Today, 16 May 2012, Afternoon Edition

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    42 1 Today MICA (P) 031/10/2011 A PUBLICATION OF NEWS HOTLINE 6822 2268 Wednesday May 16, 2012 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking AFTERNOON EDITION TODAY MICA (P) 031/10/2011 A PUBLICATION OF NEWS HOTLINE 6822 2268 Wednesday May 16, 2012 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking
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  • Article
    April new home sales up 3.9%, near 3-year high
    501 1 SINGAPORE Sales of new private homes surged last month to a near three-year high, data from the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) showed yesterday, increasing the likelihood that the Government will intervene yet again to cool the white hot market. Developers sold
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    Lock icon Uncomfortable bedfellows
    879 1 Hollande campaigned against Merkel’s austerity drive, but Germany is his first port of call as French President REUTERS BERLIN New French President Francois Hollande and German Chancellor Angela Merkel acknowledged differences yesterday over how to boost growth in recessionplagued Europe, but pledged to forge a joint approach in
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  • HOT NEWS
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      Lock icon Greece to hold new elections
      477 2 AGENCIES ATHENS Greece will hold new elections after President Karolos Papoulias failed to broker a governing coalition following an inconclusive May 6 vote, raising concern it may exit the euro and pushing it closer to bankruptcy. The currency and euro-area stocks fell. “The country is
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      Cost of living among national issues on Hougang residents’ minds
      524 3  -  CHEOW XIN YI, WOO SIAN BOON cheowxinyi@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Issues affecting all Singaporeans such as the cost of living and the influx of foreigners are weighing on the minds of Hougang residents as they prepare to head to the ballot box
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      Lock icon Shanmugam offers help to cabby’s family
      328 4  -  ASHLEY CHIA ashley@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The daughter of taxi driver Cheng Teck Hock who was killed in a high-speed crash involving a Ferrari will have her school fees taken care of should she qualify for university, while her family will receive “all necessary assistance”, including
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      Staff in video ‘no longer working at Nightingale’
      275 4  -  ALVINA SOH SINGAPORE Staff who allegedly mistreated an elderly woman resident at the Nightingale Nursing Home last year are no longer working there, said spokespersons from the home and the Health Ministry (MOH) at the end of a court appearance yesterday. Today
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      Lock icon Safety is SAF’s top priority: Defence Minister
      237 4  -  ADELINE TAN SINGAPORE As the safety time-out called over the death of a full-time national serviceman came to an end yesterday, Defence Minister Ng Eng Hen reiterated that safety is the Singapore Armed Forces’ (SAF) “top priority”. Speaking after witnessing a fleet exercise
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      Lock icon Singapore’s very own Google star ...
      586 6 Singapore’s very own Google star THE NEW YORK TIMES MOUNTAIN VIEW (California) Employees coming from fastpaced fields, already accustomed to demanding bosses and long hours, say Google pushes them to produce at a pace even faster than they could have imagined. Little wonder, then, that among the hundreds of free
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      Lock icon Half of Americans think Facebook is a passing fad: Poll before IPO
      462 6 AGENCIES NEW YORK Half of Americans think Facebook is a passing fad, according to the results of a new Associated Press-CNBC poll. And, in the run-up to the social network’s initial public offering (IPO) of stock, half of
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      Lock icon Gaga cannot perform in Indonesia
      137 8 AP JAKARTA Lady Gaga will have to cancel her sold-out show in Indonesia following protests by Islamic hardliners and conservative lawmakers, who said her sexy clothes and dance moves will corrupt young people. National police spokesman Boy Rafli Amar, responding to the pres- sure, said
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      Lock icon Hollande sworn in as France President
      422 8 AGENCIES PARIS Mr Francois Hollande (picture) was sworn in as France’s first Socialist President in 17 years in a brief ceremony yesterday ahead of a dash to Berlin to challenge German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s austerity prescription for Europe. In his inaugural speech, Mr Hollande
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      Lock icon US TOWN FINES THOSE WHO TEXT WHILE WALKING
      133 8 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH Pedestrians who write text messages on their mobile phones while walking in the street are facing a crackdown in a town in the United States. MrThomas Ripoli, the police chief in Fort Lee, New Jersey, has instructed his officers
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  • COMMENT & ANALYSIS
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      Lock icon Patent wars: The curse of innovation
      1697 10  -  Torrent of legal suits between tech firms reflects a system running amok and threatens to stifle ideas RICHARD WATERS Richard Waters heads the Financial Times’ San Francisco bureau. THE FINANCIAL TIMES LIMITED Judith Masthoff, a Dutch researcher in artificial intelligence, was a doctoral student
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      Lock icon New Africa or new hype?
      772 14  -  IOANNIS GATSIOUNIS Ioannis Gatsiounis is a Ugandabased author and journalist. THE NEW YORK TIMES Page through any Africa section in the global press and you’re likely to be introduced to tech-savvy graduates in hip offices, stock traders checking commodity prices on mobile phones (of which
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      Lock icon How mobile banking can help Asia’s poor
      794 16  -  WILLIAM PESEK Tokyo-based William Pesek won the 2010 Society of American Business Editors and Writers prize for commentary. BLOOMBERG The iPhone has become a symbol of something Steve Jobs never envisioned: Chinese sweatshops. Any of us (full disclosure: This includes me) who use
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      47 10 STORIES, LEGENDS AND MYTHS COME ALIVE AT THE SINGAPORE ARTS FESTIVAL 2012. Take your pick there is something for everyone. Over 16 days, from 18 May to 2 June Talk about sex with strangers? Turn the pages to find out just how to get into this conversation.
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  • VOICES
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      Red alert on our roads
      217 18  -  Letter from Lee Kong Ho I READ with dismay about the tragic road accident that left three dead. Sadly, I have seen more drivers beating the red light over the past few years. We often see a blitz on drink driving but not a similar
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    • Article
      Asthma classification not crux of the issue
      261 18  -  Letter from Joel Chong Zhi Quan THE crux of the problem does not lie in the Singapore Armed Forces’ (SAF) documentation of asthmatic servicemen. The issue, as Member of Parliament Lim Wee Kiak pointed out in “Mindef ‘reviewing medical procedures’” (May 15), is
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      CLARIFICATION
      167 18 It was reported in “MP calls for review of SAF medical classification system to disqualify recruits with asthma” (May 15) that MP for Tampines GRC Irene Ng had asked if asthmatics should be exempted from National Service. Ms Ng has informed Today that she did not ask this. Inthetranscriptfrom
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      Let the children be
      509 20  -  I SAY Amanda Tan Pheck Choo The writer is a former primary school teacher and a homeschooling mother. As a former teacher, I was berated by senior teachers for not using “flowery, pretentious sentences”, as described in the letter “It’s a strong foundation that counts” (May
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      Increase in ERP rates baffling
      190 20  -  Letter from Sandra Alison Jayandran I REFER to the report “ERP rates at some CTE, PIE gantries to change” (May 1), in particular, that Electronic Road Pricing rates will go up at four gantries on the southbound Central Expressway (CTE). I wonder why motorists will
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  • SINGAPORE
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      Polytechnic gets S$3m for endowment fund
      296 22  -  SHARON SEE sharonsee@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Republic Polytechnic (RP) has received a donation of S$3 million from the Ngee Ann Kongsi foundation the single largest donation received by the polytechnic since it was founded in 2002. It will use the amount to set up an endowment
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      Lock icon YOUNG FASHION DESIGNERS CLAIM AUDI AWARDS
      155 23 Winners of the Audi Star Creation competition yesterday received their cheques at the Audi Red Carpet Night, ahead of the opening of the Audi Fashion Festival today. The competition, spearheaded by the Textile and Fashion Federation and title-sponsored by Audi Singapore, identifies and grooms
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      Train disruptions caused by a combination of factors: Experts
      470 23  -  HETTY MUSFIRAH hetty@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE A panel of six experts has pieced together several scenarios that could have caused the train disruptions last December and they believe it was not a single cause, but a combination of factors, that resulted in the
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      Lock icon SPRING logos, name ‘not for endorsement’
      148 24 CHANNEL NEWSASIA SINGAPORE SPRING Singapore has taken a company to task for misusing its logo and name, as well as that of its subsidiary, SPRING SEEDS Capital. It said on Tuesday that Interesting Mart was not authorised to use the logos of SPRING and
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      Ex-property agent jailed for stamp duty fraud
      323 24  -  ALVINA SOH SINGAPORE A former property agent has been jailed 12 weeks for using fake stamp duty certificates, becoming the first person to be punished for such offences. Desmond Tan Hock Heng, 24, pleaded guilty to five charges under the Stamp Duties Act.
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      Thief’s imprisonment doubled after appeal by prosecution
      352 25  -  AMIR HUSSAIN amirhussain@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE A 27-year-old Singaporean man had his prison sentence for theft doubled to 40 months in the High Court yesterday, after the Public Prosecutor was successful in its appeal. Gwee Zhirong Freddy had stolen cash and other items from bags
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      Lock icon FIRE AT ANG MO KIO CENTRAL
      120 25 A fire gutted a shop at Ang Mo Kio Central yesterday morning, causing residents living in the four-storey block above the shop to evacuate their homes. The Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) said it received a call at 10.53am about the fire at Block
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      Builders urged to tap 3D technology
      202 25 SINGAPORE The construction industry can raise its productivity by tapping on 3D modelling technology to save time and effort, National Development Minister Khaw Boon Wan said yesterday. In a post on his blog, Mr Khaw said the Building and Construction Authority (BCA) is championing
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  • WORLD
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      Lock icon China leadership change on track
      530 26 Scandal and high-level infighting not expected to alter scheduled succession later this year THE NEW YORK TIMES BEIJING Despite the spectacular political scandal surrounding the deposed Mr Bo Xilai and swirling rumours of high-level infighting, signs are that China’s once-in-a-decade leadership change is still on
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      Lock icon PLA newspaper warns officers to toe party line
      277 26 REUTERS BEIJING China’s top military newspaper warned officers yesterday to remain the Communist Party’s “most loyal” defenders in the face of what it called Western plotting, describing recent cases of ill-discipline and corruption as a “profound warning”. The commentary in the Liberation
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      Lock icon BEIJING CRITICISES UK PRIME MINISTER’S MEETING WITH THE DALAI LAMA
      126 26 BLOOMBERG China has filed a formal diplomatic complaint with the United Kingdom after Prime Minister David Cameron met the Dalai Lama in London on Monday, saying relations between the two countries had been “seriously damaged”. At a briefing in Beijing
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      Lock icon JAPAN TO LAUNCH 4 SATELLITES, INCLUDING 1 FOR SOUTH KOREA
      190 27 AGENCIES Japan plans to launch four satellites into space this week, including a South Korean one that is its first payload for a foreign customer. Spokesman Reiichi Tanaka at Japan’s space agency said yesterday the HII-A rocket carrying the satellites
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      Lock icon South Korea pledges more aid to Myanmar
      276 27 AGENCIES YANGON South Korean President Lee Myung Bak met Myanmar President Thein Sein on Monday and pledged greater economic support while discussing ways to curtail the former South-east Asian dictatorship’s military ties with North Korea. Mr Lee is the first South Korean leader
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      Lock icon EU FORCES STRIKE SOMALI PIRATE BASE FOR FIRST TIME
      185 27 THE NEW YORK TIMES European Union forces yesterday attacked a Somali pirate base for the first time, using a combat helicopterto strafe several of the signature fibreglass skiffs that the pirates use to hijack ships. Lieutenant Commander Jacqueline Sherriff, a spokeswoman
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      Lock icon Najib interrupted at London event
      274 28 THE MALAYSIAN INSIDER KUALA LUMPUR Prime Minister Najib Razak’s scheduled meeting with Malaysians in London on Monday night took a surprising turn when he was interrupted with repeated chants of “Bersih” from several attendees as controversy continues over the April 28 Bersih rally. The event,
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      Lock icon BIG RUSH FOR ‘WWW’ LICENCE PLATES IN KL
      129 28 AGENCIES Thousands of motorists thronged the Road Transport Department (RTD) offices in Kuala Lumpur on Monday to submit last-minute applications for “WWW” licence plates. Licence plates for cars registered in the capital’s Federal Territory (Wilayah Persekutuan) begin with the letter “W”. There
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      Lock icon Group performs unsightly show outside Bersih chief’s home
      241 28 AGENCIES KUALA LUMPUR A group of 15 men, believed to be retired Malaysian soldiers, performed unsightly “exercises” yesterday morning outside Bersih chairman Ambiga Sreenevasan’s home here in protest against its rally last month. Facing away from the house, the mid-dle-aged members of
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      Lock icon Texas executed an innocent man: Study
      483 32 AGENCIES NEW YORK He shared the same name as the killer, was near the scene of the crime and the pair looked as alike as twins this was enough for the state of Texas to execute Carlos DeLuna, an innocent man, in 1989, a
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      Lock icon Ex-Murdoch editor charged
      163 32 AGENCIES LONDON Rebekah Brooks, a former chief executive of Mr Rupert Murdoch’s British newspaper arm, has been charged with perverting the course of justice by concealing material from detectives over a phone hacking scandal at one of the media mogul’s papers, British prosecutors said yesterday. “I have
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      Lock icon English manual for Al Qaeda offshoot
      301 34 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH LONDON An English language guide for Westerners seeking to join Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) has been published, with recommendations on how to cope with the hardships and dangers of life as ajihadist. The guide includes rules such as
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      Lock icon Pakistan to consider reopening NATO routes
      264 34 BLOOMBERG ISLAMABAD Pakistan’s top civilian and military leaders met yesterday amid signs that they are preparing to reopen supply routes for United Statesled forces in neighbouring Afghanistan. The routes were shut after a deadly border attack last year. Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani’s Cabinet
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      Lock icon Obama campaign calls Romney’s firm a ‘job-killing vampire’
      252 35 REUTERS WASHINGTON President Barack Obama’s campaign released a video on Monday calling Mr Mitt Romney’s private equity firm a jobkilling “vampire” that ran a steel mill into the ground, signalling a new effort to carve into Mr Romney’s image of corporate success.
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      Lock icon STUCK ON HIS IPOD
      97 35 Professional body piercer Dave Hurban, 21, is a man literally attached to his iPod. Mr Hurban, who works in a tattoo parlour in New Jersey, mapped out the four corners of the iPod on his arm and inserted four titanium studs into his skin. Once the
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      231 36 AP WASHINGTON The Obama administration adopted a landmark national strategy to fight Alzheimer’s yesterday, setting the clock ticking towards a deadline of 2025 to finally find effective ways to treat, or at least stall, the mind-destroying disease. Starting yesterday, embattled
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      137 36 REUTERS Close to one in three people in the United States may sleepwalk during their lives, according to an American study published in the journal Neurology. A survey of 16,000 adults in 15 US states found about 29 per cent said
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      340 38 AGENCIES TAMPA (Florida) Shareholders of JP Morgan gathered in their hundreds at the bank’s annual meeting yesterday to vote on whether to separate the bank’s chairman and chief executive positions, both held by Mr Jamie Dimon, five days after it disclosed a US$2 billion (S$2.5
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      126 39 REUTERS Berkshire Hathaway added new positions in automaker General Motors and media conglomerate Viacom in the first quarter and cut its stake in chipmaker Intel by 33 per cent, the conglomerate said in a quarterly holdings statement yesterday. Berkshire also boosted its
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      226 40 REUTERS HONG KONG Singapore’s United Overseas Bank, Australia’s Macquarie Group and United States-based Principal Financial Group are among suitors that have submitted bids for ING’s Asian asset management business in a deal that may be worth about US$500 million (S$628.2
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      139 40 BLOOMBERG Singapore’s retail sales grew more than economists estimated in March as consumers increased spending on food, clothing and telecommunication goods. The retail sales index climbed 9.1 per cent on-year after gaining a revised 20.1 per cent in February, the Statistics Department said
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      103 40 REUTERS Singapore Airlines (SIA) filled 68.5 percent of the space on its planes for passengers and cargo last month, lower than the 69.6 per cent in March but slightly higher than the 68 per cent a year earlier. The passenger load factor rose
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      93 40 Banyan Tree Holdings said yesterday its first-quarter net profit rose 19 per cent on-year to S$12 million mainly from a gain on bargain purchase of Banyan Tree Seychelles and lower income tax and minority interests. Revenue, however, decreased 27 per cent to S$83
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      243 41 BLOOMBERG LONDON Germany helped the euro area avoid its second recession in three years as growth in the region’s largest economy offset contractions in peripheral countries. Gross domestic product in the 17-nation euro region stagnated in the latest quarter compared with the
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      285 41 BLOOMBERG BEIJING Foreign direct investment in China fell for a sixth month in April, the longest stretch of declines since the global financial crisis, amid renewed turmoil in financial markets. Inbound investment dropped 0.7 per cent from a year earlier to US$8.4
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      191 41 REUTERS SHANGHAI China may increase the maximum amount that a foreign financial institution can invest in the country’s capital markets as part of broad reforms in the sector, the official China Securities Journal reported, citing unidentified sources. Quotas are individually capped at US$1
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      420 42 CANNES Creator, co-founder and executive chairman of Twitter and the co-founder and chief executive officer of Square Jack Dorsey (picture) has been named Cannes Lions 2012 Media Person of the Year. The Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity is the world’s largest celebration of
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      235 43 BLOOMBERG NEW YORK Eastman Kodak, the photography pioneer that filed for bankruptcy in January, is seeking expressions of interest in its digital-imaging patents by yesterday, the first step in an auction of the technology. At this stage, Kodak is only determining who
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      263 43 THE GUARDIAN HELSINKI In a desperate search for cash to tide it over until sales ramp up of new products, Nokia is stepping up its quest for royalties from rivals that it says infringe its patents in their technology. Last week, it filed cases relating
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      83 42 IV MUSEUMS I* m 9 18 MAY-24 JUNE 2012 JOINTLY PRESENTED BY NATIONAL HERITAGE BOARD MUSEUM ROUNDTABLE Back this May with f tor you s 3 mu fF?nrnrrn y* t -■i ART GARDEN 2012 Contemporary art fun for children 18 May 12 August Singapore Art Museum at 8Q ISLAND ADVENTURES
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      299 44 Today admitted into exclusive colour quality club for newspapers SINGAPORE Today has been granted membership into the prestigious International Colour Quality Club (INCQC) 2012–2014 for its excellent print quality. Each two-year membership is determined by the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA), and is
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      431 44 THE NEW YORK TIMES NEW YORK Why are television executives smiling as they prepare for their annual upfront week of presentations to advertisers, which begins in New York on Monday? Because Madison Avenue, even if it can’t always get what it
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      163 45 MediaCorp Press was also highly commended at the 2012 Pacific Area Newspaper Publishers’ Association (Panpa) Ad Awards which recognise in-house creative excellence for its themed T-section issue, The art of Sydney. The issue included stories about the city’s arts and design scene as well as
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      329 46  -  ALYWIN CHEW SINGAPORE Their introduction to skydiving came in a casting call about one-and-a-half years ago for the corporate video of iFly Singapore, which operates the world’s largest vertical wind tunnel. Since then, best friends Choo Yixuan and Kyra Poh have not looked
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      525 46  -  LionsXII title hopes effectively over after 0-0 draw with Kuala Lumpur MALAYSIAN SUPER LEAGUE Kuala Lumpur 0 LionsXII 0 SHAMIR OSMAN shamir@mediacorp.com.sg MALACCA V Sundramoorthy threw his head back and looked up at the Malacca sky, the moment the whistle was blown to signal the end of
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      139 48 AP LONDON The Premier League is planning to introduce goal-line technology during next season if football’s rule-makers sanction its use in July. League chief executive Richard Scudamore says: “When we are ready to go, we can go with it.” The options are Hawk-Eye,
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      246 48 REUTERS AFTERNOON LATEST TORONTO Chicago Bulls guard Derrick Rose could be out of action for an entire year while he recovers from surgery to repair a torn anterior cruciate ligament, according to the doctor who performed the procedure yesterday. Rose, a three-time All-Star
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      93 48 REUTERS Novak Djokovic was back on top form as he brushed aside rising Australian talent Bernard Tomic 6-3 6-3 to reach the third round of the Rome Masters yesterday. While Andy Murray narrowly avoided defeat on his 25th birthday and there were
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      266 50 THE GUARDIAN LIVERPOOL Kenny Dalglish is waiting to discover whether his second Liverpool reign is over having failed to receive assurances over his future from Fenway Sports Group during face-to-face talks in Boston. Dalglish arrived back in England yesterday morning following a meeting with the
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      421 50 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH AFTERNOON LATEST MANCHESTER Rio Ferdinand has been left out of the England squad for the finals of Euro 2012 and is expected to retire from international football. When asked yesterday night, after Manchester United’s friendly in Belfast, whether he had been omitted
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        51 10 Steve Poltz Live! Known for co-writing You Were Meant For Me with Jewel, Steve Poltz will be performing in a one-night only gig at the Esplanade Recital Studio. Do not miss the chance to catch the Canadianborn, California-based singer-songwriter’s acoustic, country-soaked melodies. Today, 7.30pm, Esplanade Recital Studio. Tickets: S$38 from
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