Today, 11 September 2012, Afternoon Edition

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  • 24 1 TODAY /A£DIAC0RP TUESDAY, 11 SEPTEMBER 2012 MICA (P) 093/06/2012 TODAY AFTERNOON EDITION WE SET YOU THINKING /A=diaCorp TUESDAY, 11 SEPTEMBER 2012 MICA (P) 093/06/2012
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  • 637 1  -  The authorities to ensure that penalties are commensurate with the severity of offences PARLIAMENT: TRAFFIC OFFENCES BY CYCLISTS AMIR HUSSAIN amirhussain@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The authorities are reviewing penalties for cycling offences so as to ensure that those on twowheelers who wilfully disregard road traffic laws are given
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  • 422 1 AGENCIES TOKYO The Japanese government yesterday said it had decided to nationalise a group of islands at the heart of a dispute with China, a move likely to heighten tensions between the Asian neighbours, coming only a day after Beijing specifically
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    • 112 1 DESPITE THE INCREASING USE OF THE YUAN IN WORLD TRADE, IT MAY NOT BE READY FOR INTERNATIONAL STARDOM YET COMMENT&ANALYSIS 6 o Q lo 1^ SINGAPORE MS SPOKEN. HANOI TOKYO MELBOURNE have been destined by Singaporeans to be put on sale at ZUJI from now till 16 September 2012 to
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  • hot news
    • 521 2  -  Ministry also updates internal procurement guide to ‘sensitise and guide’ officers PARLIAMENT: MND PROCUREMENT NEO CHAI CHIN chaichin@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE On top of tighter procurement measures introduced across all Government agencies last month, the Ministry of National Development now requires single-bid quotations received by its agencies
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    • 442 2  -  TAN WEIZHEN SINGAPORE After two rounds of public consultation exercises and years of fighting by advocates for consumer privacy rights, the Personal Data Protection Bill has been tabled in Parliament. The law, meant to protect personal data like NRIC and mobile phone numbers, is
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    • 554 3  -  Lack of forensic material among reasons that led court of appeal to set aside conviction SYDNEY MURDERS AMANDA LEE leeguiping@mediacorp.com. sg SINGAPORE Two bodies of evidence had raised “a reasonable doubt” over Singaporean Ram Tiwary’s murder conviction, said the New South Wales Court of Criminal
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    • 419 4  -  But double-digit growth unlikely to recur, warns financial services provider CHINA ECONOMY DAVID BOTTOMLEY Business Editor davidb@mediacorp.com.sg WITH DOW JONES NEWSWIRES SINGAPORE China’s economy is slowing but there should still be steady gross domestic product growth there next year, even though the financial headwinds
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    • 231 4 SINGAPORE Contrary to reports that have surfaced in the Philippines, Singapore has not changed its position on the various South China Sea disputes, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) said yesterday, adding that the Filipino media may be “very free with the
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    • 488 4 AGENCIES HONG KONG Election results released yesterday gave an edge to the pro-Chi-na faction in Hong Kong’s legislature after pro-democracy groups failed to capitalise on weeks of angry protest against China-linked policies. The pro-democracy parties, however, retained enough of a majority to
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    • 27 2 VIDEO KHAW BOON WAN ON BROMPTON BIKES PROBE Scan the QR code using the reader app on your smartphone, or you can visit tdy.sg/vidbike0911 for the video.
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    • 321 5 THINK YOU’RE A BETTER MANAGER THAN ROBERTO MANCINI? Every time you tune into an English Premier League match, do you find yourself questioning the team selection, formation and substitutions? Do you spend hours at the kopitiam arguing about whether Ashley Cole or Leighton Baines is England’s best left-back? Don’t just
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  • comment & analysis
    • 937 6  -  INTERNATIONAL CURRENCIES DAVID PILLING David Pilling is the Financial Times’ Asia Editor. THE FINANCIAL TIMES LIMITED The latest stop on the yuan’s whistle-stop tour to international stardom is Taiwan. From now on, Taiwanese banks will be able to clear transactions in the “redback”,
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    • 1327 8  -  IRAN ’S NUCLEAR AMBITIONS BILL KELLER Bill Keller is an op-ed columnist with The New York Times. THE NEW YORK TIMES Iran has returned to the front pages after a summer hiatus. Negotiations aimed at preventing the dreaded Persian Bomb have resumed
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    • 39 6 BRITISH COUNCIL Trust ERF Reg. No.: *****2363R ERF Validity: 17/03/2011 16/03/2015 British Council (Singapore) Thinking about teaching English? We have Teacher Training courses to suit everyone. Teacher Development Centre +65 6473 6661 contact@britishcouncil.org.sg www.britishcouncil.org.sg H Scan for more details.
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    • 38 6 Can we live with a nuclear Iran? Given a choice of raining munitions on Iran’s underground enrichment facilities, or containing a nucleararmed Iran with the sobering threat of annihilation, which is the less bad option? BILL KELLER 8
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  • voices
    • 332 12  -  FROM KWAN JIN YAO Law and Foreign Affairs Minister K Shanmugam’s proposal to introduce new norms to curb social nuisance, as reported in “Framework needed for neighbourly conduct” (Sept 1), sounds like a practical solution to anecdotal expressions of dissatisfaction. Residents are unhappy that there is
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    • 307 12  -  FROM FOO MAO CHEEN At the National Day Rally, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong raised the matter of being a gracious society. I feel that we need to ponder what being gracious means. When faced with frequent problems of noise nuisance and dripping laundry,
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    • 256 14  -  FROM JAMES POH CHING PING I refer to the report “PSLE English paper to be revised” (Sept 4). The revision, which takes effect in 2015, may give parents unnecessary stress. Yes, it is good to have a more creative approach to thinking and learning
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    • 258 14  -  FROM CHIA LAM SOON I empathise with the writer of the letter “With wider use of Mandarin, many left disadvantaged” (Sept 4). There are also Chinese Singaporeans who were in the English stream in the ’50s and ’60s and who now face the
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    • 140 14  -  FROM CORRINE NG Vice-President, Corporate and Marketing Communications, Transit Link We refer to Mr Cornelius Khoo’s letter “Outdated application process for concession cards?” (Sept 5) and thank him for the opportunity to clarify the process. The Senior Citizen Concession Card provides hassle-free concession
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    • 352 12 LETTER WEEKEND BUILDING WORK AN ISSUE FOR RESIDENTS Scan the QR code using the reader app on your smartphone, or you can visit tdy.sg/ltrwork0911 for the letter from Jansen Chong. LETTER NOT GRACIOUS TO WASTE FOOD Scan the QR code using the reader app on your smartphone, or you can
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  • singapore
    • 314 16  -  TEO XUANWEI SINGAPORE Starting Jan 1 next year, Central Provident Fund members can make top-ups to the Special Account or Retirement Account of parents-in-law and grandparents-in-law. This will be possible after Parliament passed a Bill yesterday that broadened the eligible recipients of
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    • 547 16  -  Government defends system, saying current system allows for more affordable childcare PARLIAMENT: CHILDCARE SERVICES NG JING YNG jingyng@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The Government should revamp the childcare sector and level the playing field, instead of giving anchor operators an edge with low rents, a NonConstituency Member
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    • 250 18  -  ASHLEY CHIA ashley@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE It cost the National Arts Council (NAC) more than S$750,000 for each of the six editions of the Venice Biennale that Singapore has participated in since 2001. Last year’s participation in the biennial arts show
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    • 388 18 PARLIAMENT: PENSIONS CHANNEL NEWSASIA SING A PORE Parliament yesterday passed a Bill to abolish the Parliamentary Pensions Act, a move which came after a review of ministerial salaries had recommended that the pension scheme be scrapped for office holders and
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  • education
    • 532 20 University rejects pressure to widen social mix via a ‘cruel experiment that could ruin lives’ UNIVERSITY ADMISSIONS THE DAILY TELEGRAPH C AMBRIDGE Cambridge University has stepped into the row over “social engineering” in universities by rejecting calls to admit poorer students with lower grades.
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  • china&india
    • 375 21 India’s new Finance Minister signals that he is someone willing to take tough decisions INDIA ECONOMIC REFORM REUTERS N E W D E L H I Mr P Chidambaram has a simple message for investors disillusioned by India’s policy drift: It is no
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    • 361 23 Vice-President’s droppingfrom public view last week has sent rumour mills into a frenzy CHINA POLITICS AP BEIJING Where is President-in-wait-ing Xi Jinping? Is he nursing a bad back after pulling a muscle in a pick-up football game (or maybe in the swimming pool)? Has he been
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    • 169 23 AGENCIES BEIJING China offered 20,000 yuan (S$3,900) to each of the families of the 81 people killed in the two magnitude 5.6 earthquakes in south-western China last week, the state-run Xinhua news agency reported. The Yunnan Civil Affairs Department will also
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  • world
    • 240 24 Prime Minister projected to win internal vote but likely to lose general election la ter this year JAPAN POLITICS AGENCIES TOK YO Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda is expected to defeat the three contenders he is facing in his ruling party’s leadership election later this
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    • 125 24 REUTERS The deadlock between anti-nuclear activists and advocates of atomic power deepened yesterday as the government failed to produce an expected proposal to reduce the role of nuclear power in Japan’s energy portfolio after the Fukushima disaster last year. Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda’s
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    • 369 25 AP JAK ARTA Indonesia’s anti-terror-ism forces have been busy over the past few months stopping militants who are plotting not against Westerners but the police and a government seen as barriers to creating an Islamic state. The latest case involved alleged bomb-maker
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    • 190 25 AGENCIES WA S H I N G T O N The former Navy SEAL who wrote a first-hand account of the raid that killed Osama bin Laden has given his first television interview and defended how the unarmed terrorist leader was gunned
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    • 372 26 Moderates see no prospect of victory and are prepared to negotiate but not with the incumbent Karzai government AFGHAN PEACE DEAL THE GUARDIAN KABUL Some senior Taliban figures are ready to negotiate a ceasefire and might be ready to accept a long-term United
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    • 44 26 US officials yesterday handed over formal control of a prison in Bagram, north of Kabul, to Afghan authorities. The prison houses more than 3,000 Taliban fighters and terrorism suspects. President Hamid Karzai has called the transfer a victory for Afghan sovereignty.
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    • IN BRIEF
      • 69 26 REUTERS South Korea has said that North Korea has accepted an offer of aid after devastating summer floods. It was the first time that the new leadership in Pyongyang has accepted aid from Seoul. South Korea said last week that the North’s crop
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      • 69 26 AP Iraq’s fugitive Sunni Vice-President said that the terror trial that convicted him of masterminding death squads against his rivals was illegitimate and is accusing the nation’s Shia Prime Minister of being behind it. Tariq Al Hashemi maintained his innocence yesterday at
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      • 66 26 AP Officials said that landslides and flooding caused by heavy rains have killed 29 people and left four missing in northern and central Vietnam. A disaster official said yesterday that 16 villagers from the mostly poor Hmong ethnic minority group died in a landslide
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      • 76 26 AP A Thai man has been arrested and accused of illegally raising six tigers on top of an apartment building on Bangkok’s outskirts after police busted a larger tiger-trafficking ring in the country. Police acting on a tip-off found four adult and
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    • 207 27 BLOOMBERG TOKYO Japanese Financial Services Minister Tadahiro Matsushita (picture) has died, an aide at his office said. He was 73. The police are investigating the possibility of suicide, a police spokesman said. According to a staff member at his regional office in
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    • 457 27 AP SANA A (YEMEN) An air strike killed Al Qaeda’s No 2 leader here, along with six others travelling with him in the same car yesterday, United States and Yemeni officials said, in a major breakthrough for American-backed efforts to cripple the group
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  • business
    • STOCK CALLS
      • 27 28 Readers should seek independent financial advice before making any investment decision. TODAY cannot be held liable for any consequence arising from the use of this information.
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      • 55 28 BUY(S$0.40) OCBC Investment Research keeps call, raises target to S$0.435 from S$0.41. Says the positive sentiment from new contract wins is likely to override negativity surrounding its weak results. Sentiment on China’s railway sector has also improved, potentially leading to more contracts. But financials will remain lacklustre over the
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      • 55 28 BUY (S$11.13) OCBC Investment Research keeps call, raises fair value to S$13.18, citing accretion from the acquisition of a government land site tender at Tai Thong Crescent and updated valuations of listed holdings. CDL’s top bid translates to S$793psf GFA and an estimated project-wide breakeven average selling price
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      • 62 28 BUY (S$0.345) UOB Kay Hian re-initiates coverage with S$0.45 target price. Expects Kreuz to secure US$180 million (S$223 million) of new contracts this year. Says Kreuz is able to ride on Swiber’s expansion as it has the right of first refusal to the subsea portion of Swiber’s project
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      • 76 28 NEUTRAL (S$2.58) CIMB keeps call and S$2.86 target price, saying that M1 does not appear to be trying to claw back market share, judging from the pricing of its new 4G small screen data plans, which closely mirror that of SingTel. Advocates a switch to StarHub, which offers higher
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    • 335 28 If takeover is successful, Thai firm could block Heineken’s bid for Asia Pacific Breweries ACQUISITIONS AGENCIES SINGAPORE Thai Beverage is seeking a loan of about S$9 billion to fund a possible takeover of Singapore dr inks-and-property group Fraser andNeave (F&N) in a
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    • 201 28 BLOOMBERG SINGAPORE The Republic is reviewing its interbank lending rate to determine how it can be strengthened and whether proposed alterations will withstand changes in the market structure, a government official said. The Monetary Authority of Singapore has directed banks that set
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    • 145 28 REUTERS TOKYO Japan Airlines has priced its initial public offering at the top end of the range in a sign of solid demand for the world’s second-largest IPO this year. The airline, which has emerged from its 2010 bankruptcy with a clean balance
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  • impact
    • 795 30  -  Be courageous, provocative, different, marketing guru Lindstrom tells Singapore firms BRANDING KHOO BEE KHIM khoobeekhim@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE When it comes to predicting the future of branding, marketing and all things advertising, Mr Martin Lindstrom (picture) is as close to an oracle as you can get. The
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    • 214 31 MEDIACORP AND I LOVE CHILDREN PRESENT M Purchase your tickets at /m edraco h rp.sg/enterta,ns a I FOOT OFF THE MS r FROM THE PRODUCER OF WEDOtNG C&ASHBRS 7/ KRfSTEH OAX CH&>f OWE7H AHHOLD Are you expecting your QOSEOq ®(jjj3 /oon? Or /INI undecided if you /hould /tort thot wonderful
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  • technology
    • 672 32 However, an LTE-related patent suitfrom Taiwan ’s HTC could sink Apple’s plans SMARTPHONES AGENCIES SAN FR ANCISCO Apple’s next iPhone will boast Long-Term Evolution (LTE), or 4G, capability, said sources familiar with the matter. The Wall Street Journal, citing the sources, said in its
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    • 243 33 THE GUARDIAN SAN FRANCISCO Apple is due to secure its acquisition of a company specialising in fingerprint scanning next month, days after the latest iPhone goes on sale, suggesting the technology will be used to improve security in the world’s bestselling phone.
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    • 299 33 REUTERS WASHINGTON Amazon, in an apparent switch in its pricing policy, said over the weekend that it will allow buyers of its new Kindle Fire tablets to pay US$15 (S$19) extra to turn off advertisements that are built in the devices. The
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  • sports
    • 574 34  -  Former FAS technical director warns Lions about opponents’ speed INTERNATIONAL FRIENDLY GERARD WONG Sports Editor gerard@mediacorp.com.sg S I N G A P O R E Myanmar may have failed to get past the group stages of the last three editions of the AFF Suzuki Cup
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    • 468 34  -  MALAYSIA CUP 2012: GROUP A PHILIP GOH SINGAPORE LionsXII defender Safuwan Baharudin is sporting a centi-pede-like scar along the length of his right thigh these days, no thanks to a knock he received during a friendly against Geylang United on June 30. According to team
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    • 359 36 THE GUARDIAN LONDON Roy Hodgson has added Li verpool’s Raheem Sterling, Tot­tenham Hotspur’s Jake Livermore and Southampton’s Adam Lallana to his depleted England squad for today’s World Cup qualifier against Ukraine. The manager turned to the inex­perienced trio as cover after Theo Walcott returned
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    • 278 36 AFTERNOON LATEST THE GUARDIAN LONDON It was “mindblowing”, it was “crazy”, it was “insane”. The ath­letes who brought home 185 medals and inspired hundreds of thousands of people to flood the streets of Lon­don struggled to find the words to de­scribe a celebratory
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      • 1204 38  -  REBECCA LIM MAY PLAY A JOURNALIST, BUTSHE’S NO NEWSHOUND IN REAL LIFE MAY SEAH may@mediacorp.com.sg TV star Rebecca Lim will be picking up a Dictaphone and reporting to work in a newsroom when Channel 8’s latest drama, Poetic Justice, debuts tonight. Along with Rui En and Dai
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        550 42  -  The reality game show is set to end on a high note literally SASUKE SINGAPORE MAY SEAH SINGAPORE Sasuke Singapore’s last episode tomorrow will wrap up what has been a very successful run for the show. And it’s no wonder, since it has kind of got everything you
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      • 87 44 Join in at Pesta Raya 2012 as the Esplanade celebrates the value of grace with a gamut of exciting regional and local acts. Come and discover the elegance, refinement, and beauty of Malay culture through our festival highlights. This year, Esplanade commemorates its 10th Anniversary
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      • 111 44 OUR PICK Remy Martin is searching for Singapore’s dance team to compete in the regional finals against Malaysia, India, Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam at Zirca on Jan 18, 2013, for the chance to be crowned Asia’s Best Dance Crew. The winning team walk away
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      • 116 44 Sportlifestyle brand Puma’s pop-up store in Raffles City offers the latest motorsport range and exciting activities. Presented by Puma an official team partner of the Mercedes AMG Petronas Formula One Team, and Scuderia Ferrari the Puma Motorsport Red Cube will showcase an eye-catching new collection of
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      • 62 44 This exhibition tells the way artistic forms from central Islamic lands were alteredby regional traditions. Religious articles like Qurans, calligraphy and tomb markers willbe displayed alongside secular objects, including arms, pottery and textiles from Malaysia and Indonesia. Until Jan 20, 2013,1pm to 7pm (Mondays), 9am
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