The Straits Times, 30 January 2012

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    19 1 THE STRAITS TIMES. MICA (P) 073/11/2011 MONDAY, JANUARY 30 2012 A SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS PUBLICATION ESTABLISHED 1845 90 CENTS
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      64 1 NOVAK Djokovic fought off a spirited challenge from Rafael Nadal to win the Australian Open men’s singles title last night in an epic match that lasted just under six hours. The win brought him his fifth Grand Slam title, while Nadal became the first man in the Open
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      Lock icon HE’S NOT
      45 1 TIGER Woods faded in his attempt to win his first title in over two years yesterday, finishing in a tie for third place despite going into the final day of the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship with the lead. LSPORT PAGE B11 PHOTO: REUTERS
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    • Article
      Lock icon More eyes on the road
      49 1 CAMERAS will soon be installed in some taxis here to provide evidence in case of an accident. SMRT is looking into taking such a step, while TransCab will equip all its cabs with the cameras by the end of the year. LHOME PAGE B4
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    Lock icon SAF seeks to build mental toughness in recruits
    602 1  -  BY JERMYN CHOW DEFENCE CORRESPONDENT A PROGRAMME to build mental toughness among military recruits by teaching them to talk about their emotions and think positively seems to be producing better soldiers, going by a recent study by the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF).
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    Lock icon Greece close to deal to slash debt
    682 1 Agreement, if finalised, will pave the way for $215 billion bailout ASSOCIATED PRESS REUTERS BLOOMBERG ATHENS: Greece and investors who own its bonds have reached a tentative deal to significantly reduce the country’s debt, paving the way for the heavily indebted country to
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    Lock icon SUU KYI HITS CAMPAIGN TRAIL
    73 1 Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi drawing a crowd as she makes her first political trip since ending a boycott of the country’s political system last year. Yesterday, speaking to tens of thousands of supporters at Thauk Kya Pyin village in Dawei township, she
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      90 1 THE ARTFUL DOCTOR Meet the man behind Gillman Barracks LIFE! PAGE C4 NEW-WAVE HDB SHOPS Something’sbrewing in the heartlands Why your iPhone is built in China WORLD, PAGE A16 HOME, PAGE B1 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
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        Lock icon Not a natural state of affairs
        95 2 WE SAY Interest in the case against two top public servants over allegations of misconduct has been palpable. In a society that has become so wired, controlling the flow of information and gossip surrounding the case has become that much harder. That adds to
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      • COLUMNS
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          62 2 A Malaysian historian recently said legendary Malay warrior Hang Tuah never existed, creating a stir among Malaysians, says Salim Osman. Whether or not Hang Tuah is fact or fiction, the tales of the warrior are not only politically important for Umno, but are key to
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        • Article
          Lock icon Flying jets on cooking oil
          39 2 The United States military is dead serious about its biofuel programme, part of a broader strategy to increase its fuel security and reduce reliance on foreign oil, says Michael Richardson. L REVIEW PAGE A19
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      • Article
        Lock icon Admit students on merit
        62 2 OUR READER SAYS The National University of Singapore law school’s move to review admission procedures in the name of diversity is flawed, says Anthony Leong. Instead of trying to admit more students from lesser-known junior colleges, the law school should select students on the strength of
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      Lock icon Don’t let opportunities in budget travel fly by
      975 2  -  Changi should invest in overhaul of low-cost terminal to tap boom BY KARAMJIT KAUR AVIATION CORRESPONDENT karam@sph.com.sg TRAFFIC at Changi Airport grew by 10.7 per cent to hit a new high of 46.5 million passengers last year. More interesting is that budget
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      Lock icon Four Sun journalists, one cop arrested
      737 3 Britain’s biggest-selling newspaper in grip of police bribery probe AGENCE-FRANCE PRESSE BLOOMBERG REUTERS LONDON: Police have searched the offices of news mogul Rupert Murdoch’s The Sun and arrested four journalists and a policeman, in a widening probe into the bribing of police for information.
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      70 3  -  BY NG SOR LUAN PHOTOJOURNALIST It’s that golden time of the day when things start to wind down, people head home, and friends and family start getting together. Straits Times photographers show their take on that moment in the Prime pages on Monday, entitled 6.39pm. Commuters with their
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      Lock icon Thein Sein in Singapore on state visit
      449 4  -  BY PHUA MEI PIN MYANMAR President Thein Sein arrived yesterday for a three-day state visit that will mark closer ties between his country currently undergoing political reforms and Singapore. A centrepiece of his visit is the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MOU)
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      Lock icon Malaysia’s stunt pilots to make airshow debut
      708 4  -  They are one of four aerobatic acts at S’pore event in Feb BY JERMYN CHOW DEFENCE CORRESPONDENT jermync@sph.com.sg THE Royal Malaysian Air Force’s premier aerial display team, the Smokey Bandits, will wow spectators with their heart-stopping aerobatics when they make their Singapore debut
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      Lock icon Beijing urges ‘peace, stability’ in region
      651 6 Appeal contrasts with fiery editorial calling for sanctions on Manila AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE BEIJING: The Chinese government yesterday called for greater efforts towards “peace and stability” in the region, after the Philippines sought a greater American military presence on its territory to counter a rising
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      Lock icon Troops enforce west Sichuan crackdown
      759 6 NEW YORK TIMES CHENGDU (China): This regional metropolis is roughly 320km from where, in the towering mountains of western Sichuan province, a wave of protest by ethnic Tibetans is sweeping the area. But take a stroll through the city’s Tibetan quarter, and the tensions generated
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      Lock icon Lo! Hei! That’s my dish, not yours!
      622 6  -  BY LEE CHOO KIONG A PLATE of raw fish and julienned vegetables was all it took to reignite a “food fight” between Singaporeans and Malaysians. Following food ownership debates over bak kut teh and Hainanese chicken rice, the bone of contention this time
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      Lock icon No fresh blood in new SPP leadership
      919 7  -  Election of long-time party loyalists raises questions over the future of the party BY TESSA WONG ANDREA ONG twong@sph.com.sg andreao@sph.com.sg A DAY after six of its leaders staged a walkout, the Singapore People’s Party (SPP) yesterday elected a new central executive committee (CEC)
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      Lock icon Marine study in Singapore digs up 100 species
      787 8  -  Some are new to the island or to science; project one-third done BY GRACE CHUA caiwj@sph.com.sg BURROWED deep into the mudflats of Lim Chu Kang is a bumpy, warty sea anemone so new to science, it does not even have a scientific
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      Lock icon Umno fires back after DAP draws top Malays
      817 9  -  It warns Malays not to be swayed by Chinese-based opposition party RACIAL ISSUES AGAIN IN THE SPOTLIGHT IN MALAYSIA BY CAROLYN HONG MALAYSIA BUREAU CHIEF carolynh@sph.com.sg KUALA LUMPUR: The recent influx of several high-profile Malay names joining the Chinese-based opposition Democratic Action
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      76 9 News: www.straitstimes.com Connect: www.facebook.com/thestraitstimes Follow: twitter.com/stcom TOP THREE WORLD STORIES ONLINE L United States: Rise of suburban mini-Chinatowns L Australia: Embracing a multicultural community L World’s largest ‘emerald’ but... More Forum letters online at www.straitstimes.com PHOTO GALLERIES ONLINE L Louis Vuitton to unveil
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      Lock icon Perkasa gives white packets for New Year
      248 9 KUALA LUMPUR: Malay supremacy group Perkasa gave away nearly RM10,000 (S$4,150) as gifts at its first Chinese New Year open house yesterday with undertones of contempt. At the event hosted for some 300 people mostly Chinese and senior citizens Perkasa chief Ibrahim Ali
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        Lock icon African Union HQ a symbol of ties with China
        555 12 African leaders welcome Beijing’s growing economic influence REUTERS XINHUA ADDIS ABABA: Standing on what was once Ethiopia’s oldest maximum security prison, the new African Union headquarters funded by China is a symbol of the Asian giant’s push to stay ahead in
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        Lock icon 29 Chinese captured after attack in Sudan
        320 12 ASSOCIATED PRESS AGENCE FERANCE-PRESSE BEIJING: Militants have apparently captured 29 Chinese workers after attacking a remote worksite in a volatile region of Sudan. Sudanese forces were stepping up security for Chinese projects and personnel there, Beijing said yesterday. China has close political and
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        Lock icon Fireworks pollute air in Beijing
        259 12 ASSOCIATED PRESS XINHUA BEIJING: Clouds of smoke from Chinese New Year fireworks sent air pollution readings soaring in the more sensitive measurement system that Beijing started using recently, reports said yesterday. Readings of fine particulate matter called PM2.5 reached 1.593 milligrams per cubic m on
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        Lock icon Zhejiang University ranked tops in China again
        452 12 SOURCE: CHINA UNIVERSITY ASSESSMENT BEIJING: The trio of Zhejiang University, Peking University and Tsinghua University remain China’s top three universities in overall strength, according to the 2012 China University Rankings published recently by Chinese researcher Wu Shulian and his team China University Assessment.
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        Lock icon Britain out to woo Chinese investments
        348 12 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE LONDON: Britain is making huge efforts to attract investment from China to kick-start an economy teetering on the brink of recession and it is playing its trump card of being outside the euro zone. Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne visited China
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        Lock icon Bird flu fears: Flap over pet market move
        985 13  -  The authorities step up checks, renew efforts to relocate live bird market MEMO FROM JAKARTA BY WAHYUDI SOERIAATMADJA INDONESIA CORRESPONDENT wahyudis@sph.com.sg DESPITE lingering fears about the spread of bird flu in the country with the world’s highest number of fatalities from the
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        Lock icon US confirms doctor’s role in Osama raid
        566 14 Pakistani who worked with CIA charged with treason in his country NEW YORK TIMES WASHINGTON: United States Defence Secretary Leon Panetta has confirmed publicly for the first time that an impris oned doctor in Pakistan was working with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
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        Lock icon Suu Kyi draws crowds on campaign trail
        636 14 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE ASSOCIATED PRESS DAWEI (Myanmar): Huge crowds lined the streets to greet Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi as she hit the campaign trail yesterday ahead of by-elections seen as a key test of the regime’s commitment to reform. Tens of
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        Lock icon Rally seeks church reopening in Jakarta
        424 14 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE JAKARTA: Indonesian Christians held a prayer vigil in the capital yesterday, urging President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to reopen their church and stop intimidation by Muslim hardliners. About 200 people, mostly members of the Taman Yasmin Indonesian Christian Church, prayed and sang hymns
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        Lock icon UN nuke team faces tough task in Iran
        545 15 IAEA inspectors arrive to probe claims of N-weapons experiments ASSOCIATED PRESS TEHERAN: A United Nations nuclear team arrived in Teheran yesterday for a mission expected to focus on Iran’s alleged attempt to develop nuclear weapons. The UN nuclear agency delegation includes two
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        Lock icon Arab League seeks UN support for Syria plan
        469 15 REUTERS CAIRO: Arab League chief Nabil Elaraby headed to New York yesterday seeking to win support from the United Nations Security Council for a plan to end violence in Syria by asking President Bashar al-Assad to step aside. Mr Elaraby will brief
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        Lock icon 26 die in Peru rehab clinic fire
        96 15 Relatives of patients of the Christ Is Love drug and alcohol abuse rehabilitation centre grieving after a fire swept through the clinic in Peru last Saturday, killing 26 inmates and injuring 12 others locked in to stop them from fleeing treatment. Several survivors
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        Lock icon MANUFACTURING WOES How the US lost out on iPhone work
        1345 16 Not long ago, Apple boasted that its products were made in America. Today, few are. Why? It is not just because workers overseas are cheaper, as the first of this two-part article shows NEW YORK TIMES WASHINGTON: When Mr Barack
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        Lock icon Jobs wanted a non-scratch glass screen, he got one... super-fast
        1005 16 NEW YORK TIMES IN 2007, a little more than a month before the iPhone was scheduled to appear in stores, Apple chief Steve Jobs beckoned a handful of lieutenants into an office. For weeks, he had been carrying a prototype
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    • world.at a glance
      • IN BRIEF
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          Lock icon Mutiny leader held
          126 17 ASSOCIATED PRESS PORT MORESBY (Papua New Guinea): A retired colonel who attempted to take over Papua New Guinea’s military and ordered the Prime Minister to step down has been arrested and charged with mutiny. Police spokesman Dominic Kakas said Yaura Sasa was arrested on Saturday night in
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          Lock icon Islamists reject talks
          100 17 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE KANO (Nigeria): Nigeria’s Boko Haram Islamists have ruled out talks with the government and threatened new attacks in Africa’s most populous country, rocked by an insurgency that has killed more than 200 this year. Residents in the city of Kaduna said the group, which has
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          Lock icon Cyclone death toll rises
          100 17 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE JAKARTA: The death toll from heavy rain and strong winds in Indonesia has risen to 14, an official said on Sunday, with the victims of a tropical cyclone crushed by falling trees. Over 2,300 houses in 35 districts and cities across the central island
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          Lock icon Ma picks next premier
          114 17 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE TAIPEI: Taiwan President Ma Yingjeou has picked a former top financial regulator as his next premier, the official news agency and several other media reported over the weekend. The appointment of 62-year-old Sean Chen, currently deputy premier, is likely to be made public tomorrow,
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          Lock icon Pollution spill controlled
          107 17 XINHUA LIUZHOU (Guangxi): Cadmium pollution in a river in south China’s Guangxi region has been controlled and no new leaks have been found following a spill from an industrial plant, the local environmental authorities said yesterday. Cadmium concentrations in the Longjiang River in the city of Yizhou,
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          Lock icon Horrific escalator death
          77 17 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE BEIJING: A nine-year-old boy died instantly after he got stuck on an escalator at a Beijing department store as horrified shoppers looked on, Chinese state media said yesterday. The unaccompanied child stretched his neck out and became jammed between the moving escalator and the floor,
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        Lock icon Coffins to die for
        406 17 SLICEOFLIFE AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE LONDON: British pensioner Malcolm Brocklehurst’s final home will be a coffin shaped like a plane, painted bright orange and emblazoned with the logo of his favourite football club, Blackpool. “I want a fun funeral. I don’t want people crying and that,” said the
        AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE; PHOTOS: AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE  -  406 words
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  • REVIEW & FORUM.
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      Lock icon Not a natural state of affairs
      442 18 INTEREST in the case against two of Singapore’s top public servants over allegations of misconduct has been palpable. The exact details of the charges against them are not clear, but the Home Affairs Ministry announced last Tuesday that the two men were assisting the
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      Lock icon Improving the ‘responsibility to protect’
      856 18  -  BY GARETH EVANS The writer, a former Australian foreign minister and the president emeritus of the International Crisis Group, is the author of The Responsibility To Protect: Ending Mass Atrocity Crimes Once And For All. PROJECT SYNDICATE TEN months ago, the United Nations (UN) Security
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      Lock icon Legend of Hang Tuah: fact or fiction?
      903 18  -  DEBATING MALAY HISTORY BY SALIM OSMAN SENIOR WRITER salim@sph.com.sg SOME Malaysian roads have been named after him. Even a popular brand of coffee has his name. A medal for bravery was once created in his honour. But legendary Malay warrior Hang Tuah never
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        Lock icon Japan: Next to face a debt crisis?
        992 19  -  BY WILLIAM PESEK The writer is a Bloomberg View columnist. The opinions expressed are his own. A FIERY debate has broken out over an issue that many thought had long been settled: Japan’s economy is sliding towards irrelevance. The freshest evidence, reported last
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        Lock icon US armed forces wage campaign to go green
        879 19  -  BY MICHAEL RICHARDSON FOR THE STRAITS TIMES The writer is a visiting senior research fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. THIS is not a drill; the United States military is dead serious about being able to fly its combat and
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        Lock icon Hope, but not much change
        827 19  -  BY DAVID BROOKS NEW YORK TIMES THE Simpson-Bowles report wasn’t just a policy document. For a few months, it expanded the national debate. Everybody seemed to realise that the country was beset by large challenges that could no longer be neglected: soaring debt, lagging growth,
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        Lock icon Supermarkets shouldn’t squeeze out small shops run by seniors
        299 20  -  Jackson Chia President Active Retirees’ Association LARGE supermarkets are currently competing keenly to expand their store networks in various parts of the country (“FairPrice to open seven new stores”; last Friday). When they select the locations to set up smaller stores,
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        Lock icon Newspapers which report objectively are here to stay
        214 20  -  Jeffrey Law I STRONGLY believe that traditional newspapers which report objectively, without fear or favour, are here to stay (“Integrity will help newspapers stay relevant”; last Saturday). Occasionally, I turn to social media for comments on certain social and political issues and,
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        Lock icon No fee levied when a condo resident hires a swimming coach
        282 20  -  Francis Zhan Chief Executive Association of Management Corporations in Singapore WHEN a resident hires a private swimming coach to teach his family using the condominium’s pool, no management corporation we know levies a fee against the coach (“Swimming coaches
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        Lock icon Law school’s new entry policy flawed
        311 20  -  Anthony Leong MOST National University of Singapore (NUS) law school students who secured their places must have done so on the strength of their academic and written test results, with some weightage given to their co-curricular activities (“NUS law school reviews student admission procedures”;
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        Lock icon What Law Society should do
        190 20 “Maintain a registry of errant lawyers with a record of their ethical and criminal transgressions, and host it on its website.” MR J. PRAKASH: “While I laud the Law Society for taking the requisite steps to rein in errant lawyers especially through an ethics education
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        Lock icon User-unfriendly manipulation of parking fees at Budget Terminal
        342 20  -  Ron Graham I HAD to take a round-trip flight to Kuala Lumpur early this month. I departed on a Friday at noon and returned the next day in the evening. As it was a short trip, I decided to drive and park
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      132 2 Visual artist Debra Chant, 56, showing off her skills at the 29th Huichun Chinese Calligraphy Competition, as a crowd gathers to watch. One of two non-Chinese participants in this year’s competition, the Australian phonics teacher who has lived here for three years said she was
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      97 3 Some 200 students creating the world’s largest biodegradable rangoli a traditional Indian painting drawn on the ground yesterday at Si Ling Secondary School. Typically made from rice powder, yesterday’s 25m by 15m drawing was made using about 3.5 tonnes of wheat husks in
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      672 5  -  BY JESSICA CHEAM HOUSING CORRESPONDENT SINGAPOREANS’ appetite for investing in overseas properties, in particular, some apartments in Auckland, has made the headlines in New Zealand. A report earlier this month in The New Zealand Herald said homes in two apartment blocks in Auckland’s
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      546 6 The first and only ancient Arab ship found in Asia, the Belitung was first discovered by fishermen in Indonesian waters in 1998. An exhibition that opened on Jan 21 at the Asian Civilisations Museum features some of the Tang Dynasty artefacts the ship had on
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      594 6  -  New unit aims to bring together region’s young archaeologists BY LIN ZHAOWEI zhaowei@sph.com.sg WHILE history undergraduate Christine Chan’s peers at the National University of Singapore were busy working on their hon-ours-year theses, she was taking four weeks off to visit Cambodian archaeological sites and
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      400 2 Faculty of Engineering mm y 5 NUS among World’s Top 10 for Technology m National University Source: Times Higher Education Supplement of Smgapore Master of Science in Systems Design Management (SDM) August 2012 intake Administered by the Division of Engineering and Technology Management (D-ETM) Society and organisations increasingly depend on
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      209 7 EVERY minute, a child goes blind; every five seconds, an adult goes blind. According to Vision 2020, cataracts are the leading cause of blindness, and up to 80 per cent of total global blindness is preventable. For this reason, Official Olympic Timekeeper Omega has
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      197 7 SINGAPORE has become HSBC’s first market in the world to launch the HSBC Visa Infinite credit card a luxury credit card targeted at affluent frequent travellers with a minimum qualifyingannualincomeof$250,000. Says Mr Harmander Mahal, head of wealth and consumer assets, HSBC Singapore: “In Singapore,
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      193 7 CONSERVATION CHAT with Wildlife Reserves Singapore The tall baby giraffe Growing to a height of between 4.7m and 5.3m, giraffes are the tallest land animals. The tallest giraffe in the world recorded a height of 6.1m. Unknown to many, giraffes, despite their lanky necks, share a similar numberofneckboneswithhumansandmice—seven. The Night
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      904 8  -  Djokovic shows he’s top dog as he grinds down rival in nearly six hours ATTHEOPEN BY ROHIT BRIJNATH rohitb@sph.com.sg MELBOURNE: Tennis remains the dictatorship of Novak Djokovic. He is still the brilliant crusher of racket rebellions and sweatily stamps out all inventive insurrections. Last night, Rafael Nadal
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      528 8 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE MELBOURNE: Newly crowned Australian Open champion Victoria Azarenka believes women’s tennis is in for a fascinating year, as a new generation challenges the supremacy of the established stars. The 22-year-old’s 6-3, 6-0 win over three-time Grand Slam winner Maria Sharapova was her first
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      441 9 THE TIMES, LONDON LONDON: Jose Mourinho has decided to leave Real Madrid at the end of the season to take up a job in the English Premier League. The Portuguese manager, formally named the best in the world by Fifa after winning an
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      71 9 Hosts Sunderland’s Kieran Richardson (left) challenging Middlesbrough’s Faris Haroun yesterday during their English FA Cup fourth-round match, which ended 1-1. Barry Robson gave Boro the lead in the 16th minute but Fraizer Campbell levelled in the second half to force a replay. Second-tier Brighton upset
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      384 9 ASSOCIATED PRESS BARCELONA: Three days after Barcelona ended Real Madrid’s Copa del Rey title defence, the Spanish champions’ own hopes of a fourth successive league title suffered a setback in a 0-0 draw at strugglers Villarreal on Saturday. Barcelona’s slip let league leaders Real move
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      267 9 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE LONDON: British police said they arrested a man late on Saturday in connection with an alleged racist gesture made at Liverpool’s Anfield stadium during the FA Cup fourth-round tie against Manchester United. An image of a man apparently making a monkey gesture in
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      435 9 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE MALABO (Equatorial Guinea): The seven goals scored by Ivory Coast and Angola in a previous African Nations Cup encounter is not likely to be repeated when they meet today at the Nuevo Estadio de Malabo. Although blessed with some of the best strikers
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      464 10  -  Ex-Malaysia Cup hero Abbas feels current team lack lethal forward BY FABIUS CHEN fabiusc@sph.com.sg ANOTHER lacklustre showing by the LionsXII’s front line against Terengganu on Saturday has prompted a former star to suggest bringing in a foreign striker. Abbas Saad, the hero of Singapore’s 1994 Malaysia
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      305 10  -  FABIUS CHEN ETOILE FC played in the S-League without a performance bond, the Football Association of Singapore (FAS) has confirmed. The Sunday Times yesterday reported that the French club were given permission by the FAS to hold back payment of the $500,000 banker’s guarantee
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      468 10  -  FABIUS CHEN THE posters may say that the FC Barcelona Soccer Camp is open only to boys and girls aged between six and 14. But the five-day affair at St Wilfrid Field from March 12 to 16 will also be a chance
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      469 10 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE ASSOCIATED PRESS ABU DHABI: Pakistan cricket coach Mohsin Khan has expressed confidence that his team can become world No. 1 after humbling England in the second Test to claim victory in the series. “I think this team have the capacity to
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        72 10 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE SAN DIEGO: Kyle Stanley, 24, seeking his first PGA Tour victory, fired a four-under par 68 on Saturday to stretch his lead to five shots after three rounds of the Farmers Insurance Open. He failed a four-foot birdie putt at 18
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        45 10 REUTERS NEW YORK: Asafa Powell and Veronica Campbell-Brown completed a Jamaican sprint double at the US Open indoor meet at Madison Square Garden on Saturday. Former world record holder Powell and Olympic 200m champion Campbell-Brown won their rarely run 50m events.
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        30 10 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE OSAKA: Japan produced a new Olympic hopeful yesterday, when Risa Shigetomo won the Osaka international women’s marathon in only her second such event.
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      254 11 ASSOCIATED PRESS SYDNEY: Fourteen-year-old New Zealand amateur Lydia Ko has become the youngest winner of a professional golf tour event, taking the women’s New South Wales Open by four strokes yesterday. Lydia, the world’s top amateur, broke Japanese Ryo Ishikawa’s mark of 15
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      737 11 LOS ANGELES TIMES MILWAUKEE: These are the games that alarm the Lakers fans, that lead to TVs getting turned off and Twitter accounts fired up. The Milwaukee Bucks were without two key players, yet the Lakers looked undermanned in an 89-100 loss
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      167 11 Today Basketball NBA: Minnesota v LA Lakers (Live, StarHub Ch216, 8am). Football African Nations Cup, Gp B: Sudan v Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast v Angola Live, StarHub Ch205, tomorrow, 1.30am. Hockey FIH Women’s Champions Trophy Pool B: Germany v Argentina (Live, StarHub Ch202, 7am), Tomorrow Basketball NBA:
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      48 11 EVGENI PLUSHENKO, 29, veteran Russian ice skater, who produced a career-best performance to win a seventh men’s European figure-skating title on Saturday
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      433 11 Athletics Osaka international women’s marathon 1 Risa Shigetomo (Jpn) 2hr 23min 23sec. 2 Tetiana Gamera-Shmyrko (Ukr) 2:24:46. 3 Azusa Nojiri (Jpn) 2:24:57. Basketball NBA Philadelphia 95 Detroit 74, Charlotte 99 Washington 102, Houston 97 New York 84, Utah 96 Sacramento Kings 93, Phoenix 86 Memphis 84, Milwaukee 100 LA
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      19 8 SO NEAR, YET SO FAR Tiger Woods impresses in Abu Dhabi only to be denied by Robert Rock. B11
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    1312 12 OBITUARIES SJuWEI LIng (XIaOWEILIng) age:35 passed away peacefully on 29 January 2012. Dearly missed and fondly remembered by loved ones. Husband:Loh Kian Keong Christopher Son: Daughter: Loh Keng Cheong Ethan Loh KitYing Evonne Father: Mother: Sju Sheng Ren WongYukeYing Father-in-law: Mother-in-law: Loh Ah Lung Tang SiewYong Brother: Sister-in-law: SjuWei Chieh
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      74 1 Daughter of Indian shipping magnate ties the knot here C7 MONDAY, JANUARY 30 2012 CPART Rising star Too gimmicky Six-figure wedding Theatre excites Eddie Redmayne more than movies C3 Japanese producer disdains 3-D, CGI movies C5 Dr Eugene Tan is helping Singapore become a centre for contemporary art in the
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        1568 6 Dustin Hoffman and Nick Nolte star in Luck, a TV series about love, betrayal and cunning in the horse-racing world New York Times Los Angeles A horse race is just a contest where large animals are set loose from a pen at the sound of
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      656 5 Agence France-Presse Bloomberg London The British Museum in London has opened the first major exhibition on the pilgrimage, Hajj: Journey To The Heart Of Islam, to give non-Muslims a glimpse of one of the greatest religious events on earth. “This exhibition
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      824 7 Reuters Los Angeles Katherine Heigl has headlined several romantic comedies such as 27 Dresses and The Ugly Truth, but for her newest film, the former Grey’s Anatomy television star toplines an action comedy, One For The Money. The film is based on
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      818 10  -  Stan Lai’s Crosstalk Travellers is a happy trip with its witty dialogue and sharp performances reviewtheatre CROSSTALK TRAVELLERS Performance Workshop (Taiwan) Esplanade Theatre/Last Friday adeline chia arts correspondent chiahta@sph.com.sg www.facebook.com/chiahta What is the purpose of travel? Are foreign cultures and places inherently different or similar to
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      398 10  -  reviewconcert TAN DUN’S MARTIAL ARTS TRILOGY Singapore Festival Orchestra Esplanade Concert Hall/Last Friday chang tou liang The one sure sign that Chinese culture has been wholly embraced by the global mainstream and consciousness was how Hollywood greeted Lee Ang’s martial arts epic
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      311 10  -  reviewconcert POETIC HARMONIES/DREAMS BY THE PLUM BLOSSOMS Forbidden City Chamber Orchestra Esplanade Recital Studio/Last Saturday shawn chua The remark that “those who can’t, teach” is far removed from the example of the Forbidden City Chamber Orchestra, whose members are in the faculty of the China Conservatory
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        459 12 Associated Press Reuters Los Angeles Sarah Jessica Parker will replace Demi Moore in the biopic Lovelace, after the latter smoked an undisclosed substance and was rushed to hospital semi-conscious last Monday. Parker will step in for the role of feminist Gloria Steinem. The production, starring
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        460 12 Reuters Los Angeles Jay-Z and Beyonce joined a list of top music executives, led by Live Nation Entertainment chairman Irving Azoff, on Billboard magazine’s first Power 100 chart last Friday. Only a handful of artists broke onto the list that sought to name the recording industry’s most
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          79 12 Pregnancy did not cramp Miriam Yeung’s style when she showed up as a guest star at her friend Edmond Leung’s concert at the Hong Kong Coliseum last Saturday in two-inch heels. Her husband Gary Ting had banned the Hong Kong singer, who is five months pregnant,
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          107 12 Jeanette Aw has been replaced by Taiwanese actress Cherry Hsia in an upcoming Channel 8 drama, provoking an outcry by Aw fans, says Shin Min Daily News. Aw was named last year as the star of the supernatural series Absolutely Charming, which will debut in late
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          69 12 Beasts Of The Southern Wild and The House I Live In won the top awards at the Sundance Film Festival last Saturday. Directed by Benh Zeitlin, Beasts picked up the jury prize for best drama with its poetic tale of the bond between a father and a daughter.
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          74 12 More than two decades after John Malkovich starred in Dangerous Liaisons as the film’s arch seducer, the actor is revisiting the story, this time directing a stage version in Paris. The play is British playwright Christopher Hampton’s adaptation of the French novel, which also inspired the film
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        303 12 Reuters Los Angeles The Artist director Michel Hazanavicius won the top honour at the Directors Guild of America last Saturday, further positioning the silent movie-era romance as an Oscar frontrunner. The French film-maker, whose credits include the OSS 117 spy spoofs, had been a virtual
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      505 13 SCHOOL BT. Timah Road requires Cleaners, 5.5 day/ 6 day week, Salary $900$950. Pls call 9862 9323 CLEANER CUM PACKER East. $1.5K OT. Physically fit. 9455 2876 One Raffles Pl #55-00 <GMP 09C3051> FULL-TIME EXPERIENCED CLEANER required Jurong East fr 7am-4pm. Alternate Sat. 9336-0299 1. FLOATERS 2. Licensed Plumber. Work
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      234 13 IN-HOUSE SECURITY OFFICERS $1850 month With OT Incentive,12hr Shift Day& Night shift, 6-days week •SIRD IC relevant certs. •S’poreans/ PRs preferred LAUNDRY WORKER $1300. 8hr/day,Sun Off •Physically fit •Boon Lay/Jurong/Bt Batok 601A Jurong Rd (SBS 174) Call: 9662-4240 Nursing Home in Hougang requires COOK KITCHEN ASST CLEANER Interested, please call
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