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  • 29 1 TODAY Friday January 22, 2010 www.todayonline.com we set you TODAY MICA (P) 160/10/2009 A PublICAtIon of nEWS HotlInE 6822 2268 friday January 22, 2010 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking
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    • 195 1 -■■SB I am soooooo glad I decided not to cook this year We are a feast of reasons why you'll never need to lift a finger again *>• .> pias Ir ftif di I \i IB /i, itf l-r v This Chinese New Year, take a break from the kitchen
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    • 531 2 DBS o/ning taste ciDmcrammmcraciDCJiiMciracniimmcraDi!] era cnamciD era mraracranararacniizicn en era cm era For more to share this Chinese New Year, indulge in festive deals at over 50 dining merchants. Just use any DBS/POSB Credit or Debit Card to enjoy a delightful array of dining treats this festive season. Visit www.dbs.com/sg/cards
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  • 967 3  -  JUMP IN HIRING EXPECTATIONS Employers’ caution giving way to confidence, as orders grow: Hudson survey International LIN YANQIN yanqin@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE With the economy looking less shaky over the last six months, there has been a sharp upswing in optimism among employers, reflecting in the highest jump
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  • 415 3 WASHINGTON United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has called on Beijing to investigate the recent cyber attacks on search giant Google which has threatened to leave China, while urging US tech firms to refuse to support censorship. “I hope that refusal to support
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  • NEWS
    • 421 7 MUAR ATTACKS AGENCIES KUALA LUMPUR Two suraus, or small mosques, were partially damaged in two villages in Muar, Johor, in arson attempts early yesterday. The arson bids came weeks after similar attacks against churches in Malaysia, believed to be linked to the controversy over
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    • 404 9 CRACKDOWN IN MALAYSIA KUALA LUMPUR Nearly 40 people, including two political aides, civil servants and business officials, have been arrested for allegedly accepting bribes and sexual favours to help smuggle sand out of Malaysia. The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) believes that with the arrests, which
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    • 258 9 SINGAPORE With some wondering if the Government should step in and co-fund Singapore’s bid for broadcast rights to the World Cup 2010, the Media Development Authority (MDA) has replied to say that would be tough to do. “The Government’s funding for
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    • 417 12 MASSACHUSETTS SENATE RACE AFP WASHINGTON President Barack Obama admitted on Wednesday that he had neglected his direct connection to the American people, after a stunning Republican election win shifted the balance of power in Washington. Mr Obama’s aides, meanwhile, insisted that his historic health reform drive was
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    • 896 12 THE NEWYORKTIMES KABUL The Taliban have embarked on a sophisticated information war, using modern media tools as well as some old-fashioned ones, to soften their image and win favour as they try to counter the Americans’ new campaign to win Afghan
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    • 117 14 SINGAPORE In conjunction with the Chinatown Chinese New Year Celebrations 2010 organised by Kreta Ayer Community Centre, there will be a street bazaar held between Jan 22 and Feb 13. To facilitate the set up of the stalls for the event and ensure crowd safety, some
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    • 355 14  -  HOSPITAL INSURANCE Parkway hospitals to offer scheme to both foreign and local patients CHERYL LIM cheryll@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE It is an insurance policy designed to protect patients from the costs of unexpected post-surgical complications which can add thousands of dollars to an already hefty hospital bill and Parkway Holdings
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    • 143 14  -  MAY WONG SINGAPORE There was reason to celebrate last night at Ang Mo Kio the Main Upgrading Programme at its Avenue 10 precinct was declared officially finished. Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong joined some 500 residents at the completion ceremony. The $55 million project
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    • 149 16 SINGAPORE The Nanyang Technological University (NTU) has launched the Institute of Catastrophe Risk Management (ICRM) to help the international community better understand the characteristics of risks related to natural disasters such as earthquakes and tsunamis, as well as non-traditional risks including infectious diseases and terrorism.
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    • 356 16  -  NUS LAW FACULTY DEAN Prof had wanted to step down LIN YANQIN yanqin@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Six months ago, Professor Tan Cheng Han (picture) spoke of stepping down as dean of the National University of Singapore’s law faculty, and the global search was on for a successor. But
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    • 200 18 SINGAPORE Two Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) officers sustained minor injuries putting out a fire yesterday at Moonstone Lane. After receiving a call at 11.12 am, SCDF resources were dispatched to the scene where a fire was raging at a two-storey shophouse. Firefighters immediately
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    • 516 18  -  FOREIGN-TRAINED DOCTORS Some speak the local lingo, have better bedside touch NEO CHAI CHIN chaichin@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE An elderly man once stepped into Dr George Christopher Willis’ clinic at Alexandra Hospital (AH), took one look at him and turned to his relative with a look of
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    • 313 20  -  IN COURT Maid was 16 at time of alleged offence and may not face death penalty ZULOTHMAN zul@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE New evidence has emerged in the case of the Indonesian maid accused of murdering her elderly employer last November. Investigators have learnt that Fitriah, who was
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    • 197 20  -  ZULOTHMAN SINGAPORE Her husband, a former police officer, recently had his sentence doubled to 24 months for abusing their then 23-year-old Indonesian maid. Now, it’s her turn to face the music. Yesterday, Chua Hwee Hwa, 37, was charged in a
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    • 208 20 CHILDREN and youth raised more funds for the Community Chest last year. They raised $880,000 through the Youth Day and Children’s Day Appeals, about 4 per cent more than the sum raised in 2008. The director with the Community Partnerships Division of the
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    • 569 22  -  INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION New one-stop complex could help S’pore become leading regional legal hub TEO XUANWEI xuanwei@mediacorp.com. sg Singapore On caseload numbers alone, Singapore may appear to have some catch-ing-up to do in its bid to rival Hong Kong as the region’s legal hub in spite of an
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    • 225 24  -  MARINA BAY SANDS ASHA POPATLAL asha@mediacorp. com.sg SINGAPORE Training for a few hundred casino staff such as dealer inspectors, cashiers and surveillance staff has started at Marina Bay Sands (MBS). This is part of an extensive training programme now underway for all levels of staff, said a
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    • 121 24  -  JONATHAN PEERIS DBS will be the first bank to officially open a branch at Resorts World Sentosa next Thursday. The bank will provide transactional banking services for the resort’s operations and support its employee benefits programme. It will also offer full banking
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    • 213 24 SINGAPORE Not only can StarHub smartphone users now watch four more mobile TV channels on their handsets, they can also browse channels and set alerts for their favourite programmes with ease. The operator yesterday announced the addition of TVBJ, TVBS News, The History Channel
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    • 245 24  -  MAY CHUA maychua@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The days of getting lost or twiddling your thumbs in traffic jams is over if you own a Nokia smartphone, that is. The Finnish mobile phone maker announced yesterday that the new version of its mapping and navigation
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    • SINGAPORE ROUNDUP
      • 159 26 Back to support the entrepreneurial dreams of students globally is the Lee Kuan Yew Global Business Plan Competition at the Singapore Management University (SMU). Launched in 2001 as the first such contest for undergraduates, college and polytechnic students around the world, the competition
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      • 79 26 The organisers of the Miss Singapore Universe 2010 contest are extending the deadline to the end of this month. Applications, which opened on Dec 15, were to have closed last Friday. To qualify, one must be a Singaporean, more than 1.65m in height and between
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      • 50 26 A 23-year-old Singaporean man was caught on Wednesday with some 1.4kg of heroin and other drugs worth more than $215,000 at the Woodlands Checkpoint. Besides heroin, he also had with him 200 Erimin-5 tablets in his vehicle. If convicted, the man faces the death penalty.
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    • 336 26  -  HUMAN RESOURCE PROFESSIONALS Nearly eight in 10 also are not certified or accredited: Survey LEONG WEE KEAT weekeat@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Human resource (HR) professionals have to arm themselves with more emotional quotient (EQ) skills when dealing with company practices and managing employees, according to a survey of 245
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    • 320 26  -  PATWANT SINGH SINGAPORE Some cyclists taking part in the Youth Olympic Games (YOG) are unhappy that upgrading work on facilities is not on track. According to them, the BMX track in Tampines will only be ready in April or May, just a few months
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  • WORLD
    • 248 28 AFP SYDNEY Prime Minister Kevin Rudd yesterday urged India to keep perspective on a string of attacks on Indians in Australia, a day after New Delhi warned the violence could damage ties between the two nations. Mr Rudd, speaking to reporters
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    • 373 28 PAKISTANI ARMY AP ISLAMABAD A Pakistani army spokesman said yesterday during a visit by United States Defence Secretary Robert Gates that it cannot launch any new offensive against militants for six months to a year to give it time to stabilise existing gains. The
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    • 199 28 AFP BANGKOK Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva yesterday confirmed that Thailand’s army headquarters had been attacked last week and warned that more attacks could be expected on government buildings. Mr Abhisit said officers were investigating the incident that took place in central Bangkok on Jan 15,
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    • 191 28 AFP TOKYO Japan’s new centreleft leaders are going to war with the country’s powerful prosecutors over a probe into a funding scandal they say is aimed at undermining their administration. The target of the investigation is the ruling party heavyweight many observers consider more powerful than
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    • 348 30 AFTERTHE QUAKE AGENCIES PORT-AU-PRINCE —The Cabinet holds meetings outdoors on an uncovered concrete slab under the broiling tropical sun. The communications office is a folding table beneath a tree, and the President greets dignitaries inside a drab, one-storey building. The earthquake that
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    • 579 30  -  POINT OF VIEW NICHOLAS D KRISTOF NEWYORK TIMES ON MY blog, a woman named Mona pointed to Haitian corruption and declared: “I won’t send money because I know what will happen to it.” Another reader attributed Haiti’s poverty to “the low IQ of the 9
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    • 419 32 US GOVT REACTION AFP,THE NEWYORKTIMES WASHINGTON The State Department is taking cyber attacks on Google and other US firms very seriously and is seeking an explanation from Beijing but it is not the “foreign policy arm of Google,” a US official said on
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    • 100 32 AFP A United States web company yesterday rejected as baseless a lawsuit filed by China’s top Internet search engine Baidu, which is seeking damages over a hacker attack. “The lawsuit filed by Baidu.com is completely without merit,” said Register.com spokeswoman Alice McGillion. Baidu
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    • 826 32  -  ANALYSIS KALINGA SENEVIRATNE the writer is a Sri lankan-born journalist, television documentary maker and media analyst currently based in Singapore. BARELY six months ago, a war-weary nation celebrated an unlikely victory over one of the world’s most ruthless terror outfits, the Liberation Tigers of
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    • 456 40 THE CHINESE LANGUAGE THE NEW YORK TIMES WASHINGTON Thousands of public schools stopped teaching foreign languages in the last decade, according to a govern-ment-financed survey dismal news for a nation that needs more linguists to conduct its global business and diplomacy. But another contrary trend
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    • 193 40 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH NEW DELHI The United States wants to open Cold War-style arms reduction talks with China to prevent future military confrontations, Mr Robert Gates, the US defence secretary, said in New Delhi on Wednesday. His comments appeared to confirm Washington’s
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    • 383 40 AP BEIJING When Mr Li Shiming was stabbed through the heart by a hired assassin, few mourned the local Communist Party official many say made their lives hell by seizing land, extorting money and bullying people for years. Instead, villagers in
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    • 699 42  -  POINT OF VIEW OTHMAN BOHARI bohari@mediacorp.com.sg the writer is a senior producer for mediaCorp’s malay news and Current affairs. the four- “HOW do you reason with a man who believes his actions are ordained by God (and that) his actions will give him an express
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    • 328 44 PREJUDICE TOWARDS RELIGIONS AP NEW YORK Americans are more than twice as likely to express prejudice against Muslims than they are against Christians, Jews or Buddhists, a new survey found. Nearly two-thirds of Americans say they have little or no knowledge of Islam. Still,
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    • 384 44 AFP KARACHI—She has been dubbed “Lady Al Qaeda” by American media, but the Pakistani family of Aafia Siddiqui, (picture) on trial in New York, insist she is a moderate Muslim more interested in flowers and animals than wielding weapons. On the opening day
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    • 259 45 AP BAGHDAD An election intended to ease Iraq’s sectarian rifts is instead dredging up old hostilities with the ~hite House sending Vice-President Joe Biden to smooth tensions between the Shias who hold power and the Sunnis who want a greater slice of it~~ Some Sunni
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    • 351 45 AGENCIES LONDON The claim that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction available to use at 45 minutes notice should never have been included in the Downing Street dossier used to justify the war, a former top civil servant said
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    • 243 46 AFP LONDON Muslim police in Britain have attacked the government’s anti-terrorism strategy for triggering an upsurge in Islamophobia and deepening divisions in communities. The National Association of Muslim Police (NAMP) warned that the Prevent programme, which aims to combat violent
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    • 560 46 ARMS CONTROVERSY AGENCIES WASHINGTON Muslim groups reacted angrily on Wednesday after it emerged that the United States military in Iraq and Afghanistan were using rifle sights inscribed with coded Biblical references. The company producing the sights also used to train Afghan
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    • 385 48 AP WASHINGTON Since 2001, Al Qaeda is believed to have dispatched three men to blow up American airliners. Two of them tried but failed to set off explosions, and the third backed out of his assignment. What made him different? A new
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    • 419 48 STEMMING TERROR AFP SANAA Yemen announced yesterday that it would stop granting entry visas to travellers at the country’s international airports in order to “halt terrorist infiltration,” the Saba state news agency reported. The measure comes as pressure mounts on Yemen to crack
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    • 164 48 AFP LONDON Britain has cut back its counter-terrorism programme in Pakistan due to the drop in the pound’s value, a minister has said, drawing criticism a major “terrorist threat” was being neglected. Programmes in coun-ter-terrorism in Pakistan had been cut as the
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    • 156 48 AP LONDON The British government said on Wednesday it would create a new terrorist no-fly list, target specific airline passengers for tougher security checks and suspend some international flights in response to a growing terrorism threat posed by Yemen and Somalia. British Prime Minister Gordon
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    • 560 50 GUILTYOF MURDER THE GUARDIAN LONDON The mother of a severely disabled 22-year-old British man was convicted of murder despite her claim that she had injected him with a lethal shot of heroin to bring his suffering to an end. Frances Inglis, 57, insisted throughout
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    • 205 50 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH NEW DELHI Yoga, the Indian art of exercise and meditation, can strengthen muscles, improve concentration and increase a sense of spiritual well-being, its practitioners claim. Now, it can also get you out of jail. Prison officials in Madhya Pradesh,
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    • 380 50 THE NEW YORK TIMES NEW YORK Back at the dawn of the Web, the most popular account password was “*****”. Today, it is one digit longer but hardly safer: “*****6”. Despite all the reports of Internet security breaches over the years,
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    • 276 50 AFP WASHINGTON A newly-tested treatment for multiple sclerosis reduces relapse and deterioration in patients, without many of the negative side effects associated with other treatments, a study said on Wednesday. The study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, said that Cladribine was the
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    • 92 28 BRITISH COUNCIL English Courses for 2010 English for Young Learners Kindergarten 1 2 Primary 1 to 6 Secondary 1 to 4 4 English for Tertiary Students General Paper English for Academic Purposes for Pre-University students English for Adults Working professionals (part-time) Everyday use (part-time full-time) Other courses we offer Corporate
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    • 249 54  -  SINGAPORE'S NEXTTOP FOOD Letter from Jessica Ho Hui Ling I THOUGHT I was reading a funny story. The report, “Singapore’s next top food” (Jan 19) stated that the Tasty Singapore Association of Singapore Chef competition was held to challenge teams of professional chefs to “come
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    • 183 54  -  Letter from Tan Hong Boon I REFER to “Please justify $25 fee” and “Fee an important deterrent: MDA” (Jan 20). Two years ago, I received a Late Payment Advice from the Media Development Authority (MDA) to pay my TV Licence fee for that year. In
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    • 660 56  -  CLASSROOM DISCIPLINE Letter from Benjamin Lee The writer, 17, is a junior college student. I REFER to “Our spoilt schoolkids” by Mr Ho Kong Loon (Jan 20) and agree that pupils nowadays have become more individualis-WHAT’SMONEYWORTHDoteenaersunderstandthesedas tic and definitely harder to manage. waaoarsworOnewaytoeducat Errant pupils have
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    • 871 58 ENGLISH FOOTBALL Wenger can’t stop cooing after Gunners flex muscle in scrappy win to go top AGENCIES enGlish PremiershiP Arsenal 4 Bolton 2 LONDON Arsene Wenger has warned Arsenal’s title rivals that his side have the physical strength and will-power to win the Premier League. Wenger’s
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    • 253 58 THE GUARDIAN LONDON Arsenal defender William Gallas (picture) will not face retrospective disciplinary action from the Football Association following his late tackle on Bolton’s Mark Davies in the Gunners’ 4-2 Premier League win at Emirates Stadium on Wednesday (yesterday morning, Singapore time). Bolton’s manager
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    • 343 60 AFP League Cup semi-FinaL, 2nd Leg Aston Villa 6 Blackburn 4 (Villa win 7-4 on aggregate) BIRMINGHAM Aston Villa manager Martin O’Neill said his side had “grown up” after they booked a place in the League Cup final with an extraordinary
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    • 444 60 ENGLISH FOOTBALL Liverpool shrug off long injury list to come within a point of fourth-placed spurs AFP engLish premiership Liverpool 2 Tottenham 0 LIVERPOOL Rafael Benitez (picture) is confident Liverpool will go from strength to strength in the second half of the season after their 2-0
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    • 188 60 AFP LUANDA (Angola) Egypt maintained their faultless Africa Cup of Nations’ title defence and World Cup qualifiers Nigeria became the latest team to progress to the quarterfinals in Angola on Wednesday (yesterday morning, Singapore time). Egypt had already assured their last eight ticket but finished
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    • 299 62 SINGAPORE She fluffed her tee shot on the par-5, 507-metre 15th hole at Tanah Merah Country Club’s (TMCC) Garden Course, sending the golf ball into thick brush, but the smile never left Joey Poh’s face. And the grin was there again, on the
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    • 591 62 AUSTRALIAN OPEN Sends warning to rivals with easy victory in front of Prince William AFP MELBOURNE Roger Federer turned on a royal performance to sweep majestically into the Australian Open third round, where he was joined by Novak Djokovic and Nikolay Davydenko yesterday. Watched by Britain’s Prince
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    • 349 62 AGENCIES MELBOURNE Defending champion Serena Williams threw down the gauntlet to her rivals at the Australian Open by mercilessly crushing Petra Kvitova of the Czech Republic 6-2, 6-1 yesterday. The 19-year-old Kvitova slugged it out with Williams for five games in the first set before
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    • 536 63  -  SINGAPORE SPORTS Former Sri Lanka captain Atapattu aims to get S’pore cricket buzzing TANYO-HINN yohinn@mediacorp.com. sg SINGAPORE In his heyday, Marvan Atapattu was widely regarded as one of the most technically accomplished cricketers, scoring nearly 14,000 runs in over 300 Test and One-Day International matches.
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    • 330 63  -  S-LEAGUE CHARITY SHIELD SAFFC1AIK Solna 1 SHAMIR OSMAN shamir@mediacorp.com. sg SINGAPORE Eight-time S-League winners SAFFC and Swedish champions AIK Solna played out an engaging 1-1 draw in last night’s S-League Charity Shield. But there was another reason why most of the 2,352-strong crowd showed up
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    • 196 60 SPORTS ON RADIO sportsZone goes one-on-one with Fas ChieF Football is all about passion, and no one knows that betterthan Zainudin Nordin, president of the Football Association of Singapore. With the S-league celebrating the start of their 15th season on Feb 1, the FAS chief makes his case for the
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    • 65 63 SPORTS BETTING E Premier, E League Champ, Spanish, Italian and German League matches are also on sale. For more details, please check Singapore Pools website. p yi. Always play with care. Do not bet illegally. No person under the age of 18 years shall be allowed to purchase a ticket
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    • 503 66  -  POINT OF VIEW What’s the price of a life that’s not shared online? HEDIRMAN SUPIAN hedirman@mediacorp.com. sg I saw my primary school crush at a recent wedding of a mutual friend. It was a pleasant meeting from a distance, that is as I witnessed her kids causing
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    • 164 66 HEDIRMAN SUPIAN niniTe.cOm I had the unfortunate luck of changing work computers four times last year because of faulty hardware. But one good thing to come out of this harrowing experience is that I have streamlined how I back up and re-install applications, so that is
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    • TECH ROUNDUP
      • 126 66 AFP Google announced on Wednesday that its video-sharing website YouTube will stream all Indian Premier League (IPL) cricket matches live in a deal that highlights the Internet giant’s broadcasting ambitions. The third season of the lucrative IPL, which features the world’s top players in
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      • 114 66 AFP Apple is in talks with Microsoft to make Bing the default search engine on the iPhone instead of Google, BusinessWeek magazine reported on Wednesday. BusinessWeek, citing two people familiar with the matter, said the talks have been under way for weeks
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      • 124 66 AFP There’s a new application available for Apple’s iPhone and it comes from the White House of President Barack Obama. The free White House App features live video streaming, White House blogger Dave Cole said in a blog post on WhiteHouse.gov late on Tuesday. “Anyone
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    • 308 64  -  BLUETOOTH HEADSET REVIEW NOVERO THEFIRSTONE TREVORTAN trevor@mediacorp.com.sg APTLY named TheFirstOne, Novero’s first Bluetooth headset is bravely entering a saturated market filled with the likes of JawBones and Jabras. The packaging of TheFirstOne is lovely. Combining Apple’s sophistication and Razer’s thoughtfulness, small boxes packed tightly but
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    • 352 64  - Slam dunk in slow motion DARYLTAY XBOX 360 GAME REVIEW NBA LIVE 10 FOLLOWING the strong release of Fight Night Round Four and the staple FIFA 10, EA Sports has released NBA Live 10 and it’s a really good game. Having chosen my childhood favourite Orlando Magic as the team
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    • 328 64  -  ESTHER FUNG NINTENDO Wll GAME REVIEW EA SPORTS GRAND SLAM TENNIS I’M no tennis player and when I was asked to review EA Sports Grand Slam Tennis, I thought: How much more intuitive can one make a tennis game on the Nintendo Wii console?
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    • STOCK CALLS
      • 57 75 $1.94 hold DBS Vickers downgrades from Buy and cuts price target to $2.15 from $2.72, based on a 20 per cent discount from reduced NAV estimate of $2.69 versus $3.02 following China’s monetary tightening measures. The brokerage notes much of the developer’s growth in recent years was driven
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      • 64 75 $1.28 |neutral JPMorgan downgrades from Overweight and cuts the price target to $1.30 from $1.45, saying the trading environment is still tough. The brokerage notes that “with the listing of CapitaMalls Asia, CRCT will no longer be the only vehicle that offers substantial exposure to China retail
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      • 59 75 $1.81 reduce Nomura keeps rating but raises the price target to $1.50 from $1.10 to reflect move to value shipping business at mid-cycle price/book ratio. It says the firm should be a key beneficiary of talks to increase freight rates on trans-Pacific routes, but expects 2010 new
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      • 72 75 S-DAY STI CLOSING THUR 2,850.98 1.46% Wednesday 2,893.13 0.68% Tuesday 2,912.92 a 0.03% Monday 2,912.02 A 0.12% Friday 2,908.42 Y 0.04% MARKETS CLOSE 1 Hang Seng 20,862.67 199% Nikkei 10,868.41 A 1.22% Shanghai 3,158.86 a 0.22H Seoul 1,722.01 A 0.45% Mumbai 17,051.14 Y 2.42% Malaysia 1,308.36 A 0.13W
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    • 15 75 Architects unleash their creativity at the 2010 World Expo in Shanghai. Page B5
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    • 493 75  -  GLOBAL GROWTH FORECAST MILLET ENRIQUEZ emelita@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The World Bank has raised its global growth forecast for 2010, but at the same time warned that recovery will be slow for the second half of the year as the impact of the fiscal stimulus wanes. In its Global
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    • 285 75  -  RACHEL KELLY rachel@mediacorp.com. sg SINGAPORE Local firms have come out of the economic downturn more resilient and also with an improved credit standing. That is according to the latest rankings released by DP Information Group. Singapore’s top 1,000 companies hit a record combined revenue
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    • 298 74  -  DUAL LISTING MILLET ENRIQUEZ emelita@mediacorp.com. sg SINGAPORE Mainboard-listed China Fishery Group is hoping to raise its profile with a proposed dual listing in the Oslo Børs of Norway. Group managing director Ng Joo Siang said the move is to help increase the company’s
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    • 252 74 MOK FEI FEI SINGAPORE Singapore-listed firm, China Printing and Dyeing (CPD) said in a filing to the Singapore Exchange (SGX) yesterday that it may not be able to provide a satisfactory offer to shareholders as it seeks to be delisted. The company said
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    • 301 73 SINGAPORE German-based flavourings and fragrances supplier Symrise is sniffing out new opportunities in Asia. The company has completed the second phase of its $40 million manufacturing expansion programme in Singapore and it plans to use the island state as a hub to
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    • 377 73  - Ascott Reit Q3 DPU up 11 HOSPITALITY EARNINGS MOK FEI FEI feifei@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Ascott Residence Trust announced yesterday that its distribution per unit (DPU) for the fourth quarter ended Dec 31 is 1.87 cents. This is an 11-per-cent increase over the 1.69 cents DPU declared over the same period a
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    • 246 73 JONATHAN PEERIS SINGAPORE Mapletree Logistics Trust has reported fourth-quarter distribution per unit (DPU) of 1.59 cents, up 8.9 per cent from a year earlier. This was despite a slight dip in its net property income for the quarter ended Dec 31 of $44.9 million,
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    • BUSINESS ROUNDUP
      • 98 73 Mainboard-listed and India-owned dry bulk shipping firm Mercator Lines said yesterday that its third quarter net profit came in at US$7.53 million ($10.56 million). This represents a 42-per-cent on-year plunge compared to the US$13.1 million earned net income over the same period a year
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      • 99 73 Mainboard-listed offshore oil and gas group Swiber said that it has clinched a US$188.8 million ($264.9 million) contract from an unidentified oil and gas operator in South Asia with its consortium partner. Under the contract, Swiber and its consortium will provide services including
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    • 178 71 It was a warm reception that awaited Mr Zhou Hanmin, Standing Committee member of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, vice-chairman of the Shanghai People’s Political Consultative Conference and vice-chairman of the ~~~~Shanghai~orld ~~po ~~ecutive Committee, and his fellow delegates, including Mrs~ang Jun, director of
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    • 340 69 US FINANCIAL SECTOR AGENCIES WASHINGTON United States President Barack Obama was set to announce proposals yesterday (this morning, Singapore time) to limit financial institutions’ size and trading activities as a way to reduce risk-taking, an administration official said. Mr Obama is renewing his focus on economic issues
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    • 668 68 CHINESE ECONOMY GDP and inflation top forecasts, pressure Beijing to rein in stimulus AGENCIES BEIJING China’s economy steamed ahead in the last quarter of 2009, growing 10.7 per cent from the corresponding period a year earlier, while inflation picked up, adding pressure on policymakers to further scale
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    • 193 68 AFP China could overtake the United States to become the world’s largest economy as early as 2020, business consultancy PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PWC) said yesterday, underlining the “seismic change” in global economic power. “China could be the largest economy in the world as early as 2020
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    • 302 68 AGENCIES NEW YORK Goldman Sachs, the most profitable securities firm in Wall Street history, reported fourth-quarter earnings that beat analysts’ estimates as the company decided not to allocate bonuses for the quarter and instead gave amounts of US$519 million ($728.7 million) to charity to appease public
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    • 60 79 4 What’s new on TV this year? 8 Men in tutus 10 What’s Avatar about, ah? 12 Back in town: Boys Like Girls 14 Visual arts in the news 16 Mel Gibson ups the violence 18 Brothers up in arms 20 New frontiers in arts education 22 TV listings spOT
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      627 80 What do you miss most about working with Paula? The whole thing started with me, Ryan, Simon, and her, so she’s one of our best friends. I miss that. We look down the table sometimes and go, “Wait a minute, where’s Paula?” I expect to hear something from my left
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    • 120 84 what Granada TV watch A variety of UK dramas, comedies, cutting-edge reality programmes, and the best in talk and entertainment shows. Launched December on StarHubTV Ch 96 and earlier in 2009 on SingTel mioTV Ch 23. Free for all StarHub TV customers until May 31 what Sundance Channel
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    • 574 88 POPPING CULTURE From imperialism to radical spiritualism, everyone’s got a theory about James Cameron’s sci-fi epic THE NEW YORK TIMES IF YOU thought that Avatar was just a hightech movie about a big-hearted tough guy saving the beguiling natives of a distant moon, you might
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    • 642 90  -  BOYS LIKE GIRLS Quartet say they love Asia too much to stay away long CHRISTOPHER TOH christophertoh@mediacorp.com.sg THE last time we met Boys Like Girls in Malaysia last year, they promised that they’d be back in Singapore to do a concert because they’d been
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      508 92  -  VISUAL ARTS The Malay artist as newsmaker MAYO MARTIN mayo@mediacorp.com. sg DURING the opening night of the group show Berita Harian II, some senior members of the audience were baffled at what they thought was the absence of “Malay-ness” in the art works. In a show that
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    • 131 94 aT The MOVies wiTh yOuTube Movie rentals are coming to the Internet’s most popular video site. YouTube is making its debut as a rental outlet Friday to help promote some of the movies that will be shown at the upcoming Sundance Film Festival. It’s part of a
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    • 395 94 BRAVEHEART, Ja? Oscar-winning director to sign Leo to viking drama THE DAILY TELE GRAPH MEL Gibson (picture) is to follow up Braveheart with a film about the Vikings, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and scripted in a mixture of Old English and Norse. The Hollywood
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    • 175 94 AGENCIES WE’RE not sure if this counts as being part of the supposed “Exorcist curse” but it’s sad news all the same. TMZ.com is reporting that Exorcist star Linda Blair (picture) had her dog gunned down by a neighbour after the pooch attacked the neighbour’s
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    • 439 96  -  MOVIE REVIEW BROTHERS GENEVIEVE LOH genevieveloh@mediacorp.com.sg THE great war movies of this generation are ones which dredge out those gut-wrenching ruminations on the psychological carnage and post-trau-matic atrocities of a futile war. Acclaimed director Jim Sheridan (six Oscars nominations for films like My Left Foot and
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    • 244 96  -  MOVIE REVIEW TOOTH FAIRY KATRINA BROOKE LAM FOR most of us ladies out there, receiving a bedroom visit from Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson (picture) in the middle of the night is but a fantasy. In Tooth Fairy, however, Johnson makes a different kind
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    • 343 98 LEARNTHE ARTS QS World ARTS Tour is the first education fair focused on the arts and design IT IS a brave new creative world out there and the upcoming QS World ARTS Tour is armed with the very knowledge to serve one purpose to forge
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    • 433 98  -  CHRISTOPHER TOH christophertoh@mediacorp.com.sg WITH Chinese New Year around the corner, local icon Tiger Beer has decided to usher in the Year Of The Tiger in a novel way: A radio drama. Featuring the voices of Singapore’s radio
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    • 82 98 AP MrS Sheen in iCu Charlie Sheen’s wife was admitted to a hospital on Wednesday with a high fever and an infection following oral surgery, which might delay again a court hearing in a domestic violence case involving the actor Brooke Sheen was running a fever of
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