Today, 1 June 2011, Afternoon Edition

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  • 571 1 Swedish woman dies; S’pore’s MOH advises travellers to Germany to avoid some AGENCIES BERLIN A deadly bacterial outbreak in Europe, linked to contaminated cucumbers, claimed its first fatality outside of Germany yesterday when a woman died in Sweden after a trip to Germany. The
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  • 704 1 BOSTON The ranks of millionaires expanded by 12 per cent in 2010, led by Singapore, as gains in financial markets lifted global wealth for a second straight year, the Boston Consulting Group said. The number of millionaire households increased
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  • HOT NEWS
    • 171 2 AGENCIES E coli bacteria is carried in the intestines of humans and animals. It can be transmitted through contaminated food or water, unwashed vegetables or contact with animals. The disease can also be transferred between people if an infected person prepares food for others.
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    • 391 3  -  STELLA LEE, JO-ANN HUANG stellalee@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE As home prices continue to climb despite four rounds of cooling measures, the Government is releasing more land to meet demand. The Housing and Development Board (HDB) will release an Executive Condominium site at Upper Serangoon View today under the
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    • 206 3  -  JO-ANN HUANG, STELLA LEE SINGAPORE The Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) released two commercial sites under the Reserve List of the Government Land Sales Programme yesterday. The first a 2.07 hectare 99-year leasehold site at the junction of Sims Avenue and Tanjong Katong Road can yield
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    • 180 3  -  TAN WEIZHEN SINGAPORE NTUC FairPrice will be extending discounts for its entire range of house brand products till July 31, in order to help customers cope with the rising cost of living. Launched on Feb 15, the scheme was scheduled to
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    • 238 4 SHANGHAI The price of rice and vegetables from drought-hit provinces in China have skyrocketed due to the country’s worst drought in 50 years. Data from the National Bureau of Statistics showed that the average price of staple foods in 50 cities has increased
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    • 433 4 THE GUARDIAN LONDON The average price of staple foods will more than double in the next 20 years, leading to an unprecedented reversal in human development, British charity Oxfam has warned. The world’s poorest people, who spend up to 80 per cent
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    • 346 6  - Going into action with armour DYLAN LOH dylanloh@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The Republic’s army now packs a bigger punch with a new motorised unit the 2nd Battalion, Singapore Infantry Regiment. This marks the first time in 54 years that the country’s infantry forces are officially riding into battle with armour. The unit
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    • 212 6  -  HETTY MUSFIRAH SINGAPORE The air-conditioning at Resorts World Sentosa (RWS) should be fully restored by Friday and relieve guests and visitors from the less-than-pleasant humid conditions that began on Monday after a malfunction in the system’s chilling units.
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    • 299 8 SINGAPORE The Health Sciences Authority (HSA) will suspend the licences of 10 tobacco retailers, including those of two 7-Eleven outlets, for selling tobacco products to underaged youth. One tobacco retailer’s licence will be revoked as the retail outlet’s employee was caught selling a
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    • 250 8  -  TAN WEIZHEN SINGAPORE The People’s Action Party Government has a new Leader of the House and Whip, who were appointed by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong. A statement issued yesterday from the Prime Minister’s Office announced that Defence Minister Ng Eng Hen
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    • 561 10 BLOOMBERG AFTERNOON ZURICH Mr Sepp Blatter (picture), the president of world soccer body FIFA, said the organisation faces danger and is “unstable” as it battles to combat a bribes scandal. Mr Blatter, speaking yesterday at the start of FIFA’s congress in Zurich, is
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    • 288 12 AGENCIES BANDUNG Kuala Lumpur and Jakarta signed a new agreement on Monday that will pave the way for the lifting of a two-year freeze on Indonesian maids working in Malaysia. The memorandum of understanding, which supersedes that signed in 2006, is
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    • 333 12 AGENCIES CANBERRA Australia is set to pass the world’s toughest anti-smoking laws, forcing big tobacco companies to use plain green cigarette packaging after opposition lawmakers dropped concerns yesterday and said they would back the government’s plan. Conservative Opposition leader Tony Abbott said
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  • COMMENT&ANALYSIS
    • 1067 14  -  The decision is a cynical exercise in realpolitik even if it’s scientifically irrational and hypocritical DANIEL JOHNSON Daniel Johnson is editor of Standpoint. This is an abridged version of a longer commentary. THE DAILY TELEGRAPH German Chancellor Angela Merkel knows perfectly well that
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    • 913 16  -  The challenge of regional nuclear safety cannot be met without bringing Taiwan into the talks YURIKO KOIKE Yuriko Koike, Japan’s former Minister of Defence and National Security Adviser, is chairman of the executive council of the Liberal Democratic Party. PROJECT SYNDICATE Just before the fourth trilateral
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    • 950 18  -  Absence of process to resolve Israel-Palestine question could erode the fragile gains of the Arab Spring CHRISTOPHER HILL Christopher Hill, a former US Assistant Secretary of State for East Asia, was US Ambassador to Iraq, South Korea, Macedonia and Poland, US special envoy for Kosovo,
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  • VOICES
    • 518 20  -  is what matters, not whether presidential candidate has past links to ruling Letter from Jason Lee AS SOMEONE who has taken an active interest in the Elected Presidency since 1993, I disagree with Mr Daniel Koh, who said in his letter (“The Elected Presidency: We need
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    • 210 22  -  Letter from Alan Lee Leng Keong THE Electronic Road Pricing (ERP) system is designed to be a fair system as motorists are charged when they use the road during peak hours. It serves to ease congestion. As a driver who uses the
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    • 200 22  -  Letter from Alvin Eng I REFER to the report, “Strike balance when reviewing HDB income ceiling” (May 31). Indeed, it is important that the Housing and Development Board (HDB) strike a balance when recalibrating the income ceiling. Just as setting it too low would render the
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    • 150 22  -  Letter from Ler Seng Ann Group Director Conservation Development Services Urban Redevelopment Authority WE REFER to the letter from Ms Sandra Alison Jayandran, who asked if the whole bungalow at 37, Marine Parade Road, would be kept given its historic value,
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    • 211 22  -  LETTER FROM ANDREW JAMES ONG WOOI-MIN It is heartening to read the report, “MPs should be open to both positive and negative feedback, says MP Baey” (May 31). I recall a book that described a certain company which was once afraid of getting complaints and
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    • 120 22 /engineering KM IT UNIVERSITY Engineering courses ranked in the top 100 in 2011 QS World University Rankings RMIT Bachelor of Engineering (Mechanical Engineering) Is the only Engineering degree in Singapore which has dual accreditation from both Engineers Australia and Institution of Engineers Singapore. [Copyright TODAY Stansfield Engineering students with RMIT’s
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 706 24  -  Foreigners seek bone marrow transplants because of poor facilities, failed treatment back home NEO CHAI CHIN chaichin@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE They come from countries including Indonesia, Vietnam, the Philippines, Bangladesh and Saudi Arabia for bone marrow transplants, seeking treatment at both private and
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    • 246 26  -  EVELYN CHOO SINGAPORE Asked to choose from four options what they thought would be the key issue to have an impact on Singapore, the majority of an audience of 500 students, through mobile keypads, cast their vote for demographic trends, like an
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    • 221 26 SINGAPORE The lists of voters who did not cast their ballots in the May 7 General Election (GE) is now available for inspection at the Elections Department and designated community centres. As voting is compulsory, the department said yesterday that the names
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    • 266 26  -  VIMITA MOHANDAS vimita@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The feedback from healthcare stakeholders to the new Health Minister: Build an efficient and quality healthcare system and deliver quality healthcare services in an affordable manner. Mr Gan Kim Yong shared some of these concerns flagged to him by stakeholders at
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    • 339 28  -  ONG DAILIN SINGAPORE The Court of Appeal yesterday upheld the acquittal of a man who had been cleared of performing oral sex on a four-year-old boy in 2005. Former taxi driver Peter Lee, 45, had faced a total of five charges of
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    • 189 28  -  ONG DAILIN An Indonesian maid who had been charged with the attempted murder of a seven-year-old girl had her charge reduced to attempted culpable homicide in the High Court yesterday. Kumaeroh, 25, was accused of using a kitchen knife to stab the girl several times
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    • 119 28  -  SHAFFIQ ALKHATIB A former training coordinator with a voluntary welfare organisation, The Salvation Army, was yesterday jailed eight months after dishonestly misappropriating more than s$35,300 of its money. Pavalakaanthan Shanmugavel, 31, who used to work at the organisation’s Bukit Panjang Family Service Centre at
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  • WORLD
    • 341 30 REUTERS CANBERRA Australia suspended live cattle exports to 11 Indonesian abattoirs yesterday and announced a review into the A$320 million (S$421 million) trade after graphic footage was broadcast of Australian cattle being inhumanely slaughtered. “I have decided to halt the trade of live animals to the
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    • 277 30 AP SYDNEY Ousted Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra said he has no plans to return to leadership, and he predicted his sister will lead the nation’s opposition party to victory in the coming elections. The battle between Ms Yingluck Shinawatra, the opposition Pheu
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    • 243 32 AGENCIES NEW YORK A former chairman of one of Egypt’s major banks faces charges of sexually abusing a maid at a luxury Manhattan hotel, only weeks after the arrest of former International Monetary Fund (IMF) chief on similar
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    • 238 32 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH MELBOURNE/YORKSHIRE Australia’s second-most populous state of Victoria will pass new laws to allow police officers to dish out fines of up to A$240 (S$316) to people caught using offensive words or phrases. According to state Attor-ney-General Robert Clark,
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    • 317 34 THE GUARDIAN KABUL Osama bin Laden spent much of his last weeks alive planning a new attempt to bring the disparate factions among insurgents and militants fighting in Pakistan and Afghanistan together under the umbrella of Al Qaeda, sources in Pakistan,
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    • 300 34 AGENCIES BERLIN Iran set off a diplomatic row with Germany yesterday by closing its airspace to Chancellor Angela Merkel’s plane as it flew to India and delaying her arrival there on an official visit. Germany summoned the Iranian Ambassador in Berlin to protest
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    • 115 34 AP South Korean marines are using photos of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il’s son and heir-appar-ent as targets during firing drills. The Defence Ministry said yesterday that the marines began having new recruits fire at Mr Kim Jong Un’s photos
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    • 176 36 MANILA —The Philippine Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has warned Filipinos that illegal injections of a cancer-treating chemical used to whiten skin could cause death. The FDA said the drug glutathione injected in large doses as a skin whitener can result in serious conditions
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    • 269 36 AP KABUL Angered by civilian casualties, Afghan President Hamid Karzai said yesterday he will no longer allow North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) air strikes on houses, issuing his strongest statement yet against strikes that the military alliance says are key to
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    • 202 36 REUTERS BEIJING China yesterday opened the door to its secretive national archives but kept the lid on some of the most painful parts of its history like the Cultural Revolution and Tiananmen crackdown to protect “privacy and reputations”. The State
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    • 239 38 REUTERS TRIPOLI Colonel Muammar Gaddafi is emphatic he will not leave Libya, South African President Jacob Zuma said yesterday after talks with the Libyan leader that left prospects for a negotiated end to the conflict looking dim. But new questions emerged
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    • 232 38 AP SANAA Heavy fighting resumed yesterday in the Yemeni capital between government troops and followers of the country’s most powerful tribal leader, ending a brief ceasefire and again raising the prospect that Yemen’s political crisis could veer into civil war. Government forces
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    • 161 38 AP The Syrian military used heavy machine guns and artillery in renewed attacks on a town in the country’s turbulent heartland yesterday. At least one person was killed, activists said. The Local Coordination Committees in Syria, which helps organise and document the country’s
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    • 286 39 REUTERS TOKYO Unpopular Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan yesterday refused to step down in the face of a no-confidence motion in Parliament this week, saying he wanted first to resolve the world’s worst nuclear crisis in 25 years. Analysts say Mr Kan would probably
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    • 401 39 THE GUARDIAN LONDON Britain is developing a cyberweapons programme that will give ministers an attacking capability to help counter growing threats to national security from cyberspace, the Guardian newspaper has learned. Whitehall officials have revealed that Britain needs to have a new
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    • 206 40 THE NEW YORK TIMES ROME Italy’s ruling centreright coalition was resoundingly beaten in run-off administrative elections on Monday, a defeat that further weakened Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, who has been besieged by growing dissent within his razor-thin majority and faces criminal charges in court. In
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    • 213 40 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH STOCKHOLM Swedish King Carl XVI Gustaf (picture) on Monday gave a rare interview in an attempt to quash a swelling scandal, flatly rejecting media reports he had visited strip clubs and even had indirect contact with organised crime.
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    • 615 42 THE NEW YORK KASHIMA (Japan) When the Shimane nuclear plant was first proposed here more than 40 years ago, this rural port town put up such fierce resistance that the plant’s would-be operator, Chugoku Electric, almost scrapped the project.
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    • 230 43 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH WELLINGTON Prisoners in New Zealand who crave cigarettes are being offered carrot sticks to chew instead. The unlikely initiative is among measures aimed at helping inmates kick the habit before a controversial smoke-free prisons policy takes effect
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    • Article, Illustration
      67 43 An attendant giving a soap massage to a customer at the newly restored Roxelana’s hamam in Istanbul. For decades, the 16th century bath house built for the Ottoman Empire’s most infamous woman, Roxelana, languished unnoticed between the Blue Mosque and the Haghia Sophia. The domed building, completed
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    • 365 43 THE GUARDIAN RIO BRANCO (Brazil) A highly addictive hallucinogenic has exploded on to South America’s drug scene, with devastating consequences. Oxi, or oxidado “rust” is reputedly twice as powerful as crack cocaine and just a fifth of the price. It is a
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    • 348 44  -  RYAN HUANG ryanhuang@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The Singapore Exchange (SGX) will reduce the minimum bid size intervals for securities from July 4 in a move to help lower trading costs for investors and boost liquidity. The minimum intervals depend on the share price. For example,
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    • 345 45 AFTERNOON LATEST BLOOMBERG NEW YORK Consumer sentiment in the United States unexpectedly decreased last month to the lowest level in six months as Americans grew concerned over the outlook for jobs and the economy, while a measure of home prices dropped
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    • 318 46 AGENCIES TOKYO Japan’s economy offered more signs of recovery from the deadly March earthquake, output data showed yesterday, but Moody’s ratings agency warned both growth and government action may fall short of what is necessary to bring Tokyo’s debt under control. Industrial output rose 1 per
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    • 649 52  -  Midfield star Hariss to play in defence in Avramovic’s new-look starting XI SHAMIR OSMAN shamir@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE He is their skipper, the oldest head in the youthful crew of the Courts Young Lions, their inspiration. Hariss Harun is already a talisman for the S-League side, a
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    • 335 52  -  PHILIP GOH Seng Kang Secondary School star Chen Peng was one of the standout players at the Nike Superfly training masterclass conducted by the Football Association of Singapore’s specialist striker coach, V Sundramoorthy, yesterday at Jalan Besar Stadium. Forty boys who took part in this
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    • 670 53 ‘Sat Nav’ retires after making Wembley his final destination AP LONDON Manchester United midfielder Paul Scholes announced his retirement from football yesterday, ending the trophyladen career of a famously low-key player widely regarded as one of the most technically gifted of his generation. The 36-year-old
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    • 207 54  -  TAN YO-HINN SINGAPORE Getting a good start will be key to whether Singapore overcome rivals Malaysia and take a step closer to a dream promotion back into the Asian Rugby Football Union’s (ARFU) top tier. Singapore take on Malaysia today in an ARFU Division 1
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    • 560 54  -  Singapore star leads Open field in qualifiers, as China’s Wang toils at Orchid Bowl TAN YO-HINN yohinn@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Former men’s world champion Remy Ong continued his strong run at the 44th Singapore International Open bowling championship yesterday. At press time last night,
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      132 9  -  GENEVIEVE LOH TWISTED: Local writer-director Chai Yee Wai’s sophomore feature after 2009’s BloodTies is a horror-action-comedy which consists of three vignettes strung together by a drug-dealing Mark Lee. It stars a potpourri ensemble cast boasting comedic and dramatic talents from all over the region including veteran Zhu Mi
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    • 769 10  -  What is it about 19th-century novels and film-makers? Mark Lawson features@mediacorp.com.sg THE GUARDIAN THERE are three films currently in production from admired directors Mike Newell, Andrea Arnold and Joe Wright which might be billed, in line with Hollywood’s numerical tendency, as Great Expectations 16, Wuthering Heights 17 and
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    • 193 12  -  S SHIVA THE latest tablet from Samsung, the Galaxy Tab 10.1 measures a mere 8.6mm in thickness, and is touted to be the world’s thinnest mobile tablet yes, it’s even slimmer than Apple’s 8.8mm-thick iPad 2. Even at its heaviest at 565g it’s lighter, too.
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    • 179 14 ON MEDIACORP WE ARE SINGAPOREANS Channel 5, 8pm Just how much do our teachers know about Singapore? We Are Singaporeans puts them to the test in this Teachers Special. Join Hossan Leong and celebrity icons Rosie Phua from PCK Pte Ltd, Adam Chen, Patricia Mok, Chua Enlai and more for
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