Today, 19 August 2010, Afternoon Edition

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    46 1 TODAY MICA (P) 160/10/2009 A PUBLICATION OF NEWS HOTLINE 6822 Thursday August 19, 2010 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking AFTERNOON EDITION TODAY MICA (P) 160/10/2009 A PUBLICATION OF NEWS HOTLINE 6822 2268 Thursday August 19, 2010 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking AUGUST 19, 2010 A PUBLICATION
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      151 1 TODAY! COMPLETE ELECTRONICS I.T. EXPO SHOW 19-22 Aug Singapore Expo Hall 5B 10am 10pm PRICES LOWER THAN ANY TRADESHOW OR WHOLESALE EVENT! 01 D A t: V. Branded 2.5" Hard Disk 250GB V s r r Box Fan 50 $JJu§mer STOCKSLAST f 5 Branded All-ln-One Inkjet E P'rint/Scan/Copy^B rj..: r;
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      457 2 COMPLETE ELECTRONICS I.T. EXPO SHOW NOW ON AT gflflftr 1 ft How to get there: By Bus: Services 12,24 and 38. By MRT: Expo MRT Station Transfer at Tanah Merah Station on the East-West line. THAN ANY TRADESHOW OR WHOLESALE EVENT! SETS 1 SET PER CUSTOMER Plasma TV 1 II
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    Lock icon Seven years on, a farewell to Iraq
    658 4 Last American combat brigade pulls out AP KHABARI CROSSING (Kuwait) As their convoy reached the barbed wire at the border crossing out of Iraq yesterday, the soldiers whooped and cheered. Then they scrambled out of their stifling hot armoured vehicles, unfurled an American
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  • NEWS
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      Lock icon Misadventure verdict on man who fell to his death on wedding night
      375 5 SHAFFIQ ALKHATIB SINGAPORE Drunk on his wedding night, he struggled to find his way back to his bride in their hotel room. Fumbling his way in the dark, Mr Leong Jun Wei ended up on a ledge where
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      Lock icon Fricker should ‘count himself fortunate’
      331 5  -  IMELDA SAAD imelda@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Swiss vandal Oliver Fricker’s jail term was increased yesterday by two more months to seven in total, as High Court Judge V K Rajah remarked that Fricker should “count himself fortunate that he has not received his just desserts in full”.
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      A quality Youth Olympics, a Games to inspire
      417 6  -  COMMENTARY SHAMIR OSMAN shamir@mediacorp.com.sg The writer is a senior reporter at MediaCorp NewsHub. He pulled himself out of the pool and strode towards the media horde. As camera flashes popped violently all around him, 18-year-old Rainer Ng stopped in his tracks and
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      Lock icon RAINER'S BIG SPLASH
      83 6 Rainer Ng (picture) matched strokes with the world’s finest young swimmers to thrill the nation yesterday. The 18-year-old won Singapore’s first swimming medal its first silver at the Youth Olympic Games with a storming swim in the boys’ 50m backstroke final. He clocked 26.45sec, 0.09s behind gold
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      A food poisoning mystery...
      284 6  -  LEONG WEE KEAT SINGAPORE When the diarrhoea began at 4am on Sunday at home, Youth Olympic Games (YOG) staff thought the dinner they had eaten was the cause. But after hearing that others at Singapore Indoor Stadium, the badminton venue where they had lunch, were also
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      ‘Cynics, focus on me’
      239 6  -  LEONG WEE KEAT SINGAPORE Just why is Singapore hosting the Youth Olympic Games? Are Singaporeans really enthusiastic about the event? These questions are being asked by netizens. Now, Community Development, Youth and Sports Minister Vivian Balakrishnan has entered the online fray to speak up for the
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      Lock icon More companies must talk to older workers about their re-employment
      203 9 MUSTAFA SHAFAWI SINGAPORE Companies here need to put in more effort to consult their workers on the issue of their re-employment. According to an NTUC survey of 100 companies, close to half of them do not have in place a
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      Fewer people seek employment help at CDCs
      221 9  -  S RAMESH rameshs@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE In a sign of better times, the number of Singaporeans seeking help for employment and social assistance at the Community Development Councils (CDCs) has fallen sharply. Latest figures released by the People’s Association (PA) show that the number of
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      Lock icon IONESCU TO REMAIN IN PRISON WHILE AWAITING TRIAL
      179 9 CLAUDIA CRAIU IN BUCHAREST Former Romanian diplomat Silviu Ionescu will remain in prison as he awaits trial for two hit-and-run accidents in Singapore last year. After many hours of deliberating the evidence, a Romanian court decided yesterday to extend the warrant of
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      Lock icon Share UR meal and feed the poor
      334 11 ALICIA WONG SINGAPORE Now, Singaporeans have one more reason to take pictures of their meals and share them with others online. Tapping on Singaporeans’ passion for food and the growing fad of blogging about their gastronomical experiences, Touch Community Services and City Developments
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      Lock icon Plans for annual soapbox car derby
      304 11  -  ESTHER NG estherng@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Singapore’s inaugural soapbox car derby the Singapore Green One (Singapore G1) has yet to flag off, but already organiser Singapore Environment Council (SEC) has plans to make it an annual affair. “Racing is not very environmentally friendly but soapbox car
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      Lock icon CAT A COE DROPS BY $3,100
      41 13 TODAY FILE PHOTO CATEGORY CHANGE PRICE Car (1600cc and below) taxi q $3,100 $29,000 Car (above 1600cc) q $520 $42,810 Goods vehicle and bus q $110 $30,002 Motorcycle q $50 $1,250 Open p $600 $43,501
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      Contractor for shelter site ‘wore several hats’
      371 13  -  NG JING YNG jingyng@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Money had changed hands for the dumping of polluted materials and the man in charge of building an animal shelter also wore several hats. These were the contentions put forward by Animal Concerns Research and Education Society’s (Acres)
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      Lock icon Mosques raise $124,000 for Pakistan flood victims
      101 13 SHARON SEE SINGAPORE Mosques in Singapore have raised $124,000 for the flood relief effort in Pakistan. The funds were raised by 69 mosques from Aug 6 to 13 in a special collection organised by the Rahmatan Lil ‘Alamin Foundation (RLAF). RLAF was established
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      Lock icon RSN in submarine rescue exercise with 4 nations
      198 15 MILTON SAU SINGAPORE The Republic of Singapore Navy (RSN), which became the first navy in South-east Asia to acquire submarine rescue capability in 2008, will be putting its submarines to the test in an exercise codenamed Pacific Reach. Starting on Tuesday, the
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      Lock icon Westside MRT disruptions on two weekends in Sept
      219 15 DYLAN LOH SINGAPORE Up to 400,000 commuters may be affected by service disruptions over two weekends due to modification work at the Jurong East MRT Station. There will be no train services between the Jurong East and Clementi MRT stations on Sept
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      EXPERIENCE SINGAPORE'S HERITAGE AND CULTURE WITH HERITAGEFEST
      148 17 Shoppers at the Raffles City Shopping Centre yesterday were surprised when they found themselves entertained by dancers moving to distinctive ethnic music with a contemporary beat. Hailing from Singapore, China, Thailand, the Philippines, Indonesia and Kazakhstan, 60 global citizens grooved to familiar local
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      TWO CONSIGNMENTS OF CONTRABAND CIGARETTES SEIZED
      208 17 Customs officials have arrested six men and seized 35,000 packets of contraband cigarettes hidden in drums of rubber sheets. The cigarettes are worth more than $320,000 and would have attracted duty and GST amounting to $280,000. The men were caught as they were unpacking
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      WOMAN CHARGED WITH PERFORMING SEXUAL ACTS ON GIRL
      120 17 A 21-year-old woman has been charged with two counts of performing a sexual act on a girl who wasthen about 13 years old in November 2008. It is believed that the pair was in a relationship at the time. The student allegedly
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      163 7 CANON PRESENTS YOUTH INACTION Today photographers capture the spirit and action of one of the biggest youth sports events of the year A clenched fist is all that betrays this fencer’s emotions. Shot with the EF70-200mm lens at 1/640s at Fencing requires lighting-quick movements. Today photographer Trevor Tan captures the
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  • VOICES
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      Lock icon Give all workers their due
      321 19 Letter from Sanjay Perera I REFER to the letter by human resources manager Grace Seow, “Looking for locals” (Aug 18). There are two root issues that need to be looked at if any reasonable solution is to be found to the perpetual problem of low
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      FOCUS® ON THE FAMILY
      187 21 A. m from Singapore FATHERS AND THE CLASSROOM The National Center For Education Statistics in America released the findings of a study that showed that children are far more likely to get good grades in school and are less likely to fail if their fathers are
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    • If they’d rather not be there ...
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      No, sharks’ real nemesis is man
      229 21  -  Letter from David Chen I REFER to the letter “Sharks’ real nemesis: Longlines” (Aug 16). The writer, Mr Tan Keng Tat, states that the United Nations estimates about 10 million sharks were killed in 2006. But that is just the official number of sharks
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      277 19 have your say email your letters to voices@mediacorp.com.sg join the community www.todayonline.com/voices Noise Singapore celebrates the Singapore 2010 Youth Olympic Games with two exciting weeks of art, photography and music by young people in Singapore! Drop by the many Noise exhibitions packed with youthful creativity and high energy concerts taking
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  • COMMENT&ANALYSIS
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      Lock icon Gaps appear in Denmark’s safety net
      1381 23  -  Stung by the financial crisis, the Scandinavian nation pares back its generous welfare system LIZ ALDERMAN THE NEW YORK TIMES How long is too long to be paid to go without a job? As extended unemployment swells almost everywhere across the advanced industrial world,
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      Lock icon China swallows Obama’s stimulus for the US
      863 27  -  ANDY XIE The writer is an independent economist based in Shanghai and was formerly Morgan Stanley’s chief economist for the Asia-Pacific region. The opinions expressed are his own. BLOOMBERG The global economy is like fried ice- cream: If you don’t act fast, it
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  • WORLD
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      Lock icon Thailand blocks WikiLeaks site
      141 31 AGENCIES BANGKOK The Thai authorities have used their emergency powers to block domestic access to the WikiLeaks whistle-blower website on security grounds, claiming it could lead to further unrest. The order came from the government unit set up to oversee the response to the anti-government demonstrations
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      Lock icon It was not suicide, she says
      367 31 Thai expert convinced political aide did not jump but does not assert it is homicide AGENCIES KUALA LUMPUR Renowned Thai pathologist Porntip Rojanasunan told the Coroner’s Court yesterday she was sure that Malaysian political aide Teoh Beng Hock, who plunged to his death from
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      Lock icon FRANCE ALSO SEARCHING FORTERROR SUSPECT WANTED IN INDONESIA
      181 33 AFP A French national wanted in Indonesia over alleged ties with Al Qaeda-linked militants is also on the run from the authorities in France, police said yesterday. Frederic Jean Salvi, also known as Ali, came to the attention of Indonesian anti-terror police
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      Lock icon Australian voters grill Gillard and her rival
      283 33 AFP BRISBANE Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard faced questions yesterday on her sudden rise to power as she and her conservative challenger met voters at a town hall forum ahead of polls on Saturday. Ms Gillard, who deposed elected leader Kevin Rudd in
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      Lock icon Palestinian in asylum bid shot, overpowered
      316 34 Man used knife and toy gun to take two hostages at Turkish Embassy AGENCIES TEL AVIV A Palestinian man carrying a knife and a toy gun held two hostages at the Turkish Embassy in Tel Aviv on Tuesday, threatening to “kill any Jews” and
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      Lock icon US SUPPORT FOR UN INQUIRY INTO MYANMAR
      111 34 AGENCIES The Obama administration has decided to support the creation of a United Nations commission to look into alleged crimes against humanity and war crimes in Myanmar, The Washington Post reported yesterday. The newspaper’s website quoted unidentified officials as saying the administration is
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      Lock icon Former Satyam chief granted bail
      138 34 AFP HYDERABAD The founder of Indian outsourcing firm Satyam, who has been accused of staging India’s biggest corporate fraud, was granted bail yesterday in the southern city of Hyderabad. B Ramalinga Raju was given bail on health grounds. He has been hospitalised for treatment of
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      Lock icon CORAL GRAVEYARD
      89 35 An environmental activist surveys coral reefs off Aceh Besar, Indonesia’s Aceh province. Coral that survived the 2004 tsunami is now dying at one of the fastest rates ever recorded because of a dramatic rise in water temperatures off northwestern Indonesia, conservationists said. They warned that the damage and
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      Lock icon Dutch city wants to snuff out drug tourism
      410 35 THE NEW YORK TIMES MAASTRICHT On a recent summer night, Marc Josemans’ Easy Going Coffee Shop was packed. The lines to buy marijuana and hashish stretched to the reception area where customers waited behind glass barriers. Most were young. Few were Dutch.
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      Lock icon Aidilfitri, 911 anniversary may overlap
      272 35 Muslims in US worry celebrations may be misinterpreted THE GUARDIAN NEW YORK Islamic groups fear an overlap between the end of Ramadan and the anniversary of 911 will lead to criticism that Muslims are celebrating the 2001 terrorist attacks. Islam follows a lunar calendar, so
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      Lock icon The bus that could fix China’s traffic woes
      308 36 THE NEW YORK TIMES HONG KONG What do you do if your roads are congested and polluted? Try designing a vehicle that takes up no road space. And make it partly solar-powered. A company in the southern Chinese town of Shenzhen has
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      Lock icon Morale-boosting rally for Foxconn China
      243 36 Following the suicides, the firm installed a suicide hotline, hired Buddhist monks and counsellors to help at-risk employees and set up safety nets outside buildings to thwart suicide AFP HONG KONG The Taiwanese technology giant Foxconn held a morale-boosting “employee rally” yesterday after a string
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      Lock icon Whisky power to fuel your car, planes?
      251 36 Bottoms-up to scientists, whisky biofuel may hit markets soon THE GUARDIAN EDINBURGH Whisky, the spirit that powers the Scottish economy, is being used to develop a new biofuel which could be available at petrol pumps in a few years. Using samples from the
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      Lock icon Obama: Recovery to take a few years
      153 37 AP SEATTLE United States President Barack Obama said on Tuesday that it will take a few years to dig his country out of the recession. He was speaking in Seattle to stir up enthusiasm and cash for Democratic Senator Patty Murray, who won
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      269 37 911 suspect was ‘held secretly’ in jail near THE NEW YORK TIMES WASHINGTON A Yemeni man implicated in the attacks on Sept 11, 2001, was secretly detained in Morocco after Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) operatives took him there in 2002, American officials
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      325 38 Ruined infrastructure, farmland spell economic doom, social unrest AFP KARACHI Pakistan faces economic catastrophe after devastating floods that have wiped out farmland and ruined infrastructure, with feared losses of billions of dollars likely to set back growth by years. The country’s worst humanitarian
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      103 38 AGENCIES A North Korean jet crashed in north-eastern China yesterday, killing the pilot, Xinhua news agency said. South Korean media said the plane appeared to have run out of fuel and might have been piloted by a defector attempting to reach Russia. A
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      154 38 AFP BEIJING More than 60 people were missing in fresh mudslides triggered by heavy rains in southwest China early yesterday, an official said, as the country continues to battle its worst flooding in a decade. Roads, power lines and telecommunications have been cut to
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      192 39 AGENCIES WASHINGTON North Korea may think its new Twitter and YouTube accounts will be a prime platform for anti-American propaganda but the United States says the world’s most secretive regime may have underestimated the power it has unleashed. State Department spokesman
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      218 39 AGENCIES MANILA The Philippine police relieved an entire precinct and began an investigation yesterday, amid public outrage over a video showing an officer torturing a naked man. The man is believed to be a suspected thief caught in Manila’s Tondo slum district, according
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      115 39 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH Spain has become the latest country to take on Internet search giant Google over alleged privacy violations during mapping for its “Street View” feature. A Madrid judge has ordered a Google representative to appear in court in October as part
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      292 40 AGENCIES CHICAGO A stunning number of teens have lost a little bit of their hearing nearly one in five and the problem has increased substantially in recent years, a new national study has found. Some experts are urging teenagers to turn down
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      283 40 In the comedy, the central character takes four husbands, explaining herself using the conventional arguments Saudi men use... THE DAILY TELEGRAPH RIYADH A role reversal comedy shown on Saudi television in which a woman marries four husbands has hit the very
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  • SINGAPORE 2010 YOUTH OLYMPIC GAMES AUGUST 14-26 2010
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      438 41  -  Nerves may have dashed Ng’s gold medal chances, but there’s a silver lining IAN DE COTTA ian@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Rainer Ng (picture) laid to rest any lingering doubts that Singapore’s youngsters can’t match the world’s best in sport. The 18-year-old swimmer, who put his “A” level
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      462 42  -  World champ Darren endures a topsy-turvy day out on the waves TAN YO-HINN yohinn@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE After a nervous three-hour wait, the skies finally cleared for action to get underway on Day 2 of the Youth Olympic Games sailing competition yesterday. But the mood of Singapore’s gold medal
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      Lock icon YUYA RULES AT BISHAN
      315 43 PHILIP GOH Sam Oldham was flipping through the air, performing a high-risk move known as the “layout Tkatchev” the gymnast throws himself backwards over the horizontal bar and catches it on the way down and then tragedy struck, with the sound of an awful “splat”. The
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      336 43  -  Coach Kadir urges his boys to aim for a place in final SHAMIR OSMAN shamir@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Zero points, nine goals conceded and only two scored. That was the record of Singapore’s under-14 football boys at the inaugural Asian Youth Games last year. Many of the
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      Lock icon They’ll set Bishan ablaze
      364 44  -  Briton David throws down challenge to Jamaica’s Odean ahead of 100m final LOW LIN FHOONG linfhoong@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Odean Skeen is fun. He has that Jamaican cool about him, not unlike one of his heroes, countryman Usain Bolt. He’s promised to celebrate in front of this reporter
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      Lock icon Still no decision on Daley
      196 45 TAN YO-HINN SINGAPORE Britain’s diving team are set to move into overdrive to try to get reigning 10m platform world champion Tom Daley (picture) fit for the inaugural Youth Olympic Games. Coach Andy Banks told MediaCorp yesterday that results of Tuesday’s MRI scan showed a
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      SELECTED YOUTH OLYMPICS RESULTS
      279 45 ROWING Girls’ single sculls: 1 Judith Sievers (Ger) 3:44.21 2 Nataliia Kovalova (Ukr) 3:44.63 3 Noemie Kober (Fra) 3:44.80 Girls’ pairs: 1 Great Britain 3:28.60 2 Australia 3:29.34 3 Greece 3:29.37 Boys’ single sculls: 1 Rotandas Mascinskas (Ltu) 3:13.82 2 Felix Bach (Ger) 3:16.23 3 Zeng
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      DAY 5:11 GOLDS ON OFFER
      174 45 Athletes, events to look out for Athletics, heats (9am, Bishan Stadium) Look out for Ukraine’s Anastasiya Tkachuk. She is the favourite for the girls’ 1,000m. Her time of 2min 40.97, clocked in May during the Youth Olympic Games European qualifiers, is the fastest in the
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      Spirit of the Games
      83 46 Through the eyes of the Samsung Mobile Explorers Samsung Mobile Explorers (SMEs) showing off their ‘take’ on the YOG while visiting Jurong Bird Park. Spectators at a stadium dancing along to the theme song of the Singapore 2010 Youth Olympic SMEs stepping out to do a
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      413 42 www.nikon.com.sg IS* Catch the games with D700 Special Deal. In celebration of the inaugural sporting event in Singapore, we offer you a Nikon Speedlight SB900 and DSLR Handstrap at only $599 when you purchase a Nikon D700 camera body! At the heart of the Image 4>.i Manfrotto f Monopod Handstrap
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      75 44 It’s a bone-jarring ride for one cyclist participating in a women’s cross country event. SPORTING MOMENTS brought to you by Think you have the perfect caption for this photo? Email it with your name, and IC and contact numbers to nikonsportingmoments@mediacorp.com.sg. You stand a chance to win the grand prize,
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      80 45 /A^djaCORP CONNECTING WITH YOU ALWAYS A Graceful Victory for Team Singapore! MediaCorp congratulates Nurul Shafinas Abdul Rahman for her well earned victory in the Women's Taekwondo 55kg Division! Stay tuned to all the glory and excitement of the world's first Youth Olympic Games with MediaCorp as we bring you "LIVE"
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  • SPORTS
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      268 47 THE GUARDIAN Harry Redknapp (picture) watched his Tottenham Hotspur team dice with Champions League play-off heartbreak against Young Boys of Bern and then insisted the Swiss club’s artificial pitch should not be allowed in Europe’s elite competition. The manager was eager not
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      361 47 Winger wants Liverpool to stay positive AFP EUROPA LEAGUE QUALIFIER Liverpool vsTrabzonspor LIVERPOOL Dirk Kuyt (picture) has urged Liverpool to take confidence from their opening Premier League game against Arsenal as they bid for a place in the group stages of the Europa League. Roy
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      191 49 Bremen have one foot in Champs League door THE GUARDIAN AFTERNOON LATEST BREMEN Werder Bremen proved there is life after Mesut Ozil with a convincing 3-1 win over Sampdoria at home in the first leg of the Champions League qualification match last night. The Bundesliga side took
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      106 49 THE GUARDIAN LIVERPOOL Kenny Huang, the Chinese businessman attempting to buy Liverpool, is believed to be growing frustrated at the lack of progress in his attempt to gain control of the club from Tom Hicks and George Gillett. Huang is one of several interested parties who submitted
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      96 49 Mesut Ozil at a press conference announcing his move to Real Madrid yesterday. The German World Cup breakout star said he turned down the chance to join Manchester United because he wanted to work with Jose Mourinho, who he described as ‘the best coach in the world’.
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      CITY PUT AWAY CHEQUEBOOK
      107 49 Roberto Mancini yesterday said Manchester City’s summer signing blitz was over then hit back at Sir Alex Ferguson’s attack on his neighbours’ “kamikaze spending”. James Milner’s arrival yesterday took City’s spending to £126 million ($266 million). Said the City manager: “All the other big teams have
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      CHELSEA CAN'T LAND THEIR MAN
      113 49 Chelsea has hit an impasse with Santos over the purchase of highly-regarded forward Neymar. The Premier League champions had an offer of £17 million rejected last month, shy of the £29.6-million buy-out clause in the 18-year-old Brazil international’s contract. Santos are reluctant sellers and have
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      101 49 AGENCIES Six out of ten Germans think Philipp Lahm should keep the captain’s armband for Germany’s national side, rather than see Michael Ballack regain the captaincy. German sports agency SID conducted a poll which saw 60.3 per cent of those surveyed say Bayern Munich defender Lahm should
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      50 47 [p"la"yS) Always play with care. [responsibly! Do not bet illegally. No person under the age of 18 years shall be allowed to purchase a ticket or to claim any prize. For details, visit www.singaporepools.com.sg or call 6786 6688 Towards Community Purpose and Benefit SINGAPORE FU POOLS RCB Reg No: *****0202G
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      451 49 Top Strategies for Peak Performance at Work 1. Power Up with Positive Thoughts What you say to yourself affects your mood. People who engage in negative thinking tend to be more easily anxious or depressed. Examples are mind-reading ("My boss hates my work"), and perfectionist thinking ("I must do it
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      90 49 YOUR SPORTING FIX YOUTH OLYMPICS 3pm Taekwondo M/W 73kg, 63kg QF (Ch5) 4pm Archery Mixed team SF, Finals (Ch5) 6.30pm Swimming M/W backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly, freestyle (Ch5) 7.40pm Taekwondo 73kg, 63kg SF, Finals (Ch5) 11pm Highlights Today the Games (Ch5) CRICKET 5.55pm Npower England v Pakistan (mioTV Ch123) GOLF 9.15pm
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    489 50 INVEST Expense ratios should be primary test in fund choice THE NEW YORK TIMES EDUCATED investors know that past investment returns are not necessarily the best predictors of future results. It’s mutual fund and other expenses that really matter. Investment research firm Morningstar,
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  • BUSINESS
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      167 57 AP NEW YORK The airline industry love affair with optional fees continues. American Airlines said yesterday it is now charging between US$19 ($25.60) and US$39 for “Express Seats” those spots in the first few rows of economy class. American said the price of
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      94 57 Gender equality in 57 years AGENCIES LONDON Female managers face a wait of more than half a century for their salaries to equal their male colleagues. A Chartered Management Institute survey found that male managers in Britain currently earn £10,000 ($21,000) a year more than their female counterparts. While the
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      56 57 WEDNESDAY CLOSE 10,415.54 (+0.09%) Tuesday 10,405.85 p 1.01% Monday 10,302.01 q 0.01% Friday 10,303.15 q 0.16% Thursday 10,319.95 q 0.57% NYSETOP 5 BYVOLUME NAME VOL PRICE CHANGE Citigroup 474.9m $3.86 p 0.26% Bank of America 136.7m $13.32 p 0.83% Ford 54.1m $12.20 p 0.33% Pfizer 49.2m $16.10 q 1.04%
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      21 57 US$1 $1.350 US$1 £0.641 US$1 €0.778 US$1 ¥85.455 US$1 A$1.113 US$1 HK$7.770 All figures correct as at 8am this morning
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        101 57 Back-to-back gains in US US stocks clawed back into positive territory for the second consecutive day after strong earning reports. The Dow Jones Industrial Index was up 9.69 points to end at 10,415.54, wiping out earlier losses of up to 75 points, in a day of light
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        66 57 Steep dive Oil prices sank as investors locked in recent profits and reacted to news of a lighter-than-expected drop in crude reserves in top energy consumer, the US. Brent North Sea crude for delivery in October dived US$1.04 to US$75.89 a barrel in late afternoon London trade. New York’s
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      409 57 Possible US$16b offering would be second-largest in American history BLOOMBERG DETROIT—General Motors filed for an initial share offering that will mark the return of what was once the world’s largest car-maker to public markets a year after it was bailed out by the United
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      URA RECEIVES 14 BIDS FOR CLOSELY-WATCHED STAMFORD ROAD COMMERCIAL SITE
      158 55 The Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) has received a total of 14 bids for the closely-watched commercial site at Stamford Road and North Bridge Road. Many bidders have submitted multiple concept proposals for the 1.43 hectare site, slated for commercial use
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      SM GOH REAPPOINTED MAS CHAIRMAN
      78 55 The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) says that Senior MinisterGoh ChokTong has been re-appointed MAS Chairman for another two years with effect from tomorrow. Minister for Trade and Industry Lim Hng Kiang will be MAS Deputy Chairman. The nine-member board of the central bank includes
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      Genting dividends in two to three years if...
      329 55  -  JO-ANN HUANG joannhuang@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Genting Singapore shareholders can look forward to cash dividends in two to three years time, provided the company remains profitable and has paid off its $4.2-billion debt. And despite that caution, Genting shareholders told MediaCorp at an extraordinary
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      193 55 MOK FEI FEI SINGAPORE More smalland medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) have benefited from help to bring their products and services overseas. The trade promotion agency, International Enterprise (IE) Singapore, said its Exporter Development Programme has helped 85 firms so far, up from about 60 at the start
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      Hotels face room shortage
      341 54  -  Spike in visitor arrivals to max out supply WONG SIEW YING siewying@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Hotels in Singapore are expected to face a severe room shortage in the next six to 12 months amid the spike in the number of visitor arrivals in Singapore. In the first half
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      344 54  -  Court of Appeal reserves judgment on whether to keep scheme that will save it from liquidation JULIE QUEK juliequek@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Shareholders of distressed local firm TT International can heave a temporary sigh of relief after the Court of Appeal confirmed yesterday that
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      358 53 BLOOMBERG SHANGHAI China Everbright Bank rose 18 per cent on its debut in Shanghai yesterday, as the stock market recovers from a three-month slump. The shares advanced to 3.66 yuan at the close of trading from the IPO price of 3.1 yuan. The
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      244 53 BLOOMBERG HANOI Vietnam’s dong slid to a record low against the United States dollar after the central bank devalued the currency for the third time in the past year to help curb a widening trade deficit. The dong dropped 1.1 per cent to
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        257 65  -  BY CHRISTOPHER TOH Praise Blame Tom Jones SO THE dude didn’t get to play in Singapore. But perhaps this album might assuage the fans’ feelings a little. Unlike some of Tom Jones’ recent recordings, this one is actually free of a lot of production pomp.
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