Today, 11 December 2014, Afternoon Edition

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  • 592 1  -  Dramatic reduction between 2000 and 2010, compared with global average decline of 0.12% IMPROVEMENT REVEALED AT U.N. CONFERENCE SIAU MING EN siaumingen@mediacorp.com .sg SINGAPORE —The Republic has dramatically reduced its carbon intensity or the amount of carbon emissions per dollar of gross
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  • 546 1 REUTERS BEIJING —China’s annual consumer inflation eased to a five-year low of 1.4 per cent last month, signalling persistent weakness in the world’s sec-ond-largest economy and giving policymakers more room to ease policy to support growth. Beijing is increasingly concerned about the
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    • 100 1 AUSTRALIA’S LIQUOR CONTROL MEASURES ARE BEING STUDIED AS SINGAPORE LOOKS TO INTRODUCE ITS OWN NEXT YEAR COMMENT&ANALYSIS 18 HOT NEWS 12 Nobel Peace Prize winners lauded for risking their lives for children’s rights TASTE IS KING CIS) SPRITE FLOAT (S) $A95 BK NUGGETS (4PCS) ii i. y mm. W W
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  • hot news
    • 673 2 Washington warns US citizens in Thailand Afghanistan about anti-American hostility REPORT CAUSES INTERNATIONAL EXPLOSION ON SOCIAL MEDIA AGENCIES WASHINGTON —The release of the United States Senate report on the graphic torture of terrorism suspects by the George W Bush-era Central
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    • 207 2 AP First detained in Pakistan in March 2002, Abu Zubaydah (picture) was the first high-profile Al Qaeda terror suspect captured after the 9/11 attacks. His ordeal became the template for CIA’s black-site interrogations.He was initially subjected to grinding white noise and sleep deprivation tactics. In
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    • 325 2 BLOOMBERG WASHINGTON United States intelligence officials have said they do not expect the Senate report to lead to major changes in personnel or policy at the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), in part because President Barack Obama has already barred the use of
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    • 589 4 Draft does not bind nations to single benchmark for emissions reduction ACCORD WOULD BE INSUFFICIENT TO STOP EARLY EFFECTS OF GLOBAL WARMING: EXPERT THE NEW YORK TIMES LIMA —Diplomats from 196 countries are closing in on the framework of a potentially
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    • 789 8  -  TOWN COUNCIL HAS BEEN FACILITATING SPECIAL AUDIT BY AUDITOR-GENERAL’S OFFICE: WP CHAIRMAN JOY FANG joyfangz@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Chairman of Aljunied-Hougang-Punggol East Town Council (AHPETC) Sylvia Lim has urged Minister for Culture, Community and Youth Lawrence Wong not to confuse
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    • 691 12 MALALA, SATYARTHI COLLECT THEIR AWARDS TO A STANDING OVATION AGENCIES OSLO —Malala Yousafzai of Pakistan and Mr Kailash Satyarthi of India yesterday received the Nobel Peace Prize for risking their lives to fight for children’s rights. Seventeen-year-old Malala,
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    • 526 14 MORE FLEXIBILITY NEEDED, SAYS KERRY THE NEW YORK TIMES WASHINGTON —United States Secretary of State John Kerry has urged Congress not to preclude the use of ground forces to fight the Islamic State as lawmakers consider setting limits on
      THE NEW YORK TIMES  -  526 words
    • 496 16  -  Movie set in the Republic during the 1960s will be about how Singaporeans lived after split from Malaysia, says film-maker FIRST HALF OF TWO-PARTER TO BE OUT AT END OF NEXT YEAR HON JING YI honjingyi@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —The story of a
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    • 211 13 (rJo^Cot S E N T O S A SINGAPORE SINGAPORE’S i NOW CHRISTMAS CELEBRATION l Dec to 4 Jan m 7* m t f if i o {A n j i Jk -V ‘■mn’* B", Ht* y Celebrate Christmas at Universal Studios Singapore® Snowfall on the hour daily Pyrotechnics and
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  • Page 14 Miscellaneous
    • 33 14 Mi'] $2 MILLION 1 Estimated Draw on Thu, 11 Dec 2014 at 6.30pm For details, visit www.singaporepools.cotn.sg p A Y(i) Always play with care Do not bet illegally. RGB Reg No: *****0202G E
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    • 100 16 NEW CREATIONS AT SHISEN HANTEN BY CHEN KENTARO J r Kf .X I V it- i I'll a ®r r i h- i FLAVOURFUL ADDITIONS TO THE SIGNATURE MENU Shisen Hanten by Chen Kentaro unveils a new menu from November. Savour traditional handmade Dim Sum alongside mouth-watering favourites such as
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  • comment &analysis
    • 919 18  -  CURBING DRUNKEN VIOLENCE WITHOUT HARMING BUSINESS OR FUN KIMBERLY SPYKERMAN spykermankf@mediacorp.com.sg Kimberly Spykerman is a senior reporter at Channel NewsAsia. The entertainment district of Kings Cross in Sydney used to pulsate with life on Friday and Saturday nights. But footfall to
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    • 934 20  -  COMMUNICATION WITH A HUMAN IS KEY TO CUSTOMER SERVICE JOE NOCERA Joe Nocera is a business journalist, author and op-ed columnist for The New York Times. THE NEW YORK TIMES Ms Herta Kriegner, a graphic artist from Austria, likes the German word, uber.
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    • 846 23  -  DRIVE AGAINST CORRUPTION A FIGHT FOR LEGITIMACY LORO HORTA Loro Horta is a senior diplomat of Timor Leste based in Beijing and an adjunct fellow with the S Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS) at Nanyang Technological University. The views expressed in this commentary,
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    • 196 18 Congratulations to the October 2014 winners of the American Express “Merchant Sweepstakes” Programme. Here are the 2 winners who have won S$5,000 and a 12-month Association of Small and Medium Enterprises (ASME) Affiliate membership for their business. DEZATO PTE LTD PICKET RAIL HOLDINGS PTE LTD Thank you for encouraging American
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    • 40 18 Just because Uber doesn’t want to talk to customers, though, doesn’t mean customers don’t want to talk to Uber... Sometimes, even though online communications may be more efficient, people are simply more comfortable talking to another human. JOE NOCERA 20
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  • voices
    • 348 26  -  FROM GEOFFREY KUNG KUO-WOO I read the letter, “Comments about SGX ‘breakdown’ are uncalled for” (Dec 9), and what is really uncalled for is the decision by the Singapore Exchange to shorten trading hours to catch up on back-office work. This shows that the SGX’s decision
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    • 276 26  -  FROM Centre VICTOR TNG Centre Head, Community Rehab and Support Service, Programme Director, Community Support Team Singapore Anglican Community Services The recent Ang Mo Kio double deaths highlight the importance of early detection and treatment of mental illness, and the need to seek help
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    • 356 29  -  FROM SIN WEI XIANG On the one hand, People’s Action Party (PAP) secretary-general Lee Hsien Loong has said that “only the PAP is solving problems, planning for the future” and that “only the PAP is putting forth a vision, a road map for
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    • 211 29  -  FROM HARRY CHIA I am in agreement with the Changi Airport Group about its trial on split queues for normal and premium taxis. (“Changi Airport halts premium queue trial amid cabbies’ ire”: Dec 10) My wife and I got in a premium taxi
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    • 14 26 •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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    • 63 29 LETTER MIDDLING POLITICS IS NOT THE ANSWER FOR S’PORE Scan the QR code using the reader app on your smartphone, or you can visit tdy. sg/ltrpolitics11dec for the letter from Sanjay Perera. LETTER DON’T OVERSTATE RISKS OF ABORTION Scan the QR code, or visit tdy.sg/ltraware11dec for the letter from Jolene
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  • singapore
    • 771 30  -  Pet stores that house dogs in small and uncomfortable cages prompt real estate agent to launch Dogs Ha te Cages initiative HE HOPES TO END PET SHOPS’ PRACTICE OF PUTTING DOGS IN CAGES EMILIA TAN emiliatankn@med iacorp.com .sg SINGAPORE —Several pet shops have
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    • 512 31  -  YVONNE LIM yvonnelimsy@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Four training companies have been stripped of their accreditation to run Workplace Safety and Health (WSH) courses for having lax courses and assessments. The companies, which ran various WSH courses including those catering for building construction
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    • 608 33  -  IDA SETS OUT IMPROVEMENTS FOR FIRM, SUCH AS HIGHER REBATES FOR DELAYED ORDERS KENNETH CHENG kennethcjw@mediacorp.com.sg S I N G A P O R E —The Republic’s fibre broadband network provider NetLink Trust has been fined S$50,000 for failing to
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    • 1166 34  -  Understanding customers and employees key to improving customer service standards in the tourism sector CSISG 2014 Q3 RESULTS: TOURISM SECTOR LEONARD LAI leonardlaiyq@mediacorp.com.sg Ms Yasemin Tecmen Stubbe may have long recovered from the flu bug she caught during a business trip in Tokyo years
      SOURCE: ISES; GRAPHIC: CINDY CHAN  -  1,166 words
    • 1115 35  -  Adapting to constantly evolving customer needs is key to success in food an d beverage sector CSISG 2014 Q3 RESULTS: FOOD BEVERAGE SECTOR SCOTT MARSH scott@mediacorp.com.sg Wanting to find out why customers’ waiting times had increased over the years, despite increasing the number of
      PHOTO: THINKSTOCK; SOURCE: ISES  -  1,115 words
    • 385 36  -  HON JING YI honjingyi@mediacorp.com.sg S I N G A P O R E A Singapore-based US$100 million (S$131 million) fund, targeted at China’s media and entertainment industry, was launched yesterday at the Singapore Media Festival. The private-equity media fund was launched by
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    • 256 36 CHANNEL NEWSASIA SINGAPORE —Two of three workers who survived a deadly shophouse fire in Geylang last Saturday have been discharged from hospital, the Migrant Workers’ Centre (MWC) said yesterday. One of the workers has gone back to Malaysia, while the
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    • 402 37  -  Fortune Times’ mark ruled as ‘more dissimilar than similar’to those of TIME and FORTUNE NEW YORK PUBLISHING GIANT ORDERED TO PAY COSTS KELLY NG kellyng@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Publishing giant Time Inc has failed in its bid to invalidate the Singapore trademark of
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    • 394 37  -  KELLY NG SINGAPORE —When he was caught red-handed for taking an upskirt video of a fellow bus commuter with his mobile phone, Koo Kiat Boon smashed his phone repeatedly against the floor and even swallowed its memory card in
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    • 500 32 Oyi westgate k N H The City’s Best Now At Westgate Live The Fantasy CHRISTMAS UNDER A BIG TOP EVENTS AT WESTGATE Circus at Courtyard 12 19 Dec at 7pm 13,14, 20, 21, 24 25 Dec at 1pm 7pm Catch exciting circus performance LIVE at Westgate, Level 1! Witness the
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  • Page 37 Advertisements
    • 557 37 Inc has failed in its bid to invalidate the Singapore trademark of Fortune Times, a bimonthly Chinese financial magazine. The New York-based company publishes more than 90 magazines, including TIME and FORTUNE, which were founded magazines, confusing customers and damaging its interests. Fortune Times utilised the same dominant components as
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  • Page 38 Advertisements
    • 905 38 guardian There’s something I 7m:. jp LOVE JO 352 hmg for everyone here at Guardian, and we’ve assembled a collection of the best gift ideas avail Merry Christmas! OUR BEST BEAUTY V\ i $206 V Rodial Be Flawless Dragon Blood Kit Xmas Set 1 Set UP $317 i $63 BioNike
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  • china&india
    • 552 40 Liu Tienan charged with taking S$7.6m in bribes in dealings with various firms THE FIRST MINISTERIAL-LEVEL OFFICIAL TO FACE INVESTIGATION REUTERS BEIJING —The former deputy head of China’s top planning agency was jailed for life yesterday over a bribery scandal
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    • 353 40 AGENCIES BEIJING —China has created a website to collect tips about officials who have fled with ill-gotten gains, as leaders press ahead with a campaign that has resulted in the arrests of hundreds of alleged economic fugitives so far. The Communist Party’s
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    • 685 42 Firm requires drivers to submit police certificates but these are allegedly obtainable for a bribe ALL THE REGULATORS ASLEEP AT THE WHEEL, SAYS ANALYST BLOOMBERG NEW DELHI —How much does it cost to buy a clean background check in
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    • 642 44 ACTIVISTS VOW TO PEACEFULLY RESIST CLEARANCE OPERATION AP HONG KONG —Student protest leaders in Hong Kong vowed to stay until the last minute and peacefully resist a police operation to clear them off a highway where they have been camped out for
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  • world
    • 556 46 Case far from over for athlete as prosecution will now seek a murder conviction PARALYMPIC TRACK STAR COULD BE OUT OF PRISON BY THE TIME APPEAL IS HEARD NEXT YEAR REUTERS PRETORIA —South African prosecutors yesterday won their bid to appeal
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    • 624 48 LOCALS, HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH SAY POLICE OPENED FIRE ON PROTESTERS ANGERED BY ALLEGED ABUSE ON TEEN THE JAKARTA GLOBE JAKARTA Indonesia’s National Police chief yesterday denied the police were behind a fatal shooting in Papua that killed at least four
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    • 535 52 LAW WILL HIDE GOVT MISDEEDS, LIMIT PRESS FREEDOM: CRITICS AGENCIES TOKYO —Waving banners and banging tambourines, hundreds of Japanese took to the streets of Tokyo to protest against a strict new state-secrets law that took effect yesterday and which critics charge
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    • 503 56  -  FEWER LEASES SIGNED LAST MONTH IN BOTH SEGMENTS LEE YEN NEE leeyennee@med iacorp.com .sg SING A PORE The Republic’s rental market softened further last month, with prices falling and fewer new leases signed in both the private and public segments, signalling that tenants are having
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    • 737 58  -  BENEFIT FROM FALLING PRICES MAY BE NEGATED FOR SIA DUE TO ITS HEDGING STRATEGY AGAINST FUEL COSTS TAN WEIZHEN, ANGELA TENG tanweizhen@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —The near-term outlook for global carriers such as Singapore Airlines (SIA) appears rosy, with the International Air
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    • 398 60 Owners expect offers of up to S$420m for the 26-storey freehold residential and commercial property SUCH SITES IN THE AREA ARE RARELY PUT ON THE MARKET, SAYS EXPERT CHANNEL NEWSASIA SING A PORE Thong Sia Building, a 26­storey residential and commercial
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      • 78 64 You now have one more reason to chill out at Kuta beach or relax at a luxury villa at idyllic Ubud. Starting tomorrow, SilkAir, the regional wing of Singapore Airlines, will be flying daily to the popular tourist destination of Bali. Choose from five daily round trip services
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      • 136 64 Fans of the Chinese classic, The Dream of the Red Chamber, you don’t want to miss 15 Years of Dreams from the Red Chamber, a concert by the City Chinese Orchestra (CCO). Happening at the Victoria Concert Hall on Dec 28 at
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      • 107 64 Be happier and healthier by staying active. To help you and your family do just that, Coca Cola has put together a range of fun outdoor events in its Movement is Happiness campaign. Head to one of the parks around Singapore for Sunday the Park.
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      • 122 64 fireworks and spraying jets of washable, neon-coloured body paint. For early-bird ticket deals, promotions and details about the event, head over to http://www.silosobeachparty.com. Dance your way into the new year at Sentosa’s Siloso Beach Party. Siloso Beach, all 1.2km of it, has been transformed into
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      • 119 64 The popular children’s animated series, Chuggington, rolls into City Square Mall this festive season. Until Dec 21, except Mondays, head down with your children to meet the adorable locomotive characters at The Chuggington Winter Snow Party Live Show. Here’s how your little ones can
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    • 273 58 MISSING In search of the runaway Christmas tree T'was the night before December, on the coldest day anyone would remember. Seven brave Christmas trees hoping to escape the blistering north traveled to sunny Singapore. But alas! Upon reaching, Princess tree, the youngest of them all, was distracted by the bright
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    • 277 70 DEAL FOLLOWS DECISION TO BUY ONLINE FORUM TWITCH BLOOMBERG SAN FR ANCISCO —Amazon.com deepened its foray into video games by purchasing GoodGame, a company that owns teams of video-game players and hosts live gaming tournaments. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. The
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    • 258 70 REUTERS LOS ANGELES —Sony’s movie studio may face millions of dollars in costs from the massive computer hack that hobbled its operations and exposed sensitive data, said cybersecurity experts who had studied past breaches. The tab will be less than the
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    • 663 71  -  Stanchart Marathon organiser to look for ways to avoid confusion in future editions RACE MUST MAINTAIN ITS PRESTIGE, SAY SEASONED RUNNERS ADELENE WONG adelenewong@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Spectrum Worldwide, the organiser of the Standard Chartered Marathon Singapore (SCMS), will relook its practice of awarding the
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    • 406 71  -  LOW LIN FHOONG SINGAPORE —An unfortunate error by Teh Xiu Yi may have put the women’s 10m air pistol team out of gold-medal position at the 38th South-east Asia Shooting Championships (SEASA), but the trio of Xiu Yi, her elder sister Xiu
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    • 583 72  -  Samoa hand Singapore a first defeat in Nations Cup, courtesy of their twin attack TEAM MUST NOW REGROUP FOR FRIDAY’S MATCH AGAINST MALAYSIA EMMANUEL PHUA emmanuelphua@mediacorp.com.sg S ING A PORE Samoa’s twin attack proved too hot to handle for Singapore as the Republic bowed to their
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    • 229 72 Singapore— English football fans will be able to catch free live screening of Sunday’s English Premier League clash between Manchester United and Liverpool at 17 Community Clubs (CCs) across Singapore. Since August, 25 CCs have held regular live screening of English
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    • 368 72 REUTERS BANGKOK —Two goals by Kroekrit Thaweekarn and another by Chanathip Songkrasin sent threetime champions Thailand through to another ASEAN Football Federation Suzuki Cup final after the hosts outclassed the Philippines 3-0 on aggregate yesterday. Talented playmaker Chanathip, dubbed “Messi Jay” because
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    • 778 73 US among those considering a bid after IOC’s guidelines aimed at reducing costs AP MONACO —With the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) new bidding process now in place, the race for the 2024 Olympics is primed to take off. The United States Olympic Committee
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    • 481 73 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH LONDON —Mike Phelan, Alex Ferguson’s former assistant manager at Manchester United, has claimed that current boss Louis van Gaal must shoulder the blame for the club’s ongoing injury crisis after overhauling the fitness regime since taking charge at Old
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    • 1049 74  -  REDS’ PROBLEM IS NOT TALISMAN’S MIDDLE-AGE CREEP BUT PAUCITY OF RESOURCES AROUND HIM COMMENTARY BY PAUL HAYWARD sports@mediacorp.com.sg Paul Hayward is chief sports writer at The Daily Telegraph. THE DAILY TELEGRAPH The Steven Gerrard free-kick that drew Liverpool level in their must-win final
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      397 75 AGENCIES LAKERS 98 KINGS 95 NBA legend Magic Johnson believes the Los Angeles Lakers should lose all their games in order to have a better chance of contending for a high lottery pick at next year’s NBA draft, reported ESPN.com. The Lakers went into Tuesday’s game with the
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    • 489 75 World No 1 golfer’s former management firm makes claim in acrimonious war THE DAILY TELEGRAPH LONDON —Rory McIlroy, the world No 1, deliberately “wiped clean” several mobile phones to hide information about the split with his former management company, it has been alleged in a
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    • 143 75 IN BRIEF AP FIFA secretary-general Jerome Valcke says president Sepp Blatter will oppose a January kick-off for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, despite it being a key option under consideration. Valcke tried to narrow the choice to January-February or NovemberDecember after
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    • 38 1 8 HOW SUSTAINABLE SEAFOOD IN SINGAPORE CAN THRIVE 11 JUSTIN BIEBER HAS THE MOST BUZZ ON TWITTER THURSDAY, 11 DECEMBER 2014 WHAT CHILDREN REALLY LIKE (OR DON’T) ON THEIR FAMILY HOLIDAYS 2 PHOTO: GETTY IMAGES; ARTWORK: KENNETH CHOY
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        1135 2 SINCE IT'S THE SCHOOL HOLIDAYS, WE FIND OUT WHAT CHILDREN REALLY FEEL ABOUT FAMILY VACATIONS serenelim@mediacorp.com.sg Everybody loves vacations especially children, right? Well, mostly, said Renn and Aira Lim, the 11-and eight-year-old siblings who are part of award-wining local art collective Holycrap. The pair embarked on a family
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      • 299 3 REUTERS BERLIN —Deals at airport shops have underlined buoyant longterm growth prospects for a sector driven by emerging market jetsetters and the trend towards convenience shopping. “There is a switch from destination retail to shopping on the way to doing something else: Work, holiday,
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      • 546 6  -  JETSETTING WITH SERENE LIM SINGAPORE Peter Pan is certainly the fantasy character of the moment: Hollywood just aired a TV version, Peter Pan Live!, in the United States last week. There’s also the movie, Pan, a retelling of the tale set for next year
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      • 1046 8  -  W SINGAPORE’S NEW BUFFET IS A GOOD EXAMPLE OF VARIETY AND SUSTAINABILITY DON MENDOZA donm@mediacorp.com.sg In a push to make conscious dining a prominent feature and not just an afterthought, W Singapore has collaborated with Australian celebrity chef Peter Kuruvita of Sydney’s Flying Fish Restaurant Bar fame to
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      • 908 9  -  Stakeholders chip in to make sustainable seafood consumption in Singapore the norm DON MENDOZA SINGAPORE The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) has said more than 87 per cent of the world’s oceans are fully exploited or overfished, with Singapore averaging one of the highest rates
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    • culture&lifestyle
      • 245 11 REUTERS LOS ANGELES —Beyonce’s surprise selftitled album was, unsurprisingly, the most-tweeted-about album this year, but overall, Justin Bieber generated the most buzz among the music crowd on Twitter, said a new report from the social media platform. However, despite Bieber taking the
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      • 366 12 The Hollywood actress takes the lead role in Givenchy’s edgy new adverts for 2015 PRETTY WOMAN THE DAILY TELEGRAPH LONDON —Julia Roberts is often associated with her megawatt smile and twinkling teeth, as seen in her Lancome ads for the brand’s La Vie Est Belle perfume.
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      • 593 14  -  Celebrate the festive season with Riberhus Danish Butter Cookies ANNETTE TAN Danish butter cookies have long been a traditional treat. Crisp, buttery and so easy to eat, the fact that they come in beautiful tins are all part of the draw. This explains why Riberhus
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        470 16  -  Angst and quiet contemplation in this triple-bill showcase featuring THE’s Second Company DANCE REVIEW: M1 CONTACT’S ASIAN FESTIVALS EXCHANGE MAYO MARTIN mayo@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Props being lowered from the ceiling seems to be a running gag at the M1 Contact contemporary dance festival. During last week’s THE Dance Company
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