Today, 3 November 2011

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    36 1 TODAY MICA (P) 031/10/2011* A PUBLICATION OF /A=DIACORP NEWS HOTLINE 6822 2268 Thursday November 3 2011 Today MICA (P) 031/10/2011 A PUBLICATION OF NEWS HOTLINE 6822 2268 Thursday November 3, 2011 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking
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      597 2 60s Live Seafood Tel: 6469 8060 A.venue Bistro 60s Live Seafood Tel: 6733 2270 Ajinomori From now till 20 November, get 30% off your total bill when you dine early. K Box Kinara Contemporary Indian Restaurant Ajinomori Tel: 6468 6813 Balaclava Balaclava Tel: 6634 8377 Billy Bombers American Diner Breeks
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  • Article, Illustration
    Lock icon FairPrice to hold steady price of its housebrand Thai rice
    555 1  -  TANYA FONG tanyafong@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The Republic’s largest rice importer, NTUC FairPrice, yesterday pledged to hold the price of its housebrand of Thai rice until the end of the year, amid concerns that the rice prices will spike due to the
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    Lock icon Britain asks its citizens: Are you happy?
    903 1 ESTHER NG estherng@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE “Future-proofing” PMETs for lifelong employability, Mr Zainal Sapari (Pasir RisAnd Workers’ Party MP (Hougang) Yaw Shin Leong called for a feasibility study on unemployment insurance. of outsourcing daily-rated jobs and interest to work “adjacent growth areas”, for example, the
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  • HOT NEWS
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      Row days before Singapore team leaves for SEA Games
      671 2  -  IAN DE COTTA ian@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE A public rift has opened up between Team Singapore’s chef de mission (CDM) for the 26th SEA Games, Dr Tan Eng Liang, and the Singapore Table Tennis Association (STTA), six days before the contingent leaves for
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      Lock icon Chinese, Russian firms 'most likely to bribe'
      461 2 AP BERLIN Companies from Russia, followed closely by those from China, are seen as most likely to use bribery to secure foreign contracts, according to a new survey released yesterday by Transparency International. The watchdog group’s Bribe Payers Index showed the two countries
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      Lock icon Time spent in Parliament too short to make impact
      816 3  -  But ex-NMPs undecided about seeking nomination for another term TAN WEIZHEN, ESTHER NG weizhen@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Even as nominations opened yesterday for a new batch of Nominated Members of Parliament (NMPs), several among the previous batch told Today that their term which
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      Lock icon Soon, a standard framework for SPED schools
      659 4  -  NG JING YNG jingyng@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE From social-emotional learning and life skills to vocational aptitude, all Special Education (SPED) schools will have a standard framework to work with to educate special needs children. The inaugural framework a draft of which would be available to
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      More help for parents of special needs children
      321 4  -  NG JING YNG SINGAPORE To help parents make better decisions on which school is best for their special needs children, the Ministry of Education (MOE) has come up with a set of guidelines for professionals to provide consistent advice to them. The
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    • Article
      Lock icon FREE BIRTH CONTROL PLAN IN MALAYSIA
      239 6 AGENCIES Poor people and middle-income earners can get free or discounted contraceptives in Malaysia next year, The Star newspaper reported yesterday. “A loyalty programme will be introduced to provide contraceptives to the poor and middle-income families for free or at a discounted rate,” National
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      Lock icon Tan Tock Seng Hospital starts robotics therapy
      184 6  -  TAN WEIZHEN tanweizhen@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Patients who cannot walk after being hit by brain injuries or illnesses such as stroke may now be able to recover faster, through the use of robotics therapy at a new one-stop centre. The new Centre of Advanced Rehabilitation
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      HDB unveils roadmap to guide its vision for liveable towns
      377 8 SINGAPORE The Housing Development Board (HDB) has unveiled a “Roadmap for Better Living in HDB Towns”, which is focused on three key thrusts: Well-designed, sustainable, and community-cen-tric towns. To do this, the HDB said its roadmap will set out key
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      Floating solar panel at Tengeh Reservoir
      332 8  -  s$11m pilot project is region’s first LYNDA HONG SINGAPORE The Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB) and national water agency PUB yesterday announced plans to install the region’s first floating photo-voltaic pilot project at Tengeh Reservoir. The S$ 11 million pilot project, estimated to have
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      Lock icon Qantas agrees to expand compensation package
      160 10 AGENCIES CANBERRA Qantas Airways said yesterday it would “shortly be announcing further measures” to compensate passengers affected by its decision to ground its entire fleet for two days, after the Australian consumer watchdog asked it to act on the matter. The grounding affected almost
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      Lock icon Greek PM for urgent talks with EU leaders
      296 10 AGENCIES ATHENS Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou said yesterday that he would stick to plans to hold a referendum on Europe’s rescue package, ahead of emergency talks in France this morning with French President Nicolas Sarkozy, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and other
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  • COMMENT&ANALYSIS
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      Qantas and the business of flying
      1005 12  -  Many airlines are in trouble; fixing woes will require managements, unions to work together SARABJIT SINGH Sarabjit Singh is an entrepreneur and business writer in Singapore. Readers of Freakonomics the blog may remember a post this June about the airline business, an industry that
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      Lock icon Why didn't anyone stop Corzine?
      1020 14  -  WILLIAM D COHAN William D Cohan, a former investment banker and the author of Money and Power: How Goldman Sachs Came to Rule the World, is a Bloomberg View columnist. BLOOMBERG In the end, Mr Jon Corzine was little more than an unsupervised rogue trader.
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      Lock icon Better incentives for organ donors can thwart black market
      530 17 BLOOMBERG EDITORIAL BLOOMBERG Almost every country has a law prohibiting the sale of vital organs for transplant. You cannot donate a kidney for money, say. The ban extends after death, too: It is against the law to promise payment to the
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      Lock icon What's behind Iran's foreign plots?
      906 19  -  MEHDI KHALAJI Mehdi Khalaji is a senior fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. PROJECT SYNDICATE Though Saudi Ambassador Adel Al Jubeir is alive and well in Washington, the plot to assassinate him may have succeeded if its aim was not to kill
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      57 17 COMMENTARY ONLINE William Pesek China’s ability to go its own way will only increase if the euro is beholden to it. Thomas L Friedman More than one way to play The Central Asia Great Game, and America needs to learn it. Daniel Swift Air power’s century of false promises. AVAILABLE
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  • VOICES
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      No room for complacency in fight against tuberculosis
      425 20  -  Letter from See Leong Kit PARENTS whose children study in Bedok Town Secondary School may understandably be angry to learn recently of three pupils being diagnosed with tuberculosis (TB) from a newspaper report and not through an official Ministry of Health announcement.
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      Cosmetic association reassures public
      290 22  -  Letter from Alain Khaiat President, Cosmetic, Toiletry and Fragrance Association of Singapore I REFER to the report “Harmful chemicals in baby shampoo” (Nov 2). While it refers to doubtful data put forward by an association in the United States, it may lead readers to believe that
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      Criticism in Parliament crucial for policy-making
      249 22  -  Letter from Risa Tan XuanYing I REFER to the letter “Voters want to hear solutions in the debates” (Oct 25) and am completely in favour of Members of Parliament raising policy alternatives. But to expect MPs to have “well-thought alternatives”, with robust analysis “like
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      Where was the project supervision?
      137 22  -  Letter from Thomas LeeCheeChee IN THE report “Choke in illegal drain cause of flash flood” (Oct 23), the authorities blamed a contractor who diverted part of a drain illegally along Upper Serangoon Road. In any sizeable project, public or private, there would be on-site supervision,
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      Help London cabs, LTA
      183 22  -  Letter from Ng Chee Kheon LIKE Mr Philip Kwek, in his letter “London cabs should stay” (Oct 28), I have been following the discussions on SMRT Corporation’s plan to phase out its London cabs next year. The crux of the matter appears to be profitability or
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  • SINGAPORE
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      New website keeps tabs on dengue level in S'pore
      396 24 SMS alert system can also warn users of danger spots to avoid SINGAPORE The public can now get text message alerts on new areas of dengue transmission. This can be done via a website, www.x-dengue.com (picture), which is a collaboration between
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      Exercise to simulate terror attacks via seafront
      411 24  -  ONG DAI LIN dailin@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE A large-scale emergency preparedness exercise will be held this month to test Singapore’s response to a terror attack on a tanker and a chemical leak on Jurong Island. Exercise Northstar 8, which aims to test the effectiveness and
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      Court dismisses appeal over DBS High Notes 5
      407 26  -  TANYA FONG tanyafong@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The Court of Appeal has dismissed an appeal from investors of DBS High Notes 5 against an earlier judgment in favour of the bank. Twenty-one investors had filed a suit against DBS bank on behalf of 199 others
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      NUS launches S$12.25m leadership programme
      101 26  -  ALVINA SOH SINGAPORE More youth leaders are needed to ensure that Singapore can continue to enjoy economic stability and social cohesion. To groom student leaders, the National University of Singapore (NUS) yesterday launched a S$12.25 million leadership programme. The two-year programme will allow students to
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      Lock icon New s$7-million facility for local food testing
      253 28 CHANNEL NEWSASIA SINGAPORE A new S$7-million facility at the Singapore Polytechnic (SP) will enable local food products to be tested on a smaller scale before they are produced commercially. The new facility of the Food Innovation and Resource Centre, which was unveiled yesterday,
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      EXTRA TIME FOR THE ELDERLY AT 240 MORE PEDESTRIAN CROSSINGS
      174 28  -  AMBIGA RAJU The Green Man Plus Scheme, which gives senior citizens more time to cross roads, will be extended to another 240 pedestrian crossings islandwide from next year. Senior citizens get up to five seconds more to cross when they
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      Malay Heritage Centre enters next phase of redevelopment
      246 28  -  Museum to be refurbished, will house permanent exhibition AMBIGA RAJU SINGAPORE The Malay Heritage Centre (picture) has embarked on its next phase of redevelopment to refurbish the museum which will house a new permanent exhibition, as well as two temporary exhibition galleries,
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  • WORLD
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      Lock icon New glitch at Fukushima plant
      324 30 AGENCIES TOKYO Radioactive particles associated with nuclear fission have been detected at Japan’s tsunami-damaged atomic power plant, officials said yesterday, suggesting one of its reactors could have a new problem. Utility officials said gas found inside the Fukushima plant’s No 2 reactor (picture) indicated the
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      Lock icon FIRST JAPANESE REACTOR RESTARTS SINCE NUCLEAR DISASTER
      161 30 THE NEW YORK TIMES A nuclear reactor in western Japan began to start back up on Tuesday after a month’s hiatus, the first reactor in the country to win approval from a local government to resume operations since the Fukushima nuclear disaster. Since
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      Lock icon Shenzhen drafts 'Good Samaritans' law
      204 30 AGENCIES BEIJING Local legislators in Shenzhen are drafting the country’s first regulation to protect Good Samaritans, following several cases where people refrained from helping strangers for fear of being sued. The draft includes rules such as exempting those who help others from responsibility if the
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      Lock icon New threat to inner Bangkok: Thai PM
      277 32 AGENCIES BANGKOK Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has said that “many new leaks” appeared in dikes protecting inner Bangkok from floodwaters, posing a further threat to the capital. “Now there are many leaks that we need to repair and there are also many
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      CONTINUE TO DEFER NON-ESSENTIAL TRAVEL TO THAILAND
      80 32 A spokesman from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has advised Singaporeans to continue to defer non-essential travel to Bangkok. He said: “The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration has warned that all districts in Bangkok still remain at risk of flooding and significant parts of Bangkok
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      CAMBODIA TO LIFT FREEZE ON SENDING MAIDS TO MALAYSIA
      115 32 Cambodia could soon lift its temporary freeze on sending maids to work in Malaysia, barely a month after it imposed the ban due to allegations of abuse. Malaysian Human Resources Minister S Subramaniam said on Monday that Cambodia was convinced thatthe
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      Lock icon PHILIPPINES BANS LABOUR DEPLOYMENTS TO 41 COUNTRIES
      113 32 AP The Philippines has banned its citizens from working in 41 countries that do not protect against labour abuse. Nearly 10 per cent of the country’s population of 94 million work abroad. The countries where deployment will be banned include Afghanistan, Libya and
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      Lock icon MALAYSIA ARRESTS 13 FOREIGNERS HEADED TO AUSTRALIA ILLEGALLY
      135 32 AP The Malaysian authorities said they have arrested 13 foreigners, including a toddler, who sought to travel illegally to Australia by boat. Malacca state police chief Chuah Ghee Lye said yesterday that those detained late on Monday were four Pakistani men, four
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      Lock icon SABAH TO INVESTIGATE STATE’S WORST TRAIN CRASH
      109 32 AGENCIES The government of Sabah has ordered a criminal investigation into the Malaysian state’s worst railway accident on Tuesday, when a train carrying 200 passengers collided with a fuel tanker at an unmanned railway crossing in Kepayan. Eight passengers were injured and there
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      Lock icon Ai Weiwei will fight tax charges ‘to the death’
      168 36 REUTERS BEIJING Dissident Chinese artist Ai Weiwei vowed yesterday to fight tax evasion charges “to the death,” a day after the government ordered a company linked to him to pay 15 million yuan (S$3 million) in back taxes and fines. He
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      Lock icon Wen gives rare glimse into his family's past
      395 36 REUTERS BEIJING Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, giving a rare glimpse into his tumultuous past as he prepares to leave office in early 2013, has said that said his family was “constantly attacked” his father, a teacher, was even sent to tend pigs
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      115 36 AP China’s military will accept recruits whoareheavierand have more visible tattoos, according to changes announced by the Defence Ministry yesterday. It said recruits would no longer be failed for having face or neck tattoos as long as the body art did not exceed 2cm. The
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      436 38 AGENCIES AKORA KHATTAK (Pakistan) The top cleric at the hard-line Islamic school that spawned a generation of Afghan Taliban leaders has said that he is willing to help bring insurgents to peace talks. The offer by the influential “father of the
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      396 38 AP WASHINGTON United States Republican presidential hopeful Herman Cain is trying to move past sexual harassment allegations that surfaced at the same time he is surging atop the polls only two months before Republicans begin choosing their nominee to challenge President Barack Obama in
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      310 39 REUTERS LONDON WikiLeaks’ founder Julian Assange (picture) should be sent to Sweden from Britain to face questioning over alleged sex crimes, London’s High Court ruled yesterday, rejecting his appeal against extradition. The Swedish authorities want to question the 40-year-old over accusations of rape and sexual assault
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      257 39 AGENCIES PARIS France’s Prime Minister condemned an apparent arson attack early yesterday that destroyed the offices of a satirical French magazine that had carried a caricature of the Prophet Muhammad on its cover. A police official said the blaze broke out overnight at the offices
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      133 39 THE NEW YORK TIMES British lawmakers published internal documents from Mr Rupert Murdoch’s now-defunct tabloid the News of the World on Tuesday, raising further questions over the extent to which the phone hacking scandal was covered up. The documents, unearthed during Parliamentary
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      138 40 AP Twin two-year-old girls who were joined at the chest and abdomen were separated on Tuesday during a lengthy, complex procedure at Stanford University’s children’s hospital in California. The operation that gave Angelina and Angelica Sabuco (picture) their independence took more than
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      259 40 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH LONDON Children as young as three can be identified as violent gang members of the future, according to a new government report in the United Kingdom. Mrs Theresa May, the Home Secretary, unveiled plans to cut off gang
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      136 40 AGENCIES A study in the United States of more than 100,000 nurses has found that women who drink three to six alcoholic beverages a week face a 15 per cent higher chance of developing breast cancer compared with teetotallers. That risk means,
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      115 40 REUTERS Mothers who breastfeed for the recommended period of time, at least six months exclusively, may have a somewhat lower risk of developing high blood pressure later on, according to a United States study of more than 50,000 women. The findings, published in
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      352 42  -  YVONNE CHAN yvonnechan@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE DBS Group Holdings, South-east Asia’s largest bank, reported yesterday a S$762million net profit for the third quarter, an increase of 6 per cent from a year ago and 4 per cent from the previous quarter. Its performance surpassed the S$682 million
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      231 42 REUTERS SINGAPORE United Overseas Bank (UOB) posted yesterday a worse-than-expected 24-per-cent fall in third-quarter net profit as trading income fell and the bank booked losses on its investment holdings. UOB, the smallest of Singapore’s three local banks by assets, earned S$522 million in
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      66 42 STOCK CALL BUY S$6.12 CLSA upgrades Fraser Neave to Buy from Outperform and raises its target price to S$7.57 from S$6.90 after rolling over valuations to fiscal 2013 forecasts. The house tips catalysts from the expansion of its food and beverage business into Indonesia, Thailand and Vietnam. “We believe
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      258 44  -  AVELYN NG avelynngsy@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Department-store operator Parkson Retail Asia is scheduled to begin trading today after concluding its initial public offering on Tuesday. The company, a unit of Malaysia’s Parkson Holdings Bhd, said the Singapore listing is a strategic move for its
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      394 44  -  RYAN HUANG ryanhuang@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Brokerage firms affected by MF Global’s liquidation process have started taking steps to help their customers resolve their problems. MF Global Singapore blocked access to the brokerages following bankruptcy proceedings. As a result, many investors have been unable to
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      116 44 REUTERS Singapore-listed Chinese shipbuilder COSCO Corp reported yesterday a 42-per-cent drop in third-quarter net profit, hurt by higher costs at its yards and lower charter-hire rates for its dry-bulk vessels. COSCO Corp, 51-per-cent-owned by China’s COSCO Shipyard Group, earned S$32.2
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      135 48 BLOOMBERG SINGAPORE Honeywell International, a Fortune 100 company whose product lineup includes protective industrial footwear, agreed to buy local shoemaker King’s Safetywear for US$338 million (S$431 million). The transaction, expected to be completed early next year, is the second-largest of five disclosed agreements by Honeywell
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      Green Lodge up for collective sale
      237 48 SINGAPORE Freehold condominium Green Lodge at Toh Tuck Road has been put up for collective sale, with the owners asking for more than S$195 million, or S$866 per sq ft per plot ratio. The site, which sits on a plot of land of about
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      90 48 AGENCIES Singapore Exchange (SGX), Asia’s second-largest listed bourse, said securities turnoverfell 38 percent on-yearto S$28 billion last month as global uncertainty curbed investor appetite. Derivatives volume rose 11 per cent to 5.9 million contracts. SGX has introduced several initiatives this year to increase
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      450 50 AGENCIES MELBOURNE Microsoft Windows phones, such as the Nokia Lumia 800 (picture), may rival the BlackBerry in the next five years for the business smartphone market. Ovum, a research and independent analysis company, predicts the Windows phone in the Asia-Pacific will increase its market share
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      251 50 SINGAPORE Half of the world’s spam (50.1 per cent) comes from Asia, according to IT security and data protection company Sophos. While America remained the single worst offender, Asia contributed a significantly higher proportion of global spam for the same period last year,
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      578 52 SINGAPORE A local start-up has set out to carve a niche for itself in the crowded market for barbecued sweet meats, or bak kwa, by substi- tuting pork, the meat typically used, with fish like salmon and tuna. The idea of fish bak kwa came
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      634 54  -  Hassan and Ismail reject FAS contract offer to play in Malaysia’s club competitions SHAMIR OSMAN shamir@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE It was a move aimed at capturing the imagination of the Singapore football fan and reigniting passions that have remained dormant for 17 years. But just over two months
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      376 54  -  PHILIP GOH philipgoh@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The Republic’s 27-strong track and field squad received a timely boost ahead of their departure for the 26th SEA Games in Indonesia co-hosted by the cities of Jakarta and Palembang from Nov 11 to 22 with the
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      538 56 Frustration for Villas-Boas as his team is held in Belgium AGENCIES CHAMPIONS LEAGUE, GROUP E Racing Genk 1 Chelsea 1 GENK (Belgium) Chelsea failed to shake off their recent blues with a 1 -1 draw against bottom club Racing Genk in the Champions League on
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      306 56  -  SHAMIR OSMAN SINGAPORE Dream Team Steam will be a title familiar with a number of fans who followed Malaysia Cup football in the 1990s. The hit song in the official album released by the Football Association of Singapore (FAS) in 1993 came with
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      271 56  -  PHILIP GOH SINGAPORE There are five years to go before seven-a-side rugby makes its debut at the 2016 Olympics at Rio de Janeiro, and European powerhouses France are busy grooming players who have the potential to make their Games squad.
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      367 58 AGENCIES LONDON Three Pakistan cricketers face up to seven years in jail after being convicted of accepting corrupt payments to cheat in a Test match last year against England at Lord’s, the hallowed home of the game. Former captain Salman
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      414 58 AGENCIES MADRID A rampant Lionel Messi (picture) scored his 200th goal for Barcelona when he netted a penalty in the 24th minute of Tuesday’s (yesterday morning, Singapore time) Champions League match at Viktoria Plzen before completing a hat-trick. The World Player of the Year
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      1177 2  - SHE THEM Zooey Deschanel merges reel and real life so well, she’s even got the perfect TV part to match her personality SERENE LIM in Los Angeles serenelim@mediacorp.com.sg YESTERDAY, I woke up to devastating news.The ultimate perfect indie couple Ben Gibbard, lead singer of Death Cab For Cutie and The
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      332 3 REUTERS YOUTUBE has announced plans to create dozens of channels with original content, constructing an online challenge to the television experience and signalling it’s official leap into high-quality programming. It recently unveiled numerous high-profile names among the channel producers, including Jay-Z,Amy Poehler and Ashton Kutcher (picture).Among
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      649 4  -  The X Factor judge LA Reid knows what’s hot May Seah May may@mediacorp.com.sg TRANSCRIPT COURTESY MEDIACORPTV CHANNEL 5 ONCE upon a time, the record company executive was a shadowy figure, working quietly but conscientiously behind a desk and pulling on the puppet-strings of power
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