Today, 31 January 2015

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      Lock icon Feedback to preserve public order prompted liquor law, says Iswaran
      694 2  -  Bill not based on opinion polls but operational needs: Second Home Affairs Minister REACH SURVEY DONE LAST WEEK FOUND 81% OF 1,145 RESPONDENTS IN SUPPORT OF RESTRICTIONS NEO CHAI CHIN chaichin@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Debates over the level of support for a
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      Lock icon Couple dead, maid injured in domestic row
      466 4  -  ‘Ken Ong’ emailed various newsrooms about unhappiness with wife after police got call SIX-YEAR-OLD SON AT SCHOOL DURING INCIDENT MATTHIAS TAY matthiastay@med iacorp.com .sg SINGAPORE —An ugly domestic row at a condominium near Jurong Lake Park ended with both husband and wife dead,
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      Lock icon Let migrant workers drink in their dormitories, say MPs
      558 4  -  AMANDA LEE leeguiping@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —Several Member of Parliament (MPs) yesterday sought clarity on how the new law against public drinking would affect foreign-worker dormitories, and urged the authorities not to single out migrant labourers and impose restrictions on drinking in their
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      Lock icon US Q4 growth moderates to 2.6%, slowdown seen short-lived
      641 6 WORLD’S NO 1 ECONOMY GREW 2.4% LAST YEAR AGENCIES WASHINGTON —United States economic growth slowed in the fourth quarter as weak business spending and a wider trade deficit offset the fastest pace of consumption since 2006, but the slowdown is expected
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      Lock icon Japan, Jordan seek news on fate of Islamic State captives
      637 8 Tokyo asks Amman to beef up protection of diplomats on King Abdullah’s birthday yesterday PROTESTS ERUPT IN HOMETOWN OF CAPTURED JORDANIAN PILOT REUTERS AMMAN/TOKYO Japan and Jordan scrambled yesterday to find out what had happened to two of their nationals
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      Lock icon Ignore KLM warning on IS terror attack, says Malaysian police chief
      396 8 THE MALAY MAIL KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian police chief Khalid Abu Bakar yesterday brushed off a security advisory issued by the Royal Dutch Airlines (KLM) claiming of a possible terror attack by Islamic State militants in Malaysia. “Just ignore it,”
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      Lock icon China’s Great Firewall is now harder to breach
      835 9 THE NEW YORK TIMES BEIJING Ms Jing Yuechen, the founder of an Internet startup in Beijing, has no interest in overthrowing the Communist Party. But these days, she finds herself cursing the nation’s smothering cyberpolice as she tries and fails to browse
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      Lock icon UK summons Russian ambassador after bombers disrupt commercial flights
      586 9 AGENCIES LONDON Britain has summoned the Russian ambassador and asked him to explain why two Russian long-range bombers had flown over the English Channel this week, forcing the British authorities to scramble fighter jets to intercept them and reroute civil aircraft.
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      100 7 The late Teresa Hsu is the woman who inspires me most. As a social worker, she devoted her life and savings to help feed and house the poor and elderly. Yet, she herself led a simple and humble lifestyle. Her passion in helping others is truly inspiring and heart-warming. Romeo
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  • voices
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      Lock icon Let’s not deny SEA Games newbies their moment
      479 12  -  FROM DAVID TAY KIM CHYE I refer to the report “Raising interest is priority for SEA Games organisers: Athletes” (Jan 30). The organisers could take a leaf out of the national school championships’ book and understand how these competitions generate enthusiasm among
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      Would flaw have been exposed if not for uproar?
      160 12  -  FROM DANIEL CHAN WAI PIEW The report “No commercial columbarium at temple site in Sengkang” (Jan 30) stated that the plans for the site by the winning tenderer, a company with no religious affiliation, did not correspond to that for a
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      Lock icon Petrol firms sensitive to crude price hikes but not drops
      111 12  -  FROM SAMUEL CHIA LAM SOON Mr Narayana Narayana hit the nail on the head in “Plunging oil prices have not helped consumer” (Jan 29). As a motorist, I notice that when crude oil prices rise, the petroleum companies adjust their
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      Lesson for agencies to be more circumspect when awarding tenders
      100 12  -  FROM JEFFREY LAW LEE BENG The report “No commercial columbarium at temple site in Sengkang” (Jan 30) shows the cracks in the Housing and Development Board’s (HDB) tender procedures. The case would not have arisen if the HDB had not
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      Lock icon Lessons learnt from spending time with elderly
      460 13  -  FROM WAN KWONG WENG The writer has been volunteer chairman of the Adventist Home for the Elders since 2008. What happens when 100 elderly people are pitted against one another? We did that recently and brought back the nostalgic past. Memories flowed back
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      Lock icon Hang on to values to make political diversity a virtue
      215 13  -  FROM TAN KIA LEE I agree with Social and Family Development Minister Chan Chun Sing that society must have the maturity to achieve consensus beyond expressing differing views. (“Political diversity ‘a strength’, but society should seek consensus”; Jan 27) Disagreements
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      Honesty declaration should be expanded into declaration of ethics
      262 13  -  FROM SUM SIEW KEE I support the suggestion that civil servants sign an honesty declaration. (“Honesty declaration would have implications for civil servants”; Jan 20) Such a declaration, or even the current practice of declaring debt liabilities, would serve to remind
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      Corrections
      73 13 In the article “Using an East-meets-West approach” (Jan 21), we named a clinic at Tan Tock Seng Hospital as the Complementary Integrated Medicine department. Its correct name is the Complementary Integrative Medicine Clinic. In “Singaporeans continue to shun non-PMET jobs” (Jan 28), we reported that the job vacancy rate
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      33 13 LETTER POSSIBLE USE OF TECHNOLOGY FOR LAST-MILE POSTAL DELIVERY Scan the QR code using your smartphone, or you can visit tdy.sg/ltrsingpost for the letter from Patsie Tan, assistant vice-president, group communications, Singapore Post.
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  • singapore
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      Lock icon Plan in place to douse chutes to fight home fires
      648 14  -  Number of blazes up for first time since 2009, largely due to increase in vegetation fires TRIAL COULD START BY JULY ROBIN CHOO robinchoorb@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The authorities have come up with an idea to cut down on the number of
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      Lock icon AGEING POPULATION DRIVES RISE IN EMERGENCY CALLS TO SCDF
      158 14  -  ROBIN CHOO The number of Emergency Medical Service (EMS) calls the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) receives continues to rise, largely because of a growing demand for ambulance services due to Singapore’s ageing population.Last year, there were 155,781 calls, up 3.7
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      MBS fined S$65,000, RWS censured for breaching casino law
      177 14 SINGAPORE Marina Bay Sands (MBS) has been fined a total of S$65,000 and Resorts World Sentosa (RWS) has been censured for various breaches, including allowing excluded persons or people without valid entry levies to enter or remain on their casino premises.
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      ‘Messiah’ hacker jailed for computer misuse, taking drugs
      419 16  -  Need to send strong signal to like-minded persons about such conduct, says judge JAMES RAJ GETS 56 MONTHS IN PRISON YVONNE LIM yvonnelimsy@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Hacker James Raj Arokiasamy, who uses the pseudonym The Messiah, has been sentenced to 56 months in prison
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      Lock icon CHC trial: Chew ‘consulted board, lawyers on plan’
      483 16  -  KELLY NG kellyng@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE While admitting that he was the sole author of a plan to channel funds into audio-visual firm Xtron Productions to acquire a site to house City Harvest Church (CHC) and redeem bonds, the church’s former investment manager Chew
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      Lock icon TODAY Shop to Win draw
      141 16 It was the first big win for Mr Tan Meng Chuan (centre), seen here receiving a cheque for S$10,000 from Mr Tng Ah Yiam, deputy chief executive officer (merchandising) of NTUC FairPrice Co-operative, and Ms Caroline Bone, marketing manager of MediaCorp Press. Mr Tan, who
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      Lock icon Chinese MH370 relatives reject word of passengers’ deaths, want evidence
      577 18 Families demand retraction, do not want to start compensation claims without any hard proof MALAYSIAN INSURERS HAVE PAID OUT S$6.27M TO NEXT OF KIN AGENCIES KUALA LUMPUR Many Chinese families of passengers on the missing Malaysian airliner demanded yesterday that
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      Lock icon PR must be bold, cohesive without me, says Anwar
      593 18 THE MALAYSIAN INSIDER KUALA LUMPUR Opposition coalition Pakatan Rakyat (PR) has to be bold and courageous to make the changes the people want, with or without him at the helm, said Anwar Ibrahim ahead of the Federal Court’s verdict on his
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      Lock icon ASEAN Political-Security Community ‘still a distant goal’
      1147 20  -  Analysts say lack of unified voice on South China Sea dispute shows the bloc still has some way to go MANAGING OVERLAPPING CLAIMS A MAJOR TEST FOR GROUP ALBERT WAI albertwai@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) plans to form a
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      Lock icon Aquino orders hunt for terror suspect as Philippines mourns commandos
      596 21 AP MANILA The Philippine President said yesterday he has ordered a hunt for a Filipino terror suspect who escaped an anti-terrorist operation that resulted in the deaths of 44 police commandos. The biggest single-day combat loss in recent years, the
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      Lock icon Mining or austerity? Mongolians asked to choose via text
      552 21 THE FINANCIAL TIMES ULAN BATOR Mongolia is holding an X Factor-style referendum by text message after the Prime Minister turned to direct democracy to help shape the country’s economic policy. Prime Minister Saikhanbileg Chimed’s plan has echoes of television talent shows,
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      182 19 Channel NewsAsia Videos Latest News Top News News Stones Photo Gallery Weat Sony cancels North STi Korea parody film.. p Unique Asian perspectives 18 Dec 2014 07:36 mm SPORT Football: Sterling* lifts Rodgers as I Liverpool make P League Cup semis i a* av Award-winning programm 18 Dec 2014 w
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  • business
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      Lock icon S’pore banks to get earnings boost from rising rates: Analysts
      705 22  -  DBS, OCBC and UOB could see their bottom lines improve between 1% and 3 for every 25-basis-point rise in Sibor MAS MOVE ‘HELPS KEEP S’PORE POLICY ON STABLE FOOTING’ LEE YEN NEE leeyennee@med iacorp.com .sg S I N G A
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      Electronics, transport engineering clusters gloomy over prospects: Survey
      503 22  -  ANGELA TENG angelateng@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —Manufacturers in the key electronics and transport engineering clusters expect business prospects to worsen in the six months to June, an Economic Development Board (EDB) survey showed yesterday, but they were an exception to the overall outlook, with
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      Lock icon Weak inflation puts pressure on BoJ despite pick-up in economy
      537 23 REUTERS TOKYO Japan’s core inflation slowed for a fifth straight month in December, official data showed yesterday, adding more distance to the central bank’s 2 per cent price target as other data pointed to a steady recovery for the recession-hit
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      Lock icon BOC HK ‘mulling over sale of Nanyang for S$8b’
      417 23 REUTERS HONG KONG Lender BOC Hong Kong Holdings is considering a sale of subsidiary Nanyang Commercial Bank (NCB) that could fetch about US$6 billion (S$8 billion), in a bid to stop cannibalising the China business of its parent, people familiar with
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      Lock icon China overtakes US as world’s top investment destination
      413 23 REUTERS GENEVA China overtook the flagging United States to become the top destination for foreign direct investment (FDI) last year, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) said in a report late on Thursday. The US has long been the
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  • sports
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      Lock icon THE UNSTOPPABLE ATTACK vs THE IMMOVABLE DEFENCE
      692 24 Asian Cup final between Australia and South Korea will be intriguing test HOSTS HAVE SLIGHT ADVANTAGE AP SYDNEY The Asian Cup final between Australia and South Korea presents the familiar conundrum of the irresistible force meeting the immovable object. Australia, the tournament’s high-est-scoring
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      Lock icon AUSTRALIA’S PLACE IN ASIA QUESTIONED
      453 24 REUTERS Asia’s football chief has admitted there is a groundswell of opinion in the west of the continent that Australia’s membership of the confederation has not worked out and they should be expelled.Australia meets South Korea for the Asian Cup today after what is widely
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      Lock icon NO LOVE LOST BETWEEN SERENA AND SHARAPOVA
      499 25  -  RUSSIANHAS ST THEIR LAS 15MATCH-UPS COMMENTARY BY SIMON BRIGGS IN MELBOURNE Simon Briggs is a columnist with The Daily Telegraph. THE DAILY TELEGRAPH The sporting world’s most onesided rivalry will be reunited in the women’s singles final, after both Maria Sharapova and Serena
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      Lock icon SOLEMN DJOKOVIC GLAD TO BE IN FINAL AFTER ERROR-STREWN SHOW
      480 25 REUTERS MELBOURNE A solemn Novak Djokovic will look for positives from his previous clashes at Melbourne Park after playing arguably his worst match of the tournament in edging a mentally “dead” Stan Wawrinka in five sets yesterday. The top-seeded Serb
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      Lock icon ONE FOR THE HISTORY BOOKS
      704 26 Despite ‘Deflate-gate’, subplots make Patriots-Seahawks a potential all-time classic SEATTLE EYE BACK-TO-BACK TITLES REUTERS PHOENIX (ARIZONA) —The Seattle Seahawks and New England Patriots could produce one of the greatest Super Bowls of all-time on Sunday (Monday morning, Singapore time), but the real winner may be
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      Lock icon CITY CAN MAKE CHELSEA BLINK FIRST
      723 27  -  If Chelsea win, the Premier League title will firmly be within their grasp. Defeat to Manchester City, however, could blow the race wide open again. Stamford Bridge plays host to the biggest match of the season tonight and TODAY football analyst Adrian Clarke (sports@mediacorp.com.
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      Lock icon UP TO SAFUWAN TO SEIZE CHANCE: MELBOURNE COACH
      436 27  -  EMMANUEL PHUA SINGAPORE Barely 72 hours after landing in Melbourne, Safuwan Baharudin could make his A-League debut with new club Melbourne City in tomorrow’s clash (2pm, Singapore time) against bottom club and reigning AFC Champions League champions Western Sydney Wanderers. The Singapore
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      Lock icon VAN PERSIE’S TIME IS UP, SAYS SHARPE
      687 28  -  Offloading Dutchman might help United, says former star SHARPE IN TOWN FOR WEEKEND’S SCC SOCCER SIXES ADELENE WONG adelenewong@mediacorp.com.sg S I NG A PO R E Former Manchester United star Lee Sharpe believes the club would not be adversely affected should manager Louis
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      Lock icon NBA WATCH
      367 28 AP LAKERS123 BULLS118 Jordan Hill scored 26 points and forced the second overtime with a clutch jumper, and the Los Angeles Lakers snapped their nine-game losing streak in thrilling fashion with a 123-118 victory over the Chicago Bulls on Thursday. Wayne Ellington scored 23 points and rookie Jordan
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      72 27 LIVE FIXTURES Tonight, 8.45pm Channel Singtel TV StarHub Hull v Newcastle 102 227 Tonight, 10.55pm Man Utd v Leicester 102 227 Liverpool v West Ham 103 228 West Brom v Spurs 104 229 C Palace v Everton 105 230 Stoke v QPR 106 231 Sunderland v Burnley 107 232 Tomorrow,
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      92 28 Sat, 31/01/15 LW* Telecast not available at Livewire(Singapore Pools) For the latest live’ telecast listing, visit www.singaporepools.com.sg iw mww! Live wire (MBS) Livewire (RWS) (21 years and above) Livewire (Singapore Pools) (21 years and above during live’ telecast) SB SportsBuzz@Kranji (18 years and above) Ip Y(i> Always play with care.
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      56 29 SATURDAY, 31 JANUARY 2015 URBAN SCAPES TWO NEW EXHIBITIONS TAKE A LOOK AT ONE OF SINGAPORE’S MOST INTERESTING LANDMARKS GOLDEN MILE 30 HITTING THE ROAD TWENTY TALENTS SELECTED FOR TRAVELLING SHOWCASE OF SINGAPORE’S CREATIVITY 31 LOOK WHAT’S COOKIN’ FIVE SINGAPORE CHEFS MAKE THE CUT FOR S.PELLEGRINO YOUNG CHEF 2015 GLOBAL
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        Lock icon GOLDEN MILESTONE
        751 30  -  TWO EXHIBITIONS CELEBRATE ONE OF SINGAPORE’S BOLDER EXPERIMENTS IN URBAN PLANNING BRUCE QUEK features@mediacorp.com.sg You can call it what you like, but Golden Mile Complex is not just a visually striking building. This landmark is also a bold experiment in urban planning, blending the commercial and residential aspects
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        Lock icon 20 S’pore creatives selected for travelling showcase
        573 31  -  Called Singapore: Inside Out, it will visit Beijing, London, New York before heading home SHOW AND TELL HON JING YI SINGAPORE —A diverse range of creative talent. That’s what organisers of the travelling showcase called Singapore: Inside Out wanted and that’s what people
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        Lock icon Star Wars docu set for year-end release
        255 32 REUTERS LOS ANGELES —The Works International has acquired exclusive worldwide sales rights for Elstree 1976, a documentary about the effect Star Wars had on the lives of some of the actors and extras involved in making the film. The film is in post-production,
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        Lock icon Over and out for Capital 95.8FM’s Wang Di Cong
        161 32  -  HON JING YI SINGAPORE Capital 95.8FM DJ Wang Di Cong (picture) will be leaving MediaCorp, after 19 years in the business. “This has been an amazing and touching journey!” Wang said in a statement, adding only that he will be leaving
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        S’pore-based chefs add local flavour to global talent search
        623 32  -  Five chefs are part of the shortlist for S. Pellegrino Young Chef 2015 semi-finals COOKING UP A STORM DON MENDOZA donm@mediacorp.com. sg SINGAPORE The future of Singapore’s feted culinary scene looks bright in the hands of its young chefs if what
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        Lock icon Did Napoleon win at Waterloo?
        509 34 A French re-enactment of the decisive battle in 1815 seeks to portray the French general as a victor of sorts REWRITING HISTORY THE DAILY TELEGRAPH LONDON “My, my, at Waterloo Napoleon did surrender,” sang Swedish pop group Abba in their 1974 hit song, Waterloo. But
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        Lock icon Naomi Campbell’s star-studded charity gig
        301 34 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH LONDON Naomi Campbell’s pledge to raise funds and awareness for the fight against Ebola hasn’t fallen flat. The supermodel will open next month’s London Fashion Week with a huge catwalk extravaganza, which will no doubt see more than a few famous faces
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        Lock icon No honour in lying
        302 35 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH LONDON American Sniper, the Oscarnominated Clint Eastwood film starring Bradley Cooper, has come under fire from various groups recently. Based on former United States Navy SEAL and sniper Chris Kyle’s bestselling 2012 memoir, American Sniper: The Autobiography Of The Most Lethal Sniper In
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      86 33 ARE YOU OUR NEXT z .HOWTO ENTER? E-mail two recent high-resolution colour photographs (1 close-up portrait 1 full-length shot) to fhmmodel@mediacorp.com.sg by 28 February 2015 with the following details: Name Age Date of birth NRIC number Mobile number E-mail Occupation Address 2. NOMINATE A FRIEND and if she’s one of
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      44 34 January Lucky Draw Bintan Paradise Getaway 2D1N stay at Blue Ocean Junior Suite and 2-way ferry worth $400 3 packages up for grabs EARN POINTS SIGN UP AT MECLUB.SG AND UPDATE YOUR PROFILE TO BE ELIGIBLE Download MeClub app now TERMS AND CONDITIONS APPLY
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      68 35 No more upsize, please McDonald’s franchisees are asking the company to stick to basic burgers and fries http://tdy.sg/burgerbasics All Your Favourite Makan Places In One Place! Ch 5’s hit TV show, Our Makan Places: Lost Found, Season 4 5, is now available in a handy guide. Rediscover 70 well-loved hawker
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      1149 36 CHANNEL CHANNEL programming@channelnewsasia.com tellchannel5@mediacorp.com.sg 6.00AM Spin II 6.30 Chemistry 7 .00 JML TV Home Shopping (Paid Presentation) 8.00 The Dr Oz Show III 9.00 Better Show (HD) 9.45 Just For Laughs Gags XII 10.00 The Queen Latifah Show (HD) (PG) 11.00 Body In Balance NOON I Kid With Brad Garrett
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      755 8  -  By NICOLA CLARK THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY PARIS Sharply falling oil prices are a boon to airlines, saving billions of dollars in monthly fuel bills for a highly competitive industry that last year eked out an average profit
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      781 12  -  By BILLY WITZ THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY Consider the statement American Airlines was making recently when, as part of its postmerger rebranding, it unveiled prototypes of uniforms for flight attendants and other employees. The color is charcoal gray and lots
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