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Title Section24 2010-12-15 1 TODAY MICA (P) 057/10/2010 A PUBLICATION OF NEWS HOTLINE 6822 Wednesday December 15, 2010 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking DECEMBER 15,2010 A PUBLICATION OF24 words
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Article, Illustration920 2010-12-15 1 MELISSA GOH - S’pore MFA says ‘specific complaints’ did not tally with its own records MELISSA GOH Channel NewsAsia Malaysia bureau chief melissagohct@mediacorp.com.sg KUALA LUMPUR The Malaysian Foreign Minister yesterday handed a protest note to the Singapore High Commissioner to Malaysia, calling the comments allegedly made by senior SingaporeREUTERS - 920 words
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Advertisement145 2010-12-15 1 iTODAY on HTC Android phones For the latest news updates on the go. Download the latest version of the application from your device's App store. ESTHER DYSON WIKILEAKS’ FLAWED ANSWER TO A FLAWED WORLD 20 COMMENT&ANALYSIS MARTIN BECKFORD WHY IS THE ENGLISH TOWN OF LUTON A HOTBED OF EXTREMISM? 24145 words
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NEWS
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Article, Illustration884 2010-12-15 5 Late US diplomat Richard Holbrooke made US stronger, safer, says Obama AGENCIES WASHINGTON American diplomat Richard Holbrooke, who brokered the accord that ended the war in Bosnia and served as United States special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, died on Monday. HeAGENCIES; REUTERS - 884 words
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218 2010-12-15 6 AGENCIES BERLIN German authorities raided homes and religious schools connected to two radical Islamist groups with suspected terrorist links yesterday morning. The raids, in the western cities of Moenchengladbach, Braunschweig and Bremen, were aimed at Salafist groups Invitation to Paradise and Islamic CultureAGENCIES - 218 words
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Article, Illustration291 2010-12-15 8 AGENCIES JAKARTA The Indonesian authorities yesterday said they have arrested four militants suspected of having links to top terrorist suspect Abu Tholut, who was captured last week. Police spokesman Iskandar Hasan said the arrests on Friday and Saturday in and around the capital wereAGENCIES; AP - 291 words
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363 2010-12-15 8 He changed from ‘ordinary teen’ to fanatic AGENCIES STOCKHOLM The family of Stockholm suicide bomber, Taimour Abdulwahab al-Abdaly, has blamed Britain for his transformation from an “ordinary teenager” to an Al Qaeda fanatic. They said he showed little interest in religion asAGENCIES - 363 words
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233 2010-12-15 8 THE GUARDIAN Britain made “little progress” in reaching out to Muslim communities despite investing “considerable time and resources” after the 7/7 London bombings in 2005, United States diplomats concluded in cables released by WikiLeaks. A powerful critique of the government’s efforts toTHE GUARDIAN - 233 words
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Article, Illustration497 2010-12-15 10 ESTHER NG; LYNDA HONG - ESTHER NG AND LYNDA HONG estherng@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Its first foray into Singapore’s retail scene was to have begun Dec 1 at nex, the newest shopping centre here. Selling an assortment of upholstery, beddings, towels, gardening and furniture, Malaysian homePHOTO BY ESTHER NG - 497 words
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223 2010-12-15 10 SHAFFIQ ALKHATIB SINGAPORE A sales manager who took more than 200 upskirt videos of women without their knowledge was sentenced yesterday to nine months in jail. Soo Ee Hock, 36, pleaded guilty last month to 12 charges, while the remainingSHAFFIQ ALKHATIB - 223 words
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Article81 2010-12-15 12 SHAFFIQ ALKHATIB A man has been charged with breaking into a flat at Block 364, Clementi Avenue 2 at around 3pm on Sunday. SimTiamTay, 46, allegedly forced open a sliding window and grilles before making off with nearly $4,000 in cash and valuables. He will beSHAFFIQ ALKHATIB - 81 words
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442 2010-12-15 12 CHEOW XIN YI - CHEOW XIN YI cheowxinyi@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The police have rejected applications by civil society groups Humanitarian Organisation for Migration Economics (Home) and Transient Workers Count Too (TWC2) to hold activities commemorating International Migrants Day on Saturday. The groups wanted to hold a vehicle procession to442 words
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198 2010-12-15 14 SHAFFIQ ALKHATIB - Accused also believed to have gone through a marriage ceremony without solemnisation SHAFFIQ ALKHATIB shaffiq@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE A man was charged yesterday with two counts of marriage-related offences. Jerome Ow Siew Nam, 37, is accused of making a fake marriage certificate between October 2006198 words
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178 2010-12-15 14 SINGAPORE Fewer people in Singapore are intending to pursue further education. In an online survey of 5,001 respondents by employment portal JobsCentral, approximately 71.4 per cent of them indicated that they intend to pursue higher education. This is a drop of almost 8178 words
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98 2010-12-15 14 GCE Normal Academic and Technical Level Examinations results will be released on Friday. The Ministry of Education said that school candidates may obtain their result slips from their respective schools from 2.30pm. Those who wish to apply for the various courses offered by98 words
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Article625 2010-12-15 16 ZUL OTHMAN - Polytechnics and universities placing emphasis on multi-disciplinary training for a more rounded education ZUL OTHMAN zul@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Five years ago, only about 15 per cent of 18,000 polytechnic applicants (2,700) reportedly chose engineering as their first-choice course, compared to the 30 per cent of the 16,000625 words
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Article, Illustration309 2010-12-15 17 JOANNE CHAN SINGAPORE Some 40 Singapore musicians from different generations and music genres got together to produce a music video for next year’s Total Defence campaign. Reinventing the well-loved song Home, the project aims to rally Singaporeans together as a nationJOANNE CHAN; CHANNEL NEWSASIA - 309 words
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Article, Illustration185 2010-12-15 17 VIMITA MOHANDAS SINGAPORE Prepare a three-course meal that is nutritionally balanced for less than $25. That challenge was issued to seven teams of secondary school students in a competition organised by Nanyang Polytechnic and Pizza Hut yesterday. And it was students fromVIMITA MOHANDAS; CHANNEL NEWSASIA - 185 words
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181 2010-12-15 18 SHAFFIQ ALKHATIB A man was fined $2,000 yesterday for using threatening words on the chairman of the Young People’s Action Party Marine Parade Branch. Peethambaran Dilip, 57, claimed he would incite hatred among the different races in Singapore and also indicatedSHAFFIQ ALKHATIB - 181 words
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247 2010-12-15 18 ALVINA SOH - Family-friendly malls see more business ALVINA SOH alvinasoh@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE More retailers here are adopting family-friendly practices to stay competitive. Features such as family car parks, spacious nursery rooms and baby pram rentals are giving some shopping centres an extra edge. According to247 words
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Article64 2010-12-15 18 Senior Minister of State (Foreign Affairs) Zainul Abidin Rasheed is currently in Bangkok for the third Asia-Middle East Dialogue Ministerial Meeting (AMED). which began yesterday and will end tomorrow. The theme for AMED III will be “Strengthening Co-operation towards Common Prosperity”. On the agenda will be64 words
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Advertisement622 2010-12-15 16 Polytechnics and universities placing emphasis on multi-disciplinary training for a more rounded education ZUL OTHMAN zul@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Five years ago, only about 15 per cent of 18,000 polytechnic applicants (2,700) reportedly chose engineering as their first-choice course, compared to the 30 per cent of the 16,000 hopefuls (4,800) who applied622 words
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Advertisement489 2010-12-15 17 NEWS 40 local musicians lend their voices forTotal Defence SINGAPORE Some 40 Singapore musicians from different generations and music genres got together to produce a music video for next year’s Total Defence campaign. Reinventing the well-loved song Home, the project aims to rally Singaporeans together as a nation in times489 words
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VOICES
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478 2010-12-15 20 I Tan Chow Huat Even if you’re an able-bodied young Singaporean, I’m sure you’ve cursed your luck when your usual route to the MRT station or the covered walkway from your lift lobby to the bus stop has been diverted due to construction,478 words
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Article, Illustration324 2010-12-15 22 Chia I-Ling Communications; and Jessica Toh - Letter from Chia I-Ling Communications Head, Corporate Communications Unit Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority and Jessica Toh Corporate Communications Executive Insolvency and Public Trustee’s Office WE REFER to the report “Judge: Ensure bankrupts relinquish directorships” (Dec 9). Under the Companies Act, companies are responsible for324 words
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Article293 2010-12-15 22 Dr Karen Ng Kio - Letter from Dr Karen Ng Kio Head, Ang Mo Kio Polyclinic National Healthcare Group (NHG) Polyclinics WE REFER to Mr Zukifli Durai’s letter “Quotas for the public at polyclinics?” (Dec 8). We do not set a quota on the number of patients our clinicians see293 words
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Article266 2010-12-15 22 Yvonne Lim - To spruce up your estate Letter from Yvonne Lim Deputy Director (Infrastructure) Ministry of National Development WE THANK Mr Lim Poh Seng for his feedback “Get residents involved in upgrading decisions” (Dec 4). Launched in 2000, the Estate Upgrading Programme (EUP) aims to enhance the living environment of private estate266 words
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COMMENT & ANALYSIS
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Article, Illustration1089 2010-12-15 24 ESTHER DYSON - If our institutions aren’t fully accountable, it’s useful to have an unaccountable one reveal their secrets ESTHER DYSON Esther Dyson, chairman ofEDventure Holdings, is an active investor in a variety of start-ups around the world. This commentary is exclusive to Today in Singapore.PROJECT SYNDICATE - 1,089 words
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Article, Illustration1046 2010-12-15 26 PETER SINGER - PETER SINGER The writer is Professor ofBioethics at Princeton University and the author, most recently, of The Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty. This commentary is exclusive to Today in Singapore. PROJECT SYNDICATE At Princeton University, Mr Woodrow Wilson, whoPROJECT SYNDICATE - 1,046 words
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Article, Illustration978 2010-12-15 28 MARTIN BECKFORD - Luton, home of the Stockholm bomber, has become infamous for spawning radical Islam and its opponents MARTIN BECKFORD THE DAILY TELEGRAPH Taimour Abdulwahab al-Abdaly, a suicide bomber who blew himself up in Sweden, is thought to have been radicalised while studyingTHE DAILY TELEGRAPH; AP - 978 words
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WORLD
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Article, Illustration252 2010-12-15 30 But the fight is not over as he can no longer count on a strong Parliament majority AP ROME Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi won back-to-back votes of confidence in the Italian Parliament yesterday but he was left with a razor-thin majority that will make it hardAP; REUTERS - 252 words
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157 2010-12-15 30 AGENCIES LONDON WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange arrived in court in London yesterday ahead of a court hearing at which he will renew his attempt to be granted bail. Lawyer Mark Stephens said his client will also offer to wear a tracking device to reassureAGENCIES - 157 words
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Article, Illustration167 2010-12-15 36 BLOOMBERG South Korean President Lee Myung Bak yesterday accepted his army chief’s offer to leave the post, less than three weeks after he replaced the Defence Minister following a North Korean artillery attack that killed four people. The resignation by ArmyBLOOMBERG; AP - 167 words
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349 2010-12-15 36 AGENCIES SEOUL South Korea said yesterday it suspects the North has been secretly enriching uranium at more locations besides its main nuclear site which could mean it has more material for building nuclear bombs. South Korean Foreign Minister Kim Sung Hwan saidAGENCIES - 349 words
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154 2010-12-15 36 CYCLING AWAY BEIJING’S TRAFFIC WOES AGENCIES China’s capital, ranked as having the world’s worst traffic, has proposed offering public bicycles, building tunnels and possibly imposing fees for driving in parts of the city to ease congestion. Other proposals that Beijing’s municipal government posted online for reducing traffic include imposing limitsAGENCIES - 154 words
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Article, Illustration230 2010-12-15 38 AP MANILA Former Philippine First Lady Imelda Marcos yesterday said she will have a “happy Christmas”, thanks to a court ordering the return of one of the sprawling mansions the government seized after her husband was deposed. The Supreme Court ruled late on MondayAP - 230 words
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238 2010-12-15 38 AGENCIES BEIJING Chinese police are hunting a factory boss who enslaved mentally handicapped people, forcing them to work long hours without pay and giving them the same food as the factory’s dogs. The boss of a construction materials factory in China’s westernAGENCIES - 238 words
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Article163 2010-12-15 38 AP Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad abruptly fired his Foreign Minister on Monday and named the nuclearchief as acting top diplomat, the latest sign of a rift at the top as the country faces intense pressure over its nuclear programme. The fired diplomat, Mr Manouchehr Mottaki, isAP - 163 words
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286 2010-12-15 40 AGENCIES KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim faces a six-month suspension from Parliament for linking Malaysia’s Muslim-majority government to Israel. Federal legislators are scheduled to vote tomorrow on the suspension, which could force the Permatang Pauh Member of Parliament to miss parliamentaryAGENCIES - 286 words
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166 2010-12-15 40 THE MALAYSIAN INSIDER KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia’s opposition Democratic Action Party yesterday announced that it will postpone its party elections for a year to August 2012, following a similar move by the United Malays National Organisation (Umno), which was widely seen asTHE MALAYSIAN INSIDER - 166 words
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Article, Illustration251 2010-12-15 42 THE NEW YORK TIMES MOSCOW Russian billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov, who owns the New Jersey Nets basketball team, rolled out another pet project on Monday: Russia’s first gas-electric hybrid car. It is called the Yo (picture), for the Russian letter “ё”, and it canTHE NEW YORK TIMES - 251 words
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165 2010-12-15 44 AGENCIES NEW YORK Bernard Madoff, the disgraced financier, announced on Monday through his lawyer that he would not seek to attend funeral services held for his son Mark, who committed suicide early Saturday morning, “out of consideration for the family’s privacy”. Lawyer Ira LeeAGENCIES - 165 words
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275 2010-12-15 44 REUTERS NEW YORK Women saw little advancement in pay and corporate boardrooms this year, extending a trend in which companies have lagged in promoting women, a study released on Monday shows. “This is our fifth report where the annual changeREUTERS - 275 words
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257 2010-12-15 46 REUTERS HAVANA Cuba has begun its own online encyclopedia, similar to Wikipedia, with the goal of presenting its version of the world and history “from a decoloniser point of view”. EcuRed (www.ecured.cu) describes its longtime ideological enemy, the United States, as “the most powerfulREUTERS - 257 words
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315 2010-12-15 46 AP KABUL Despite the crackle of gunfire in the mountains of northern Afghanistan, the wealth of gold beneath will be mined under a multi-million-dollar contract that government officials approved on Monday. The deal is the first mining project in Afghanistan backed by private investorsAP - 315 words
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Article, Illustration380 2010-12-15 47 THE GUARDIAN LONDON Already been to North Korea? Hiking in Afghanistan too last year? Fear not. Tourism has a new frontier: The site of the world’s biggest civilian nuclear disaster. From next year, the heavily contaminated area around the Chernobyl power plantTHE GUARDIAN; AP - 380 words
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107 2010-12-15 47 BLOOMBERG A fire at an apartment building in the eastern Chinese city of Quzhou killed nine people, the official Xinhua News Agency reported yesterday, citing the local fire department. Two others were injured in the blaze that broke out at about 8.15pmBLOOMBERG - 107 words
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151 2010-12-15 47 AP SEOUL South Korea says it has confirmed two more cases of a new gene in bacteria that turns them into drug-resistant superbugs, bringing the total number of cases to four. The state-run Korea Centres for Disease Control and Prevention says thatAP - 151 words
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263 2010-12-15 48 REUTERS NEW YORK Acupuncture could be an alternative to eye patches or eye drops for older children with amblyopia, a common childhood vision problem more commonly known as “lazy eye,” according to a study. The problem, in which one eyeREUTERS - 263 words
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337 2010-12-15 48 In these countries, per capita income has doubled in less than 20 years but overall happiness does not seem to have followed the same path. THE GUARDIAN LONDON Getting richer does not make a country happier in the long run, accordingTHE GUARDIAN - 337 words
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Article, Illustration726 2010-12-15 50 Korean silences Gunners yet again as Red Devils storm to the top ENGLISH PREMIERSHIP Man United 1 Arsenal 0 AGENCIES MANCHESTER It is well-known that one of Sir Alex Ferguson’s most difficult decisions as a football manager was to leave South Korea’s ParkAGENCIES; AP - 726 words
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268 2010-12-15 50 LONDON Fifa president Sepp Blatter has been criticised after he joked that gay fans travelling to the 2022 World Cup in Qatar should “refrain from any sexual activities”. Gay rights groups have criticised the decision to award the tournament to a country where268 words
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Article, Illustration479 2010-12-15 51 Bosnian striker set to move as Manchester club continue to play hard ball with their skipper THE DAILY TELEGRAPH MANCHESTER While digging their heels in over the whole saga surrounding Carlos Tevez, Manchester City at the same time will not sit still, with reportsTHE DAILY TELEGRAPH; AP - 479 words
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Article, Illustration373 2010-12-15 51 THE GUARDIAN LONDON Sam Allardyce is still waiting for the reality to sink in after being given the boot by Blackburn on Monday. The manager, along with assistant Neil McDonald, was shown the door following last month’s takeover of the club by Indian company TheTHE GUARDIAN; AP - 373 words
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333 2010-12-15 51 REUTERS MADRID Spain’s football players’ union (AFE) want rules on keeping defibrillators available at stadiums, brought in after the death of Antonio Puerta three years ago, extended to cover lower-division clubs. Miguel Garcia’s collapse, during a game between his Salamanca side and Real Betis atREUTERS - 333 words
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Article, Illustration603 2010-12-15 53 LOW LIN FHOONG - Netball chiefs say squad will be ready for world champs LOW LIN FHOONG linfhoong@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE There were euphoric celebrations in the Singapore camp in 2007, when the Republic beat Melbourne for the right to host the 2011 World Netball Championships. While the organisers are onPICTURE COURTESY NETBALL SINGAPORE - 603 words
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Article200 2010-12-15 53 LOW LIN FHOONG SINGAPORE The Republic’s 24-strong contingent at the 1 st Asian Para Games celebrated their second bronze medal in Guangzhou yesterday, courtesy of swimmer Theresa Goh. Competing in the women’s 50-metre freestyle (S5 category) final at the Aoti Aquatics Centre, the 23-year-old Paralympian finishedLOW LIN FHOONG - 200 words
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Article, Illustration319 2010-12-15 54 TAN YO-HINN SINGAPORE Being consistent on the golf course this year has paid off handsomely for Marc Ong. The 15-year-old will represent Singapore at next month’s HSBC China Junior Golf Open, which will be held in Mission Hills, Shenzhen, from Jan 21 to 23.TAN YO-HINN; PHOTO COURTESY SINGAPORE GOLF ASSOCIATION - 319 words
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Article, Illustration573 2010-12-15 60 ENTERPRISE SINGAPORE From school to book publisher and, most recently, cafe owner such has been the trajectory of evolution for LogicMills School of Thinking. This growth can be attributed to the company’s realisation of the vast potential of its IP (intellectual property) assets, thanks to the573 words
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Article282 2010-12-15 55 MILLET ENRIQUEZ SINGAPORE Asian economic growth and corporate earnings next year will be better compared to this year, according to a survey of 19 fund managers by OCBC Bank’s Wealth Management unit. Fund managers, the poll found, also hold the view that Asian and emergingMILLET ENRIQUEZ - 282 words
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Article54 2010-12-15 55 TUESDAY CLOSE 3,176.91 (-0.17%) Monday Friday Thursday Wednesday 3,182.32 3,185.42 3,210.20 3,202.80 q q p p 0.10% 0.77% 0.23% 0.34% TOP 5 BY VOLUME NAME VOL PRICE CHANGE Jade GoldenAgr Genting SP Gallant ChinaGaoxian 178,696 92,018 54,992 52,707 50,766 0.010 0.790 2.160 0.440 0.340 UNCH 1.94% 0.46% 6.02% 6.25%54 words
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Article74 2010-12-15 55 Sell $3.68 RBS keeps call and cuts price target to $3.20 from $3.55 to account for lower market valuations of the developer’s listed entities. The house expects the stock to continue underperforming its Singapore-listed peers. It also estimates CapitaLand would need to buy $5 billion to $7 billion worth74 words
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Article84 2010-12-15 55 Outperform $1.93 CIMB maintains call on the shipbuilder’s stock and lifts the price target to $2.57 from $2.15, based on 14X P/E vs 11X previously, after increasing its 2011 order-win assumption to US$1 billion from US$800 million. The house says “we believe the strength in container ship orders could84 words
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Article370 2010-12-15 55 JO-ANN HUANG - Tuan Sing unit top bidder in strongest tender response in six months JO-ANN HUANG joannhuang@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE A residential land parcel at Seletar Road attracted a whopping 11 bids at the close of the Urban Redevelopment Authority’s (URA) public tender yesterday. This is the highest370 words
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384 2010-12-15 57 MAY WONG - Analysts say companies should be more transparent even as they tighten info security MAY WONG may@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Instead of living in fear of getting entangled in a WikiLeaks-type scandal, companies in Singapore should become more transparent to consumers and stakeholders while they beef up384 words
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115 2010-12-15 57 Mainboard-listed Amara Holdings plans to give a $32-million facelift to its shopping mall at 100 Tras Street and re-brand it as “100 AM”. Amara said yesterday that additions and alteration works to its existing fourstorey Amara Shopping Centre would be completed in115 words
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112 2010-12-15 57 Singapore ranks fourth in the world for expatriate corporate assignments, after the United States, the United Kingdom and China, according to the latest survey by global human resources consultant ECA International. The year-end ECA survey also found Singapore to be the eighth most112 words
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164 2010-12-15 57 Mainboard-listed electronics distributor Thakral Corp has set a new strategy for its real estate business, saying it will partner with developers as a financial investor. In a filing to the Singapore Exchange, the firm said that as a capital investor, it is looking164 words
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518 2010-12-15 58 Beset by joblessness, debt, budget deficits, recovery will be bumpy AP NEW YORK Braving high unemployment and unsustainable levels of debt and budget deficits in Europe and the United States, world economic growth is expected to slow next year but Asian economies willAP - 518 words
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156 2010-12-15 58 REUTERS TOKYO Japan’s plan to boost its ailing economy by cutting corporate taxes got a guarded welcome from business but is unlikely to help restore the fortunes of unpopular Prime Minister Naoto Kan. Mr Kan gave orders late Monday for a 5 percentage pointREUTERS - 156 words
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Article, Illustration241 2010-12-15 64 GENEVIEVE LOH - GENEVIEVE LOH genevieveloh@mediacorp.com. sg CORPORATIONS spend millions every year figuring out what’s hot and what’s not. That’s what happens when you don’t have a subscription to one remarkably prescient oracle: Us. So maybe we aren’t exactly the redhot cultural barometer we like241 words
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Article, Illustration174 2010-12-15 64 Only the incomparable Christopher Nolan, after reviving the superhero genre, could have had the cojones to convince a tightfisted big movie studio to greenlight a movie as ridiculously convoluted and richly layered as this. And boy did he weave one174 words
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Article, Illustration89 2010-12-15 64 How many popular bigname comedians does it take to recycle lame gags and call it “funny”? Not enough in the world. Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Chris Rock, David Spade and Rob Schneider, please hang your heads in shame.This89 words
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Article, Illustration104 2010-12-15 64 It’s a triple-decker sandwich of Jesse Eisenberg,Andrew Garfield and Justin Timberlake, which, at the moment, we’re betting any director would gladly order for breakfast, lunch and dinner. David Fincher’s The Social Network is sweeping preOscar awards left, right and centre, making the Facebook flick104 words
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Article, Illustration84 2010-12-15 66 Ip Man 2, 14 Blades, Legend Of The Fist: The Return Of Chen Zhen ...Three back-to-back movies released almost immediately after 2009’s Bodyguards And Assassins all with the man playing the exact same role:A brooding but kick-ass martial arts expert hero with only one expression.84 words
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Article, Illustration132 2010-12-15 66 Movie reviewer Rex Reed wrote: "Everything else in this deadly, brainless exercise in pointless tedium is dedicated to the screeching audacity of delusional self-importance that convinces these people the whole world is waiting desperately to watch two hours and 25 minutes of132 words
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Article, Illustration19 2010-12-15 66 Topless. Buff. Prince. ‘Nuff said. Pity about the film, though.19 words
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Article, Illustration59 2010-12-15 66 Feng Xiao Gang’s astounding attention to detail really set the tone and authenticity of this compelling film about the Tangshan Earthquake, making it China’s more-than-worthy Best Foreign Picture entry for the 2011 Academy Awards. Sales of tissue packs also59 words
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Article, Illustration97 2010-12-15 68 Enthusiastically received by critics across the world as it makes the film festival rounds, Boo Junfeng’s feature debut was also the first Singaporean film to be selected for International Critics’ Week at the 63rd Cannes Film Festival.This homegrown trailblazer is paving the97 words
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Article, Illustration102 2010-12-15 68 Any film that tries to emulate decade-defining flicks of yore like Winona Ryder’s Heathers, Alicia Silverstone’s Clueless, Lindsay Lohan’s Mean Girls and Ellen Page’s Juno is alright in our books. But this razor-sharp high school satire goes one step further by referencing seminal goodies like102 words
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Article, Illustration46 2010-12-15 68 Miley “I’m Not Hannah Montana” Cyrus thought she was proving she can act, but really she was spearheading a campaign to shut down any further plans to adapt Nicholas Sparks novels for the big screen. Make it stop.46 words
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Article, Illustration55 2010-12-15 68 It was always going to be remembered nostalgically as classic kitsch. And then someone decided it was time for a Hollywood remake. In 3D. Lazily converted in postproduction. Now it’ll always be remembered as the ridiculous film with the impressive 3D Mandarin55 words
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Article, Illustration524 2010-12-15 69 MOVIE REVIEW: TRON: LEGACY PG, 127min GENEVIEVE LOH I HAD a hard time deciding who was going to review Tron: Legacy, the highly anticipated sequel to the 1982 sci-fi cult favourite Tron. Was it going to be the excited ‘80s fan kid in me or theGENEVIEVE LOH - 524 words
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Article, Illustration177 2010-12-15 70 GENEVIEVE LOH ALL GOODTHINGS: All good things are not always what they seem. Especially not in Andrew Jarecki’s latest thriller that teams a stellar cast of Oscars nominees Ryan Gosling and Frank Langella, with Kirsten Dunst, who’s back from a self-imposed two-year hiatus. Loosely based on the trueGENEVIEVE LOH - 177 words
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Article, Illustration204 2010-12-15 71 REUTERS THERE’S big movement on Snow White And The Huntsman, Universal’s take on the suddenly hot fairy tale, which is the subject of several competing movie projects. The studio, clearly angling to beat Relativity’s Tarsem-directed version, is in talks with CharlizeTheron to play the evilREUTERS - 204 words
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Article, Illustration408 2010-12-15 72 Facebook flick named best film at New York and Toronto awards AGENCIES THE Social Network has been named the top film of 2010 by both the New York Film Critics Circle and the Toronto Film Critics Association. Both groups also gave their Best Director honours toAGENCIES - 408 words
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Article, Illustration386 2010-12-15 73 George Clinton sues Black Eyed Peas for stealing REUTERS GEORGE Clinton has filed a copyright lawsuit against members of the Black Eyed Peas, their Universal Music Group label and Cherry Lane music publisher for allegedly sampling his song (Not Just) Knee Deep on a Grammyaward nominated album. AccordingREUTERS - 386 words
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Miscellaneous163 2010-12-15 74 ON MEDIACORP 3-PLUS-1 III Channel 8, 8pm Taiwanese boyband 2moro challenges Michelle Chia and Vivien Lai in incorporating pumpkin into one of their dishes. ON SINGTEL MIO TV SHERLOCK (HD) (Exclusive TV Premiere) mio TV Video On Demand (British TV), Anytime On Demand Award-winning actor Benedict Cumberbatch shows Sherlock in163 words
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Miscellaneous853 2010-12-15 74 ON MEDIACORP 6.00AM Films Stars Asia 6.30 Prime Time Morning 9.30 Planet’s Funniest Animals VIII 10.00 Style By Jury 10.30 Body Beautiful 11.00 Food Chain 11.30 Rachael’s Vacations NOON The Doctors 1.00PM The Price Is Right USA 2.00 Whacked Out Sports 2.30 Wheel Of Fortune 6.00AM Frontline 6.30 Where The853 words
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Article274 2010-12-15 75 THINGSTO DO 1 Random Art Artist Dick Lim presents artwork spanning various categories, including floral, figure, landscape and abstract. Date: Until Dec 31 Time: 11am to 6pm (Mon to Sat), closed on Sun; for other viewings, call 6479 7906 Venue: d’Art Studio, 5 Westbourne Road, #02-03, Blenheim274 words
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