tribunal for Maintenance of Parents (TMP) will be moving out of the MCYS Building to a new one in Lengkok Bahru. Called the Family Link@Lengkok Bahru, the Syariah Court will occupy the third
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      When to worry?
      531 6  -  LINYANQIN ESTHER NG MORE PROBLEMS AT PRIVATE SCHOOLS AND yanqin@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE It is a salary dispute that could arise in any company, but if you are a student at a private school that is dealing with such tussles, how worried should you be? At least one school's
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      And then there were 2
      302 8  -  CHRISTOPHERTOH SINGAPORE IDOL 2009 Fans can expect an 'explosive' finale come Dec 27 christophertoh@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Six months after their auditions, it was Singapore Idol hopefuls Sylvia Ratonel and Sezairi Sezali who garnered the most votes, edging out Tabitha Nauser to go into the finals of
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      The fall and rise of taxi drivers' fortunes
      187 12  -  CHEONG NG LIAN CHERYL LIM SINGAPORE Several months ago, taxi companies reported a record slump in passengers, but drivers say business is now picking up. Between June and August, there were an average 840,000 daily passenger trips, a record low since the
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      Lock icon Damage bill now at $4.5m
      215 12 ONGDAI LIN KAMPONG SIGLAP MOSQUE FIRE SINGAPORE When he was first charged two months ago for setting fire to a mosque (picture), the 14-year-old juvenile was said to have caused $1 million in damage. Yesterday, his charge was reduced to mischief by fire, but the
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    • Article
      S'pore don barred from speaking
      174 14 PETALING JAVA National University of Singapore law lecturer Kevin Tan was barred by Malaysia police from speaking at a forum in Petaling Jaya last night, said reports. He was to speak at a forum on "Whither the Constitution: Lessons to be learnt from the Perak
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      He scolds, hits, then slashes son
      363 14  -  ONG DAI LIN CHOPPER ATTACK dailin@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE In a rash act to stop his son, who has special needs, from quarrelling with his sister, the man swung a chopper at the teenager. Yesterday, Ong Chee Seng (picture), 53, was sentenced to 18 months' jail
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      Drink but act responsibly
      153 14 SINGAPORE Its brews may be fuelling merry-makers this festive season, but Asia Pacific Breweries (APB) is out to encourage them to imbibe responsibly. Its website, Drink-Savvy, com (picture), is reputedly the first of its kind by an Asian brewer to educate the public about drinking responsibly.
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      Share your views in censorship survey
      168 16 SINGAPORE What are your views on content standards in locallyshown films, videos and publications? The Censorship Review Committee would like to hear from you. The panel was appointed in September by the Acting Minister for Information, Communications and the Arts to conduct a mid-term
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      First study on S'pore women
      312 16 HPV INFECTIONS Aim: To see if mass vaccination would be cost-effective SINGAPORE With little known about the number or types of Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) infections in this region, the Singapore General Hospital (SGH) has launched a pioneering study on this "silent disease" among Singapore
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      Huo Luo Jing Dan pills illegal, endanger health, warns HSA
      185 16 SINGAPORE The Health Sciences Authority (HSA) has warned about an illegal health product, Huo Luo Jing Dan, after a woman was hospitalised. Promoted as a Chinese medicine to improve blood circulation and relieve pain and rheumatism, it was tested and
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      Lock icon The youth are also getting involved in change
      279 18 MAYWONG CLIMATE CHANGE CONFERENCE I hope to be able to come back and tell everyone that everything that's happening around us isn't by fate it's caused by climate change. Eileen Lee, a student and one of the 15 Singaporean youth attending the
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    • SINGAPORE ROUNDUP
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        CGHTO USE SCANNERS
        84 18 Changi General Hospital will automate its visitor registration system from next year, cutting down registration time for visitors. Since the HiNiflu outbreak early this year, the hospital has mobilised over 100 staff to register visitors for contact tracing. But next year, athumbprintscan will be all that is
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        Lock icon JOURNEYINGTOAID PUNJAB
        82 18 CHITRA BALAGUMARAN A multiracial group of 20 young Singaporeans who are part of the Young Sikh Association's community service project was sent off from the Central Sikh Temple yesterday, embarking on a charitable journey to aid underprivileged and needy school children in the northern Indian state of Punjab,
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        FOODIE FUSION GOODNESS
        136 18 Students from Republic Polytechnic are pushing the boundaries by infusing food with unusual ingredients. Take for example, their seafood pasta with wolfberries, or perhaps some ice cream with Indonesian Jamu, commonly used to boost stamina and promote beauty. These dishes will be showcased at the polytechnic's Complementary
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  • WORLD
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      Lock icon Indonesians protest over graft
      255 24 AFP JAKARTA Thousands of Indonesians rallied yesterday in several major cities to mark international anti-corruption day, slamming the government over a bank bailout scandal. Protesters denounced President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono over the rescue of failed lender Bank Century, which is under parliamentary investigation after the country's
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      Lock icon Fast track to peace?
      291 24 AFP MILFPEACE TALKS Philippines, Muslim rebels hope for quick end to 16-month impasse KUALA LUMPUR The Philippine government and Muslim rebels are on a "fast track" to striking a pact ending a decades-old rebellion by March or April, the Malaysian hosts of the peace talks said
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      Lock icon CLAN ACCUSED OF KILLING OVER 250 IN BRUTAL REIGN
      222 24 .AFP A powerful clan blamed for a horrific political massacre in the Philippines was accused yesterday of killing more than 250 people during an eight-year reign of terror in a strife-torn southern province. Explosive allegations of chainsaw murders and victims being
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    • EYE ON ASIA
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        Lock icon FIRST LAWSUIT IN MILK SCANDAL DELAYED
        96 26 AFP CHINA China's first civil lawsuit seeking compensation of 55,184 yuan ($11,245) over last year's tainted milk scandal has been delayed for further investigation, state-run media reported yesterday. A district court in Beijing late last month began hearing a case filed by Ma Xuexin,
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        Lock icon JUNTA OFFICIAL MEETS AUNG SAN SUU KYI
        111 26 AP MYANMAR Detained Myanmar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi was taken from her home yesterday into unannounced talks with a junta official, the first in two months, officials said. Ms Suu Kyi met for 45 minutes with Relations Minister Aung Kyi, who
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        Lock icon MAN FACES TRIAL IN RARE SEDUCTION CASE
        108 26 AP MALAYSIA A Malaysian is facing trial for allegedly seducing another man's wife, a charge under a rarely-used law that defence lawyers criticised yesterday as archaic and tantamount to sexual discrimination. A decades-old law dating from the British colonial era calls for a
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        Lock icon FBI TAKES PROBE ABROAD
        107 26 AP PAKISTAN/INDIA The Federal Bureau of Investigation is sending a team to Pakistan and India for inquiries into an American accused of sizing up targets ahead of last year's deadly terrorist attacks in Mumbai. David Headley, 49, of Chicago, is also accused of plotting against a
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      Lock icon M'sian, Thai PMs landmark visit
      354 30 AFP THAILAND'S RESTIVE SOUTH BUKIT TA (Thailand) The Malaysian and Thai Prime Ministers made a historic joint visit to Thailand's restive south yesterday, in a fresh bid to curb a raging separatist insurgency that has left 4,000 dead. Mr Najib Razak and his Thai counterpart,
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      Lock icon Taiwan's Ma sorry for election setback
      197 30 AFP TAIPEI Taiwan's President Ma Ying-jeou apologised yesterday to party supporters for a setback in local elections, after facing mounting pressure to shoulder responsibility. The apology came four days after Mr Ma's pro-China Kuomintang (KMT) party lost ground in polls for county chiefs and
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      Lock icon Tamiflu not proven effective
      342 35 BLOOMBERG INFLUENZA VACCINE LONDON Roche's antiviral drug Tamiflu may not prevent complications from influenza in healthy adults, according to a review by an independent research group that reversed its previous findings that the medicine warded off pneumonia and other deadly conditions linked to the disease. The
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      Lock icon N Korea confirms HINI cases
      221 35 AFP SEOUL North Korea yesterday announced HINI cases for the first time, confirming reports of an outbreak in the secretive communist state. The Health Ministry reported a total of nine cases of HI Nl in the capital Pyongyang and the city of Sinuiju on the
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      Lock icon Japan doctor gets suspended jail term for 'mercy killing'
      179 35 AFP TOKYO —Japan's Supreme Court yesterday found a doctor guilty of murderforallowinga patientto dieatthe request of his family but suspended her 18-month prison sentence. The top court, in its first ruling on a so-called mercy killing, upheld a lower court's suspended
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      Lock icon A high price to pay
      412 36 .THE NEWYORKTIMES CLIMATE CONFERENCE Sweeping changes will cost trillions in the coming years WASHINGTON If negotiators reach an accord at the climate talks in Copenhagen, it will entail profound shifts in energy production, sweeping changes in agriculture and forestry and the creation of complex new
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      Lock icon China, a shining beacon of hope?
      234 36 AFP BEIJING —As the world's top producer of energy-efficient light bulbs (picture) and a potentially massive market forthem, China is seen as pivotal to greater worldwide acceptance of environmentally-friendly lighting. Developed countries have already begun phasing out the classic light bulb and China, the
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      Lock icon Global warming not real: US Republicans
      173 36 AFP WASHINGTON Republican lawmakers critical of efforts to battle climate change vowed to fly next week to Copenhagen to undercut President Barack Obama's promises of strong action by the United States. Members of the Republican Party said they would highlight a scandal over leaked
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      Lock icon 'Osama is the key'
      327 38 .AFP WAR ON TERROR Al Qaeda mastermind is vital to survival of terror network, says McChrystal WASHINGTON Killing or capturing Osama bin Laden is the key to defeating the Al Qaeda terror network, the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (Nato) commander in Afghanistan told United States legislators
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      Lock icon Iraq Parliament calls session over deadly bombings
      189 38 AGENCIES BAGHDAD Iraq's Parliament asked top security officials yesterday to appear before a special session to answer for how bombers once again found holes in Iraqi security that allowed for devastating attacks against government sites. The string of suicide bombings on Tuesday killed
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      Lock icon Iran accuses US of abducting its nuclear scientist
      171 38 AFP TEHRAN Iran on Tuesday accused the United States of abducting an Iranian nuclear scientist who went missing in Saudi Arabia during a minor Muslim pilgrimage, and said Riyadh must also be held accountable. Mr Shahram Amiri reportedly disappeared from the holy
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      Lock icon Buying Audrey Hepburn style
      138 40 AFP LONDON A collection of dresses and other wardrobe treasures worn by film star and style icon Audrey Hepburn fetched over £260,000 ($589,800) on Tuesday at an auction in London. A Givenchy cocktail dress Hepburn wore in the 1966 film How to Steal a Million sold
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      Lock icon Drunk? Coffee makes it worse
      230 40 THE DAILYTELEGRAPH SOBERING NEWS LONDON Drinking coffee does not sober you up, and may actually further impair your judgment, new research suggests. The combination of alcohol and caffeine produces a potentially lethal mix that just makes it harder to realise you are actually drunk in
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      Lock icon Cracks in Tiger Inc
      376 42 AGENCIES SPORTS ENDORSEMENTS Gatorade drops Tiger Woods drink, TV ads halted since Nov 29 NEW YORK Gatorade has become the first company to drop its endorsement of Tiger Woods since his wholesome image began to unravel amid reports of multiple extramarital affairs. The much-vaunted Tiger Woods
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      Lock icon 11 %of UK population born abroad
      574 44 THEDAILYTELEGRAPH VITAL STATISTICS LONDON More than one in 10 people living in Britain were born abroad, a record level, new figures show. The proportion of the population who are foreign-born has almost doubled in the past two decades to 11 per cent, or 6.7
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      Lock icon Sarkozy supports minaret ban
      274 44 THE GUARDIAN PARIS French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Tuesday voiced sympathy for Switzerland's controversial decision to ban the building of Muslim minarets, calling on religious practitioners to avoid "ostentation" and "provocation" for fear of upsetting others. Mr Sarkozy said he was surprised by the widespread criticism
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      Lock icon Third runway passes carbon test
      301 46 THENEWYORKTIMES HEATHROW AIRPORT LONDON Britain's plans to build a third runway at chronically congested Heathrow Airport in London won conditional endorsement from the government's chief climate advisory body on Tuesday, which said that the expansion would not necessarily keep the country from meeting its long-term
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        122 46 AP The local government from Russia's Perm region resigned voluntarily yesterday so as not to get in the way of investigations, after a nightclub fire killed 124 people in one of the deadliest accidents in Russia's recent history. Governor Oleg Chirkunov is
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        140 46 AP Tobacco use kills at least five million people every year, a figure that could rise if countries do not take stronger measures to combat smoking, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said yesterday. Its latest report said nearly 95 per cent of the
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      263 48 AP US HEALTH INSURANCE WASHINGTON After days of secret talks, Senate Democrats tentatively agreed on Tuesday to drop a government-run insurance option from healthcare legislation a concession to party moderates whose votes are critical to passage of President Barack Obama's top domestic priority. In
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      217 48 AP RIO DE JANEIRO Police in Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo have killed more than 11,000 people in the past six years, many execu-tion-style, according to a report released on Tuesday by Human Rights Watch. Few of the officers have been charged
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      294 49 AFP COBELL LAWSUIT WASHINGTON The United States government agreed on Tuesday to pay US$l.4 billion ($1.95 billion) to settle long-running claims it mismanaged land and money it held in trust for hundreds of thousands of Native Americans. President Barack Obama praised the
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      186 49 AP BOSTON Massachusetts Attorney-Gen-eral Martha Coakley took a big step towards becoming the first female United States senator from the state by winning a fourway race for the Democratic nomination to fill the late Mr Edward M Kennedy's seat. Recalling Mr Kennedy, Ms
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      224 50  -  David Soh HIRING FOREIGN WORKERS Letter from I REFER to the press report on the recent Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SCCCI) survey findings. It is interesting to note SCCCI president Teo Siong Seng's comments that "locals tend to shun shift work and
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      206 50  -  Wilson Wong Letter from I QUESTION the effectiveness of corporate governance in companies, given how directors are unlikely to speak out against the interest of the hand that feeds them. Also, there are many foreign companies that are listed here, particularly from China,
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      FOCUS ON THE FAMILY
      190 52  -  DR JAMES DOBSON BY BARBIE AND HER PALS Manyyears ago I commented in one of my books that I didn't like what Barbie dolls did to the little girls who play with them. Parents still write me today and ask why, and there are two main
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      296 52  -  Rick Lim Say Kiong GOOGLE STREET VIEW Letter from I REFER to "A boon for terrorists?" (Dec 8). The writer's reaction to Google Street View teeters on the verge of paranoia and may be a tad facile. Any new technology has the potential to be misused
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        76 52  -  JOSEPH LIM LETTER FROM. One valid reason why people jaywalk is simply because the nearest traffic crossing or overhead bridge is too far away, especially for the elderly with leg problems. Thus, they have no choice but to jaywalk. The authorities should put more thought in placing
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      96 50 HAVE YOUR SAY. email voices@mediacorp.com.sg or visit www.todayonline.com/voices PSYCHOLOGY JCU Date: 17 D ecem b er 2009 (Thursday) Dr Denise Dillon Time: "Undergraduate Psychology 7pm-B:3opm L\\v^w^v//J Course Structure" venue- James Cook University Australia Professor Joachim Diederich Singapore Campus "Psychology in Action" 6 q o Upper Thomson Road, m Singapore *****1
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      38 52 VOICES ON RADIO Is Google Street View a threat to security and privacy? Tell us 11 J%M what you think. Tune ill |f 1 intoTalkßackfrom WWW 8.15 am to 8.45 am tomorrow. Call 6691 1938 and share your
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      607 54  -  TANYO-HINN 50 years on Laos say hello, and open their doors for a sports battle yohinn@mediacorp.com.sg VIENTIANE They may not have state-of-the-art venues and transportation is still a work in progress. Visitors will struggle to find swanky accommodation. Despite a limited budget, first-time hosts Laos put
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      605 55  -  LOWLINFHOONG Liv Guodong-inspired Indonesia spanked by Republic's paddlers linfhoong@mediacorp.com.sg VIENTIANE It was a battle for top spot in Group A of the men's table tennis team competition at the 25th SEA Games in Laos, but there were many who were also curious to see if
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      171 55 CYCLING: Men's downhill: sth-Tan Hong Chun (Sin) 3mm oo.issec TABLETENNIS: Men's Team Croup A: Singapore bt Indonesia 3-0, bt Cambodia 3-0 Women's Team Group A: Singapore bt Philippines 3-0 SINGAPOREANS IN ACTION TODAY BILLIARDS AND SNOOKER: English billiards double quarter-finals: Peter Gilchrist/Lim Chun Kiatv Nguyen Thanh Long/Nguyen
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      715 56  -  SHAMIR OSMAN One-time minnows face Spore knowing draw will be enough LAOSVSINGAPORE,GROUP B National Stadium, 6.45pm, Spore time shamir@mediacorp.com.sg VIENTIANE Laotians were in party mood after their football team beat Indonesia 2-0 in a Group B clash on Monday. One delirious fan even
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      334 56  -  SHAMIR OSMAN VIENTIANE Football fever has hit the Laotian capital, with all 20,000 tickets for this evening's final Group B SEA Games match between the hosts and Singapore sold out. Among the sea of flag-waving, head-band-wearing Laotians at the National Stadium will be some
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      568 57  -  TANYO-HINN SSA aim to match success at the 2007 Games as shooters get set to fire yohinn@mediacorp.com.sg VIENTIANE Two years ago, Singapore's shooters won four gold medals in the air weapons events. It snapped a 34-year barren run for gold for
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      349 57  -  LOW LIN FHOONG VIENTIANE Singapore sprinters Poh Seng Song and Muhd Amirudin Jamal have been given the green light to compete in the SEA Games' men's 100 m race here, much to the relief of the runners. "I'm relieved of course
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      413 58 AP INTERNATIONAL GOLF The butt of jokes now it remains to be I seen if Woods can exert dominance again PHILADELPHIA The passenger was waiting in a long line at Heathrow when he came face-to-face with an Accenture advertisement on the wall showing Tiger
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      415 58  -  EWAN MAH SINGAPORE Any slim hopes Singapore had of making the final of the 2009 Netball Nations Cup were extinguished last night. Try as they might, the Singapore women couldn't find their way past world No 19 Northern Ireland, going down 52-35 at
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      504 59 .AFP AFTERNOON LATEST ...then takes the chance to rub it in the face of his critics CHAMPS LEAGUE, GROUP F Inter Milan 2 Rubin Kazan o MILAN Inter Milan eased into the Champions League knockout rounds with a dominant 2-0 victory over Rubin Kazan in
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      168 59 'AFP CHAMPS LEAGUE, GROUP F Dynamo Kiev 1 Barcelona KIEV Reigning champions Barcelona clinched a place in the Champions League knockout stage with a 2-1 win over hosts Dynamo Kiev last night, with Lionel Messi netting an 86th-minute goal to secure top spot in their group.
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      107 60 AFP PIRAEUS (Greece) Arsenal's young guns failed to fire as they slipped to a solitary goal defeat at Olympiakos in their Champions League Group H pool encounter to take the Greeks through. Having already wrapped up the group in taking 13 points from their opening five
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      247 60 AFP CHAMPS LEAGUE, GROUP G Stuttgart 3 Unirea Urzicenii STUTTGART Christian Gross enjoyed the perfect start as Stuttgart coach when his team stunned Romania's Unirea Urziceni 3-1 with three goals in the first 11 minutes to book their Champions League last 16 berth. Although they lie
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      367 60 THE DAILYTELEGRAPH AFTERNOON LATEST Not even Aquilani's debut could inspire Liverpool to victory CHAMPS LEAGUE, GROUP E Liverpool 1 Fiorentina 2 LIVERPOOL Liverpool's deeply disappointing Champions League campaign was summed up in 90 rain-lashed minutes here. The only bright points were a promising first
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      61 60 AFP Lyon turned on the style but even a 4-0 win over Hungary's Debrecen wasn't enough to secure them top spot in Group E. Goals from Batefimbi Gomis, Michel Bastos, substitute Miralem Pjanic and Aly Cissokh sealed an emphatic win. Lyon regularly make the knockout phase, but are
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      871 62  -  ROBIN BATCHELOR STIMULUS PACKAGES A KEY driver of the New Energy market is government-mandated growth as governments react to the dual challenges of climate change and energy security of supply. When financial markets went into meltdown during the second half of last year, there
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      328 63 BLOOMBERG JAPAN STIMULUS TOKYO -Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama's ¥7.2 trillion ($ll2 billion) stimulus will help the nation avert another recession next year without overcoming the deflation that threatens the economy's longer term prospects. The spending, unveiled ahead of a government report today, included employment
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      221 63 BLOOMBERG SYDNEY Australian homeloan approvals fell in October, exports tumbled and consumer confidence slid this month, increasing central bank Governor Glenn Stevens' scope to pause after a record run of interestrate increases. Consumer confidence fell 3.8 per cent this week, homeloan approvals
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      169 63 BLOOMBERG WOLFSBURG Volkswagen AG, Europe's largest car-maker, has agreed to buy a 19.9-per-cent stake in Suzuki Motor Corp for 222.5 billion yen ($3.5 billion) and jointly develop vehicles for emerging markets to challenge global leader Toyota Motor Corp. VW and Suzuki
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      507 64 BLOOMBERG CHINA ECONOMY SHANGHAI China's banking regulator plans to slow new lending to between 7 trillion yuan ($1.4 trillion) and 8 trillion yuan next year, a source said. The China Banking Regulatory Commission's recommended range compares with 8.9 trillion yuan of new local-currency loans in
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        181 64 OCBC Investment Research in its latest report said that Singapore real estate investment trusts, orS-Reits, are expected to pursue more acquisitions in 2010 to drive growth. The bank also said the deals are likely to be funded by private placements. The OCBC report, which was released yesterday,
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        176 64 Mainboard-listed shipping firm Berlian Laju Tanker (BLT), has entered into a joint venture with Singapore-based Miclyn Express Offshore in a bid to capture a share of the Indonesian offshore support vessel market. BLT will have a 50-per-cent stake in the joint venture, which
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      255 64  -  FANHUILENG SINGAPORE Japan Land last night filed in the Singapore Exchange (SGX) a detailed breakdown of corporate governance weaknesses and how they were resolved by the company. It hopes that the disclosure will bring to a close the questions raised about the company's compliance with the
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      265 65  -  YASMINEYAHYA CHINA LIFESTYLE Dehsting lwill provide more flexibility in use of resources' yasmine @mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The directors of Singapore-listed China Lifestyle Food and Beverages have proposed to take the company private, due to low trading liquidity in the company shares. The directors of the firm and its major
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      221 65 SINGAPORE Mainboard-listed Pacific Healthcare said the Shariah compliant Al-Faiz Fund (AFF) will invest about $8 million fora minority stake in the firm. Pacific Healthcare will issue some 73 million new shares at 11 cents to AFF, which is managed by the Malaysian branch of Kuwait
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          74 66 Slight gains US stocks closed modestly higher in choppy trade as the market was able to shrug off growing concerns about several countries' debt and the fragile global economic recovery. After a weak opening, the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 51.08 points (0.50 per cent) to 10,337.05. The
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          82 66 Sixth day of losses Oil prices skidded again after official data showed a big-ger-than-expected build in US stockpiles of refined fuel that renewed concerns about slack demand in the world's biggest economy. New York's main futures contract, light sweet crude for delivery in January, plunged US$l.95 to a
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          83 66 Slipping on Greece European stock markets fell for the third straight day, still rattled by the burgeoning Dubai debt crisis, as well as mounting concern that the Greek financial squeeze could have dangerous spillover effects for the eurozone and the EU at large. In London, the FTSE 100
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        187 66 Get used to the Tarp it's here for another year NYT WASHINGTON The United States government's widely unpopular US$7OO-billion ($l.l-trillion) bailout programme, due to expire at the end of the year, will remain in place until next October to help troubled community banks, small businesses and troubled homeowners and to
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        478 66 AGENCIES AFTERNOON LATEST LONDON A "politically motivated" super-tax on bankers' bonuses will drive star City players overseas, British Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling was warned yesterday after he pledged to "claw back" money from banks in return for £850 billion ($1.9
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        492 66  -  TAN HUI LENG huileng@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The Securities Investors Association of Singapore (Sias) applauded the independent directors of Sino-Environment Technology Group for its move to take legal recourse to remove the company's executive directors. At a press briefing yesterday, Sias president and chief executive officer David
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      106 64 o.or II ml 'N TA rn/A -I ftjg] Time 3pm, I In conjunction with Capital 95.8FM's birthday celebrations, we present j.iL _t w *i*j—j.j.^j< w*m it* JtSo; Venue mwmrFmm hsk/T B Singapore Chinese Orchestra Concert Hall Hffi Tickets *$48, *$38, $28 (Price excluding $3 booking fee) h b^^Jl^^H U^9 -f£K^)-Concession:
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      43 66 MORNING EDITION CORPORATE GOVERNANCE SGX proposes new listing rules ~„>,vi,,:,i';. ""■i l ,i,.i, lt ll Vi"i.ii.M-- ■!'■-■>■ ■■■■-> h>■«■■'■■ i"-,!h"" iK"" "Jk'-ilui'l-I li^'«l ■-■■i«V ill"- ■>■■-■;"" l-x-l""----1 cll-I.V-_ misc. mliv ro-.l '■"<"" mi_ ,-,'.-Th.juiih. in turmoil. "'■Mi'iVn-' j nil-hiimvii' ™_J ■.'■'ll,:i''l Read the full story at www.todayonline.com
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      194 67 $10 Chrtifcmxw Promxytu>tfs n n P r-i !ai*l Dawn Lim, 23 Bciotc Lin Sihan, 19 Before Pimples Clogged Pores Xv Shixin, 26 Before n R^' 23 I Anthony Chen, 26 Before Puberty Pimples Severe Scars Dark Eye Circles Severe Pimples y v t«].',iM,H SMS: NYTD <space> Name <space> NRIC to
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      60 69 I WBrwa J^B I Everybody loves Bohemian Rhapsody 6 I Creed comes full circle 8 I Jamie Oliver saves the day 10 I y' Hugh Grant:Mr Lonely 12 I CD reviews 14 I V TRAVELLER I Dive different 16 I Milan: A breath of fresh air 18 I Mr Mrs
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      992 70  -  CHRISTOPHERTOH TODAY EXCLUSIVE The impossibly-perky Mariah Carey on racism, her critically acclaimed new film and getting inspiration from her bathroom christophertoh@mediacorp.com.sg IT IS very easy to hate Mariah Carey. Why? Because no matter what happens to her, she always comes out smiling. When she and Tommy Mottola
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      396 74 THEGUARDIAN POP CLASSIC How on earth did Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody end up at No 2 on karaoke charts? THE popularity of Bohemian Rhapsody as a karaoke classic is astonishing. Yet, there it is, at No 2 on the first official karaoke chart
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      225 74 AGENCIES AS FAR as one-hit wonders go, Daniel Powter is king of them all for this decade, at least. Powter, whose hit Bad Day reigned on top of the Billboard pop charts for five weeks in 2006, was named as the decade's top onehit wonder
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      831 76  -  CHRISTOPHERTOH HELL FREEZES OVER AGAIN Rock band Creed reunite for their first album in six years/ y christophertoh@mediacorp.com.sg IN 2002, things were going very well for American rock band Creed. They had hit rock anthems like Higher, With Arms Wide Open and One Last Breath. Things were
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      183 77 AGENCIES IT SEEMS things just continue to get worse for the embattled golf champ. Rumours of naked Tiger Woods pictures may turn out to be real. Playgirl magazine confirmed it had received photos claiming to be of a nude Woods and that they
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      577 78 THEDAILYTELEGRAPH *^i Celeb chef Jamie Oliver 'inspires'jewel thief to do the right thing A GANG of jewellery thieves has been convicted of a £4-million ($9.1 -million) heist after an accomplice was inspired by Jamie Oliver, the celebrity chef, to report them to police. Tom Baisden, 28,
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      407 80 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH OVERTHE HILL Hugh Grant on growing old alone Monelyand sad ACTOR Hugh Grant has admitted he is afraid he'll never find a girlfriend again and that he will become a "lonely, sad old man". The star of Notting Hill V and Four
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      271 80 THE GUARDIAN IT IS only the start of December in a year blighted by the worldwide economic downturn, but the United States boxoffice record has already been smashed for the second year in a row. Thanks to blockbuster sequels such as Transformers: Revenge Of The
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      160 82  -  I PAUL MCCARTNEY bu mk i Jaui McCartney plays the first concert ever at Citi Field stadium. And it's a fine historical record, it being the first gig at Citi Field and all, but I don't know There's just something lacking in the delivery in
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      271 82  -  CHRISTOPHER CD REVIEWS BY BALM INGILEAD RICKI LEE JONES IT HAS been over 30 years since Ricki Lee Jones came on the scene, and this album only her 12th studio effort, by the way is a great example of how artistes can use all their experience and
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      123 83  -  KRIS ALLEN WHILE watching American Idol, I often wished Kris Allen would just cut loose and blast across to the audience a lot more. He didn't, but he still won, so there's a lesson in there. This album is pretty much like that: Earnest but just simmering below
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      109 83  -  ADAM LAMBERT MEANWHILE, American Idol loser Adam Lambert's debut album is ELO-lite, Broadway flamboyance and a lesser Scissors Sister rolled into one. Music Again, the album's opener, is a bouncy affair that sets up the rest of the album. Unfortunately, the album is pretty much like Lambert's
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      97 83  -  YOGA LIN LOOKING like the world's most morose person even when he smiles, Yoga Lin's album opens with a ballad Something J About Me, which sounds like he's about to slit his wrists. But things pick up with the dramatic The Spoiler and it gets better with songs
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      112 83  -  JEANIE ZHANG APPARENTLY, Mando-pop newcomer Jeanie Zhang fell in love with music when she was given a synthesiser when she was three. It's a good thing, or we wouldn't have had the pleasure of listening to this debut an offering of 10 tracks that, although not fantastic,
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      90 83  -  ALEXANDRA BURKE WHEN the horns and drums blast on You Broke My Heart, you can understand why Alexandra Burke has been cited as Britain's new hope in the R&B scene. She's got more oomph and than Joss, Leona, Duffy, Pixie and Amy put together. But then, you have to
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      132 83 AP PLUS IN ADDITION The Kings Of Leon are the kings of the iTunes album charts for this year. The Nashville, Tennessee, rock group have the top-selling record with OnlyßyThe Night. They are followed by the Twilight soundtrack, Lady Gaga's The Fame and Taylor Swift's Fearless. The
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      863 84  -  IVANAGOH in 2010... This year, immerse yourself in these niche, nearby spots traveller@mediacorp.com.sg ONE thing to look forward to in 2010 is the number of long weekends on offer. With nine long weekends next year two more than this year and the upcoming festive season and new year,
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