Today, 21 December 2011

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  • 20 1 TODAY MICA (P) 031/10/2011 A PUBLICATION OF NEWS HOTLINE 6822 2268 Wednesday December 21, 2011 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking
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  • 772 1  - Follow the leader to higher taxi fares SUMITA SREEDHARAN sumitas@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Commuters can expect to pay more for taxi rides on all cabs from the first week of January. This, after all the five remaining taxi operators who had yet to raise fares indicated yesterday that they would do so
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    • 96 1 @tdysports SPORTS FANS, STAY UPTO DATE ATTWITTER.COM/TDYSPORTS SCORES ANALYSIS NEWS CITIZEN r m > Innovation, powered by willpower X M Innovation. It’s what happens when imagination defeats the impossible. When curiosity overcomes inertia. When constant thought breaks through the old ways of thinking to the discoveries that wait beyond. i
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  • HOT NEWS
    • 477 2 AGENCIES SEOUL After the hysterical scenes which greeted news of Kim Jong Il’s death, North Korean media struck a more solemn mood yesterday as mourners filed past his body and the regime stepped up a campaign to
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    • 314 2 10 THINGS YOU MAY NOT KNOW ABOUT KIM JONG IL THE ‘DEAR Family legend says rainbows appeared when he was born on sacred Mt Paektu in 1942 though Soviet records show he was born in Siberia in 1941 First seen in public in early 1970s while on holiday in Malta
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    • 217 3 THE NEW YORK TIMES WASHINGTON Forty-eight hours after Kim Jong Il died on a train on Saturday, officials in Seoul and Washington still did not know anything about it. For South Korean and American intelligence services to have failed to pick up any
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    • 363 3 AP PARIS A French neurosurgeon has confirmed that Kim Jong Il had a debilitating stroke in 2008, and described secretly treating the reclusive dictator while the North Korean public and world remained unaware of his condition. Dr Francois-Xavier Roux
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    • 418 4  -  TEO XUANWEI xuanwei@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE From next year, HDB flatowners under the Central Provident Fund (CPF) Board’s housing insurance scheme will pay lower annual premiums. The discount amounts to 12 per cent on average and will benefit four out of five, or about 362,500 Singaporeans
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    • 211 4  -  HON JING YI SINGAPORE Train services on the NorthEast Line (NEL) between Outram Park and HarbourFront stations were delayed for about 20 minutes yesterday morning due to a signalling fault. SBS Transit, which operates the line, said two trains stopped in the tunnel during that
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    • 143 4 A one-stop land transport knowledge and research hub will be developed here, which will focus on public transport and sustainable mobility. The Land Transport Authority (LTA) and International Association of Public Transport (UITP) yesterday signed a Memorandum of Understanding
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    • 211 4  -  EVELYN CHOO SINGAPORE SMRT has suspended the driver who was said to have braked abruptly and caused a passenger to fall on Sunday. The victim, 54-year-old Madam Ding Weibo, has since fallen into a coma and her condition has apparently worsened.
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    • 518 6 AGENCIES BRUSSELS The euro zone debt crisis is set to spread and deepen next year, European Central Bank (ECB) president Mario Draghi has warned, as Britain refused to contribute to the latest International Monetary Fund (IMF) bailout fund for
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    • 302 6 REUTERS NEW YORK Facebook’s Mark Zucke r b e r g h u m a n rights activist Ronan Farrow and pop stars Lady Gaga (picture) and Justin Bieber are the ones to watch, according to Forbes magazine’s list of top-achieving people under
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    • 238 8  -  SAIFULBAHRI ISMAIL SINGAPORE Twenty-one Singaporeans and three Malaysians stranded since Sunday at Endau Rompin National Park in Johor were rescued at around noon yesterday. The group was stranded after flood waters cut off access to their location. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) said
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    • 240 8 JOHOR There is no concrete evidence that Singaporeans are using Johor as a platform to “get rid” of their cars, said Chief Minister Abdul Ghani Othman yesterday. He told the Johor State Assembly that a total of 22 Singapore-registered vehicles were reported stolen in
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    • 248 10 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH LONDON Dieting activates a protein which helps the mind stay young and healthy, a new study suggests. Low-calorie diets have previously been shown by several studies on animals to extend life, reduce the risk of dementia
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    • 325 10 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH LONDON British health officials have issued a warning about the serious threat posed by norovirus after an outbreak saw cases in the United Kingdom jump by 19 per cent on this time last year. The winter diarrhoea and
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    • 200 12 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH NEW YORK With the share of married adults at an all-time low in the United States, a university report has unveiled clues why couples do not get married: They fear divorce. Among co-habitating couples, more than two-thirds
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    • 501 12 AP SAN FRANCISCO The business of background checks in the United States is booming, with employers spending at least US$2 billion (S$2.6 billion) a year to look into the pasts of their prospective employees. They want to make sure they are not hiring
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    • 192 9 O. gk Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh, c.1888-1889, Oil on canvas RMN (Musee d'Orsay) Herve Lewandowski Presenter: N M Organiser: kTJ National Museum of Singapore Musee d'Orsay ?v.7s} rvC x i, 4 A.-' -d':’ •WP ir-ii i-i :■tf-Ii IA rid. -J<C t? *BpS We find beautiful ways to expand
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    • 23 10 It’s on iPad For the latest news updates on the go. Get the latest news, photos and videos from on your iPad. http://www.todayonline.com/iTODAY
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  • COMMENT&ANALYSIS
    • 1617 14  -  Messy regime collapse seems unlikely, but Kim Jong Un may feel pressure to prove himself through armed force CHRISTIAN OLIVER, JAMIL ANDERLINI THE FINANCIAL TIMES LIMITED Before Kim Jong Un was anointed as North Korean heir apparent last year, his father sent him as part of
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    • 930 16  -  Indications are that Beijing will want to ‘adopt’ the country to support the status quo VICTOR CHA Victor Cha, a professor at Georgetown and author of the forthcoming book The Impossible State: North Korea, Past, and Future, was director of Asian affairs at the White
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    • 1367 18  -  PANKAJ MISHRA Pankaj Mishra, the author of Temptations of the West: How to be Modern in India, Pakistan, Tibet and Beyond, is a Bloomberg View columnist based in Mashobra, India. The opinions expressed are his own. BLOOMBERG More than a century ago, China’s
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    • 860 21  -  CHARLES A KUPCHAN Charles A Kupchan, professor of international affairs at Georgetown University and senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, is the author of No One’s World: The West, the Rising Rest, and the Coming Global Turn. THE NEW YORK TIMES A crisis of governability
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    • 771 22 BLOOMBERG BLOOMBERG EDITORIAL India’s slowing growth and mounting resistance to pro-mar-ket reforms are putting its 20-year economic miracle at risk. To extend the past two decades’ success, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his allies must maintain their commitment to liberalisation and
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    • 136 15 not going to have that flexibility,” says Mr Klingner. “He will have to fend off accusations of outside contagion (allowing greater foreign influences to enter the country)”. In addition, the young Mr Kim “will have to pay attention to other voices in the leadership”. prosperous nation by 2012”. But, given
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  • VOICES
    • 227 24  -  Letter from Frances Ess WHILE it is understandable that the public is angered by the recent train disruptions, a more important issue than whether SMRT’s chief executive officer should resign needs immediate attention. How do we rebuild commuter confidence in the Mass Rapid
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    • 178 24  -  LETTER FROM HUI CHI SHING Before the recent train disruptions, there were two security lapses within a 15-month period, resulting in total fines of S$250,000 for SMRT Corporation. These incidents point to a question that might not have been
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    • 250 24 ‘PERVERSE INCENTIVES’ SMRT must be the only listed company whose profits are unaffected by poor service performance. Talk about perverse incentives. If the investigations uncover serious or systemic errors, perhaps it would be better for the authorities to enforce a fare reduction rather than to fine SMRT.
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    • 423 27  -  Letter from Jimmy Chan Yee Shun I DIFFER with Mr Conrad Raj, in his commentary “A lack of foresight?” (Dec 16), on the timing of the Government’s latest property measures. Except for the brief pullback after the sub-prime mortgage bubble in
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    • 329 27  -  Letter from Philip Lee Fook Seng I REFER to the appropriate and timely letter “SBS must maintain buses better” (Dec 12), a topic I have commented on occasionally in social media, and agree that SBS Transit buses are noisy. But I do not think it
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 506 28  -  TAN WEIZHEN weizhen@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE From tomorrow, SingTel consumers could be among the first in Singapore to experience 4G speeds on their mobile devices. Yesterday, the telco launched its 4G, or long term evolution (LTE) plan for consumer and business customers. The catch the 4G
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    • 107 28 ALL I WANT FOR NEW YEAR Some 160 beneficiaries including elderly and children from Voluntary Welfare Organisations were invited to the Esplanade yesterday to pen their hopes and wishes for the New Year on ‘wishing spheres’. The wishing spheres were then launched into Marina Bay. A total of 20,000 wishing
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    • 257 28  -  NURUL SYUHAIDA SINGAPORE The Migrant Workers’ Centre (MWC) is gearing up to help migrant workers who may be affected by the economic slowdown next year. Noting that migrant workers may be “bearing the brunt” of companies winding up or employers not
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    • 90 30 CRUISING INTO TOWN AidaDiva, a cruise ship carrying more than 2,000 German-speaking passengers, called on Singapore for the first time on Monday. The ship, which has a passenger capacity of 2,050, is part of the Singapore Cruise Centre’s efforts to attract cruise passengers from Europe. Since 2006, Singapore has seen
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    • 646 30  -  TANYA FONG tanyafong@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE He had sought to enforce a judgment against his former mistress to return about S$3.98 million owed to him, but his appeal against the judge’s adjournment was turned down yesterday at the High Court. Given that Mr Chen Chun Kang’s
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    • 197 31  -  ALVINA SOH SINGAPORE A student from the Singapore Institute of Management (SIM) has been sentenced to two weeks’jail for trying to take an upskirt photo of a 14-year-old girl inside a lift with his mobile phone. Even though 23-year-old Shahidan
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    • 170 31 CHANNEL NEWSASIA SINGAPORE A Filipino domestic helper was sentenced yesterday to three months’ jail for duping her employer into handing over her jewellery and then pawning them. Glenda Dayrit Alabado, 40, pleaded guilty to one charge of cheating and another charge of theft. In October,
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    • 199 31 The Night Safari has welcomed a lanky newcomer this festive season a 1.88metre tall baby giraffe. Wildlife Reserves Singapore (WRS), which owns and operates the Night Safari, said yesterday that the male calf was born on Dec 5. It got on it its feet moments after a two-metre
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  • WORLD
    • 351 32 Decision signals tight security alliance with the US AGENCIES TOKYO Japan selected Lockheed Martin’s F-35 stealth fighter as its next mainstay jet yesterday as concern simmers over North Korea and as China introduces its own stealth fighters. The decision came as Japan and the United
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    • 278 32 AP ILIGAN (Philippines) The Philippine government shipped more than 400 coffins yesterday to two flood-stricken cities in the south where the death toll neared 1,000, as President Benigno Aquino III declared a state of national calamity and relief agencies rushed to help. The latest
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    • 112 32 AGENCIES Malaysia’s Meteorological Department has warned the public to keep off beaches and out of the sea this week along the east coast of Peninsula Malaysia, as well as in Sabah and Sarawak in East Malaysia. Tropical storm Washi, which has devastated the Philippines, is expected to
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    • 163 34 THE MALAYSIAN INSIDER Malaysia’s opposition coalition Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) produced more documents yesterday to support its allegations that former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad had secured World Bank funds during his term. PKR strategy director Rafizi Ramli showed reporters an account
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    • 278 34 AGENCIES HONG KONG Mr Winston Wong (picture), son of Formosa Plastics Group’s late founder Wang Yung-ching, sued in Hong Kong to recover more than US$4 billion (S$5.2 billion) in assets for the estate of his father, once Taiwan’s richest man. In legal
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    • 263 34 BLOOMBERG BEIJING China has promised to compensate victims of illegal land grabs in the southern Chinese village of Wukan, where a standoff over past development deals and the death of a local butcher entered its 10th day. The government will reclaim about 10.5
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    • 331 36 THE NEW YORK TIMES NAIROBI (Kenya) The United States government is increasingly concerned about the Twitter account of the Al Shabab militant group of Somalia, with US officials saying Monday that they were “looking closely” at the militants’ use of Twitter
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    • 229 36 AP BEIRUT Syria has agreed to an Arab League plan to send foreign monitors, bowing to growing international pressure to end its bloody crackdown on a nine-month uprising. However, the opposition saw the deal as a stalling tactic, especially given reports by
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    • 236 36 AP CAIRO Volunteers in white lab coats, surgical gloves and masks stood yesterday on the back of a pickup truck along the banks of the Nile River in Cairo, rummaging through stacks of rare 200-year-old manuscripts that were little more than charcoal debris. The
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    • 161 38 AP BAGHDAD Iraq’s Shia-led government has issued an arrest warrant for its Sunni Vice-President, accusing him of running a hit squad that assassinated government and security officials, a day after the last United States troops left the country. Vice-President Tariq Al Hashemi (picture),
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    • 169 38 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH OSLO Two Swedes have been arrested by the Norwegian police for smuggling more than 250kg of butter into the country, offloading one consignment for more than £25 (S$51) a packet. The two men, from the northern Swedish city of Umea, managed to
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    • 290 38 AP DETROIT An Iranian-Amer-ican who appeared on Iran’s state TV is not a CIA spy as the authorities in that country claim and was visiting relatives when he was detained, his father said on Monday. Iran’s state TV broadcast a video
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    • 218 40 AGENCIES PARIS As many as 30,000 women in France will be ordered to have their faulty breast implants removed, the daily newspaper Libération reported yesterday. The implants supplied by the firm PIP (Poly Implant Prothèse) are suspected of having caused the death
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    • 319 40 AGENCIES NEW YORK —The keyboard and mouse could become obsolete by the year 2017 with the arrival of mind-controlled devices, IBM has predicted in its annual list of five developments in technology that it thinks will come true in the next five years. “Mind
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    • 178 40 REUTERS Women who use lotions and gels to produce a fake suntan tend to cut back on outdoorsunbathing and use of tanning beds, with close to 40 per cent who use such products saying they
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    • Article, Illustration
      91 41 Studded with more than 72,000 pieces of Swarovski cut crystal and valued at more than ¥10 million (S$167,610), this sparkling toilet is on display in Tokyo’s Ginza shopping district until the end of the month. Toilet manufacturer INAX and the Austrian jeweller said it was created in a
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    • 282 41 AP MEXICO CITY The Mexican capital will close one of the world’s largest garbage dumps by the end of the year and will instead turn the garbage from millions of people into reusable materials and energy, Mayor Marcelo Ebrard announced on Monday.
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    • 182 41 AP The Seattle City Council voted on Monday to ban single-use plastic bags from groceries and other retail stores, joining a growing trend among cities that embrace green values. The ordinance, which was approved unanimously following months of
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    • 216 42 DOW JONES SYDNEY China’s Yanzhou Coal Mining is in initial talks with Gloucester Coal to merge their Australian coal assets and create a miner worth up to A$8 billion (S$10.4 billion), three people familiar with the matter said yesterday. The move
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    • 168 42 DOW JONES Budget carrier Tiger Airways, which was forced to suspend flights in Australia in July because of safety concerns, said yesterday it expects its Australian unit to return to normal flight operations by the middle of next year and
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    • 55 42 TUESDAY CLOSE 2,614.45 (-0.14%) Monday 2,618.09 q 1.55% Friday 2,659.22 p 0.91% Thursday 2,635.25 q 1.39% Wednesday 2,672.39 q 0.50% TOP 5 BYVOLUME NAME VOL PRICE CHANGE Noble Grp 60,634 $1.155 p 4.525% GoldenAgr 44,812 $0.690 q 1.429% Mewah 31,158 $0.475 p 2.151% GLP 30,265 $1.665 p 1.524% Genting
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    • 250 44  -  LYNDA HONG lyndahong@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Singapore’s retail sector is likely to face some headwinds next year as rising global economic uncertainties dampen tourist arrivals. Retailers are also not too optimistic of the sector’s prospects as they face mounting cost pressures due to
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    • 371 44  -  MILLET ENRIQUEZ emelita@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The train disruptions last week are expected to have a wide-ranging impact on rail operator SMRT. Market experts say the company’s earnings could take a hit, with the cost of repairs and maintenance rising 10 per cent in the coming
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    • 125 44  -  WONG SIEW YING Jurong Shipyard, a subsidiary of Sembcorp Marine, has broken ground on its US$550-million (S$714-million) shipyard in Brazil. Estaleiro Jurong Aracruz, the group’s first overseas integrated new yard facility, will cater to oil and gas centres in the Atlantic, Gulf of
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    • 236 45 AGENCIES TOKYO Japan is discussing with China possible purchases of Chinese government bonds, Finance Minister Jun Azumi said yesterday, a sign the nation is diversifying foreign-exchange holdings by tapping into the world’s second-largest economy. “I think it’s mutually beneficial” for the two
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    • 227 45 DOW JONES SINGAPORE Asia-Pacific economies and banks will be tested next year by a slowing global economy and a potential worsening of Europe’s fiscal crisis, Standard Poor’s said in a report yesterday. But fundamentally sound economies and banks with strong balance
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    • 100 45 DOW JONES Singapore-listed Neptune Orient Lines said yesterday its container shipping unit APL has teamed up with five other shipping lines to create one of the largest vessel networks in the Far East-to-Europe trade lane, called the G6 Alliance. The partnership will create
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    • 221 47 AGENCIES TOKYO Olympus is preparing to issue about US$1.28 billion (S$1.7 billion) in new shares, with Sony, Fujifilm and Panasonic seen as possible buyers, as it tries to bolster its depleted finances, the Nikkei Business Daily reported. Olympus is believed to be
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    • 290 47 AGENCIES NEW YORK AT&T has dropped its US$39 billion (S$51 billion) bid for Deutsche Telekom’s US wireless unit, bowing to fierce regulatory opposition. The bid to acquire T-Mobile USA came to an end in a phone call between the companies’ chief executive officers on
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    • 217 47 Hang Ten jumps 56% after Li Fung Ltd bid AGENCIES HONG KONG Shares in clothing retailer Hang Ten Group Holdings jumped as much as 56 per cent to a one-year high yesterday after receiving a HK$2.65 billion (S$445 million) buyout offer from a sister company of Li Fung Ltd. The
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    • 521 52 Liverpool boss cagey regarding his plans for life without their star AGENCIES LIVERPOOL As the outcome on Luis Suarez’s (picture) racism charge looms, Liverpool manager Kenny Dalglish yesterday said that he has yet to ponder on how to approach matches without his star striker. There
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    • 324 52 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH LONDON Arsenal’s defensive woes have come back to haunt them after news emerged that Johan Djourou will be out for around three weeks and Kieran Gibbs is now unlikely to make his comeback against Aston Villa tonight (tomorrow morning, Singapore time). Djourou
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    • 362 52 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH LONDON Recently fired Sunderland manager Steve Bruce wasted no time in getting back into the business the 50-year-old is now in line to become South Korea’s new national coach as he looks to take a break from club management. Bruce was sacked
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    • 552 53 Rivals have to visit Eastlands and Mancini believes it gives his team an edge in title chase AGENCIES ENGLISH PREMIER LEAGUE Manchester City vs Stoke MANCHESTER Roberto Mancini (picture) believes that his team are in a good position to win the Premiership after having played all
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    • 410 53 AGENCIES ENGLISH PREMIER LEAGUE Fulham vs Manchester United MANCHESTER Sir Alex Ferguson believes his Manchester United side have moved on from the shock of elimination from the Champions League and remain on course to retain their Premier League title. United’s 2-0 victory away
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    • 271 53 THE GUARDIAN Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini has confirmed the club’s stance that if AC Milan want to secure the services of Carlos Tevez, they would have to buy the striker. Milan vice-president Adriano Galliani said yesterday that he will meet with City
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    • 619 54 Chelsea look set to break the bank to rejuvenate ageing squad AGENCIES LONDON Chelsea manager Andre Villas-Boas further signalled his intent to transform his ageing team with a planned £20 million (S$40.5 million) bid next month for Everton’s Jack Rodwell. Everton have yet to receive a
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    • 772 55  -  LionsXII to face Selangor on Feb 7 in the fiery cauldron of Bukit Jalil SHAMIR OSMAN shamir@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Singapore won their first Malaya Cup in 1921 by beating Selangor and the Republic’s biggest win came also against the red and yellow giants
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    • 403 55  -  SHAMIR OSMAN SINGAPORE First there was an issue with the specific room that was earmarked for the project and, now, exorbitant rental rates are standing in the way of Tanjong Pagar United and their plans to set up a pro-shop at their
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    • 581 56  -  Singapore marathon now in the same league as Berlin, Boston races TAN YO-HINN yohinn@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The Standard Chartered Marathon Singapore (SCMS) is now on par, on paper at least, with the world’s leading marathons. Last Thursday, the event was awarded the International Association of Athletics
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    • 56 1 ARTS MUSIC MOVIES TELEVISION WINE DINE STYLE DESIGN HEALTH TECH TRAVEL CARS SURPRISE YOU JUST WATCHED A SCI-FI FLICK! T4 GIVING JAMES FRANCO A ‘D’ MIGHT BE BAD FORYOUR CAREER T6 TECH COME HOME TO YOUR iCOASTER T10 DECEMBER 21, 2011 A PUBLICATION OF SAVAGE BEAUTY EMILY BLUNT WILL FIGHT
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    • 686 4  -  Science fiction isn’t all talking squids in space; its creep into mainstream film is everywhere from Never Let Me Go to Midnight In Paris Anne Billson features@mediacorp.com.sg THE GUARDIAN HOLY looming planets, Batman! It has already been observed that Mike Cahill’s Another Earth and Lars Von
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    • 159 6 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH JON Bon Jovi has become the latest celebrity to fall victim to social media rumours that he is dead, but fortunately the rock star took to Facebook to prove he was alive and well. The rumours of 49-year-old Bon Jovi’s death
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    • 199 6 REUTERS GILBERTO Sanchez, who uploaded a pirated copy of Fox’s superhero movie X-Men Origins:Wolverine, was sentenced to one year in federal prison Monday. Sanchez, 49, pleaded guilty in March 2011 to uploading a“workprint” copy of the film to the site Megaupload.com in March 2009, approximately
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    • 323 6 AP YOU might say that Lady Gaga’s year really began in an egg. That’s how she arrived at the Grammys in February, encased in a large, translucent pod carried by scantily clad dancers. When she “hatched” onstage, she effectively gave birth to Born This Way,
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    • 133 6 AP JESSICA Lange and Sam Shepard have separated after nearly 30 years together. A publicist for Lange confirmed the split on Monday. People magazine first reported the separation, saying the actors concluded their relationship almost two years ago. The 62-year-old Lange and 68-year-old Shepard had been
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    • 279 7 Cameron sued for ‘stealing’ Avatar again REUTERS AVATAR director James Cameron (picture) has been sued for the second time in nearly as many weeks by someone claiming to have come up with the idea for the sci-fi mega-hit. Cameron’s attorney, Bert Fields, and Fox both slammed the latest suit by
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    • 384 7 REUTERS BLACKLISTED writer Dalton Trumbo, who penned the screenplay for the classic film Roman Holiday, had his credit restored by a Hollywood writers group Monday, reversing history 58 years after the movie’s release. Trumbo, the writer behind the original story for the 1953 film starring
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    • 306 9  -  MOVIE REVIEW: THE ARTIST PG, 100MIN CHRISTOPHER TOH WHAT can you say about The Artist? Not a lot. (Hi-hat!) In fact, I’m speechless. (Cymbal shot!) Then again, so are the actors in the movie. (Bada boom!) Michel Hazanavicius’ The Artist is probably the best movie I’ve
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      101 9  -  CHRISTOPHER TOH From Alexander Payne, the creator of the Oscar-winning flick Sideways, comes The Descendants, a tale of the sometimes humorous, sometimes tragic journey of Matt King (played by the always-dependable and ever-delightful George Clooney). King is an indifferent husband and father of two girls, but he is
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    • 217 14 ON MEDIACORP WEDNESDAY NIGHT MOVIE: MEN IN BLACK (PG) Channel 5, 10pm Two special agents the Men In Black who keep an eye on aliens in New York must try to save the world after rogue aliens threaten to blow up the city. Starring Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones.
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