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  • 860 1 1955 2011 AGENCIES CUPERTINO (California) From titans of technology to the who’s-who of the entertainment world, from political leaders to teenagers, yesterday millions around the world, all armed with iPhones and iPads, mourned Steve Jobs a man whose wizardry has transformed their lives in ways big
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    • 52 1 @tdysports SPORTS FANS, STAY UPTO DATE ATTWITTER.COM/TDAYSPORTS SCORES ANALYSIS NEWS HOT NEWS 4 PM LEE: CHINESE ENTREPRENEURS NEED MORE THAN ‘GUAN XI’ HOT NEWS 14 SARAH PALIN WILL NOT RUN FOR PRESIDENT PROPERTY 54 PROPERTY OUTLOOK? YOU ARE ALL ALONE SPORTS ROONEY’S DAD, UNCLE IN MATCH FIXING PROBE T SECTION
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  • HOT NEWS
    • 357 2 AGENCIES LONDON Twitter struggled to keep up with the volume of comments yesterday, as users deluged the micro-blogging site to mourn Steve Jobs’ death. Thousands of celebrities and members of the public paid tribute using a medium that was made popular on the iPhones and iPads that
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    • 197 2 REUTERS A Hong Kong design student’s poignant tribute to Steve Jobs became an Internet hit yesterday with its minimalist, touching symbolism and led to a flood of commemorative merchandise using his design. Nineteen-year-old Jonathan Mak (picture), a student at Hong
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    • 575 3 THE NEW YORK TIMES NEW YORK As the high-tech industry mourns the death of Steve Jobs, Apple’s executives will face the challenge of how to keep its streak of hit products going while avoiding the problems that have befallen other companies that lost their
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    • 180 4 THE NEW YORK TIMES LONDON The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) announced yesterday that it would eliminate 2,000 jobs, cut its sports budget, show more reruns and broadcast fewer talk shows and game shows. Mr Mark Thompson, the broadcaster’s director-general, told his staff
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    • 552 4  -  HOE YEEN NIE yeenie@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has urged global Chinese entrepreneurs to upgrade and raise their game. He said relying on “guan xi” or connections alone is not going to be enough as China continues to
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    • 424 4  -  ESTHER NG SINGAPORE Porous roads and using basements to store storm water are some ideas being bounced about by an expert panel formed to improve Singapore’s flood protection measures. Other recommendations include combining predictions on rainfall intensity and trajectory
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    • 627 6  -  CAROLYN QUEK carolynquek@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The Tiong Bahru Social Service Hub is like an “Econ Minimart”, with the eight voluntary welfare organisations (VWOs) having their own “shop fronts” but sharing common office facilities, such as the reception area, meeting and counselling rooms and resource
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    • 263 6 PROBLEM GAMBLING IN SINGAPORE ‘NOT JUST ABOUT CASINOS’ The casinos are not the “biggest challenge” when it comes to dealing with problem gambling here, said Acting Minister for Community Development Youth and Sports Chan Chun Sing. “You have Internet gambling It’s not just about casinos. If you want to tackle
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    • 157 8 REUTERS SINGAPORE Singapore Telecommunications (SingTel) said yesterday it was not in talks to sell its 35 per cent stake in Indonesia’s biggest mobile phone operator Telekomunikasi Selular (Telkomsel) to state-owned Telekomunikasi Indonesia (Telkom). The remarks came after Telkom, Indonesia’s largest telecommunication firm
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    • 546 8  -  TANYA FONG SINGAPORE The Subordinate Courts’ Criminal Case Resolution (CCR) process will be formalised starting Monday, which could prove to be a boon in saving time forjudges, prosecutors and defence counsel, as well as accused persons. The process,
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    • 436 10  -  TAN WEIZHEN weizhen@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE While Singapore is looking at how more can benefit from a university education, and expanding the sector with diversity and healthy competition, it would not be “wise” to have an education system that focused solely on the university
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    • 309 10 SINGAPORE The National University of Singapore (NUS) Singapore’s top-ranked university has slipped six places in the latest ranking of 400 universities released by the London-based Times Higher Education (THE). NUS now ranks 40th on the list, while Nanyang Technological University (NTU)
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    • 131 12 KUALA LUMPUR Illegal workers who have registered under Malaysia’s amnesty programme will be legalised from Monday, said Deputy Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin. To date, 1.3 million illegals have registered through the programme which began on Aug 1. And starting next week, they can
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    • 357 12 AGENCIES SHAH ALAM The Pakatan Rakyat (PR) opposition coalition began distributing 40,000 booklets summarising its alternative budget to all its constituencies yesterday, a day ahead of Prime Minister Najib Razak’s unveiling of the Malaysian Budget for 2012 today. Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) vice-president
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    • 208 12 THE MALAYSIAN INSIDER KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak and his wife Rosmah Mansor need not testify in the sodomy trial of opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim, the High Court ruled yesterday. The judge said Anwar’s lawyers had failed to prove “relevancy”
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    • 336 14 REUTERS WASHINGTON Ms Sarah Palin has said she will not seek the Republican presidential nomination next year, ending months of speculation and leaving the Republican field largely settled. Ms Palin had left the door open to a run but gave little sign of
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  • COMMENT&ANALYSIS
    • 1392 16  -  JOHN MARKOFF Steve Jobs was neither a hardware engineer nor a software programmer, nor did he think of himself as a manager. He considered himself a technology leader, choosing the best people, encouraging and prodding them, and making the final call on product design. It
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    • 854 18  -  WILLIAM PESEK William Pesek is a Bloomberg View columnist. The opinions expressed are his own. BLOOMBERG Paul Hogan’s reptile-wrestling tough guy from the 1986 movie Crocodile Dundee typified Australia’s reputation for “mateship”, a creed of male friendship that often excludes women. A
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  • VOICES
    • 653 20  -  Factors such as migrants, strong rental yields may shore up market in coming years BUSINESS Letter from Wong Toon Tuan I REFER to the report “Private property demand not expected to ease up” (Sept 19), which asked what would happen post 2013, with a
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    • 349 22  -  Letter from Paul Chan Poh Hoi I DISAGREE with Mr Conrad Raj’s deduction, in his commentary “Why not 66-year HDB leases?” (Sept 30), that if public flats are sold on 66-year leases, they should go for a third less of the cost and
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    • 288 22  -  Letter from Alexander Koentjara I HAVE been receiving SMS advertisements for a while, and although I have tried to unsubscribe many times, I still receive similar ads from different phone numbers. I suspect these companies use several numbers to send SMS ads, making
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    • 286 24  -  Letter from Oo Choon Peng THIS year marks the 50th anniversary of the Women’s Charter, and it is unimaginable that despite vast changes in the socioeconomic landscape, the charter has been largely unchanged except for amendments that perpetuate gender inequality. The
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    • 176 24  -  LETTER FROM CHUA BOON HOU I refer to the online report “Drunk driver who caused collision jailed for attempted bribery” (Sept 26), about a woman who had offered police officers S$20,000 after her Mercedes-Benz hit four stationary vehicles. Kudos to the officers who rejected her
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    • 195 24  -  LETTER FROM JEFFREY LAW LEE BENG I am heartened by the report “More seniors joining hands to make difference” (Sept 19). A good deal of work has been done by the Council for Third Age and RSVP Singapore, the organisation of senior
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 283 26 SINGAPORE Four special education schools here will get more help to detect and manage mental health disorders in children. From Oct 10, the Institute of Mental Health will roll out the Response, Early Intervention and Assessment in Community Mental Health (REACH) programme to MINDS
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    • 332 26  -  TAN WEIZHEN weizhen@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Despite recent cyber attacks like Internet banking virus Spy Eye, which compromises customers’ Internet banking usernames and passwords, a survey has found that many Singaporeans fall short when it comes to cyber security. Of the more than 1,000
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    • 246 26  -  DYLAN LOH SINGAPORE Singapore’s first community centre colocated with a school is scheduled to be completed by the first quarter of 2013. The four-storey Pek Kio Community Centre (picture) will be built next to Farrer Park Primary School and residents will be able to
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    • 136 28 CHANNEL NEWSASIA Swedish furniture giant IKEA has issued a recall for its BUSA children’s foldable tent. The company said in a statement that a steel wire frame of the tent can break when it is in use. “This can cause sharp wire ends to protrude
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    • 357 28  -  TEO XUANWEI xuanwei@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Doctor’s Associates, owner of sandwich restaurant chain Subway, has lost its bid to block a Singapore clothing retailer from registering the “Subway” trademark for women’s apparel. The Intellectual Property Office of Singapore’s (IPOS) judgment on Monday in favour of
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    • 187 30  -  ALVINA SOH alvinasoh@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE A Singaporean was among five youths who were charged in court yesterday with possession of cannabis. The group was among the 15 people arrested in a Central Narcotics Bureau raid last month. They included teenagers aged 16 and 17.
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    • 230 30 SINGAPORE The police are looking for a woman (picture) who is allegedly responsible for a spate of pickpocketing cases across the island, managing to steal about S$2,130 in cash as well as valuables and personal documents from the victims. The police received several reports
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    • 217 30  -  ALVINA SOH A former sales manager was jailed four years yesterday for conspiring with his employees to cheat Standard Chartered Bank into disbursing more than s$1.7 million in loans. Abdul Karim Baba, 61, faced 10 counts of abetting the cheating and dishonest inducement of
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  • WORLD
    • 113 32 Unions lent their muscle to the long-running protest against Wall Street and economic inequality on Wednesday, with their members joining thousands of protesters in a lower Manhattan march as smaller demonstrations flourished across the country. Protesters in suits and T-shirts with union slogans left work
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    • 203 32 AP STOCKHOLM The 2011 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded yesterday to Mr Tomas Transtromer, a Swedish poet whose surrealistic works about the mysteries of the human mind won him acclaim as one of the most important Scandinavian writers since World War II. The
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    • 354 32 AGENCIES TOKYO The behind-the-scenes power broker for Japan’s ruling party denied any wrongdoing yesterday as he went on trial in a political funding scandal that could undermine his political influence. Ichiro Ozawa (picture), who engineered the Democratic Party of Japan’s rise to power in
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    • 279 34 REUTERS WASHINGTON American militants like Anwar Al Awlaki are placed on a kill or capture list by a secretive panel of senior United States government officials, which then informs the President of its decisions, according to US officials. There
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    • 244 34 AP WASHINGTON Scientists in New York have used a cloning technique to create the type of customised stem cells that show promise for treating disease. But the first-of-its-kind result comes with a big hitch. The newly created stem cells have
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    • 131 34 AP Two transgender people won an appeal in Australia’s highest court yesterday giving them legal recognition as men despite not having had complete sex change surgery. The High Court ruled that characteristics that identify a person as male or female are “confined to external
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    • 125 34 AP The widely-publicised event during which Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin pulled up ancient artefacts on a diving expedition was staged, his chief spokesman has admitted. Mr Dmitry Peskov said in an interview shown on Tuesday on the Dozhd TV channel that
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    • 258 36 BLOOMBERG PARIS Air France Flight 447’s crew reacted badly to an autopilot shutdown and misread instruments including a gauge indicating how fast the plane was losing height as it plunged into the Atlantic, killing 228 people, a report shows. “I’ve lost VSI,”
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    • 224 36 REUTERS AMSTERDAM Dutch drivers caught operating a car while massively over the legal alcohol limit will be forced to fit their cars with “alcolocks” which automatically lock the engine if the driver is over the limit. Convicted drunk drivers found
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    • 144 36 REUTERS A motorist in Switzerland lost his driving licence after using his mobile phone to record himself speeding on a highway near Geneva at 320kmh, nearly three times the speed limit, police said on Wednesday. The offence was only uncovered six months
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    • 154 36 REUTERS Texting or emailing while driving doubles reaction time and makes drivers more likely to miss warning signs, according to new research. In a small study researchers at Texas A&M University’s Texas Transportation Institute studied the impact of texting in an actual driving environment.
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    • 243 44 REUTERS NEW YORK Women who have a better diet leading up to pregnancy are less likely to have babies with birth defects, according to a United States study. Dr Suzan Carmichael from Stanford University and her colleagues used data from the National
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    • 63 44 A new Japanese hairwashing robot replicates the dexterous touch of a human hand to care for the locks of the elderly and the infirm. Its creators at electronics firm Panasonic say the machine, seen here in a demonstration in Tokyo on Tuesday, features the latest robotic technology and
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    • 73 44 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH Crows possess the human ability to distinguish between symbols representing different quantities, according to a study. In a series of experiments conducted by Japanese scientists, eight jungle crows successfully selected containers containing the highest quantity of food via numbers marked on
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    • 108 44 THE GUARDIAN A brain implant that allows monkeys to move an avatar’s arm and feel objects in a virtual world has been demonstrated for the first time by scientists from the Duke University in North Carolina. The animals used the device to control the arm
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    • 313 34 DALI MIND OF A GENIUS The largest collection of Dali’s artworks ever exhibited in Singapore m-. ’M m ES Robert Whitaker Van Gogh Alive The Exhibition Ending 9 Oct 2011 Weekend Highlights For more information, visit the ArtScience Museum website Sat 8 Oct I 3pm Public forum titled Museum Rendezvous:
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    • 428 46 AGENCIES BERLIN —The European Central Bank sees “intensified” threats to the euro zone and will provide banks with longer-term liquidity to ward off a new credit crunch, ECB president Jean-Claude Trichet said yesterday. The ECB also kept its key rate unchanged at 1.5
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    • 59 46 THURSDAY CLOSE 2,603.12 (+2.94%) Wednesday 2,528.71 q 2.31% Tuesday 2,531.02 q 3.45% Monday 2,621.40 q 2.01% Friday 2,675.16 q 1.22% TOP 5 BY VOLUME NAME VOL PRICE CHANGE Noble Grp 105,458 $1.380 p 8.235 Genting SP 102,362 $1.480 p 2.422 GoldenAgr 99,068 $0.580 p 3.571 HPH Trust US$ 46,209
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    • 86 46 STOCK CALL Buy S$1.18 DBS Vickers upgrades Biosensors to Buy from Hold and raises its target to S$1.71 from S$1.40. It says news that Biosensors has completed the takeover of its JW Medical Systems joint venture “is a plus” as it will get to consolidate the latter’s financials and
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    • 249 48 AGENCIES HONG KONG Qantas Airways has confirmed an order for 110 Airbus A-320-series aircraft as it renews its fleet and adds overseas ventures because of Asian travel growth. The order, the biggest in Australian aviation history, was originally announced by the two
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    • 174 48 REUTERS NEW YORK Microsoft is considering a bid for Yahoo!, resurfacing as a potential buyer after a bitter and unsuccessful fight to take over the Internet company in 2008, sources close to the situation said on Wednesday. Microsoft joins a host of other companies
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    • 73 48 DOW JONES Singapore Technologies Engineering said yesterday that its unit has won a five-year contract worth S$125 million to provide maintenance services to some defence facilities in Singapore. ST Synthesis will provide comprehensive maintenance services to the buildings, mechanical and electrical equipment and systems
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      • 65 50 Orchard Hotel Singapore’s Claymore Wing gets a S$10-million makeover. The refurbished rooms boast sleek furnishing and luxurious amenities. Highlights include IT butler and laundry storage services, Bose wave music systems and a pillow menu. For a limited time, experience the new Claymore Wing starting at S$310
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      • 78 50 Fairmont Singapore and Swissotel The Stamford have won at the prestigious World Luxury Hotel Awards 2011. Fairmont Singapore has solidified its international reputation as the luxury hotel brand of choice by winning the coveted Luxury City Hotel award and Swissotel The Stamford continues to strengthen
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    • 805 52  -  COMMENTARY DAVID POGUE David Pogue is a technology columnist with The New York Times. THE NEW YORK TIMES Wednesday evening in New York (yesterday morning, Singapore time), Apple broke the news that Steve Jobs had died. Since then, tributes, eulogies and retrospectives have poured over
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    • 700 54  -  COMMENTARY COLIN TAN property@mediacorp.com.sg Colin Tan is Chesterton Suntec Internationl’s head of research consultancy. A recent tender for a residential site in Pasir Ris site drew unexpectedly strong interest, with a news report saying 13 developers slugged it out in a close fight. The
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    • 346 56  -  CONRAD RAJ editor-at-large conrad@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE At the age of 70 when most people are retired, former Labour Permanent Secretary Han Cheng Fong has decided to strike out on his own with a focus on China, where he has done deals for former employers like
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    • 116 56 SINGAPORE The Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) has launched an industrial site at Soon Lee Street for sale by public tender. The URA said yesterday this was the last industrial site to be released for sale under the Confirmed List of the 2nd
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    • 119 56 Midlink Plaza in Middle Road has been sold for s$126.8 million to 122 Middle Investment, marketing agent Credo Real Estate said yesterday. Shareholders of 122 Middle Investment include Millennium Land, an associate company of Singapore-listed Lian Beng Group, which plans to redevelop the site into
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    • 560 58 They are among 10 arrested over ‘fixing’ incident in Scottish League REUTERS LONDON The disease of fixing in football has claimed the Scottish Premier League (SPL) as its latest victim. And Wayne Rooney’s father (picture) and uncle have been implicated, along with Motherwell
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    • 339 58 AP SYDNEY More well-known in football, it looks as if match-fixing has also reached Australia’s National Rugby League (NRL). Yesterday, former Canterbury Bulldogs forward Ryan Tandy was fined and placed on a 12-month good behaviour bond for his part in an NRL betting scandal. Magistrate
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    • 527 62  -  Bennett still remembers how tonight’s opponents and Jordan derailed Singapore last year SHAMIR OSMAN shamir@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE It was a draw with the Philippines that kicked off Singapore’s humiliating run at the AFF Suzuki Cup last year. The three-time champions failed to even get past
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    • 224 62 AP DOHA Qatar’s searing heat will be a factor but not a “deal breaker”, in determining whether Doha will host the 2017 world championships, the head of the IAAF’s inspection team said yesterday. Bob Hersh, an American who is also a vice president in track
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    • 360 62 REUTERS FORMULA 1 Japanese Grand Prix SUZUKA Sebastian Vettel has vowed to win the Formula 1 title in style even though he need finish only 10th in Sunday’s Japanese Grand Prix to be sure of becoming the sport’s youngest double world champion.
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    • 516 63 Off-form Wilkinson and young Priestland get nod at fly-half AP WELLINGTON The first two quarter-finals of the 2011 Rugby World Cup could become the tale of two fly-halves. Jonny Wilkinson, the hero of England’s winning campaign in 2003, was retained at flyhalf for the
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    • 52 1 ARTS MUSIC MOVIES TELEVISION WINE DINE STYLE DESIGN HEALTH TECH TRAVEL CARS OCTOBER 7, 2011 A PUBLICATION OF ITADAKIMASU TV MOVES FROM ‘SOAP OPERA’ TO ‘FOOD OPERA’ T2 A NIGHT OF MAYHEM WITH ALICE COOPER T9 CARS THE GOLF CABRIOLET’S TOPLESS APPEAL T10 HEARTLANDERS DIG INTO RAKUZEN’S SIMPLE RECIPE FOR
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      876 2  -  Soap operas, move aside as TV welcomes ‘food opera’ talk shows Alessandra Stanley features@mediacorp.com.sg THE NEW YORK TIMES IT’S hard to pinpoint the moment when chefs turned into all-purpose celebrities, but there is no question that the line between food and show business has indelibly blurred. Bobby
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    • 495 3  -  Sometimes, the simplest foods are the most satisfying as Rakuzen inTampines proves FOOD REVIEW ANNETTE TAN IT’S not often that a restaurant is renowned for something as basic as rice. Yet that is exactly what Rakuzen is best known for.The elegant Japanese eatery is one of the
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    • 352 4  - This round’s on Bartini’s Patrick Fok Boozy conversations about what makes people smile GENEVIEVE LOH CHANNEL NewsAsia AM Live!’s Patrick Fok, 30, is determined to shake up Singapore’s cocktail scene with his new venture Bartini at 46 Club Street. “A lot of places here are just bars that happen to
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    • 376 6  -  With Bonta chef Luca Pezzera’s recipe, you can cook up a traditional north Italian dish at home RECIPE: CREATIVE CASSEROLES SERENE LIM DID you do a double take when you read the main protein for this dish? Well, rabbit is actually eaten regularly in parts
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    • 251 8 REUTERS WATCH out Oprah, there’s a savvy pop star and an ambitious real housewife nipping at your financial heels. Oprah Winfrey remained the entertainment world’s top female earner, but Lady Gaga and Bethenny Frankel, one of the original housewives in the Real
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    • 331 8 REUTERS JOHNNY Depp apologised on Wednesday for comparing photo shoots to being raped. The Pirates OfThe Caribbean actor told the November issue of Vanity Fair in an interview that he found being photographed a “weird” experience. “You just feel like you’re being raped somehow.
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    • 138 9  -  CHRISTOPHER TOH IT COULD have been a Halloween party at The Coliseum at Sentosa’s Hard Rock Hotel when Alice Cooper and his band took to the stage on Wednesday night. The stage was made to look like a set out of a B-grade horror movie;
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    • 336 9 REUTERS THE Simpsons’ voice actors have commissioned a study estimating the show has made US$1 billion (S$ 1.3 billion) in profits as ammunition in their negotiations with 20th Century Fox TV over its demand that they agree to have their salaries cut
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  • CARS
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