Today, 9 November 2012

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    22 1 /rf=DIACORP FRIDAY, 9 NOVEMBER 2012 MICA (P) 093/06/2012 TODAY TODAYONLINE.COM WE SET YOU THINKING /A=diaCorp FRIDAY, 9 NOVEMBER 2012 MICA (P) 093/06/2012
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    Lock icon Town councils are feeling the labour crunch
    853 1  -  WOO SIAN BOON woosianboon@mediacorp.com.sg ADDITIONAL REPORTING BY AMANDA LEE SING A PORE Cuts to the foreign worker quota, and a resulting move to attract more Singaporeans to jobs once left to them, have resulted in some town councils shouldering a heftier cleaning bill,
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    Thinkers ‘should join conversation’
    589 1  -  Former top civil servant Ngiam urges academics to ‘help the State ask the right questions PUBLIC DISCOURSE NG JING YNG jingyng@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Known for speaking his mind on national policies after his retirement from the Civil Service, former Permanent Secretary Ngiam Tong Dow yesterday called on
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      140 1 THE CHANGING FACE OF AMERICA SUGGESTS THE CULTURE WAR IS STARTING TO PLAY OUT IN FAVOUR OF OBAMA’S PARTY COMMENT&ANALYSIS 10 Debuts 12 Nov 2012 Catch it exclusively on xinmsn.com/hiddencharms DIVE QUEEN GUO JINGJING TO MARRY HER PRINCE CHARMING SPORTS 57 CHINA’S TRANSITION BEGINS Chinese President Hu Jintao kicked off
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      Lock icon Obama gets down to tackling fiscal crisis
      731 2 US President reaches out to Republican leaders on deficit-reduction deal US POLITICS THE NEW YORK TIMES NEW YORK Newly re-elected, President Barack Obama moved quickly yesterday to open negotiations with Congressional Republican leaders over the main unfinished business of his term a major
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      Lock icon Hu urges new leaders to tackle graft
      721 6 President warns that corruption has undermined Party support, but rejects calls for Western-style democracy 18TH CPC NATIONAL CONGRESS AGENCIES BEIJING President Hu Jintao warned China’s incoming leaders yesterday that corruption threatened the ruling Communist Party and the state, but said the party must
      AGENCIES; AP  -  721 words
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      Lock icon China sets ambitious economic goals
      665 8 Beijing to also push ahead with reforms, double household incomes nationwide, says Hu 18TH CPC NATIONAL CONGRESS AGENCIES BEIJING China will step up efforts to stimulate domestic demand while it pushes forward with reforms including making its currency and interest rates more market-based, as part
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      Lock icon General forfeits key role over rumoured links to Bo
      279 8 AGENCIES BEIJING General Liu Yuan, the political commissar of the People’s Liberation Army’s General Logistics Department, has failed to retain his membership of the presidium of the Communist Party’s National Congress, sparking speculation that he would retire early amid rumours of
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      Lock icon Hu spells out ambition of becoming a ‘maritime power’
      242 8 AGENCIES BEIJING Amid tensions surrounding territorial disputes with China’s neighbours, President Hu Jintao said China should become a “maritime power” as he opened a Communist Party congress yesterday. “We should enhance our capacity for exploiting marine resources, resolutely safeguard China’s maritime
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      166 4 USE RESOURCES TO HELP S’POREAN UNDERGRADS: NGIAM Scan the QR code or visit tdy.sg/ngiam1109 ENTREPRENEURSHIP WEEK 2012 Yes! Come and discover the boss in you at ACE Entrepreneurship Week 2012, a festival celebrating entrepreneurship. It’s packed with exciting activities like workshops, talks, competitions, and a two-day exhibition showcasing 50 booths
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      173 7 HERE’S TO THE BIG GAME HERE’S TO TIGER TIME ENJOY RESPONSIBLY i 2< fi/jL 3 m <4 4 4m Aon •>* L WLM I miI .he Offic' 3 gue on »gS£Sjf It iw V/ I IBB Over 500 football fans caught the Barclays Premier League match between Manchester United and
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  • voices
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      Pupils should lead parent-teacher talks
      425 18  -  FROM KWAN JIN YAO Current parent-teacher meetings are not the most productive. My biggest bugbear is that these sessions place disproportionate emphasis on academic performance per se and often fail to consider a pupil’s holistic development. Instead of exploring a child’s potential in the arts,
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      Is NUS tough on misbehaving scholarship holders?
      165 18  -  FROM DAVID SEE LEONG KIT I refer to the report “NUS takes disciplinary action against sex blogger” (Nov 8). Undoubtedly, Mr Alvin Tan Jye Yee has brought disrepute to other scholarship holders in particular and fellow National University of Singapore (NUS) students in
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      Lock icon Workers in countryside need transport, too
      193 20  -  FROM IVY SINGH-LIM President, Kranji Countryside Association We thank Mr David Chen for his interest in and opinions of the Kranji countryside, in his letter “‘Lighter touch’ takes time” (Oct 31). We also thank him for his suggestion that we get more groups to
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      S’pore’s spending gap not likely to be met by efficiency
      361 20  -  FROM NG YA KEN Global consultancy firm Accenture has forecast an “expenditure gap” of S$13 billion in Singapore’s public spending, reported in “Greying population could ‘cost Govt S$13b more by 2025’” (Oct 30). The gap would account for 2.3 per
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      Keep Medisave for future needs
      133 22  -  FROM TAN KIN LIAN President, Financial Services Consumer Association Mr Jeffrey Law suggested that the public be allowed to use “Medisave for basic dental services at private clinics” (Oct 31). While I recognise that some people lack the savings to pay for these services, I
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      Flexible fitness training regime for NSmen
      298 22  -  FROM COLONEL WONG YU HAN Assistant Chief of General Staff (Training), Deputy Commander, Training and Doctrine Command, Ministry of Defence We thank Ms Geraldine Tan-Wee for her feedback in her letter, “Put a cap on remedial training for reservists” (Nov 3). The Ministry of
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      Correction
      32 22 In the Canon Photomarathon X picture spread (Nov 7), the sponsor named the wrong winner for Theme 3 (Pleasure), Student Category. The correct 1st prize winner is Mr Rudyanto Akil Yusoff.
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  • singapore
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      New wing for Asian Civilisations Museum
      397 24  -  Museum receives largest single donation ofS$5m; extension expected to open doors in 2015 ARTS AND CULTURE SING GEOK SHAN singgeokshan@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The Asian Civilisations Museum is set to get bigger and better with a S$5.5-million extension plan that will see a new wing added
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      Insead expands Ayer Rajah campus
      314 24  -  SUMITA SREEDHARAN SINGAPORE To meet the increasing demand for management education in Asia, Insead ranked among the world’s best business schools yesterday announced a new addition to its Ayer Rajah campus which is expected to increase the capacity of the school by 50 per cent.
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      Lock icon First International Accountants Day in S’pore
      113 24 More than 2,000 people from the accounting and finance profession marked the first International Accountants Day in Singapore yesterday with a new record for the Singapore Book of Records the longest chain of name cards of accountants and those who work to support the
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      NSP calls for abolition of mandatory death penalty
      368 24  -  AMIR HUSSAIN SINGAPORE With the mandatory death penalty for certain homicide and drug-trafficking offences up for debate in Parliament next week, the National Solidarity Party (NSP) has weighed in on the issue, calling on the Government to “abolish the mandatory death penalty
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    • Article
      A touch of Oman for Muscat Street
      175 26  -  TAN QIUYI SINGAPORE The Republic and Oman have marked another cultural milestone with the completion of a facelift for Muscat Street. The two countries worked together in 2010 to build and sail the Jewel of Muscat, a replica of a ninth-century Arabian sailing
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      ‘No’ to rescind interim divorce order
      405 26  -  IN COURT AMANDA LEE leeguiping@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE A District Judge has dismissed an appeal by a businessman from China, who sought to rescind an interim divorce judgment here after the couple obtained a divorce order from a court in China. District Judge (DJ) Lim Choi
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      Lock icon Man charged for Facebook slur against Sultan of Johor
      251 36 Master’s student, arrested in KL,faces up to a year’s jail and heavy fine if found guilty IN MALAYSIAN COURT AGENCIES JOHOR BARU A Malaysian man was charged in a Johor Baru court yesterday over an alleged posting on Facebook last month
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      Lock icon Lynas plant allowed to operate
      172 36 AGENCIES KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian activists lost a court battle yesterday to halt Australian miner Lynas Corp from firing up a rare earths plant that has sparked health and safety concerns. The US$800 million (S$980 million) plant (picture) in northern Pahang state the world’s biggest outside
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      Lock icon Guatemalans huddle in streets after deadly quake
      180 38 AP SAN MARCOS (GUATEMAL A) Hundreds of Guatemalans fearing aftershocks huddled in the streets of this mountain town yesterday, while others crowded inside its hospital, the only building left with electricity after a powerful earthquake killed at least 48 people and left dozens
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      Lock icon Wintry storm hits US North-east, slowing recovery
      371 38 Utilities warn that winds and heavy snow have hindered efforts to restore power AFTER SANDY REUTERS NEW YORK An unseasonably early winter storm brought snow, rain and dangerous winds to the United States North-east, plunging many residents of the most populous region of
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      Lock icon More trouble for man behind anti-Islam film
      181 42 AP LOS ANGELES The man behind an an-ti-Islam film that led to violence in many parts of the Middle East was on Wednesday sentenced to a year in federal prison for probation violations in an unrelated matter. He then issued a provocative statement
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      Lock icon Suu Kyi, minority parties urge govt to restore peace
      243 42 MYANMAR VIOLENCE AP YA NG O N Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi and lawmakers from ethnic minority parties are calling on the government to deploy more troops to restore peace and stability in a western state hit by recent
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      Lock icon Laos to push ahead with Mekong dam
      453 44 CONTROVERSIAL DAM PROJECT DOW JONES XAYABURI (LAOS) This tiny landlocked country has pushed ahead with a controversial project to dam the Mekong River, over the fears of neighbouring countries that it will destroy the vital South-east Asian waterway and affect the lives of
      DOW JONES; REUTERS  -  453 words
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  • property
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      Taming the market with targeted cooling
      687 52  -  HOUSING DEMAND COMMENTARY BY TAN CHIN KEONG TAN CHIN KEONG property@mediacorp.com.sg Tan Chin Keong is an analyst at UBS CIO Wealth Management Research. The Government’s new measures to further cool the residential property market, announced last month, add to the long list of such
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      445 52 V I I .x Singapore ji Furniture, Interior Landscape Expo 2012 worth of cash prizes! ‘Exclude Public Holiday. Singapore Expo Hall 6 10-18 Nov 12pm -10pm EVENTS 10 17 Nov (3pm) Lemon Law Talk by Consumers Association of Singapore (CASE) 10 18 Nov (4.30pm) Personalised Feng Shui House Placement by
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  • technology
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      Lock icon Is Apple lost without Jobs?
      385 54 Recent product complaints and sliding shares have analysts wondering if tech giant has lost its innovative edge CORPORATE UPDATE AGENCIES SAN FRANCISCO Apple launched a new iPhone, a new iPad and the muchhyped iPad mini just in the last three months, but the world’s most
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      Lock icon Headphones that give the Ultimate experience
      461 55  -  ALVIN CHONG SINGAPORE Ultimate Ears (UE) are well known in audiophile circles as the makers of earphones and custom ear monitors used by top musicians such as U2 but these instruments of music gods have come within grasp of mortals with the release of
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  • sports
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      Lock icon 5 MORE YEARS FOR S’PORE OPEN
      714 56  -  Promoter WSG pens contract to stage event through to 2017 GOLF PHILIP GOH Deputy Sports Editor philipgoh@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The Singapore Open golf tournament is set to remain for five more years after the Singapore Golf Association (SGA) and event promoter World Sport Group (WSG)
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    • Article
      BJORN HOLDS SWAY AS RAIN HALTS PLAY
      462 56  -  PHILIP GOH SINGAPORE The lightning warning siren sounded at 3.13pm, ordering the players off the Serapong Course, and the dark clouds that came in from the north broke open an hour later, ending play on Day One of the 2012 Barclays Singapore Open.
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      Lock icon BARCA BACKLINE FALLS SHORT
      484 57 Catalan giants suffer first defeat but Vilanova insists taller players are not needed CHAMPIONS LEAGUE AGENCIES GLASGOW Barcelona coach Tito Vilanova was gracious in defeat, but adamant against signing taller players to address his side’s defensive frailties aerially and at set-pieces. The Catalan giants suffered their
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      Lock icon DIVE QUEEN TO WED HER PRINCE CHARMING
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        49 18 Get into the Christmas spirit with Public Garden’s first Christmas Fair at the Mica Building. Start on your Christmas shopping with quirky items from craft stalls and home-made food for the festive season. Nov 10 and 11, 1pm to 7pm, Mica Building. Free admission. www.public-garden.com.
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        56 18 Kicking off this weekend, the Taiwan Film Festival will shine the spotlight on acclaimed films exploring life in Taiwan today. Don’t miss Island Etude directed by Chen Huai-en (the cinematographer behind Hou Hsiao -Hsien’s beautifully lensed City of Sadness) and the documentaryLetTheWindCarryMebyMarkLee. From Nov 11 to 15,7pm,
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        51 18 World-renowned French visual theatre maestro Philippe Genty presents a work that takes the audience on a fantastic j ourney to the ends of the Earth. Expect to be wowed, dazzled and inspired by thismagicalandbeautifulperformance. Nov 9, 8pm, Esplanade Theatre. Tickets priced at S$25 to S$75 from Sistic.
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        75 18 As part of its new Singapore Intensive programme, Future Perfect gallery at Gillman Barracks is presenting the works of Singapore artist Song-Ming Ang, which he created during his oneyear residency at Kunstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin. A ng the recipient of the Young Artist Award last year, has presented
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