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Title Section25 2010-02-04 1 TODAY Thursday February 4, 2010 TODAY MICA (P) 160/10/2009 A PublICAtIon of nEWS HotlInE 6822 2268 thursday february 4, 2010 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking25 words
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Article, Illustration178 2010-02-04 3 2Having lived in london for 13 years, principal correspondent Paul Gilfeather knows what makes a global city and Singapore is not far off, he says. 24 Rows are escalating between Beijing and Washington as the White House stands firm on President Obama’s plans to meet the Dalai178 words
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389 2010-02-04 3 SINGAPORE Three Chinese youths, aged between 17 and 18, have been arrested for posting racist remarks on Facebook, a popular social networking website. Following a report lodged on Jan 30, the police conducted an investigation and managed to establish the identity389 words
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Article, Illustration607 2010-02-04 3 NEO CHAI CHIN; ASHA POPATLAL - lEHMAn MInIbondS NEO CHAI CHIN AND ASHA POPATLAL chaichin@mediacorp.com. sg SINGAPORE For cameraman Ismail Deen, 60, the news yesterday that he would be receiving 40 per cent of his investment in Minibond notes Series 6 was better than he ever expected. Having invested $50,000 in the607 words
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NEWS
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Article713 2010-02-04 5 PAUL GILFEATHER - STILL SEARCHING FOR IDENTITY PoinT oF View but singapore is not far off from being a global metropolis PAUL GILFEATHER principal correspondent gilfeather@mediacorp. com.sg HAVING lived and worked in London for 13 years, I know what makes a global city something that Singapore aspires to be in the near future.713 words
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Article, Illustration754 2010-02-04 6 LIN YANQIN - eCOnOMiC sTraTeGies LIN YANQIN yanqin@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE To go into the niche markets that would set the company apart from its competitors and allow it to deliver highvalue products, CEL Coatings Industries needed research and development to carry such products to fruition. Thanks to a schemePHOTO COURTESY OFCEI-COATINGS - 754 words
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521 2010-02-04 8 LIN YANQIN - economic sTandards commiTTee Just 35 per cent of the Phds in local varsities are citizens or permanent residents LIN YANQIN yanqin@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Though she came from a science background and had majored in physics, Ms Grace Goh, who also did Japanese Literature, was521 words
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289 2010-02-04 8 AGENCIES SYDNEY Fifteen people were wounded yesterday when a disgruntled customer ignited a shopping trolley filled with petrol cans and fireworks at a branch of an Australian insurance company. Witnesses said the man wheeled the makeshift bomb into the Territory Insurance Office (TIO)AGENCIES - 289 words
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Article691 2010-02-04 11 TEO XUANWEI - economic sTraTegies commiTTee recommendaTions They agree with general thrust of esc report, but call for minimum wage, more help for smes TEO XUANWEI xuanwei@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Several opposition parties have responded to the Economic Strategies Committee’s (ESC) report and in general, they felt the recommendations were a691 words
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453 2010-02-04 13 ONG DAI LIN - ONG DAI LIN dailin@mediacorp.com. sg SINGAPORE As the trial went into its eighth day, details emerged yesterday of the 94-year-old woman who is suing OCBC for not letting her close her bank account. A former teacher, Mdm Hwang Cheng Tsu453 words
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Article, Illustration516 2010-02-04 13 sOdOmy ii TriaL AGENCIES KUALA LUMPUR Opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim’s long-await-ed “Sodomy II” trial opened yesterday with his accuser, a former male aide, offering explicit details of their alleged liaison. Anwar, 62, had earlier pleaded not guilty, telling the High Court that the sodomy allegationAGENCIES - 516 words
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Article, Illustration454 2010-02-04 16 ZUL OTHMAN - druG abuse in 2009 ZUL OTHMAN zul@mediacorp.com. sg SINGAPORE Even as drug enforcement continues to pay off, the fight against heroin abuse seems to be a hard nut to crack. Though there has been a drop in drug abusers collared down 2.5 per cent454 words
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Article215 2010-02-04 16 SATISH CHENEY It will be a seafront location for the next International Maritime Defence Exhibition and Conference Asia (Imdex). The biennial show which keeps exhibitors and visitors abreast of the latest maritime defence technologies and developments will be held at the Changi Exhibition Centre. Its newSATISH CHENEY - 215 words
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Article, Illustration333 2010-02-04 16 SATISH CHENEY SINGAPORE The defence sector is taking centre stage at the Singapore Airshow, especially since the commercial aerospace and aviation industry has yet to fully recover from the economic downturn. In fact, more than half the exhibition space at the show is takenSATISH CHENEY - 333 words
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Article85 2010-02-04 16 SMRT is adding extra train trips betweenTanah Merah and Changi Airport stations this weekend for visitors to the Singapore Airshow in Changi. Between 8am and 7.30pm on Saturday and Sunday, the trains will leave every seven minutes. SMRT will also operate a bus shuttle service between Changi85 words
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Article, Illustration468 2010-02-04 18 IAN DE COTTA - Tan enG yoon FuneraL IAN DE COTTA ian@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE On the evening before he died in a traffic accident, Tan Eng Yoon was at the Church of the Holy Spirit answering an appeal for parishioners to help out with readings at Sunday mass.ERNEST CHUA - 468 words
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413 2010-02-04 18 ZUL OTHMAN - ZUL OTHMAN zul@mediacorp.com. sg SINGAPORE A day after its application to be registered as a society was approved, following a 10-month wait, the group Singaporeans for Democracy (SFD) has been gazetted as a political association under the Political Donations Act meaning that it cannot accept413 words
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Article345 2010-02-04 20 SHAFFIQ ALKHATIB - SHAFFIQ ALKHATIB shaffiq@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE A man’s skeletal remains were found amid burnt residue in a fourth floor flat at Block 148, Woodlands Street 13, on May 7 last year. A fire investigation report by the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) revealed that flammable liquid was345 words
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400 2010-02-04 20 MUSTAFA SHAFAWI - Older siNGaPOreaNs but few of them actually go out to do so MUSTAFA SHAFAWI mustafa@mediacorp. com.sg SINGAPORE Age doesn’t blunt their desire to learn. Older Singaporeans yearn to pick up new skills and knowledge, according to a survey though there was a striking400 words
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335 2010-02-04 20 HETTY MUSFIRAH - HETTY MUSFIRAH SINGAPORE Certificate of Entitlement (COE) prices for most vehicles ended higher in the latest bidding exercise, with the premium for big cars (above 1600cc) continuing its upward trend. It rose by $780 to $23,180. In the previous bidding exercise two weeks335 words
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Article291 2010-02-04 22 ModellinG Gone wronG bogus photographer threatened victims to comply with demands SINGAPORE He claimed to be a professional photographer, befriending his female victims online and leading them to believe he would pay them for modelling assignments. During the photo sessions, he asked them to undress and pose291 words
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Article, Illustration278 2010-02-04 22 GLENDA CHONG - GLENDA CHONG SINGAPORE Loyalty, chivalry and brotherhood are the themes found in the blockbuster movie 14 Blades, which opens today in Singapore and China. The movie is MediaCorp’s Raintree Pictures second coproduction in China after last year’s Painted Skin. It features Hong Kong278 words
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Article349 2010-02-04 24 SHAFFIQ ALKHATIB - abuse trial employer recounts times when she was hysterical SHAFFIQ ALKHATIB shaffiq@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE A Filipino maid who was allegedly abused by a MediaCorp executive was “homesick” and there were times when she was unable to focus on her work, a district court heard yesterday. Annie Tan, who349 words
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SINGAPORE ROUNDUP
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79 2010-02-04 24 A new public library will open in Serangoon in March next year. The new Serangoon Public Library will be located at nex, an eco-friendly mall linked to the new Serangoon Bus Interchange and the stations of the new Circle Line and79 words
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Article92 2010-02-04 24 A 24-year-old Malaysian man has been caught for trying to smuggle in some 17, 500 packets of cigarettes by hiding them underneath bags of salt. He was driving a lorry carrying some 680 bags of salt across Woodlands Checkpoint on Monday. The contraband was hidden underneath92 words
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139 2010-02-04 24 CapitaLand Hope Foundation (CHF), CapitaLand’s philanthropic arm, has donated $900,000 in bursaries to 154 primary schools. The donations were for recyclable waste collected by the schools from July to December last year. For every 100kg of recyclable waste collected, schools earned a CapitaLand139 words
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250 2010-02-04 27 DYLAN LOH - iNets new system convenient for those on the move DYLAN LOH SINGAPORE Pay your utilities, credit card or telco bills, buy movie tickets, or pay for season parking all on your mobile phone. E-payment services provider NETS is hoping to make cashless payments more accessible with the launch of iNets,250 words
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Article, Illustration413 2010-02-04 27 S RAMESH - sm GOh IN bahraIN S RAMESH rameshs@mediacorp.com. sg MANAMA He has seen ties between both states grow in importance since his last visit there in 2004. And as small states, Singapore and Bahrain share many similarities, noted Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong who felt each couldAFP - 413 words
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WORLD
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183 2010-02-04 28 AGENCIES MANILA In the first petition of its kind, relatives of journalists killed in the Philippines’ worst election massacre yesterday asked the Association of Southeast Asian Nations’ new human rights body to ensure that suspects including a powerful clan allied with the President did notAGENCIES - 183 words
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200 2010-02-04 28 AFP BEIJING The police have arrested four people in northern China amid a new crackdown on milk products tainted with melamine, the same chemical responsible for six deaths in 2008. The four were involved in the dairy industry in the city of WeinanAFP - 200 words
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Article, Illustration410 2010-02-04 28 racisT remarks AGENCIES KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian police said yesterday they are investigating a senior aide of Prime Minister Najib Razak for sedition, after he allegedly made derogatory comments about the nation’s minorities. Mr Nasir Safar allegedly referred to minorities as “immigrants” and said that IndiansAGENCIES - 410 words
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270 2010-02-04 28 AFP BANGKOK Five parties from Thailand’s shaky coalition government yesterday pushed ahead with plans to amend the constitution without the support of the prime minister’s leading Democrat party. Though the changes are not expected to get parliamentary approval without backing from the Democrats andAFP - 270 words
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Article314 2010-02-04 30 deFying beijing AFP WASHINGTON The White House is standing firm on President Barack Obama’s plans to meet the Dalai Lama, firmly rejecting Chinese pressure to snub him as rows escalate between Washington and Beijing. The Chinese government yesterday reiterated that it “resolutely opposes” the DalaiAFP - 314 words
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Article, Illustration264 2010-02-04 30 AGENCIES TEHRAN Iran successfully fired a new domestically-produced rocket into space with a satellite carrying animals. Turtles and a rat were aboard a satellite carried by the Kavoshgar-3 rocket in a launch aired live yesterday by state-run television. Three Iranian satellites were also unveiled after theAGENCIES; AFP - 264 words
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312 2010-02-04 33 war on Terror AFP WASHINGTON Al Qaeda is sure to mount an attack on the United States in the next three to six months and will target the country until Osama bin Laden and his top deputy are “dead or captured”, theAFP - 312 words
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Article, Illustration304 2010-02-04 33 AFP PESHAWAR A bomb blast in northwest Pakistan killed eight people yesterday, including three American soldiers and children at the opening of a school which had just been rebuilt after an extremist attack. The United States troops tasked with training Pakistani paramilitaryAFP; AP - 304 words
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218 2010-02-04 33 AP JERUSALEM Palestinian militants said on Tuesday they had launched a large number of floating explosives into the Mediterranean Sea to avenge the death of a top Hamas commander, a day after two bomb-laden barrels washed up on Israel’s coastline. TheAP - 218 words
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688 2010-02-04 35 STEVEN R. HURST - AnALYsis STEVEN R. HURST The writer has covered foreign policy for 30 years. AP THE United States opens a critical international campaign this month to punish Iran for its nuclear programme, and US officials and China experts believe Beijing despite the heated anti-US rhetoricAP - 688 words
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303 2010-02-04 37 hong Kong by-elecTions AFP HONG KONG A plan by Hong Kong democrats to push for universal suffrage suffered a major blow yesterday after a third pro-Beijing party said it would boycott by-elections triggered by opposition lawmakers. The Federation of Trade Unions announced it wouldAFP - 303 words
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Article, Illustration260 2010-02-04 37 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH BEIJING Soft drink giant Coca-Cola is assisting the Chinese police in an investigation into two cases of alleged mercury poisoning in customers who drank cans of the company’s Sprite lemonade. The two incidents, which took place three months apart in Beijing,THE DAILY TELEGRAPH - 260 words
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Article, Illustration436 2010-02-04 38 TOp universiTies Chinese varsities will join global leaders within 25 years, says yale head THE DAILY TELEGRAPH LONDON Elite universities in Britain and the United States could soon be matched by institutions in China, according to the president of Yale. Professor Richard Levin said universities fromTHE DAILY TELEGRAPH - 436 words
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202 2010-02-04 38 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH Britain’s elite universities are failing to recruit enough students from ethnic minorities, according to a report by Race for Opportunity, a group set up to improve employment prospects for ethnic minorities. Oxford and Cambridge are still giving fewer places to black orTHE DAILY TELEGRAPH - 202 words
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EYE ON ASIA
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103 2010-02-04 39 north Korea AFP North Korea has fired a senior Communist Party official who headed the country’s recent currency reform after the measure caused severe inflation, social unrest and starvation in some areas, reported Seoul’s Chosun Ilbo newspaper yesterday. In November, the North redenominated its nationalAFP - 103 words
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94 2010-02-04 39 Taiwan AFP A Taiwanese court yesterday cut three months off jail terms meted out to the wife and two children of former President Chen Shui-bian for committing perjury. However, the wheelchair-bound former First Lady, Wu Shu-chen, still faces a life sentence for corruption, as doesAFP - 94 words
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99 2010-02-04 39 hong Kong AFP Hong Kong police have arrested a feng shui master after the High Court ruled that his bid to claim tycoon Nina Wang’s empire was fraudulent. The arrest of Tony Chan, 50, came after investigators searched his US$30 million ($42AFP - 99 words
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101 2010-02-04 39 australia AFP An Indian man who said thugs in Australia set him on fire made up the story after accidentally burning himself as he tried to torch his car to gain A$11,000 ($13,800 from an insurance claim, police alleged yesterday. Jaspreet Singh, 29, sufferedAFP - 101 words
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Article, Illustration70 2010-02-04 42 Two artists who have encased one of detroit’s thousands of abandoned homes in ice are hoping their effort will help draw attention to the united states housing crisis. detroit’s foreclosure rate is among the nation’s highest. Gregory holm, a new yorkbased photographer, and Matthew radune,AP - 70 words
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Article319 2010-02-04 42 eu-us suMMiT THE GUARDIAN WASHINGTON Europe failed the first test of new arrangements introduced by the Lisbon treaty on Tuesday when the United States announced that President Barack Obama would not attend a joint summit in May, partly out of frustration in Washington over the confusedTHE GUARDIAN - 319 words
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173 2010-02-04 42 AFP PARIS France’s Prime Minister said yesterday he would sign a decree refusing French nationality to a man who forced his wife to wear the full Islamic veil because he “has no place in our country”. The case has arisen amid fierce national debateAFP - 173 words
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Article301 2010-02-04 43 Cyber TemPTaTIoN AFP BEIJING The number of young Internet addicts in China soared to 24 million last year as the world’s largest Web population exploded, according to a survey carried by state media. The number almost doubled from 2005 and now accounts for one inAFP - 301 words
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236 2010-02-04 43 AGENCIES WELLINGTON A cashstrapped New Zealand student who auctioned off her virginity to help pay for university said yesterday she had accepted an offer of NZ$45,000 ($45,176) to sleep with a stranger. The 19-year-old offered her virginity to the highest bidder inAGENCIES - 236 words
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GLOBAL ROUNDUP
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82 2010-02-04 45 THE GUARDIAN A new security regime is in operation at Heathrow Airport, in which travellers are being taken for full-body scanning if they behave in a suspicious manner. The system aimed to halt terrorist reconnaissance or attackers and teamed high-tech equipment with traditional security measuresTHE GUARDIAN - 82 words
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103 2010-02-04 45 AP A north-eastern Pennsylvania woman is on trial to face animal cruelty charges for marketing “gothic kittens” with ear and neck piercings overthe Internet. The trial of 35-year-old dog groomer Holly Crawford began on Tuesday with prosecutors accusing her of inflicting pain on theAP - 103 words
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Article86 2010-02-04 45 AFP An Australian bank is investigating an employee caught red-handed viewing pictures of a near-naked model on his computer during a live TV broadcast. Footage of the incident, that generated more than 2~~,~~~ hits on YouTube, shows the banker turning around in surprise when heAFP - 86 words
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360 2010-02-04 45 seXuaLITy AP WASHINGTON It is time to repeal the United States military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy and allow gay troops to serve openly for the first time in history, top defence officials declared on Tuesday, with the Chairman of the Joint ChiefsAP - 360 words
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341 2010-02-04 47 COrPOraTe esPIONaGe The GuardIaN NEW YORK It is hard to imagine two more distrusted and reviled professions. One has been accused of torturing detainees and failing to track down terror suspects; the other is widely perceived to be responsible for the worldwideThe GuardIaN - 341 words
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Article, Illustration71 2010-02-04 47 a Picasso masterpiece unseen in public for 43 years fetched more than twice its expected price at an auction when it sold for £8.1 million ($18.2 million). Tete de Femme (Jacqueline), a 1963 portrait of the artist’s second wife, had not been seen inTHE DAILY TELEGRAPH - 71 words
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168 2010-02-04 47 AP LOS ANGELES Michael Jackson’s physician has been strategising with his team of defence lawyers and is ready to surrender to the authorities if prosecutors file charges, the doctor’s lawyer said. While there is no public timetable for charges to be filed against Dr ConradAP - 168 words
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Article405 2010-02-04 49 suddeN iNFaNT deaTh syNdrOMe AFP WASHINGTON After years of struggling to explain why ap~ parently healthy babies can die suddenly in their sleep, a study published on Tuesday singles out serotonin deficiency as a key culprit in sudden infant death syndrome (Sids), or cot death. ResearchersAFP - 405 words
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136 2010-02-04 49 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH LONDON A Chinese dissident, a Russian rights group and the Internet are among the reported entries for this year’s Nobel Peace Prize. The awards committee keeps nomina~ tions secret for 50 years and kept mum as this year’s deadline passed on Tuesday.THE DAILY TELEGRAPH - 136 words
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252 2010-02-04 49 aFp LONDON The embattled chief of the United Nations climate change panel yes~ terday admitted, in an interview with a British newspaper, that a mistake in a land~ mark 2007 report had damaged the body’s credibility. But Mr Rajendra Pachauri, chairman ofaFp - 252 words
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Article, Illustration209 2010-02-04 55 DR JAMES DOBSON - BY DR JAMES DOBSON TWO KINDS OF KIDS Have you noticed there are two kinds of kids in the world? Compliant children and strong-willed children. Compliant kids are the ones who sleep through the night from the second week of life. They coo at their grandparents209 words
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Article, Illustration1232 2010-02-04 57 CHRISTOPHER TOH - SINGAPORE POP Two acts look set to spearhead local indie scene CHRISTOPHER TOH christophertoh@mediacorp.com.sg LAST year, punters were saying that the local indie scene could only get better. In the light of figures like more than 100,000 people turning up at Baybeats 2009 about 10,000 moreMONOCHROME - 1,232 words
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Article, Illustration95 2010-02-04 65 Some people may not know who Carol Duboc is, so you might just want to talk to any one of the 3 million people who have bought her five albums. Critics have hailed her as someone who’s singing has “strength and originality” and that’s pretty95 words
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Article, Illustration102 2010-02-04 65 Taiwanese rocker Alan Kuo, who happens to be the son of the late actor Blackie Ko, may have had a somewhat difficult start to his music career. But now, some seven years since he made his breakthrough (in a duet with Karen Mok on Love You To102 words
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Article, Illustration94 2010-02-04 65 The guy who retired from public performances obviously doesn’t mind performing in the studio as this collection of what he’s dubbed “the greatest love songs of all time” shows. It’s arguable, of course, whether these really are the greatest love songs.94 words
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Article, Illustration137 2010-02-04 66 This double-disc set features 22 tracks taken from his 2008 show at the Grand Rex Theatre, and listening to the album brought a flurry of emotion. Truth be told, I’ve been rather bored by several of today’s supposed top guitar players137 words
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Article, Illustration139 2010-02-04 66 Many might call this new all-girl Korean quintet 4Minute the answer to Wonder Girls (indeed, former Wonder Girl Hyun A is in 4Minute), seeing as both groups feature five girls and have targeted the dance pop market. But with 4Minute going for a more urban sound139 words
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Article, Illustration638 2010-02-04 76 HAKIKAT RAI - Tan enG yoon 1928-2010 he made history as an athlete, but MrTan went on to achieve so much more HAKIKAT RAI deputy sports editor hakikat@mediacorp.com. sg ANYONE who was someone in athletics in post-1959 Singapore trained under the bespectacled, frail-looking, yet stern Tan EngERNEST CHUA - 638 words
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Article, Illustration666 2010-02-04 77 english FooTball defender gets the treatment from home fans as blues drop points AGENCIES english PremiershiP Hull City 1 Chelsea 1 LONDON Life on the football pitch for Chelsea skipper John Terry is going to be very uncomfortable over the next few months. The BarclaysAGENCIES; AFP - 666 words
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Article, Illustration299 2010-02-04 77 AFP LONDON League Two’s Notts County continued to fly the flag for English football’s fourth tier by dumping Premier League side Wigan out of the competition on Tuesday (yesterday morning, Singapore time) with a shock 2-0 victory. Wolves also tumbled out of theAFP - 299 words
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Article217 2010-02-04 77 AFP BIRMINGHAM Carson Yeung’s pledge to give Birmingham manager Alex McLeish up to £40 million ($89.9 million) to spend in the transfer market backfired as rival clubs racked up asking prices for players, a club director has reportedly admitted. Yeung, the Birmingham owner, made his pledge shortlyAFP - 217 words
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Article, Illustration509 2010-02-04 79 GolF rules McCarron says sorry to Mickelson, but furore over club rumbles on AFP LOS ANGELES American golfer Scott McCarron has apologised to Phil Mickelson for using the word “cheating” when he disagreed with the world No 2 and others who use the Ping Eye2 wedgesAFP - 509 words
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Article, Illustration385 2010-02-04 79 AFP MIAMI New Orleans Saints running back Reggie Bush was on the elevator at the team hotel ahead of Sunday’s (Monday morning, Singapore time) Super Bowl XLIV when a young woman recognised him. “You’re Kim Kardashian’s boyfriend,” she exclaimed, having becomeAFP - 385 words
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