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    21 1 AFTERNOON EDITION MICA (P) 031/10/2011 A PUBLICATION OF NEWS HOTLINE 6822 2268 Wednesday December 28, 2011 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking
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    Lock icon Govt ready to supply land for 5,000 ECs
    542 1  -  VENUS HEW venushewyl@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE More land will be released for the development of executive condominiums (ECs) to meet the housing aspirations of higher-income Singaporeans. The Government is prepared to supply land sites for 5,000 EC units next year, Minister of State for
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  • HOT NEWS
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      Lock icon Mourning North sends South a signal
      667 2 Pyongyang calls for inter-Korean deals to be implemented as it gears up for today’s AGENCIES SEOUL In its first interaction with visitors from South Korea since the death of its leader Kim Jong Il, North Korea yesterday called for the implementation of the interKorean
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      Lock icon ‘Parking tickets’ to deter drink drivers
      462 3 SINGAPORE Even as the authorities have had some success in their campaign against drink driving, they are not letting up during this festive period. In the first nine months of this year, there were 15 fatalities due to drink driving three fewer than in
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      More flood prevention measures for Orchard Rd?
      334 4  -  JOANNE CHAN joannechan@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Orchard Road’s Lucky Plaza, which was hit by flooding for the third time in less than two years last Friday, is in the process of installing flood barriers. Its management told MediaCorp it is in discussions with national water
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      Lock icon Research talent pool grows
      345 4 28,000 here last year, as R&D expenditure rises to SINGAPORE Singapore’s research talent pool continues to expand steadily, as both public and private spending on research and development continues to rise. According to the latest National Survey of R&D 2010, the number of research scientists and
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      Lock icon Students pin hopes on a concrete breakthrough with algae
      454 4  -  ESTHER NG estherng@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Concrete road kerbs and drains could be made with algae instead of sand, if a group of Singapore Polytechnic students’ final year project becomes commercially viable. The School of Architecture and the Built Environment students found that
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      Lock icon UK plans for euro zone failure
      514 6 Capital controls and evacuation of Britons from stricken countries, in worst-case scenario THE DAILY TELEGRAPH LONDON The United Kingdom which is not part of the euro zone is working on contingency plans for the disintegration of the currency bloc, that include capital controls. The
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      Lock icon Classroom crunch looms in flood-hit Philippines
      379 6 AGENCIES MANILA With many victims of tropical storm Washi taking temporary shelter in school buildings, Philippine education authorities are looking for other venues to hold classes in the affected provinces when public schools reopen next week. “We are trying our best to look for
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      Lock icon MUSLIMS HERE TO FUND-RAISE FOR FLOOD VICTIMS
      208 6 CHANNEL NEWSASIA The Malay-Muslim community, with the help of the Rahmatan Lil Alamin Mosque Committee, is organising a special fundraiser for victims of the recent floods in southern Philippines. More than 1,000 people were reported dead or missing in Iligan and Cagayan de
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      Lock icon Utah mother and son rescued after Facebook post
      259 6 AP SALT LAKE CITY An Utah woman used Facebook to get help after she and her 17-month-old son were held hostage at a residence for nearly five days, police said. Police Sergeant Jon Arnold said the woman hid in a closet with
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      259 5 Standard Chartered Here for good to toast to parties to go tr t V# New Year to look •forward to i m i\ M s ?i m 3 M. •*««t HI I It’s good to welcome the New Year in style. Count down to a fresh start at all your
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  • COMMENT&ANALYSIS
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      Lock icon North Korea's real leader?
      938 8  -  Kim Jong Un may have been named the successor, but Kim Jong Il’s sister could be the one pulling the reins YURIKO KOIKE Yuriko Koike is Japan’s former Minister of Defence and National Security Adviser. PROJECT SYNDICATE On Dec 17, North Korea announced that its supreme
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      Lock icon Legislation alone can't stop piracy
      864 10 BLOOMBERG BLOOMBERG EDITORIAL After the payroll tax cut, the hottest issue animating Washington these days is online piracy. Legislation to curb overseas Internet sites that purvey pirated copies of movies, television shows and other creative content is steadily advancing. Arms are being twisted, campaign checks
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      Lock icon Wall Street is losing its lustre
      1039 12  -  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. The opinions expressed are his own. BLOOMBERG We are witnessing the decline and fall
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  • VOICES
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      Essential facilities to match learning needs
      427 14  -  Letter from Muhammad Nabil Noor Mohamed I AM saddened that the view expressed in “Disparity in tertiary education facilities” (Dec 26) has come from a junior college student. It is disturbing if a future leader of the country were to favour the best and
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      'Skyscraper' campus not a matter of entitlement
      262 15  -  Letter from Adam Liew MR KWEK Jian Qiang wrote “Disparity in tertiary education facilities” (Dec 26) to voice his discontentment with the standard of facilities in junior colleges (JC) compared to those found in the Institutes of Technical Education (ITE). But being a
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      Make it easier for returning docs to get residency training, too
      312 15  -  Letter from Chong Jin Long I REFER to Dr Ben Leong’s I Say piece “True commitment a must, to bring them home” (Dec 23), in which he said that a good relocation package would give returning doctors a “head
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      STARHUB RESOLVES BILLING MISTAKE
      63 15  -  LETTER FROM CASSIE FONG SENIOR MANAGER, CORPORATE COMMUNICATIONS, STARHUB We refer to Mr Chan Kim Heng’s letter “Easy to abuse home addresses” (Dec 17), about our bills being sent to his address, and thank him for his feedback. We have since contacted Mr Chan and resolved
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      269 15 Standard Chartered Here for good million to 1 odds of seeing reindeer fly hundred thousand to 1 odds of meeting Santa’s elves dollars to spend for sure It’s good when you apply for the right card. From now till 31 December, apply for any Standard Chartered Platinum Credit Card and
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  • SINGAPORE
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      Lock icon Shorter wait during evening rush hour
      352 16  -  Additional platform at Jurong East open from 5pm to 8pm on weekdays QIUYI TAN tanqiuyi@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Commuters can now expect shorter waiting times and more leg room at Jurong East Station during the evening peak hours, with an additional platform now open from 5pm
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      Lock icon School bus operators 'will not raise fares next year'
      246 16 CHANNEL NEWSASIA SINGAPORE School bus insurance premiums may have doubled in the past two years, but bus operators told Channel NewsAsia they will absorb the extra costs and maintain fares at the current level due to the gloomy economic outlook next
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      50 proposed to become NMPs
      309 17 SINGAPORE A total of 50 names have been proposed to the committee considering appointments of Nominated Members of Parliament (NMPs), of which 34 came from the public. Another 16 came from seven groups representing organisations from business and industry, the professions, the labour movement, social
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      More expensive to drive into Sentosa on New Year's Eve, Day
      269 17 SINGAPORE Sentosa Island has raised its admission charges for vehicles entering the island between New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day. Cars and taxis entering between 5pm on Dec 31 and 7am on Jan 1 will pay S$7, instead
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      Lock icon NEW THREE-QUARTER TANK RULE FOR SOME DRIVERS FROM SUNDAY
      169 17 CHANNEL NEWSASIA With effect from Sunday, the three-quarter tank rule will also apply to compressed natural gas (CNG) fuel supply tanks of CNG vehicles and petrol-CNG vehicles. The rule currently applies to petrol fuel supply tanks of Singapore-registered motor vehicles leaving
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      Man jailed for theft and animal abuse
      205 18  -  ALVINA SOH SINGAPORE An unemployed man was jailed two months for torturing a cat which he hung outside his house, and also for theft. Thirty-two-year-old Lin Chuan had tied a rope around the neck of a cat, dragging it along the second floor
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      Man fined for causing pedestrian's death
      359 18  -  TANYA FONG tanyafong@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE A Singaporean contractor who pleaded guilty to causing the death of a Myanmar national was fined S$6,000 and disqualified from driving all classes of vehicles for three years by a district court a judgment the prosecution is appealing against. In
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      MAN JAILED FOR CAUSING HURT TO THREE POLICE OFFICERS
      227 18  -  ALVINA SOH It started off as a skirmish between two friends but ended with one of them sentenced to jail for causing hurt to three police officers. Factory production operator Idris Husin was sentenced to nine months in jail for hurting
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  • WORLD
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      Lock icon Tokyo eases decades-long ban on arms exports
      360 20 AP TOKYO Japan yesterday announced a decision to ease its decades-long weapons export ban in a bid to lower purchase and production costs and take part in armsdevelopment projects with other countries. For a nation with a war-renouncing constitution written after World War
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      Lock icon Japan, Myanmar one step closer to better ties
      213 20 AP YANGON Myanmar and its one-time biggest benefactor, Japan, agreed to talks on a bilateral investment treaty and took other steps toward better relations as the Japanese Foreign Minister visited on Monday. Mr Kocihiro Gemba said Japan wants to help Myanmar fight
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      Lock icon A CRUSHING SCENE
      124 20 Workers destroying cars damaged by the recent floods at the Honda Automobile Plant in Rojana Industrial Park in Ayutthaya, about 80km north of Bangkok, yesterday. Honda vows to get rid of all vehicles and parts that were submerged when flood waters hit the plant on Oct 8.
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      Lock icon Ex-Iskandar CEO’s husband charged with corruption
      265 20 AGENCIES KUALA LUMPUR The husband of a former senior official in Iskandar Investment Berhad (IIB) was charged with corruption yesterday in Johor Baru for allegedly soliciting RM1.6 million (S$654,000) as inducement to obtain a project, The Malaysian Insider news website reported. Mr Mohd Amin
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      Lock icon ROTTEN FEED BEHIND CANCER-CAUSING TOXIN IN MILK IN CHINA
      212 21 AP Mildewed feed given to cows was the cause of high levels of a cancer-causing toxin found in milk from China’s biggest dairy company, Mengniu Dairy Group, and a smaller one, Fujian Changfu Dairy Industry Group, according to a government safety
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      Lock icon Wen calls for farmers rights to be protected
      336 21 AGENCIES BEIJING China’s Premier Wen Jiabao has urged officials to share profits from the development of rural land with the millions of farmers who have to give it up. Mr Wen’s speech to officials at a work conference yesterday comes a week
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      Lock icon CHINA SATELLITE NAVIGATION SYSTEM STARTS SERVICE
      125 21 AP A Chinese rival to the US global positioning system (GPS) network has started providing services in China and the surrounding area. The director of China’s satellite navigation system office, Mr Ran Chengqi, told reporters Tuesday that the Beidou navigation system is offering services
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      Lock icon Pakistani President warns top court against probing into memo scandal
      241 22 AP ISLAMABAD Pakistan’s President yesterday warned the Supreme Court not to take action in violation of the constitution, referring to a judicial hearing into a secret memo seeking to rein in the powerful military, a scandal that threatens the Pakistani
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      Lock icon Syrians plead for 'international protection'
      231 22 AGENCIES BEIRUT Crowds of protesters gathered in Syria’s flashpoint city Homs shouted to Arab League monitors “we want international protection”, a video showed in one of several clips that have been uploaded to YouTube by activists in the city, Reuters news agency reported. Syria has
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      Lock icon US CLEARS PATH FOR YEMEN LEADER TO GET MEDICAL HELP
      182 22 THE NEW YORK TIMES The Obama administration has decided in principle to allow the embattled President of Yemen, Mr Ali Abdullah Saleh, to enter the United States for medical treatment, subject to certain assurances, two administration officials said on Monday.
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      Lock icon Indian tycoon's got tons of cash, but nowhere to invest locally
      380 24 AP MUMBAI Mr Ajay Piramal (picture) is sitting on a mountain of cash. Yet the Indian billionaire, working in one of the world’s fastest growing economies, is struggling to figure out what to do with the money. The problem
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      Lock icon INDIAN ACTIVIST FASTS FOR TOUGHER ANTI-CORRUPTION MEASURES
      127 24 AP An Indian activist began a three-day hunger strike in Mumbai yesterday, calling for Parliament to pass a tougher version of an anti-corruption Bill than the one federal lawmakers had started debating. Mr Anna Hazare has called the government’s anti-graft legislation an attempt
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      Lock icon Al Qaeda claims Baghdad blasts
      189 24 AP BAGHDAD An Al Qaeda front group in Iraq has claimed responsibility for the wave of attacks that ripped through markets, cafes and government buildings in Baghdad on a single day last week. The attacks killed at least 69 people in the first major bloodshed
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      Lock icon Shortage of family doctors leaves UK healthcare in crisis
      243 25 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH LONDON The NHS (National Health Service) is facing a chronic shortage of family doctors after official figures showed some General Practitioners (GP) were responsible for 9,000 patients. More than a million people were registered with a GP who
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      Lock icon Web gambling receives boost from Obama admin
      214 25 REUTERS WASHINGTON The Obama administration cleared the way for US states to legalise Internet poker and certain other online betting in a switch that may help them reap billions in tax revenue and spur Web-based gambling. AJustice Department opinion dated September, which was
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      Lock icon Breast implant scare spreads to Netherlands
      264 25 AGENCIES LONDON Around 1,000 Dutch women have breast implants of the suspect kind made by a French company but sold under a different name, a Netherlands health official has said, broadening a scandal that could affect 300,000 or more women worldwide, The Guardian reported.
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      Lock icon No more asterisks for airfare ads
      373 26 THE NEW YORK TIMES NEW YORK Advertisements that make airfares seem enticingly low will soon lose that asterisk pointing to a dense paragraph of additional taxes and fees that make a cheap ticket much more costly. Beginning on Jan 24, the Transportation Department will
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      Lock icon RUSSIAN BLOGGER WANTS TO RUN FOR PRESIDENT
      173 26 BLOOMBERG Leading Russian opposition figure and blogger Alexei Navalny (picture)said he is ready to run for President if democratic elections are held. “I am prepared to fight for fair elections and when it becomes possible to participate in such elections, I am ready
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      Lock icon TWO TEENS MURDERED AMID BRITAIN’S POST-CHRISTMAS SALES
      191 26 AGENCIES A teenager was fatally stabbed and a second man wounded in attacks on London’s most famous retail street as thousands of shoppers thronged the Boxing Day sales. Eleven people have been arrested and a number of weapons have been recovered after the
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      Lock icon BACTERIA UNLEASHED IN SEWERS TO FEAST ON CHRISTMAS DINNER FAT
      203 26 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH Trillions of bacteria with a taste for turkey fat and cooking oil are being unleashed in United Kingdom sewers to eat the annual onslaught of Christmas dinner grease that risks blocking pipes. Yorkshire Water said it was
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  • Page 27 Miscellaneous
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  • BUSINESS
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      Lock icon US consumer confidence perks up
      406 28 Improving labour market and stabilising manufacturing sector reassure public, but housing remains a worry REUTERS AFTERNOON LATEST WASHINGTON Improving labour market conditions lifted United States consumer confidence to an eight-month high in December, but persistently weak house prices remain an obstacle to faster economic growth.
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      Lock icon Obama goes bipartisan with Fed nominations
      217 28 THE NEW YORK TIMES WASHINGTON United States President Barack Obama said yesterday that he would nominate a Harvard economist and a former Treasury official to fill the two vacant seats on the Federal Reserve’s board of governors. Harvard Professor Jeremy Stein, who worked briefly
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      DOW
      57 28 TUESDAY CLOSE 12,291.30 (-0.02%) Monday CLOSED Friday 12,294.00 p 1.02% Thursday 12,169.65 p 0.51% Wednesday 12,107.74 p 0.03% NYSE TOP 5 BY VOLUME NAME VOL PRICE CHANGE Bank of America 157.2m $5.48 q 2.14% General Electric 41.9m $18.01 q 1.21% Ford 25.2m $10.81 q 1.28% MGM Resorts 25.0m $10.42
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      EUROPE
      13 28 Ç FTSE100 5,512.70 (+1.02%) Ç Ç DAX 5,889.76 (+0.18%) CAC40 3,103.11 (+0.03%)
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      FOREX
      21 28 US$1 s$1.295 US$1 £0.683 US$1 €0.765 US$1 ¥77.884 US$1 A$0.986 US$1 HK$7.778 All figures correct as at 8am this morning
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    • OVERNIGHT
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        US MARKETS
        92 28 Stocks flat on light volume Stocks ended flat after fluctuating between small gains and losses in a light-volume session, as investors took a breather following a 5 per cent rally last week. About 3.59 billion shares exchanged hands on the NYSE, NYSE Amex and Nasdaq, sharply below the
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        OIL
        80 28 Leap past US$100 mark Oil prices jumped more than US$1 after Iran threatened to cut off a key oil shipping route through the Strait of Hormuz. U.S. crude oil prices shot up US$1.61 to $101.29 a barrel as traders feared possible disruptions in supplies from the Middle East. Trading
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      184 29 REUTERS A panel reviewing the auditing of Olympus Corp after its US$1.7 billion (S$2.2 billion) accounting scandal said it had not found any wrongdoing by the Japanese arm of Ernst Young and questioned the accuracy of a separate investigation critical of auditors. But
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      304 29 REUTERS SHANGHAI The yuan closed slightly lower yesterday despite a record high daily fixing by the People’s Bank of China (PBOC), as companies showed strong demand for US dollars. The PBOC set the US dollar/ yuan mid-point at 6.3152, compared with Monday’s 6.3167,
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      248 29 REUTERS BEIJING China will quicken the pace of assessing merger and acquisition proposals next year to handle a fast growing number of domestic and crossborder deals, a government official said yesterday. Mr Shang Ming, who heads the anti-trust division of the Ministry of Commerce, said
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      875 30 Fed up with not having solutions to parenting problems, online ‘mompreneurs’ whip them up themselves THE NEW YORK TIMES NEW YORK Eight years ago, Ms Tamara Monosoff came up with an invention that she was sure mothers like herself would appreciate: A device that prevents
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      643 31 THE NEW YORK TIMES NEW YORK Many of the best advertisements of this year had something in common: Celebrities, whether in front of the camera or behind it. Unfortunately for Madison Avenue, not to mention put-upon consumers, that was also true for
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      183 31 'Sr Fjfi wsn v m MARINA BAY ffi SINGAPORE < s 2012 31 DEC 2011 M Everyone's invited for this spectacular celebration on 31 December 2011! Be a part of Singapore's biggest New Year's Eve Countdown at Marina Bay! Be mesmerised as 20,000 wishing spheres turn the bay into a
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      402 32 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH LONDON Florent Malouda has publicly expressed dissatisfaction over his lack of firstteam football at Chelsea and strongly suggested that he is ready to leave in January. Malouda has generally been a substitute at Chelsea following the summer arrival of Juan Mata
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      166 32 REUTERS ZURICH FIFA has been ordered by the Supreme Court of the Canton of Zug to release documents relating to the collapse of its former marketing partner ISL. World football’s governing body said this month it had been forced to delay the publication of
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      614 32 Winger’s double at Norwich leaves Tottenham within punching distance of Manchester’s league leaders REUTERS LONDON Tottenham established itself as the most likely challenger to the dominance of the Manchester clubs in the Premier League this season, beating Norwich 2-0 last night to tighten
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      300 33 AP NBA Nuggets 115 Mavericks 93 DALLAS The reigning champions Dallas Mavericks have quickly become a team everyone wants to play. There is no telling which is worse right now, their offence or defence, their conditioning or chemistry, as they were
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      563 33 THE GUARDIAN AFTERNOON LATEST LONDON Arsene Wenger suggested Arsenal had been guilty of complacency after a 1 -1 home draw against Wolverhampton Wanderers last night kept his team outside the Premier League’s top four and failed to capitalise on the unexpected results of Boxing Day. The
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      205 33 AP SWANSEA Queens Park Rangers ended its three-match losing streak by rallying to a 1-1 draw at Swansea last night. Jamie Mackie scored QPR’s equaliser at the Liberty Stadium when he got in behind Swansea’s notoriously stubborn defence from a long clearance by goalkeeper
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      482 34  -  But coach admits there are certain aspects of his team that need to be TAN YO-HINN yohinn@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Even before a ball has been kicked in anger ahead of the 2012 Malaysia Super League (MSL) season, the LionsXII have already come under fire. Saturday’s 3-2
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      939 35  -  Headline-maker in 2011, game-changer for 2012 No 3 PHILIP GOH philipgoh@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE With the S$1.33 billion Sports Hub slated to be ready by April 2014, the task of charting Singapore’s sporting future will take on greater urgency. Apart from ensuring Singapore athletes reach the
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      32 1 WRAPPING UP 2011 DECEMBER 28, 2011 A PUBLICATION OF SMARTS ARE THE NEW ABS SEX AND THE POLITICIAN FULL-FRONTAL ARTS FREE-TO-AIR TV GOES PG13 THE COCKTAIL STAGES A Artwork by Dawn Aik
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      1422 2  -  The year movies fell in love with smarts GENEVIEVE LOH genevieveloh@mediacorp.com.sg WORLD economies might have sagged, Charlie Sheen may have melted down, Demi and Ashton split up and our angular bangs lasted longer than Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries’ 72-day marriage. But that didn’t stop a special crop
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      735 4 The year politicians overtook actors and musicians as the main source of sex scandals Twitter is for twits Former New York Representative Anthony Weiner provided the, well, biggest gift to the political sex scandal pool by providing a visual aid to everyone.Weiner publicly tweeted a picture of
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      304 4  -  The year theatre’s hunks decided to flex their muscles MAYO MARTIN mayo@mediacorp.com.sg ABERCROMBIE and who? If you thought those topless, beefcake male models hogging the headlines and Facebook walls recently was an ingenuous, fresh way of grabbing eyeballs for your product, then you obviously weren’t watching a
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      497 6  -  The year a PG13 rating made it to free-to-airTV but did it make TV sexier? MAY SEAH may@mediacorp.com.sg THERE is a whole new level of sexy on television these days, and it comes in the form of shows like the Sex And The City movie being
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      609 7  -  The year knocking one back got conveniently sexier DON MENDOZA donm@mediacorp.com.sg TRENDS come and go.And sometimes, like when a flurry of gastro bars threatened to be the spark in what would be the rise of middleclass consumerism in support of Man’s well-earned right to chomp where he chugs,
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      421 8 REUTERS INTERESTED in sharing more personal moments of life to a small group of friends rather than a large network? An app called Path could help. Originally conceived as a way to post photos and videos for close family and friends to see,
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      Smartphone for adrenaline junkies
      222 8 FITNESS junkies might want to check out the Sony Ericsson Xperia Active smartphone.The smartphone has been preloaded with a range of sports apps. Some of the apps can track your fitness levels while others can even assist you in setting your ideal running route using the
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      343 9  -  Never miss what’s said with Sony Ericsson’s LiveSound hi-fi headset HIRANAND SUNNY SMARTEXTRAS, by Sony Ericsson, is a new range of accessories designed to provide users with the most complete mobile phone experience. Part of that range is the LiveSound hi-fi headset that is said to bring
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    656 10 The Chronicles of Narnia: The Exhibition Step through the Wardrobe into the fantasy land of Narnia atthe transformed skating rink atThe Shoppes at Marina Bay Sands. Based on CS Lewis’ popular books and the blockbuster film series, visitors will get to tourthrough 3D scenes of this alternate
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      346 11 ON MEDIACORP MEN IN BLACK II (PG-Action Violence) Channel 5, 10pm Agent Jay has become a high-ranking member of the Men In Black, the secret government task force designed to deal with unruly visitors from other worlds. His former cohort, Agent Kay, had his memory wiped clean and now lives
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      638 11 6.00AM Films Stars Asia 6.30 AM Live! 9.00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show IX 10.00 The Dr Oz Show 11.00 America’s Funniest Home Videos XX 11.30 Great Ideas From JML 12.30PM Parental Guidance II 1.00 First Touch II 2.00 The Two Of Us CHANNEL 6.00AM Frontline 6.30 Stars. Beat It! 7.00
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      206 11 ON MEDIACORP KNOCK! KNOCK! WHO’S THERE? (Debut) Channel 8, 8pm Hosts Cavin Soh and Bryan Wong meet again in a culinary showdown. Each week, the two will try to outwit each other in planning a special celebration for two families. In this episode, they have to plan a birthday party
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