Today, 1 December 2011, Afternoon Edition

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  • 20 1 TODAY MICA (P) 031/10/2011 A PUBLICATION OF NEWS HOTLINE 6822 2268 Thursday December 1, 2011 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking
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  • 420 1 THE NEW YORK TIMES HONG KONG Faced with an economy that appears to be slowing faster than economists expected even a month ago, the Chinese government yesterday evening unexpectedly reversed its year-long move towards tighter monetary policy and took an important step to encourage
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  • 270 1 AP Major central banks around the globe took coordinated action yesterday to ease the strains on the world’s financial system, saying they would make it easier for banks to get dollars if they need them. The European Central Bank, the United
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  • HOT NEWS
    • 592 2 Job rates this year rose to 78 per cent while median monthly income up by 8.3 per cent SINGAPORE —As employment hit a new high of 78 per cent for the resident population this year, nominal incomes also rose strongly amid a tighter
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    • 509 3  -  TANYA FONG tanyafong@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The Court of Appeal has dismissed well-known surgeon Susan Lim’s (picture) appeal in her case against the Singapore Medical Council (SMC). Dr Lim had appealed against a High Court decision to dismiss her attempt to stop
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    • 542 3  -  CAROLYN QUEK carolynquek@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The Court of Appeal has ordered a rare retrial a 32-year-old Malaysian drug trafficker sentenced to death, citing the findings of the trial judge to be “problematic” and his reasoning “unclear”. In setting out its reasons
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    • 329 4 AGENCIES TEHRAN Britain shut down the Iranian Embassy in London and expelled all its staff yesterday, saying the storming of the British diplomatic mission in Tehran could not have taken place without some degree of consent from the Iranian authorities. Foreign Secretary William
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    • 271 4 AGENCIES KUALA LUMPUR The head of the youth wing of Malaysia’s ruling United Malays National Organisation (UMNO) accused the opposition yesterday of trying to topple the government by promoting street rallies and manufacturing its own version of an Arab Spring uprising. “Despite
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    • 324 6  -  SUMITA SREEDHARAN sumitas@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The Republic has been ranked 25th on the Mercer’s Quality of Living survey beating cities like Tokyo and Hong Kong to be the highest-ranked Asian city in terms of quality of living and safety. Vienna topped
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    • 349 6  -  Strong supply of flats could mean better chances for all JOANNE CHAN SINGAPORE The backlog of first-time applicants for the Housing and Development Board’s (HDB) Build-To-Order (BTO) flats appears to have largely cleared following a ramp-up in supply. There were 1.4 applicants for each flat
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    • 358 6  -  ESTHER NG esther@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Employment disputes arising from professionals, managers and executives (PMEs) have risen over the last five years, enough to prompt the labour movement to step up efforts to reach out to this group. Yesterday, the National Trades Union Congress (NTUC) launched
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    • 256 8 SINGAPORE Asia’s latest business reality TV series Angel’s Gate, which is co-produced by Channel NewsAsia (CNA), will premiere in February. It will also be shown on Web and mobile platforms. The programme offers budding entrepreneurs the chance
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    • 507 8 THE GUARDIAN BEIJING A major Chinese city wants the country’s first “Good Samaritan” rules to encourage residents to help one another, after the death of a two-year-old girl whose plight, ignored by passers-by, horrified the nation. Millions in China and around
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    • 69 10 Volunteers form the shape of a giant red ribbon to show their support ahead of World AIDS Day in front of the landmark Taipei 101 LOVE sculpture yesterday. Today marks the 24th anniversary of World AIDS Day, when people across nations rally in support of those afflicted
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    • 297 10 AP BEIJING China will have about 780,000 people infected with the AIDS virus by the end of this year, state media reported yesterday, with most having contracted it through heterosexual sex. The official Xinhua news agency said that a report from the
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    • 163 12  -  NG JING YNG Given the misconceptions about AIDS and the stigma attached to it, the disease can be used as a teaching tool to impart the idea of patientcentric care to trainee doctors. This will let the doctors “confront
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    • 350 12 SINGAPORE More public education is necessary to ensure that the healthcare system can detect children infected with HIV, so as to get them treated early. Without such detection or what Dr Gareth Tudor-Williams (picture) of Imperial College London called “missed opportunities”
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  • COMMENT&ANALYSIS
    • 789 14  -  WILLIAM PESEK William Pesek is a Bloomberg View columnist. The opinions expressed are his own. BLOOMBERG Twelve-hour flights are a chance to catch movies you might not expect to be good entertainment such as Too Big to Fail, Hollywood’s take on the meltdown of
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    • 870 16  -  THOMAS L FRIEDMAN Thomas L Friedman is a three-time Pulitzer Prize winner. THE NEW YORK TIMES Israel is facing the biggest erosion of its strategic environment since its founding. It is alienated from its long-time ally Turkey. Its arch-enemy Iran is
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    • 852 18  -  Public sector workers strike over pay, even as country struggles PAUL GILFEATHER gilfeather@mediacorp.com.sg Paul Gilfeather is the principal correspondent at Today. Hollywood actor Kevin Spacey takes on the part of Shakespearean schemer Richard III and tells the audience in Singapore: “Now is the winter of our
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  • VOICES
    • 397 20  -  Letter from Sanjay Perera THE Prime Minister’s speech at the ruling party’s annual convention, reported in “Change, from the bottom up: PM” (Nov 28), was good, although meritocracy as an ideology seems incompatible, I think, with creating a fair society.
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    • 98 20  -  LETTER FROM CHANDRAN V R I read the letter regarding a tall tree falling along Clementi Road. We have trees islandwide that are planted near walkways. What is the likelihood that more will fall without warning? This time, we were lucky that no one was
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    • 191 20  -  Letter from Dorothy Cheung Public Relations Manager, Holland-Bukit Panjang Town Council WE REFER to the letter “Bouquets, brickbats over fallen tree” (Nov 30). Holland-Bukit Panjang Town Council’s arborist has submitted a report which states a few attributing factors for the tree to
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    • 244 22  -  Letter from Lau Vi Minh I REFER to the letter “Cat trap loan rule disregarded” (Nov 26) and suggest that we handle the issue of community or stray cats objectively and not let passion get the better of us.
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    • 146 22  -  Letter from Mohsen Ghadessy THE old race course at Bukit Timah is a vast expanse of valuable land that needs intelligent management to prepare it for public use. As one enters the complex, one thinks that the clock has been turned
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    • 166 22  -  Letter from Corrine Ng Vice-President, Corporate Communications, Transit Link WE REFER to Mr Paul Fernandez’s letter “Credit refunds automatically to ez-link cards” (Nov 10). In cases of serious train delays and disruptions, affected passengers whose fares have been deducted can get an
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    • 128 22  -  Letter from Chan Wai San Director, Policy Department, National Environment Agency WE REFER to Ms Chan Lai Ying’s letter “Smoking tables are often adjacent to others” (Nov 16). The National Environment Agency recognises the harmful effects of secondhand tobacco smoke and has progressively
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 449 24  -  TAN WEIZHEN weizhen@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The Singapore Democratic Party (SDP) released a paper yesterday outlining its proposals on the salaries of political office holders, which the Opposition party said would be sent to an eight-member committee undertaking the review. In its 14-page
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    • 188 24 CHANNEL NEWSASIA SINGAPORE The Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) has launched an Ideas Competition to draw bold and fresh ideas from the public on ways to develop the Malayan Railway land that was returned to Singapore in July. The competition, named “Journey of Possibilities”, is
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    • 166 26 The 10th International Varsity Debate series returns today on Channel NewsAsia, and on MediaCorp Channel U on Saturday. This year, 16 world-class university debating teams from Australia, Britain, China, Germany, Hong Kong, Israel, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan, and the United States will be locked
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    • 366 26  -  SARA GROSSE saragrosse@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE A new therapy to help heart failure patients with fluid overload has been introduced for the first time in Asia by the National Heart Centre Singapore (NHCS). Called aquapheresis, it is a form of ultra-filtration that removes
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    • 365 28  -  TANYA FONG tanyafong@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE He initially told the court that he did not have the means to pay maintenance to his former wife and four children. However, Dr Andrew Chee Weng Kheong later admitted that he had money but said that
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    • 86 28 Some 80 children between nine and 12 years old from lower-income homes spent yesterday learning how to make a model space shuttle at the YMCA-3M Camp Eureka for Kids. At the end, the children were required to make a presentation a means to boost confidence
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    • 255 28  -  CHEOW XIN YI SINGAPORE Expect to see smaller vessels during April’s Singapore Yacht Show, even as the annual event prepares to welcome “some of the world’s most spectacular superyachts” at Sentosa Cove’s ONE°15 Marina Club. Known more as a showcase of superyachts
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    • 209 30  -  WAYNE CHAN SINGAPORE Developers should insist that main contractors specify safety measures and costs in their tender price, while trade-specific tests should be expanded overseas to ensure workers meet minimum skill requirements before arriving here. These were the key recommendations the Workplace Safety
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    • 174 30  -  MONICA KOTWANI SINGAPORE The dolphins at the heart of the controversy surrounding Marine Life Park will play an important role in educating the public on conservation, park vice-president Peter Doyle said when he announced its new education initiatives yesterday. The park at
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  • WORLD
    • 190 33 AGENCIES ISLAMABAD Pakistan’s Prime Minister Yousuf Gilani said yesterday he rejected a personal plea from Afghan President Hamid Karzai to reconsider Islamabad’s decision to boycott an upcoming international conference on Afghanistan over North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) airstrikes that killed 24 Pakistani troops. Mr
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    • 337 33 AGENCIES LONDON Airline passengers arriving in Britain escaped chaos yesterday despite dire predictions of long waits, as border staff joined teachers, hospital workers and weather forecasters in the country’s largest strike in decades. The one-day strike has been called to oppose government demands that
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    • 253 34 AP SEOUL North Korea said yesterday that it is making rapid progress on work to enrich uranium and build a light-water nuclear power plant, increasing worries that the country is developing another way to make atomic weapons. Pyongyang’s Foreign Ministry
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    • 226 34 AGENCIES BANDA ACEH (Indonesia) Terrorists in Indonesia are no longer targeting mainly Westerners, with the police and “infidel” government bodies their new main targets, a terrorism expert warned on Tuesday. Militant groups in the country have usually targeted tourists and “Western targets” in the
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    • 113 34 AP The Philippine authorities have captured an Al Qaeda-linked bomber suspected in at least six attacks, including a 2002 karaoke bar explosion that killed an American Green Beret and a hotel blast this week that killed three people, officials said yesterday. Hussein Ahaddin was caught
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    • 125 34 AP A Chinese court has upheld the drug trafficking conviction of a Filipino man and set his execution for Dec 8 despite appeals for clemency from the Philippine President, officials said yesterday. The35-year-old man, who was not identified, was arrested in September 2008 at
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    • 113 34 AP Australia’s record of only two prosecutions for slave labour indicates the problem is not receiving the attention it deserves, a United Nations expert on people trafficking said yesterday. Ms Joy Ngozi Ezeilo, the UN special rapporteur on people trafficking, said at the
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    • 224 35 REUTERS One out of every 10 people who get a stent inserted to open up blocked arteries ends up back in the hospital within 30 days, suggests a new study that also found the re-admit-ted patients more likely to die in
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    • 296 35 Nine killed in pre-dawn fire that damaged 12 hawker AGENCIES HONG KONG The Hong Kong police are investigating the cause of a “suspicious” fire that killed nine people and injured 33 after it broke out at hawker stalls in Kowloon’s crowded
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    • 273 35 AP BEIJING Even with its booming economy, China now has more poor people at least, officially. A sharp upward revision in the official poverty line, announced by the government on Tuesday, means that 128 million Chinese in rural areas now qualify as
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    • 338 37 AGENCIES NAYPYITAW Myanmar’s new capital, Naypyitaw, translates as “Abode of Kings”, fitting for United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to begin historic talks that could restore some lustre to one of the world’s most reclusive states. But as
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    • 279 37 AP CAIRO Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood was leading in initial, partial results from Egypt’s parliamentary elections but it was facing stiff competition in many places both from more hard-line Islamic groups and from a liberal-secular alliance, judges overseeing counting said yesterday. The trend
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    • 191 40 AP LOS ANGELES The doctor convicted in the overdose death of Michael Jackson was sentenced to the maximum four years behind bars on Tuesday by a judge who denounced him as a reckless physician whose actions were a “disgrace to the
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    • 253 40 AGENCIES LONDON Former News of the World journalist Paul McMullan claimed former editors Andy Coulson and Rebekah Brooks knew that hacking was taking place at the paper, as he gave evidence at the ongoing public inquiry on Monday. “Andy Coulson brought the practice wholesale
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    • 238 42 AP CANBERRA United States and Australian movie and television studios yesterday challenged a landmark court ruling in Australia that an Internet Service Provider (ISP) cannot be held accountable for illegal video downloads by its customers. The studios want Internet providers to
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    • 222 42 AGENCIES WASHINGTON Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain (picture) told campaign aides that he now needs to decide whether his campaign was damaged beyond repair by a new claim that he had a 13year extramarital affair. Mr Cain has vehemently denied all the charges
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    • 234 44 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH LONDON Using a laptop connected to the Internet through Wi-Fi may damage a man’s sperm count, a study suggests. Armed with semen samples from 29 healthy men, researchers found that sperm placed under a Wi-Fi connected laptop suffered
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    • Article, Illustration
      97 44 For centuries, white people regularly put Africans, native Americans, islanders or the disabled on display. A new exhibit opened in Paris on Tuesday to highlight how this colonial tradition that flourished until the late ’50s shaped discriminatory attitudes. Included in the exhibit is a film showing chained, unidentified
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    • 158 44 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH App-inspired toys are driving new Christmas sales, a British retailer has claimed. Ms Elaine Hooper, John Lewis toys and books buyer, said that “app toys are one of the fastest growing toy categories ever seen”. She claimed that “alongside other technology gifts
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    • 218 46  -  LYNDA HONG SINGAPORE The Monetary Authority of Singapore managing director Ravi Menon said yesterday that Asian currencies must strengthen to combat excessive capital inflows. Speaking at the Paris EUROPLACE International Financial Forum in Singapore, Mr Menon said: “Real exchange rates in
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    • 272 48  -  WONG SIEW YING siewying@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The initial public offering (IPO) market here is unlikely to be badly affected next year despite the economic uncertainties, market analysts say, and the Singapore Exchange could see between 20 and more than 30 new listings. English
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    • 76 48 DOW JONES A unit of Malaysia’s SP Setia has been awarded a 99-year leasehold residential site in Chestnut Avenue for S$180 million, the Urban Redevelopment Authority said yesterday. The 201,278.6-sq-ft site in Bukit Panjang was awarded to SP Setia International (S).
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    • 58 48 REUTERS Total bank lending in Singapore inched 0.3 per cent higher to S$406.5 billion in October from S$405.4 billion in September, central bank data showed yesterday. Bank lending gained 29.8 percent from a year earlier. Housing loans to consumers rose to S$128.1 billion
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    • 54 48 STOCK CALL Neutral S$2.83 DMG Research maintains Neutral and S$2.80 target price. Also keeps earnings forecast unchanged, says higher programming costs from its recently obtained exclusive broadcast rights for the UEFA Euro 2012 football tournament and other content renewal are likely to offset any incremental subscription and advertising revenue
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    • 55 48 WEDNESDAY CLOSE 2,702.46 (+0.53%) Tuesday 2,688.10 q 0.23% Monday 2,694.43 p 1.91% Friday 2,643.93 q 1.24% Thursday 2,677.15 p 0.02% TOP 5 BYVOLUME NAME VOL PRICE CHANGE GMG R 204,753 s$0.027 UNCH Noble Grp 90,393 s$1.140 p 1.79% GoldenAgr 66,035 s$0.700 p 0.72% Genting SP 52,768 s$1.505 p 0.33%
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    • 249 51 AGENCIES NEW YORK Standard Poor’s has reduced credit ratings on 15 global banks, mostly in Europe and the United States, as the result of a sweeping overhaul of its ratings criteria. The widely expected move did not signal a change to any
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    • 82 51 DOW JONES A Singapore unit of French construction-to-broadcasting group Bouygues has signed two contracts worth a combined €160 million (S$276.2 million) to build housing projects. The first deal, worth about €93 million, was signed with property developer CDL to build the Blossom Residences executive
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    • 65 51 REUTERS Singapore-listed shipbuilder STX OSV said yesterday it has secured a contract worth 1.2 billion Norwegian kroner (S$265.8 million) for the construction of a research vessel. It will be built for the Norwegian Defence Logistic Organisation, which provides procurement, investment, support, supply and maintenance
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    • 82 51 DOW JONES The French industrial gases group, Air Liquide, said yesterday it will invest about €35 million (S$60 million) to expand its industrial gas infrastructure on Jurong Island and supply oxygen and nitrogen under a long-term supply agreement to CCD (Singapore), a joint venture
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    • 341 53 REUTERS SYDNEY An Australian court today reversed a ban on the sale of Samsung’s Galaxy tablet computers in the country, handing it a rare victory against rival Apple in the firms’ intensifying global patent war. Apple was granted an injunction against
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    • 648 59  -  Despite uncertainties, champions Tampines have already signed four new foreign players TAN YO-HINN yohinn@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE When the announcement was made in July that a Singapore team would return to Malaysia’s domestic football competitions, many here wondered whether it would sound the death knell of
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    • 338 59 REUTERS NEW YORK The bodysuit war that reduced the 2009 swimming world championships to farce and effectively turned the sport into a battle of technology could erupt again here (this morning, Singapore time) when Michael Phelps takes to the catwalk to launch a
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    • 634 60  -  SSA set to meet SSC as they aim for a proposed new shooting facility, bowling wait for news PHILIP GOH philipgoh@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE His athletes won 14 medals at the Commonwealth Games last year, with five of them gold. But during the Games, which was held in
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    • 341 60 REUTERS LONDON Blackburn Rovers “forfeited” their League Cup match against Cardiff City on Tuesday night (yesterday morning, Singapore time) to concentrate on turning around their Premier League fortunes, the club’s under-fire manager Steve Kean said. Blackburn, currently bottom of the Premiership, lost 2-0
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    • 574 61 Reds’ Welsh forward turns it on for Speed as crisis at the Bridge rumbles on REUTERS CARLING CUP QUARTER-FINAL Chelsea 0 Liverpool 2 LONDON While Liverpool’s Craig Bellamy would have eased his personal anguish a little after his inspirational performance in his side’s 2-0 victory over
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    • 212 62 When the Saints go marching on REUTERS LONDON It may be a little early for a hagiography of Nigel Adkins’ (picture) Southampton side, but Tuesday night’s (yesterday morning, Singapore time) 2-1 win over Hull City saw the Saints match a 40-year English football record by registering their 21st consecutive home
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    • 425 62 Frimpong squares up to former team-mate after visitors win AGENCIES CARLING CUP QUARTER-FINAL Arsenal 0 Man City 1 LONDON Samir Nasri and Emmanuel Frimpong clashed in the tunnel after Sergio Agüero’s 83rd-minute goal saw Manchester City beat Arsenal 1 -0 at the Emirates on Tuesday night (yesterday
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    • 329 6 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH THE family of pop star George Michael are maintaining an emotional bedside vigil as the stricken star battles severe pneumonia. The 48-year-old singer, who is being treated in hospital in Vienna, Austria, is said to be responding to treatment and “slowly improving”.
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