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    20 1 TODAY Tuesday December 22, 2oog www.todayonline.com we set you thinking TODAY Tuesday December 22, 2oog www.todayonline.com we set you thinking
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    in the news
    163 1 3 British Prime Minister Gordon Brown accused countries of'hijacking' negotiations at the UN climate summit in Copenhagen. 8 The High Court has ruled that internet start-up RecordTV is liable for copyright nfringement by communicating and broadcasting MediaCorp's shows to the public. M Cross-straits ties between China and
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    'We want to do it right'
    663 1  -  TEOXUANWEI MARINA BAY SANDS Las Vegas Sands chief Adelson not sweating over whether Resorts World at Sentosa opens first xuanwei@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Never mind that the Marina Bay Sands' opening date has been pushed back a second time this time to April the bottomline, to
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    DELAY FOR RWS TOO?
    427 1  -  ANSLEYNG ansley@mediacorp.com.sg In recent days, as talk intensified about a possible further delay in j its opening, the heat has been on the Marina Bay Sands. But the other integrated resort, Resorts World at Sentosa, appears to j have run into problems, too. MediaCorp has learnt
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  • NEWS
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      Khaw apologises
      359 2  -  HOEYEEN NIE CLAIRE HUANG OVERCROWDING ATTTSH SINGAPORE Health Minister Khaw Boon Wan has apologised for the over-crowding situation at Tan Tock Seng Hospital (TTSH). In his blog yesterday, he said the hospital's Accident and Emergency department is always packed. Several times a week, TTSH even has to divert
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      Lock icon 'Group of countries hijacked negotiations'
      428 3 AFP Blamed over farcical' climate talks but China says its role was important, constructive COPSNHAGEI NJ CLI MATS TALK 5 LONDON British Prime Minister Gordon Brown yesterday accused countries of holding the United Nations climate summit to ransom as bitter recriminations swirled over the outcome
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      Foreigners split over move to raise school fees
      299 3  -  MAGGIE CHONG DYLAN LOH SINGAPORE The Education Ministry's move to raise annual school fees for permanent residents and international students from 2011 would affect foreigners' decision on whether they should remain in Singapore, according to foreigners who spoke to Media Corp. On
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      Lock icon Mourners protest
      359 4 AP MONTAZERI FUNERAL TEHRAN Tens of thousands of Iranian mourners turned the funeral procession of the country's most senior dissident cleric into an anti-government protest yesterday, amid heavy security. The crowds gathered in the holy city of Qom to pay their respects to the Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali
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      Lock icon Transport delays as freeze kills dozens across Europe
      271 4 AFP PARIS The death toll from winter storms across Europe rose to more than 50 yesterday as transport chaos grew amid mounting anger over the failure of Eurostar high-speed trains. With tens of thousands stranded by the cancellation of London to Paris
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      Lock icon 42,000 workers have found jobs after Spur training
      217 6  -  WANGENGENG SINGAPORE A year after the Skills Programme for Upgrading and Resilience (Spur) was launched, more than 260,000 workers have come on board. Of these, about one-third have been trained. Giving an update on the initiative launched in response to the onset
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      'Recovery will take a while'
      448 6  -  S RAMESH LABOUR MARKET rameshs@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Even though the Republic's economy is on the mend, it would be a while before employment picks up again, according to Manpower Minister Gan Kirn Yong. Speaking to MediaCorp on the labour market outlook next year, Mr Gan said
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      Good news on the horizon
      273 8  -  SHAFFIQALKHATIB SINGAPORE The shutters to Horizon Food Mall at Causeway Point shopping centre remained closed yesterday, but tenants received a spot of good news. According to some tenants, the food court operator was understood to have contacted them, informing them that they could re-open their
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      MediaCorp wins counter claims suit
      363 8  -  S RAMESH MEDIACORPVS RECORDTV JUDGMENT rameshs@mediacorp.com.sg against RecordTV to put a stop to that. Justice Ang also ruled that damages in favour of MediaCorp would be assessed by the Registrar. Responding to the judgment, MediaCorp says it is delighted with the verdict. Mr Chang Long
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      Lock icon Meeting needs, big and small
      548 10  -  NEOCHAICHIN XMAS DONATION DRIVES Charity drives in festive season complement year-long efforts chaichin@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE A major charity donation drive ended yesterday with its best showing in four years, but for other organisations with similar initiatives, more helping hands are welcome. One of Singapore's best-known and
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      NO CHARITY DRIVE, BUT DONATIONS WELCOME
      189 10  -  ESTHER NG It isn't holding a charity drive, neither is it a high-profile charity. But like most of its counterparts, the Infant Jesus Homes and Children's Centres (IJHCC) is in need of funds to the tune of $600,000 to $700,000 each year to support
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      Syariah Court starts operations at new Lengkok Bahru premises
      138 11  -  RIZSUNAWAN SINGAPORE The Syariah Court has moved from the Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports (MCYS) building on Thomson Road to its new premises at Lengkok Bahru in Bukit Merah. Called Family Link@Lengkok Bahru, the Syariah Court now occupies the
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      Flying, then and now
      606 11  -  ESTHERNG AIR SAFETY estherng@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Global air travel took a beating this year, with passengers and businesses cutting back on trips. But on the safety front, it was not a bad year for airlines, according to Singapore Airlines' (SIA) former divisional vice-presi-dent of safety, security and
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    • SINGAPORE ROUNDUP
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        SINGAPORE AND CHINA SIGN MOU
        99 12 Singapore will have a hand in helping to train Chinese government officials now that a memorandum of understanding (MOU) has been signed between the Singapore Cooperation Enterprise (SCE) and China's State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs (Safea). The SCE will help undertake training programmes according
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        BOSS FINED $70,000 AFTER WORKER DIES
        121 12  -  EVELYN CHOO The boss of a transport supply company has been fined $70,000 for a fatal workplace accident. On Aug 1, 2007, Singaporean worker Koh Hong Son died from multiple injuries after he was pinned under steel pipes that had rolled off from a
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        A PEDALLING VICTORY
        68 12 Six cyclists have scored a Guinness World Record for cycling on the spot. Sandy Snakenberg, Bernard Ow, Mohd Faizal, Teo Song Kang, Clement Neo and Pang Ren Hui broke the Greatest Static Cycling Distance when they cycled 1,425 km from Bpm on Dec 11 to Bpm the
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      Lock icon New scheme sees three early birds
      339 12  -  WANG ENG ENG HOEYEEN NIE PRIVATE INSTITUTIONS New law requires all private schools to register with Council for Private Education AND engeng@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Three private institutions have so far applied to register with the Council for Private Education, as a new law mandating all
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      Lock icon Japan's Chiyoda City office leads the way
      288 13  -  MICHIYO ISHIDA ENERGY-SAVING channel newsasia's japan bureau chief news@mediacorp.com. sg TOKYO Efforts to cut carbon emissions are underway in many parts of Japan, ranging from households to the business sector. By 2020, Japan wants to cut CO 2 emissions by 25 per cent
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  • WORLD
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      Lock icon Move toward peace
      344 14 AGENCIES CROSS-STRAITSTIES China envoy tells Taiwan relations in right direction TAICHUNG China's senior Taiwan envoy told his hosts yesterday that Beijing wants to "move down the road of peace", a day aftertens of thousands of Taiwanese demonstrators blasted the government for its China-friendly policies. Mr Chen Yunlin's
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      Lock icon Last Khmer Rouge defendant charged
      251 14 AGENCIES PHNOM PENH The last of the former Khmer Rouge leaders standing trial for alleged crimes committed three decades ago was yesterday charged with genocide. leng Thirith had earlier been charged with crimes against humanity for her role as Social Affairs Minister in a regime
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      Lock icon Australian north-west on red alert as tropical cyclone upgraded
      194 14 AFP SYDNEY—Tropical Cyclone Laurence intensified yesterday, moving towards Australia's west coast as residents were urged to take shelter from winds expected to reach up to 285 km an hour. The cyclone, which formed in the Timor Sea last week, was about
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      Lock icon Drug addicts advised to sign up for rehabilitation
      164 16 AP BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN Brunei's government is trying to curb drugs abuse by urging addicts to voluntarily enrol themselves into a state-sponsored rehabilitation programme that will allow them to avoid a criminal record and heavy prison sentences, a news report said yesterday.
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      Lock icon Malaysia to seek blogger's extradition if he's in London
      193 16 THE MALAYSIAN INSIDER KUALA LUMPUR The Malaysian government will seek an extradition order for controversial blogger Raja Petra Kamarudin (picture) if he is found living in London, the In-spector-General of Police Musa Hassan said yesterday. His comments came after daily Utusan
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      Lock icon Weapons were bound for Iran
      317 16 AFP SEIZED CARGO SEOUL A planeload of weapons from North Korea seized in Bangkok this month was bound for Iran, a newspaper report said yesterday, citing documents obtained by arms trafficking experts. United States Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair had said last week that
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      Lock icon Taliban duo outgunned
      290 18 AFP AFGHANVIOLENCE KHOST (Afghanistan)— Two Taliban gunmen wearing suicide vests and carrying rocket launchers stormed an Afghan apartment block yesterday, sparking a gun battle with police that killed them both, officials said. The militants seized the building near the police headquarters in Gardez, capital of eastern Paktia
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      Lock icon Iraqi A1 Qaeda group remains a threat
      263 18 THE NEWYORKTIMES BAGHDAD Several top American commanders say the Iraqi insurgent group, Al Qaeda, remains a dangerous foe that has shown resilience in carrying out major terrorist attacks intended to destabilise Iraq as the country prepares for elections early next year. With its
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      Lock icon The floating people of China
      467 20 THENEWYORKTIMES CHINESE LABOUR Country's export of labour faces growing scorn TRUNG SON It seemed as if this village in northern Vietnam had struck gold when a Chinese and a Japanese company arrived to jointly build a coal-fired power plant. Thousands of jobs would start flowing
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    • EYE ON ASIA
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        Lock icon WARNINGS TO AVOID SEA BORDER
        84 22 AFP N Korea North Korea yesterday warned South Korean ships to avoid the disputed Yellow Sea border area where a clash broke out last month, saying its coastal artillery would target the area in firing exercises. The communist state's naval command said the move came
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        Lock icon SUU KY| LAWYERS APPEAL SENTENCE
        76 22 AFP Myanmar Lawyers for Myanmar's detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi launched an appeal against her extended house arrest sentence yesterday at the country's supreme court. She was ordered to spend another 18 months in detention in August. Her team argued that her conviction
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        Lock icon TIME RUNNING OUT FOR ORANGUTANS
        77 22 AFP Malaysia The world has less than 20 years left to save the orangutan, according to conservationists from the Borneo Conservation Trust, who predict the ape will become extinct if no action is taken to protect its jungle habitat. Environmentalists are calling forthe creation of
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      Lock icon Animal harm?
      337 22 AFP CARBON PAWPRINT PARIS Man's best friend could be one of the environment's worst enemies, according to a new study which says the carbon pawprint of a pet dog is more than double that of a gas-guz-zling sports utility vehicle. But the revelation in the book "Time to
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      Lock icon Senate hurdle cleared
      395 24 AFP US HEALTHCARE OVERHAUL WASHINGTON President Barack Obama's top domestic goal, remaking United States healthcare, cleared a key Senate hurdle yesterday and seemed all but sure to pass by his self-imposed Christmas deadline. After hours of bitter debate, all 58 Democrats and their two independent allies closed
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      Lock icon HIV/Aids among top 10 humanitarian crises
      200 24 AP NEW YORK Dwindling funding for HIV/Aids threatens to leave an estimated 10 million infected people without treatment in the developing world, making it one of this year's top 10 humanitarian crises, according to humanitarian group Doctors Without Borders. Other crises that made the
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      Lock icon Police recover stolen Auschwitz 'Arbeit macht frei' sign
      206 26 AFP WARSAW Polish police said early yesterday they have recovered the Nazi German "Arbeit macht frei" sign stolen from the site of the Auschwitz death camp in southern Poland and arrested the alleged thieves. "We have arrested five men aged from 20
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      Lock icon Israel admits to wrongdoing
      402 26 THE GUARDIAN ORGAN HARVESTING TEL AVIV Israel has admitted that pathologists harvested organs from dead Palestinians, and others without the consent of their families a practice that it said ended in the *****. The admission, by the former head of the country's forensic institute, followed a
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      SHORT TAKE
      54 28  -  Gilbert Goh READY HELP AT HAND I hope that the casinos at our IRs will have trained counsellors on site. Such a service will hopefully allow problem gamblers to seek assistance when they have a bad loss at the tables. Information about support groups and literature should also
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      Time to ramp up the heat
      325 28  -  Kassim Syed Mohd SINGAPOREATHLETICS Letter from I REFER to "sl2m later, athletics remain in dire straits" (Dec 19-20). The SEA Games is over and our sportsmen/sportswomen did betterthan expected in most sports. However, the performance of athletes from some national sports associations, especially the
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      Our athletes need more track records
      263 28  -  Jeffrey Law Lee Beng Letter from IT IS heartening to hear C Kunalan's comments on the sorry state of athletics in "Time for 'self-examination'" (Dec 21). Has athletics remained in the doldrums for some two decades due to the politics in Singapore Athletic Association
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      FOCUS® ON THE FAMILY
      193 30  -  DR JAMES DOBSON BY I PETTINESS IN MARRIAGE I recently read of a 56-year-old woman from London who filed for a divorce, saying her husband was so petty and stingy that he literally squeezed the love out of their relationship. This man, I'll call him "Mr
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      'There is no such thing as safe-riding...'
      246 30  -  Raymund Koh Joo Guan PEDESTRIAN SAFETY Cycling on pavements is not only illegal and dangerous, it is hard to regulate Letter from I AM shocked that cycling on pavements has been legalised in the Tampines estate. Such an act might also result in
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      Time to educate the drivers too
      127 30  -  Matthew Chee Letter from I REFER to the report "Traffic Police reminds cyclists, bikers to be safe" (Dec 15). Being both a rider and driver, I agree with the Traffic Police (TP) that accidents involving cyclists and motorbike riders can result in dire consequences.
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        968 32  -  MAYO MARTIN PLUS AWARDS 2009 The shows and exhibits that deserved a standing ovation (or otherwise) in the local arts scene mayo@mediacorp.com.sg IF THERE was one predictable question that continued to pop up in the arts scene during this unpredictable year, it would be: "What's next?" From
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        FUNKIE MUSIC FOR FREE
        75 38 Tisthe season forgiving and Funkie Monkies Productions, the same guys who rolled out the 881 soundtrack, will be giving away free music to everyone. The first song to be given away is Protected by Serene Koong. Written for Channel U's tele-movie The Promise, to air on
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        JUST FOR LAUGHS GAGS ASIA TO HIT SCREENS NEXTYEAR
        148 38 MediaCorp TV Channel 5 will premiere Just For Laughs Gags Asia next year, on Jan 12 at gpm. The first production of its kind in Asia and produced in Singapore, this non-verbal hiddencamera series is the result of an exclusive co-production
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      291 38 THE GUARDIAN CELEBRITY PASSING ACTRESS Brittany Murphy, who specialised in playing disturbed young women in a series of films that had an echo of her own troubled life, has died of a heart attack aged 32. Entertainment website TMZ first reported her death, saying that
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        601 40  -  EVELINE GAN PARTY POOPER Certain alcoholic drinks, such as brandy and whisky, can cause nastier hangovers evdine@mediacorp.com.sg A SPLITTING headache, light-headedness, queasiness, nausea, thirst and lethargy Inevitably, after the festive revelry, a good number of people will wake up this weekend experiencing these ill sensations brought
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        ASK THE DOC
        290 40  -  VINCENT LECK DR LEE JONG JIAN FIGHTING THOSE FLOATERS QUERY FROM I have several queries with regards to the Ask The Doc on floaters (Today, Nov 24). Besides ageing, would spending a lot of time in front of a computer contribute to or worsen the problem If
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        SIGNS OF ALCOHOLISM
        157 41 According to DrThomas Lee, acting chief of the addiction medicine department at the Institute of Mental Health, you may have an alcohol addiction problem if: It becomes harmful to your physical or mental health, including to people around you. It affects important social, occupational or recreational activities.
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        78 41 COMMUNITY HEALTH WEEKEND You've been bingeing non-stop during this festive period. Get your health checked with SATA CommHealth Ang Mo Kio Medical Centre's free health services. They include chest X-rays, mammograms, random glucose tests, blood pressure checks and BMI measurements. Date: Jan 9 and 10 Time: 2pm to
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      571 39 rk O Eat breakfast every day. Don't skip breakfast in the mistaken belief that it will help with <^y^fe^weight control. The truth is that people who eat breakfast regularly are slimmer than those J who skip it. Choose a low-fat breakfast such as Kellogg's Special X with low-fat milk and
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      859 41 Advertorial The truth about wearing contact lens. And there's no one better to ask about the facts of contact lens wear than the professionals. With more than over 20 years of experience in optometry, Mark Ng, jh e truth about eve health the Chief Optometrist of Mcc Mcc Optics, gives
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      921 42 TV LISTINGS ONMEDI AC OR P CHANNEL 0 9. N* 9. A. C. 0...? THE FAMILY LINK SooAM Entertainment Tonight 2.30 Wheel of Fortune 9.30 News s Tonight M ACAM M ACAM AZNIL Channel U, 10pm 5.30 Prime Time Morning 3.00 Growing UpV 10.00 The Mentalist Suria, B:3opm —nj-j^m-L^, jj»mt—^^jymiij
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      621 44  -  LAN DE COTTA INTERNATIONAL FOOTBALL Avramovic wants his Lions to go into the hunt as one when they face Iran ian@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Last Christmas was a memorable one for Radojko Avramovic and his wife, Bratislava. It was their first with grandson Dusan, nine months old
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      283 44  -  lANDECOTTA SINGAPORE National coach Radojko Avramovic wishes Singapore's under-23 football team had been a little more combative and adventurous at the SEA Games, which concluded last Friday. Singapore won the bronze medal in football, beating hosts Laos 3-1 in the third-place playoff. "In some instances
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      498 45 THEDAILYTELEGRAPH ENGLISH FOOTBALL New Sky Blues boss gears up for transfer window with Chiellini, Maicon top targets LONDON Inter Milan coach Jose Mourinho has warned Roberto Mancini that managing Manchester City in the Premier League will be "completely different" to Serie A. Mancini, who has
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      261 45 AGENCIES MANCHESTER Robinho (picture) is seeking urgent talks with his new Manchester City boss, Roberto Mancini. Robinho, whose future has been the topic of widespread speculation this season, had been linked with a January move to Barcelona. But with Hughes' dismissal at the
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      ALSO HOVERING AT THE EASTLANDS EXIT
      223 45 Joleon Lescott The England defender has been little short of disastrous since his £22-million move from Everton in August, unconvincing on the ball and prone to rash challenges in dangerous areas. Now facing at least a month on the sidelines after knee surgery, he
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        142 46 AFP Former world No lJustine Henin will begin her tennis comeback in Australia after officials announced yesterday she has been granted a wild-card entry to the Sydney International. The Belgian was due to make her official return to the WTA circuit, after an
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        Lock icon RANDOLPH UNSTOPPABLE
        105 46 AFP Zach Randolph scored 32 points and got 24 rebounds as Memphis beat Denver 102-96, spoiling a superb 41-point performance by Nuggets star Carmelo Anthony on Sunday (yesterday morning, Singapore time). The Grizzlies power forward's 24 rebounds was a career high and the highest single game total in
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        Lock icon JIM BROWN'S RECORD FALLS
        77 46 AFP Jerome Harrison rushed for 286 yards to lead Cleveland to a 41-34 victory over Kansas City on Sunday (yesterday morning, Singapore time), breaking Jim Brown's single-game running record in the process. Harrison got his third touchdown with 44 sees left, scoring all of his touchdowns
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      564 46 THE GUARDIAN ENGLISH FOOTBALL Chelsea captain denies taking money to allow access to training ground LONDON Carlo Ancelotti has said Chelsea retain complete confidence in John Terry despite allegations in a Sunday newspaper which, if proved, suggest he had accepted cash during a sting by undercover
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      224 46 AFP Chelsea manager Carlo Ancelotti believes his side's hard-fought 1-1 draw at West Ham on Sunday night (yesterday morning, Singapore time) will prove the springboard for a successful run over Christmas. The Blues moved four points clear of second-placed Manchester United ahead of the busy
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      28 44 SPORTS ON TV TOMORROW Bam Basketball Big 12: Michigan State v Texas, Ch 23 .?.?°?1?. .9.5 M?. I(? 6.35am-11.35pm Sports Zone Minutes Hourly Sports updates live on gjBLh/e
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      171 45 Working together for a healthier world" I Healthy Participants Needed! Pfizer Clinical Research Unit (PCRU) needs healthy participants for a scientific study involving an experimental medicine used for the treatment of Asthma. The purpose of this study is to investigate the amount of the experimental drug present in blood after
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      217 46 A League Sydney FC Central Coast Wed, 23/12/09 4.30pm |p[_^\Y|& AM/ays play with care. HKWOIK No person under the age of 18 years shall be nrpoxmißmm allowed to purchase a ticket or to claim any prize. o9ls Visit our website at www.singaporepools.com.sg rcb Reg No: 196M0202G Our latest itineraries cover
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      571 48 KEEPING IT FRESH Media Corp #s out-of-home advertising division scores with LED panel escalator THE modern consumer is becoming increasingly discerning, mobile and pressed for time. So, it is only a matter of time before advertisers seek innovative ways of engaging this target audience. Recognising this demand,
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      515 50 AGENCIES CHINESE ECONOMY Beijing to curb excess plant capacity, foster growth of new industries BEIJING China, the world's third-biggest economy, is aiming to expand 8 per cent next year amid a "fragile" global recovery, Minister of Industry and Information Technology Li Yizhong said yesterday
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      425 50  -  DOW JONES SYDNEY Qantas Airways is poised to return to profitability this fiscal year as an increased number of passengers, particularly on domestic routes, allows the airline to raise airfares and boost capacity. Australia's national carrier is recovering faster than its global counterparts due to
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      Japan enjoys larger surplus on exports to rest of Asia
      372 50  -  DOW JONES TOKYO Japan posted a bigger-than-ex-pected ¥373.9 billion ($5.8 billion) trade surplus in November due to the first rise in exports to the rest of Asia in more than a year, helping to ease concerns about the fragility of
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      366 51  -  YASMINEYAHYA AIRLINE IPO yasmine@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Budget carrier Tiger Airways has confirmed that it is seeking a listing on the Singapore mainboard. The airline, which began flying in September 2004, said in a statement yesterday that it has lodged its preliminary prospectus with the Monetary
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      261 51  -  WONGSIEWYING SINGAPORE Prime retail rents have picked up in the current fourth quarter as leasing activity gather steam on the back of improved confidence and economic recovery, according to DTZ Research. Its estimates showed that gross rents of prime first-storey retail space in Orchard
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      426 51  -  NGBAOYING SINGAPORE Singapore's economy is expected to revert to positive growth next year, thanks to the global recovery. According to some economists, growth could even surpass the government's estimates for 2010. They're looking at GDP growth of more than 5 per cent compared to the
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      286 51 SINGAPORE Professors at Insead business school have ranked the world's 200 best CEOs, with Apple's Steve Jobs taking top spot in the list. Three professors at the school studied some 2,000 CEOs from public-listed firms worldwide to measure their performance based on factors
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        118 52 $1.66 Buy SING HOLDINGS 30 cents I Buy SCGLOBAL $1.67 I Buy Phillip Securities upgrades high-end developers Ho Bee Investment, Sing Holdings and SC Global from Hold, with target prices raised to $1.88 (from $1.46), 39 cents (from 34 cents), and $1.77 (from $1.52), respectively. While it does
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        64 52 $19.26 I Buy Nomura keeps rating for the bank but lifts the price target to $22.80 from $19.30 after it raises UOB's FYO9, FYIO, FYII earnings forecasts by 0.4, 6.7 and 4.1 per cent, respectively, to reflect lower credit cost assumptions, higher expected growth in non-interest income on the
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        21 52 H H Friday 2,802.59 V 0.38% Thursday 2,813.27 Wednesday 2,813.93 Tuesday 2,798.70 T 0.02% A 0.54% T 0.03%
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        27 52 iang Seng 20,948.10 T 1.08% Jikkei 10,183.47 A 0.41% lhanghai 3,122.97 A 0.29% ieoul 1,644.23 T 0.17% /lumbai 16,601.20 T 0.71% Malaysia 1,255.66 T 0.89%
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        23 52 US$1 £1 i euro A$i RMi $1,403 ¥100 $1,551 $2,264 HK$ioo $18.08 $2,011 RMB100 $20.55 $1,242 RS100 $2,997 $0,408 RPio,ooo $1,476
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      530 52  -  TAN HUI LENG EN BLOC BID Mayfair Gardens asking for $2iom; market watchers wary huileng@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Despite a quiet year in collective sale transactions, CKS Property Consultants yesterday launched the tender for Mayfair Gardens at Bukit Timah with an asking price of $210 million. Located at
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      310 52 BLOOMBERG SINGAPORE Nobel Prize-win-ning economist Joseph Stiglitz says the United States needs to prepare for a second stimulus package as there's a "significant" chance growth will slow in the second half of 2010. The world's largest economy is not likely to expand fast
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