Today, 4 December 2010

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    48 1 VMCH£ RHW MICA (P) 207/09/2010 A PUBLICATION OF NEWS HOTLINE 6822 2268 December 4-5, 2010 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking DATE. DECEMBER 4 5, 2010 A PUBLICATION OF A Publication of MediaCorp Articles selected for Saturday, december 4, 2010 MICA (P) 149/07/2010 Copyright 2010 The New York Times
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    Lock icon Qantas pilots may have saved the day, say investigators
    451 1 REUTERS SYDNEY Pilots of a crippled Qantas Airbus A380 superjumbo struggled with more than a dozen system errors after an engine blew apart on Nov 4, and landed the plane in Singapore with barely much runway to spare, an Australian investigation
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    Lock icon S Korea ‘will bomb North’ if attacked again
    474 1 AGENCIES SEOUL In outlining a tough new military posture in South Korea, the four-star general selected to become the next Defence Minister said the South will “definitely” use airstrikes against North Korea if it tries a repeat of last week’s attack on
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    Fitting into the mainstream, bit by bit
    1640 4  -  THE BIG STORY Progress has been made, but more needs to be done to integrate people with disabilities fully into VENESSA LEE correspondent venessa@mediacorp.com.sg IT WAS toilet humour, of a sort. “There are ‘wheelchair toilets’ that are too small. When you wheel it
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      169 4 EXASPERATED BY YOUR TEENS' BEHAVIOUR? Are you experiencing the following with your teens? Is your teen... Rebellious and showing aggressive behaviour with frequent outbursts? Uninterested in studies but spent hours playing online games? Showing disturbing behaviours such as lying, stealing, engaging in sexual activities?... Inclining to substance abuse like smoking
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  • NEWS
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      Lock icon Property is hot as Prive launch shows
      550 6  -  JOANNE CHAN joannechan@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The latest executive condominium (EC) project in Singapore and the first in Punggol saw crowds of potential home buyers on the first day of its launch (picture). As at 8.30pm on Friday, more than 260 applications were received. Market
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      PM Lee calls on religious leaders to lead by example
      289 6  -  ESTHER NG SINGAPORE With the various faiths practised here shared by many in the world, problems elsewhere can affect and test the Republic’s social fabric, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong noted on Friday. Calling on Singapore’s religious leaders to be
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      Tussle over wine set to turn sour
      293 6  -  TEO XUANWEI xuanwei@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE At least one customer of shuttered wine investment firm Assets Wine Management (AWM) has gone to the High Court to recover her wine that have been locked up in a warehouse since June. This, at a time when the
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      Lock icon Some stalls to shut at T1 staff canteen
      431 8  -  LYNDA HONG lyndahong@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE About half the 29 stallholders at a Changi Airport staff canteen, which is also open to the public, are pulling out this month after rents next year have been nearly doubled from current rates of up to $4,000.
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      Botched nose job puts spotlight on aesthetic treatments again
      310 8  -  According to guidelines on SMC’s website, only a plastic surgeon or an Ear, Nose and Throat surgeon has the minimum level of competence required to perform invasive procedures such as rhinoplasty (nose reconstruction surgery). NG JING YNG SINGAPORE In the wake
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      He faked it for his mistress’ dad
      175 8  -  SHAFFIQ ALKHATIB SINGAPORE To please his mistress’ father, a married man arranged a fake wedding ceremony complete with a party and guests. Raymond Wee Kian Seng, 37, orchestrated the “wedding” with Ms Tham Wai Fen. The pair used to date but eventually broke
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      TWO JAILED FOR GIVING BRIBES TO CUSTOMS OFFICER
      117 8  -  SHAFFIQ ALKHATIB Two Indian nationals were jailed on Friday for bribery. They gave bribes totalling $21,650 to former Higher Customs Officer Murgeiyah Subramaniam, 34, between July 2008 and March last year. Murgeiyah had endorsed their tourist GST refund applications without verifying the
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      POLY STUDENT CHARGED WITH MOLESTING SCHOOLMATE
      98 8  -  SHAFFIQ ALKHATIB A Nanyang Polytechnic student has been charged with molesting one of his schoolmates and stealing another woman’s undergarments. Jee Guang You, 23, allegedly lifted the 19-year-old’s skirt up to her right thigh in the polytechnic’s library last month. He is also believed
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  • VOICES
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      Get residents involved in upgrading decisions
      261 10  -  Letter from Lim Poh Seng I REFER to the report “Six older private estates to be upgraded” (Dec 3). I believe residents living in private estates should also be given the opportunity to take part in the decisionmaking process when it comes to upgrading.
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      Not all bus stops suitable for scheme
      231 10  -  Letter from Helen Lim Deputy Director, Media Relations Land Transport Authority WE refer to Mr Lim Poh Seng’s letter “Give way to buses exiting bays at all times” (Nov 29) and thank him for his suggestions to improve the overall reliability of our
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  • COMMENT & ANALYSIS
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      Lock icon Cycle of failure breeds youth violence
      1331 12  -  Young Singaporeans live up to the expectations and labels bad and good we place on them GLENN LIM In George Bernard Shaw’s classic Pygmalion, phonetics expert Professor Higgins attempts to make a lady out of an uneducated Cockney flower girl named Eliza Doolittle as
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      Lock icon How England was played out in its World Cup 2018 bid ...
      1336 14  - How England was played out in its World Cup 2018 bid OWEN GIBSON Owen Gibson is a sports correspondent for The Guardian, a position he has held since December 2008. THE GUARDIAN A World Cup bid campaign that began amid acrimonious infighting ended with England’s team united in shock and
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  • WORLD
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      Lock icon North Europe freezes over
      421 16 AP WARSAW The death toll from a bitter cold spell across Europe increased to at least 39, officials said on Friday, while some of the worst floods in a century devastated parts of the Balkans. In many parts of Europe, train services continued to be disrupted
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      Lock icon IRAN ARRESTS PEOPLE BEHIND SCIENTIST'S MURDER
      116 16 REUTERS Iran has arrested a number of people it says were behind the murder of a nuclear scientist and were linked to foreign spy agencies, state television quoted Intelligence Minister Heydar Moslehi as saying. The arrests came as Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili
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      Lock icon IVORY COAST CLOSES ITS BORDERS AFTER DISPUTED POLL
      124 16 THE GUARDIAN The Ivory Coast has closed its borders and blocked foreign media after an apparent election victory for the opposition was dismissed by presidential aides as “an attempted coup d’etat”. Election commission chief Youssouf Bakayoko said opposition leader Alassane Ouattara had
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      Lock icon War games move to Japan
      208 16 AP TOKYO The United States and Japan began one of their biggest military exercises on Friday with tens of thousands of troops, hundreds of aircraft and a US supercarrier joining in drills that simulated an attack on Japanese territory. The drills came after the US
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      Lock icon WikiLeaks gets a new address after being left homeless
      350 16 AGENCIES PARIS WikiLeaks, the whistle-blower website that released about 250,000 United States diplomatic cables, battled to stay online on Friday after attacks on its servers forced it to change the name of its main website. It now has a Swiss domain
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      Lock icon America’s latest terror threat: Home-grown radicals
      377 20 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH WASHINGTON The sheer volume of terrorist plots against the United States means that the country will become unable to prevent a fatal attack by a new breed of extremists radicalised in America’s towns and cities, the US top counter-terrorism official has
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      Lock icon Pistol-packing Indonesian terror suspect captured in Malaysia
      332 20 Fadli is suspected of involvement in the armed robbery at a CIMB Niaga bank in Medan, Sumatra in August. The suspects made off with 1.5 billion rupiah ($217,865) in cash and shot dead one security officer. AGENCIES KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian police announced on
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      Lock icon US uses ‘game-changer’ weapon in Afghanistan
      173 22 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH LONDON The Pentagon has rolled out prototypes of its firstever programmable “smart” grenade launcher, a shoulder-fired weapon that uses microchipped ammunition to target and kill the enemy, even when the enemy is hidden behind walls. After years of development, the XM25
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      Lock icon The future of TV is a picture of decadence
      230 22 REUTERS NEW YORK Fall back on your sofa in five years, snap your fingers to turn on a TV that’s thin as paper and stretches across a wall, then ask it to switch channels so you can watch the day’s football
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      Lock icon EDIBLE HOUSE
      97 22 AP A 6.7m-high gingerbread house standing in the lobby of the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco. The house was built with 5,500 pieces of gingerbread, 38kg of icing, 193kg of candy and 30 litres of chocolate. Chefs repair the holiday creation every day as people often break off
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      Lock icon All’s not well in Disney town
      378 22 AP CELEBRATION (Florida) Celebration, Disney’s master-planned, picture-perfect central Florida community, has never reported a homicide in its 14-year existence until this week. Residents of the town 8km south of Walt Disney World woke up on Tuesday to the sight of yellow crime-scene tape wrapped
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      Lock icon ANTARCTIC OZONE HOLE SMALLEST IN FIVEYEARS
      123 22 BLOOMBERG The ozone hole over Antarctica, a doorway for harmful solar radiation in the Southern Hemisphere, has shrunk to the smallest in five years, according to a New Zealand governmentowned research institute. The hole decreased in size to about 22 million square kilometres from
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      Lock icon GOOGLE AGREES TO US$1 COMPENSATION TO THE BORINGS OVER STREET VIEW TRESPASSING
      114 22 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH Google, the Internet giant estimated to be worth £125 billion ($255.9 billion), has agreed to pay a couple US$1 for trespassing on their property. Mr Aaron Boring and Ms Christine Boring, of Pittsburgh sued the
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      Lock icon CHINA TRAIN HITS 486KMH, BREAKS RECORD
      120 22 AP A Chinese passenger train hit a record speed of 486kmh on Friday during a test run of a yet-to-be opened link between Beijing and Shanghai, state media said. The Xinhua news agency said it was the fastest speed recorded by an unmodified conventional
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    Lock icon Microbe that finds arsenic tasty redefines life
    1193 24  -  SCIENCE Lab-trained bacterium open up possibility organisms with mind-boggling biochemical powers can exist DENNIS OVERBYE THE NEW YORK TIMES MENLO PARK (California) Scientists said on Thursday that they had trained a bacterium to eat and grow on a diet of arsenic, in place
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  • BUSINESS
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      Lock icon US jobless rate rises to 9.8 per cent
      429 26 Payrolls up by 39,000, well short of expectations, Dow AGENCIES WASHINGTON The United States economy added fewer jobs than expected last month and the unemployment rate rose to its highest level since April, underlining the continued weakness in the labour market 17
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      Lock icon China to tighten monetary policy next year
      357 26 AGENCIES BEIJING China has ordered a shift from easy credit to a prudent monetary policy as its leaders vow to step up the fight against inflation and guide the rapid growth in the world’s second-largest economy to a sustainable level. The announcement on
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      CATHAY CEO QUITS TO JOIN IATA
      98 26  -  DOW JONES Cathay Pacific Airways said on Friday its chief executive Tony Tyler would be stepping down to take a new job running the International Air Transport Association, a Swissbased global airline lobby group. Mr Tyler’s resignation will take effect from March 31 and
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      Lock icon Now, he’s on a Forbes list
      404 27 KUALA LUMPUR Mr Tony Fernandes (picture), the charismatic chief executive of AirAsia, has been named 2010 Businessman of the Year in this month’s Forbes Asia. The announcement on Friday came almost exactly nine years to the date when Mr Fernandes, now 46, bought the
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      Property market will adjust to measures
      231 27 SINGAPORE The property market will take into account the recent cooling measures and adjust to the “new challenges”, said Mr Simon Cheong, the president of the Real Estate Developers’ Association of Singapore (REDAS). “It is in our interest to see a graduated trend in
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      OLAM IN $262 MILLION NIGERIAN SUGAR VENTURE
      122 27 Commodity company Olam International said on Friday it had entered into ajointventuretoset up a US$200 million ($262 million) sugar refinery in Nigeria. Singapore-listed Olam controls 80 per cent of the venture, while Lababidi Group, or LG, holds the remaining 20 per cent. The
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      Recovery drives regional logistics boom
      303 27 Economists warn that some regional PMIs could contract early next year as holiday-driven demand peters out and the sluggish recovery in the West takes its toll. SINGAPORE The Asian supply chain is buzzing again after a brief hiatus. The economic recovery means more goods are
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      CapitaLand to sell Adelphi stake for $218m
      231 27  -  JO-ANN HUANG SINGAPORE CapitaLand is divesting 163 strata-titled units at The Adelphi near City Hall MRT for $218.13 million. It will sell the units through its indirect wholly-owned subsidiary, The Adelphi Property, to the commercial and retail arms of Guthrie SV a joint
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  • SPORTS
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      Lock icon Mungara leads Kenyan charge
      663 31  -  Elite men and women will line-up early on Sunday morning at Orchard Rd IAN DECOTTA ian@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE He has run the last three races in the Prague international marathon, which he considers the hottest, with the mercury level hovering between 15 and 19°C. Kenneth Mburu Mungara
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      Lock icon Tiger shows his stripes to hold a lead at the Chevron World Challange
      490 31 Woods was on his way to his best competitive round since he shot a 62 in September last year, until he made a bogey on the last hole after a terrible drive. NEW YORK TIMES CALIFORNIA Not
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      Lock icon Sengkang ‘will be in the black by 2012’
      665 32  -  SHAMIR OSMAN shamir@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The football fraternity took notice when he assumed control of National Football League (NFL) side Tiong Bahru United in 2005 and expanded their fruit-machine business. Their gaze turned to him again last year when he took charge of
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      Lock icon Jeering crowds heat up the game for James
      330 32 REUTERS CLEVELAND It was not a happy homecoming but it was spectacular, as LeBron James scored a season-high 38 points to lead the Miami Heat to a convincing ***** triumph over the Cleveland Cavaliers. Returning to Ohio for the first time since
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      Lock icon Don’t write us off yet, says Alam Shah
      589 33  -  Coach Avramovic and his men claim they always knew they would have to win on Sunday SHAMIR OSMAN shamir@mediacorp.com.sg AFF SUZUKI CUP 2010, GROUP B Singapore v Myanmar My Dinh Stadium, Sunday, 6pm (S’pore time) SINGAPORE They fell asleep at the last
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      Lock icon Anderson makes his mark Down Under
      280 33 REUTERS ADELAIDE Fast-bowler James Anderson (picture) finally found his footing on Australian soil with a spellbinding display of pace and movement to put England in charge of the second Ashes Test on Friday. After being hit all over the place on the last Ashes
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      Lock icon England blows the whistle on Blatter
      632 34 Anson accuses officials of lying, and suggests no more bids until FIFA reform selection process THE DAILYTELEGRAPH ZURICH The fallout over the decision to award the hosting rights of the 2018 and 2022 World Cup finals to Russia and Qatar, respectively, picked up pace
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      Lock icon Qatar’s unique stadium plan a clincher
      320 34 AP SYDNEY Australia’s Sports Minister felt Qatar’s plan to ship surplus stadiums to developing nations and its contribution to Middle East peace appear to have clinched it the 2022 World Cup. Mark Arbib said Qatar’s presentation was first-class, with its proposal for dismantling stadiums
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      Lock icon Japan wary of China’s muscle
      200 34 REUTERS TOKYO Japan has expressed concern that China could steamroll future World Cup bids after losing out to Qatar in the race to host the 2022 finals. Senior Japanese officials said they would bounce back after tasting defeat in Thursday’s FIFA vote, but acknowledged potential
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      Lock icon The heat is on at Bloomfield Road
      594 35 Blackpool eagerly wait for Ferguson’s Red Devils to come to town AGENCIES ENGLISH PREMIERSHIP Blackpool vs Man United LONDON Manager Ian Holloway was hopeful on Friday that Manchester United’s first visit to Bloomfield Road since October 1974 will go ahead on Saturday, despite
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      Lock icon One snowball fight the Blues aim to win
      316 35 AGENCIES ENGLISH PREMIERSHIP Chelsea vs Everton LONDON Carlo Ancelotti’s charges have gone from five points ahead of the pack at the summit of the table to winning only once in five Barclays Premier League matches. Their dreadful streak has seen Manchester United
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      149 35 GIRLS, HOOPS AND FOOTBALL ON SPORTSZONE Join the SportsZone team on Saturday on 938LIVE from 11am as they speak to their guests from the participating teams. Also on the programme, a look ahead to the matches in the English Premiership, as the “Big Four” look to restore sanity to what
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      759 38  -  POSTSCRIPT On polite taxi drivers, saying thank you and all things ‘not bad’ Mayo Martin mayo@mediacorp.com.sg The writer is the arts correspondent at TODAY. PEOPLE around me have a lot of horror stories about taxi drivers. You know, like the one who thinks a trip from Sengkang to
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      532 77  -  Held too closely, mobile phones may be a cancer risk. By RANDALL STROSS NYT WARNING: Holding a cellphone against your ear or storing it in your pocket may be hazardous to your health. This paraphrases a warning that cellphone manufacturers include in the
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