Today, 31 January 2012, Afternoon Edition

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1 14 Today
  • 22 1 AFTERNOON EDITION TODAY MICA (P) 031/10/2011 A PUBLICATION OF NEWS HOTLINE 6822 2268 Tuesday January 31, 2012 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking
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  • 503 1  -  IAN DE COTTA ian@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The S-League’s deputy chief executive officer, Mr Johan Gouttefangeas (picture), whose appointment a month ago had been dogged by controversy, tendered his resignation last night. It came two weeks after it emerged that he had failed to disclose that two
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  • 909 1 Critics say treaty with emphasis on budget discipline fails to address lack of growth AP BRUSSELS All European Union countries except Britain and the Czech Republic agreed Monday to sign a new treaty designed to stop overspending in the eurozone and put an end
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  • HOT NEWS
    • 355 2  -  DYLAN LOH SINGAPORE The Republic is set to play a bigger role in assisting Myanmar’s progress, now that a bilateral Memo­randum of Understanding (MOU) on the Singapore­Myanmar Technical Coopera­tion Programme has been signed. The agreement will see Singapore give technical help to Myanmar
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    • 533 2  -  TAN WEIZHEN weizhen@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Faced with increased usage and complaints about the 3G mobile net­work, the Infocomm Development Author­ity (IDA) will be raising the minimum ser­vice quality standards in phases over three years from April 1. Among the requirements, 3G mobile
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    • 435 3 AFTERNOON LATEST REUTERS NEW YORK Ratings agency Standard Poor’s yesterday warned it may downgrade “a number of highly rated” Group of 20 countries as of 2015 if their governments fail to enact reforms to curb rising healthcare spending and other costs related
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    • 469 3 REUTERS WASHINGTON Just a week before futures brokerage MF Global filed for bankruptcy, the firm’s chief financial officer told analysts at Standard Poor’s that its capital position had “never been stronger”, according to the ratings agency. The behind-the-scenes details about MF Global’s
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    • 238 3 BLOOMBERG TOKYO Japan’s unemployment rate unexpectedly rose last month as the strong yen continues to squeeze manufacturers. The jobless rate was 4.6 per cent in December, the statistics bureau said in Tokyo today. The median forecast of 30 economists surveyed by Bloomberg was for
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    • 359 4 CHANNEL NEWSASIA SINGAPORE National Development Minister Khaw Boon Wan has tasked the Council for Estate Agencies (CEA) to see how the Estate Agency Work Regulations can be “further refined”. The regulations prohibit dual representation by salespersons, and prohibit estate agents and
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    • 318 4 CHANNEL NEWSASIA SINGAPORE Two Master of Business Administration (MBA) programmes here have been ranked among the world’s top 35 by the Financial Times (FT). The National University of Singapore (NUS) Business School’s MBA programme retained its place at 23rd for the second
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    • 561 6  -  LIN YANQIN yanqinl@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The Singapore People’s Party (SPP) saga took another twist yesterday, after a former member who was among those who quit the Central Executive Committee (CEC) in a huff claimed that the re-election of the
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    • 343 6 BLOOMBERG SINGAPORE A man and his father have filed a civil suit against Credit Suisse Group AG’s private banking unit Clariden Leu for inducing the then-teenager to make risky trades in futures contracts. And they want the bank to be
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    • 285 8 AP GAINESVILLE (Florida) A long line of cars and trucks collided one after another early on Sunday on a dark Florida highway so shrouded in haze and smoke that drivers were instantly blinded. At least 10 people were killed. When
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    • 376 8 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH LONDON It is a cliche almost as old as the motor car itself, and the subject of many a sexist joke. But the idea that women cannot park is untrue, according to research indi­cating that women drivers are
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  • COMMENT&ANALYSIS
    • 1111 10  -  Which one the advanced countries choose to believe will determine our collective future RAGHURAM RAJAN Raghuram Rajan is Professor of Finance at the Booth School of Business, University of Chicago, and the author of Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy. PROJECT
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    • 1159 12  -  DAVID CARR David Carr is a New York Times columnist. THE NEW YORK TIMES As American business has become more and more media savvy, its leaders have appeared in media less and less often. Business reporters have to work their way past conversations on background with
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    • 1124 14  -  CHRISTIAN LOWE Christian Lowe is a journalist with Reuters. REUTERS Behind Libya’s flare-up of violence and protests in the past five days lies a quandary. How do you share out power in the new Libya when the jumble of tribes, militias and interest groups do not
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  • VOICES
    • 412 16  -  Debutante ball shows how much the country has changed after only one generation Letter from William L Zhang I READ with interest the report “Little princesses stepping out” (Today on Sunday, Jan 22), about China’s first-ever debutante ball. What a
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    • 411 16  -  Letter from Noel Chia Kok Hwee I REFER to “New definition of autism excludes many: Study” (Jan 21). Narrowing the definition does not solve the rising prevalence of autism, which is a syndrome with co-morbid subtypes and varying degrees of severity. The symptoms used to
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    • 249 17  -  Letter from Tan Kin Lian MR PAUL Chan said in his letter “Park funds in the right car park” (Jan 25) that “residents would prefer to use an open car park, where it is cheaper, more convenient and vehicles are
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    • 209 17  -  Letter from Helen Lim Director, Media Relations and Public Education, Land Transport Authority WE REFER to Mr Andrew Chua’s letter “Controlled right turns at all junctions?” (Jan 20). Our traffic light junctions generally allow motorists to make a right turn if there is
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    • 194 17  -  Letter from P Sumathi THE Housing and Development Board has been building a number of Build-to-Order projects in Yishun since 2008. However, Yishun MRT station is unable to cater to this population increase. The new units are nearer to Khatib station but are connected by
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 146 18 SINGAPORE Some 15,000 new jobs are expected to be created over the next three years as Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) implement their upgrading projects with support from SPRING Singapore. Last year, SPRING committed S$98 million to support more than 3,900 SMEs
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    • 105 18 CHANNEL NEWSASIA Electronic Road Pricing (ERP) rates at three gantries will be revised from Feb 6. The ERP charge at the CTE gantry north of Braddell Road will be cut by S$1 between 7am and 7.30am. The revised rate will be
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    • 250 18  -  S RAMESH rameshs@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Apart from price, service buyers have been urged by a tripartite committee to consider other factors which could improve the quality of service provided before awarding a contract. For example, service buyers could encourage their service providers to invest
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    • 206 18 SINGAPORE The Ministry of Manpower (MOM) arrested 1,101 foreigners for having invalid work passes last year or a 6-per-cent increase from 2010. The number of employers prosecuted for illegal employment or deployment offences, meanwhile, decreased from 108 in 2010, to 68 last year.
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    • 409 19  -  TEO XUANWEI xuanwei@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE If a business is unsustainable, does it necessarily mean its owners intended to defraud its investors? This, in essence, is what Sunshine Empire founder James Phang Wah’s lawyers want the Court of Appeal to clarify in questioning
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    • 302 19  -  ALVINA SOH SINGAPORE In what is believed to be Singapore’s first case of consensual incest, a 25-year-old woman was yesterday placed on probation for one year for having sex with her father. The woman, now living with her maternal
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  • WORLD
    • 289 20 REUTERS TOKYO Japan’s population is expected to decline by 30 per cent to below 90 million people by 2060, with two out of every five people aged 65 or older, a government agency said, underlining the financial burden on one of the world’s
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    • 285 20 BLOOMBERG BEIJING A southern Chinese city contained a toxic metal spill that threatened water supplies for 1.5 million people and contaminated a tributary feeding river that runs to Hong Kong and Macau. Crews in the city of Liuzhou used ships to spread canvas across the Longjiang
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    • 159 20 AGENCIES China will boost police forces in its western Xinjiang region, state media said yesterday, in an effort to tackle unsanctioned religious activities in the region which has been beset by ethnic strife and sometimes violent unrest. The authorities will recruit 8,000 new
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    • 301 21 BLOOMBERG MANILA The Philippines is set to sign a five-year agreement with Italy to facilitate the purchase of military hardware that may include fighter planes, long-range patrol aircraft and radar to monitor coastal areas. Philippine Defence Secretary Voltaire Gazmin will sign the
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    • 205 21 REUTERS BEIJING China’s Embassy in Sudan said all 29 Chinese workers kidnapped by rebels in the border state of South Kordofan remained in rebel hands, the state-run Xinhua News Agency said yesterday, despite a Sudanese report that 14 of them had been
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    • 167 21 AGENCIES KUALA LUMPUR An average of 150 vehicles are stolen each day in Malaysia, police said, with Proton and Perodua models topping the list. Federal Criminal Investigation Department chief Mohd Bakri Zinin told reporters yesterday that a high demand for car parts is fuelling
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    • 236 22 AP POMPANO BEACH (Florida) Mr Newt Gingrich slammed Republican rival Mitt Romney on Sunday for a steady stream of attacks, as he tried to cut into the resurgent front-runner’s lead in Florida in the dwindling hours before today’s pivotal presidential primary. And
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    • 373 22 AP KINGSTON (Ontario) A jury on Sunday found three members of an Afghan family guilty of killing three teenaged sisters and another woman in what the judge described as “cold-blood-ed, shameful murders” resulting from a “twisted concept of honour”, ending a case that
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    • 259 24 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH KABUL Afghan President Hamid Karzai plans to hold talks in Saudi Arabia between his government and the Taliban, opening another channel to the insurgents, according to reports. The meeting between Afghan government officials and the insurgent movement will
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    • 438 24 THE NEW YORK TIMES BAGHDAD A month after the last United States troops left Iraq, the State Department is operating a small fleet of surveillance drones here to help protect its embassy, consulates and US personnel. Senior Iraqi officials have, however, expressed outrage
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    • 134 24 AP The Israeli military says a drone that can fly as far as Iran has crashed in central Israel on a routine experimental flight. The military says there were no injuries in Sunday’s crash, and it was investigating the incident. The Heron
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    • 265 24 THE NEW YORK TIMES CAIRO Egypt’s military rulers have asked a panel of advisers for suggestions about handing over power to civilians earlier than the scheduled deadline at the end of June, state news media reported on Sunday. Whether the request signals an
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    • 238 25 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH LONDON More men in Britain went under the knife for cosmetic surgery last year, with male demand for “tummy tucks” showing the biggest annual increase across the board, according to annual statistics from the British Association
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    • 382 25 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH LONDON Around 1.2 million children in Britain have looked at violent or pornographic websites on their mobile telephones, according to a study that reveals the extent to which parents struggle to monitor their offspring’s activity online. Children as young as eight
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    • 121 25 BLOOMBERG Former UBS trader Kweku Adoboli, who is accused of causing the largest loss from unauthorised trading in British history, pleaded not guilty to fraud and false accounting at a hearing in London yesterday. A trial that may last as long as eight weeks
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  • BUSINESS
    • 355 26  -  VENUS HEW venushewyl@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Another sign has emerged to suggest that the private home market has peaked, with the monthly Singapore Residential Property Index (SRPI) published by the National University of Singapore (NUS) falling 0.8 per cent last month from November as the transaction
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    • 225 26  -  LINETTE LIM SINGAPORE With the global economy weakening and the euro zone debt crisis yet to be resolved, bankers feel the risk of a banking crisis is increasing. According to a survey by the Centre for the Study of Financial Innovation (CSFI) and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), Singapore’s
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    • 95 26 Clients of the Singapore arm of collapsed brokerage MF Global will have to wait a little longer to get their money back. The provisional liquidators’ application to the High Court to return US$350 million (S$453 million) to clients was heard in chambers yesterday, MF Global
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    • 73 26 AGENCIES Singapore commodity trader Olam International said yesterday it is partnering Russian Dairy Company (Rusmolco) to jointly invest US$400 million (S$503.8 million) in Russia over the next four to five years. Olam will invest up to US$75 million for a 75-per-cent stake in Rusmolco, which
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    • 470 27 THE NEW YORK TIMES AFTERNOON LATEST HONG KONG The appeals panel of the World Trade Organisation ruled yesterday that China must dismantle its system of export taxes and quotas for nine widelyused industrial materials. The legal setback for Beijing could set a precedent
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      57 27 MONDAY CLOSE 12,653.70 (-0.05%) Friday 12,660.50 q 0.58% Thursday 12,734.60 q 0.18% Wednesday 12,757.00 p 0.64% Tuesday 12,675.75 q 0.26% NYSE TOP 5 BY VOLUME NAME VOL PRICE CHANGE Bank of America 229.3m $7.07 q 3.02% Ford 57.0m $12.29 p~0.66% Renren Inc 54.0m $6.31 p~20.19% Nokia 45.1m $5.05 q
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    • 14 27 È FTSE100 5,671.09 H DAX È È DAX 6,444.45 (-1.60%) CAC40 3,265.64 (-1.60%)
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    • 11 27 US$1 s$1.251 US$1 £0.637 US$1 €0.761 US$1 ¥76.369 US$1 A$0.945
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    • 76 27 Late rally saves the day Stocks edged lower on stalled Greek debt talks, but an afternoon rally cut losses in a sign of the underlying resilience the market has shown early in the year. “The action that we’ve seen today is very similar to what we’ve seen throughout
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    • 57 27 Brent, US crude stumble Oil prices fell as stalled negotiations on a deal to restructure Greece’s debt revived concerns about the economy while the risk that Iran might quickly halt crude exports to Europe limited losses. Brent March crude fell 71 US cents to US$110.75 a barrel, while US
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    • 163 28 REUTERS SHANGHAI China intends to establish Shanghai as the global centre for yuan trading, clearing and pricing by 2015 as part of broader plans to make the commercial hub an international financial centre by 2020. The plan, which was published jointly by
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    • 223 28 BLOOMBERG KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia will further liberalise its domestic capital markets from today, relaxing rules on interest-rate derivatives, debt and foreign-exchange trading. Banks licensed in the country will be allowed to trade foreign currencies against one another with Malaysians, the central bank said yesterday. They
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    • 154 28 DOW JONES SHANGHAI Growth in China’s outstanding property loans slowed last year, according to central bank data issued yesterday, in another sign of cooling in the real-estate market as the government’s two-year tightening campaign continues. The value of China’s outstanding property loans at the
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  • DIGITAL
    • 347 29 THE NEW YORK TIMES NEW YORK Research has long backed the therapeutic value of diary-keeping for teenaged girls and boys. But according to a new study, entitled The Therapeutic Value of Adolescents’ Blogging About SocialEmotional Difficulties, when teenagers detail their
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    • 812 29 Social networking site’s IPO may be announced this week; its worth could match McDonald’s AP THE DAILY TELEGRAPH SAN FRANCISCO When Facebook makes its long-expected debut as a public company this spring, the social-networking giant will likely vault into the
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  • SPORTS
    • 805 30  -  Now part of the Johor FA team, former Lions star points finger at FAS, and candidly talks about wife Wendy’s illness DAN GUEN CHIN deputy sports editor danguenchin@mediacorp.com.sg JOHOR BARU He will turn 50 on May 29, but the boyish
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    • 615 31 After ceding to Federer and Nadal for so long, the Serb is clearly the king of tennis today AP MELBOURNE Novak Djokovic dispensed with the band and the raucous dressing room celebrations. After the longest final in a Grand Slam, it was only fitting
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    • 223 31 REUTERS MIAMI In a possible dress rehearsal to the Eastern Conference final, LeBron James scored 35 points as the Miami Heat beat the Chicago Bulls 97-93 in a thrilling clash between two of the top teams in the NBA on Sunday. Chicago’s Derrick Rose, the league’s
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    • 300 31 AP ABU DHABI Tiger Woods (picture) may not have got off to a fairy tale start by winning the season’s first big golf tournament, but he chose to look for the silver lining after his third-place finish at the Abu
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    • 491 32 Dutchman accused of elbowing Cuellar in Gunners’ impressive fight back AGENCIES FA CUP, FOURTH ROUND Arsenal 3 Aston Villa 2 LONDON Aston Villa manager Alex McLeish (picture) has accused Robin van Persie of using an elbow against Carlos Cuellar in their FA Cup fourth-round
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    • 269 32 THE GUARDIAN GABON Zambia beat already-qualified Equatorial Guinea 1-0 in the Africa Cup of Nations on Sunday (yesterday morning, Singapore time) to finish top of Group A and joined the co-hosts in the quarter-finals. Christopher Katongo scored the winning goal in the 67th minute
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    • 295 32  -  PHILIP GOH philipgoh@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Amanda Tan (picture), 12, shot an opening round 76 at the Tanah Merah Country Club yesterday to steal a march on her older rivals in the chase for the one coveted host country spot in next month’s US$1.4 million (S$1.75 million)
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    • 551 33 Ex-Liverpool striker flies to London for talks; Pienaar, Bassong angling for move THE GUARDIAN AFTERNOON LATEST LONDON Former Liverpool striker Djibril Cisse has flown into England ahead of a potential move to Queens Park Rangers ahead of the close of the transfer window tomorrow. Cisse
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    • 154 33 AGENCIES Arsenal striker Robin van Persie will face no further action over an incident involving Aston Villa defender Carlos Cuellar during the sides’ FA Cup fourth-round match at the Emirates Stadium. Villa manager Alex McLeish called for the Football Association to take retrospective action
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    • 151 33 THE GUARDIAN Carlos Tevez may spend the rest of the season in limbo after AC Milan confirmed there was little likelihood of signing him on loan. Milan managing director Adriano Galliani said he would spend the final day of the transfer window in
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    • 238 33 AP LONDON A coroner has ruled that Wales manager Gary Speed may have killed himself accidentally. In an inquest at Warrington Coroner’s Court, coroner Nicholas Rheinberg yesterday said Speed died of hanging but that there was insufficient evidence to prove that he had
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    • 344 33 THE GUARDIAN LONDON Former Portsmouth owner Milan Mandaric paid US$145,000 (S$181,500) into a Monaco bank account to do something “special” for his then-manager, Harry Redknapp, as a “friend”, not as a bonus on Redknapp’s salary, Mandaric told a court yesterday. Giving
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    • 61 1 ARTS MUSIC MOVIES TELEVISION WINE DINE STYLE DESIGN HEALTH TECH TRAVEL CARS THE HELP BEATS GEORGE CLOONEY’S FILM AT SAG AWARDS T4 WHO WORE WHAT WORSE? T5 HEALTH LOSE WEIGHT USE YOUR BRAIN T8 JANUARY 31, 2012 A PUBLICATION OF GROWN UPS KASABIAN ARE NO LONGER THE BORED, BRASH, LOUD-MOUTHED
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      • 961 2  -  Kasabian are really excited they’ll be seeing more than Changi airport this time around CHRISTOPHER TOH christophertoh@mediacorp.com.sg WITH three No 1 albums to their name and various accolades and awards for being the best band across various categories, you’d forgive a band like Kasabian
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      • 404 3 AGENCIES HUNDREDS of mourners gathered at a Los Angeles-area church on Saturday to remember rhythm-and-blues singer Etta James, saying she overcame great personal and professional hurdles to sing “the times that she lived”. During a two-hour service that featured performances by pop stars Stevie Wonder and Christina Aguilera,
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      • 197 3 To The Edge Nic Lee, former member of Singapore Chinese rock-band Mi Lu Bing, performs new songs from his upcoming solo album. Feb 1 and 2, 7.30pm onwards, Esplanade Outdoor Theatre. Free. Euphonious Melodies Chinese singer Yin Yue performs Chinese folk songs and favourites from Teresa Teng, Zhou
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      • 746 4 The Help trumps The Artist and The Descendants for Screen Actors Guild best overall cast performance honours AP FINALLY, an awards show with some surprises and spontaneity. The Screen Actors Guild Awards featured some unexpected winners, including The Help for best overall
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      • 118 5 Emily Blunt dresses for her key demographic of radioactive Irish nuclear plant workers. Amber Heard looks like she hit the buffet table and split a few seams in this terrible Zac Posen dress. Maybe Angelina Jolie chose this incredibly boring Jenny Packham dress
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        • 168 6  - A fitting swan song THE DREAMER ETTA JAMES CHRISTOPHER TOH YOU can’t help but shed a tear when listening to the late Etta James just burst out on this album. On this, her last ever recording before she succumbed to leukaemia on Jan 20, you can tell why she’s always
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        • 150 6  - SHINY ONE I HATE THIS PLACE KEVIN MATHEWS THERE is more than meets the eye in the Singapore music scene (such as it is) than even we realise sometimes. Take I Hate This Place, for instance. It’s the solo synth project by Sean Nerney, an American twentysomething born and currently
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        • 152 6  - SUPERSONIC SIXX CHRISTOPHER TOH SINGAPORE nonet Sixx premiered this debut single at Cannes last week and truth be told, the band’s performance on this is nothing short of exquisite.The “A” side if there is such a thing nowadays is Supersonic, and it’s a tune which you can’t fault.With Aarika Lee
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      • 187 7  - A COLLECTION 1992-2012 ANTHOLOGY UNDERWORLD KEVIN MATHEWS AT the height of the ’90s British electronica scene, Underworld Karl Hyde and Rick Smith went to the top of the pile with its most famous song, Born Slippy (with its immortal line “Shouting lager, lager, lager” epitomising the hedonistic club attitude of
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        173 7  -  Relooking a classic record TINDERSTICKS BYTINDERSTICKS (1995) CHRISTOPHER TOH THE Nottingham band known as Tindersticks had already garnered a sort of cult following by the time this one, sometimes called The Second Album in order to distinguish from the band’s self-titled debut album, came out. Singer Stuart
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      • 231 7 REUTERS IT’S no secret that during Hollywood’s awards season, complex character roles often get overlooked in favour of more uplifting performances. But when Martin Scorsese saw such a slight befall his Hugo star, he was not about to slink away with his
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      • 352 7 The winners and losers at Sundance Film Festival REUTERS BEASTS Of The Southern Wild and The House I Live In won the top awards at the Sundance Film Festival on Saturday, making them likely favourites for independent movie audiences in 2012. Directed by Benh Zeitlin
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    • HEALTH
      • 641 8  -  The psychology of losing weight explained Eveline Gan eveline@mediacorp.com.sg LIKE many Singaporeans, Bryan Ho loves his bak kwa (barbecued meat). However, over the recent Chinese New Year weekend, the 31-year-old IT consultant did his best to resist the treat while his family and friends scoffed them
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      • 272 9 The HPB’s SngYan Ling and the SGH’s Henry Lew share tips on how to exorcise your inner demons and lose those kilos for good. First, deal with your inner demons Use strategies like relaxation techniques or distract yourself to break emotional eating patterns, suggested Sng.
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    • THINGS TO DO
      • 102 10 Have your say in the choice of visual arts to be displayed atthe Esplanade’s Concourse Steps from Octoberto Decemberthis year. As part of the programme for the Esplanade’s 10th anniversary, the public will be allowed to vote from four proposals on thoughtful, site-specific work
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      • 104 10 Valentine’s Special Paint It! Instead of buying flowers and chocolates for your Valentine this year, surprise them with a gift specially customised by you at painting sessions conducted at Goodman Arts Centre. Decorate trinket boxes, mugs, coin banks or even dining wares with your own design or special message. The
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      • 53 10 Singapore Chinese Opera veteran artist Christopher Choo gives an introduction to the art of Cantonese Opera before performing an excerpt from the classic piece, Romance at Locket Mountain, which is directed by Cultural Medallion winner Lou Mee Wah. Today, 7.15pm, 8.30pm and 9.45pm, The Esplanade Concourse.
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      • 57 10 Cathay Cineplex is bringing the best of awards season films back to its theatre. In case you didn’t catch this intense drama which stars Ryan Gosling and George Clooney, don’t miss the opportunity to watch it exclusively at Cineleisure Orchard. Today and tomorrow, 9.30pm, The Cathay
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      • 85 10 Catch the new documentary, Journey into the Amazing Caves showing atthe Omnitheatre. The 40-minute film follows Dr Hazel Barton and Nancy Aulenbach on an adventure as they explore unusual caves to look for important clues about the Earth’s past and micro- organisms that inhabit its
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      • UPCOMING
        • 101 10 Enjoy this family-friendly production as part of The Esplanade’s Playtime! Series. Join best friends Elly the elephant and Tree as they go on a trip through the forest. Little ones can learn their alphabet and sing and dance along as Elly and Tree share stories about
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        • 103 10 Join the Bukit Batok Orchestra as they present the pioneer concert in a series of seasonal annual concerts. Underthe baton of the founding member of the Singapore Chinese Orchestra, Mr Chew Keng How, the orchestra will be performing a repertoire of songs
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    • 320 8 Heart Valve problem? Woodlands Community Centre, Auditorium Level 2 1 Woodlands Street 81, Singapore *****6 11 February 2012, Saturday 1300- 1500hrs National Heart Centre Singapore SingHealth Free Admission Find Out: Symptoms signs of Heart Valve Disease Treatment options Post-surgery Rehabilitation How to help these patients 1300 What is Heart Valve
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    • 79 12 ON MEDIACORP DOUBLE BONUS Channel~8, ~9pm Meifeng~decides~~ to~go~ahead~with~ suing~Isabella. Wentao~suggests~ closing~down~ Xin~Yongjia~since~ there~is~much~ unhappiness. Meifeng~happily~ agrees~but~Isabella~ refuses~to~agree. Meifeng~insists~on~ going~to~court~and~ even~states~that~she~ will~divorce~Junjie~ if~he~stops~her. ~An~ angry~Shujiao~slaps~ Meifeng. TALKING POINT: THE VOTE Channel~NewsAsia, ~8.02pm A~married~teacher~was~recently~convicted~for~having~ an~affair~with~his~14~year~old~student. What~more~can~ schools~do~to~prevent~such~teacher-student~affairs? ON~STARHUB~CABLE~TV REMEMBER ME FOX~MOVIES~PREMIUM~(StarHub~TV~Ch~622), 9pm Tyler~is~a~rebellious~young~man~who~has~had~a~ strained~relationship~with~his~father~ever~since~ tragedy~separated~their~family. Tyler~doesn’t~think~ anyone~can~possibly~understand~what~he~is~going~ through, ~until~the~day~he~meets~Ally~through~an~ unusual~twist~of~fate. ~Love~was~the~last~thing~on~ his~mind,
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