Today, 29 December 2010, Afternoon Edition

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  • 45 1 TODAY MICA (P) 057/10/2010 A PUBLICATION OF NEWS HOTLINE 6822 Wednesday December 29, 2010 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking TODAY MICA (P) 057/10/2010 A PUBLICATION OF NEWS HOTLINE 6822 2268 Wednesday December 29, 2010 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking DECEMBER 29, 2010 A PUBLICATION OF
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  • 296 2  -  SAIFULBAHRI ISMAIL saifulbahri@mediacorp.com.sg MERSING (Johor) The boat that capsized on Sunday leaving four Singaporeans dead and one missing was inspected and declared seaworthy only a month before the mishap. Before that, in May, the 22-year-old boat’s annual operating licence was renewed. It was
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  • 498 2  -  Teachers, principals should guide them more closely: Education Minister EVELYN CHOO evelynchoo@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Secondary school students will be given greater so-cial-emotional support and career guidance to nurture them through their adolescence. This will also prepare them better for learning for post-secondary education and also
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  • 206 2 EVELYN CHOO AND MONICA KOTWANI SINGAPORE Bukit Panjang Government High School is one institution that has already been stressing the importance of a good studentteacher relationship. It does this by letting the same form teacher of the school’s Normal Technical and Normal Academic streams
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    • 62 2 THE LATEST NEWS. NOW ON IPAD. DOWNLOAD YOUR FREE APP TODAY. TODAY EXCLUSIVE DEPP AND JOLIE ARE ORDINARY PEOPLE ONLY RICHER, HOTTER AND MORE FAMOUS MOVIES T2 COMMENT&ANALYSIS TIME TO LEAD THROUGH CIVILIAN POWER: NICHOLAS D KRISTOF MILITARY FORCE IS NOT EFFECTIVE AT SOLVING MODERN PROBLEMS US ENVOY TO S’PORE
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  • 65 5 “We came ready to go, and we heard from the tourist who just got back that it was quite rough. So they made a decision, and we’re going back to Singapore. We’re disappointed; we were looking forward to a nice, little holiday, but safety comes first,” he said. Passenger boats
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  • ■ NEWS
    • 259 5 TANQIUYI SINGAPORE The fourth victim of the Mersing boat tragedy was seen helping other passengers out of the cabin after the vessel capsized on Sunday, family members told MediaCorp. Mr Jonathan Tor Soon Kwee’s body was brought back to Singapore late on Monday evening.
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    • 458 5  -  CHEOW XIN YI cheowxinyi@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Some have been so shaken that they have decided to can their upcoming fishing trips but the more experienced anglers remain unfazed by the Boxing Day boating tragedy off the coast of Mersing in Malaysia. In fact, eight of
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    • 577 5 The 1.54m-tall non-swimmer may have entered 1.5m-deep end of pool: Coroner LEONG WEEKEAT SINGAPORE Seeking answers at the inquest, the frail-looking man was at a loss for words after yesterday’s Coroner’s Inquiry into the death of his daughter, Chinese karaoke lounge hostess Li Hongyan.
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    • 379 6 REUTERS AGENCIES NEW YORK Around 9pm on Sunday, Mr Grigoriy Zilbergleyz, 64, bid farewell to a friend he was visiting on the Upper West Side of Manhattan and began his journey home to Bensonhurst, Brooklyn. He was riding on an above-ground train when he called
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    • 274 6 RYAN HUANG SINGAPORE When it comes to convincing lawmakers in Canberra why the A$8.4 billion ($11 billion) takeover of the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) by his company may be a good idea, Mr Magnus Bocker, the chief executive of the Singapore
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    • 230 8 LEONG WEE KEAT SINGAPORE The Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) has withdrawn charges against ExxonMobil. It had alleged previously that the oil giant had failed to let firemen put out a fire at one of its refineries. The SCDF did
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    • 257 8  -  LEONG WEE KEAT weekeat@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE A man pleaded guilty in court yesterday to two counts of sex with two underaged girls. Aaron Kok Chun Cheong, 23, committed the offences between September 2007 and April 2008 when he was a fulltime national serviceman.
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    • 251 8 JOANNE CHAN SINGAPORE There will be more than 50 countdown parties on Friday organised by grassroots organisations and it will be at the street party for the 16,500 households in Serangoon Gardens where Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong will be guest-of-honour. The last
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    • 448 10  -  SAIFULBAHRI ISMAIL saifulbahri@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Deadly gang fights, troubled teens and community safety were issues that forced themselves on us this year. Bukit Panjang was one estate that came under the spotlight after vicious attacks last month which left seven people injured. Mr Desmond Lim,
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    • 108 10 The Health Promotion Board (HPB) has a new initiative to promote mental wellness among the young —through song. Its EmoCube will allow up to 50 youth at a time to plug in their earphones to listen to any of 200 songs by popular artistes
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    • 85 10 FOUR ARRESTED FOR ALLEGEDLY HELPING LOANSHARKS Four men were arrested for suspected involvement in loansharking activities during a 10-hour operation yesterday. ATM cards and mobile phones, believed to be related to loansharking activities, were also seized. Police said investigations revealed that the four suspects who were caught in Sengkang and
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    • 115 10 CHURCH THEFT SUSPECT TO BE CHARGED TODAY Police have arrested a 25-year-old man who is believed to have broken into a church along Victoria Street. MediaCorp understands it was the Cathedral of the Good Shepherd. On the morning of Dec 21, police were called in to investigate a break-in at
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  • VOICES
    • 789 12  -  I SAY NORMA SIT Norma Sit is author of the “Gorgeous Sexy Rich” series of books available at major bookstores. This article first featured on SALT Online, a new website of the National Volunteer Philanthropy Centre with articles and resources for the non-profit community. We
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    • 173 12  -  LETTER FROM BARBARATAN I refer to “Disallow loans for COE” by Mr Joel Tan (Dec 28). I think his suggestion to disallow loans for COE has tremendous potential and is a great idea in principle. However, if implemented, I would be concerned that the
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  • COMMENT & ANALYSIS
    • 978 14  -  MATTHEW LYNN The writer is a Bloomberg News columnist and the author of “Bust”, a book on the Greek debt crisis. The opinions expressed are his own. BLOOMBERG There is an old joke that economists only make predictions so that the weather guys
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    • 1513 16  -  Military force is not effective at solving modern problems Development as essential to US security as diplomacy, defence NICHOLAS D KRISTOF The writer is a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner. DAVID ADELM AN The writer is the United States Ambassador to Singapore. This article is
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    • 757 19  -  SIMON TAY Simon Tay is chairman of the Singapore Institute of International Affairs and author of “Asia Alone: The Dangerous Post Crisis Divide from Many herald Asia’s rise in the wake of the financial crisis. Compared to the United States and Europe,
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  • WORLD
    • 284 20 AP BEIJING Nearly 600 fugitives involved with economic crimes such as fraud and embezzlement have fled China and are hiding in other countries, a top security official was quoted as saying yesterday. China’s rapid economic growth has been accompanied by an alarming increase
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    • 147 20 AGENCIES SEOUL South Korea’s military is alarmed that North Korean front-line troops have adopted a woodland camouflage uniform similar to its own, according to a Defence Ministry official yesterday. The official said this means that it is likely that North Korean special forces
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    • 191 20 AP BEIJING China is moving closer to deploying a ballistic missile designed to sink an aircraft carrier, the head of the United States Pacific Command said in a newspaper interview published yesterday. Admiral Robert Willard told Japan’s Asahi Shimbun newspaper that he believed the
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    • 315 22 AP KUALA LUMPUR Shia Muslims in Malaysia have made a rare public plea for the authorities to let them legally worship amid fears of a clampdown on outlawed religious groups, a human rights official said yesterday. Malaysian religious
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    • 41 22 The wreckage of a passenger van on Monday after it crashed with a car in an accident on a tollway in Bangkok. Eight people were killed and seven others were wounded, according to the highway police. AP
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    • 81 22 AP Philippine officials say a United States Navy officer jumped to his death from a secondfloor staircase at Manila’s airport after he was arrested with a packet of suspected cocaine. But tests later showed the packet contained no illegal drugs. Aviation police chief Pedro
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    • 106 22 A 10-year-old girl had her foot stuck for an hour in an escalator in a Malacca mall on Monday night, The Star newspaper reported. Chrisanta Lee, who was with her family, was taking the escalator down to the ground floor at about 8.40pm when her
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    • 98 22 The first baby hatch in Malaysia opened on Monday at a hospital in Ipoh, aiming to reduce the number of abandoned babies in Perak, The Star newspaper reported. Chief executive officer Nasirruddin Harun of the KPJ Ipoh Specialist Hospital said he hoped the hatch would save
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    • 94 22 AP Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper has invited Burmese democracy advocate Aung San Suu Kyi to Canada to personally accept her honorary citizenship. Mr Harper said in a statement on Monday that, while he recognises Ms Suu Kyi’s immediate priority is to focus on consultations
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    • 154 24 AP TEHRAN Iran yesterday hanged an Iranian convicted of spying for its arch-enemy Israel, the official IRNA news agency reported. Ali Akbar Siadati was hanged in Tehran’s Evin Prison. The report said Siadati began his espionage activities in 2004 and was arrested in 2008
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    • 68 24 A pro-democracy protester tries to throw a bag of milk powder at a Chinese government liaison office during a demonstration in Hong Kong yesterday to demand the release of activist Zhao Lianhai. Zhao, whose son became ill due to chemically-tainted milk formula, had helped organise a protest
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    • 174 24 REUTERS TOKYO Japanese political powerbroker Ichiro Ozawa told a news conference yesterday that he would appear at a parliamentary ethics panel over a funding scandal, in an about-face likely to ease a rift in the ruling Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ). The DPJ
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    • 122 24 SHE CHEATS; HE SNOOPS AND IS CHARGED WITH HACKING THE GUARDIAN A Michigan man has been charged under anti-hacking legislation designed to protect trade secrets after logging on to his wife’s email account and discovering she was having an affair. Leon Walker, 33, opened the Gmail account of his wife,
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    • 134 24 PARTY COMES TO EARLY END FOR TOP CHINA BLOGGER AP One of China’s most popular bloggers yesterday announced that he was forced to shut down hisfreewheeling print magazine after only one issue because government officials appear to have blocked the printing of any new editions. Han Han, a novelist and
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    • 353 26 AP MOGADISHU A leader of Somalia’s insurgency on Monday threatened to attack America during a broadcast speech on radio. “We tell the American President Barack Obama to embrace Islam before we come to his country,” said Fuad Mohamed “Shongole” Qalaf. Al Shabab has not
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    • 255 26 THE GUARDIAN, REUTERS MOSCOW Britain and the United States led international condemnation on Monday after Russian oil magnate Mikhail Khodorkovsky and his business partner Platon Lebedev were found guilty of theft and money laundering by a court in Moscow. The United Kingdom’s Foreign
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    • 117 26 NEANDERTHALS MAY HAVE FEASTED ON MEAT-AND-VEGETABLE DIET THE GUARDIAN Scientists have upgraded their opinion of Neanderthal cuisine after spotting traces of cooked food on the fossilised teeth of our long-extinct cousins. The researchers found remnants of date palms, seeds and legumes which include peas and beans on the teeth of
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    • 126 26 GERMAN EDUCATOR WANTS CLASSROOM WEIGH-INS THE DAILY TELEGRAPH Germany’s main school teaching body has called for classroom weigh-ins as well as the enforced removal of ultra-overweight pupils in order to combat rising obesity in society. Mr Josef Kraus, the DL teaching federation president, said: “When parents don’t make sure their
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    • 140 26 PLAYGROUNDS THE WAY TO GO FOR US FOOD GIANTS THE NEW YORK TIMES American marketers like Kraft Foods, MetLife, CVS and Dr Pepper Snapple Group are steering millions in charitable dollars to a new and somewhat unlikely project building neighbourhood playgrounds for children. The companies are embracing the playground as
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  • SPORTS
    • 333 29 THE GUARDIAN MANCHESTER Just when Roberto Mancini thought the Carlos Tevez saga is done and dusted, another Manchester City player is reportedly homesick and longing to return to his homeland. This time the homesick player is Mario Balotelli and the Italian has reportedly expressed his
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    • 254 29 AGENCIES MANCHESTER Sulky striker Mario Balotelli almost managed a smile last night as he hit a hat-trick, including two penalties, to help Manchester City beat Aston Villa 4-0 and take his side to the top of the Premier League. The 20-year-old Italian, told by his manager
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    • 127 29 AP LONDON Tottenham overcame Younes Kaboul’s sending off to secure a 2-0 victory over Newcastle last night and provisionally dislodge Chelsea from the Premier League’s top four. Kaboul was dismissed for an attempted headbutt on Cheick Tiote in the 65th minute shortly after Aaron Lennon had
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    • 451 29 After winning psychological battle, Wenger's fuelled by belief AGENCIES LONDON Arsenal won more than a game here; they won a psychological battle, convincing themselves they can overcome bigger, stronger sides. No longer the beautiful butterflies. Chelsea lost more than a game here; they lost
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    • 461 31 REUTERS LONDON Two weeks after Carlo Ancelotti said his faltering Chelsea side had emerged from a nightmare moment, the champions plumbed new depths on Monday and appear to be sleep-walking towards the point of no return. The Italian was left “shocked and surprised” as
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    • 560 32  -  New FAS man Ridzal relishes the challenge Singapore football offers SHAMIR OSMAN shamir@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE His brother was the Lions’ skipper, leading the team out onto the various Malaysian battlegrounds in the late 1980s when the Malaysia Cup was the most important football competition
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    • 258 32 SINGAPORE The next 18 months are critical to the Singapore swimming team’s preparations for the 2012 Olympic Games. And the Singapore Swimming Association (SSA) see current national head coach Ang Peng Siong as the best man to lead the squad to the
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    • 387 32  -  TANYO-HINN yohinn@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The search for the Singapore Sports Council’s (SSC) new chief executive officer (CEO) is almost over. MediaCorp learnt yesterday that up to five candidates have been shortlisted following a three-month search and that the three-man panel tasked with
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  • 577 39 More than just the books ENTERPRISE SINGAPORE If you think the students at Hwa Chong Institution (HCI) bury themselves in textbooks and are only concerned with fulfilling academic requirements, think again. Through the HCI’s comprehensive six-year Integrated Programme (IP), students from the age of 13 to 18 are exposed to
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  • BUSINESS
    • 301 34 TRAVIS TEO SINGAPORE CapitaLand’s China unit sold more than half the apartments in a highend residential project in Beijing over the Christmas weekend. A tower comprising 220 units at the Beaufort condominium was released for sale on Saturday. “About 60 per cent of
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    • 58 34 TUESDAY CLOSE 3,183.70 (+0.77%) Monday 3,159.36 p 0.49% Friday 3,143.80 p 0.19% Thursday 3,137.78 q 0.21% Wednesday 3,144.31 p 0.14% TOP 5 BY VOLUME NAME VOL PRICE CHANGE Hotung US$ 158,628 $0.140 p 3.70% Genting SP 86,310 $2.190 p 3.30% GoldenAgr 54,877 $0.795 p 2.58% Tuan Sing 38,213 $0.345
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    • 27 34 HANG SENG 22,621.73 (-0.93%) È È È NIKKEI 10,292.63 (-0.61%) È SHANGHAI Ç 2,732.99 (-1.74%) Ç AUSTRALIA CLOSED MUMBAI 20,025.42 (-0.02%) MALAYSIA 1,517.44 (+0.38%) SEOUL 2,033.32 (+0.55%)
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    • 17 34 US$1 $1.301 £1 $2.003 €1 $1.704 ¥100 $1.567 RM1 $0.420 Rp10,000 $1.438 HK$100 $16.71 RMB100 $19.61
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    • 134 34 STOCK CALLS Buy 18 cents NRA Capital keeps rating with a 23.5 cents target price, saying the company is expected to return to profitability in FY10 after incurring losses in FY09. The house says Natural Cool’s FY10 to FY12 growth will be underpinned by core business expansion in
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    • 392 34  -  CHRISTOPHER HOWELLS christopherh@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE It has been a good year for agents selling luxury properties to foreigners in Singapore. Ms Jasmine Png, an associate director with real estate agency OrangeTee, says she has never before seen as many earnest buyers from China. What’s drawing
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    • 346 36 RACHEL KELLY SINGAPORE The volatile pharmaceutical sector, one of the highest contributors to Singapore’s economy, is expected to go through a rough patch in the first half of next year after a stellar performance this year. Analysts believe that the pharmaceutical sector may post
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    • 157 36 MORE THAN 80 PER CENT OF THE TENNERY SOLD: FAR EAST JO-ANN HUANG Home buyers are flocking to The Tennery, where more than 80 per cent of the 217 units in the 99-year leasehold development released have been sold at prices ranging from $950 to $1,300 psf. Located at the
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    • 123 36 HYFLUX LAUNCHES ONLINE STORE FOR WATER INDUSTRY Mainboard-listed water treatment firm Hyflux has launched Asia’s first online store dedicated to the water industry. HyfluxShop.com will provide engineering and industrial products for equipment manufacturers in South-east Asia, such as ultra-filtration membranes for pumps, test kits and other accessories. Hyflux told MediaCorp
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    • 124 36 CELESTIAL NUTRIFOODS APPOINTS LIQUIDATOR Mainboard-listed Celestial Nutrifoods, whose stock has been suspended from trading since June last year, has announced the appointment of MrYit Chee Wah of FTI Consulting as provisional liquidator. Messrs Roderick John Sutton and Mark Sims Chadwick may also be appointed as liquidators after obtaining relevant approval,
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    • 111 36 JADE PROPOSES NAME CHANGE TO CHINA TITANIUM Catalist-listed Jade Technologies Holdings has proposed to change its name to China Titanium. In a stock exchange filing, the firm’s board of directors said the name change is “to reflect the new focus on the company’s new business activities”. The former chip-maker has
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    • 180 37 CHINA CUTS RARE EARTH EXPORT QUOTAS AGENCIES China is reducing the amount of rare earths it will be exporting next year by more than 10 per cent likely to be an unpopular move worldwide since the minerals are vital to the manufacture of high-tech products. China accounts for 97 per
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    • 275 37 AGENCIES TOKYO Even as the Singapore Exchange’s A$8.4-billion ($11 -billion) offer for the Australian Securities Exchange hangs in the balance, the financial sector Down Under is abuzz with news of another mega takeover. Japan’s Dai-ichi Life Insurance yesterday announced it would acquire the
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    • 332 47 REUTERS THE blizzard that hit the east coast of the United States brought even more bad news for an already disappointing American Christmas box office on Monday, as final data revealed some of the studios’ weekend estimates had been overly rosy. New North American
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    • 157 49 AGENCIES HOLLYWOOD star Natalie Portman is now engaged to a ballet dancer and choreographer, and expecting her first child with him. A publicist for Portman confirmed on Monday that the couple is engaged and expecting, but declined to give any further details. People magazine first reported the news.
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    • 71 51 Vicki moves in with her sister Beth at the demise of her Italian affair. Beth embarks on a road trip with her ageing father, leaving a teenage daughter and French husband, JP, behind. In her absence, relationship dynamics shift. Awards: Australian Film Institute Awards
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    • 57 52 The censors know best, or do they? The clash between sexuality in American films and censorship go all the way back to the days of silent movies. In this six-part documentary, celebrities narrate key letters, anecdotes, speeches and proclamations that depict the battle that continues
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  • 599 55 FOOD Justin Quek's Sky on 57 elevates Singaporean food to new heights THE world’s celebrity chefs have come to town.Tetsuya Wakuda, Daniel Boulud, Mario Batali and Guy Savoy have all opened outposts at Marina Bay Sands (MBS), so it’s apt that Singapore should send in her
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