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  • 39 1 TODAY MICA (P) 031/10/2011 A PUBLICATION OF NEWS HOTLINE 6822 Tuesday December 20, 2011 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking Today MICA (P) 031/10/2011 A PUBLICATION OF NEWS HOTLINE 6822 2268 Tuesday December 20, 2011 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking
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    • 94 1 -V A- I* IfirstjtQTlmberland Then off to your holidays. hs IL* «S EL"' 'tr-i-sS Ml W .5 :>' a ETS ■A ■m- :-'Vf Hi irW"■'•VI V’ 2><6;-,vl e. in* v; sl V LIGHT UP SOMEONE’S CHRISTMAS. WITH GREAT GIFT IDEAS FOR HIM. Before heading off for your holidays, why not
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  • 729 1 N Korean leader Kim Jong Il’s death puts world on alert AGENCIES SEOUL —It is not often that the death of one man could spark such varied and profound reactions around the globe: Some rejoiced, others wept, military strategists went back to their
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    • 54 1 @tdysports SPORTS FANS, STAY UPTO DATE ATTWITTER.COM/TDYSPORTS SCORES ANALYSIS NEWS HOT NEWS 6 HOT NEWS 3 PHILIPPINES DIGS GRAVES AFTER FLOODS KILL HUNDREDS A SLOW DAY ON THE TRACKS COMMENT& ANALYSIS PAUL KRUGMAN WILL CHINA BREAK? 8 NOURIEL ROUBINI FRAGILE AND UNBALANCED IN 2012 10 A TOTAL BAN ON HANDPHONE
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  • HOT NEWS
    • 510 2 AGENCIES SEOUL In looks, tastes and personality, Mr Kim Jong Un the youngest of three sons of former North Korean leader Kim Jong Il was said to be the “spitting image” of his father. Those who knew him say it was clear, early
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    • 113 2 AGENCIES Asian stocks fell yesterday after reports that North Korean leader Kim Jong Il had died, extending earlier losses sparked by Fitch Ratings saying it may cut the credit ratings of European nations. Japan’s Nikkei 225 Stock Average declined 1.3 per cent.
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    • 398 3 SINGAPORE When there was an announcement at the MRT stations yesterday evening of a train delay, many commuters simply assumed the worst: That train services were disrupted again. Many people sent out tweets to tell their friends that they were stuck on the trains
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    • 343 3  -  TAN WEIZHEN SINGAPORE A 54-year-old woman is in a coma after she fractured her skull following a fall in a bus on Sunday. According to Mr You Bu Ya, the husband of the victim Ding Weibo, Mdm Ding boarded SMRT bus service
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    • 357 3 AGENCIES BRUSSELS European finance ministers strived yesterday to meet a self-imposed deadline for drawing additional aid to the region’s sovereign debt crisis and to form new budget rules as investor confidence over a comprehensive solution wavered. At press time, euro zone finance ministers
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    • 217 3 THE GUARDIAN The suicide rate in Greece is now the highest in Europe, with experts attributing the rise to the country’s painful austerity measures and a seemingly endless economic crisis and unemployment at an unprecedented 18 percent. Statistics released by the Greek Ministry
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    • 369 4  -  Firm to hire 500 more staff, 90% of whom will be S’poreans, PRs SUMITA SREEDHARAN sumitas@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Rolls-Royce, which currently employs 300 staff at its campus at Seletar Aerospace Park, is looking to hire another 500 employees 90 per cent of whom will be
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    • 286 4  -  YVONNE CHAN SINGAPORE The uncertain economic outlook has not deterred online shoppers in Singapore from splurging on gifts this festive season, according to a survey by credit card company VISA. On average, online shoppers in Singapore plan to spend about US$840
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    • 221 4 CHANNEL NEWSASIA From next month, the Medisave Required Amount (MRA) will be raised to S$32,000, higher than the current S$27,500. The MRA refers to the amount that must be set aside in the Medisave Account, after the CPF Minimum Sum
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    • 370 6 AGENCIES ILIGAN Disaster agencies yesterday delivered body bags, food, water and medicine to crowded evacuation centres in the southern Philippines as officials ordered the digging of graves to prevent disease after hundreds died from flash floods. The national disaster agency
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    • 167 6 Singapore’s leaders have sent condolence letters to Philippine President Benigno S Aquino, after tropical storm Washi battered the country’s south, leaving more than 650 people dead. In his letter, Acting President J Y Pillay extended heartfelt condolences on behalf of the people of Singapore
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    • 195 6 The Singapore Red Cross (SRC) will send a six-man team to the Philippines tomorrow to assist in the distribution of immediate relief items and food supplies to the typhoon survivors. The SRC said in a statement yesterday that its team will
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  • COMMENT&ANALYSIS
    • 881 8  -  There are real reasons to fear financial and economic crisis PAUL KRUGMAN Nobel laureate Paul Krugman is professor of economics and international affairs at Princeton University. THE NEW YORK TIMES Consider the following picture: Recent growth has relied on a huge construction boom fuelled by surging real
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    • 990 10  -  Restoring robust growth will be tough enough, without spectre of deleveraging and shortage of policy ammo NOURIEL ROUBINI Nouriel Roubini is chairman ofRoubini Global Economics and professor at the Stern School of Business, New York University. His detailed 2012 global growth outlook is available atwww.roubini.com
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    • 2443 12  -  Mythologised in North Korea, parodied in the West, what was the real man like? DAVID E SANGER THE NEW YORK TIMES Kim Jong Il (picture), the reclusive dictator who kept North Korea at the edge of starvation and collapse, banished to gulags citizens deemed disloyal
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    • 676 14 BLOOMBERG BLOOMBERG EDITORIAL Driving is an inherently dangerous activity. But in the United States, we have generally accepted that the gains in convenience, freedom and productivity that motor vehicles provide outweigh their many hazards. The growing distractive power of our digital devices
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  • VOICES
    • 100 16  -  Letter from Ralph S Lesslar THE recent train failures on the NorthSouth line beg the question as to why there is no back-up system to get a train out of the tunnel. As I see it, there are two ways to do this: By a
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    • 266 16  -  Letter from Oun Hui Peng I READ in horror, in the report “Necessary pain for commuters” (Dec 19), that the transport operators have had less time to do inspections and maintenance due to higher train frequencies for a growing population. One would assume that with increased
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    • 152 16  -  LETTER FROM CHLORIN CHEW PEI WAH When SMRT Corporation applied to increase fares in July, its executive vicepresident (trains) Khoo Hean Siang said commuters can “rest assured that SMRT remains committed to continue providing the best service possible”. Five months on, we have had numerous
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    • 185 16  -  Letter from Lyn Tai SINGAPORE is often compared with Hong Kong in many aspects, including public transport. Hong Kong has a larger population (7 million) than Singapore’s (5.18 million). The Hong Kong Transport Department website states that there are 18,138 taxis
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    • 68 16  -  LETTER FROM TEO HOON SENG To save on fuel, cab drivers prefer to queue at well-known points with high passenger volumes, for example, Changi Airport, Singapore General Hospital and selected shopping malls such asTiong Bahru Plaza. In some instances, the line of taxis is
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    • 259 18  -  Letter from Henry Tan Seng Lee MR RAYMOND Chua is right, in his letter “What benefit from property investment?” (Dec 13), that Singapore needs to think clearly on why we want foreigners to invest in our housing. It is
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    • 298 18  -  Letter from Oscar Lee Shing Kian COFFEE shop operators who are reluctant to ban smoking at their premises, for fear that business may be affected, are rather short-sighted and misguided. In fact, business would be better. First, if smoking was banned at a coffee
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    • 300 18  -  Letter from Muhammad Haziq Jani MR MATTHEW Chua was not far from the truth, in his letter “Military school, to curb delinquency” (Dec 6), that the problem of violent youth may stem partly from the education system when dropouts inevitably group with other dropouts. But
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    • 90 18 VOICES ONLINE ‘We need not call it a military school. Call it a Kinesthetic School, for pupils who are kinesthetic learners, who are not stupid but have a learning style that isn’t catered for by our mainstream schools.’ From Lok Kek Seng ‘Do away with the term ‘Penal’ for our
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 358 20  -  S RAMESH rameshs@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The Community Development Councils (CDCs) here are battle-ready to help citizens tide over difficulties, if another economic downturn hits next year as a result of the economic problems in Europe and the United States. Latest figures released to Channel NewsAsia
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    • 418 20 Top Normal (Academic) students credit Mum and Dad for their CHANNEL NEWSASIA SINGAPORE A 50-cent ruler from his father spurred Darren Tan to give it his best shot during the GCE N Level exams. Yesterday, the 16-year-old student from Ping Yi Secondary School emerged as
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    • 169 20 CHANNEL NEWSASIA SINGAPORE Singapore Airlines (SIA) will make some flight network changes between March 25 and Oct 27 next year to match capacity with prevailing demand for travel during the Northern Summer schedule. The carrier will add a daily service to Seoul, South Korea,
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    • 146 22 Former ministers Mah Bow Tan, Yeo CheowTong and Yeo Ning Hong will share their first-hand experiences and Singapore’s best practices in public administration and governance as part of Nanyang Technological University’s new executive training programme for Vietnam’s senior government officials. Launched yesterday,
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    • 286 22 CHANNEL NEWSASIA SINGAPORE All lorry crane operators will have to be certified under a new training course to enhance safe operation of cranes by September 2013. The Lorry Crane Operator Course is a two-and-half day programme designed to equip lorry crane operators with
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    • 271 22 SINGAPORE The number of front-line Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) personnel required to conduct daily checks on equipment such as fire extinguishers and portable pumps is set to come down. SCDF personnel would instead be able to spend more time to
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  • WORLD
    • 221 24 Malaysia's top woman preacher REUTERS KUALA LUMPUR A 25-year-old Malaysian woman was crowned the best preacher in a televised Islamic reality television show that aims to change conservative mindsets on the role of women in Muslim societies. Amie Sofia Ahmad (picture), an Egyptian-trained Quranic studies graduate, won a certificate, a
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    • 331 24 AGENCIES SYDNEY The crew and captain of an Indonesian boat packed with asylum seekers grabbed life vests and swam away as it sank during a heavy storm on Saturday, survivors said, as the authorities investigate whether the boat was despatched by an associate of
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    • 354 25 Hon Hai Precision Industry, Apple’s top manufacturing partner, has had two incidents at China plants this year REUTERS TAIPEI Apple Inc supplier Pegatron Corp reported an explosion at a subsidiary’s plant in Shanghai over the weekend that it said had injured 61 workers,
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    • 243 25 AGENCIES About 12 million Malaysian voters will have their fingers stained with indelible ink in general elections widely expected next year as part of reforms to curb fraud, the Election Commission (EC) said yesterday. The EC also said about 200,000 police
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    • 128 25 AP Former International Monetary Fund (IMF) head Dominique Strauss-Kahn began his return to public life yesterday with a speech at a business conference in Beijing after the scandal over his arrest in New York City on sexual assault charges. Speaking at an event organised by
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    • 144 26 AGENCIES TEHRAN An alleged Central Intelligence Agency spy who sought to infiltrate Iran’s secret services has been shown apparently confessing to his crimes on Iranian state television on Sunday. In a pre-recorded interview, American-Iranian Amir Mirza Hekmati, apparently in his late 20s, was
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    • 350 26 AGENCIES CAIRO Protesters clashed with Egypt’s security forces in central Cairo on Sunday after the humiliating video of police beating a veiled woman, whose bra is exposed at one point, triggered widespread outrage in the country’s pro-democracy movement. At least 10 people have been
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    • 127 26 AGENCIES Pakistan’s President Asif Ali Zardari, who was in Dubai for medical treatment, returned to Karachi early yesterday, hours before the country’s Supreme Court began investigating a secret memo sent to Washington that could hurt the President. Mr Zardari’s treatment in hospital since Dec
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    • 126 28 THE GUARDIAN The City of London Corporation has lost control of St Paul’s Cathedral, the British High Court heard yesterday, with members of an activist camp “setting rules and policing behaviour” in the churchyard. A trial, lasting up to four days, will determine
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    • 269 28 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH KARACHI Parents of the children found abused in a Karachi madrasah have told The Daily Telegraph they approved of the brutal methods being used in the Islamic school’s cellars. By day they were locked in chains. By night, they were
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    • 159 28 A study in the United States has shown that Earth is being showered with mercury from the upper atmosphere that can land anywhere and enterthe food chain. The poisonous metal is released as a vapour by burning fuel. It then falls back
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    • 116 28 AGENCIES The man who burned a 73-year-old woman to death in an elevatorof a NewYork City apartment building has told the police that the victim owed him money. On Saturday afternoon, handyman Jerome Isaac, 47, waited on the fifth floor of the building
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  • BUSINESS
    • 258 30 DOW JONES SINGAPORE Global Logistic Properties (GLP), majority owned by the Government of Singapore Investment Corp, said yesterday that it formed a joint venture with state-run China Investment Corp (CIC) to acquire 15 properties in Japan from LaSalle Investment Management in a deal
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    • 269 30 BLOOMBERG SYDNEY Qantas Airways, Australia’s largest carrier, yesterday agreed on a new contract with its engineers, the first accord to be struck with any of the three unions at the centre of October’s worldwide grounding of its fleet. The deal sets a 3-per-cent annual
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    • 56 30 MONDAY CLOSE 2,618.09 (-1.55%) Friday 2,659.22 p 0.91% Thursday 2,635.25 q 1.39% Wednesday 2,672.39 q 0.50% Tuesday 2,685.74 q 0.59% TOP 5 BY VOLUME NAME VOL PRICE CHANGE PSL Hldg 43,840 $0.385 q 1.28% GoldenAgr 40,566 $0.700 q 0.71% Sheng Siong 28,824 $0.435 p 3.57% Federal 28,791 $0.036 q
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    • 32 30 HANG SENG 18,070.21 (-1.18%) È È È È È NIKKEI 8,296.12 4,060.40 Ç È SHANGHAI 2,218.24 A MALAYSIA AUSTRALIA 4,060.40 H SEOUL MUMBAI 15,379.34 (-0.72%) MALAYSIA 1,477.78 (+0.79%) SEOUL 1,776.93 (-3.43%)
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    • 86 30 STOCK CALL SELL S$1.05 IIFL keeps rating and lowers its target price to S$1.07 from S$1.34, citing a lack of catalysts. The house says the water treatment specialist will continue to underperform as new orders are the primary share-price driver and it has not won any major deals since
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    • 151 30 An industrial site in MacPherson was launched for sale by tender yesterday by marketing agent DTZ, which said such properties had increasingly become an alternative investment option following the latest round of residential property cooling measures. The freehold site, located at the junction of MacPherson
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    • 248 32 REUTERS DUBAI Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, a key investor in some of the world’s top companies including Apple and News Corp, yesterday unveiled a US$300 million (S$392 million) stake in microblogging site Twitter, gaining another foothold in the global media industry. Mr
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    • 267 32 REUTERS BEIJING China endured its second straight month of capital outflows in November as slowing domestic growth and mounting global uncertainties led investors to withdraw speculative funds. Data published yesterday showed China’s central bank and commercial banks sold a net 27.9 billion
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  • DIGITAL
    • 316 34 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH LONDON Websites may have to apply for certification as “licensed sites” to appear high up the Google rankings, if a new treaty between rights holders and search engines comes into force. Under the voluntary code of practice, seen by The
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    • 192 34 AP JERUSALEM Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, meet your Israeli doppelganger: Mark Zuckerberg. Israeli entrepreneur Rotem Guez says he has legally changed his name to that of Facebook’s CEO, a gimmick meant to persuade the social networking site to back down from what he says are threats
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    • 210 34 REUTERS SEOUL Samsung Electronics has filed new claims in its patent war with Apple over alleged patent infringements in Germany, a spokesman for the company said yesterday. The tech giant added four patents to its ongoing infringement case related to the telecommunications standard
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    • 79 35 Terrestrial Broadcaster of the Year 2011 MediaCorp is proud to once again win the coveted Terrestrial Broadcaster of the Year award at the 2011 Asian Television Awards, competing with the best of Asia Pacific broadcasters from 14 countries. We celebrate this victory with all our viewers, listeners and readers. Stay
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    • 510 36 City boss believes his side can stay top through the festive period and beyond AGENCIES ENGLISH PREMIERSHIP Man City 1 Arsenal 0 MANCHESTER Roberto Mancini believes his Manchester City team can stay top of the Premier League at Christmas. In fact, he insists they can remain there
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    • 364 36 AGENCIES LONDON Arsene Wenger (picture) conceded that Arsenal’s title hopes were over for another season after admitting that the 1 -0 defeat against Manchester City was a game “we could not afford to lose”. Arsenal trail Roberto Mancini’s league leaders by 12 points after David
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    • 466 37 Injuries to pacey wingers Lennon and Bale give Spurs boss a selection headache against Chelsea AGENCIES LONDON Tottenham winger Aaron Lennon is the latest to join the club’s growing casualty list after he picked up a hamstring tear during the 1-0 win over Sunderland on Sunday.
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    • 388 37 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH BOLTON Following Bolton Wanderers’ 2-0 loss to Fulham on Saturday, manager Owen Coyle knows getting off the bottom of the table by Christmas is imperative to avoiding relegation. Today’s (tomorrow morning, Singapore time) trip to Blackburn has assumed seismic importance and
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    • 290 37 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH BIRMINGHAM Aston Villa striker Darren Bent on Sunday apologised for doing some Christmas shopping while his team fell to a 2-0 home defeat to Liverpool. The club, though, are understood to be relaxed about the incident. Bent had no part to
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    • 569 38  -  Doctors give Safuwan go-ahead to train, Sundram yet to decide on starting backline SHAMIR OSMAN shamir@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE V Sundramoorthy’s LionsXII side are still three weeks away from their Malaysia Super League (MSL) opening match against defending champions Kelantan, but the grim spectre of injury has
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    • 438 38  -  PHILIP GOH philipgoh@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE It was at the 1988 Seoul Olympics when tennis made a return as a full medal sport and Miroslav Mecir of what was then Czechoslovakia won the men’s singles gold medal. Despite being one of the best players of his generation,
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    • 551 39  -  Singapore’s swimming star gunning for Paralympic glory LOW LIN FHOONG linfhoong@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Theresa Goh could finally relax with a friendly iPhone/iPad game competition among her team-mates after a mission well accomplished. The 24-year-old bagged her third gold medal of the 6th ASEAN
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    • 276 39 AP SYDNEY Five-time Olympic swimming champion Ian Thorpe (picture) said it is still too early to judge the success of his comeback, despite disappointing results in recent competitions. Thorpe finished 16th overall in the 100m freestyle and 10th in his first 200m freestyle race
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    • 378 39 AGENCIES BEIJING Match-fixing trials began in China yesterday after some 60 people including national football players, referees, coaches and officials were accused of involvement in rigging and gambling scandals. Among those accused in the scandal were the former heads of China’s football programme, Nan Yong
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    • 713 4 Chewbacca, the British code-breaker Alan Turing, and yet more zombies on this year’s list of the best screenplays yet to be made THE GUARDIAN FANCY a trip to the multiplex to catch a satirical take on the making of Star Wars as seen through the
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    • 385 5 New book uncovers what he was like as a dad THE DAILY TELEGRAPH MUCH of what’s been written and said about Johnny Cash tends towards the darkness. But John Carter Cash, the only child of Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash, has done some moral accounting
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    • 90 5 Polytechnic student becomes first female Vasantham star TEMASEK Polytechnic student R Suthasini became the first female Vasantham Star when she won the fourth series of the talent competition on Sunday night.The 21 -year-old beat three other finalists to clinch the S$ 10,000 prize money and the title of
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      • 192 7  -  KEVIN MATHEWS MINNESOTA’S The Jayhawks has been one of the bestkept secrets of the American alternative country-folk-rock music scene for the last 25 years. Originally formed around the nucleus of singer-songwriters Gary Louris and Mark Olsen,The Jayhawks released a string of critically acclaimed albums from 1986
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      • 178 7  -  KEVIN MATHEWS IT’S always encouraging to discover promising new bands.The Sleeves is a quintet of expats residing in Hong Kong that has just released a debut that promises to be as edgy and obtuse as its rather daring cover art. Consisting of Andrew Gardner, Bee Shaw,
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      • 204 7  - IRON COAL JEREMY SCHONFELD KEVIN MATHEWS THERE is nothing more powerful than a song cycle fuelled by a touching personal story. Iron Coal is singer-songwriter Schonfeld’s loving memorial to his late father and the millions of Jews who suffered at the hands of Nazi Germany during WWII.The backstory is told
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      • 168 7  -  CHRISTOPHER TOH WHAT can you can say about this release by Magus made up of Leslie Low and Mark Dolmont that isn’t in the positive superlative? I guess “cool” would be a good place to start. Because the album simply is. Kicking off with the chunky drone
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