Today, 23 March 2012, Afternoon Edition

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  • 42 1 Today MICA (P) 031/10/2011 A PUBLICATION OF NEWS HOTLINE 6822 2268 Friday March 23, 2012 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking AFTERNOON EDITION TODAY MICA (P) 031/10/2011 A PUBLICATION OF NEWS HOTLINE 6822 2268 Friday March 23, 2012 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking
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  • 363 2 Bloodstream also showed traces of marijuana and anti-depressants AP AFTERNOON LATEST LOS ANGELES Whitney Houston died from drowning in a hotel bathtub, but coroner’s officials said this morning that heart disease and chronic cocaine use were contributing factors to the singer’s death.
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  • 526 2  -  Committee studying university sector unveils its plans at dialogue session TAN WEIZHEN weizhen@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE As the Government looks for ways to create more degree opportunities for Singaporeans, the Singapore Institute of Technology (SIT) may be further developed as an institution, Minister of State for Education
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  • 297 2 AP WASHINGTON There is still not enough spending and investment to sustain the economic recovery, United States Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke yesterday. Mr Bernanke said consumer demand remains weak relative to its level before the Great Recession. He noted that other contributors
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  • 119 2 AGENCIES WASHINGTON United States Army Staff Sergeant Robert Bales will be charged on Friday with 17 counts of murder and various other charges, including attempted murder, in connection with the March 11 shooting deaths of Afghan civilians, a senior US official said yesterday. He is
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  • 655 3 SINGAPORE One is a woman who lost her sight at the age of eight but went on to be a professional counsellor to help others. The second is a tireless social activist who dedicates her time to providing assistance and emotional support to migrant workers
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  • 542 4 AP PARIS An Islamic extremist who boasted of killing seven people to strike back at France died yesterday after he was shot in the head by police. French prosecutor Francois Molins said Mohamed Merah, a 23-year-old Frenchman of Algerian origin, filmed all three
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  • 435 4 AGENCIES TOULOUSE For Mohamed Merah (picture) the road to radicalisation ran from Toulouse to Kandahar, Afghanistan. Merah, 24, told negotiators that he was affiliated with Al Qaeda and said he wanted to avenge Palestinian children killed in the Middle East. A French
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  • 287 4 REUTERS PARIS The first opinion poll since a gunman shot dead four people at a Jewish school on Monday showed French President Nicolas Sarkozy would narrowly beat his Socialist challenger in the first round of a presidential election next month. Mr Sarkozy and
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  • 530 6  -  ESTHER NG estherng@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Building rock caverns under reservoirs to capture storm water could be a possible solution to flooding and water shortage issues in Singapore. Such caverns would also reduce the energy spent on desalination, said National University of Singapore (NUS) adjunct professor
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  • 195 8 REUTERS SINGAPORE Mr Michael Bloomberg’s (picture) charitable foundation will commit US$220 million (S$278 million) over the next four years to fight tobacco use, including for the funding of legal challenges against the industry. Calling tobacco “a scourge all over the world” and accusing cigarette
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  • 503 8 AP BERLIN Greece’s international creditors see “significant risks” that the country might fail to bring down its debt burden within targets, meaning it would require more rescue loans. In a report, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the European Commission and the
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  • 517 8 THE NEW YORK TIMES HONG KONG China’s leaders have begun actively supporting populist Leung Chun Ying (picture) to become the next Chief Executive of Hong Kong in elections to be held this Sunday, local politicians and political analysts said on Wednesday.
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  • 425 10 Many countries important to the US will experience water problems shortages, poor water quality or floods that will risk instability. North Africa, the Middle East and South Asia will face major challenges coping with water problems. BLOOMBERG WASHINGTON Competition for increasingly-scarce water in
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  • 656 10 AP MANILA Concealed by the night sky, the two ageing Philippine air force planes unleashed a surprise high-tech weapon: United Statesmade satellite-guided bombs that whizzed down with deadly precision towards a long-elusive terrorist suspect and two other
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    • 42 10 The Aedes mosquito can breed in stagnant water no larger than the size of a 20-cent coin. Continue to do the 5-step Mozzie Wipeout everyday. Protect your loved ones from the pain and suffering of dengue. IT’S YOUR LIFE. IT’S YOUR FIGHT.
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  • COMMENT & ANALYSIS
    • 1094 12  -  Technology seduces us into thinking that migration is painless. Ads from Skype suggest ‘free video calling makes it easy to be together, even when you’re not’. The comforting illusion of connection offered by technology makes moving seem less consequential, since one is always a mouse
      THE NEW YORK TIMES; ART BY YEN YOK  -  1,094 words
    • 957 14  -  Post-Mao, China has instead built a meritocratic collective leadership that rules by consensus. That consensus is forged within the ninemember Standing Committee, which stands at the apex of the system, and the 25-member Politburo of which Mr Bo Xilai is still a member. DAVID
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    • 793 19  -  NICHOLAS D KRISTOF Nicholas D Kristofis a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner. THE NEW YORK TIMES Conservatives may not like liberals, but they seem to understand them. In contrast, many liberals find conservative voters not just wrong but also bewildering. One academic study asked 2,000 Americans to
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    • 42 12 The Aedes mosquito can breed in stagnant water no larger than the size of a 20-cent coin. Continue to do the 5-step Mozzie Wipeout everyday. Protect your loved ones from the pain and suffering of dengue. IT’S YOUR LIFE. IT’S YOUR FIGHT.
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    • 810 17  -  For The Master Craftsman LESZEK BALCEROWICZ Leszek Balcerowicz, Poland’s former Finance Minister, is currently Professor of Economics at the Warsaw School of Economics. PROJECTSYNDICATE The seemingly never-ending debate over the euro zone’s fiscal problems has focused excessively on official bailouts, in particular the proposed purchase of government
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    • 1099 16  -  Are they just propaganda and training tools for the military? ALEX RAYNER Alex Rayner is a magazine editor and writer. THE GUARDIAN It’s Monday night, the children are in bed, and I am trying to kill Osama bin Laden. I stalk through his Abbottabad compound
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  • VOICES
    • 367 20  -  Letter from Ng Ya Ken THE Government does not want younger Singaporeans to be saddled with tax burdens, even though more expenses are being incurred to help the aged and the needy, as reported in “Looking out for the young and
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    • 357 20  -  Letter from Wong Kam Wah THE role of the Central Provident Fund (CPF) in its members’ life savings is very important. To me, it is a retirement safety net. After self managing my stocks under the CPF Investment Scheme for nearly
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    • 387 20  -  I SAY Tang Li The writer runs a business consultancy. The commentary “Why bilinguals are smarter” (March 19) raised a smile. Bilingualism has been something of a national obsession for as long as I remember, and I cannot help but think each time of how
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    • 513 22  -  I SAY Kelvin Chan Hau Kong The writer is a father to a newborn. The efforts of the nonprofit Singapore Cord Blood Bank reporte d in “More cord blood donors needed” (March 16), are commendable. Nevertheless, getting more donors is an uphill task for
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    • 86 22  -  Letter from Tan Chi Wei SOMETIMES, I wonder why we built part of the Mass Rapid Transit system above ground in land-scarce Singapore. The land directly below the tracks stretching between Queenstown and Boon Lay stations is an example of not optimising land usage.
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    • 319 22  -  Letter from Paul Chan Poh Hoi I DISAGREE with Mr Edmund Pooh, in his letter “FDW employers have too much ‘power’” (March 10), that we must be more competitive as a destination country by giving maids the liberal option of choosing their ideal employer.
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    • 249 22  -  Letter from Tony Lim Kheng Yee BY MAKING a weekly day off for maids mandatory, the authorities have stirred an interesting debate on an issue that touches on many lives. Both the proponents and opponents of this legislation have articulated valid points. Although
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    • 69 22  -  Letter from Noor Mohamed Mumtaz Shah THERE has been much talk about days off for foreign domestic workers. However, what I want to know is whether their work permit allows them to drive their employer’s car for daily duties, such as sending children to
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    • 197 24  -  Letter from Tai Ji Choong Environment Health Department, National Environment Agency WE REFER to the letter “How effective will extended smoking ban be?” (March 8) welcoming the extension of the smoking prohibition to more public places. There has understandably been strong support from non-smokers for
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    • 400 24  -  I SAY Michael Ang The writer is a former Channel NewsAsia journalist who covered local football for several years. Through Vision 2030, the national blueprint for sports development, Singapore wants to transform itself into a sporting nation. However, it is a shame that the sport
      REUTERS  -  400 words
    • 117 24  -  Letter from Marcus Tan THE International Football Association Board (IFAB) recently announced its in-principle approval to implement goal-line technology at the next FIFA Club World Cup. To get the world’s attention on Singapore football, the Football Association of Singapore should seek approval from IFAB
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    • 183 24  -  Letter from John Ng HAVING read the letter “Thank you, SCDF” (March 14), I am prompted to thank two young, off-duty Singapore Civil Defence Force officers who called for an ambulance, and to Cik Ainon of Circuit Road, who came to my aid a
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    • 126 24  -  Letter from William Chien Juay Pin MORE often than not, we are generous with our complaints but stingy with our praises. We should place equal importance on the good and the bad. So I now commend the work ethic and passion of Singapore General Hospital’s medical staff.
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    • 126 24  -  Letter from Cheong Weng Kit I COMPLIMENT the National Library Board for being truly customer-responsive. I was at Bishan Library to borrow some books last week and, in the last six months, I have noticed small but significant, customerfocused changes. First, the new borrowing stations scanned
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 368 26  -  North West CDC starts new programme as demand for training goes up LIN YING linying@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Close to 800 job vacancies were available at a career fair at Nee Soon South Community Club yesterday, offering jobs in the retail, hospitality, food and beverage, manufacturing and
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    • 204 26 FREE WALKING TOURS TO MARK INTERNATIONALTOURIST GUIDE DAY To mark International Tourist Guide Day, complimentary guided walking tours will be offered to the public tomorrow, courtesy of the Society of Tour Guides (STG). The three tours are themed “Butterflies in Orchard Road”, “Dhoby Ghaut Past and Present” and “Clemenceau Avenue
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    • 263 28 SINGAPORE To meet the blood needs of patients, the Singapore Red Cross (SRC) and the Health Sciences Authority (HSA) are calling on all blood donors, especially type ‘O’ blood donors, to come forward to donate this weekend. As of yesterday,
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    • 356 28  -  VIMITA MOHANDAS SINGAPORE Some 200 officers from the Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority of Singapore (AVA) took part in a bird flu exercise yesterday morning to test Singapore’s readiness when dealing with a bird flu outbreak. Called “Exercise Gallus 6”, officers stationed at
      PHOTOS BY OOI BOON KEONG  -  356 words
    • 207 30 CHANNEL NEWSASIA SINGAPORE The Republic has emerged as the most prolific publisher of research articles in the Asia-Pacific, according to a report by the Nature Publishing Group. Singapore also maintained its fifth-place ranking after Japan, China, Australia and Korea in the
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    • 312 30  -  If diabetes is eliminated, Assoc Prof Tai felt that 25 to 45 per cent of chronic kidney diseases could be avoided. Diabetes also causes complications like heart attack, stroke, eye and limb problems, among others. AMANDA LEE leeguiping@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Chronic kidney diseases
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    • 189 30 A 22-year-old woman believed to be involved in at least two cases of online cheating has been arrested by the police. A police spokesperson said a report had been made on March 3 alleging that the victim had been cheated during an online
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  • WORLD
    • 440 32 AGENCIES SEOUL South Korean President Lee Myung Bak is seeking to extend the range of the country’s ballistic missiles in response to possible nuclear and missile attacks from North Korea, a presidential spokeswoman said. Mr Lee told reporters on Wednesday that the government
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    • 57 32 Onlookers gathering yesterday as firefighters tried to put out a fire that swept through the Hatibagan market, one of the oldest in the eastern Indian city of Kolkata. Hundreds of shops were destroyed but no casualties were reported. Local officials said they are investigating
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    • 190 32 AP SYDNEY Australia’s most wanted man, who eluded officials for seven years by hiding in dense forests, was captured yesterday and charged with murder, ending a frustrating and at times violent hunt, the police said. Malcolm Naden (picture) was heavily bearded, barefoot and
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    • 284 32 AGENCIES WELLINGTON The founder of the online file-sharing site Megaupload.com was yesterday granted a NZ$60,000 (S$61,300) a month living allowance as he awaits an extradition bid by the United States government. The High Court in Auckland also gave Kim Dotcom and
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    • 178 36 AP HANOI China is holding 21 Vietnamese fishermen on a disputed island in the South China Sea, according to Vietnamese officials. Chinese forces intercepted two fishing boats on March 3 near the Paracel islands, said an official from Vietnam’s central Quang Ngai province, where the
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    • 467 36 AP YANGON Now that Myanmar is opening to the outside world, good luck getting a hotel room. Travellers and eager investors are pouring in to explore one of Asia’s most untouched countries, filling hotels to capacity, doubling room rates and
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    • 136 39 AP McDonald’s said on Wednesday that CEO Jim Skinner will retire on June 30 after 41 years with the company and seven years at its helm. Mr Skinner, 67, will be succeeded by the company’s president, Mr Donald Thompson, a
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    • 259 39 AGENCIES WASHINGTON The United States said on Wednesday that it appears to be on track to sign a strategic partnership agreement with Afghanistan charting their future relations during or before a North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) summit in late May. US
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    • 221 39 AP TEHRAN Tehran will retaliate against any attack by Israeli or American forces “on the same level”, Iran’s top leader warned in a defiant address on Tuesday just moments after United States President Barack Obama appealed directly to the Iranian people with a message
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    • 150 39 AP The United States has helped five nations completely clear out their stocks of highly enriched uranium since President Barack Obama outlined his plans for securing all wea-pons-usable materials worldwide, officials said, citing it as progress in the administration’s efforts to
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    • 165 40 REUTERS HUIXTEPEC (Mexico) Dozens of families cleared rubble from their destroyed homes in south-western Mexico on Wednesday following a major 7.4-magnitude earthquake that caused landslides, knocked down school walls and cracked a church tower. At least 100 houses collapsed and 1,000 were
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    • 390 40 AP BAMAKO (Mali) Soldiers stormed state television and announced early yesterday that they had seized control of the country, dissolving all of its institutions due to the nation’s mishandling of an insurgency in the north. On national television, a group of about 20
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    • 273 40 AGENCIES NEW YORK The director of a video calling for the arrest of fugitive Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony suffered from a brief episode of reactive psychosis when he was hospitalised last week in California, the filmmaker’s wife said on Wednesday, the same
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    • 241 42 AGENCIES NEW YORK The parents of a black teenager shot dead by a Hispanic neighbourhood watch captain in Florida told hundreds of people at a march in his memory on Wednesday that they will not stop until they get
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    • 331 42 AP CLINTONVILLE (Wisconsin) Sleepless families in this small Wisconsin town longed for quiet on Wednesday after mysterious booming noises over the past few nights roused them from their beds and sent them into the street sometimes still in pyjamas. The strange disturbance sounds like distant
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    • 267 44 BLOOMBERG WASHINGTON The probability of a woman getting married by age 25 dropped to less than half as more Americans are opting to cohabit with their romantic partners rather than tie the knot, a United States government study has shown. The proportion of women
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    • 322 44 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH LONDON Heart attacks could be predicted up to a fortnight in advance by testing for high levels of “warning cells” in a patient’s blood, scientists in the United States claim. The study, conducted by non-profit healthcare system Scripps Health in San
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    • 113 44 A man taking a photo of a figurine on display at the Tokyo International Anime Fair 2012 yesterday. The fair, the world’s largest animation exposition, returned after last year’s event was cancelled in the wake of the devastating earthquake and tsunami on March 11. Japan’s animation
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    • 309 44 REUTERS BOSTON Women who drink up to seven glasses of wine or beer a week are about 20 per cent less likely to suffer a stroke than teetotallers, according to a study in the United States that covered thousands of
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    • 206 44 REUTERS NEW YORK Children who were born prematurely may lag behind their peers when it comes to more advanced language skills, according to an international study that involved more than 2,000 children. The researchers, whose findings were reported in Pediatrics, found that, in general,
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      54 46 THURSDAY CLOSE 13,046.10 (-0.60%) Wednesday 13,124.60 q 0.35% Tuesday 13,170.20 q 0.52% Monday 13,239.10 p 0.05% Friday 13,232.60 q 0.15% NYSETOP5BYVOLUME NAME VOL PRICE CHANGE Bank of America 262.4m $19.60 q 2.24% AT&T 60.8m $31.71 q 0.41% Citigroup 51.3m $36.90 q 2.38% General Electric 50.5m $19.85 q 1.10% Ford
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    • OVERNIGHT
      • 70 46 Jittery over Europe, China Cyclical sectors led stocks lower, setting the S&P 500 up for its first negative week in six, after factory data showed a slowdown in both the euro zone and China. Investors were unnerved by the drop in new orders in both regions, which highlighted
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      • 54 46 Wednesday’s gains erased Crude futures ended almost 2 per cent lower as weak manufacturing data from China and the euro zone raised concerns that a slowdown in global growth could cut demand. US crude for May delivery settled at US$105.35 a barrel, falling US$1.92. Brent crude closed at US$123.14
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    • 419 46  -  MILLET ENRIQUEZ emelita@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Listed securities here can soon be traded in another currency other than the Singapore dollar in a dual currency arrangement, the Singapore Exchange announced yesterday in a move it said would result in greater cost efficiency to
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    • 246 46 AFTERNOON LATEST REUTERS SAN FRANCISCO Facebook has acquired hundreds of patents from International Business Machines (IBM) as the social networking company attempts to bolster its intellectual property portfolio in the wake of a lawsuit filed by Yahoo. The 750 patents from IBM cover a broad
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    • 165 46 BLOOMBERG Mr Reid Hoffman, co-founder and chairman of LinkedIn and an early investor in Facebook, plans to sell some of his shares in the world’s largest social network prior to its initial public offering this year. “I am selling a minority of
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    • 254 48 REUTERS TOKYO Japan posted a first trade surplus in five months in February, data showed yesterday, as a revival in confidence among manufacturers added to evidence the world’s thirdlargest economy was growing again, reducing the need for further monetary policy easing. Last
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    • 411 48 AGENCIES BEIJING Factory activity in China has contracted for a fifth straight month, data showed yesterday, leaving investors fretting about the risks to global growth and anticipating further policy easing by Beijing. The HSBC flash purchasing managers’ index (PMI), the earliest indicator
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    • 131 48 AP The central banks of Australia and China yesterday signed a 200-billion yuan (S$40-billion) or A$30-billion currency swap to support trade and investment between the two countries. The People’s Bank of China has signed a slew of such agreements recently to make the yuan
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    • 366 48 i w Take your pets out for an evening walk by the bay at 8 DAYS’ pet event at The Promontory Marina Bay. Also at the event are celebs, including radio deejays, who will be walking their dogs. There’ll be activities aplenty, including a search for the cutest pets. So,
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  • MARKETBUZZ
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    • 112 50 Visit the 50plus Expo 2012 for amazing discounts off electronics. Look out for daily first-come-first-served offers in which 5,000 branded items such as vacuum cleaners, microwaves, Blu- Ray players and home-theatre systems will be on sale for S$50 each. Also, expect exciting all-day programmes, games, lucky draws
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    • 179 50 Held from March 9 to March 11 at the National University of Singapore (NUS) Business School, the Startup Weekend was a great success with many participants sharing some of their best ideas. This year’s Startup Weekend was organised by a group of students from the NUS
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    • 138 50 Here’s your chance to swim with the beautiful whale sharks in the Ningaloo Marine Park in Western Australia’s Coral Coast. The whale shark is the largest species of fish in Exmouth and Coral Bay, a two-hour flight from Perth. These gentle giants of the sea grow
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  • DIGITAL
    • 173 54 Instagram and Hipstamatic are about to unveil a partnership that will allow Instagram users to import photos from Hipstamatic easily. It is the first time Instagram, a popular photo-sharing app, will be allowing users to import photos from an external source. Instagram, currently available only on the iPhone, has
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    • 491 54  -  PETER YEO peteryeo@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Businesses looking for mobile payment solutions have one more option in their hands, literally. Announced yesterday, the Swiff payment system, developed by SCCP Payment Services, provides cashless payment between individuals, merchants and banks through mobile devices such as smartphones
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    • 349 54 BLOOMBERG NEW YORK Zynga has agreed to acquire OMGPOP, adding the popular application “Draw Something” to its portfolio of games played on Facebook and Apple iPhones. Zynga will pay about US$200 million (S$253 million) for the start-up, said a person familiar with deal,
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    • 167 54 REUTERS SEOUL Apple’s new iPhone will have a sharper and bigger 4.6-inch “retina” display and is set to be launched around the second quarter, according to a South Korean media report yesterday. Sales of the iPhone, first introduced in 2007 with the touch
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  • PROPERTY
    • 532 56  -  COMMENTARY TAN CHIN KEONG property@mediacorp.com.sg Tan Chin Keong is an analyst at UBS Wealth Management Research. The prime and mass-market private housing segments in Singapore are facing starkly different fortunes. According to recent industry data, while the mass-market segment is still enjoying healthy demand and
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    • 347 56  -  While the performance of the luxury segment is likely to continue lagging that of the mass market for some time, Mr Tan believes that certain high-end projects, including premium waterfront housing, would draw healthy demand despite the cooling measures. DOW JONES SINGAPORE Property
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    • 188 57 BLOOMBERG Ascendas, which manages Singapore’s biggest industrial real estate investment trust, is preparing an initial public offering here of its hotel properties that may raise as much as US$750 million (S$950 million), said four people with knowledge of the matter. The company has hired
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    • 819 57  -  COMMENTARY COLIN TAN property@mediacorp.com.sg Colin Tan is Head, Research Consultancy, at Chesterton Suntec International. The new private home sales data for last month released last week caught many in the market by surprise, partly because the buying was more broad-based and spread across more
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    • 122 57 CHANNEL NEWSASIA Fragrance Group and Aspial Corp have jointly acquired Tai Keng Court in Upper Paya Lebar in a collective sale for S$161.1 million. Fragrance said it had incorporated a special purpose company with Aspial known as Kensington Village for the purchase.
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  • SPORTS
    • 778 62 City fans crawling out of the woodwork with recent success, and Man Utd are bristling, admits Ferdinand THE DAILY TELEGRAPH AFTERNOON LATEST MANCHESTER Rio Ferdinand says Manchester United needs to win the Premier League title this season to stop more Manchester City
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    • 204 62 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH MANCHESTER Wayne Rooney has apologised to a nine-year-old fan after he fired a stray shot into the crowd which broke the youngster’s wrist. Football fanatic Jamie Thomas was watching United for the first time on Sunday, against Wolves, when
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    • 190 62 Vice-president Galliani rues not signing City star THE DAILY TELEGRAPH MILAN Adriano Galliani, vice-president of Serie A giants AC Milan, regrets not signing Manchester City striker Carlos Tevez. Tevez came close to a move during the January transfer window, but the deal fell
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    • 100 63 Real Madrid have unveiled plans to open a branded holiday resort in the United Arab Emirates due to open in January 2015. ‘Real Madrid Resort Island’ is a US$1-billion (S$1.25-billion) venture with the RAK Marjan Island Football Investment Fund and the government
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    • 525 63 Don’t expect us to throw away our season, retorts Friedel AGENCIES LONDON Gary Cahill says Chelsea will take advantage of Tottenham’s poorly-timed slump in form by edging their bitter rivals into fourth place a call to arms laughed off by Spurs’ experienced goalkeeper
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    • 415 63 THE GUARDIAN AFTERNOON LATEST BOLTON Owen Coyle has admitted his Bolton Wanderers players are going to find it difficult to keep their minds on the game when they face Blackburn on Saturday. it will be the first time
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    • 572 64 World champion says Red Bulls still in their warm-up phase; Schumacher plays dark horse FORMULA 1 Malaysian Grand Prix AGENCIES SEPANG Sebastian Vettel tipped McLaren as the team to beat at this weekend’s Malaysian Grand Prix and the reigning Formula 1 world champion feels his
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    • 257 64 REUTERS SAO PAULO Brazil’s Congress postponed a key World Cup Bill again on Wednesday, a move that is likely to upset FIFA who say its passage is crucial to preparations for the 2014 World Cup. The Bill, which has
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    • 247 64 AP ISTANBUL The scourge of match-fixing is undermining football and the problem is getting worse, FIFA president Sepp Blatter said yesterday. Blatter, addressing the UEFA Congress here, claimed FIFA’s decision to use an “early warning system” which monitors suspicious betting patterns and alerts the
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    • 508 65  -  FAM confirm they will enhance safety measures for LionsXII and fans after ugly scenes in Kuching SHAMIR OSMAN shamir@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Their team bus was stoned, the windows were smashed and they were forced to stay in their dressing room at the Petra Jaya Stadium
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    • 117 65  -  SHAMIR OSMAN SINGAPORE The deal signed between the Football Association of Singapore (FAS) and their Malaysian counterparts (FAM) last July has already seen the LionsXII play in the Malaysian Super League and the Harimau Muda come the other way into the S-League. As part of the
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    • 210 65  -  SHAMIR OSMAN SINGAPORE Brunei DPMM rose to the top of the Great Eastern-Yeo’s S-League after coming away from the Jalan Besar Stadium with a 1-1 draw against Ong Kim Swee’s Harimau Muda last night. The hotly contested all-foreign affair saw crunching tackles on the pitch
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    • 383 65  -  PHILIP GOH SINGAPORE She jumped and grabbed the monkey bar and proceeded to swing her body, lifting her legs so that her toes touched the bar repeatedly. And she did it effortlessly. The exercise Chew Feng Yi (picture) performed was but one of a
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    • 722 66 NFL ban head coach Sean Payton for one season over New Orleans’ use of bounty system AP NEW YORK Meting out unprecedented punishment for a “crush-for-cash” bounty system that targeted key opposing players, the NFL suspended New Orleans Saints head coach Sean Payton without
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    • 385 66 THE NEW YORK TIMES ORLANDO It was a sight seen too often lately: Tiger Woods (picture) wincing in pain on the golf course. On Wednesday, during the Arnold Palmer Invitational Pro-Am, Woods was about to hit a tee shot on Bay Hill’s par-5
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  • WINE & DINE
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      649 2  -  Why are scientists always picking on red meat? Andrew Brown feature s@mediacorp.com.sg THE DAILY TELEGRAPH OH DEAR. Once again, scientists are blaming red meat for causing people to die prematurely. It was earlier reported that small quantities of processed meat such as bacon, sausages or salami can increase
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    • FOOD REVIEWS
      • 553 4  -  Inspired Japanese restaurants are quietly pulling in the crowds at Scotts Square ANNETTE TAN WHEN it comes to dining out at Scotts Square, Japanese is the order of the day. Whether traditional or contemporary, the eateries here offer a taste of Japan in its many guises from
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      • 494 4  -  Sushi Ichi claims its exception to the rule with some straightforward mouth-watering fare ANNETTE TAN OVER in Ginza, Japan, Sushi Ichi is a revered name that is almost always preceded by mention of its Michelin star. But as most seasoned restaurant-goers know, a restaurant’s Michelin star
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    • 393 5  -  World’s first age statement cognac crosses the continent DON MENDOZA IN THE hopes of attracting new consumers as well as to entice existing imbibers to learn more about the luxury spirit called cognac, not least those who may be intimidated by its complex classifications, Courvoisier took
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  • ENTERTAINMENT
    • 347 6 AP AN AUSTRALIAN pop quartet’s music really got a hold of Motown legend Smokey Robinson (picture). Motown Records’ signature vocalist loved Human Nature’s take on the legendary label’s standards so much that he signed on as the group’s official presenter and helped facilitate a lengthy run
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    • 520 6 AP NIALL Horan of British boy band One Direction was in a taxi when he learned that the group’s first album, Up All Night, debuted at the top of the latest Billboard Top 200 albums chart. So he did what any 18-year-old
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    • TODAY EXCLUSIVE
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        453 7  -  For Modern Family’s Ty Burrell, playing the funniest dad on TV is like going to the spa MAY SEAH SOME guys really have all the luck. If you believe Ty Burrell (picture), who plays the hilarious Phil Dunphy on the hit television sitcom Modern Family, that is.
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      • 355 7 REUTERS THE maker of the hit mobile game Angry Birds has struck a deal with Walmart Stores to embed clues to a new version of the game in merchandise sold in Walmart stores, hoping to lure Angry Birds fans through the doors and shoppers
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    • 1195 8  -  Despite dismal ticket sales and reviews, some Broadway musicals are hanging on for other payoffs Patrick Healy feature s@mediacorp.com.sg THE NEW YORK TIMES WHY are the musicals Sister Act, Priscilla Queen OfThe Desert and Godspell still running on Broadway? Box office sales teetered between lukewarm
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    • 110 12 Visit Fusion 2012, the Nanyang Polytechnic School of Interactive and Digital Media’s Diploma show and check out the works by finalyear students from the different courses, including Diplomas in Digital Media Design (Animation), Digital Media Design (Games), Digital Media Design (Interaction Design), Digital Entertainment
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    • 150 12 Visit this exhibition of rare Tang dynasty objects from the earliest and most important Arab shipwreck ever discovered in South-east Asia. With a cargo of some 60,000 objects including gold and silver vessels, ceramics and the earliest complete Chinese blue-and-white wares
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    • 82 12 Mixed media artist Tang Da Wu’s third chapter of his First Art Council series titled Waiting depicts the story of Joanna Van Gogh. The wife of art dealer Theo van Gogh, she was also the sister-in-law of the painterVincent van Gogh and key player in the growth of Vincent’s
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    • 71 12 Flying High Dhoby Ghaut UPCOMING In celebration of International Tourist Guide Day, the Society of Tourist Guides (Singapore) is offering one-hourtours that start from Dhoby Ghaut. Participants can find out littleknown facts aboutthe history of the Cathay Building and fascinating stories behind the Istana and Fort Canning. Tours are conducted
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