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  • 26 1 TODAY MICA (P) 057/10/2010 A PUBLICATION OF NEWS HOTLINE 6822 2268 Tuesday November 9, 2010 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking NOVEMBER 9, 2010 A PUBLICATION OF
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  • 456 1  -  1 in 10 kids has a mild mental disorder but new initiative set to WAYNE CHAN waynechan@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE There are some 500,000 children between the ages of six and 16 here. And about one in 10 has a mild mental disorder, an expert from the Institute
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  • NEWS
    • 363 3  -  But SIA clears fleet of 11 A380s for ADDITIONAL REPORTING BY HETTY MUSFIRAH AGENCIES, SYDNEY The cause of the engine failure, which forced a Qantas Airways plane into an emergency landing at Changi Airport last week has yet to
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    • 302 3  -  DYLAN LOH SINGAPORE Singapore scientists are a step closer to replacing chemotherapy as the main treatment for certain patients with leukaemia. They have found a combination of drugs that are effective in suppressing the cancer. This treatment may become routine in four years, if clinical trials starting
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    • 501 5 State of Emergency declared as ethnic rebels and government troops clash after general election AGENCIES BANGKOK Fighting between ethnic rebels and Myanmar government troops has sent at least 12,000 refugees across the border into Thailand, amid reports that the country has been placed under a 90-day
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    • 328 6 MONICA KOTWANI SINGAPORE The social services sector may have made strides in recent years, including adding to its ranks, but misperceptions remain. Social worker Han Yah Yee, 38, noted the common reaction she gets when she tells people her occupation: “(They’ll say) you have a good heart.
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    • 426 6  -  LEONG WEE KEAT weekeat@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE A bus driver who killed his step-daughter escaped the gallows after the Court of Appeal overturned his death sentence on account of his mental health. Ong Pang Siew, 47, had been sentenced to hang on March 12 last year
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    • 304 8 JOANNE CHAN SINGAPORE —The canteen operator of the Singapore Sports School is under investigation after a food poisoning incident last week. Students were believed to have come down with discomfort, diarrhoea, vomitting and stomach cramps after eating at the school’s
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    • 432 8 LEONG WEE KEAT SINGAPORE It was one of the worst cases the Court has seen, a Judge of Appeal noted twice during the hour-long hearing yesterday. Some 22 old scars and 58 external injuries were found on 23-month-old Natalie Nikie Alisyia Sallehan’s body. They
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    • 321 10  -  LYNDA HONG lyndahong@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Minister of State for Trade and Industry and Manpower Lee Yi Shyan (picture) would “be happy but reluctant” to contest in single-seat ward Joo Chiat, where Mr Chan Choo Sen is the incumbent Member of Parliament. Mr Lee, 48,
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    • 297 10 SHAFFIQ ALKHATIB An Indonesian who went missing on October 26 last year and was later declared dead in hospital had earlier been diagnosed with bipolar disorder. This was revealed in court yesterday, during a Coroner’s Inquiry into his death. Aries Jasuwito, 25,
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    • 126 10 A 19-year-old student will be put on probation for 21 months after pleading guilty to the molestation of three women in July and August. Muhammad Zulfiqar Mohamad Rosli also has to perform 100 hours of community service. Besides these, his mother has
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    • 302 13 VIMITA MOHANDAS Ten Housing and Development Board (HDB) flats in Telok Blangah Crescent have been washed, clean and even painted. It was all part of a charity drive to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the Boys’ Brigade. About 30 boys
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    • 103 13 Humanitarian aid group Mercy Relief has sent a four-man team to the Dukun subdistrict, one of the worst-affected areas of the Mount Merapi eruption in Indonesia. Indonesia has ordered an evacuation after another eruption last Friday. The Mercy Relief team has been helping
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    • 150 13 Singapore and Iran will explore greater cooperation in tourism and encourage more visits by business delegations from both sides, following meetings between the Republic’s Foreign Minister George Yeo and Iranian leaders. Mr Yeo is in Tehran to attend the 9th Asia Cooperation Dialogue (ACD).
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    • 166 13 Interest in arts and culture remained strong last year despite the economic downturn. According to the latest report by the Singapore Cultural Statistics, ticket sales jumped 13.6 per cent to $42.6 million last year. This was an increase of some $5 million
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    • 185 13 The Park and Ride Scheme will be available at two more car parks near Marymount and Mountbatten MRT stations with a total of 40 lots available, the Land Transport Authority (LTA) announced yesterday. This will bring the total number of such sites to 41, with almost
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    • 103 13 JOANNE CHAN The Housing and Development Board’s latest Build-To-Order (BTO) projects are in high demand. The Anchorvale Horizon in Sengkang, which comprises 745 units, was more than six times oversubscribed as of 5pm yesterday. The project has received 5,470 applications so far. The
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  • VOICES
    • 373 15  -  We need a rethink on the health warnings, pictures found on cigarette packs Letter from Ho Swee Huat IT HAS been a couple of years since warning labels were mandated on cigarette packs. But whether in the form of labels with warning messages such as “Smoking kills”
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    • 397 17  -  Smart meters alone won’t help save electricity: EMA Letter from Juliana Chow Deputy Director (Corporate Communications) Energy Market Authority (EMA) IN HIS letter “Can smart meters really help?” (Nov 2), Mr David Boey expressed concerns about the cost of smart meters and wondered whether such
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    • 209 17  -  LETTER FROM MICHAEL SIM CK While on the MRT one evening last week, I suddenly broke out in a cold sweat and felt nauseous and dizzy. I decided to alight at Tiong Bahru Station to get some fresh air. But I felt no better and,
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    • 202 17  -  It’s not unreasonable for season parking ticket holders to expect a lot Letter from Chen Junyi THE Housing and Development Board’s reply (“An alternative for owners of heavy vehicles”, Nov 8) to Mr Inderjit Singh’s letter (“Where can I park?”, Oct 29) leaves much to be
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  • COMMENT & ANALYSIS
    • 915 19  -  To avoid a lost decade, the major world economies could do worse than look Seoul’s way Free money has a way of boosting markets and offering a false sense that recovery is afoot. In reality, it just creates new bubbles to paper over old WILLIAM
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    • 843 21  -  Fear of the Asian giant played a cameo role in America’s bipartisan wars MARIA SIOW mariasiow@mediacorp.com.sg The writer is Channel NewsAsia’s East Asia bureau chief and a visiting fellow with the EastWest Centre in Washington. In the days leading up to the mid-term elections
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    • 738 23  -  One thing that has always worried fencesitters is that the PR, being a collection of diverse parties, may not be up to the job despite its attractive principles of social justice and good governance. Better the devil who knows himself than the angel who
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    • 7 23 >> ZAID QUITS ANWAR’S PARTY AMID FRAUD CLAIM
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  • WORLD
    • 321 25 Backing for permanent UN Security Council seat may irk China AGENCIES NEW DELHI United States President Barack Obama’s endorsement yesterday of India’s demand for a permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council was a largely symbolic move but it may put diplomatic
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    • 128 25 PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENT FOCUS OF OBAMA’S VISIT TO INDONESIA AGENCIES United States President Barack Obama is scheduled to arrive in Jakarta today for a two-day visit. Indonesia’s Presidential Palace and American officials confirmed yesterday that Mr Obama’s trip which had been postponed twice before would proceed as planned after flight disruptions
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    • 145 25 AP BEIJING Angry Chinese truck drivers parked for hours to buy rationed diesel yesterday as shortages blamed on a government conservation campaign and possible hoarding by state oil companies disrupted industry and trade. Fuel shortages were reported in areas from Dalian, a north-eastern port,
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    • 166 25 AGENCIES JAKARTA Flights to the Indonesian capital returned to normal yesterday, following disruptions caused by the Mount Merapi volcano. “All have returned to normal,” said Mr Andang Santoso, a spokesman for the operator of Jakarta’s Sukarno-Hatta Airport. “They trust us that there is no impact
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    • 284 27 AP TOKYO Japan’s Coast Guard confirmed yesterday that an Internet video showing a collision between its vessels and a Chinese fishing boat was authentic, and said it was considering criminal charges as part of its investigation into how the footage was leaked. The
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    • 299 28 Vietnamese Prime Minister Nyugen Tan Dung said Cam Ranh Bay, 290km north-west of Ho Chi Minh City, would stand ready to service ships and submarines ‘from all THE DAILY TELEGRAPH SHANGHAI Foreign navies are to be given access to Vietnam’s Cam
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    • 247 29 KEMAMAN Sixteen people reported missing off the coast of Terengganu on Saturday evening were all rescued on Sunday after a 16-hour ordeal at sea, reported Bernama news agency The survivors, including three women and a four-year-old child, were on a scuba-diving
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    • 314 29 AP KUALA LUMPUR A respected figure in Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim’s party quit his posts yesterday and accused his colleagues of hypocrisy and fraud. Former Law Minister Zaid Ibrahim’s attack is certain to fuel a growing sense of dejection among opposition supporters
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    • 311 30 AP CANBERRA The Australian government plans to hold a referendum within three years on whether to amend its Constitution to acknowledge the Aborigines as the first Australians, Prime Minister Julia Gillard said yesterday. Ms Gillard said the time was now right to amend the
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    • 175 30 AGENCIES ARBIL Iraqi political leaders began a meeting yesterday that could break an eight-month deadlock over the formation of a new government and assure incumbent Prime Minister Nuri Al Maliki a second term. The meeting, hosted by Kurdish regional president Masoud Barzani in the
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    • 242 31 AGENCIES TBILISI Highly enriched uranium (HEU) that could be used to make a nuclear bomb is on sale on the black market along the fringes of the former Soviet Union, according to evidence emerging from a secret trial in Georgia.
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    • 114 31 Chilean miner Edison Pena, who completed the New York Marathon on Sunday, has thanked Americans for supporting him. Mr Pena, 34, hobbled over the finish line in Central Park five hours and 40 minutes after beginning the race in Staten Island. ‘I’m not from this country but
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    • 116 32 Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin took a Formula One race car out for a spin on Sunday, reaching speeds of almost 240kmh. When he finished the drive and was told his maximum speed, he smiled and said in English: ‘For the first time, it’s good.’ Formula One
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    • 323 32 AGENCIES ATHENS Greece’s Prime Minister vowed to press ahead with painful austerity measures to pull the debt-strapped country out of a severe financial crisis, dropping a threat to call snap elections after his party retained a slim lead in local government polls.
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    • 110 32 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH A police officer shot dead his daughter in the town of Subiaco on the outskirts of Rome and then turned the gun on himself after a furious row over her continual use of Facebook. Lucio Cappelli, 39, serving with the Italian paramilitary
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    • 139 32 CHRISTCHURCH The introduction of Mozart and Beethoven in downtown Christchurch last year has seen a dramatic decline in crime and thuggery in the area, reported newspaper The Press. There were 77 recorded incidents of anti-social behaviour each week at the City Mall in October
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    • 563 30 They used to say that the Army is like the hammer, and to the Army everything is like a nail so whenever there is a problem they just use the hammer The Army today is not like that. Chief of Defence Force Lieutenant-General Neo Kian Hong speaking to Today Sept
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  • SPORTS
    • 590 33  -  Six Singapore players walk suspension tightrope as Sundram calls for tactical discipline GROUP D, MEN’S FOOTBALL Kuwait v Singapore Huadu Stadium, 7pm SHAMIR OSMAN shamir@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —They put their heads down and kept to the game plan, sticking to their guns till the final
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    • 347 33 LOW LIN FHOONG SINGAPORE It pays to be prepared, as the Republic’s 16-strong Asian Games sailing squad have discovered. While the rest of the Asian Games will be held in the Chinese city of Guangzhou, the sailors will battle for honours in Shanwei.
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    • 265 33 AGENCIES DUBAI Pakistan wicketkeeper Zulqarnain Haider has fled the squad ahead of the fifth ODI against South Africa in Abu Dhabi, apparently fearing for his safety. Pakistan officials said he left the team camp yesterday morning and boarded a plane to London. He arrived
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    • 581 34  -  Singapore star has score to settle with Chinese ace TAN YO-HINN yohinn@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE China’s Jiao Liuyang announced her arrival on the world stage when she won an Olympic silver in the women’s 200m butterfly two years ago in Beijing. At last year’s world championships in
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    • 422 34 REUTERS SAO PAULO Red Bull came into Formula One in 2005 as loud, young and irreverent newcomers that some saw as too funloving to mount a serious challenge for the highest honours. Doused in champagne and embracing his happy and
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    • 294 35 Carroll wanted by police and England, too? AGENCIES LONDON Fabio Capello will consider Andy Carroll (picture) for the England squad to face France next week despite further lurid headlines about the Newcastle United striker’s private life. Carroll scored the winner against Arsenal at the Emirates on Sunday in front of
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    • 119 35 THE GUARDIAN Marathon legend Haile Gebrselassie called time on his great career on Sunday, announcing his retirement from athletics with immediate effect. The 37-year-old Ethiopian, who has been a dominant force in distance running for the past two decades, setting dozens of world records, made the decision after
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    • 512 35 After brace against Chelsea, Reds ace sends chilling message to the rest of the AGENCIES ANFIELD Roy Hodgson said Fernando Torres had proved against Chelsea that he is “back to his best”. The striker clearly disagrees with his manager’s assessment. Torres scored twice
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    • 171 35 THE GUARDIAN MANCHESTER He is regarded as one of Manchester United’s most loyal servants but Ole Gunnar Solskjaer is set to end his 14-year association with the Red Devils. The former United striker is in advanced talks to become manager of the Norwegian club
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    • 434 37 AGENCIES MANCHESTER He was reportedly homesick and considering quitting Manchester City. His thigh injury was supposedly taking a longer than expected to heal and the press were speculating that he would even be doubtful for tomorrow’s Manchester derby against United. Carlos Tevez decided
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  • IMPACT
    • 394 44  -  ELISABETH LEE STYLE guru Hideki Akiyoshi (picture) has been based in Singapore since 1993. A long-time champion of Singapore street style, he’s the man behind the Street Style Awards and the Motorola Super Style Mix. A few years ago, he took some time off from the local scene
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    • 571 44 The economic crisis of 2008 has shaped our shopping habits: Survey PETER YEO A STUDY commissioned by Microsoft and Aegis Media, and independently conducted by London-based Essential Research, has revealed a change in consumer shopping behaviour. Dubbed the Global Retail Study, it polled 19,000 shoppers across 17
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  • BUSINESS
    • 407 39  -  CHRIS HOWELLS christopherh@mediacorp.com.sg WITH AGENCY REPORTS SINGAPORE Shares surged 1.9 per cent yesterday in active trading to close at a 35month high, helped by foreign fund buying following last week’s huge stimulus plan from the US Federal Reserve. The blue-chip Straits Times Index (STI) closed up
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    • 54 39 Friday CLOSED Thursday 3,240.31 p 0.48% Wednesday 3,224.97 p 0.61% Tuesday 3,205.28 p 0.41% MONDAY CLOSE 3,300.40 (+1.85%) TOP 5 BY VOLUME NAME VOL PRICE CHANGE TopGlobal 232,073 $0.015 UNCH GoldenAgr 184,341 $0.780 p 11.43% Genting SP 155,083 $2.340 p 3.08% Genting HK 102,005 $0.470 p 2.17% Noble Grp
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    • 29 39 HANG SENG 24,964.37 (+0.35%) Ç NIKKEI Ç Ç È 9,732.92 (+1.11%) SHANGHAI 3,159.51 (+0.96%) AUSTRALIA 4,778.44 (-0.46%) È Ç MUMBAI 20,852.38 (-0.72%) MALAYSIA 1,519.84 (+0.54%) SEOUL 1,942.41 (+0.18%)
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    • STOCK CALLS
      • 57 39 Buy $3.28 Goldman Sachs upgrades from Neutral and lifts the SOTP target price to $3.47 from $3.10 to reflect the pick-up in pay TV growth and improving Optus business. The house notes Optus has done well in the last two years, clawing back market share to boost mobile EBITDA
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      • 56 39 Buy $4.43 Goldman Sachs upgrades from Neutral and lifts the target price to $5.80 vs $2.70 after changing the valuation methodology to better reflect company’s continued strong cash returns. The house says the company will benefit from Asia’s burgeoning market for low-cost carriers, which bode well for providers
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    • 394 39  -  MILLET ENRIQUEZ emelita@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Analysts are bullish about Singapore’s banks, saying they will continue their dream run well into next year despite the current low interest rates, which are affecting the profitability of their lending business. Banks will continue to post decent earnings as
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    • 304 40  -  RYAN HUANG ryanhuang@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE One of the challenges for Asian investors right now is protecting their wealth from high inflation. With the latest round of money printing by the United States Federal Reserve further fuelling concerns of rising inflation, finding ways to protect the
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    • 249 40 SINGAPORE Conglomerate Sembcorp Industries (Sembcorp) reported net profit rose 64.8 per cent in the third quarter to $244.1 million even as turnover fell 16.4 per cent to $2.2 billion, boosted by an exceptional gain in its listed marine unit. The $32.1-million gain arose after Sembcorp
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    • 558 42  -  Low-cost carrier to acquire 30 Boeing 737s in aggressive expansion ANSLEY NG ansley@mediacorp.com.sg SUBANG Malaysian low cost carrier Firefly has turned up the heat in the budget airline dogfight, announcing yesterday it would buy up to 30 Boeing B737-800 jets over the next five years to
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    • 104 42 REUTERS Singapore-listed Wilmar International, the world’s largest palm oil firm, yesterday said that Australia’s Foreign Investment Review Board had approved its US$1.5 billion ($1.93 billion) purchase of Sucrogen from CSR. Sucrogen is the world’s second-largest exporter of raw sugar and Australia’s top
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    • 86 42 Parkway Life Real Estate Investment Trust (PLife REIT) yesterday said it posted a 28.3 per cent rise in third quarter gross revenue from the corresponding period last year to $21.2 million, mainly due to additional contributions from Japanese properties that it acquired last year.
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    • 260 43 REUTERS NEW DELHI United States President Barack Obama yesterday defended the Federal Reserve’s policy of printing dollars, after Chinese officials stepped up criticism ahead of Thursday’s G-20 meeting in Seoul. “I will say that the Fed’s mandate, my mandate, is to grow
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    • 491 43 It mulls becoming a formal association that can forge free trade agreements The idea faces resistance from some member economies that want to strike free trade agreements AP YOKOHAMA Pacific rim economies are debating whether to change the informal nature of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation
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    • 49 47 GAGA WINS BIG NOVEMBER 9, 2010 A PUBLICATION OF BUT SHE WASN’T AT THE MTV EUROPE MUSIC AWARDS, SO HERE’S A PICTURE OF RIHANNA INSTEAD. T12 THE 10 ICONIC CHARACTERS OF SINGAPORE THEATRE. T2 EMMA THOMPSON SHOOTS DOWN ‘PREDATORY’ HOLLYWOOD COUGARS. T10 HEALTH: COULD YOUR KID HAVE DIABETES? T18
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  • ARTS
    • 1383 48  -  We look back at the 10 most memorable characters of Singapore theatre MAYO MARTIN mayo@mediacorp.com.sg BY HER count, playwright and director Natalie Hennedige has written around 70 characters in the last five years for the plays staged by her company Cake Theatrical Productions. For their anniversary performance beginning
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      337 52  -  MAYO MARTIN STATE OF THE ARTS: It was a week of celebrity sightseeing and namedropping. At the recently concluded Sun Festival, you had folks like Sharon Stone, Jose Carreras, Curtis Stone, while Art Stage Singapore announced superstar photographer David Lachappelle’s works as one of the highlights of the art
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  • ENTERTAINMENT
    • 225 54 THE NEW YORK TIMES DREAMWORKS Animation has another hit on its hands: Megamind, the story of a supervillain turned superhero, reached No 1 with an estimated US$47.7 million ($61.3 million) in its opening weekend at the North American box office, according to Hollywood.com, a compiler of
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    • 510 56 EmmaThompson takes umbrage with Hollywood’s ‘predatory’ actresses THE DAILY TELEGRAPH BRITISH actress Emma Thompson has accused middle-aged Hollywood actresses who take much younger partners of being “predatory”. Thompson, 51, who herself is seven years older than her husband Greg Wise, said of the so-called “Cougar”
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    • 505 58  -  Outlandish singer bags three awards, while Eva Longoria wears ‘meat’ Tracy Rucinski featu res@med iaco rp.co m.sg REUTERS LADY Gaga dominated the MTV Europe Music Awards (EMA) in Madrid on Sunday, picking up prizes for Best Female, Best Pop Act and Best
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    • 109 54 ipft /J\ to Kinohimilsu FREEDOM TO LIVE on Their Successful Launch In China Appointment of Their Official Brand Ambassador, International Superstar, Miss Zhao Wei from Confirm Trading (S) Pte Ltd Singapore Sole Distributor J'PAN BEAUTY DRINK %ohimijsu fill 4 *sm 10 B orr^ Beauty That Glows From Inside Collagen Perilla
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    • 138 54 CO MAT Launches Information Security Centre! Answering the Singapore Government's call to improve IT Security professionals' knowledge; COMAT Training Services launched the IT Security Centre in August 2010. One of the first collaboration was to work with EC-Council to become an Accredited Training Centre. COMAT IT Security Centre's course offerings
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    • 158 56 10th Batch Retinitis Pigmentosa Patients Needed for Quality of Life Study The Singapore General Hospital is conducting a research study to determine the relationship between Depression and Retinitis Pigmentosa (RP). If you are diagnosed with RP, you are eligible to participate in this study at no cost to you. You
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  • HEALTH
    • 1029 64  -  Type 2 diabetes increasingly common among kids here Eveline Gan eveline@mediacorp.com.sg LIKE many diabetics, Ms WongWai Shi, who has Type 2 diabetes, has to take medication twice daily to control her blood sugar levels. Unlike most of them, however,Wai Shi is only in her teens. Three years
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    • 354 64 President, Northwest Invention Centres, USA Are You Struggling To Earn $8,000 A Month? Do You Want To Start A Profitable Business in Singapore and 16 Countries Worldwide? Booming Business "Started in United States Expanded to Australia, Canada, Mexico, Hawaii, India.. Dr Sobey launched Camp Invention, which now has more than
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    • 76 64 HEALTH LISTING Mouth Cancer Awareness Week Learn more about issues related to oral cancer, which range from detection to treatment, and the rehabilitation process to eating well for better health. Oral cancer experts will also be present to address questions from participants about the condition. Date: Saturday Time: 2pm to
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