Today, 30 June 2011, Afternoon Edition

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  • 40 1 TODAY MICA (P) 057/10/2010 A PUBLICATION OF NEWS HOTLINE 6822 Thursday June 30, 2011 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking AFTERNOON EDITION MICA (P) 057/10/2010 A PUBLICATION OF NEWS HOTLINE 6822 2268 Thursday June 30, 2011 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking
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  • 507 1  -  QIUYI TAN ADDITIONAL REPORTING BY ESTHERNG tanqiuyi@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Come August, real estate advertisements proclaiming “advance loans available”, “real estate specialist” and “king of XX (name of estate)”, could become a thing of the past, as the Council for Estate Agencies (CEA) yesterday issued
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  • 195 1 Estate agents and salespersons are required to obtain the owner’s prior consent before advertising any property for sale or rental. In the case of leased property which is sought to be sublet, the estate agent or salesperson is required to ascertain if prior consent of
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  • HOT NEWS
    • 383 2 REUTERS ATHENS Greek law-makers yesterday passed the first of two austerity Bills demanded by international lenders, while on the streets police fired tear gas to drive back protesters who attacked the Finance Ministry. The Bill on tax hikes, spending targets and privatisations was passed by
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    • 247 2 REUTERS SINGAPORE Asia’s fast-rising economies set their sights on securing key International Monetary Fund (IMF) appointments under newly-named chief Christine Lagarde (picture) yesterday, hopeful she would be the one to make good on oft-heard pledges to swing more power to emerging
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    • 282 2 A statement from MrTharman Shanmugaratnam, Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister; Chairman of the International Monetary and Financial Committee (IMFC): I would like to congratulate Ms Christine Lagarde on her appointment as Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund. I am confident that Ms Lagarde
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    • 266 3 PETALING JAYA Malaysia will launch affordable government-built homes later this year to cater to its middle-income citizens. The housing scheme, an extension of the My First Home Scheme for units priced between RM100,000 (S$40,684) and RM220,000, will see stratified
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    • 302 3 AP YANGON Myanmar’s state media warned pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi (picture) yesterday to stop political activities, saying her plans to travel outside Yangon to meet supporters could trigger riots. A commentary in the state-run New Light of Myanmar newspaper also
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    • 442 3 AGENCIES SEOUL North Korea’s military vowed yesterday to retaliate for anti-Pyongyang signs posted at front-line South Korean army units, as rare talks between the rivals on a stalled joint tourism project broke down. The North’s Korean People’s Army (KPA) issued its
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    • 259 4  -  CHEOW XIN YI As a scheme encouraging companies to adopt initiatives to meet quality standards gets a fresh injection of s$20 million in funds, it will also shift its focus to emerging areas such as carbon emissions
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    • 401 4 REUTERS SHENZHEN A pioneering electric taxi (picture) project in China’s southern economic powerhouse of Shenzhen seems a success by most accounts. Riders are enthusiastic, there have been no accidents and drivers are termed “gracious”, not a term usually applied to mainland
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    • 164 6  -  CHRISTOPHER TOH christophertoh@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The excitement was palpable last night at the Singapore Indoor Stadium, where Australian pop princess Kylie Minogue held court with her Aphrodite Live concert tour. Although the stage set here, featuring Greco-Roman themes and props, was a whittled down
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    • 294 6  -  CHITRA KUMAR When Singaporeans return to the Marina Bay floating platform on Aug 9 to celebrate the nation’s 46th birthday, celebrations will focus on a seven-storey high musical box called The Cube (picture). The giant 200-tonne Rubik’s cube of sorts with several mobile
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    • 275 8 REUTERS BANGKOK Thailand’s community of “ladyboys” complained yesterday that they were being marginalised in Sunday’s general election because their ID card pictures were too confusing for polling officials. It is the latest in a series of gripes among members of the
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    • 39 8 Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva (above) and Ms Yingluck Shinawatra, the candidate from the country’s biggest opposition party, Puea Thai, inspecting flood affected areas in Nan province in northern Thailand on Tuesday. REUTERS REUTERS
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    • 354 8 THE BANGKOK POST BANGKOK The fierce race to claim victory at Thailand’s general election on Sunday has resulted in more rampant vote buying nationwide, with the average price of vote buying in central provinces higher than in other
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    • 338 8 THE BANGKOK POST BANGKOK The general election will definitely go ahead this Sunday and the longrunning border dispute with Cambodia and Thailand’s withdrawal from the World Heritage Covention will not derail it, Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva and army chiefs reaffirmed
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    • 212 10  -  ALVINA SOH alvinasoh@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE A former OCBC relationship manager was yesterday jailed seven years for cheating and money laundering. Tan Wei Chong, 32, who had been with the bank since 2003, committed the offences between November 2007 and August last year.
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    • 515 10  -  ONG DAI LIN dailin@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE He wrote to his lover that she held “an exalted position” in his family. And because he could feel her sincerity towards them, he decided that she deserved the S$7 million Chancery Hill Road house that they were living
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    • 500 12  -  NG JING YNG jingyng@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The Land Transport Authority (LTA) is confident that the Downtown Line 2 will be completed on schedule, despite protests by some Bukit Timah residents which have halted construction of King Albert Park Station for about three weeks.
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  • COMMENT&ANALYSIS
    • 939 14  -  The allies, suffering from a lack of political will, must understand that failure is not an option in Libya CHRISTOPHER HILL Christopher R Hill, a former US Assistant Secretary of State for East Asia, was US Ambassador to Iraq, South Korea, Macedonia, and Poland, US special envoy
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    • 825 16  -  SARWAR A KASHMERI SarwarA Kashmeri is a senior fellow in the Atlantic Council’s International Security Programme and the author of NATO 2.0: Reboot or Delete?. THE NEW YORK TIMES In the surreal world of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) according to United States permanent representative to
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    • 997 18  -  Euro zone leaders need to be bold JIM O’NEILL Jim O’Neill is chairman of Goldman Sachs Asset Management. This is excerpted from a longer commentary. THE TELEGRAPH Despite everyone talking about the European Monetary Union (EMU) crisis being a sovereign debt crisis, I suspect it
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    • 646 19  -  PAVIN CHACHAVALPONGPUN Pavin Chachavalpongpun is a fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. With only three days to go before the Thai general election this Sunday, the different political factions have brought out what could be seen
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    • 405 19 c c rom June August Auckland is 30 minutes to anywhere. Must try: sailing, island hopping, rainforest trek, picnicking on a volcano, food and wine tour, bungy jumping, quad biking, sea kayaking, diving, surfing, camping, dolphin watching, gannet colony, blacksand surf beach, underwater world wonders, shopping, sumptuous dining and more.
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  • VOICES
    • 328 20  -  Letter from Jolly Wee I SHARE the views of Dr Alexandre Kalache, a former head of ageing programmes at the World Health Organization, that older people working long hours in menial jobs is not active ageing and that Government handouts for the
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    • 137 20  -  Letter from Tiong Choon Hin THERE has been much hype in the media and elsewhere about the coming Presidential Election, which must be held by the end of August. However, I doubt that the layman understands what the whole exercise is all about, other than
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    • 138 22  -  Letter from Tammy Tan Group Corporate Communications Officer ComfortDelGro Corporation Limited I REFER to the letter, “Cabbies worried about cash-flow” by Mr Danny G Tan (June 29). We fully understand the importance of cash-flow for our cabbies and have ensured that cashless payments are
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    • 475 22  -  Letter from Tang Li I WAS quite amused to read Mr Arthur Loke’s letter, “Let’s endorse home-grown law firms first” (June 28). As a small oneman show in an industry dominated by multi-nationals, I can sympathise with Mr Loke’s dilemma. Talk to enough
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    • 163 22  -  Letter from Murali Sharma STUDENTS who study in public food and beverage outlets disadvantage the outlet by reducing their income for which they have probably made substantial investments. It also does not benefit the students because they will not be able to concentrate,
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 171 24 Nearly 163,000 plants, comprising more than 200 species and varieties, will be planted on 18 first-of-their-kind steel-framed concrete Supertrees being built at Gardens by the Bay at Marina Bay. These include bromeliads, orchids and tropical flowering climbers originating from more than 30 countries, including Brazil, Panama,
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    • 295 24  -  LEONG WEE KEAT weekeat@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Lawyer Leonard Loo Peng Chee, who was rebuked by a judge last year for providing “slipshod or non-existent work” to his clients, will be referred to a disciplinary tribunal after a number of complaints were launched against his
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    • 210 24 SINGAPORE Singapore Airlines (SIA) has reached an agreement with Airbus to lease another 15 A-330-300 aircraft, to be delivered new from the Airbus production line between 2013 and 2015. They will be operated by SIA on routes within Asia as well as to points
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    • 184 27  -  TAN QIUYI For the first time, a submarine has clinched the Singapore Armed Forces’ (SAF) Best Ship award, in this year’s SAF Best Unit Competition. The RSS Chieftain, a Challengerclass submarine of the Singapore Navy, was launched in 2001. Its commanding officer, Lieutenant-Colonel EddieTan,
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    • 560 27  -  NG JING YNG jingyng@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE A Danish national has filed a writ against Alexandra Hospital (AH) for allegedly planting a microchip in him during a 1988 operation, which he claimed later caused him mental distress due to being constantly monitored. According to
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    • 222 29  -  ALVINA SOH SINGAPORE A 29-year-old woman who went for a job interview got a rude shock when her interviewer used a mobile phone to film up her skirt. Vernon Loh Chiang Meng, 40, a business development manager with
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    • 96 29 The Night Safari has celebrated its first births of clouded leopards, an endangered wild cat. This is a major achievement for the Night Safari as clouded leopards are difficult to breed. The high frequency of aggression between the two genders sometimes results in the death of
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    • 223 29 SINGAPORE The police have arrested a 49-year-old man believed to have been responsible for a spate of cheating that involved the pawning of fake gold jewellery. Between June 17 and June 25, the police received reports of a spate of cheating cases involving a
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    • 145 28 f r 4 V Involved in land survey of the following; Pre-urban Singapore Age 25 Changi Airport Terminal 1 Age 27 Brunei National Stadium Age 36 Jurong Island Age 45 Batam Age 56 These hands have raised a nation. Today, they carry your business forward. Age w I !h and
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  • WORLD
    • 365 30 AGENCIES KABUL Afghan police sifted through one of Kabul’s landmark hotels room by room yesterday for more casualties or security threats after an overnight assault by Taliban suicide bombers ended in the deaths of 19 people, including all eight attackers. The strike against
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    • 157 30 REUTERS When United States President Barack Obama cited cost as a reason to bring troops home from Afghanistan, he referred to a US$1 trillion (S$1.24 trillion) price tag for America’s wars. Staggering as it is, that figure grossly underestimates the total cost
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    • 233 32 AP BEIJING A Chinese court has sentenced a mother to a “lenient” five years in prison for murdering her paralysed twin sons who needed full-time care, in a case that aroused public sympathy, state media reported yesterday. The China Daily newspaper
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    • 469 32 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH LONDON A pledge by Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao to bring “full” democracy to China has been undermined by the leak of internal Communist Party documents ordering the party to tighten its control on the country. Mr Wen, who was in Germany
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    • 460 34 BLOOMBERG HONG KONG The widening wealth gap in Hong Kong, with home prices soaring 70 per cent since the start of 2009, may prompt an increased turnout in annual protests this week as the territory’s leader suffers his lowest poll
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    • 208 38 AP KUALA LUMPUR Kelantan, a Malaysian state ruled by the conservative opposition Parti Islam SeMalaysia, plans to reward “good” Muslim men who declare their polygamous marriages and are able to take proper care of their multiple households, an official said. Muslim men in Malaysia
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    • 253 38 AGENCIES KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian police yesterday detained 14 opposition activists in Perak for wearing T-shirts promoting a planned rally against alleged electoral abuses, while another seven were remanded in Petaling Jaya after a police raid on a Bersih office. It is the latest attempt
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    • 313 38 THE NEW YORK TIMES BEIRUT Saudi Arabia will withdraw most of its 1,200 troops from neighbouring Bahrain by next week after a three-month mission to quell an uprising against the monarchy there, a Saudi official said. King Hamad bin Issa Al
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    • Article, Illustration
      112 38 An Egyptian protester helps an injured fellow protester suffering from tear gas during clashes with security forces at Tahrir Square in Cairo yesterday. Egyptian security forces and protesters clashed for a second successive day in scenes not seen since the uprising in February. Clashes broke out late on
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    • 361 40 AP ABBOTTABAD (Pakistan) A group of British schools, fearing negative publicity, cut off a partnership with teachers and students in this town where Osama bin Laden was killed, upsetting Pakistani participants who note that a key purpose of the programme was
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    • 286 40 AGENCIES CARACAS (Venezuela) To the many comparisons that can been made between Venezuela and Cuba two close allies, both infused with revolutionary zeal, driven by movements that revere their leaders consider one more: The presidential brother stepping in during a
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    • 359 42 AP WASHINGTON Residents of the American capital will be able to play governmentsponsored Texas Hold ’Em poker and other online games on their laptops within three months but some wonder if the stakes are too small for the games to generate much
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    • 322 42 BLOOMBERG SEOUL Ms Chung Eunjung, a 46-year-old mother from Seoul, says South Korea’s plan to give children more play time by ending Saturday classes means only one thing: More private tutoring. President Lee Myung Bak’s government said on June 14 it
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    • 382 44 AP SYDNEY Australian safety officials said yesterday that they were investigating a dive boat company that accidentally left an American tourist behind while he was snorkelling on the Great Barrier Reef, forcing the panicked man to swim to another boat for help. A spokesman
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    • 50 44 Policemen storming a bus during a mock hostage situation during the 2011 Jinhua exercise yesterday at the Port of Taipei in New Taipei City, northern Taiwan. Taiwan hosted a disaster and anti-terrorism drill that involved more than 1,000 people from the police, army, navy and air force. REUTERS
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    • 314 44 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH NEW YORK Five homeless men are suing a city in Virginia, claiming that a new law against begging violates their right to freedom of speech under the United States constitution. The group, which is led by an illiterate man in
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    • 346 45 AGENCIES SYDNEY From a distance, Sydney may seem like one of the world’s most desirable places to call home: A sparkling harbour, enticing beaches and a climate to die for. It is regularly rated as one of world’s 10 most liveable cities. But now
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    • 261 45 BLOOMBERG NEW YORK Ninety per cent of American alcoholics and drug addicts began their habits before age 18, making adolescent substance abuse the biggest US public health problem, researchers say. Efforts in the past decade that curbed underage drinking and drug usage
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    • 101 45 AP The six astronauts at the International Space Station took shelter in lifeboats onTuesday when a piece of orbiting junk came dangerously close. The unidentified object came within 335m of the station closerthan any piece of space junk ever. Mission control ordered the
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    • 84 45 AP An Emperor penguin that turned up on a New Zealand beach will not be getting a free ride all the way back to its Antarctic home but the bird’s human friends will at least help it get a little closer. Wildlife officials have been
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  • BUSINESS
    • 255 46  -  LINETTE LIM SINGAPORE Liberalisation of trade in the services sector can potentially boost global GDP by about 2.3 per cent by 2025, according to Singapore Trade and Industry Minister Lim Hng Kiang. Speaking at the Pacific Economic Cooperation Council conference
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    • 508 46  -  Telcos tying up with global partners for software as a service market RACHEL ADRIENNE KELLY rachel@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Singapore’s telcos are tying up with global partners for a slice of the growing software as a service (SaaS) market that is expected to expand at
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    • 57 48 WEDNESDAY CLOSE 12,261.40 (+0.60%) Tuesday 12,188.70 p 1.21% Monday 12,043.60 p 0.91% Friday 11,934.60 q 0.96% Thursday 12,050.00 q 0.49% NYSETOP5 BY VOLUME NAME VOL PRICE CHANGE Bank of America 299.1m $11.14 p 2.96% Ford Motor 53.9m $13.42 p 0.68% Pfizer 46.5m $20.67 p 0.58% Citigroup 46.4m $41.50 p
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      • 114 48 Wall Street sees its biggest surge in 3 months Wall Street closed its best threeday run in three months yesterday after the Greek Parliament approved austerity measures to avoid defaulting on its debt. Optimism about the plan’s approval has helped the stock market recoup some of its losses
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      • 98 48 Oil rallies on Greek vote Oil jumped as much as 3 per cent yesterday, ending at the highest level in a week, as sharp drawdowns in US crude and petrol stocks fed a rally spawned when Greece passed an austerity plan to avoid a sovereign debt default. The surge
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    • 408 50 Justin Timberlake takes stake in social network site THE DAILY TELEGRAPH CALIFORNIA Music star and actor Justin Timberlake has teamed up with an American advertising agency to buy Myspace for US$35 million (S$43.2 million) just 6 per cent of the amount Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp
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    • 428 50 THE NEW YORK TIMES AFTERNOON TORONTO The Toronto and London stock exchanges abandoned their merger plans yesterday, one day before shareholders of the Canadian exchange were set to vote on the plan. The possibility of a deal, announced in February,
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  • DIGITAL
    • 90 52 AP Pope Benedict XVI has tweeted for the first time, announcing the launch of a Vatican news information portal. The Pope’s tweet on Tuesday read: “Dear Friends, I just launched News.va Praised be our Lord Jesus Christ! With my prayers and blessings, Benedictus XVI.”
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    • 249 52 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH LONDON There has been speculation that Apple will release either the iPhone 5 or a slightly improved version of the iPhone 4 in September. However, Mr Chris Whitmore, an analyst at Deutsche Bank said that Apple may do both. “With Nokia
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  • SPORTS
    • 588 56 Nadal thunders into Wimbledon semi-finals, propped up by painkillers AFTERNOON LATEST WIMBLEDON With his injured left foot numbed by anesthetics, Rafael Nadal (picture) surged right back into the Wimbledon semi-finals. The defending champion never seemed hampered by the foot injury that almost made him
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    • 389 56  -  SHAMIR OSMAN WORLD CUP QUALIFIERS Malaysia 2 Chinese Taipei 1 KUALA LUMPUR When referee Mahapab Chaiya blew the final whistle at the Bukit Jalil Stadium last night, the 45,000 Malaysians in attendance erupted in cheers, but out on the field in front of them it
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    • 407 56 AP WIMBLEDON For two superb sets yesterday, everything looked so routine for Roger Federer, precisely the way it did for so many years at Wimbledon. Before yesterday, Federer was 178-0 when taking the first two sets of a Grand Slam match. Now he’s
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    • 673 57 Winning on and off the pitch Villas-Boas’ two targets: Trophies and turning Chelsea’s stars into ‘social role models’ THE GUARDIAN AFTERNOON LATEST LONDON Andre Villas-Boas has set himself the ambitious task of transforming Chelsea’s players into “social role models” as he seeks to stamp his authority on powerful figures within
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    • 230 57 THE GUARDIAN LONDON Barcelona and Arsenal were locked in talks yesterday over Cesc Fabregas, with the European champions increasingly confident they can agree a deal worth around £35 million (S$69.3 million). Barcelona have increased their valuation of Fabregas since their £27-million offer
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    • 177 57 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH David de Gea, Manchester United’s new £18-million (S$35.6-million) signing from Atletico Madrid, has set his sights on emulating Edwin van der Sar’s achievements at the club after becoming Sir Alex Ferguson’s third major signing of the
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    • 151 57 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH The storm clouds that have been gathering over Birmingham City since their relegation to the second-tier Championship have broken after club owner Carson Yeung was reportedly arrested by police in Hong Kong on charges of money laundering. Hong Kong police confirmed they
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    • 625 58  -  He is aiming for a 10th gold in Indonesia, as Tang gives SAA management ‘A’ after one year on the job TAN YO HINN yohinn@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Hungry and fatigued, national discus thrower James Wong downed two half-boiled eggs, washed down with an iced tea.
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    • 333 58  -  Mission Foods World Netball Championships 2011 PHILIP GOH philipgoh@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE It has been 28 years since Singapore became the first Asian city to host netball’s main event. In 1983, the netball world championships featured 14 countries and the games were played at
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    • 705 2  -  How Spartacus went from being the historical leader of a Roman slave uprising to a stud in a jockstrap on TV MAY SEAH may@mediacorp.com.sg PSSST. Down here. No, here move your feet, you clumsy clod. I’ve been here in this Greco-Roman soil for 2,084 years, so show some
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    • 244 6  -  MAYO MARTIN IT was a case of girl power at Anugerah 2011 as Rahayu Ridwan rose above her two fellow female finalists at the grand finals held on Tuesday night. The 20-year-old Rahayu, who garnered 50 per cent of viewers votes as well as 50
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    • 626 8  -  David Cook wants to surprise fans with sophomore effort Christopher Toh christophertoh@mediacorp.com.sg AMERICAN singer David Cook is a guy who tries to outdo himself with every record he puts out.Which was why his second album, This Loud Morning, which hit the stores earlier this week, took some
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      242 8 Chris Klein,Vince Neil in hotseat for drunken driving AMERICAN PIE actor Chris Klein and Motley Crue singer Vince Neil are both in the spotlight for drunken driving. Klein was arrested on June 16 for weaving across a highway in the San FernandoValley. City Attorney spokesman Frank Mateljan says
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  • TRAVEL
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