Today, 18 March 2011, Afternoon Edition

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    42 1 TODAY MICA (P) 057/10/2010 A PUBLICATION OF ftl=DIACORP NEWS HOTLINE 6822 2268 Friday March 18, 2011 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking AFTERNOON EDITION MICA (P) 057/10/2010 A PUBLICATION OF NEWS HOTLINE 6822 2268 Friday March 18, 2011 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking
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    Lock icon UN passes Libya no-fly zone
    528 1 REUTERS NEW YORK The United Nations authorised military action to curb Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi yesterday (this morning, Singapore time), hours after he threatened to storm the rebel bastion of Benghazi overnight, showing “no mercy, no pity”. AlJazeera television showed thousands of Benghazi residents in
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    Lock icon The race to get cooling pumps working again
    634 1 AGENCIES TOKYO Japanese engineers raced this morning to restore a power cable to a crippled nuclear power plant in the hope of restarting pumps desperately needed to pour cold water on overheating fuel rods and avert a catastrophic release of radiation. Officials
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  • JAPAN CRISIS
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      Lock icon Fukushima nuclear plant
      177 3 AGENCIES the plant could face potentially lethal doses of radiation. “We believe radiation levels are extremely high,” he said. Tokyo Electric executives said yesterday that they believed the rods in that pool were covered with water but an official with Japan’s nuclear safety agency later expressed scepticism
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      Obama says US is safe, even as his nuclear chief gives bleak appraisal of
      243 2 AFTERNOON LATEST TOKYO United States President Barack Obama yesterday reiterated that the Japan crisis posed no risk to any American territory although he nevertheless ordered a comprehensive review of domestic nuclear plants. “We do not expect
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      MFA RECOMMENDS SINGAPOREANS LEAVE AFFECTED AREAS
      194 3 The Ministry of Foreign Affairs also said: “We know that the Japanese government is doing its utmost to respond to this evolving and very difficult situation. Singaporeans in Japan should pay close attention to and heed instructions from the Japanese government. “In view of
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      IF YOU NEED MFA’S
      120 3 Singaporeans wishing to return home or travel to a third country may also wish to consider commercial flights from the Kansai International Airport in Osaka, the Central Japan International Airport in Nagoya and the Fukuoka International Airport in Fukuoka. They should closely monitor the situation and
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      MFA ADVISES AGAINST NON-ESSENTIAL TRAVEL TO JAPAN
      117 3 A Singapore Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) spokesman said yesterday: “We continue to advise against all non-essential travel to Japan. In the aftermath of the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear power plant problems in Japan, we have been advising our nationals in or around
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      Narita gridlock delays delivery of relief supplies
      368 4  -  HETTY MUSFIRAH hetty@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Plans by the Singapore Red Cross (SRC) to deliver its first batch of relief supplies to victims of the earthquake and tsunami in Japan have been delayed, even as more donations are pouring in. The Japanese Embassy has alerted
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      Lock icon CHARITY EVENT FOR QUAKE VICTIMS
      181 4 At the Blue Jazz Cafe in Arab Street last night, a concert featuring 150 performers about a fifth of whom are Japanese living here was held to raise money for the Japan quake victims. One of the performers was Miss Kyoto Abe, a Sendai native
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      Lock icon Students left waiting in school for parents who may never turn up
      347 6 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH ISHINOMAKI (Japan) They sit still, apparently engrossed reading books or playing card games. They are watched over by other relatives or teachers and the media are not allowed to speak to them. Understandably, they do
      THE DAILY TELEGRAPH  -  347 words
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      Lock icon No place to live, nowhere to go
      566 6 THE NEW YORK TIMES, THE DAILY TELEGRAPH THE DAILY TELEGRAPH FUKUSHIMA In a cavernous sports hall on the outskirts of Fukushima, a message booms out from the public address system: “Attention please! Attention please! Voluntary radiation screening is now available.” In the time
      THE NEW YORK TIMES, THE DAILY TELEGRAPH; THE DAILY TELEGRAPH; AP  -  566 words
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      ‘We’re staying and fighting’
      495 8 This is a translation of a diary entry on a Mixi account, the Japanese equivalent of Facebook, belonging to 22-year-old Michiko Otsuki, who works at the Fukushima nuclear plant. By yesterday, the March 15 posting had been translated and reproduced on several blogs. I This morning
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      Lock icon Yen hits record high on bets of currency repatriation
      508 8 AGENCIES TOKYO Speculation ahead of expected fund repatriation, unwinding of carry trades and a wave of techni-cally-driven orders drove the yen to an all-time high against the US dollar yesterday, ahead of a video-conference of finance ministers of the Group of
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      Lock icon Time for Minami Sanrikucho survivors to rebuild — again
      579 10  - Time for Minami Sanrikucho survivors to rebuild again I SAY Ken Teh kenteh@mediacorp.com.sg Ken Teh, an executive editor at Channel NewsAsia, was on assignment in Minami Sanrikucho in Miyagi. For five hours, we drove through winding mountain paths and snow-covered roads. But there was still no sign of the coastal
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      Could California be next?
      371 12 LOS ANGELES Chile: Feb 27, 2010. New Zealand: Feb 22, 2011. Japan: March 11, 2011. Is California next? With these three “corners” of the Pacific Plate the oceanic tectonic plate that lies beneath the Pacific Ocean hit by devastating earthquakes in the past year, many are
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      Lock icon PRAYERS FROM AFAR
      30 12 Filipinos young and old gathering in Quezon City, north of Manila, to offer flowers, candles and prayers to show support for the people of Japan. AP AP
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      Lock icon Real-time radiation readings
      188 12 BLOOMBERG BEIJING Mainland China and Hong Kong have started to release real-time data on radiation levels as Asian governments moved to calm their populations in the aftermath of the Japan crisis. The Hong Kong Observatory started posting real-time ambient gamma radiation levels from its 10 monitoring stations
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  • NEWS
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      CABBY MURDER: MAN PLAYED CHINESE CHESS THE DAY AFTER ALLEGED KILLING
      191 14  -  ONG DAI LIN Only a day after he had allegedly killed cabby Yuen Swee Hong, 58, China national Wang Wenfeng played Chinese chess with his father’s former employer. The court heard yesterday that on the night of April 12,
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      Ex-SGH dept head loses appeal against suspension
      422 14  -  ONG DAI LIN dailin@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE A former head of the Singapore General Hospital’s (SGH) colorectal department lost his appeal in court yesterday against a three-month suspension the minimum period of suspension mandated under the Medical Registration Act meted out by the Singapore Medical
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      Inventor of effluent treatment method wins LKY Water Prize
      406 16  -  ESTHER NG estherng@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Cutting-edge, cost-effective and sustainable are not always found in the same situation and it is a winner when they are. Dr James L Barnard, 75, was awarded the prestigious Lee Kuan Yew Water Prize of S$300,000 yesterday
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      Having difficulty sleeping? Check if you have this disorder
      347 16  -  VIMITA MOHANDAS SINGAPORE Mr Wong Chiang Siang, 70, used to have difficulty sleeping and would feel sleepy and sluggish in the day. His condition caused him a scare one day. Said Mr Wong: “I stopped my car at the traffic light
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  • VOICES
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      No charity from stores
      361 18  -  Most turned us away when we asked for items for a fund-raiser Letter from Aleteia Gray WE HELD a fund-raising event called Japan Day at my children’s school yesterday. I had offered to help organise a stall and thought I would ask for some donations in
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      Per-ticket booking fee is standard
      218 18  -  Letter from YanlingTan Executive, Senior Executive, Corporate Marketing Communications, SISTIC WE REFER to the letter by Lin Wenrong, “One package, but booking fee charged twice” (March 14). SISTIC is a services company, providing ticketing purchase services for sports, arts and entertainment fans. As with any
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      Strictly no sitting, unless in need
      146 18  -  Letter from Mak Yuen Teen their seat.” I suggest that SMRT designate a certain number of seats say four in each carriage as reserved solely for those who are pregnant, carrying a young child, elderly or physically disadvantaged. We should adopt the same approach
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  • COMMENT&ANALYSIS
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      Lock icon Disaster hacks should stick to the facts
      854 20  -  BILL DURODIE Bill Durodie is a Senior Fellow at the Centre for Non-Traditional Security Studies, S Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University, As if the twin calamities of a huge earthquake followed by a devastating tsunami were not enough, much of
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      Lock icon Fukushima’s not Chernobyl
      1377 21  -  The danger’s less, though risk of radiation spread remains IAN SAMPLE Ian Sample has been a science correspondent for the Guardian since 2003. THE GUARDIAN The worsening crisis at the Fukushima power station in Japan has led to inevitable comparisons with the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster that
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      Lock icon Will Land of Rising Yen trigger sellout of US debt?
      777 24  -  WILLIAM PESEK William Pesek is a Bloomberg News columnist. The opinions expressed are his BLOOMBERG A sudden shock to the global financial system has a way of uncovering its true state. As billionaire Warren Buffett famously said, it is only
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      Lock icon In a year, Japan may be booming while world pays for quake
      808 26  -  PETER HADFIELD Peter Hadfield is the author of Sixty Seconds That Will Change the World. THE GUARDIAN In 1923, when a strong earthquake destroyed most ofTokyo, Japan suffered a crippling economic downturn that may have hastened the onset
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  • WORLD
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      Lock icon Fourth mail-bomb attempt foiled in Indonesian capital
      305 31 AGENCIES JAKARTA Police say suspected Islamic militants mailed a bomb to a popular musician of Jewish descent the fourth such package received this week in Indonesia’s capital. The device was similar to three low-intensity explosives delivered to different locations around the Indonesian capital
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      Lock icon MALAYSIA PROBES IF SHIP CARGO HAS NUCLEAR LINK
      158 31 AP Malaysia’s government was investigating yesterday whether seized equipment being shipped illegally to the Middle East could be used to make nuclear weapons. Home Minister Hishammuddin Hussein said the authorities confiscated the cargo from a ship that stopped at a harbour in
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      Lock icon M’SIAN GOVERNMENT ACCUSED OF DESECRATING 5,000 BIBLES
      140 31 AP The Christian Federation of Malaysia accused the government yesterday of having “desecrated and defaced” 5,000 imported Bibles seized by the customs authorities in this Muslim-majority country. The accusation aggravates a dispute over the distribution of Malay-language Bibles containing the word “Allah” as
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      Lock icon Bahrain detains at least 7 activists
      391 32 AGENCIES MANAMA Bahrain’s Sunni monarchy detained at least seven prominent opposition activists yesterday, while Iran recalled its ambassador from Manama to protest against the crackdown on mainly Shia Muslim protesters in the tiny Gulf kingdom. Iranian state TV said Tehran’s Ambassador in Manama, Mr
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      Lock icon Gaddafi's forces surround gateway to opposition-held areas
      233 32 AP TOBRUK (Libya) Colonel Muammar Gaddafi’s forces surrounded the gateway to oppo-sition-held territory yesterday, seizing positions on all sides of rebels who are hoping for help from the United Nations (UN) Security Council before government troops move in. The two sides have been
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      Lock icon No second term or presidency: Clinton
      144 34 REUTERS WASHINGTON United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Wednesday she has no desire to continue in the job if President Barack Obama wins a second term next year. And she said she does not want to be President either. When Mrs
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      Lock icon US 'has no capacity' against cyber attacks
      299 34 AP WASHINGTON The United States military does not have the trained personnel or the legal authority it needs to respond to a computer-based attack on America or its allies, and a crisis would quickly strain the force, the Pentagon’s cyber commander said. General
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      Lock icon ‘UNBELIEVABLE’
      87 34 The devastation caused by last month’s earthquake in Christchurch took Prince William by surprise yesterday. The second-in-line to the British throne toured the central area of the city, which is still closed to all but rescue workers, to see the impact of the magnitude-6.3 quake which struck on Feb
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      Lock icon IRAN CLAIMS LAUNCH OF TEST SPACECRAFT
      92 34 AP Iran said yesterday that it had successfully launched a test spacecraft meant to sustain life in orbit. The state IRNA news agency said the capsule was carried by a rocket dubbed Kavoshgar-4 or Explorer-4 about 120km into orbit on Tuesday before returning to
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      Lock icon GENE THERAPY IMPROVES PARKINSON’S SYMPTOMS: STUDY
      109 34 AP An experimental therapy improved symptoms of Parkinson’s disease in a midstage test, echoing results of an earlier pilot study. The new research is the first to show positive results in a test of gene therapy against a sham operation in about three dozen
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      Lock icon Singapore needs a sports club culture
      789 38  -  A little over two years after SCC’s recommendations, Teo won’t give high marks yet in his progress report TAN YO-HINN yohinn@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE In 2004, the sports industry contributed S$696 million to the Republic’s GDP and that figure rose to around S$1 billion two years
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      205 38  -  SHAMIR OSMAN SINGAPORE Football was not the most important thing at Jurong East Stadium last night, when hosts Albirex Niigata took on champions Etoile FC in a Great Eastern-Yeo’s S-League clash. In memory of those who died after the earthquake and subsequent tsunami that hit
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      588 40  -  Three-way tie-up paves the way to sporting and academic excellence LOW LIN FHOONG linfhoong@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Displaying tremendous faith in the talent of Isabelle Li and Pang Xuejie, and sending a resounding message that sport and studies can mix, Republic Polytechnic (RP), in partnership with the
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      606 42  -  FAS alert SSC on likely impact as sports body look to revise rates to reflect market valuation TODAY EXCLUSIVE SHAMIR OSMAN shamir@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Last week in Parliament, it was revealed that clubs in the Great EasternYeo’s S-League were set for a 40 per cent
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      Lock icon All fingers pointed at Mario as City crash out
      376 44 REUTERS LONDON Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini said he hoped forward Mario Balotelli was “frustrated” at being sent off after his side slumped out of the Europa League against Dynamo Kiev last night. The 20-year-old Italian striker received his marching orders
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      470 44 Even with Andy Carroll finally starting a match, lacklustre Liverpool are shown the door in Europe AGENCIES LIVERPOOL Liverpool’s European campaign is over after a lacklustre goalless draw against Braga, which went through thanks to the narrow 1 -0 advantage it held from the first leg last
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      138 44 AGENCIES German media say Felix Magath will return immediately to coach Wolfsburg, the club he led to a surprising Bundesliga title in 2009. Magath was fired from Schalke on Wednesday. Kicker magazine and Bild newspaper say in their online editions that Magath will be
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      158 44 AGENCIES Arsene Wenger has received a one-match ban and been fined €10,000 (S$17,900) by Uefa after being found guilty of improper conduct for calling the referee Massimo Busacca “embarrassing” after Arsenal’s 3-1 defeat at Barcelona in the Champions League last week. Midfielder Samir Nasri will also
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      368 43 i y&iicty, Q'ltM \J*(mc GOODNESS! ULGEJNWIM V 1 r ■■>.1 API F ATTC, PM,SSC CCK. IND ANOT TRADERS ALLOWED. WHILE 94 MARCH 20T1 v FROM 18-24 offers valid per pack White 3 for Beech Mushroom CHINA /White Buna Shi' I H M I r Beech Mushrooms per pack per pack
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      121 44 S.LEAGUE “LIVE” TELECAST Fri, 18 Mar, 7.30pm On Starhub Ch 201 Sports Arena or Preview Channel No Starhub set-top box? Go to Singapore Pools website for details. SPORTS FIXTURES This match is played on neutral ground. For fixtures of all E Premier, E League Champ, Spanish, Italian, German and K
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      453 45 J $q50 each 189 e^rnEPALLADINE LEDJV 366 x £68 ISGWpect Ratio; 16:9 $229 FUJIFIL vl Finepix Z70 SANDISK 4GB Assorted Colours UP; $13.90 5UJ,ltratSlimt&<Compact Camera 2 Megapixels |2.7-inch LCD ERIE Optical Zoom Movie Recording ■Face Detection Colours UP: $199 0 ■K SAMSUNG* TV HEDigitallNpi se Filter aMKSJSBl(JPEG) 32 0 PHILIPS*
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      308 13 4th New Showroom with 5RM showflat opening soon in May 2011 Alexandra Road D M T H IS D IS H 0 U This Week Special Offer I 20ft Kitchen Cabinet In Laminate Finish Only At $999 Up To $2400 ppgg 10JFT SOLID SURFACE (UP; $800) *K~ mi i FREE
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      329 12 Twl east QjjVO VVHtOVMH -■•-T. Advtn Strawberry Shortcake Meet Greet Meet Strawberry Shortcake and Plum Pudding this school holidays and have your photo taken with them! Grab your photo-taking pass 30 minutes before each session. Limited to 1 st 50 fans only. 18 Mar 7.00pm 19 20 Mar 3.30pm 7.00pm
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      199 11 A SPECIAL INVITATION OPENING OF NEW CELEBRITY SHOWFLAT Get blown away the minute you step into our latest showroom where we present you the very latest designs in classy interior furnishings. Well-known for our flair in designing tasteful interiors, we are proud to be the chosen interior designer for many
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      982 9  -  COMMENTARY ONG KAH SENG property@mediacorp.com.sg Ong Kah Seng is senior manager, Research, Asia Pacific at Cushman Wakefield. Gone are the days when location fundamentally mattered in most private residential purchases. While the recent aggressive bids in Government land tenders for centrallylocated suburban sites
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      828 13 THE NEW YORK TIMES SHANGHAI To say that Mr Spencer Dodington, an entrepreneur, is passionate about Art Deco design is an understatement. He has devoted years to studying the style, amassed a vast collection of period furniture and started a business renovating pre-war apartments
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      Breakeven on mega property deal as yuan rises
      265 11  -  DOW JONES SHANGHAI In the most-expensive singleproperty sale in mainland China this year, a Hong Kong-based distressed seller is getting a helping hand from the rise in the Chinese yuan. Asia Pacific Land, a private real-estate investment firm with about US$4.3 billion
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      HOI HUP LAUNCHES QUESTA @ DUNMAN
      180 11 HOI HUP LAUNCHES QUESTA DUNMAN The development Questa@ Dunman is the latest property offering from Hoi Hup Realty. The freehold property, which has a total of 122 units, comes in two blocks of 14 and 19 storeys. Home buyers can choose from several unit sizes, which include 430 sq ft
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      Not enough spent on China’s low-rent housing
      171 11  -  DOW JONES SHANGHAI China’s revenue from the sale of land rights last year totalled 2.9 trillion yuan (S$564 billion), but only 1.6 per cent went towards the construction of low-rental housing units, far below the proportion recommended by the Ministry of Finance, the
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        BEAUTIFUL SKIN, PURE AND SIMPLE
        139 7 Watsons Singapore is expanding the Pure Beauty line with the Pure Beauty Black Pearl Skincare Range, a luxurious anti-ageing range. Specially designed for Asian skin, the Pure Beauty Black Pearl Skincare Range combines the benefits of Tahitian Black Pearl and SYN-COLL, a patented collagen booster
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        RUB ON THE GO
        65 7 Suffering from stiff necks? Ease your pain with the Owell 3D Shiatsu Massage Mini. Its 3D Shiatsu Massage and Kneading Massage selection lets you choose between acupressure massage and a deep, penetrative massage. Its four smooth rollers provide reach to all massage areas, including hard-to-reach points.
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        EYE FOR DETAILS
        78 7 Optic solutions provider, Shinagawa has expanded. Besides LASIK surgery, it has included checks for glaucoma, cataracts, age-related macular degeneration and others to its services at the Shinagawa LASIK centre. Tests for strabismus, eye mobility, colour vision and more are conducted at Shinagawa Optical. Both centres are located
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        MORE OF AMORE
        162 7 Women looking for a place of their own to relax or workout will not have to go farther than Plaza Singapura. The Amore Fitness and Boutique Spa will open at the mall on March 20. Besides the women-only gym, which boasts state-of-the-art gym equipment imported from Italy,
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        AN APPLE EVERY DAY
        198 7 Playing on the word “orchard”, an area of land where fruit trees grow, Orchard Hotel pays tribute to orchards and apples with daily complimentary baskets of apples placed along its corridors. And until March 31, a minimum spend of S$99 at the Intermezzo Bar, La Terrasse,
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        126 7 Fans of Looney Tunes characters such as Bugs Bunny, Sylvester, the Road Runner, Daffy Duck, the Tasmanian Devil, Wile E Coyote and Lola Bunny are in for a treat. From now until March 31, or while stocks last, every purchase of a promo- is filled with chunks
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        COOL SEASONS
        115 7 Battle the heat of Singapore with Huiji’s Summer Spring Instant Cooling Tea. This popular “cooling tea” has no artificial colouring, flavouring or preservatives, and with reduced sugar, this mildly sweet beverage fits into a Summer Spring Instant Cooling Tea is available at FairPrice, Watsons, Unity, Sheng Siong, OG,
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      42 6 CAREER GLIMPSE Special feature brought to you The appreciation and the smiles from my clients and the resilience I see in them keeps me going. Fareez, a professional social worker who draws inspiration from many of his clients. For career details: socialworker.sg
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      61 5 STUDY IN \AU5TRALIA LiVc.* Lc*irn. C J' N-' <* Study In Australia Explore Australia. Discover Yourself. Australian High School Sample Class (Open to students in Secondary School. Parents are welcome.) 18 March 2011,10 am 2 pm Australian High Commission Education Fair 19 20 March 2011,12 noon 6 pm Suntec Singapore,
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      286 4 Is this your best bet for your future? Be ready for tomorrow. Have a plan. Sure, have a little fun. But have realistic expectations. At NTUC Income, we believe everyone should have a sound retirement plan they can rely on. No matter what age you are, or how much you’re
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      237 3 March to The EXPO for Hot Bargains! Singapore EXPO Hall 5A 18 March, 10am 3pm (POPULAR Cardholders Closed Door Sale) 3pm 10pm (Open to public) 19 20 March, 10am 10pm Savings O Stand a chance* to win St T„ CrUises va «tions and OGAWA massage's h me attractive ®bies when
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      Lock icon 5 banks probed over Libor manipulation
      277 1 REUTERS LONDON Regulators are probing whether a handful of major banks manipulated a global benchmark interest rate, a person familiar with the matter said yesterday. Bank of America, Barclays, Citigroup, WestLB and UBS are the focus of the investigation by regulators in Britain, Japan
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      268 1 REUTERS TOKYO Japan yesterday dismissed the need for joint action to curb the soaring yen ahead of a G-7 conference call as markets speculated that Tokyo was likely to act on its own to curb the currency’s rise. Sources said the
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      57 1 THURSDAY CLOSE 11,774.60 (+1.39%) Wednesday 11,613.30 q 2.04% Tuesday 11,855.40 q 1.15% Monday 11,993.20 q 0.43% Friday 12,044.40 p 0.50% NYSETOP 5 BY VOLUME NAME VOL PRICE CHANGE Citigroup 377.2m $4.45 p 1.37% Bank of America 129.7m $11.98 p 2.12% General Electric 82.0m $19.22 p 1.42% Ford 77.7m $14.26
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      21 1 US$1 S$1.278 US$1 £0.620 US$1 €0.713 US$1 ¥79.216 US$1 A$1.021 US$1 HK$7.803 All figures correct as at 8am this morning
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        74 1 Hedging against Japan Wall Street rebounded after three days of declines, but the advance could be temporary as concerns about Japan’s nuclear crisis persisted. Options activity showed traders are increasing hedges against another decline in stocks. A total of about 1.23 million option contracts changed hands in the
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        87 1 Mideast fears spark rally Oil prices rallied nearly 4 per cent on fears of further escalation of geopolitical tension in the Middle East and North Africa. The oil-heavy Reuters-Jefferies CRB index of 19 commodities rose more than 3 per cent, its biggest one-day gain since August 2009. Brent crude
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      499 1 REUTERS WASHINGTON Consumer prices increased at their fastest pace in more than one and a half years in February as fresh data showed growth was accelerating, but underlying inflation pressures remained generally contained. Some economists expressed concern that the deepening crisis in Japan could
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      86 1 REUTERS FedEx, the world’s No 2 package delivery company, sees improving revenue and profit this quarter and beyond, even as fuel prices mount. Growing volume, rate increases and expected gains from the restructuring of a freight segment brightened the outlook, overshadowing fiscal third-quar-ter earnings that
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      252 5 BLOOMBERG HONG KONG Alibaba.com, the Chinese e-commerce company seeking to recover from a fraud scandal, posted profit that beat analyst estimates as customers spent more to promote their products. Fourth-quarter net income rose 46 per cent to 411.4 million yuan (S$80 million) from 281.2 million yuan
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      Lock icon Shares of China's biggest Internet company fall most in two years
      426 5 BLOOMBERG HONG KONG Tencent Holdings, China’s biggest Internet company, fell the most in more than two years in Hong Kong trading yesterday after president Martin Lau said earnings growth would be “certain” to slow. China’s biggest provider of online
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      293 3 BLOOMBERG SAN FRANCISCO Groupon has held talks with banks about an initial public offering that would value the American online-cou-pon company at as much as US$25 billion (S$32 billion), according to two people with knowledge of the discussions. The two-year-old
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      420 3 AP MUMBAI India raised key interest rates by a quarter point yesterday its eighth hike in a year warning that rising oil prices will aggravate already high inflation in Asia’s third-largest economy. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) also raised its inflation forecast for
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      Singapore's NODX grows at slowest pace in 16 months
      418 2  -  CHRISTOPHER HOWELLS christopherh@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —The Republic’s non-oil domestic exports (NODX) grew at their slowest pace in 16 months in February, following a slump in electronics shipments. But analysts said the deceleration might be temporary as some of the semiconductor orders that
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      389 2  -  RACHEL KELLY SINGAPORE Motor insurance premiums, which rose 6.5 per cent on average last year to S$1,100, may climb even higher this year as insurers look to recoup underwriting losses. Last year, underwriting losses from motor insurance widened to S$48.9 million, some
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      349 1 RANGE GROUP ENDLESS POSSIBILITIES €> Sony Ericsson M»2 7£lp SINGAPORE From 18th to 20th March, for every handset that YOU purchase, $30 will go to the Singapore Red Cross Society's "Japan Disaster 2011" fund. NO CONTRACT ■I c 16:00. 2010-0G-23 das B t Xperia™ XIOmini ill) (■dS) 3.5G) nett Available
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      76 1 HEARTS OUT TO JAPAN GAGA, KATY, BIEBER AND THE REST OF HOLLYWOOD SENDTHEIR LOVE AND FUNDS. T8 MARCH 18, 2011 A PEEK INSIDE THE SCHOOL CHOIR YOU WISH YOU BELONGED TO. T2 BOLLYWOOD GOES FOR AN EDGY MAKEOVER TO ATTRACT THE YOUNG AND HIP. T4 A PUBLICATION OF TECH WE
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      776 2  -  Forget Glee. Meet PS22, who’ve gone from YouTube superstars to celebrity darlings Hermione Hoby features@mediacorp.com.sg THERE was really only one moment worth watching at last month’s Oscars. At the end of a dull ceremony, a chorus of 10-year-olds took to the stage and sang OverThe
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      485 4 REUTERS BOLLYWOOD is dyeing its hair blond, getting itself a sports car and donning a pair of worn-out jeans. In other words, it’s trying to be younger and hipper. The Hindi film industry, until now ruled by stars mostly in their 40s, is looking to woo younger
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      Lock icon From ex-President to film-maker
      332 4 AP IT’S a new role for ex-Czech President Vaclav Havel. Formerly a dissident playwright credited with toppling communism in Czechoslovakia, he is now a director turning his play about the leader of a country who leaves politics after many years into a film. Leaving, for which
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      The experienced newcomers
      433 6  -  After all, it’s taken local band King Kong Jane only six years to release their debut KEVIN MATHEWS WHAT’S instantly obvious about local rock band King Kong Jane (picture) upon first meeting them is that the members Colin Lim, Lim Ruishen, Lin Renquan,Wu Jianpeng and Ian Ho
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      349 7 REUTERS RAP artist Nate Dogg, known for his collaborations with hip-hop stars such as Dr Dre,Warren G and longtime friend Snoop Dog, has died at age 41. The cause of death was not immediately known, but Nate Dogg, born Nathaniel D Hale, had suffered
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      Letter of Apology
      80 6 With reference to our advertisement on “Today” newspaper dated 14 March 2011, FX1 Academy Pte Ltd would like to sincerely apologize to readers of “Today” newspaper for any potential misrepresentation that CNBC is involved in or associated with FX1 Academy Pte Ltd’s seminars. We would like to
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      Lock icon Hollywood hearts Japan
      531 8 Celebrities and entertainment firms band together to send aid and prayers to Japan AGENCIES IN THE aftermath of the earthquake and tsunami in Japan, celebrities and a number of entertainment companies have announced humanitarian aid programmes for the beleaguered country. The support ranges from direct charitable giving
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      211 8 Justin Bieber: “Japan is one of my favorite places on earth...it’s an incredible culture with amazing people. My prayers go out to them. We all need to help” Katy Perry: “My prayers go out to anyone that is being effected by
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      339 9 AGENCIES Sony has given approximately US$3.6 million (S$4.6 million) to relief efforts in addition to the donation of 30,000 radios and 500,000 batteries. The company is also establishing a matching gift programme. Disney said it’ll donate US$2.5 million to the American Red Cross
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