Today, 25 September 2012

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  • 24 1 TODAY TODAYONLINE.COM WE SET YOU THINKING /AbdiaCorp TUESDAY, 25 SEPTEMBER 2012 M I C A P) 0 9 3/0 6/ 2 0 1 2
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  • 407 1  -  S$2m incident management centre in the works to aid in managingfuture disruptions TRANSPORT HETTY MUSFIRAH hetty@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Measures to improve reliability on the train network are beginning to bear fruit, as the number of trains pulled out of service by public transport operator
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    • 35 1 TO GET HIS FLAGGING PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN BACK ON TRACK, REPUBLICAN MITT ROMNEY NEEDS TO GET REAL COMMENT&ANALYSIS 8 2 as mamore trains pulled out of service peaked at give a more timely response and better
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  • hot news
    • 384 2 AGENCIES BEIJING China’s ruling Communist Party took a big step towards sealing the fate of fallen politician Bo Xilai ahead of a leadership handover, when a court jailed his former police chief for 15 years over charges that indicated Bo tried to
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    • 437 2 As many as 100 Taiwanese boats escorted by 10 Coast Guard vessels headed to area MARITIME DISPUTE AGENCIES TOKYO Four Chinese ships briefly entered what Japan considers its territorial waters near disputed islands in the East China Sea yesterday, prompting an official protest from
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    • 149 2 BLOOMBERG South Korea expects a record 100,000 Chinese tourists during a week-long holiday starting on Oct 1 as vacationers switch plans because of a consumer boycott of Japanese goods and travel. The protests have been sparked by Japan’s move to nationalise disputed islands
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    • 466 3  -  CPI rises by lowest rate since November 2010, but private transport still poses upside risk SINGAPORE ECONOMY DAVID BOTTOMLEY Business Editor davidb@mediacorp.com.sg AGENCIES S ING A POR E Inflation eased to its lowest level in nearly two years last month, giving the Monetary Authority of
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    • 434 4 SINGAPORE Senior Minister of State (Education and Information, Communications and the Arts) Lawrence Wong has expressed his concern at some netizens’ reaction to the British royal couple’s visit to Queenstown, as well as the online brouhaha following the television forum with Prime Minister
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    • 477 4  -  Law Soc President declares issue concluded but not all members pleased LAW SOCIETY CONTROVERSY ASHLEY CHIA, AMIR HUSSAIN ashley@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Singapore Law Society members called on its president Wong Meng Meng yesterday to apologise for the society’s handling of the recent clash with lawyer
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    • 210 4 AGENCIES SINGAPORE The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) yesterday said it had instructed banks to widen their reviews of their rate-setting processes to include non-deliverable forward foreign exchange contracts. The MAS had in July instructed banks on The Association of Banks
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    • 586 6  -  Accused’s lawyers say he was on psychoactive drugs during recording of his six confessions LAW PROFESSOR’S CORRUPTION CASE AMANDA LEE leeguiping@mediacorp.com. sg SINGAPORE Confession statements given by National University of Singapore (NUS) lawprofessor Tey Tsun Hang to the Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau (CPIB) were purportedly
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  • comment & analysis
    • 1114 8  - Romney’s real problem detachment from reality US PRESIDENTIAL RACE CHRISTOPHER CALDWELL Christopher Caldwell is a senior editor at The Weekly Standard. THE FINANCIAL TIMES LIMITED It is seldom that one ill-considered utterance costs an American presidential candidate the election but it does happen. Gerald Ford, not Jimmy Carter, would have
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    • 927 10  -  THE WEB OF CONTRACTS ANDREWSHENG, XIAO GENG Andrew Sheng, President of the Fung Global Institute, is a former Chairman of the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission and is currently an adjunct professor at Tsinghua University, Beijing. Xiao Geng is Director of Research
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    • 651 12  -  CYBER ESPIONAGE MISHA GLENNY Misha Glenny is the author of DarkMarket: How Hackers Became the New Mafia THE GUARDIAN New evidence that Iran is following through on its dramatic plan to move large parts of its networked computer systems off the Web reflects
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    • 49 8 To understand China’s socialist market economy, it is essential to examine systematically the different forms of contracts such as family and kinship contracts and their institutional structures. ANDREW SHENG AND XIAO GENG 10 WORLD IF YOU THINK WE SHOULD START ANOTHER WAR, JUST SAY SO: OBAMA TO ROMNEY 25
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  • voices
    • 452 14  -  FROM CHIN YEN In the “Conversation with PM Lee” hosted by Channel NewsAsia, I was among a few participants who mentioned the need to instil another core national value besides meritocracy. As reported in “Core values or meritocracy?” (Sept 15), our impression was that a
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    • 348 14  -  FROM ALLY NG LAY HOON I refer to the report “Core values or meritocracy?” (Sept 15). I believe we need to continue building both loving homes and a strong nation. Core values would give us firm roots, and I consider myself lucky,
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    • 350 15  -  FROM BHETHANABOTTLA S PHANIMITRA The report “S’poreans can show that ‘small island has big heart’” (Sept 3) was a great read. I have been living in Singapore for a little over two years, and I say from the heart that Singaporeans
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    • 155 15  -  FROM ALLAN DARRYL OW KUM WEN My father and uncle are taxi drivers, and I am looking forward to joining the vocation, too. So I was distressed to read recent reports about passengers or motorists assaulting cabbies or evading fares. Are
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    • 145 15  -  FROM SHARIFAH GAMAR ALAM ALBAHAR I support the suggestion to eliminate the Primary School Leaving Examination. In many other reputable education systems, including international schools, a child sits for his first major exam at the minimum age of 16 instead of 12. A
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  • singapore
    • 238 16  -  TELEVISION NG PUAY LENG SINGAPORE MediaCorp has received the thumbs-up for its Chinese programmes for children and youth. But according to the Advisory Committee for Chinese Programmes (ACCESS), it could do more to reach out to the elderly. ACCESS provides feedback on
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    • 130 16 SINGAPORE To help its local small and medium enterprise (SME) partners, supermarket chain NTUC FairPrice has introduced an enhanced SME Suppliers Support and Development Programme. FairPrice had introduced the programme in 2009 to help ease SMEs’ cash flow pressure, such as by shortening payment
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    • 453 18  -  World’s largest such facility to welcome visitors before resort’s grand opening on Dec 7 RESORTS WORLD SENTOSA WOO SIAN BOON woosianboon@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Resorts World Sentosa (RWS) will be unveiling the world’s largest oceanarium ahead of the resort’s grand opening on Dec 7, but stopped short of
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    • 179 18 CHANNEL NEWSASIA SINGAPORE Two flyovers will be built between Bukit Batok East Avenue 3 and Clementi Avenue 6 to improve traffic flow along a stretch of the PanIsland Expressway (PIE). The Land Transport Authority (LTA) said yesterday that
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    • 269 18 CHANNEL NEWSASIA SINGAPORE Thirty-one companies and individuals have been fined due to poor safety practices in lifting operations at worksites involving cranes. Each was fined between S$200 and S$6,200, and five were ordered to stop work. The Ministry of Manpower (MOM)
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  • education
    • 925 20  -  SCHOLARLY RESEARCH COMMENTARY BY KOH CHOON HWEE The writer is a National University of Singapore alumnus and is currently a graduate student at the American University of Beirut. She formerly interned with NUS’Middle East Institute. Three Fridays ago was International Students’ Orientation Day at
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  • china&india
    • 396 22 Vice-Premier Li Keqiang’s track record, however, has few notable policy achievements CHINA POLITICS REUTERS M E N G TO U G O U (C H I N A) Affordable housing and how to pay for it will be one of the defining
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    • 337 23 AGENCIES BEIJING The company that makes Apple’s iPhones suspended production at a factory in China yesterday after a brawl involving as many as 2,000 employees at a dormitory. The fight erupted on Sunday night at a privately managed dormitory near a Foxconn Technology
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    • 185 23 REUTERS GUWAHATI (INDIA) Floods and landslides caused by relentless rain in north-east India have killed at least 33 people and displaced more than a million over the past week, officials said yesterday. At least 21 people were killed in landslides
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  • world
    • 413 24 Patient, who had travelled to Saudi Arabia, flown from Qatar for treatment in London HEALTH AGENCIES LONDON The World Health Organization (WHO) said yesterday that it is too soon to say whether there could be an outbreak of a killer respiratory disease similar
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    • 264 25 THE GUARDIAN WA SHINGTON United States President Barack Obama has defended his handling of the Middle East against criticism from Mr Mitt Romney, saying pointedly that if the Republican presidential candidate wanted to start another war
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    • 354 25 AGENCIES YANGON Myanmar’s reformist President, Mr Thein Sein, will begin his visit to the United States this week, keen to win an end to sanctions and open a new chapter in a once-frosty relationship that could bring economic and geo-strategic benefits
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    • 361 26 ANTI-ISLAM FILM AGENCIES ISL AMABAD The Pakistani government yesterday distanced itself from an offer by one of its Cabinet ministers to pay US$100,000 (S$122,870) for anyone who kills the maker of an antiIslam film, saying the offer does not represent official government policy.
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    • 165 26 AP HANOI A Vietnamese court issued jail sentences ranging from four to 12 years yesterday to three bloggers who wrote about human rights abuses, corruption and foreign policy, intensifying a crackdown on use of the Internet to criticise the government. The defendants,
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    • IN BRIEF
      • 73 27 AGENCIES Japanese Finance Minister Jun Azumi said he would step down to take a senior role in the ruling Democratic Party of Japan once his successor has been nominated. The change is due to a Cabinet shake-up by Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda
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      • 65 27 AP Suspected insurgents detonated a small bomb yesterday at a school in Thailand’s violence-prone south, wounding two principals and two soldiers. A police official said the improvised explosive device went off at a shelter at a public school entrance in Narathiwat province’s Bacho
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      • 71 27 AP Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has received a fine and a suspended jail sentence in a corruption scandal, clearing a major hurdle in a possible return to politics. A Jerusalem court ordered him to pay a fine of about US$18,000 (S$22,000) and
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      • 68 27 REUTERS Microscopic particles, among the most harmful forms of air pollution, are still found at dangerous levels in parts of Europe, although air quality laws have cut some toxins from exhaust fumes and chimneys, a European Environmental Agency report said. It found
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    • 376 27 AGENCIES KUALA LUMPUR Opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim yesterday downplayed his use of a luxury jet during a trip to east Malaysia two weeks ago, saying the private aircraft was on loan from a “friend” and he did not have to pay
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    • 7 24 WORLD 26 PAKISTAN DISTANCES ITSELF FROM BOUNTY
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  • business
    • STOCK CALLS
      • 90 30 BUY (S$0.665) OCBC maintains rating and S$0.82 target, saying the US Federal Reserve’s announcement of a third round of quantitative easing has helped buoy sentiment across the board. Says that in the small to mid-cap space, ASL Marine is positioned to capitalise on the recovering new build market
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      • 58 30 BUY (S$0.535) OCBC keeps rating and S$0.62 target after Dyna-Mac secured three orders worth a provisional US$42 million (S$51.6 million) from SBM Offshore, Subsea 7 and Keppel Offshore and Marine for the fabrication and assembly of topside modules, metering skids and subsea spools. Estimates current order book at S$200
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      • 27 30 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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    • 410 30  -  FOREIGN INVESTMENT WONG WEI HAN wongweihan@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Local companies looking to exploit Russia’s vast untapped business potential should move quickly to develop their presence there or risk losing out to foreign rivals. That is one of the key messages of participants at the annual
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  • impact
    • 832 32  -  Rewarding women in advertising and honouring the top 100 in the industry ADVERTISING TANZINA VEGA THE NEW YORK TIMES NEW YORK It would be nearly impossible to write about the inroads that women have made in advertising without mentioning the TV drama series Mad Men.
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  • technology
    • 321 34 Tech giant criticised for including redundant ornamentation from real-world objects in its design SOFTWARE DESIGN THE DAILY TELEGRAPH LO N DO N Apple is “a little behind in software design”, according to Mr Yves Behar, the designer behind the Jawbone Jambox and the
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  • sports
    • 642 35  -  Event will cost up to US$1m but participation of top-10 players almost assured WORLD-CLASS BADMINTON EVENT DAN GUEN CHIN danguenchin@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The Singapore Badminton Association (SBA) has launched a bid to the Badminton World Federation (BWF) to host a Super Series Premier
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    • 429 35  -  PHILIP GOH KUANTAN There was a spring in Hariss Harun’s (picture) step, as he and his LionsXII team-mates enjoyed a spirited training session at the Darulmakmur Stadium ahead of tonight’s Malaysia Cup firstleg quarter-final tie against hosts Pahang. In the 10 days since he
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    • 377 36  -  DEBORAH ONG SINGAPORE Although the SingTel Singapore Grand Prix has its critics, the people behind the Formula 1’s massive logistical undertaking are not one of them. According to Pierluigi Ferrari, Motorsport Deputy Managing Director of DHL, Formula 1’s official logistics partner, Singapore is
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    • 167 36 CHANNEL NEWSASIA SINGAPORE Staging the Singapore Grand Prix will bring S$1 billion worth of “additional value-add” for the economy over a 10-year period, says Second Minister (Trade and Industry) S Iswaran yesterday, two days after announcing the new fiveyear extension of the night race.
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    • 493 36  -  Webber prefers ‘standing start’, as he calls on F1 to address safety issue F1 SAFETY TAN YO-HINN yohinn@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Red Bull driving ace Mark Webber is all for safety in Formula 1. But even so, the 36-year-old Australian believes that suggestions to introduce a
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    • 595 37  -  EPL LOOKBACK: LIVERPOOL VS MAN UNITED COMMENTARY BY DARREN STEWART Darren Stewart, 46, is one of TODAY’S guest analysts for this EPL season. The former Australian international is the head coach of S-League side Balestier Khalsa. Once again, Liverpool bossed their opponents around the
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    • 143 37  -  ALYWIN CHEW Singapore Paralympic swimmer Theresa Goh (right) received a token of appreciation from Maybank Group President and CEO Abdul Wahid Omar (left) for her efforts in raising over S$100 in a friendly arm wrestling competition as part of Maybank Group’s Global Corporate
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    • 704 38  -  INTERNATIONAL FOOTBALL COMMENTARY BY HENRY WINTER Henry Winter is a football correspondent with The Daily Telegraph. John Terry claimed on Sunday night that the Football Association had made his position in the England squad “untenable”. Nonsense. He was the author of his own downfall. Too
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  • Page 36 Miscellaneous
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    • 126 38 Singapore Vjy Heart Foundation Your Heart We Care f I HEART FAIR 2012 in celebration of National Heart Week/World Heart Day CW Worftf, D fteart N gee Ann City Civic Plaza 29 th 30 th SeptembetiSS^af^SOBQodtoHi^^ GUEST-OF-HONOUR Mr Gan Kim Yang, Minister for Health For more information, please visit www.myheart.org.sg
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    • 53 39 IN STYLE CHANNEL U TAKES VARIETY TO A NEW LEVEL WITH A NEW SHOW 41 TRACK ROCK FORMULA 1 ACTION THAT WASN’T ON THE RACE TRACK 42 MILAN FASHION WEEK DOLCE GABBANA SHOWCASE NEW COLLECTION 44 TUESDAY, 25 SEPTEMBER 2012 CLAIRE WINNER HOMELAND STARS TAKE HOME TOP HONOURS AT THIS
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  • T TODAY
    • television
      • 741 40 HOMELAND TRIUMPHS AS EMMYSGO FOR DOSE OF REALITY REUTERS Homeland toppled Mad Men to win the top drama prize on Sunday as the Primetime Emmy awards favoured politics and 21st century tensions over shows set in bygone eras. Modern Family, ABC’s show about the chaotic lives of
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      • 292 41  -  Check in with the bubbly hosts of Channel U’s new series MAY SEAH SINGAPORE If Channel U’s latest variety show is anything to go by, there are so many fun things to do in Singapore that no less than seven hosts are needed to cover them all. Dasmond
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    • culture&lifestyle
      • 288 42  -  The Singapore Grand Prix isn’t just about racing, you know SOUND OF FORMULA 1 CHRISTOPHER TOH SING A PORE While there was a lot of action on the racetrack on Sunday night at the 2012 Formula 1 SingTel Singapore Grand Prix, what was equally captivating were
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