Today, 29 November 2010, Afternoon Edition

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  • 26 1 TODAY MICA (P) 057/10/2010 A PUBLICATION OF NEWS HOTLINE 6822 2268 Monday November 29, 2010 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking NOVEMBER 29, 2010 A PUBLICATION OF
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  • 905 1  -  ‘Some good news’ for Singaporeans in Budget ZUL OTHMAN zul@mediacorp.com.sg WATCH IT >> SINGAPORE Singaporeans can expect good news from the Budget next year as Government revenues have been better than projected, said Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong yesterday as he outlined the
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  • NEWS
    • 331 3  -  ZUL OTHMAN zul@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE People’s Action Party (PAP) activists and Members of Parliament have welcomed party secretary-general and Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong’s speech, which addressed the issue of leadership. Marine Parade GRC MP Seah Kian Peng noted: “It will be
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    • 110 3  -  ZUL OTHMAN Home Affairs and Law Minister K Shanmugam (picture) is a new face on the Central Executive Committee (CEC) of the People’s Action Party. He was among the 12 elected to the CEC at the PAP conference. Among those re-elected in
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    • 496 3 China called for talks yesterday, making clear the talks would not amount to a resumption of the six-party disarmament discussions North Korea walked out of two years ago and declared dead. REUTERS YEONPYEONG North Korea has placed sur-face-to-surface missiles on launch pads in the
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    • 269 4  -  IMELDA SAAD imelda@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has commended the way Singaporeans reacted to news that fugitive terrorist Mas Selamat Kastari had help from his family after his escape from detention. In his first remarks on the revelation, Mr
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    • 396 4  -  Over half of new HIV cases diagnosed in late stage NG JING YNG jingyng@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Due to compulsory testing in organisations like the army and opt-out choices at hospitals, about 10 per cent more people here have undergone HIV testing
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    • 94 5 Police have arrested a 35-year-old man believed to be responsible for at least 10 cases of thefts of car parts islandwide. He had smashed car windows and stole the engine control units, valued at between $2,000 and $4,000. Officers from Bedok
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    • 134 5 The Project Give Charity Show on Saturday night raised more than $900,000 for less privileged school children in the Indian community. Jointly organised by the Singapore Indian Development Association (Sinda) and MediaCorp’s Vasantham channel, the event featured Vasantham artistes as well as the project’s
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    • 71 5 About 5,000 people celebrated Grandparents’ Day at the Singapore Zoo yesterday. It was part of a slew of active-ageing activities organised by the Council forThird Age this month. The event had participants aged four months to those in their 70s taking part in a scavenger hunt, playing
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    • 406 5  -  The researchers noted that the strict implementation of the EFMA has ‘reduced illegality’ in the labour sector and has come down heavily on employers who fail to pay salaries on time or fail to maintain the foreign workers they have brought ESTHER
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    • 228 7 WAYNE CHAN SINGAPORE The Republic’s first locally developed mini Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) resembles a bird so much that real birds have actually flown after it. Weighing only 5kg, Sky Blade III is 1.4m long and has a wing span of 2.6m.
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    • 135 7 Police busted an illegal gambling den at an industrial unit in Defu Lane last Saturday and arrested 10 men and two women, aged between 37 and 52 years old. In the four-hour operation, officers from Ang Mo Kio Police Division seized 15 modified
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    • 487 7  - No excuse not to volunteer NG JING YNG jingyng@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE A lack of time or relevant skills are often reasons people give for not volunteering. But with the Singapore International Foundation’s (SIF) foray into direct-service projects, where only basic skills are needed, they cannot be used as excuses any more.
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  • VOICES
    • 246 9  -  Letter from Ho Swee Huat I REFER to the reply “Graphic warnings on cigarette packs found effective: HPB survey’’ (Nov 18). The survey, conducted on a sample size of 1,000 respondents, has shown a higher abstinence from smoking as a result of the graphic warnings
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    • 158 9  -  Letter from M Lukshumayeh I REFER to the report “Passive smoking kills 600,000 a year: WHO” (Weekend Today, Nov 27-28). The World Health Organisation has reported that more than 600,000 people, including 165,000 children, die every year from passive smoking. While the argument in the
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    • 361 11  -  Most motorists now think that they only need to give way at bus bays with a solid yellow box with an arrow in Letter from Lim Poh Seng THERE are now two types of yellow boxes for the exit of buses.
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    • 202 11  -  Letter from Paul A Fernandez THE Edusave Merit Bursary is given at the end of every year to deserving students who have done well in their examinations. Every year, both my children study diligently knowing very well that the Government will reward
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    • 229 11  -  Letter from Sam Ho I AM a subscriber of mio TV, the pay-TV service provided by SingTel. I must say the whole experience has been nothing short of disappointing. I have made countless calls to SingTel’s customer service hotline and have called technicians to
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    • 148 9 have your say email your letters to voices@mediacorp.com.sg join the community www.todayonline.com/voices Pursue a Top UK Degree with the University of Portsmouth Ranked 51st in Business Studies by UK’s Time Good University Guide 2010 One of the almost 500 full members of The Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU) One of
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  • COMMENT & ANALYSIS
    • 1057 13  -  It can go on manipulating regional suspicion or shoulder responsibility for East Asia’s security YURIKO KOIKE Yuriko Koike, Japan’s former Minister of Defence and National Security Adviser, is now Chairman of the Executive Council of the Liberal Democratic Party. PROJECT SYNDICATE If the most dangerous
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    • 1187 15  -  Why do global talks focus on hardest-to-solve problems, when we can start with modest, quicker steps? The warming effect of methane, HFCs, soot particles and lower atmospheric ozone is already about 80 per cent of the amount that carbon dioxide causes. The world
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    • 874 17  -  As a first step, make sure that your site is set up not just to handle transactions, but also for communication and that when customers leave comments or send emails, your team always follows RICHARD BRANSON Richard Branson is the founder
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  • WORLD
    • 524 19 The device was a dud supplied by undercover agents and the public was never in danger, says FBI THE DAILY TELEGRAPH PORTLAND A Somali teenager has been arrested on suspicion of trying to set off a car bomb, the United States police
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    • 135 19 BLOOMBERG Iran has produced over one billion litres of petrol under an emergency plan to counter US sanctions on fuel sales to the Persian Gulf country, Oil Minister Masoud Mir-Kazemi said. The US petrol embargo has been “fruitless” as Iran has been able
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    • 155 19 REUTERS European Union finance ministers were working yesterday to complete a proposed €85 billion ($148.4 billion) emergency loan for Ireland, a two-week effort designed to prevent the spread of bankruptcy risks to other nations of the euro zone. Irish officials in Dublin said the
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    • 131 19 AP Voters headed to the polls on the southern Japanese island of Okinawa yesterday to choose between two gubernatorial candidates campaigning for a US Marine base on Okinawa to be removed. The Marine Corps Air Station Futenma has been on Okinawa since 1945
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    • 379 21 AP WASHINGTON The Obama administration has told whistle-blower WikiLeaks that its expected imminent release of classified State Department cables will put “countless” lives at risk, threaten global counter-terrorism operations and jeopardise United States relations with its allies. In a highly unusual step reflecting the administration’s
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    • 239 21 AP KARACHI A cargo plane crashed in flames into a residential area in Pakistan’s largest city soon after takeoff yesterday, killing all eight Russian crew and at least one person on the ground, officials said. The Russian-made plane slammed into a housing complex
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    • 235 23 AP CAIRO Egyptians began voting yesterday in a parliamentary election preceded by a crackdown on the main opposition movement and on independent media and tensions with the United States over the government’s insistence on barring international monitors. President Hosni Mubarak’s ruling National Democratic
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    • 156 23 BLOOMBERG New Zealand Prime Minister John Key said he will today propose a Royal Commission into the causes of deadly explosions at the Pike River Coal mine, a probe that may determine the future of underground mining in the country. “In the
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    • 151 23 AP A Qantas A380 carrying more than 450 passengers, including the airline’s chief executive, took to the skies on Saturday in the first flight by one of its superjumbos since a midair engine explosion three weeks ago triggered a global safety review. Qantas
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    • 137 23 VICTORIES FOR MA'S PARTY BUT AP Weekend election victories for Taiwanese President Ma Ying Jeou’s party in local races do not mean an easy sail for the leader’s expected 2012 re-election bid, analysts said yesterday. The Nationalists held on to three mayoral seats in central and northern Taiwan on Saturday,
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    • 117 23 AP Macau casino mogul Stanley Ho bid US$330,000 ($435,000) for a pair of white truffles, including one weighing nearly 1kg, matching the record price he paid at the same event three years ago for one of the giant tubers. The Macau billionaire made the
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    • 183 24 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH Prince William has quashed speculation that he could become the next King in place of the Prince of Wales. In an attempt to end the debate over the issue of succession, Prince William signalled on Saturday that there is “no
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    • 360 24  -  RACHEL KELLY rachel@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE All eyes are on Cancun this week as developed and developing countries gather in the Mexican resort town to thrash out a common strategy to deal with climate change. As the summit got underway yesterday, some analysts are sceptical about
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    • 153 24 THE GUARDIAN British scientists are set to release a special report today, timed for the start of climate negotiations in Cancun, Mexico, which warns that up to a billion people face losing their homes in the next 90 years. Failures to agree curbs on
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    • 170 26 AP Five endangered Sumatran elephants have been found dead in Indonesia and conservationists said yesterday that they suspect farmers poisoned the animals to stop them from damaging crops. The elephants four females and one male all under the age of five were found dead
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    • 21 26 Toy Store Kiddy Land’s Santa Claus Academy students march through the Harajuku shopping district in Tokyo. AP
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    • 344 26 THE MALAYSIAN INSIDER PETALING JAYA The Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) national congress yesterday endorsed the party’s new leadership lineup voted in by members since the start of party elections last month. However, the leadership of the Pakatan Rakyat (PR) opposition coalition, of which PKR is a
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    • 97 26 The deputy mayor of a southern Philippine town was shot dead yesterday, reported the Mindanao Examiner. The authorities said Alexander Tomawis was shot by two teenaged suspects in Barira, located in the same Maguindanao province which saw the country’s worst political massacre last November which
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    • 91 24 REGISTERED WITH SINGAPORE MOE OPEN FOR ENROLMENT Does your child face any of these issues in school? Difficulties in reading, writing or spelling Difficulties focusing in his/her school work Short attention span and weak memory Difficulties completing school work and other tasks A continued lack of progress in school despite
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  • SPORTS
    • 680 29 REUTERS BARCLAYS PREMIER LEAGUE Newcastle 1 Chelsea 1 LONDON Chelsea’s Premier League title defence continued to splutter yesterday when they could only draw 1-1 at Newcastle United as the Blues missed their chance of returning to the top of the standings. Having lost three
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    • 338 29 REUTERS BARCLAYS PREMIER LEAGUE Tottenham 2 Liverpool 1 LONDON Aaron Lennon scored in stoppage time to complete a 2-1 comeback win over Liverpool in an action-packed encounter at White Hart Lane last night (early this morning, Singapore time). It was a fluctuating
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    • 326 30 LONDON Chelsea have targeted Barcelona coach Pep Guardiola (picture) as a possible replacement for Carlo Ancelotti, if the latter leaves his post at the end of the season. According to The Daily Telegraph, Chelsea are seeking to replace sporting director Frank Arnesen with
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    • 228 30 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH LONDON David Beckham (picture) has been offered the chance to return to the English Premier League after Everton manager David Moyes admitted he would relish the prospect of bringing the former England captain to Goodison Park. The 35-year-old has confirmed he
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    • 531 30 Berbatov shows he has not forgotten how to score REUTERS MANCHESTER It has been more than two months since Dimitar Berbatov (picture) last scored in the Premier League. On Saturday, it took him less than two minutes to find the net. And, once he
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    • 604 31 With the coach pulling all the strings, Madrid are a real threat AGENCIES LA LIGA Barcelona vs Real Madrid BARCELONA More than a barrage of abuse, expect a couple of mobile phones, coins, bricks and bicycle chains to be hurled onto the pitch when Jose Mourinho (picture)
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    • 334 31 BLOOMBERG BRISBANE Alastair Cook and Andrew Strauss hit centuries as England fought back to take an 88-run lead over Australia heading into the final day of the series-opening Ashes cricket Test in Brisbane. Cook struck an unbeaten 132, while captain Strauss scored 110 as the
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    • 213 31 REUTERS DALLAS The Dallas Mavericks used a 13-0 run to open the third quarter and beat the Miami Heat 106-95 at the American Airlines Center on Saturday night (yesterday morning, Singapore time). A Dallas third-quarter streak over a four-minute stretch increased their 51-49 half-time lead to 15
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    • 619 33  -  STTA programme takes game to the masses to recruit local talent What we are doing now, is to get more Singaporeans from all races to play table tennis to increase our talent pool. It is encouraging to see Malays and Indians signing up for this programme.
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    • 384 33 GUANGZHOU Just as the Chinese dazzled the world with the Beijing Olympics two years ago, they did it again in the southern city of Guangzhou, hosting and totally dominating the biggest Asian Games ever held. Following the Olympics and this year’s Shanghai Expo, these
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  • Page 33 Miscellaneous
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  • BUSINESS
    • WEEKLY ROUNDUP (NOV 22 TO 26)
      • 50 35 FRIDAY CLOSE 3,158.08 (-0.04%) Thursday 3,159.23 p 0.71% Wednesday 3,137.01 p 0.34% Tuesday 3,126.30 q 2.03% Monday 3,190.92 q 0.20% THEWEEKAHEAD There is no sign investors’ headaches from Europe are going away but indications of strong holiday spending and an improving labour market could soothe Wall Street next week.
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      • 30 35 HANG SENG 22,877.25 (-3.09%) È Ç NIKKEI 10,039.56 (+0.26%) SHANGHAI 2,871.70 (-0.58%) È È È AUSTRALIA 4,598.30 (-0.67%) È MUMBAI 19,136.61 (-2.29%) MALAYSIA 1,492.05 (-0.93%) SEOUL 1,901.80 (-2.02%) È
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      • 9 35 OIL US$83.76 (+2.17%) Ç GOLD US$1,363.75 (+0.79%) Ç
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    • STOCK CALLS
      • 48 35 $0.93 Outperform CIMB raises target to $1.72 from $1.12, maintains rating. CWT will acquire 60% equity stake in South African firm Aquarius Shipping International. “CWT has also been pursuing growth in its commodities logistics business in Turkey and Indonesia.” Raises FY2011 to 2012 earnings forecasts by 12.8%-12.9%.
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      • 51 35 $10.80 Buy OCBC Investment Research lifts (BN4.SG) target price to $12.50 from $11.22 after increasing FY2011 earnings estimate to reflect firmer prices of new jack-up rig projects. Keeps Buy call. Says Keppel’s offshore and marine arm’s year-to-date orders of $2.6 billion above house’s $2.5 billion forecast for entire
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    • 903 35  -  Growth of US bank’s credit-card business is template for the region, says its ANDY MUKHERJEE andymukherjee@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Mr Shirish Apte (picture), one of Citigroup’s two CEOs for the Asia-Pacific, is too busy to admire the breathtaking view of downtown Singapore from the office he’s using on the
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    • 70 37 Courts Asia CEO Terry O’Connor (far left) presenting cheques to representatives of the Children’s Surgical Centre and Mainly I Love Kids Fund at an appreciation dinner on Friday for sponsors who contributed to a charity house party organised by O’Connors and Friends earlier this month. The
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    • 367 37  -  MILLET ENRIQUEZ emelita@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Concerns over rising political and military tensions in the Korean peninsula may affect sentiment when markets open this week. All Asia-Pacific markets except Australia declined Friday, with South Korea, the Philippines and Indonesia dropping between 1 and 1.61 per cent.
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    • 153 39 BLOOMBERG BEIJING Yuan positions at Chinese banks stemming from their sale of foreign exchange rose last month at the fastest pace in 30 months, boosting the money supply and fuelling inflation, Xinhua news agency reported. The central bank bought 519 billion yuan ($102.7 billion)
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