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    68 1 Week&uC RHW MICA (P) 207/09/2010 A PUBLICATION OF NEWS HOTLINE 6822 2268 December 18 19, 2010 www.todayonline.com we set you VMCH£ RHW MICA (P) 207/09/2010 A PUBLICATION OF NEWS HOTLINE 6822 2268 December 18 -19, 2010 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking DECEMBER 18 19, 2010 A PUBLICATION OF Saturday, december
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  • Article
    Fewer PRs, new citizens
    881 2  -  Govt's inaugural review cites 'Strong Singaporean Core' as one of 27 strategic outcomes JOANNE CHAN JOANNE CHAN joannechan@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The Republic’s resident population growth rate hit a high last year the same year that total fertility rate fell to a low. But as Singaporeans’ concerns over
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    Lock icon N Korea warns of fresh strikes against South
    416 2 China, US scramble to ease tensions AGENCIES SEOUL/BEIJING North Korea said on Friday it would strike again at the South if a live-firing drill by Seoul on a disputed island went ahead, with an even stronger response than last month’s shelling that
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      71 2 COMMENT&ANALYSIS TODAY-NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY NO JOBS NO PROBLEM NOURIEL ROUBINI A SURVIVAL STRATEGY FOR THE EURO ZONE 12 ELENA CARLETTI SPEED IS THE KEY 14 T TODAY’S COLLEGE GRADUATES CREATE THEIR OWN FOOD WHATTO BUY FOR A DELISH CHRISTMAS STYLE WHAT TO WEAR WHENYELLING ‘5! 4! 3! 2!
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    Lock icon Return of the big spender
    1477 6  -  THE BIG STORY Extravagance is back, as corporates and financial elites pull out all the stops to pamper clients and fete staff CHEOWXINYI cheowxinyi@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The empty warehouse transforms, by night, into an oriental courtesan house, with top chefs flown in from around the world
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      230 7 2* w II 10 Jan 2011 Pioneer Seafood 'it'll RE-OPENING Wide Range Of Live Seafood With the freshest seafood and great cooking we make every meal a celebration! Harvest Celebration Reunion Yu Sheng CNY Company D&D Wedding Banquet s Seminar Buffet A 4 Twj With Executive Chef Hor in charge,
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  • NEWS
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      HSA reviewing data on Avastin use
      296 8  -  NG JINGYNG AND ESTHER NG jingyng@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE A drug administered mainly for advanced cancers will still be allowed here pending a review, as the United States advised against its use to treat breast cancer. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)announced on Thursday (Friday,
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      Lock icon Commonwealth Sec student makes history
      409 8 71 per cent of National (Academic) students promoted to Sec 5 EVELYN CHOO SINGAPORE The release of the N Level results on Friday saw some 71 per cent of Normal (Academic) students doing well enough to be promoted to Secondary 5. Joseph Wong was the
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      Lock icon Dolphins bound for RWS die, activists up in arms
      463 8 ESTHER NG SINGAPORE Two of the seven bottlenose dolphins, which were destined for Resorts World Sentosa’s (RWS) Marine Life Park, have died in a holding area at Langkawi. The dolphins were caught from the wild in the Solomon Islands in January.
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      LEARN TO FLY WITH JETSTAR
      171 8 Jetstar, which saw its maiden long-haul flight touch down on Changi Airport on Thursday, will launch a cadet pilot training programme here. The low-cost carrier said on Friday that, for a start, it is looking to pick up to 30 Singaporeans or regional applicants for
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      Analysts urge closer scrutiny of landbanking business
      424 10  -  RYAN HUANG RYAN HUANG ryanhuang@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE With hopes for a watchdog to police the land-banking business unlikely to materialise any time soon, analysts believe that unscrupulous agents who promote direct investments in real estate could pose a risk to retail investors’ wellbeing and
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      Lock icon Public housing goes green
      300 10 SHARON SEE SINGAPORE Public housing has gone green. Treelodge@Punggol is the first public housing project in Singapore to attain the Green Mark Platinum Award given to energy and water efficient buildings. The newly-completed eco-precinct Treelodge@Punggol marks a milestone for the Housing Development Board, with playgrounds built
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      Lock icon CAR REPAIR WORKSHOPS BENEFITING FROM HIGH COE PREMIUMS
      182 10 LYNDA HONG Second-hand car dealers are not the only ones benefiting from high COE premiums. Car workshops are these days seeing more customers too, as owners decide to hang on to their cars past the warranty period. The Singapore MotorWorkshop Association, which
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      Lock icon 300 CHILDREN FROM LOWER-INCOME FAMILIES GET A FEEL OF PRIMARY ONE
      109 10 KAVITHA Three hundred children, some of whom have never attended preschool, graduated on Friday from a four-week course to help them prepare for Primary One next year. The graduation ceremony for the K2-One Bridging Programme was held at Bottle
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      CENTRAL NARCOTICS BUREAU TO GET NEW BOSS
      112 10 The Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB) will have a new boss soon. He isSeniorAssistantCommissioner of Police (SAC) Ng Boon Gay (picture), currently director of the Criminal Investigation Department. SAC Ng replaces Mr Ng Seng Liang, who will retire on Feb 18 next year after
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    • Article
      Man jailed, fined for drunken rampages
      369 12  -  Court told he was angered by wife's suspected affair with donor LEONG WEE KEAT weekeat@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE A kidney transplant recipient involved in two separate drunken rampages, triggered by suspicions that his wife was sleeping with his kidney donor, was jailed six months and fined
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      Lock icon ECO-FRIENDLY, WALLET-FRIENDLY FESTIVE SHOPPING AT THE SALVATION ARMY'S THRIFT STORE
      173 12 EVELYN LAM As the rush for Christmas shopping goes into full swing, more people are looking at thriftier and more eco-friendly ways of giving. Salvation Army’s stores have seen a substantial increase in the number of customers during the festive
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      Lock icon IBM PARTNERS LOCAL INSTITUTIONS TO DEVELOP 'SMART CITY'TECHNOLOGIES
      204 12 RACHEL KELLY A research collaboration between IBM and institutions here will help develop “smart-city” technologies to handle urban issues such as water, traffic and electricity supply management. The Nanyang Technological University has been identified as a possible location for the Singapore “collaboratory”,
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      Lock icon SPREADING CHRISTMAS CHEER
      48 12 Seven beautifully-lit Christmas floats travelled down Orchard Road Friday evening with Guest-of-Honour Dr Amy Khor, Mayor of South West Community Development Council (CDC) and VIP guests, at the opening night of Celebrate Christmas in Singapore. PHOTO BY OOI BOON KEONG. PHOTO BY OOI BOON KEONG.
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    • Article
      Bus fare refunds to start Saturday
      197 12 SINGAPORE Commuters affected by overcharging as a result of the bus stop distance corrections can get a full refund on the spot from Dec 18. They can do so through any TransitLink Add Value Machine, by placing their CEPAS card on the reader and
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  • Page 10 Miscellaneous
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      21 10 JACKPOT nOi'J est. u. THIS MONDAY Towards Community Purpose and Benefit RCB REG NO: *****0202G For details, visit www.singaporepools.com.sg SINGAPORE FU
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      124 13 CONNECTING ASEAN The ASEAN Basketball League heats up at Ynares Stadium this weekend. Catch the live action and show your support for the teams! j UAGVt RL MALAYSIA f I <1 13 is 13 Airfk AtlelA 3 I K in. ftw-fis. I i V! 4 ,£L.. Fly from Kuala Lumpur
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  • VOICES
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      Think out of the 6-yard box
      378 14  -  Radical solutions needed to stem S-League malaise; think free entry, or vuvuzelas Letter from Kelvin Pereira I REFER to Ian De Cotta’s exclusive interview with Football Association of Singapore president Zainudin Nordin (“S-League needs major surgery”, Dec 16). I’m not an S-League team supporter;
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      Family should help first: HDB
      275 14  -  Letter from Mike Chan Deputy Director (Rental Housing) Housing Development Board (HDB) WE REFER to the letter from Mr Sanjay Perera, “A Christmas tale of a sweeper and bureaucracy” (Dec 8). The facts of Mdm Sawami’s case are quite different from what Mr Sanjay has
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      164 14 have your say email your letters to voices@mediacorp.com.sg join the community www.todayonline.com/voices M I I 1000 <p* Plumbing Lighting Voucher 4 Plumbing Lighting Voucher K3XISI39 System 3 Panasonic aircon include installation 32" LCD Italian Cooker Hod/Hood Curtain Voucher i 7 TCT7T -r-r-r-r-n (jSGYT) /Wj™ /hi Tt Tamk U-Home is having
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      243 15 Gift yourself beautiful, flawless skin this Christmas! Agnes Alvino, 22 Severe Pimples Satisfied customer of New York Skin Solutions f Samuel Lam, 24 Oily Skin Satisfied customer of New York Skin Solutions J BeBefore Teh Bee Bee, 41 Pigmentation Satisfied customer of New York Skin Solutions r Exclusively for new
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  • COMMENT & ANALYSIS
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      Lock icon A survival strategy for the euro zone
      969 16  -  EU must move toward more stable equilibrium of closer integration, or risk disorderly break-up NOURIEL ROUBINI The writer is chairman of Roubini Global Economics (www.roubini.com), Professor of Economics at the Stern School of Business, NYU, and co-author of Crisis Economics. This commentary is
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      Lock icon Euro defaults: Speed is the key
      776 18  -  Stronger economies must be buffered from being tainted by perceptions of weakness ELENA CARLETTI The writer is a professor of economics at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. The opinions expressed are her own. BLOOMBERG Far from being irrational, markets are quite right
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      Lock icon 7 notches on the Chinese doorpost
      906 20  -  The milestones that made 2010 a crucial year in China's renaissance DAVID PILLING The writer is the Asia editor of the Financial Times. THE FINANCIALTIMES LIMITED The world has grown used to the restless pace of change in China. Another year, another 10 per
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      459 17 COMPLETE ELECTRONICS I.T. EXPO SHOW Singapore Expo Hall 4B 10am 10pm lasts* 40 1 U1 THAN OTHER TRADESHOWS OR WHOLESALE EVENT! BelOW COSt Items From $1! PRICES LOWER LCD TV 100 SETS Onkyo Home Theatre System •160W/CHAt60hms Support 3D HDTV-Capable Component Video Switching Plasma TV w I SET PER CUSTOMER
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      340 18 DECEMBER rT w Q II WHITENINO REPMRINO BB CREAM h s°¥i&'r mm I can't believe my wish came true! He must have caught me sneaking too many longing looks at the BRTC Glamorous Sparkling BB Cream with SPF 36 PA in Guardian! Welllll...I can't help it especially since there have
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      437 19 V IT ftft r Be a w »,< y Sondy is a mother of four children who was unable to regain her figure after giving birth to her fourth child. Due to her weight issue, Sandy gave up her love for shopping, as well as the hope of being able
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      177 21 The Honda Odyssey. Intelligent design for the whole family. Most fuel efficient in its class. Thanks to its powerful yet economical 2.4L i-VTEC engine, the Odyssey uses only 8.9L/100km†. Maximum safety and peace of mind. The Odyssey is equipped with Vehicle Stability Assist (VSA), Honda’s G-Force Control technology (G-Con), airbags
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  • WORLD
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      Lock icon Japanese man on a rampage attacks students with knife; 13 hurt
      314 22 AP TOKYO An unemployed Japanese man attacked students and other passengers waiting on two public buses outside a train station on Friday with a knife, which left 13 people injured. Police arrested Yuta Saito, 27, on charges of attempted
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      Lock icon Japan's new plan
      389 22 Updated defence policy focuses on China, N Korea AGENCIES TOKYO Japan unveiled a sweeping update of its national defence polices on Friday, aiming for greater flexibility and refocusing its capabilities as it confronts China’s military buildup and North Korea’s nuclear ambitions. Under the National Defence Programme Guideline
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      Lock icon Wen Jiabao in Pakistan for rare visit
      249 24 AP ISLAMABAD Pakistan, grappling with an Islamic insurgency and massive poverty, was hoping for an economic boost as Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao made a rare visit on Friday aimed at expanding trade ties and the flow of Chinese investment into the country. Mr
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      Japan wants more open skies with Asia
      139 24 TOKYO Japan is seeking to boost air traffic to and from Singapore, Malaysia and South Korea starting March 2012, the country announced on Friday. The nation already has open skies pacts with the three nations, as well as seven other Asian countries but
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      Lock icon Assange back to leaking secrets
      216 24 AGENCIES LONDON WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange (picture) was released on £200,000 ($409,699) bail on Thursday and confined to supporter Vaughn Smith’s 600-acre estate but free to get back to work spilling US government secrets on his website. The Australian, who surrendered to British police on
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      Lock icon US officials fear India could be target of bio-terrorism
      312 24 AGENCIES NEW DELHI American diplomats are concerned that India could be the target of a biological terror attack, with fatal diseases such as anthrax being released into the country before spreading around the world, confidential cables from the US embassy in
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      Lock icon 'Grim Sleeper' victims revealed
      230 25 AP LOS ANGELES Police found a stash of sexually explicit photographs and home videos of scores of women when they searched the home of a car mechanic accused of the “Grim Sleeper” serial killings in South Los Angeles. Now, they want to know who the women
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      Lock icon Once derided, retired Samy Vellu is now a celebrity
      255 25 THE MALAYSIAN INSIDER KUALA LUMPUR Former Malaysian Indian Congress (MIC) president S Samy Vellu has found himself more popular now that he has retired, with Indians flocking to see and hear him speak at religious and cultural functions throughout the country.
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      Lock icon LONDON: THE TUBERCULOSIS CAPITAL OF WESTERN EUROPE
      146 25 AGENCIES The number of people infected with tuberculosis has jumped by nearly 50 percent in London in the last decade, making it the tuberculosis capital of Western Europe, a new report says. Unlike other countries in the region where tuberculosis is dropping, the
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      258 24 A V\lisk for Tta NlevJ Qwy As 2010 draws to a close, join us in a poignant and meaningful celebration that binds people together. Be part of the Wishing Sphere Project and pen your New Year wishes on wishing spheres at stations located around Singapore. Tnen, watch Marina Bay transform
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  • SCIENCE
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      Lock icon Cancun: Success or failure?
      653 26  -  COMMENTARY Summit proved we can't count on governments to save our planet GUSTAVO ESTEVA The writer is an activist and founder of the Universidad de la Tierra in the Mexican city ofOaxaca. THE GUARDIAN In the efforts to protect our planet from ourselves, the high level
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      Lock icon A Mexican triumph of diplomacy
      533 26  -  DEAN BIALEK The writer is a former Australian diplomat, who advised the delegation of Republic of the Marshall Islands at Cancun. THE GUARDIAN Cancun can!, chanted the climate change activists in the lobby at the Moon Palace resort, where the world’s much-ma-ligned climate negotiators gathered
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  • BUSINESS
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      November exports slow
      390 28  -  10% growth below forecasts, shows demand from West ebbing RYAN HUANG ryanhuang@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Christmas shoppers may have descended on the malls here with gusto, but Singapore’s latest export numbers tell a rather joyless story about the state of consumer demand in the developed world. Singapore’s non-oil domestic
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      Singapore consumers a cheery bunch
      187 28 SINGAPORE Singaporean consumers are among Asia’s most optimistic, according to a survey of consumer confidence for the next six months, which placed the Republic ahead of China and India and just behind Vietnam. The MasterCard Worldwide Index of Consumer Confidence survey, conducted between September and
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      CHINA FISHERY MAY RAISE ABOUT $400 MILLION
      168 28 Singapore-listed China Fishery plans a new share offering that may raise about $400 million and see the industrial fishing group in a dual primary listing on the Hong Kong Exchange. China Fishery will issue 175 million new shares in the offering, with an
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      ASIATELEVISION FORUM SCORES $196 MILLION DEALS
      99 28 Deals worth US$149.2 million ($196 million) were concluded at the 11th Asia Television Forum held in Singapore last week, up 68 per cent from the previous edition of the event. The entertainment content marketing event also attracted a record 2,862 attendees. Among the major
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      GIC INVESTS $101 MILLION IN INDIA'S GVK
      90 28 The Government of Singapore Investment Corp (GIC) is investing Rs349 crore or around $101.3 million, in India’s GVK Energy, a wholly-owned subsidiary of GVK Power and Infrastructure. GIC joins Actis, an emerging market private equity investor, which has also agreed to invest Rs349
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      CDL CHINA ACQUIRES CHONGQING SITE FOR $45.8 MILLION
      93 28 The Chinese division of Singaporelisted City Developments (CDL) has acquired its first development site in Chongqing for 232 million yuan ($45.8 million). CDL China, which was formed in August this year, was awarded the residential site at a government land auction lastWednesday.
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      Lock icon Congress passes $1.1b tax-cut Bill
      140 30 REUTERS WASHINGTON In an uncommon show of bipartisanship, the United States Congress gave final approval late on Thursday to the deal President Barack Obama and Republicans made to extend expiring tax cuts a high-stakes gamble to create jobs at a cost of deepening the federal
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      Lock icon China eyes market-driven rates
      309 30 AGENCIES BEIJING China wants to give the market more sway over its interest rates in the next five years, the central bank chief said on Friday, a crucial step towards the deregulation of the Chinese financial system. The government currently protects banks from competition against each
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      Lock icon Moody's slashes Ireland rating
      186 30 REUTERS BRUSSELS Ratings agency Moody’s slashed Ireland’s credit rating by five notches on Friday, giving a resounding thumbs-down to Europe’s efforts to resolve a rolling debt crisis. The rare steep downgrade came in the middle of a European Union summit intended to restore market confidence by
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      Lock icon Britain warns banks over bonuses
      160 30 REUTERS LONDON Britain’s Deputy Prime Minister warned British banks the government will not stand idle if they fail to cut this year’s bonus payments and increase lending to small companies, the Financial Times said. Banks have angered trade unions and politicians since the financial crisis
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  • SPORTS
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      Lock icon It will be busy on the Bay
      458 34  -  Singapore confident of record turnout for canoe marathon world championships PHILIP GOH philipgoh@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Organisers of the 2011 Canoe Marathon World Championships are awaiting approval of the 4.3km route mapped out around Marina Bay. Although delegates at the International Canoe Federation’s (ICF) annual
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      Lock icon Kwan's fine despite missing out on Olympic gold
      368 34 PATWANT SINGH SINGAPORE Whenever a discussion on American women figure skaters comes up, Michelle Kwan (picture) will always be in the mix. The American’s 10-year career from 1995 to 2005 saw her amass an unprecedented 43 titles, including five world crowns. Still
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      147 34 TANYO-HINN SINGAPORE The gold rush continued for Singapore at the South-east Asia Fencing Federation Championship on Friday, after the men’s foil team won gold on the penultimate day of competition at the National Indoor Stadium in Brunei. Having edged out favourites Vietnam in a nerve-wracking 36-35
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      685 35  -  COMMENTARY LEONARDTHOMAS leonard@mediacorp.com.sg There was deafening noise and so much fanfare it seemed as if the country’s national game was destined for an exciting new frontier when then Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong set proceedings in motion on
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      608 36 AGENCIES NYON Arsenal will have the chance to gain revenge over Barcelona after the draw for the last 16 of the Champions League paired the two sides together. Arsene Wenger’s side were beaten 6-3 on aggregate in the quarter-finals last season, with Lionel Messi scoring
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      376 37 REUTERS LONDON Whatever the colour of the car, from Fernando Alonso’s red Ferrari to Michael Schumacher’s silver Mercedes, Formula One is picking up speed towards a greener future. While the lifting of a ban on “team orders” made the headlines, the more momentous news
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      52 41 DECEMBER 18 19, 2010 A PUBLICATION OF WHAT TO BUY A FOODIE. T4 WHAT TO ORDER IN FOR A PARTY. T6 WHAT TO BUY THE DAY BEFORE CHRISTMAS. T14 WHAT VACATION TO BOOK FOR A WHITE CHRISTMAS. T28 ANDIE CHEN AND REBECCA LIM COSY UP FOR OUR FESTIVE GUIDE. Photo:
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      737 42  -  POSTSCRIPT We need the big guy to do our shopping for us Mayo Martin mayo@mediacorp.com.sg The writer is the arts correspondent at Today. BEFORE we begin, I’d advise all parents to excuse themselves from the breakfast table and continue reading this in the bathroom. There yet? Good.
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      814 43  -  THE FAIRERTEXT Why can't we just leave the past where it is? Georgina Chang Georgina Chang georginac@mediacorp.com.sg The writer is the senior creative director of 987FM and Lush 99.5. I LOVE the process of meeting people and discovering if they’ll be a part of my life forever, but
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      117 44  -  DON MENDOZA donm@mediacorp.com.sg ’TIS the season filled with tough decisions on what to get. Be it for Grandma, Distant Cousin No 4, or for the Christmas dinner party the boss is throwing. That said, some of the smartest, and arguably the tastiest, solutions
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      171 44 1.JonesThe Grocer has managed a clever series of themed hampers to make gift-giving this year easier but always in good taste. From a five-item Cheese Delight Hamper ($75) or a three-item Truffle Gift Set ($70), to the Spanish Hamper ($90) and
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      379 45 To conclude its 111th anniversary celebrations, trusted German home appliance brand Miele has published Heritage Feasts, a collection of recipes by key local personalities. The collection includes culinary memories belonging
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      93 45 The idea of buying a Bosch Christmas fruitcake can seem a little odd, given that it is a fruitcake designed to look like a Bosch refrigerator. But it is for a good cause. Bosch will be donating full proceeds from the sales of
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      266 46 1. Cedele’s new Yuzu Citrus Logcake ($48) is a “limited edition” variety made with cold pressed concentrated yuzu juice imported directly from Kochi Island of Japan, affording it a distinct lemony and floral tang. Available from all Cedele outlets. 2. Novel
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      483 47  -  RAISING Don Mendoza donm@mediacorp.com.sg DESPITE a good two weeks left till the New Year officially rolls in, I have once again found myself thinking about how quickly the year has past. Mildly regretful that I didn’t eat more freshly harvested truffle when I had the
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      819 45 C o H'rjrM o E o S* istaurants bars shops El HP: Reign in the Christmas Cheer Chijmes Revel in the Christmas spirit and soak in the festive celebrations at our eclectic mix of restaurants, pubs and bistros offering the season's best for dining and drinks. You'd be spoilt for
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      1289 48  -  NYE party gear tips, with some help from one of television's favourite onscreen couples Rebecca Lim and Andie Chen LYNETTE KOH lynettek@mediacorp.com.sg HERE’S what we do not understand: How is it that Rebecca Lim and Andie Chen have not done a
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      113 50 CARE for the planet and the less fortunate by caring for your jeans.That's the message Levi's wants to convey with its new care tag initiative and Forever Blue campaign, respectively. All Levi's products will now carry a label that offers advice on how consumers can do
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      65 52 LYNETTE KOH TREAT yourself to something sparkly and shiny this Christmas. To celebrate the festive season, Citigems is offering markeddown prices on a selection of jewellery, including clovershaped diamond and white gold designs from its Milanne collection, as well as items such as this pearl and stainless steel
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      94 53 LYNETTE KOH YOU wear lots of white (the best colour to go with a beach resort tan), stuff yourself with grub from the international buffet spread, and enjoy rousing entertainment from magicians J C Sum and Magic Babe Ning. Last Thursday, Club
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      311 54 Ease the last-minute festive frenzy with our gift guide for procrastinators 1) Birds Co Lots of nifty gift ideas for indie girls and boys, including charming little items such as handmade notebooks, vintage toy pianos, and these cheap ’n’ chic Author pencils. #03-05A
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      250 54 LYNETTE KOH BEST known as Zouk’s former marketing manager,Tracy Phillips currently runs her own creative consultancy, Present Purpose. This week, the 33-year-old girl about town launches her latest venture,A Curious Teepee, at *Scape. In partnership with F&B group Lo Behold, and architecture firm Takenouchi Webb,
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      371 56  -  Derryn Wong and Julian Low cars@mediacorp.com.sg Mercedes R 300 MPV At $295,888 (with COE),the new Mercedes-Benz R-Class MPV, the R 300, is a better-looker than its predecessor. As it is, Mercedes’ next-generation designs for their cars already look stunning on
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      91 58 Being new to the market here, HSV might require some introduction. Founded by former racer and F1 team owner Tom Walkinshaw, it runs Holden’s racing activities and produces a range of hopped-up cars from the Aussie manufacturer. All of them have 6.2-litre V8 engines, and so will
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      292 58 DERRYNWONG COEs will still go up Despite the shock of the skyrocketing COE prices (a 10year high), don’t expect them to dip.The Land Transport Authority (LTA) cut the COE quota last year to curb the burgeoning vehicle population. Problem is, the population is
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      444 59 DERRYNWONG If you’re on holiday abroad and stuck in the city, why not hire a car and venture out into the countryside? It’s the quintessential driving experience, and one you can’t get in little old Singapore. Here are five of our recommended driving
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      147 59 Drive on the correct side. This might sound silly, but the consequences are serious if you’re on the wrong side. Just make it a point to remind yourself before moving off. Be polite. Driving abroad isn’t like in Singapore it’s usually more enjoyable!
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      1029 62 SATURDAYTV STAY HOME SATURDAY MOVIE: SPIDERWICK CHRONICLES Channel 5, 7.30pm Upon moving into the run-down Spiderwick Estate with their mother, twin brothers Jared and Simon Grace, along with their sister Mallory, find themselves pulled into an alternate world full of fairies and other creatures. Starring Freddie Highmore and Mary-Louise Parker.
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      1140 63 FILMART: SIXTY 6 okto, 10pm This charming coming-of-age film tells the story of a lonely, awkward boy who makes plans for a lavish Bar Mitzvah as a way to be noticed. Only he schedules the party on the same day as the 1966 World Cup Finals, meaning that few will
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      877 68  -  Why a traditional European winter holiday is yuletide treatment for tropical Grinches SERENE LIM in Prague and Vienna HAVE you been on a winter holiday? We mean a proper one in the heart of Europe with snow-capped medieval-aged buildings surrounding a cobblestoned town
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      523 71 WHEN she’s not on a repeat vacation to her favourite destination Sydney, MediaCorp Radio Class 95FM DJ Carol Smith occasionally chalks up frequent flier miles helping people. But volunteer trips aren’t always a bed of roses, she warns. “Go with an open mind. Most trips require
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      65 70 10 years ago, they talked about themselves and their dreams for the future. Q 10 years later, the hunt begins to remind them what they had said. bUi same crew same personalities 10 years on Kit Chan Irene Ang Kumar Beatrice Chia Selena Tan Leslie Lionel fan [Tang Quartet) Najip
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    770 75  -  SCOTT SHANE EssAy NYT WAsHINgToN Can the United states government still keep a secret? In an age of WikiLeaks, flash drives and instant Web postings, leaks have begun to seem unstoppable. That may be a first impression. sobered officials are scrambling
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    854 75  -  By HANNAH SELIGSON NYT FIve YeArs Ago, AFTer graduating from college with a film degree and thousands of dollars in student loans, scott gerber moved back in with his parents in New York City. He then took out more loans
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      46 75 Editor’s NotE This is the last issue of the International Weekly for the year. Publication will resume on January 8. 7 World trENds Marine fossils litter Peru’s coastline. 10 MoNEy BusiNEss The world counts on Sri Lanka. iNtElligENcE: gays struggle for acceptance in Africa, Page 2.
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  • WORLD TRENDS
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      Lock icon Stemming a Tide of Intolerance
      733 76 INTELLIGENCE/PIETRO VERONESE NYT Rome It is not easy being gay in Africa and in 2010 it proved even more dangerous than usual. From Senegal to Burundi, from Zambia to Malawi to Kenya, gays and lesbians have been persecuted, their sexual orientation criminalized and anti-gay laws
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      Lock icon Reflections On Self-Obsession
      607 76  -  KEVIN DELANEY NYT “I suffer from accurate selfesteem,” a miserable drunk announced in a New Yorker cartoon. He may be in the minority. For if some recent psychological stud- iesareto be believed, few people are qualified to judge themselves objectively. Think you look good? Think again. A
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      Lock icon Financing a Drug Lord, Then Arresting Him
      728 77  -  By JAMES RISEN NYT WASHINGTON When Hajji Juma Khan was arrested and transported to New York in 2008, federal prosecutors described him as perhaps the biggest drug lord in Afghanistan, a shadowy figure who had helped keep the Taliban in business. But what
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      Lock icon Iranian Women Defy Tradition as Country's Divorce Rate Soars
      748 78  -  By WILLIAM YONG NYT TEHRAN—With women increasingly willing to manipulate the legal system to escape unwanted marriages, divorce is skyrocketing in Iran. For Iran, with a conservative Islamic culture that strongly discourages divorce, the trend is striking, and shows few signs
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      Lock icon Arab Soccer Tournament Alters Yemen's Terror Image
      669 78  -  By ROBERT F. WORTH NYT ADEN, Yemen This decaying port city, near the heart of Yemen’s deadly Qaeda insurgency, may seem an odd place to host an international soccer tournament. Yet there they were, tens of thousands of fans from across the Arab
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      Lock icon Bastion of Catholicism Sees Rise in Secularism
      615 79  -  By MICHAEL SLACKMAN NYT SWIEBODZIN, Poland A statue of Jesus, one of the tallest in the world, stands on the flat frozen fields of this small western Poland town, its arms outstretched and gaze fixed straight ahead at a community trying to push
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      Lock icon India Helps Poor Fight Corruption
      797 79  -  By LYDIA POLGREEN NYT NAGARKURNOOL, India The village bureaucrat shifted from foot to foot, hands clasped behind his back, beads of sweat forming on his balding head. The eyes of hundreds of wiry village laborers, clad in dusty lungis, were fixed upon him. A group
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      Lock icon Smugglers Plundering the Treasured Fossils of Peru's Desert
      749 80  -  By SIMON ROMERO and ANDREA ZARATE NYT OCUCAJE, Peru Nestled between the Andes and the Pacific, the sparse desert surrounding this outpost in southern Peru looks like one of the world’s most desolate areas. Barren mountains rise from windswept valleys. Dust devils
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      Lock icon Enforcement Takes On a Softer Side in China
      491 80  -  CHENGDU JOURNAL By SHARON LaFRANIERE NYT CHENGDU, China—Tang Shenbin paced on a city square, sternly inspecting his nervous charges, issuing commands with military authority. He wanted the female members of chengguan China’s burly enforcers of urban order, feared and despised for their
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  • NEW YORK ARTS
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      637 81  -  By JASPER REES NYT A vast new exhibition space opened in New York City this summer, with a show 18 months in the making. Works by 103 street artists from around the world, mostly big murals, are painted directly onto the gallery’s walls. It
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      749 81  -  By DANIEL J. WAKIN NYT In New York’s classical-music world most of the attention falls on the New York Philharmonic, the Metropolitan Opera, the major visiting international orchestras, the glamorous soloists who can earn tens of thousands of dollars an appearance. But night after
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      Lock icon Start-Ups Could Be Primed for a Fall
      891 82  -  By JENNAWORTHAM and EVELYN M. RUSLI NYT Less than a decade after the dotcom bust taught Wall Street and Silicon Valley investors that what goes up does not keep going up forever, a growing number of entrepreneurs and a few venture capitalists are
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      Lock icon Sri Lanka, Accountant To the World
      603 82  -  By HEATHER TIMMONS NYT COLOMBO, Sri Lanka Sri Lanka has its own contribution to global outsourcing: accountants. As this tiny island nation staggers back from a bloody, decades-long civil war, one of its brightest business prospects was born out of that conflict. So many
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      Lock icon G.E. Goes Back to What It Knows Best: Making Things
      828 83  -  By STEVE LOHR NYT General Electric, perhaps the American company outside of the banking sector hit hardest by the financial crisis, is gradually recovering by turning to a legacy of industrial innovation that reaches back to Thomas Edison and the
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      Lock icon Working Overseas, Without the Romance
      480 83  -  PHYLLIS KORKKI essay NYT At its best, an overseas job offers rich cultural experiences and professional advancement along with a whiff of glamour. But international work is not for everyone. The romance of an international assignment “always exceeds the reality,” said Mary B. Teagarden, professor
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      Lock icon A Visual Odyssey Through The Brain
      921 84  -  By ABIGAIL ZUGER, M.D. NYT Who has seen the mind? Neither you nor I nor any of the legions of neuroscientists bent on opening the secrets of that invisible force, as powerful and erratic as the wind. The experts are definitely getting closer: the
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      Lock icon Puzzles to While Away Those Ancient Evenings
      630 84  -  By PAM PAM BELLUCK NYT Puzzle making is an ancient pastime. Several precocious papyri and other artifacts exist that display Egyptian mathematical ingenuity. The Rhind Mathematical Papyrus, which dates to 1650 B.C., is one of the oldest. There are also the Moscow Mathematical
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      Lock icon Holograms Deliver Moving 3-D
      637 85  -  By ANNE EISENBERG NYT When the famous hologram of Princess Leia says, “Help me, ObiWan Kenobi,” in the movie “Star Wars,” it’s science fiction. Now you can watch actual moving holograms that are filmed in one spot and then projected in another spot. “The hologram is
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      Lock icon Still Loving, and Saving, the Apes
      596 85  -  By CLAUDIA DREIFUS NYT Jane Goodall went to the Gombe Stream Reserve near Lake Tanganyika in East Africa when she was 26. By living among the chimpanzees, she was able to show that their world included love, hate, fear, jealousy, tool use, brutality, even
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      Lock icon Lovers of Romantic Novels Swoon Over E-Readers
      505 86  -  By JULIE JULIE BOSMAN NYT Romance novel readers and e-readers have become the perfect couple. Romance is now the fastest-growing segment of the e-reading market, according to data from Bowker, a research organization. “Romance,” said Matthew Shear, the executive vice president and publisher
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      Lock icon New 'Grit,' Taking Aim at a Legend
      720 86  -  By MICHAEL CIEPLY NYT LOS ANGELES “True Grit,” the new movie about retribution, may also settle some old business in the film world. A western with Jeff Bridges, Matt Damon and Josh Brolin in leading roles, the new “True Grit” is adapted by
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      Lock icon A Mixed Resuscitation for the Late King of Pop
      912 87  -  JON PARELES essAy NYT Michael Jackson danced with zombies in the video for “Thriller.” Now he returns, reanimated. But “Michael,” the first full album of his posthumous songs, is not a great start, frankly. The album has just 10 songs and
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      Lock icon Culture Inundates a Russian Backwater
      595 87  -  By CELESTINE BOHLEN NYT PERM, Russia What began as a self-styled cultural revolution in this homely city on the edge of the Ural Mountains is now slipping into a culture war of sorts. On one side is a self-assured elite from Moscow. On the other
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      Lock icon In Germany, a Water Tower Turns Into a Spectacular Home
      868 88  -  By TOBY TOBY AXELROD NYT JOACHIMSTHAL, GERMANY— On a bike ride almost a decade ago, Richard Hurding, a product designer, spied what would later become an unlikely home a derelict water tower, perched on a hill surrounded by trees. It
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