Today, 18 May 2011, Afternoon Edition

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    21 1 AFTERNOON EDITION MICA (P) 057/10/2010 A PUBLICATION OF NEWS HOTLINE 6822 2268 Wednesday May 18, 2011 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking
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    Lock icon HSBC plans hiring spree in Singapore, China
    415 1 AGENCIES HONG KONG HSBC Holdings plans to hire at least 2,000 people in mainland China and in Singapore over the next five years, as the British banking giant continued its push to capture wealth in the Asia-Pacific region, the fastest-growing part of its
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    Lock icon Bomb threats, the Queen and Obama put Dublin on high alert
    619 1 AGENCIES LONDON Hours before Queen Elizabeth II arrived in Dublin yesterday for the first visit by a reigning British monarch to the Irish Republic, the army there defused a pipe bomb discovered in a tote bag in the luggage
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      25 1 STRAUSS-KAHN COULD YET BE GRANTED BAIL PAGE 3 SPORTS LATEST PAGE 55 ‘TEVEZ WILL STAY’ MANAGER MANCINI CLAIMS MAN CITYTALISMAN HAS GIVEN HIM HIS WORD
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      156 2 I believe healthy kids start with a healthy mum! Diana Ser Media Personality, Friso Mum m My curious kids are tough inside! Jake and Christy seem caught up with the idea of the new baby and always ask questions like 'Why is still not coming out to play with us?'.
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  • HOT NEWS
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      Lock icon DSK could yet be let out on bail
      282 3 BLOOMBERG AFTERNOON LATEST NEW YORK International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn, locked up at New York’s Rikers Island jail complex on charges of sexual assault and attempted rape, may still be able to arrange bail while awaiting trial. Strauss-Kahn, 62, is accused
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      Lock icon STRAUSS-KAHN 'IN NO POSITION' TO RUN IMF, SAYS GEITHNER
      146 3 AP United States Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said yesterday that Dominique Strauss-Kahn “is obviously not in a position to run” the IMF after his arrest on charges of attempted rape. Mr Geithner said the IMF’s executive board should formally designate an
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      Lock icon For the first time, murmurs on the need to restructure Greek debt
      382 3 REUTERS BRUSSELS Europe’s top financial officials broke a taboo yesterday and acknowledged for the first time that Greece may have to restructure its debts, a move which could stoke Europe’s sovereign debt crisis. Speaking on the sidelines of
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      Lifting the Party Whip: PAP MPs share their views
      575 4  -  LEONG WEE KEAT weekeat@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE It was a suggestion first raised by outgoing Foreign Minister George Yeo last month before hustings for the General Election got underway that the PAP Government “should consider” lifting the Party Whip during the vote on
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      Third pre-school hit by food poisoning
      329 4  -  JOANNE CHAN SINGAPORE A third preschool served by Mum’s Kitchen Catering has been hit by food poisoning. Yesterday, the Ministry of Health (MOH) said it was notified on Monday of the latest food poisoning incident involving eight children from the Learning Vision’s Raffles Place
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      Lock icon 'If things are going well, that's when you leave'
      850 6  -  TANYA FONG tanyafong@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Not many PAP MPs would stand up to Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew but Associate Professor Ho Peng Kee, 57, who retired from politics before the recent General Election (GE), was one who did. And while Mr
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      Lock icon The boom and bu(r)st of China's watermelons
      199 8 AP BEIJING Watermelons have been bursting by the score in eastern China after farmers gave them overdoses of growth chemicals during wet weather, creating what state media called fields of “land mines”. About 20 farmers around Danyang city in Jiangsu province were affected,
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      Lock icon Regulators pull plug on NASDAQ bid for NYSE
      487 8 REUTERS NEW YORK Germany’s Deutsche Boerse is well on its way to buying the New York and Paris exchanges after United States antitrust regulators pulled the plug on a US$11billion (S$13.7-billion) rival bid for NYSE Euronext. The rejection is likely to leave
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      Lock icon Oil minister flees as NATO strikes Libya
      475 10 AGENCIES TRIPOLI NATO airstrikes pounded two government buildings yesterday in the Libyan capital, including the interior ministry, setting them on fire and prompting a government spokesman to suggest the ministry was targeted because it contained files on corruption cases against senior members of
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      Lock icon Buddhists celebrate Vesak Day
      292 12  -  SEET SOK HWEE AND SABRINA CHAN SINGAPORE Thousands of Buddhists around the world celebrated Vesak Day yesterday, a festival that commemorates the birth and enlightenment of Buddha and his entry into Nirvana. Devotees thronged the temples, which held special ceremonies to mark the occasion. In Thailand,
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  • COMMENT&ANALYSIS
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      Lock icon When prevention is better than relief
      991 14  -  People are willing to donate to help after a disaster but not to save lives before one strikes PETER SINGER Peter Singer is Professor of bioethics at Princeton University. His most recent book is The Life You Can Save. PROJECT SYNDICATE When the earthquake
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      Lock icon It’s no bad thing for the IMF
      1237 16  -  Strauss-Kahn’s fall might bring about rethink of doomed strategy of throwing good money after bad JEREMY WARNER Jeremy Warner is assistant editor of The Daily THE DAILY TELEGRAPH It gives me no pleasure at all to jump up and down on Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s
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      Lock icon The walls have ears
      1774 18  -  In the cat-and-mouse game of authorities and insider traders, tech and tactics are getting more sophisticated BROOKE MASTERS, KARA SCANNELL THE FINANCIAL TIMES LIMITED Unbeknown to Danielle Chiesi, the financial world was just weeks away from collapse. It was late August 2008 and the hedge fund
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      QUEST FOR FOUNDER’S ASSETS
      367 19  -  MEGAN MURPHY During Raj Rajaratnam’s seven-week trial, the jury was given a rare glimpse into the lifestyle of a hedge fund billionaire, from his luxurious condominium in Miami’s South Beach where he swapped illegal stock tips while lounging on the sand —to his lavish 50th birthday
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      Why schemes for the jobless need to target their spouses, too
      659 21  -  SONG ZHAOLI Song Zhaoli is assistant professor in the Department of Management and Organisation, NUS Business School. The research was a collaboration with Foo MawDer, Marilyn A Uy and Sun Shuhua, and published in the Journal of Applied Psychology.
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  • VOICES
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      The 'it is policy' approach
      490 22  -  Letter from Sebastian Ng I AM heartened to note that two Cabinet Ministers have addressed the concerns of Singaporeans on policy-making. Dr Vivian Balakrishnan said that Government policies should reflect the “key concerns and priorities of Singaporeans” and be more sensitive to the needs of
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      Bosses want 'plug and play’, not creative employees
      855 24  -  I SAY Lim Chuan Yang Each year produces more graduates who experience increasing difficulty in finding employment here. Recent statistics show that as many as 30 per cent of last year’s cohort remained unemployed nine months after graduation. One of the dilemmas
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  • SINGAPORE
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      Water supply restored but ...
      466 26  - Water supply restored but Some residents still squeamish after gruesome discovery in water tank ONG DAI LIN dailin@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The water supply to their homes might have been restored yesterday following the gruesome discovery of a body in a water tank on the rooftop but several residents at Blk 686B,
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      MP ZAQY: GEN Y MUST CONTINUE TO SUSTAIN INTER-FAITH DIALOGUE
      203 26  -  QIUYI TAN Young Singaporeans must take on the work of sustaining inter-faith dialogue and harmony, even as Singapore has come a long way in embracing diversity, said Member of Parliament Zaqy Mohamad at an inter-faith Vesak Day celebration yesterday. And
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      Ten youths arrested for assault, gang robbery
      292 27 SINGAPORE A group of 10 male youths were arrested yesterday as suspects in a case of gang robbery that took place early yesterday morning at Block 20 Jalan Membina. The youths, aged 12 to 20 years old, are suspected to have assaulted and
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      1,600 PASSENGERS AFFECTED BY LRT DISRUPTION
      112 27 An electrical fault caused a train disruption for more than an hour in the Bukit Panjang LRT system yesterday evening at around 5.30pm, affecting 1,600 passengers. Twenty passengers on a train that had stalled before Choa Chu Kang Station had to get off and
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      BUS INTERCHANGES TO GET MORE USER-FRIENDLY, A BARRIER-FREE ZONE
      103 27 Efforts to make bus interchanges user-friend-ly are on schedule, according to an update from the Land Transport Authority (LTA). About 80 per cent of older bus stops are now barrier-free and work on the last three interchanges will start before 2014.
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      Now, history gets interactive
      223 27  -  LYNDA HONG SINGAPORE Come August, learning about the history of Bukit Timah spanning almost 180 years will take on a more interactive twist: Using location-based technology, a hand-held device allows visitors to receive nuggets of information about the area’s rich heritage. Details of how the general
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      374 27 THINGS YOU DIDN’T KNOW Earthworms have five hearts. 2.The percentage of people dreaming in black and white decreased after the introduction of color television. 3.One million “$1 bills” weigh one tonne. 4, Women blink nearly twice as much as men. f Aberdeen Asia manages over US$6.5 billion 1 in Asian
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  • WORLD
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      Lock icon 2 could be enough for China
      380 28 Two-child policy could come in next 5 years, lawmaker says BLOOMBERG BEIJING China may move closer to a two-child policy in the next five years with a proposed pilot project that further eases its three-decades-old rule restricting women to having only one child, National
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      Lock icon Central China hit by drought as reservoirs become 'dead water'
      450 29 THE NEW YORK TIMES BEIJING A severe drought along the Yangtze River region in central China has rendered nearly 1,400 reservoirs in Hubei province temporarily unusable, devastated farm fields and made drinking water scarce, according to a report on Monday
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      Lock icon N Korea exporting missiles to Mid East and Asia: UN
      420 30 AGENCIES UNITED NATIONS North Korea remains “actively engaged” in exporting ballistic missiles, components and technology to numerous customers in the Middle East and South Asia in violation of United Nations (UN) sanctions, a UN panel said in a report. North
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      Lock icon Beijing to reduce student residence permits: Report
      182 30 BLOOMBERG BEIJING The Chinese capital will this year reduce the number of graduates from the city’s universities, who are granted a permit, that allows them to become permanent residents, the Beijing Times reported yesterday. Beijing may only grant about 6,000 so-called hukou permits
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      Lock icon Come together, right now, says Najib
      420 32 THE MALAYSIAN INSIDER KUALA LUMPUR As religious and ethnic tensions run high in Malaysia, Prime Minister Najib Razak has called on moderates of all religions to come together. Speaking at the Islamic Centre of the prestigious Oxford University in Britain on Monday, Mr Najib
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      Lock icon Malaysia's 'opium' to be cut gradually
      269 32 REUTERS OXFORD Fuel subsidies are “like opium” to the Malaysian economy and will have to be reduced gradually to bring the budget deficit under control, Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak said on Monday. He said his government had budgeted for fuel subsidies to cost
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      Lock icon Mubarak's wife released from custody as she parts with S$5m
      193 33 AP CAIRO Egypt’s Justice Ministry yesterday ordered the wife of former President Hosni Mubarak released from custody without bail, a court official said. Suzanne Mubarak, 70, has turned over her property and money, valued at some 24 million Egyptian pounds
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      Lock icon Desperate, Americans buy kidneys from impoverished Peru
      419 33 BLOOMBERG MANAGUA Mr Luis Picado’s mother remembers the day her son thought he had won the lottery. He came home to their tin-roofed cinder-block house in a slum in Managua, Nicaragua, and said he had found a way to escape poverty and start
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      Lock icon Myanmar frees 14,600 prisoners, but few are political detainees
      237 34 AP YANGON Myanmar has released more than 14,600 prisoners under a clemency programme that will include very few political prisoners. Prison Department DirectorGeneral Zaw Win said most of the convicts, including 2,166 women, were freed yesterday from jails around the country.
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      Lock icon US outlines global plan to make cyberspace a safer, more open place
      391 35 AGENCIES WASHINGTON The Obama administration laid out plans on Monday to work aggressively with other nations to make the Internet more secure, enable law enforcement to work closely on cybercrime, and ensure that citizens everywhere have the freedom
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      Lock icon SEALs had only one chance to grab Osama
      344 35 AP WASHINGTON Those who planned the secret mission to get Osama bin Laden in Pakistan knew it was a one-shot deal and it nearly went terribly wrong. The United States deliberately hid the operation from Pakistan and predicted that national outrage over
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      Lock icon Peru's Fujimori hires crime-stopper NY's Giuliani to boost her image
      372 36 REUTERS LIMA Peru’s presidential front-runner Keiko Fujimori has hired former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani as an adviser, trying to bolster her law-and-order credentials without relying on the image of her divisive father, jailed former President Alberto Fujimori. Mr
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      Lock icon Arnie reveals he had a child with an employee
      250 36 AP LOS ANGELES Former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has acknowledged that he fathered a child 10 years ago with a member of his household staff, a revelation that casts new light on the break up of his 25-year marriage with Ms
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      Lock icon FRUSTRATED BRITISH GRADUATES LOOKING ABROAD FOR WORK
      112 36 REUTERS Nearly two-thirds of recent graduates in Britain have failed to find degree-level employment and many have considered working abroad, according to a poll released. Among 1,000 graduates surveyed, the poll suggests many are beginning to question the value of a degree, especially
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      Lock icon US, RUSSIA TO KEEP SMALLPOX STOCKPILES
      106 36 AP The last known stockpiles of the smallpox virus will not be destroyed anytime soon, the United States said yesterday, in part out of fear that one of the world’s deadliest diseases could be used as a bioweapon. US Health Secretary Kathleen Sibelius told
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      Lock icon Sarkozy's dad: Carla is pregnant
      211 36 AGENCIES PARIS French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s father was quoted by a German newspaper yesterday as saying that First Lady Carla Bruni, is expecting a child, apparently confirming the subject of weeks of speculation. Talk has swirled in France that the former supermodel is pregnant ever
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      Lock icon Vatican issues directives on handling sex abuse cases
      145 37 AP VATICAN CITY The Vatican has told bishops around the world that it is important to cooperate with police in reporting priests who rape and molest children, and asked them to develop guidelines for preventing sex abuse by next May. But the
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      Lock icon He'd rather host Apprentice than be President
      317 37 AGENCIES WASHINGTON Faced with the choice of hosting The Apprentice or taking on Mr Barack Obama in next year’s election, real estate mogul Donald Trump opted to stick with his television programme. The multimillionaire has formally announced he will not be joining the
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      Lock icon 'What's happening here, I'll tell ya, it's not fair'
      536 38 AP KROTZ SPRINGS (Louisiana) Ms Renee Ledoux cried when the National Guard and sheriff’s deputies showed up at her front door and warned her that she needed to get out to avoid water gushing from the Mississippi River after a floodgate
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      Lock icon Wildfires reduce Canadian town to ash
      276 39 AP SLAVE LAKE (Alberta) Wildfires that blazed through the northern Canadian town of Slave Lake in the province of Alberta has forced the evacuation of nearly 7,000 people. The town’s mayor, Ms Karina Pillay-Kinnee, said yesterday that nearly one-third of the buildings have been
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      Lock icon Internet furore forces end to Billionnaire's Club in Forbidden City
      366 40 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH BEIJING Attempts to use the Forbidden City in Beijing (picture) as a venue for an elite Billionaire’s Club have caused uproar on the Internet in China, highlighting the rising envy of ordinary Chinese towards the country’s new
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      259 57 Knee rehab means he will play very little before year’s second major AP FLORIDA Tiger Woods expects to play at the US Open next month. He played only nine holes last week at The Players Championship when he withdrew because of what
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      Starry turnout for Pirates at Lido
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