The Straits Times, 14 November 2011

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    18 1 TH E STRAITS TIMES. MICA(P)108/11/2010 MONDAY, NOVEMBER 14 2011 A SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS PUBLICATION ESTABLISHED 1845 90 CENTS
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      Lock icon A ‘special relationship’
      56 1 CHINA’S Deng Xiaoping and Singapore’s Lee Kuan Yew had much in common both were bold leaders unafraid to remake their countries in radical ways. Now, a new book by a Harvard professor reveals for the first time the depth of the great Chinese reformer’s admiration for Singapore’s
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      Lock icon Long cleanup for Japan
      40 1 THE chaotic mess at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, witnessed by journalists over the weekend, is a telling sign of the daunting task Japan is facing to stabilise the plant. L WORLD PAGES A12-13
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      Lock icon Car buyers going for vans
      61 1 WITH cars at near-record prices no thanks to a limited supply of certificates of entitlement buyers here have begun looking at commercial vehicles such as the Renault Kangoo. They are not only cheaper compared to entry-level sedans, but also come with added features like glass
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      Lock icon $26m for video start-up
      41 1 A SINGAPORE-BASED Web-based video start-up could be the next big thing after a group of A-list investors with an impressive track record for picking winners tipped US$20 million (S$26 million) into the firm. L MONEY PAGE B22
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    Lock icon 9-nation Asia-Pacific trade pact by next July
    748 1  -  Ambitious deadline set for ground-breaking ‘21st century’ agreement BY CHUA CHIN HON US BUREAU CHIEF chinhon@sph.com.sg HONOLULU: Nine Asia-Pacific countries, including Singapore, have set an ambitious goal of completing their groundbreaking multilateral trade agreement by next July, a move that gives fresh momentum
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    Lock icon LEAPING TO A GOLD MEDAL
    99 1 SINGAPORE’S gymnasts, led by Lim Heem Wei (above), retained their women’s artistic team gold at the SEA Games yesterday, a day which saw the Republic add five golds to its medal tally. In the pool, swim queen Tao Li led the women’s 4x200m relay team
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    Lock icon Bangkok-bound tourists heading to Singapore instead
    829 1  -  BY SHULI SUDDERUDDIN shulis@sph.com.sg TOURISTS who are put off by the Bangkok floods are choosing to come to Singapore for their year-end vacation instead. Travel agencies and hotels say they have seen a spike in the number of visitors especially from China, Vietnam, India
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    Lock icon Scramble for emergency govt after Berlusconi quits
    680 1 REUTERS ASSOCIATED PRESS ROME: Italy’s President raced to appoint an emergency government yesterday to face a crisis endangering the whole euro zone and replace Mr Silvio Berlusconi, who resigned as Prime Minister to the jeers of thousands of protesters. Just a few hours
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      101 1 SINGAPORE PIONEERS How Tan Wee Kiat greened the little red dot LIFE! PAGE C4 Saving Gilad Shalit: The inside story WORLD, PAGES A18&19 Painted elephant vandalised PRIME, PAGE A9 BREAKING NEWS: www.straitstimes.com INTERACT: www.stomp.com.sg EMAIL: stomp@stomp.com.sg VIDEOS: www.razortv.com.sg NEWS TIPS: 1800-*****28 CALL 6388-3838 TO SUBSCRIBE OR GO TO www.sphsubscription.com.sg A
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        Lock icon Will you be staying for long?
        72 2 WE SAY The Obama administration’s pledge of re-engagement with the Asia-Pacific, where it is seeking opportunities for growth and to spur jobs for Americans, is a welcome move. But how much will the domestic fight over budget reforms, a bruising re-election battle, or the
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      • COLUMNS
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          Lock icon Defusing climate bomb
          36 2 With a methane climate bomb evidently ticking on land and the seafloor, defusing it amid global economic stress will be a major challenge for political leaders, says Michael Richardson. L REVIEW PAGE A23
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          Lock icon Firms, sound alarm early
          23 2 Profit warnings are never welcome, but blind-siding investors is even worse, says Goh Eng Yeow. L MONEY PAGE B18
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        Lock icon Imparting moral values
        48 2 OUR READER SAYS It is heartening to know that the new education policy will highlight moral education, says Toh Kah Beng, who suggests that publishing a book of real-life moral tales may be quite effective in imparting values and building character. L FORUM PAGE A24
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        Lock icon ONLINE BLOGS
        19 2 www.straitstimes.com L Nicholas Yong reflects on being called “ancient” in the army at the age of 31.
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      Lock icon Make HIP upgrading Hipper for the elderly
      1062 2  -  Give senior citizens non-slip tiles, handrails, ramps in their HDB flats BY TOH YONG CHUAN SENIOR CORRESPONDENT tohyc@sph.com.sg HE youthful minister Chan Chun Sing, who helms the Community Development, Youth and Sports Ministry, announced last week that the Government will soon build three
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      Lock icon Lee Kuan Yew and Deng Xiaoping ‘had special bond’
      899 3  -  New book on Chinese leader tells of mutual respect and admiration BY LESLIE KOH leskoh@sph.com.sg ONE founded a tiny nation of two million, and succeeded in turning it into an economic powerhouse. The other reformed a once-great empire of more than
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      Lock icon Excerpts from the book
      448 3 L THEIR FIRST MEETING WHEN they met, Singapore was an orderly, tidy city-state already growing rapidly, and gigantic China was poor and messy. China’s population was four hundred times that of Singapore, but Singapore, as the intellectual and financial center of Southeast Asia, and with a
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      Lock icon Painted elephant hit by vandals
      653 9  -  Other ‘at risk’ exhibits may be cordoned off BY KIMBERLY SPYKERMAN kimspyke@sph.com.sg IT LOOKS like one of the 162 brightly painted baby elephant statues on display around town has already been vandalised, barely two days into their debut. The organisers of Elephant Parade Singapore, an
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      Lock icon Germany ‘has backup plan if Greece quits euro’
      475 10 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE REUTERS ATHENS: Greece’s new Prime Minister Lucas Papademos has held urgent talks with French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel on the bailout for his debt-hit country. Both Mr Sarkozy and Dr Merkel underlined the need for Greece
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      Lock icon US-S’pore ‘trusted traveller partnership’
      128 6  -  CHUA CHIN HON HONOLULU: Singapore is set to become the first South-east Asian country to establish a “trusted traveller partnership” with the United States, a scheme aimed at easing travel between the two countries for pre-screened citizens. This would allow eligible travellers to significantly speed up
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      Lock icon World’s biggest free trade zone in the making
      380 6 SOURCE: AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE KEY features of the new free trade agreement spanning the Pacific, called the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP): L PARTICIPATING COUNTRIES: Australia, Brunei, Chile, Malaysia, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, the United States and Vietnam. Japan has said it will join the
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      Lock icon Extra safety raft for S’pore, says PM
      633 6  -  BY CHUA CHIN HON US BUREAU CHIEF HONOLULU: Trade-dependent Singapore can naturally expect a boost from the freer flow of goods, services and investments that the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a nine-country free trade agreement, would eventually usher in. And, given the choppy waters
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      Lock icon Including Japan ‘makes pact stronger’
      477 6  -  CHUA CHIN HON HONOLULU: Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong voiced strong support for Japan’s decision to join the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), noting that Tokyo’s involvement would significantly boost the fledgling trade deal. “Although Japan’s participation will make negotiations more complex, in the longer run
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      Lock icon Obama gives Hu an earful over yuan
      717 7 Leaders also at odds over trade agenda REUTERS BLOOMBERG HONOLULU: United States President Barack Obama and Chinese President Hu Jintao presented duelling trade agendas at a Pacific summit on Saturday that underscored growing tensions between the world’s two biggest economies. Mr Hu and
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      Lock icon China pledges reforms, wants more say in global economy
      565 8 Hu stresses that the Doha Round is favoured arena for free trade talks REUTERS HONOLULU: Chinese President Hu Jintao sought to reassure executives at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) summit on Saturday that China is open for business and will advance
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    • APEC BRIEFS
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        Lock icon Moderates foundation to be launched in January: Najib
        68 8 BERNAMA THE Global Movement of the Moderates Foundation will be formally launched in Kuala Lumpur next January, Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak announced on Saturday. The move to establish the foundation was timely as international support for moderation was gaining momentum in
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        Lock icon Yudhoyono makes a point with a song
        75 8 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE WHILE other national leaders play golf or ride horses to relax, Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono says he composes songs. One of his compositions on the environment was played just before he spoke to business leaders on Saturday on the sidelines
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        Lock icon 400 hold protest march at summit
        110 8 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE HUNDREDS of anti-globalisation activists, anti-capitalist protesters and native Hawaiians defied tight security on Saturday to march in Honolulu in protest at the Apec summit. The mixed bag of at least 400 protesters sought to emulate the anti-capitalist “Occupy” demonstrations seen elsewhere, and
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        Lock icon Noda agrees to visit China to strengthen ties
        102 8 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE JAPANESE Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda on Saturday agreed to visit China this year as he met President Hu Jintao to discuss the Asian powers’ often uneasy relations. “Next year will mark the 40th anniversary of the establishment of relations between
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        Lock icon Chinese leaders mulling over political reform: Lien
        81 8 BLOOMBERG MR LIEN Chan, the honorary chairman of Taiwan’s ruling Kuomintang Party, said he believes China’s leaders are considering some degree of political reform “in the coming decade”. He mentioned laws protecting property rights and local elections as signs of recent political progress.
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      Lock icon Hopeful talk skirts darker truths
      906 12 Reactors more stable now, but signs of danger are still evident INSIDE FUKUSHIMA NEW YORK TIMES FUKUSHIMA (Japan): The most striking feature at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant last Saturday was not the blasted-out reactor buildings or the makeshift tsunami walls, but the
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      Lock icon WHAT’S ONLINE FOLLOW AND ENGAGE ST ONLINE
      92 12 News: www.straitstimes.com Connect: www.facebook.com/thestraitstimes Follow: twitter.com/stcom TOP THREE WORLD STORIES ONLINE L ‘Jewish mothers’ behind high-tech boom L Small nations can also be tech giants L Singapore has highest proportion of ‘creative class’ workers More Forum letters online at www.straitstimes.com PHOTO GALLERIES ONLINE
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    • world.regional
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        Lock icon Anti-nuclear protests gain strength
        638 13  -  IN INDIA BY NIRMALA GANAPATHY INDIA CORRESPONDENT NEW DELHI: Japan’s nuclear plant crisis is galvanis ing anti-nuclear protesters around the world, particularly in India, where the government plans to double the number of such plants to 41 by 2030. The spectre of Fukushima, the site of
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        Lock icon Vietnam eyes naval boost against China
        625 14 It raises arms spending and taps history to back claims to disputed isles AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE HAI PHONG (Vietnam): Facing an emboldened and heavily armed China in a territorial stand-off, Vietnam is looking to swell its naval reputation with enhanced firepower and renewed pride in
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        Lock icon Myanmar to free more political prisoners
        273 14 AGENCE-FRANCE PRESSE YANGON: Myanmar is to declare a new prisoner amnesty today that will include political detainees, government officials said yesterday. “Some prisoners will be released on Monday, an official who did not wish to be named told Agence France-Presse, while another added that
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        Lock icon Chinese villagers riot over land dispute
        334 14 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE BEIJING: Villagers carrying clubs and rocks rioted in south China over a land dispute, police said yesterday, and a newspaper said thousands of armed police had been dispatched to quell the protest. Police in Guangdong province’s Zhongshan said on their Twitter-like Weibo
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        Lock icon NBA’s loss, China’s gain
        960 16  -  US basketball lockdown pushes players to China MEMO FROM BEIJING BY Peh Shing Huei CHINA BUREAU CHIEF shpeh@sph.com.sg TIME out for America is fast becoming a slam dunk for China. And it goes beyond just the economy. As the world-famous National Basketball Association (NBA) continues to
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    • world.international
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        Lock icon The rising price of an Israeli life
        2341 18/19 Release of Gilad Shalit everyone’s son, everyone’s brother shows inability to tolerate even a single soldier held in captivity NEW YORK TIMES ON THE afternoon of June 27, 1976, Palestinian and German terrorists hijacked an Air France flight originating from Israel and directed
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        Lock icon Guerilla chief’s master stroke
        536 18/19 Ahmed Jibril and the art of a prisoner swop NEW YORK TIMES THE first to grasp how sensitive Israeli public opinion was on the issue of hostages and therefore what a powerful weapon abduction could be was Mr Ahmed Jibril, the leader of a faction of
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        Lock icon Suspended Syria seeks Arab summit
        526 20 Pro-govt groups break into Saudi and Qatari embassies in protest AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE ASSOCIATED PRESS DAMASCUS: The Syrian government yesterday called for an Arab summit, a day after the Arab League suspended the country’s membership over its failure to implement a plan to end eight months
        AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE; ASSOCIATED PRESS; PHOTO: AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE  -  526 words
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        Lock icon Brazil expels drug gangs in Rio’s biggest slum
        310 20 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE ASSOCIATED PRESS RIO DE JANEIRO: Brazilian elite police units yesterday took control of Rio de Janeiro’s biggest slum Rocinha, driving out drug gangs who had been ruling the area for 30 years. The long-anticipated operation in a city that has
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        Lock icon Take a roller-coaster walk
        81 21 Visitors exploring a newly inaugurated roller-coaster sculpture, Tiger Turtle Magic Mountain, in Duisburg, western Germany. Created by German artists Heike Mutter and Ulrich Genth, the 18m-high walk-on sculpture made of galvanised steel stands on top of a mining waste tip in Duisburg’s Angerpark landscape park. Said
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          Lock icon Thai floods receding
          100 21 BLOOMBERG BANGKOK: Officials said floodwaters receded further in areas north and east of the Thai capital, easing concern that flooding will spread to the business and tourist districts. A 6km sandbag wall has slowed the water flow into northern districts, the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration said yesterday on
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          Lock icon iPod battery overheating
          100 21 XINHUA SAN FRANCISCO: Apple has announced a worldwide replacement programme for the first-generation iPod Nano music player due to overheating battery issues, telling owners to stop using the product and get it replaced for free. Affected devices were sold between September 2005 and December 2006, Apple said
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          Lock icon Drug bust in Malaysia
          74 21 THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK ALOR SETAR: Police busted an international drug syndicate and seized RM20 million (S$8.2 million) worth of drugs in two raids in Kedah and Penang. Eleven men aged between 20 and 60, including two Singaporeans and four other foreigners, were arrested. Police said
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          Lock icon US ‘sorry’ for frisking
          133 21 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE NEW DELHI: The US yesterday apologised to former Indian president A.P.J. Abdul Kalam after New Delhi complained that he had been frisked at a New York airport. The Press Trust of India news agency said security personnel entered the passenger aircraft before it took
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          Lock icon Space probe still troubled
          88 21 ASSOCIATED PRESS MOSCOW: Russian space engineers are still struggling to fix a probe bound for a moon of Mars that instead got stuck in Earth’s orbit. The probe was launched last Wednesday and reached preliminary orbit, but its engines never fired to send it off to
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        Lock icon Misdiagnosis that’s hard to stomach
        279 21 SLICEOFLIFE AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE SYDNEY: An Australian man endured chemotherapy and surgery to remove 80 per cent of his stomach after being told he had cancer, only to later learn it was a misdiagnosis. Mr Graham Lord, 59, of Gosford, north of Sydney, is suing local
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      432 22 THE buzzwords for the Obama administration for the better part of last week, and for some months to come no doubt, have been “pivot” and “Asia-Pacific”. They are meant to signal a reorientation of its focus and its re-engagement with a region off the
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      774 22  -  BY GUSTAV BOETHIUS FOR THE STRAITS TIMES The writer works at the Middle East Institute, National University of Singapore. He focuses on energy and climate issues in the Middle East. CONSIDERABLE opportunities are emerging for Singapore businesses in the member states of the
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        829 23  -  BY ROBERT KARNIOL DEFENCE WRITER rkarniol@sph.com.sg THERE is a moral imperative behind the American military’s embrace of non-lethal weapons (NLW), behind the receptive interest of its Nato partners and the attention of its Asia-Pa-cific friends. But there is also a vital strategic element. “If
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        284 24  -  Toh Kah Beng (Mrs) NOW that there is a shift in our education policy to focus on teaching our children values and building character, allow me to offer a personal moral tale. When my mother was pregnant, the doctor at a hospital diagnosed it
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        100 24 “I do not remember what they taught me about values, but I do remember that they were gentlemen.” MR STEVEN OOI: “I believe the most powerful way to teach values is for teachers to teach by example (‘Morals maths new way to teach values’; last Wednesday). I remember
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        83 24 1 MR CHRISTOPHER LIM: Regulate costs of alternative medicine too 2 MR STEVEN LEE: Encourage car-pooling 3 MRS ELISABETH RAMAN VERLINDE: Motorists taken for a ride on carpark security? 4 MR LAWRENCE CHAN: Have two-way escalators at link bridge to SGH 5 MR CHOO CHIANG CHUAN: Slow download
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        207 24  -  Ho Swee Huat GIVEN the lack of understanding regarding the role of the elected president, it may be timely for the Government to consider reverting to an appointed presidency (“Many confused about job of president: Poll”, Nov 2; and the editorial “Fixing perceptions of the
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        148 24  -  Bennie Cheok I AM appalled by the news of the tie-up between Singapore Post and DBS Bank (“DBS services at post offices from Jan 3”; last Friday). While giving bank customers additional outlets for their banking transactions, it will, however, create a long queue for those
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        235 24  -  Clarence Pong Head, Corporate Communications and Marketing MediaCorp OUR coverage of the 26th SEA Games takes into consideration the different viewing expectations of the diverse audience base of Channel 5 as a mass entertainment channel (“SEA Games coverage:
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      720 1  -  In effort to woo car buyers, dealers dress up commercial vehicles BY CHRISTOPHER TAN SENIOR CORRESPONDENT christan@sph.com.sg WHEN businessman Solomon Tang, 37, was shopping for a compact runabout for his mother-in-law recently, he bought a Renault Kangoo van. It may not be
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      760 2  -  Counsellors, MPs seek to stop debts from piling up, but are against ban on the low-income BY JANICE TAI CHERYL ONG jantai@sph.com.sg ongyiern@sph.com.sg SOME go to the casinos to strike it rich, but a 58-year-old kitchen supervisor said he does so only
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      100 2 Religious leaders from different faiths offering prayers during a Remembrance Day service at Kranji War Cemetery yesterday morning. More than 2,000 guests and members of the public attended the 30-minute ceremony, which was organised by the British High Commission and the Singapore Armed Forces Veterans’ League.
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      511 4  -  Neighbouring countries growing their aerospace sectors, but S’pore has first-mover advantage BY KARAMJIT KAUR AVIATION CORRESPONDENT karam@sph.com.sg THE decision by global engine giant Rolls-Royce to build a mega $700 million facility at Seletar Aerospace Park will boost not just Singapore’s aerospace sector. Government
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      410 4  -  BY SHULI SUDDERUDDIN RESIDENTS in Choa Chu Kang Avenue 3 can now exercise with a technological twist thanks to a new fitness centre that was opened yesterday by Chua Chu Kang GRC MP Zaqy Mohamad. Besides the usual signs that instruct users on how
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      641 5  -  Opposition to hold forum on ministers’ pay before govt review, unveils 7 committees BY ANDREA ONG andreao@sph.com.sg THE National Solidarity Party (NSP), the opposition party which fielded the highest number of candidates in the May General Election, will hold a public forum on ministerial
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      89 5 Performers presenting the multi-ethnic background of Singapore in an original dance titled Scent Of Life, last night. The performance took place after the 20th World Orchid Conference gala dinner and tour of the Gardens by the Bay Flower Dome, which saw 750 local and international
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      653 6  - Singles’ events minus the stigma More singles warming up to idea of socialising through shared interests BY KEZIA TOH keziatoh@sph.com.sg TEACHER Karen Lin had never been to a singles’ event she often found the settings too contrived. But in February, the 28-year-old paid $30 to spend half a day with
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      282 6  -  MELISSA PANG POLICE fired a Taser gun at a Caucasian man who charged at an officer early yesterday morning. They were responding to a call from staff of a Geylang lodging house requesting assistance after the 34-year-old man refused to leave. He is believed
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      685 7  -  Scheme aims to ensure smooth transition, teaching them to manage condition BY MELISSA PANG melpang@sph.com.sg IT IS a classic example of what can go wrong when a diabetic defaults on proper treatment. A 25-year-old woman who has had diabetes since she was
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      184 8 GET a taste of Korea at Orchard Hotel’s Orchard Café, where its buffet promotion on authentic Korean delicacies is running till Nov 27. The Korean pro- motion has returned after a three-year hia- tus and this time, Chefs Gu Yong Hoi and Heo Jin
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      209 8 WITH the debut of Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition in South-east Asia for the first time, visitors to the ArtScience Museum at Marina Bay Sands can view more than 275 items from the RMS Titanic till April next year. Visitors will be drawn to the artefacts
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      712 8  -  High Definition cameras and video-recording devices are more affordable these days and amateurs use them to shoot images like the professionals BYGOHHWEEKOON GOH HWEE KOON WITH the recent entry of red-hot high definition cameras and video cameras, your options for the perfect recording device have just
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      295 8 THE results of who among the 18 finalists will clinch the top spots in Singapore Hawker Masters 2011 will be known on Nov 30. The winners will receive their awards from Minister for the Environment Water Resources, Dr Vivian Balakrishnan, at the Asian Masters
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      247 8 WITH the launch of the redefined Beautyrest Black Series, Simmons has successfully combined the best in mattress technology and aesthetical appeal in pursuit of the perfect mattress. The new Beautyrest Black collection, which includes the Beautyrest Black Beyond collection, offers three new models
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        43 8 Buy three packs of Vitagen Less Sugar ($2.85 each) and Vitagen Collagen Less Sugar ($3.60 each) or both and get a free limited edition Vitagen water bottle, available in six colours. Promotion ends Nov 30. Available at supermarkets and convenience stores.
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        45 8 Dynasty Travel offers payment services via 750 AXS Stations island-wide and it is the first travel agent in Singapore to do so. Customers with new bookings are entitled to $20 off when they make payment through any AXS Station. For enquiries, call 6338-4455.
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        36 8 For this month only, Marigold Low Fat Yoghurt is offering a Yummy Delights variety pack ($2.95) that comprises four popular flavours Strawberry, Natural, Fruit Salad and Peach in a multi-purpose container. Available at supermarkets.
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        39 8 Forevermark, the diamond brand from the De Beers Group of companies, has launched the new Forevermark Millemoi collection with exquisite contemporary designs. The range includes rings, bracelets, pendants and earrings. Available at selected Lee Hwa Jewellery boutiques.
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        54 8 Learn how to make an informed choice on aesthetics treatments at the NeuGlow Medical Aesthetic Talk on Saturday from 2.30pm to 4.30pm at TripleOne Somerset #02-02. Four doctors will speak on botox, fillers, non-surgical face-lift, laser skin rejuvenation, hairtransplant and more in this i n thi s informa-
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        56 8 Visit the Crafts Bazaar 2011 at Gallery The Arts House at 1 Old Parliament Lane from Thursday to Saturday. There will be an exhibition and sale of handicrafts made by rural and tribal communities from India. The bazaar opens at 11am and ends at 7pm, except for Saturday
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      95 9 News: www.straitstimes.com Connect: www.facebook.com/thestraitstimes Follow: twitter.com/stcom TOP THREE SPORTS STORIES ONLINE L Singapore rue errors L Teo gets the ball rolling L Barca rate Bale at $72m The Big Story features the thrills and spills from the ongoing 26th SEA Games, which last
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        700 9  -  Unheralded Yeo pulls away to win men’s 200m freestyle final ATTHEGAMES BY TERRENCE VOON tvoon@sph.com.sg PALEMBANG: On a day when all thoughts of gold medals were focused on Tao Li and the young hot shot Joseph Schooling, a little-known, 21-year-old stood tallest on the rostrum instead. Singapore’s secret
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        439 9  -  TERRENCE VOON PALEMBANG: The 31 Singaporean athletes struck down with diarrhoea at the Games Village are recovering well, Deputy Prime Minister Teo Chee Hean said yesterday. Athletes from at least three visiting SEA Games contingents were hit by suspected food poisoning last
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        507 10  -  Chen, Seah win doubles 200m to follow on from Lee’s K1 500m gold ATTHEGAMES BY JONATHAN WONG jonwong@sph.com.sg JAKARTA: Kayakers Stephenie Chen and Suzanne Seah had lost the K2 500m final on Saturday by a whisker. But yesterday, the Singapore pair found redemption, powering to the K2
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        248 10  -  BY LEE MIN KOK JAKARTA: Singapore’s dominance in the table tennis mixed doubles event yesterday secured a one-two finish for the Republic and the first of five gold medals on offer at the SEA Games. The Republic’s top pairing of Feng Tianwei and
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        210 10 Q A with... James Wong, 42 Discus gold medallist What’s your favourite food back home in Singapore? Why? Bak Kwa (barbecued pork). There’s no such taste like it in the world. I love many types of local food but I think that is the best. What do you feel is
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        432 10  -  BY TERRENCE VOON PALEMBANG: What Peter Gilchrist thought would be a stroll to the gold medal turned out to a painful crawl, but in the end, Singapore’s billiards king prevailed. The Singaporean defended his singles title by defeating his former student Praput Chaithanasakun but
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        252 10  -  JONATHAN WONG JAKARTA: Top doubles pair Shinta Mulia Sari and Yao Lei squandered two match points in yesterday’s semi-finals as Singapore fell 0-3 to top seeds Thailand in the SEA Games women’s badminton team competition. Their male counterparts also
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        355 10  -  GAMESDIARY BY MAY CHEN PALEMBANG: Covering the SEA Games here in the provincial capital of South Sumatra has meant that meals are few and far between for my two colleagues and I. Even more so, considering dining options in and around the
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        21 11 COUNTRY G S B T COUNTRY G s B T 1 Indonesia 40 29 Correct as at press time
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        142 11 Yesterday Gold (5) Canoeing Women’s 200m K2: Stephenie Chen Suzanne Seah. Cue sports Men’s English billiards: Peter Gilchrist. Gynmastics Women’s artistic team. Swimming Men’s 200m freestyle: Danny Yeo. Women’s 4x200m relay: Amanda Lim, Tao Li, Koh Hui Yu Mylene Ong. Silver (4) Canoeing Women’s 200m K1: Geraldine Lee.
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        189 11 Selected: Athletics Men’s 200m (heats, final): Calvin Kang, Lee Cheng Wei. 4x400m relay (final). Women’s shot put (final): Zhang Guirong, Wan Lay Chi. Billiards English billiards doubles (q-final): Peter Gilchrist Ang Boon Chin. Golf Men’s individual, team (rd 1): Jerome Ng, Marc Ong, Gregory Foo, Choo
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        499 11  -  Nervous Singapore women gymnasts dig deep to land team title ATTHEGAMES BY MAY CHEN maychen@sph.com.sg PALEMBANG: Leading by more than four points halfway into the women’s artistic gymnastics team event yesterday, it looked like Singapore would cruise to their third straight title at the SEA Games. But a
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          66 11  -  MAY CHEN PALEMBANG: Their ultimate aim here is to return home with medals slung around their necks, but Vietnam’s athletes have not forgotten to boost tourism in their home country too. Banners promoting Halong Bay, the Unesco World Heritage Site located in the Quang Ninh
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          75 11  -  LEE MIN KOK JAKARTA: Security is tight at all the hotels in the capital, with athletes, officials and guests required to walk through a metal detector and be subject to random bag searches. But while guards hired have been less than vigilant, especially
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          69 11  -  TERRENCE VOON PALEMBANG: The main dining hall at the Games Village erupted with cheers at lunch yesterday, but not because someone had won a gold. Athletes and officials alike were enraptured by Filipino boxer Manny Pacquiao’s bout against Juan Manuel Marquez, shown on jumbo TV screens.
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          84 11  -  JONATHAN WONG JAKARTA: The canoeing events in Lake Cipule are certainly off the beaten track for most of the athletes and officials involved, with many having to drive hours from their hotels to the venue in the middle of a cluster of villages. But if organisers
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        406 11  -  BY LEE MIN KOK JAKARTA: Singapore’s worst fears were realised yesterday, when rivals Indonesia and Malaysia posted wins in their respective SEA Games football matches. The hosts’ 3-1 win over nine-man Thailand at the Senayan Stadium sealed their progress to the semi-fi-nals, and all but
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        288 11  -  BY FABIUS CHEN DO NOT wash your dirty linen in public. That is the view among observers in response to SEA Games football coach Slobodan Pavkovic’s singling out of Neil Vanu for blame following the Young Lions’ 0-2 loss to Indonesia on Friday. The
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      508 12  -  El Dorado and Ronnie Stewart win their third Singapore Gold Cup BY CHAN U-GENE ugenec@sph.com.sg EL DORADO and jockey Ronnie Stewart rode their way into the annals of local horse racing yesterday with a stirring victory at the Longines Singapore Gold Cup. Blitzing through the 16-strong
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        63 12 ASSOCIATED PRESS GUADALAJARA (Mexico): Catriona Matthew shot a four-under 68 to take a three-stroke lead after the third round of golf’s Lorena Ochoa Invitational on Saturday. The Scot was on 11-under 205. Norway’s Suzann Pettersen (71) was second. She was followed by Korean
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        60 12 ASSOCIATED PRESS LONDON: Tottenham Hotspur manager Harry Redknapp will stand trial in January for tax evasion relating to his time in charge of Portsmouth. The 64-year-old is jointly accused with his former Portsmouth chairman Milan Mandaric of two charges of cheating the public
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      788 13  -  BY ROHIT BRIJNATH IT WAS a day when men set out to best each other, but in the end were defeated by nature. It was the fourth day, in a 54-hole event, and still there is another day to come. It was a
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      565 13 REUTERS ABU DHABI: McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton won a floodlit Abu Dhabi Grand Prix yesterday, after Red Bull’s double Formula One champion Sebastian Vettel suffered his first race retirement in more than a year. The Briton enjoyed a clean race to take the chequered flag
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      334 14 REUTERS SYDNEY: The loudest cheers were for Tiger Woods but the Australian Open belonged to Greg Chalmers. The 38-year-old won his national championship for the second time yesterday, closing with a three-under 69 for a 13-under 275 total to hold off a late charge
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      377 14 AGENCE-FRANCE PRESSE REUTERS LONDON: Fabio Capello hailed the emergence of a fresh and “fearless” crop of young England internationals after watching his side upset world champions Spain 1-0 at Wembley. A 49th-minute Frank Lampard goal gave his side a smash-and-grab victory against the Spaniards, who dominated
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      537 14  -  ON THE DOUBLE: A MARATHON GUIDE BY JASON LAWRENCE stsports@sph.com.sg WITH interest in running booming, you can find a lot of information online now. But to make it work, it comes down to how you can apply what you have learnt. Tempo
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      33 9 CANOEING WINNERS Singapore’s women kayakers clinch doubles 200m gold. B10 CHAMP ONCE AGAIN Peter Gilchrist retains his English billiards singles title. B10 GYMNASTS TOPS Singapore triumph in women’s artistic gymnastics team event. B11
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      720 22  -  It lets volunteers use its software to subtitle films and TV programmes BY GRACE CHNG chngkeg@sph.com.sg A SINGAPORE-BASED online video start-up could be the next big thing after a group of A-list investors with a track record of picking winners tipped US$20 million (S$25.9
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      603 16  -  Emerging market funds prove attractive as share prices plummet MARKETS INSIGHT BY GOH ENG YEOW SENIOR CORRESPONDENT engyeow@sph.com.sg IT WOULD take an investor with a strong stomach to put up with the roller-coaster which hit global stock markets last week. But while worries about
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      459 16 REUTERS TOKYO: Japan’s securities watchdog may recommend that a levy be imposed on Olympus for false financial reports, a source familiar with the case said yesterday. The move could prevent a delisting of the company’s shares over one of the country’s biggest corporate
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      993 18/19  -  Profit warnings are never welcome, but blind-siding investors is even worse C A I JIN BY GOH ENG YEOW SENIOR CORRESPONDENT engyeow@sph.com.sg Cai Jin runs every Monday and covers financial matters and corporate governance issues that can affect investors. The two Chinese characters
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      981 18/19 NEW YORK TIMES ROME: With a combination of savvy media domination, old-fashioned party politics and a salesman’s preternatural charm, Mr Silvio Berlusconi has dominated Italy more than anyone since Mussolini. And polarised it. “No one had ever so divided Italy and Italians,”
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      536 18/19  -  Despite govt promises to open borders, firms still facing constraints: CIMB BY YASMINE YAHYA yasminey@sph.com.sg ASEAN leaders have made slow progress in economic integration so business leaders need to step up to drive the process instead. That was the rallying cry from CIMB
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      480 18/19  -  BY CHERYL LIM A TOTAL of $21.3 billion of property investments were recorded for the first three quarters of this year, an increase of 5.6 per cent from the figure in the same period last year, according to a report by Savills Singapore. This
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      612 18/19  -  BY ROBIN CHAN THE euro zone is here to stay, and will continue expanding in the medium term, said Hungary’s Foreign Minister Janos Martonyi. He said that the cost of saving the euro zone is “negligible” compared to the costs of letting the 17-member
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        91 21 TAN ENG KWEE: Resigned as chief financial officer to pursue other interests. Mr Tan, 57, is replaced by Mr Hoh Weng Ming, who is currently the CFO of China Yuchai International (CYI), a New York-listed subsidiary of Hong Leong Asia. Mr Benny Goh, the president and director
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        59 21 VIOLET LEE: Steps down as group managing director of Guocoland China for personal health reasons at the end of the year. Ms Lee, 51, will also resign as the legal representative of the company’s subsidiaries in China. She is replaced in both positions in the interim by Mr
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      311 1 CPART Concert boom Best in Mandopop Fishybusiness More mid-sized venues for niche acts Local wet markets inspire Brit poet C6 MONDAY, NOVEMBER 14 2011 Stefanie Sun wins big at Hit Awards C3 C5 Dr Tan Wee Kiat has been greening Singapore for the last 28 years. He talks to TAY
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        1050 2  -  8QUESTIONSWITH...Rani Singam Oprah Winfrey’s mantra to ‘live your dream’ inspires legal eagle Rani Singam to sing full-time eddino abdul hadi dinohadi@sph.com.sg Home-grown jazz singer Rani Singam has talk show star Oprah Winfrey to thank for inspiring her to become a full-time singer. Singam, who will launch her
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        585 5  -  The dearth of foreign names at the Singapore Hit Awards gave local stars their chance to shine nicholas yong nicyong@sph.com.sg Home-grown songbird Stefanie Sun was the biggest winner of the night with five awards at last Saturday’s 17th Singapore Hit Awards, which honoured the best in
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        853 6  -  Jay Bernard, here on a year-long creative writing residency, finds selling fish a universal language akshita nanda akshitan@sph.com.sg Known for verses about London gardens and graves, rising British poet Jay Bernard is now penning works about fish markets in Singapore. The 23-year-old Oxford graduate, who has read her
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        324 6  -  reviewconcert TRIO OWON Yong Siew Toh Conservatory Concert Hall Last Friday chang tou liang This begins to sound like a broken record-player, but if you love good chamber music, often performed by world-class players, you could do worse than becoming a Conservatory regular. Visiting
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        690 7  -  A beach so inspired British band Snow Patrol they wrote their seventh album on a holiday tan shzr ee in London stlife@sph.com.sg A 30 deg C beach in the balmiest stretch of the United States was the unlikely inspiration for the seventh album of British alternative music
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        608 7  -  reviewpoetry reading POETIC EVENING WITH GULZAR PAVAN VARMA Esplanade Concert Hall/Last Saturday deepika shetty As I sit down to write this review, it is in the quiet of the office, the cold impersonal touch of the keyboard and an even more impersonal computer screen for company.
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        1426 8 The actor with a penchant for playing controversial figures relishes the challenge in J. Edgar New York Times Los Angeles To transform himself into an ageing J. Edgar Hoover, Leonardo DiCaprio sat for hours at a time while make-up artists gave him liver spots, yellow teeth
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        638 8 Agence France-Presse Associated Press Washington It has been a decade since the September 11 attacks and many Americans still do not know quite what to make of their 2.75 million Muslim compatriots. Could a reality television series help? All-American Muslim, which premiered yesterday
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      735 3  -  The opening of more mid-sized concert theatres has boosted the live music scene here eddino abdul hadi dinohadi@sph.com.sg The opening of Resorts World Singapore and Marina Bay Sands in the past two years has not only boosted the local casino and resorts industry it has
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      378 3 Associated Press New York Times Los Angeles EMI, the iconic British music company that is home to the Beatles, the Beach Boys and Coldplay, is being split and sold for US$4.1 billion (S$5.25 billion) through deals that usher in a new wave of consolidation
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      223 3 YONG SIEWTOH CONSERVATORY of MUSIC presents Faculty Recital Series From Russia With Love SATURDAY 19 November 2011 7.30pm Conservatory Concert Hall Free Admission by Registration NATALIA KUMKOVA soprano EVGUENI BROKMILLER flute GUENNADI MOUZYKA double bass GULNARA MASHUROVA harp KERIM VERGAZOV piano The programme features works with a taste of romance
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