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  • 25 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 thinking
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    178 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 Dalai
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  • 389 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 identity
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  • 607 3  -  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 the
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    • 50 3 6333 9886 MEDHCORP ADVERTISING ENQUIRIES TODAY is taking part in the IFRA TodayistgpartintheIFRA International Newspaper Color Quality Club 2010-2012 for print quality and this colour patch is part the entry requirement oftheentryrequirements. International Newspaper Colors Quality Club 2010-2012 for print quality. This colour patch is part of the entry requirements.
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  • NEWS
    • 713 5  - 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.
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    • 754 6  -  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 scheme
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    • 521 8  -  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, was
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    • 289 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)
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    • 691 11  -  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 a
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    • 453 13  -  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 Tsu
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    • 516 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 allegation
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    • 454 16  -  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 cent
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    • 215 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 new
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    • 333 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 taken
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    • 85 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 Changi
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    • 468 18  -  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.
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    • 413 18  -  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 accept
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    • 345 20  -  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 was
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    • 400 20  -  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 striking
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    • 335 20  -  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 weeks
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    • 291 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 pose
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    • 278 22  -  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 Kong
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    • 349 24  -  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, who
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    • SINGAPORE ROUNDUP
      • 79 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 and
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      • 92 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 underneath
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      • 139 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 CapitaLand
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    • 250 27  - 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,
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    • 413 27  -  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 could
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    • 178 18 IAS Public Lecture The Roots of Chinese Civilization Speaker Chairman Prof Kerson Huang Prof Phua Kok Khoo World-renowned Physicist Professor Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Director Institute of Advanced Studies Nanyang Technological University Time: 2:30pm, February 6th 2010 (Sat) Venue: Hwa Chong Institution High School Auditorium (behind the Clock Tower)
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  • WORLD
    • 183 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 not
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    • 200 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 Weinan
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    • 410 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 Indians
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    • 270 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 and
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    • 314 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 Dalai
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    • 264 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 the
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    • 312 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”, the
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    • 304 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 paramilitary
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    • 218 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. The
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    • 688 35  -  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 rhetoric
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    • 303 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 would
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    • 260 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,
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    • 436 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 from
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    • 202 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 or
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    • EYE ON ASIA
      • 103 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 national
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      • 94 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 does
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      • 99 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 ($42
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      • 101 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, suffered
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    • 70 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,
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    • 319 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 confused
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    • 173 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 debate
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    • 301 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 in
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    • 236 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 in
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    • GLOBAL ROUNDUP
      • 82 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 measures
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      • 103 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 the
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      • 86 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 he
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    • 360 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 Chiefs
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    • 341 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 worldwide
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    • 71 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 in
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    • 168 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 Conrad
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    • 405 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. Researchers
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    • 136 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.
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    • 252 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 of
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    • 1232 57  -  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 more
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      • 300 65  -  one Two Three da MouTh chrisTopher Toh The media have pegged Taiwan’s popular hip-hop quartet Aisa, Harry, MC 40 and DJ Chung Hua better known by their collective name Da Mouth as Asia’s answer to the Black Eyed Peas. Which would be fine except why would
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      • 95 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 pretty
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      • 102 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 To
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      • 94 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.
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      • 137 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 players
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      • 139 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 sound
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      • 122 66 It’s not hard to see why Lady Gaga wanted Space Cowboy to support her during her tour. Songs like Boyfriends Hate Me, Party Like Animal and Invisible carry the same ethos and pathos that, if it weren’t for the fact that it’s obviously not Lady
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      • 118 66 Say what you like about R&B singer Brian McKnight, he’s one man who apparently has his worklife in balance by making this album in his homestead instead of having to commute to a studio in the city. And it shows on the recording. Maybe
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    • 400 63 THE CATHAY 2 Handy Road, Levels 5 £t 6 V I ARMORED* 1.05pm. 3.05,5.10, 7.15, 9.20pm 14 BLADES* 2.00pm, 4.30, 7.00, 9.30pm AVATAR* (IN 3D FORMAT) <*7* 6.00pm, 9.15pm I HATE VALENTINE'S DAY* 3.10pm, 7.15, 9.20pm EHHM1 THE IMAGINARIUM OF DOCTOR PARNASSUS 12.10pm, 2.35, 5.00, 7.25, 9.50pm EVERYBODY'S FINE 1.00pm,
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    • 18 66 Online Bookings: www.ewcinemas.com.sg SINGPOST S.A.M. Most 2K Digital Halls In Singapore! Clearest Sharpest Resolution! Best Sound Effects! 3D
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      • 83 72 This month is a good time to check out Jia Hong Kong, a boutique hotel designed by Philippe Starck. For HK$1,488 ($271), excluding tax, guests get a suite upgrade, breakfast and various perks. The hotel’s Lunar and Valentine’s Day package includes the above, plus a gift
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      • 69 72 If wine and roses are all too common love tokens for Valentine’s Day, consider giving the gift of choice instead. Visit the websites of various airlines for flight vouchers. For hotels, Wotif. com has vouchers you can customise (above). They are delivered to your inbox instantly and
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    • 596 75  -  SingapOre FOOtball lions coach extends contract and is well-focused on crucial upcoming tie with Jordan SHAMIR OSMAN shamir@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Back-to-back Asean championship wins in 2005 and 2007, a coach of the year award in 2008, and an appearance in the third round of the 2010 World
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    • 385 75 SHAMIR OSMAN SINGAPORE He became the Republic’s youngest international at 16 years 217 days when he came on against North Korea in 2007, and Hariss Harun credits Kadir Yahaya for playing a big role in his development. Hariss and Young Lions team-mate Afiq Yunos,
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    • 638 76  -  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 Eng
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    • 362 76 2010 GreaT easTern-yeo’s s-LeaGue SAFFC1 Geylang United 1 SINGAPORE Last night’s match featured teams that will fly the Republic’s flag in Asian football competitions the 2009 S-League winners pitted against the RHB Singapore Cup champions and some scintillating action was expected of them. But compared to
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    • 165 76  -  IAN DE COTTA SINGAPORE Indonesia’s Satria Muda overwhelmed the Singapore Slingers 74-45 to draw level in Game 2 of their three-game semi-final play-off at the BritAma Arena in Jakarta last night. The Slingers went into the match with an advantage after winning the first game 87-68 at the
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    • 666 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 Barclays
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    • 299 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 the
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    • 217 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 shortly
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    • 509 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 wedges
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    • 266 79 AFP VANCOUVER Shiva Keshavan (picture) wants cricket-crazy India to notice him at the Winter Olympics and he has some of the country’s finest lawyers to argue his case. The 28-year-old has gone virtually unnoticed despite having taken part in three Olympics as a luge exponent. He
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    • 385 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 become
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