Today, 19 February 2010

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    20 1 TODAY MICA (P) 160/10/2009 A PublICAtIon of nEWS HotlInE 6822 2268 friday february 19, 2010 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking
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    in the news
    49 1 6tiger Woods is set to end his silence forthe first time since his car accident in November and sex scandals sent him into hiding. B1Singapore will probably incur a third budget deficit when the Government unveils its spending plans to boost productivity in the next decade.
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    Lock icon How the next five years will be different
    853 1  -  ALICIA WONG alicia@mediacorp.com. sg SINGAPORE If the last five years saw an increased intake of foreign labour and immigrants, the next five will see, hopefully, locals stepping up to be re-skilled, re-trained and reeducated to keep Singapore’s economy thriving as the inflow
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    Lock icon A low-key affair, outside Oval Office
    517 1 obAMA-DAlAI lAMA MEEtInG Despite China warnings, meeting goes ahead AGENCIES WASHINGTON United States President Barack Obama held a low-key meeting with the Dalai Lama at the White House yesterday (12.15am this morning, Singapore time), amid warnings from China that the talks would further harm
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  • NEWS
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      Lock icon MM: SINGAPORE'S STAR WILL SHINE BRIGHTER IN THE NEXT 5 TO 10 YEARS
      209 3 ALICIA WONG Singapore’s future over the next five to 10 years is an “optimistic” one, Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew said last night, and the tourism sector will reflect that. Speaking in Mandarin at theTanjong PagarGRC Chinese
      ALICIA WONG  -  209 words
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      How S'poreans rate proposals
      269 5 SINGAPORE Singaporeans polled by Government feedback channel Reach have given high marks to the key proposals by the Economic Strategies Committee (ESC), but three recommendations received less support and relatively more disagreement. The first was on raising foreign worker levies in a gradual and phased manner
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      Singapore at crossroads
      447 5  -  Social SaFety net analysts say net needs strengthening, but at expense of work ethic ALICIA WONG alicia@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Where its social safety net is concerned, Singapore could be at a crossroads now that there is a renewed focus on productivity, risk-taking and entrepreneurship, analysts told MediaCorp. For
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      Lock icon More live in HDB flats; most satisfied
      332 7 MUSTAFA SHAFAWI SINGAPORE There are more people living in public housing 2.92 million in 2008 according to latest figures and almost all of them are satisfied to be where they are. In the Housing and Development Board’s (HDB) latest Sample Household Survey, over
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      Fees to go up
      344 7  -  PolyTecHnic and iTe MUSTAFA SHAFAWI mustafa@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Tuition fees for polytechnics and the Institute of Technical Education (ITE) will go up in the new academic year with a sharper distinction to be made between what Singaporean students and permanent residents/foreigners pay. Where the polytechnics are concerned,
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      Lock icon New polling district boundaries
      123 7 S RAMESH SINGAPORE A day after the Elections Department announced the Register of Voters is being revised, the Government has published the boundaries of altered polling districts. These are subdivisions of electoral divisions now represented by 14 Group Representation Constituencies (GRCs) and nine Single Member Constituencies
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      Lock icon An end to the silence
      369 9 TiGer WOOdS AP MARANA (Arizona) Tiger Woods will speak publicly today for the first time since his car accident last November, and tales of sex scandals sent him into hiding. “While Tiger feels what happened is fundamentally a matter between he and his wife, he
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      Pastor in controversy again
      305 9  -  NEO CHAI CHIN SINGAPORE Film-makers Royston Tan and Sun Koh are among a group of Singaporeans, said to number about 80, who have called the police to complain about Pastor Rony Tan in the past week this time, over his comments about gays and lesbians. The
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      Transvestite probably died ‘within minutes’
      317 11  -  LEONG WEE KEAT weekeat@mediacorp. com.sg SINGAPORE The Malaysian accused of murdering a transvestite at an Ang Mo Kio flat claimed he had intended to gag the latter’s mouth with a piece of cloth to immobilise and keep him quiet. Astro Jakaria, 28, was allegedly fending
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      Piggybacking on the resorts
      454 11  -  buSineSS deaLS TEO XUANWEI xuanwei@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE With the opening of the Resorts World Sentosa casino, more light is being shed on who has struck gold so far with the integrated resort: A plethora of businesses. Both IRs have kept hushhush the contracts they have awarded, but
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    • SINGAPORE ROUNDUP
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        AWWA INITIATIVES TO HELP CAREGIVERS
        86 13 The Asian Women’s Welfare Association (AWWA) are rolling out three initiatives for family caregivers this year: Atraining programme overthe telephone for caregivers unable to leave their home; workshops on managing emotional needs and conflicts; as well as an online portal to provide a sharing platform
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        SSO'S BOOK LAUDED IN PARIS
        91 13 A Singapore Symphony Orchestra’s coffee-table book has emerged as the Best Fundraising Cookbook in Asia at the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards 2009 in Paris. The glossy 136-page tome, A Symphony of Taste, vied with cookbooks from over 73 countries in the Charity Cookbook category. Mrs
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        FOODFARE 'HONGBAO' FOR CLEANERS
        101 13 They may be contract workers without union membership and other benefits enjoyed by permanent staff— but the 160 contract cleaners with NTUC Foodfare received a $100 Lunar New Year bonus and Foodfare vouchers each yesterday. It is the first time NTUC Foodfare is giving out a
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      Steve can keep you cool
      447 13  -  TeMPeraTure Tool NEO CHAI CHIN chaichin@mediacorp.com. sg SINGAPORE How many trees should you plant to cause a 1°C drop in ambient temperature? What was previously guesswork by urban planners can now be accurately predicted by a modelling tool developed by two National University of Singapore
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  • WORLD
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      Lock icon Army still using discredited bomb detector
      340 15 AP PATTANI (Thailand) Thailand’s army commander for the insurgency-wracked southern provinces said his forces are continuing to use a bomb detector that the government’s own testing proved was ineffective. Fourth Army Region Commander Lt Gen Pichet Wisaijorn said that his officers are still deploying
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      Lock icon Investigators ‘nearly 100-per-cent’ sure it was Mossad
      577 15 dubai assassination AP DUBAI Investigators are nearly “100-per-cent” certain that Israel’s Mossad spy agency was behind the hit squad slaying of a Hamas commander, the police chief said as the number of suspects rose yesterday to 18. The comments by Lt-Gen Dahi Khalfan
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      Lock icon First 3D body scans, now hand swabs
      361 17 THE NEW YORK TIMES WASHINGTON Airport security screeners in the United States are expanding the use of equipment to detect residues of explosives, swabbing the hands of passengers as well as their carry-on items, said the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) on Wednesday. For
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      Lock icon Blow to Taliban
      497 17 Two leaders capTured AGENCIES KABUL Two Taliban shadow governors from northern Afghanistan have been arrested by Pakistani authorities, said an Afghan official yesterday. The reported arrests occurred about the same time as the capture of the Afghan Taliban’s No 2 figure, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar. The loss
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      Lock icon Canadian gets life for terror threats
      171 17 AFP MONTREAL A Moroccan man was sentenced on Wednesday to life in prison for plotting attacks in Germany and Austria and touting terrorism online from his basement apartment in a Quebec village, said media. Said Namouh, 37, was convicted in October of four charges
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      Lock icon Debate rages over caning of 3 women
      345 19 MaLaySiaN PoLiTicS THE MALAYSIAN INSIDER, AP KUALA LUMPUR Muslim groups praised the Malaysian government yesterday for caning three women recently under Syariah laws on charges of engaging in “illicit sex” despite widespread outrage from advocacy groups. Mr Mohd Isa Abdul Ralip, the president
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      Lock icon Meetings skipped because of bad English
      249 19 AP JAKARTA Some Indonesian envoys based in embassies abroad are so weak in English language skills that they take sick leave to avoid meeting foreign officials, a senior Indonesian official said. Mr Imron Cotan, the No 2 Foreign Ministry official, told a parliamentary committee
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      Lock icon Anwar trial: Judge refuses to withdraw
      147 19 AP KUALA LUMPUR A Malaysian High Court judge yesterday refused to withdraw from hearing Anwar Ibrahim’s sodomy trial, rejecting the opposition leader’s claim that he was biased against the defence. Still, the trial was postponed for at least five weeks pending an appeal by
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      Lock icon 2,400 firms, govt agencies hit by hackers
      274 21 Cyber attaCks AFP SAN FRANCISCO Coordinated cyber attacks launched from Europe and China breached computers at firms and government agencies worldwide in the past 18 months, The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday. The Journal quoted computer security firm NetWitness as saying the
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      Lock icon Iraq govt formation ‘may take months’
      221 21 AP WASHINGTON The United States ambassador to Iraq said on Wednesday it could take months to form a new government after elections next month but insisted the US was determined to pull all combat troops out of the country by the end of August.
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      Lock icon Too well paid for the public to handle?
      184 21 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH LONDON Council chiefs in England and Wales have refused to disclose the salaries of thousands of senior staff, claiming it would lead to a public outcry. Last summer, the government announced plans to publish the names and salaries of
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      Lock icon SYRIA'S ASSAD: PARIAH TO POWER-BROKER
      707 23  -  Point oF View CHRIS PHILLIPS THE GUARDIAN WASHINGTON’S decision to send a new ambassador to Damascus this week represents a remarkable turnaround for Syria’s Bashar Al Assad. Five years ago, President Assad appeared weak and isolated as he stood before Parliament to announce his army’s
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      Lock icon Police report security breach at Olympics opening
      189 25 AP VANCOUVER A man with false accreditation was able to get within several metres of United States VicePresident Joe Biden before being arrested at the Winter Olympics’ opening ceremony, police said on Wednesday. The man was stopped when he got about 12 rows
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      Lock icon Freed eight back in US
      315 25 charged with kidnapping AP MIAMI Eight American missionaries freed by a Haitian judge landed in Miami early yesterday, nearly three weeks after the group was charged with kidnapping for trying to take 33 children out of the quake-stricken country. A United States Air Force cargo
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      Lock icon ‘I flung her off bridge’
      319 26 dOMeSTiC ViOLeNCe AP WOODBRIDGE (New Jersey) A man who snatched his infant daughter from her maternal grandmother while the child’s mother was in court to get a restraining order against him told the police he threw the baby off a bridge and into a frigid
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      Lock icon Sole-searching mourner stole 1,200 pairs of shoes
      144 26 AFP SEOUL —A South Korean who stole 1,200 pairs of expensive shoes from funeral homes while posing as a mourner has been arrested. The man identified only as Park, 59, took off his own shoes before entering mourning rooms and donned the stolen
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      Lock icon French court condemns largest fake wine scheme
      253 26 AFP CARCASSONNE (France) French winemakers and dealers were convicted on Wednesday of selling millions of bottles of fake Pinot Noir to the United States firm E&J Gallo in one of the biggest scams ever to rattle the world of wine. A court handed
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      Lock icon Fighting fat
      292 28 FasT-Food Levy romania moves to tax once-beloved fast food AP BUCHAREST For post-com-munist Romanians, a Big Mac was a culinary signpost from the free and capitalist West a sign they too, at last, had arrived. Now, Romania is moving to join the health conscious 21st century by proposing
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      Lock icon Happiness helps the heart
      198 28 AP LONDON You’ve heard it before: To avoid a heart attack don’t smoke, eat right and exercise. But it may also help to be happy, a new study says. Even if you’re grumpy by nature, just try to be cheerful. Researchers at Columbia University rated the
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      Lock icon These women will kick-start your heart ... literally
      183 28 These women will kick-start your heart literally THE DAILY TELEGRAPH LONDON Swiss prostitutes are being trained to use defibrillators to prevent clients with heart problems from dying on them. Brothel owners near Lugano say electric shock treatment to restart customer’s hearts is needed because so many elderly customers are using
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      Lock icon K2 just like the real thing
      310 30 imitation Pot Sold as incense, accessibility of new drug has uS police worried AP JEFFERSON CITY (Missouri) There may be nothing like the real thing, but some industrious marijuana users have seized on an obscure but easily accessible substance that mimics the drug’s effects
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      Lock icon Fans from another planet?
      145 30 AP LONDON Does a London football club have fans that are out of this world? A British police officer says he spotted a UFO hovering above Chelsea’s stadium in the British capital. Declassified military files show the unnamed officer reported seeing bright yellow lights flying over
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      Lock icon Dozens of primate species on the brink: Study
      189 30 AFP PARIS Seldom seen species of lemur, monkey and gorilla are among 25 primates facing nearcertain extinction unless urgent measures are taken to protect them, according to a report released yesterday. Close to half of the planet’s 634 known primate species are
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      333 19 TIGER BALM J at Underwater World Singapore on 20th February 2010, 9AM to 5PM LET'S CELEBRATE! Join us on Ren Ri (A0), everyone's lunar birthday, for a fun-filled carnival style event. SHOW YOUR LOVE FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES! I MAKE HISTORY! Help out a good cause: donate $10 to the
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      125 23 Singapo Awar 010 Most Popular A celebration of the best in radio! The Singapore Radio Awards is back to honour the creative talents in the local broadcast industry. This year, our radio personalities will be battling for a total of 24 awards, including 3 new categories: Best Radio Show, Best
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  • voices
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      The invisible drain
      316 31  -  DaNGerous PaveMeNT Letter from edmund ooi Huang ye I WOULD like to highlight a dangerous pavement along Stadium Walk, in the vicinity just south of the National Stadium. This single pathway leads straight to a concrete ledge and a metre-deep drain. There is neither any warning sign
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      Vasantham has improved all round
      154 31  -  Letter from ambiga raju I CONGRATULATE Vasantham for having improved on all fronts in their programming last year. With shows like Uthavikku Varalama the station has helped viewers to be aware of the underprivileged in our society. The ongoing drama serial, Nijangal, deserves special mention
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      FOCUS® ON THE FAMILY
      220 33  -  BY DR JAMES DOBSON ENCOURAGING INDEPENDENCE Some teenagers can’t wait to get out of the house and on their own. Others don’t go quite as willingly. Sometimes independence eludes young adults not because parents have withheld it, but because sons and daughters refuse to accept it.
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      Lock icon ROUGH JUSTICE? IT WORKS ...
      776 33  - ROUGH JUSTICE? IT WORKS I Say PAUL GILFEATHER the writer is a principal correspondent at Today. POLICE have produced a poster which, I believe, shows better than anything the hard-hitting, preventative measures which allow Singaporeans to enjoy remarkably low levels of crime. The poster, displayed at bus stops around the
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      837 35 berLin FiLM FesT The most political of the big film fests celebrates a past era’s vision of the future and the pain we feel today THE NEW YORK TIMES AT THE Berlin International Film Festival every year, large-format photo portraits of visiting stars line the
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      376 39  -  Movie revieW a SeriouS Man GENEVIEVE LOH genevieveloh@mediacorp.com.sg THEIR typical protagonists are usually hapless, unlikeable schmos who have trouble grasping reality. Their storytelling an esoteric mix of dark humour and dramatic pathos told from a postmodernist smirking perspective. Everything is a symbol and nothing completely makes
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      370 39 Movie revieW nine GENEVIEVE LOH 3/5 IN ITALY circa 1965, celebrated brand-name auteur Guido Contini (Daniel Day-Lewis) has a devoted wife (Marion Cotillard), a muse (Nicole Kidman), a mistress (Penelope Cruz), a groupie Vogue reporter (Kate Hudson), a righthand woman/advisor/costume designer (Judi Dench) and the memory
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      174 41  -  Movie review all’s well ends well Too 2010 KaTrina brooKe laM THIS year’s Lunar New Year season brings to theatres the fifth instalment in director Raymond Wong’s All’s Well Ends Well series, this time featuring two hapless heroines around which most of the drama unfolds. One is a
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      346 41  -  Movie review The wolFMan GENEVIEVE LOH genevieveloh@mediacorp.com.sg BASED on the 1941 classic The Wolf Man, this NC16 remake casts Benicio Del Toro in Lon Chaney Jr’s iconic role of Lawrence Talbot, an acclaimed actor who reluctantly travels home following the disappearance of his brother. He discovers
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      483 44 FilM 101 big stars who hit the jackpot playing tiny roles again and again THE GUARDIAN SO JULIA Roberts was paid US$500,000 ($688,000) a minute for her six-minute turn in Valentine’s Day. Surprised? You shouldn’t be. Roberts has form when it comes to the cameo: She
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      66 45 o i J J r I A VI SINGAPORE BUDGET 2010 Raising productivity...Enhancing innovation... Boosting research development... How will the transformation of the Singapore economy affect you? Stay tuned as we bring you the latest updates. The most complete news coverage in Singapore. On Air, Online, On Print, On Demand
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      1137 46 ON MedIaCOrp yOur HaNd IN MINe Channel 8, 7pm Aishan finds out that You Li is sharpening his knife and thinks that he wants to silence her. She rushes home and is discovered by You Li, who thinks Aishan has found out about his secret. You Li waits for Aishan
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      537 47 european FootbaLL Wenger blasts match official for gifting home side winner AGENCIES Champions League Last 16, 1st Leg Porto 2 Arsenal 1 LONDON Arsene Wenger accused referee Martin Hansson of incompetence after the game. Arsenal defender Sol Campbell claimed the match official acted as a Porto player,
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      333 47 AGENCIES Champions League Last 16, 1st Leg Bayern Munich 2 Fiorentina 1 MUNICH Miroslav Klose’s controversial winner for Bayern Munich against Fiorentina in Wednesday’s (yesterday morning, Singapore time) last 16, first leg Champions League clash has reopened the debate over the use of
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      417 49 AGENCIES Lindsey Vonn survived a crash course in downhill skiing and emerged with a gold medal on Wednesday (yesterday morning, Singapore time), confirming her as America’s sweetheart of the Vancouver Olympics. The 25-year-old downhill world champion and World Cup leader beat Julia Mancuso
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      643 49 2010 Winter olympics snowboard king White wins gold, then lands his very own ‘tomahawk’ AP WEST VANCOUVER (British Columbia) “Did you like the trick?” Shaun White asked. “I’ve been working kind of hard on it, guys!” Yes, Shaun, the fans absolutely loved it. Most of all, they loved
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      380 50  -  LOW LIN FHOONG linfhoong@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The Republic’s gymnasts are keeping their fingers crossed, as they put together an appeal to the Federation Internationale de Gymnastique (FIG) to qualify for the inaugural Youth Olympics. The team clinched a bronze
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      710 50  -  2011 aSian Cup quaLiFierS it’s going to be hot in Jordan, as avramovic and his men aim for history SHAMIR OSMAN shamir@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE “You come to Jordan, you die.” That was the alleged warning issued to the Singapore football team over a year ago, and
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      198 50  -  LOW Lin FhOOnG SINGAPORE Local netball fans can score plum seats when tickets for the 2011 World Netball Championships at the Singapore Indoor Stadium go on sale at all Sistic outlets from Monday, one week before international sales commence on March 1. Demand for the tournament, which
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      139 47 SPORTS ON TV TODAY 8.25am Football Alianza Lima v Estudiantes, Ch 27 8.30am Tennis Regions Morgan Keegan C’ship, Ch 22 9am Olympics Figure skating, Ch 23 11am Tennis WTA Tour: Dubai. Ch 113 Noon NBA Celtics v Lakers, Ch 24 1pm Olympics Ice hockey: Slovakia v Russia, Ch 23 3pm
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      1140 58 upcoming mobile phoneS THE world’s largest annual mobile phone trade show, the Mobile World Congress, saw the announcement of cutting-edge devices from the biggest manufacturers when it was held earlier this week in Barcelona. The daily Telegraph takes a pick of the mobile phones you should look out
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      325 60  -  review SandiSk ulTra baCkup uSb FlaSH drive This tiny tool is power-packed, secure and a breeze to use TREVORTAN trevor@mediacorp. com.sg Despite storing all our precious digital photos, music and documents in computers these days, not everyone bothers to back-up the data. the sanDisk Ultra Backup UsB
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      478 60  -  XboX 360 Game review BAYONETTA HEDIRMAN SUPIAN FANCY playing a character that’s a cross between Lara Croft and an angel-exterminating witch? that’s Bayonetta, in a nutshell. this over-the-top action game centres on the well-endowed character, who’s supposedly the last of her kind. We’re not
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      380 60  -  ninTendo wii Game review new Super mario broS wii HEDIRMAN SUPIAN OLD is gold, they say. And so New Super Mario Bros Wii sees the heavily moustached mascot from Nintendo making a return to 2D gaming after his successful outings in 3D. Yes, finally, for old
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      254 57 Why take the risk? ORAL HYGIENE Mouthwash risk? COULD that daily gargle of mouthwash containing alcohol increase your chances of getting oral cancer? Most mouthwashes bought off the shelves here contain alcohol on average, it makes up about 22 per cent of content. Local dentists told Today that in the
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      37 53 120,000 people have seen BODY WORLDS at the Science Centre! Catch the Asian premiere now! Science Centre Singapore, 15 Science Centre Road, Singapore *****1 Infoline: 6425 2500 www.bodyworlds.com.sg Organised by: Offi cial TV Station: Supporting TV Station:
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      61 51 $1.91 Outperform CLSA upgrades stock on back of recent underperformance, earnings upgrades. Raises industrial and business space Reit’s FY ’11, FY ’12 distribution per unit forecasts by 3.9 and 2.0 per cent, respectively, to reflect recentlyannounced acquisition of three properties, which broker says should be yield
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      67 51 16.5 cents Hold Deutsche Bank keeps call and 21-cent price target. Stock down 2.9 per cent at $0.17 as sportswear firm set to report lower sales and profit for Q4 ’09, FY ’09. Firm says softer performance due to weaker home market demand and a drop in selling
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      69 51 5-DAY STI CLOSING THU 2,769.19 T 0.89% Wednesday 2,794.06 A 1.27% Tuesday Closed Monday Closed Friday 2,758.90 A 0.19% MARKETS CLOSE 1 Hang Seng 20,422.15 0.54% Nikkei 10,335.69 A 0.28% Shanghai 3,018.13 A 1.09% Seoul 1,621.19 0.38% Mumbai 16,327.84 0.62% Malaysia 1,259.00 0.01% FOREIGN EXCHANGE 1 USsi $1,402
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      61 51 united Overseas bank Limited celebrated the year of the tiger with 2,000 SMe guests, including regional customers, at the ritz Carlton Millenia yesterday. Hosted by the uOb Group’s deputy chairman and chief executive Wee ee Cheong, many attended the dinner themed roar of the Orient dressed
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      871 51 eCONOMiStS PrediCt BLOOMBERG SINGAPORE Singapore will probably incur a third consecutive budget deficit this year as the Government unveils another “expansionary” spending programme to boost the island’s productivity in the next decade. The Republic may have a budget shortfall of as much as $8.1 billion,
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      249 51 BLOOMBERG SYDNEY Qantas Airways, Australia’s biggest airline, will scrap first-class cabins on most routes after a slump in demand for its most expensive seats led to a 72-per-cent drop in first-half profit. The carrier fell the most in 10 months in Sydney trading after saying net
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      340 53  -  CHRIS HOWELLS christopherh@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Defence and aircraft maintenance group ST Engineering said its full year net profit fell 6 per cent to $444 million, while revenue rose 4 per cent to $5.5 billion. Profits were weighed down in 2009 due to the challenging financial
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      525 54  -  arT markeT experts advise art investors to balance their portfolios in economic downturn EPHRAIM SEOW ephraimseow@mediacorp.com. sg SINGAPORE Leading auction house Christie’s reported recently that it has sold $4.7 billion worth of artworks last year, down 24 per cent from that of the previous year.
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        CHINA FISHERY GETS SGX NOD
        97 54 Mainboard-listed industrial fishing firm China Fishery said it has received approval from the Singapore Exchange (SGX) for a secondary listing on the Oslo Bors in Norway. Earlier this month, SGX had given its in-principle approval for the listing and quotation of some 172 million new
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        122 54 Mainboard-listed Sembcorp Marine said it has won several major longevity, upgrading and damage repair contracts worth $130 million in total. One of them is a long-term project from North West Shelf LNG Venture for the life extension of its liquefied natural gas carrier, the Northwest Snipe.
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        131 54 Property developerYoma Strategic Holdings said its thirdquarter net loss narrowed to $420,000 compared with a loss of $510,000 in the year-ago period. Its Q3 revenue, however, rose 47 per cent to $5.31 million from $3.61 million in the same quarter last year. Yoma said
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        ROXY PACIFIC PROFITS UP BY 26%
        133 54 Property developer Roxy Pacific said its full year net profit rose 26 per cent to $163.5 million on the back of residential units sales worth $180 million dollars. In the fourth quarter, the company doubled its net profit to $5.9 million, lifted by higher
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      364 56 China PrOPerTy STOCkS BLOOMBERG SINGAPORE China’s property stocks, trading at the cheapest level among Asian peers, may be “worth another look,” Credit Suisse said. Chinese real-estate shares have underperformed the MSCI China Index by almost 30 per cent since July and are trading at a 7-per-cent
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      690 56  - WHAT CHINA NEEDS POinT OF vieW William PeSek The author is a Bloomberg columnist. The opinions expressed are his own. BLOOMBERG JIM O’Neill is on the lookout for the great Chinese revaluation of 2010, and he’s not alone. “Something’s brewing,” Goldman Sachs’ Londonbased chief economist told Bloomberg. “It could happen
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      488 62 OCBC EasiCredit Let's talk about how a wife's love is helping her husband get back on his feet. Giving her husband a new start with a new knee "My husband was very active when he was younger. He excelled in track and field events at school and was vice captain
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