Today, 23 March 2013

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1 14 Today

  • hot news
    • 589 2 Central banks have ‘finalised an under standing’, with Indonesian regulator targeting approval of the deal this month ACQUISITION BLOOMBERG HONG KONG DBS Group’s bid for Bank Danamon Indonesia is set to be approved as soon as this month as Singaporean and Indonesian regulators come
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    • 358 2 SINGAPORE Ren Ci Hospital is set to expand its total bed capacity by 60 per cent over the next two years in preparation for greater demand for its services as Singapore’s population ages. This will bring the number of beds
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    • 439 4  -  New Neptune system will let authorities respond quickly to pollution incidents, track where they originated ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY KELLY NG kellyng@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —A new water-monitoring system that allows for real-time monitoring of the waters around Singapore has been launched, so that the authorities can
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    • 591 6 SECTARIAN VIOLENCE AGENCIES MEIKTILA (MYANMAR) Myanmar’s President Thein Sein declared a State of Emergency yesterday in a central city shaken by sectarian bloodshed that has killed at least 20 people, as thousands of minority Muslims fled, and overwhelmed riot police crisscrossed the still-burning
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    • 343 6 THE MALAYSIAN INSIDER KUAL A LUMPUR Taking a leaf from United States President Barack Obama’s first presidential campaign back in 2008, Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak is appealing directly to first-time voters with an Action Kit to help him
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    • 1036 8  -  Measures put in place during 2003 outbreak still useful today at SGH, NUH and TTSH REMEMBERING SARS TAN WEIZHEN weizhen@mediacorp.com.sg SING A PORE On the eighth level of Block 6 at the Singapore General Hospital (SGH), a motorised partition will seal off and
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    • 895 9  -  TAN WEIZHEN SINGAPORE It is not a rosy picture when it comes to how prepared the world is for the next global health threat. Some countries are still not forthcoming with their health data, others simply lack the technical expertise or funds to
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    • 615 10 Visit signals an in ten t to bolster Sino-Russian financial, geopolitical clout, blunt US influence overseas BILATERAL RELATIONS AGENCIES MOSCOW —Chinese leader Xi Jinping demonstrated the importance of Beijing’s growing ties with Russia yesterday by travelling to Moscow on his first foreign trip
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    • 190 5 ORAL HYGIENE Mouthwash risk? COULD that daily gargle of mouthwash containing alcohol increase your chances of getting oral cancer? Pearlie Whit Most mouthwashes bought off the shelves here contain alcohol on average, it makes up about 22 per cent of content. Local dentists told Today that in the first place,
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    • 147 6 AUSTRALIAN PROPERTY EXPO IN SINGAPORE TODAY SUNDAY ONLY! 10am~7pm(23 24 MARCH) Conrad Centennial Hotel (Salon III IV) 2 Temasek Boulevard Buy direct from Australian Developer! CENTRAL EQUITY’S MAJOR NEW APARTMENT TOWER FOR 2013 PRIORITY RELEASE FOR SINGAPORE ATTENDEES! Walk to Melbourne City Centre, Yarra River, Arts Centre, Crown Entertainment Complex,
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    • 164 7 THE ALL-NEW TODAY DIGITAL EDITIONS YOU READ IT HERE FIRST. The full story. Fast. Free. On TODAY’s iPhone app. TO DOWNLOAD THE APP, SEARCH FOR ‘TODAY’ IN THE APP STORE Download the newly-relaunched TODAY apps for iOS and get your news delivered to your iPad and iPhone as soon as
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    • 30 9 VIDEO FORMER DPMWONG KAN SENG REFLECTS ON THE 2003 SARS OUTBREAK Scan the QR code using the reader app on your smartphone, or you can visit tdy.sg/sarswong for the video.
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    • 173 10 WAREHOUSE SALE Vo 80% OFF Household Products Furniture Gift for free every visito_j 20-24 March 10am-5pm f $15 UP $42 fb Deco Minicake Set Jungle Garden $329 TOS$599 XL Lourve Utility Cabinet ironing I Board fW? SB W Rapido, $59 $2 UP $9.10 St UP 105 nice Box 250-330ml from
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  • saturday people
    • 1445 11  -  21 years after he arrived here and built a thriving business from scratch, Harish Nim considers himself a passionate ‘old’ Singaporean who thinks all new citizens should serve NS THE ST REGIS PERSPECTIVES WOO SIAN BOON woosianboon@mediacorp.com.sg When he was granted Singapore citizenship 17 years ago, Mr
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    • 726 12  -  LESSONS FROM LIFE THEN AI PING thenaiping@mediacorp.com.sg When Sean Lim was 24, his father was diagnosed with prostate cancer. At age 26, he got into debt amounting to S$70,000. At 30, just when he got out of debt, his mum was found to have a brain
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    • 115 13 |SIM UNIVERSITY Manage Your Future Make the connection to bigger dreams. Armed with a degree from our School of Arts and Social Sciences, you'll be empowered to advance your career, like Shamsul. Our range of degree programmes from communication and translation to language and literature to the social sciences is
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  • voices
    • 618 18 Should the public housing provider fulfil wide-ranging aspirations, or should it stop the frills? Here are some views from Thursday’s episode of VoicesTODAY. ON THE SHOW FROM CHUA SOO KIAT The issue boils down to the income ceiling for Build-To-Order (BTO) flats: There
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    • 442 19  -  FROM PAUL TAMBYAH for the Singapore Democratic Party Healthcare Advisory Panel During the recent Committee of Supply debates, the Health Minister said: “The review of our healthcare financing system will be extensive, and will involve fundamental shifts.” The Government will “take on a
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    • 160 19  -  FROM LIM EE HUI Fixing yellow-and-black rubber poles along roads, as suggested in “A cheaper alternative to CCTVs to deter illegal parking” (March 22), is not a good solution. I have written on numerous occasions to the Land Transport Authority about illegal parking
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    • 236 18 VIDEO VOICESTODAY HDB FLATS: BACK TO BASICS Scan the QR code using the reader app on your smartphone, or you can visit tdy.sg/voicestoday for the video. NGEE ANN-ADELAIDE EDUCATION CENTRE k The Ngee Ann Kongsi THE UNIVERSITY '/ADELAIDE I THE UNIVERSITY '/ADELAIDE ASSOCIATED WITH NOBEL LAUREATES GROUP OF EIGHT (T
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    • 14 18 •HAVEYOURSAY email your letters to voices@mediacorp.com.sg JOIN THE CONVERSATION facebook.com/todayonline READ MORE LETTERS todayonline.com/voices
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    • 168 19 •o Health Promotion Board 8XM1I Sharon Au English W Adrian Pang Zheng Ge Ping Pan Ling Ling Mandarin The Mental Wellbeing Way A Mental Wellbeing Forum by the Health Promotion Board Positive mental wellbeing contributes significantly to our happiness. Hear Sharon Au, Adrian Pang, and MediaCorp artistes Pan Ling Ling
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  • singapore
    • 602 20  -  Needfor work-life balance female-centric policies also highlighted by panellists SINGAPORE WOMEN’S CONGRESS 2013 LOUISA TANG louisatangqr@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The lack of women in positions of leadership or with decisionmaking power and the need for women in the workforce came in for a lively discussion at the Singapore
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    • 132 21 CHANNEL NEWSASIA SINGAPORE —The Singapore Red Cross (SRC) has advised the public not to fall prey to cheats who raise funds in its name. It said yesterday it had been alerted to several cases of individuals claiming to be volunteers and soliciting donations on
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    • 370 21 CHANNEL NEWSASIA SINGAPORE —More than 90 per cent of fresh university graduates were employed in 2012, according to the first joint Graduate Employment Survey conducted by Singapore’s three autonomous universities. The National University of Singapore (NUS), Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and
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    • 137 21 CHANNEL NEWSASIA SINGAPORE —A 23-year-old Indian national has become the first employer to be convicted for using an unlicensed employment agent to hire a foreigner, since the revised Employment Agencies Act came into effect in April 2011. In February 2011, SadhAakash Raman, director of
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    • 37 20 caimz UlflTCH 1!EW SEASON Tomorrow, 9:00pm (With English Subtitles) PG WF /MediaCorp A woman’s body was found badly decomposed in the bushes. How did the police identify.her and nab the killer within 11 days? Tube MediaCorpChS xinmsn.com/5
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  • world
    • 756 22 STUMBLING BLOCK TO POLICYMAKING THE NEW YORK TIMES BEIJING —China’s state leadership transition took place this month against an ominous backdrop: Thousands of pigs were found dead in a river that provides drinking water to Shanghai while a haze akin to volcanic fumes cloaked
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    • 87 22 Wearing a Jewish skullcap, United States President Barack Obama pauses after rekindling the eternal flame and laying a wreath at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem yesterday. He spoke of a collective “obligation not just to bear witness but to act” against racism “and
      PHOTO: REUTERS  -  87 words
    • 306 22 AP N E W DE LH I Police said yesterday that they foiled a terror attack by a Kashmiri rebel group that was planning to target India’s capital during celebrations of a major Hindu festival next week. The arrest on Wednesday of a
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    • 249 23 AGENCIES LAGOS Chinua Achebe (picture), the internationally celebrated Nigerian author, statesman and dissident who is widely seen as a grandfather of modern African literature, has died at the age of 82 after a brief illness. Achebe made his name more than 50 years
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    • 373 23 THE NEW YORK TIMES SEOUL The South Korean government said yesterday that it was mistaken when it identified an Internet address in China as the source of synchronised cyber attacks that paralysed the computer networks of banks and broadcasters in South Korea.
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  • business
    • 631 24 EURO ZONE CRISIS AGENCIES NICOSIA —Cyprus lawmakers reconvened for emergency talks late yesterday to cobble together a plan that would convince international lenders to provide the money the country would need to avoid bankruptcy within days. Cyprus needs to have a plan in
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    • 679 25 BLOOMBERG HONG KONG —Hong Kong leaders, who have struggled in vain for three years to slow growth in home prices amid fears of a housing bubble in the Special Administrative Region, are finally about to get their wish as the city’s
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  • sports
    • 666 26  -  Problem lies in convincing government that race is worthwhile FORMULA ONE IAN DE COTTA ian@mediacorp.com.sg SEPANG Although studies have time and again reaffirmed the positive impact that the Malaysian Grand Prix has had on the country’s economy, Sepang International Circuit (SIC) chief Razlan
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    • 314 26  -  CHARLES ONG SINGAPORE —It may have been a second place finish, but the result will most certainly be one Dylan Koo (photo) will remember for a long time to come. The 14-year-old yesterday shattered a 21-year record for the Boys Under-14 400m Individual Medley
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    • 448 27 MAN OF THE MOMENT REUTERS GENEVA —Italy striker Mario Balotelli left his Brazil counterpart Neymar in the shadows with a majestic goal in a 2-2 international friendly draw on Thursday (yesterday morning, Singapore time). Balotelli curled an unstoppable shot past Julio Cesar in
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    • 265 27 REUTERS ORL ANDO Briton Justin Rose returned a seven-under 65 to grab the first-round clubhouse lead at the Arnold Palmer Invitational on Thursday (yesterday morning, Singapore time), while Tiger Woods got his bid for an eighth Bay Hill title off to a solid start.
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    • 528 27 YESTERDAY’S MAN AGENCIES LONDON —Michael Owen enjoyed a stellar career as a prolific striker for England and Liverpool but said he would reflect in retirement on “what might have been” had he not been robbed of his incredible speed due to injury. Owen, who
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    • 96 27 Sony Open Round 1 (selected) Men’s singles Jarkko Nieminen (Finland) beat David Nalbandian (Argentina) 2-6 6-4 6-3, David Goffin (Belgium) beat Robin Haase (Netherlands) 7-6(4) 3-6 6-1, Bernard Tomic (Australia) beat Marc Gicquel (France) 7-5 7-6(3) Women’s singles 19-Venus Williams (US) beat Kimiko DateKrumm (Japan) 7-6(3) 3-6 6-4, 9-Caroline
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    • 999 28  -  Boxer-turned-BJJ exponent punches above his weight after 2009 injury BRAZILIAN JIU-JITSU DEBORAH ONG deborahong@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE It is an injury he will re­member for life. Four years ago, national boxer Harold Ko was forced to quit his be­loved sport after two years of com­petitive action left him with
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  • Page 28 Miscellaneous
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    • 55 29 BIKERDUDE ADVENTURER CHARLEY BOORMAN TAKES THE LONG WAY ROUND 30 BUZZ WORTHY THE COFFEE THAT TRULY GIVES YOU A JOLT 32 SATURDAY, 23 MARCH 2013 INSECT FEEDER TIME TO MUNCH ON SOME BUGS 34 MEAT ME THERE AND SPLURGE ON SOME JAPANESE BLACK WAGYU AND OTHER BARBECUE TREATS 33 MARINATED
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    • cars
      • 920 30  -  ADVENTURER CHARLEY BOORMAN TELLS US HOW HE AND HIS JEDI MASTER BUDDY CHANGED THE BIKING WORLD DERRYN WONG features@mediacorp.com.sg Unless you’re an avid motorcyclist, you’ve likely never heard of Charley Boorman. That’s a pity because he, along with biking buddy Ewan McGregor (aka Obi-Wan Kenobi), are responsible
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      • 341 31  -  Thanks to a new engine, the Citroen DS4 is all dressed up with somewhere to go fast CITROEN DS4 THP 200 DERRYN WONG features@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The Citroen DS4 you see on these pages isn’t a top-of-the-line hot hatch like the Renault Megane RS or Volkswagen Golf GTI, but
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      • Article, Illustration
        277 31  -  Volkswagen’s cute mobile’ bites back with scrabbling speed that belies its lovable face VOLKSWAGEN BEETLE 1.4 TSI LEOW JU-LEN features@mediacorp.com.sg S I N G A P O R E Volkswagen’s new Beetle 1.4 TSI slots in above the basic 1.2 model. It may cost S$23,500 more but comes
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    • food
      • 484 32 Britain’s oldest wine merchant puts new Chinese wine on sale MAKE A TOAST REUTERS LONDON —Britain’s oldest wine merchant is giving its official stamp of approval to Chinese wine by stocking four wines produced in China from European grapes, a production shift that could help China
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      • 213 32 AGENCIES S ING A PORE —Its website looks like something out of a slasher flick, it has a skull and bones logo and it promises to keep you awake at night, one cup at a time. It’s called Death Wish Coffee and it has been
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      • 497 33  -  A Japanese barbeque restaurant ups the ante on good beef FOOD REVIEW: ITO-KACHO ANNETTE TAN SINGAPORE —The mention of wagyu beef used to evoke that wistful, wideeyed look of desire on faces of meat lovers all over the island. These days, however, the premium breed of cattle
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        476 33  -  Upscale sushi and pristine Japanese fare come to Tras Street FOOD REVIEW: SUSHI MITSUYA ANNETTE TAN SING A PORE In the last year, Tras Street has become a burgeoning foodie’s enclave with restaurants like Teppei, which reportedly offers some of the most affordable omakase menus in town, and
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      • 630 34  -  Time to get over our squeamishness and savour the taste of bugs INSECT CHOW REBECCA SMITHERS features@mediacorp.com.sg THE GUARDIAN LONDON On the menu the Mexican delicacy is described as “chapulines fundido”. Having eaten it indeed polished it off I would say it is the equivalent of
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      • 293 35  -  THIS ROUND’S ON FARAH DALEY SINGAPORE —Pat Law loves all things vintage and has a soft-spot for nostalgia so it seemed like a natural progression to set up The Damn Good Shop. It’s an online emporium of vintage goodies or, in Law’s words, “a platform of nostalgic
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  • Page 34 Miscellaneous
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  • Page 35 Miscellaneous
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  • Page 36 Miscellaneous
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  • Page 37 Miscellaneous
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  • Page 38 Miscellaneous
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