The Straits Times, 28 April 2015

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    62 1 THE STRAITS TIMES CELEBRATING 170 YEARS, SINCE 1845 TUESDAY, APRIL 28, 2015 80 PAGES IN FOUR PARTS TO SUBSCRIBE: 6388-3838 www.sphsubscription.com.sg 90 cents A Singapore Press Holdings publication MCI (P) 032/02/2015 THE STRAITS TIMES CELEBRATING 170 YEARS, SINCE 1845 TUESDAY, APRIL 28, 2015 80 PAGES IN FOUR PARTS TO SUBSCRIBE:
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    Lock icon Nepal needs aid desperately as death toll exceeds 3,700
    436 1  -  By NIRMAL GHOSH INDOCHINA BUREAU CHIEF IN KATHMANDU M nirma|@sph.com.sg AS THOUSANDS of Nepalese prepared to spend a third night outdoors huddled in makeshift tents after Saturday’s earthquake, it became clear that there is a narrowing window for the government and
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      109 1 PATRON OF HERITAGE AWARDS F HERITAGE AWARDS GIVING BACK TO MUSEUMS BACK TOMUSEUMS LIFE! C2&3 SWEE SAY’S MAY DAY MESSAGE ‘DON’T BECOME ORDINARY’ SAY’S MAY DAY MSSAG TOP OF THE NEWS A9, HOME B2 OP OF HE NEWS A9, HOME B2 SINGAPORE BUSINESS AWARDS TWO FEMALE WINNERS A FIRST TOP
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  • Article
    Lock icon Fewer fatal road accidents in Q1
    55 1 THERE were fewer deaths as a result of traffic accidents in the first quarter of this year, but road accidents leading to injury rose by 11.5 per cent year-on-year. Police said they would look out more closely for motorcyclists and elderly pedestrians, who are
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    Lock icon Abe on ‘comfort women’ apology
    38 1 JAPANESE Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (below) said at a US forum yesterday that he would not repudiate the official apology made by former chief spokesman Yohei Kono on the matter of “comfort women”.
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    Lock icon Territorial disputes must be handled properly: PM
    551 1  -  Asean should keep an eye on this as well as terrorism threat, he says By ZAKIR HUSSAIN DEPUTY POLITICAL EDITOR IN LANGKAWI zakirh@sph.com.sg AS ASEAN countries and their citizens look forward to greater prosperity with a more integrated region, they need to keep
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    Lock icon Nepal needs aid desperately as death toll exceeds 3,700
    435 1  -  By NIRMAL GHOSH INDOCHINA BUREAU CHIEF IN KATHMANDU nirmal@sph.com.sg AS THOUSANDS of Nepalese prepared to spend a third night outdoors huddled in makeshift tents after Saturday’s earthquake, it became clear that there is a narrowing window for the government and international
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    Lock icon Fewer fatal road accidents in Q1
    55 1 THERE were fewer deaths as a result of traffic accidents in the first quarter of this year, but road accidents leading to injury rose by 11.5 per cent year-on-year. Police said they would look out more closely for motorcyclists and elderly pedestrians, who are
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    Lock icon New defence guidelines
    38 1 THE United States and Japan have unveiled new defence cooperation guidelines, which allow for Japan to engage in military missions outside its borders, ahead of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s (right) visit to the US.
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    Lock icon Territorial disputes must be handled properly: PM
    551 1  -  Asean should keep an eye on this as well as terrorism threat, he says By ZAKIR HUSSAIN DEPUTY POLITICAL EDITOR IN LANGKAWI zakirh@sph.com.sg AS ASEAN countries and their citizens look forward to greater prosperity with a more integrated region, they need to keep
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      109 1 PATRON OF HERITAGE AWARDS F HERITAGE AWARDS GIVING BACK TO MUSEUMS BACK TOMUSEUMS LIFE! C2&3 SWEE SAY’S MAY DAY MESSAGE ‘DON’T BECOME ORDINARY’ SAY’S MAY DAY MSSAG TOP OF THE NEWS A9, HOME B2 OP OF HE NEWS A9, HOME B2 LEE CHONG WEI’S BAN BACKDATED OLYMPIC DREAMS STILL ALIVE
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  • TOP OF THE NEWS
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      Lock icon KL police hunting accomplices of suspected militants
      599 2 / 3 12 suspects nabbed were reported to be targeting court complex, police HQ KUALA LUMPUR Police in Malaysia said yesterday they are hunting the accomplices of 12 Malaysians detained on suspicion of planning attacks on Putrajaya and other key targets, including the Kuala Lumpur
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      Lock icon Cemetery worker raped girl, 12, staying at site
      531 2 / 3  -  He took her out on ‘errands’ after befriending the family By SELINA LUM selinal@sph.com.sg A CEMETERY labourer has admitted raping a 12-year-old girl who was staying at the burial ground with her family. Roslan Jaafar, 41, befriended the girl along with her
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      Lock icon Free train, bus rides on National Day
      381 2 / 3  -  By LESTER HIO and JALELAH ABU BAKER jalmsab@sph.com.sg lesterh@sph.com.sg TRAIN and bus rides this National Day will be free. Public transport operators SBS Transit and SMRT announced this yesterday in a joint statement, saying commuters will be able to enjoy both train and
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    • THE NEWS IN 5 MINUTES
      • Article
        Lock icon Two key issues for Asean
        50 4 AS ASEAN countries look forward to greater prosperity with a more integrated region, they need to keep an eye on two issues: territorial disputes in the South China Sea and the threat of terrorism, said Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong. TOP OF THE NEWS A1
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        Lock icon Accomplices in terror plot
        37 4 POLICE in Malaysia are hunting the accomplices of 12 Malaysians detained on suspicion of planning attacks on Putrajaya and other key targets, including the Kuala Lumpur court complex. TOP OF THE NEWS A2
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      • WORLD
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          Lock icon Graft probe on top exec
          67 4 A TOP executive of state energy firm China Sinopec Group is being probed for suspected “serious disciplinary violations”, China’s anti-graft watchdog said yesterday. The China Central Commission for Discipline Inspection named Mr Wang Tianpu, an oil industry veteran and president of Sinopec Group. PAGE A13
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          Lock icon Rape debate in Malaysia
          52 4 A MAJOR debate has broken out in Malaysia about Muslim women’s rights involving rape, after hardline Islamist group Hizbut Tahrir Malaysia claims Muslim women are required to provide witnesses to prove rape under Islamic law while some Muslims say marital rape does not exist in Islam.
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          Lock icon Executions ‘to go ahead’
          45 4 INDONESIA said yesterday the executions of nine drug traffickers would go ahead this week, rebuffing last-minute appeals from Australia and the Philippines to spare their nationals and ignoring a decision by the Constitutional Court to hear a final challenge. PAGE A16
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          Lock icon Doc in video ‘a worry’
          53 4 CANBERRA has said it is deeply concerned about an Australian-trained doctor who appears in an Islamic State in Iraq and Syria clip urging other medical professionals to join the militants. In the video, he calls himself Abu Yusuf but media widely reported he was Tareq
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        Lock icon READING THE PUBLIC MIND WHEN DISASTER STRIKES
        52 4 Simulations on managing emergencies help scenario planners to prepare for the worst. The persistent threat from ISIS is a reminder that this kind of planning should not be overlooked by government agencies. Singaporeans at large, too, should internalise survival techniques. The Straits Times
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      • OPINION
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          Lock icon MAS policy updates
          51 4 SOME observers think the Monetary Authority of Singapore should make more regular policy statements than its current six-monthly cycle to update markets. But the benefits of this have to be weighed against costs of having too short-term an outlook in monetary policy, says Chia Yan Min. PAGE
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      • LIFE!
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          Lock icon Flak for Winehouse film
          64 4 THE family of British singer Amy Winehouse, who died at age 27 from alcohol poisoning, condemned a forthcoming documentary about her life as “misleading” yesterday. Due to premiere at the Cannes film festival next month, Amy traces Winehouse’s story from her early career to the fame
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          Lock icon Fused magic in Tempest
          86 4 FOR Singapore Repertory Theatre’s upcoming edition of Shakespeare In The Park, The Tempest, British director Braham Murray decided to fuse European and Asian cultures, in the styling of characters and their costumes. He said that in England, unlike in Asia, people do not have much truck
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      • HOME
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          Lock icon Passenger traffic down
          40 4 CHANGI Airport handled fewer passengers for the first three months of this year, compared with the same period a year ago. Passenger traffic for January to March dipped 0.9 per cent to 13.1 million passengers. PAGE B3
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          Lock icon Deal to install fibre links
          54 4 M1 SIGNED an agreement yesterday to allow it to hook up its corporate customers to the high-speed fibre broadband network, previously done only by network builder NetLink Trust. This was after many businesses that had signed up for the faster broadband service complained of delays
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          Lock icon Book on grand old dames
          44 4 FOUR iconic buildings the National Library, National Stadium, National Theatre and Singapore Conference Hall and Trade Union House are the subject of an upcoming book about architecture during Singapore’s nation-building years. Only the last building remains today. PAGE B6
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      • SPORT
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          Lock icon Ability to dig deeper key
          90 4 CHELSEA captain John Terry feels their ability to dig deeper than those among the chasing pack as key to their imminent English Premier League title success this season. Jose Mourinho’s side drew 0-0 at Arsenal on Sunday, and can claim the title if they win
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      • MONEY
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          Lock icon Record Q1 for DBS
          57 4 DBS Group Holdings enjoyed a record-breaking first quarter, thanks to a robust performance across all sectors that defied China’s slowdown. Net profit for the three months to March 31 was up 10 per cent to $1.13 billion while total income rose 12 per cent to $2.74
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      • STRAITS TIMES DIGITAL
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          Lock icon Nepal quake tragedy
          35 4 TheBigStory MORE than 3,000 people have perished after a 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck Nepal on Saturday. The Big Story brings you the latest news and pictures of the tragedy at http://www.straitstimes.com/nepal-quake PHOTO: REUTERS
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      • LIVE BLOG
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          Lock icon ST's man in Nepal
          33 4 FOLLOW our live blog of the aftermath of the earthquake with Indochina Bureau Chief Nirmal Ghosh (pictured) on the ground. See his videos and get up-to-the-minute updates at http://str.sg/3WS
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      • WEB SPECIAL
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          Lock icon Dinos and other natural wonders
          33 4 DINOSAURS are just one of the many must-sees when the Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum opens its doors today. Find out what the others are at http://str.sg/3Pv
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      Lock icon Patients too scared to stay inside hospital
      694 5  -  Medicine stocks running low; thousands set up home in tent city NEPAL QUAKE THE SCENES By NIRMAL GHOSH INDOCHINA BUREAU CHIEF IN KATHMANDU nirmal@sph.com.sg AT THE 250-bed B&B Hospital in Kathmandu, patients can be found lying in the carpark or under the porch.
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      Lock icon Stranded Everest climbers airlifted down to base camp
      356 5 REUTERS BLOOMBERG KATHMANDU Mountain rescue teams, helped by clear weather, used helicopters to airlift climbers down to base camp after they were stranded for two days at high altitude on Mount Everest, following an earthquake-triggered avalanche that killed at least 17 people.
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      Lock icon Faces of the injured
      61 6 / 7 These are the faces of some of those who survived last Saturday’s quake and were taken to Dhading hospital in Dhading Besi, Nepal, for treatment. The powerful tremor and aftershocks have so far claimed more than 3,700 lives and left 6,500 hurt. Thousands in Nepal remain
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      Lock icon China and India step up evacuation
      601 6 / 7  -  Each has flown at least 2,000 citizens home, with thousands more waiting NEPAL QUAKE FOREIGNERS By KOR KIAN BENG CHINA BUREAU CHIEF IN BEIJING NIRMALA GANAPATHY INDIA BUREAU CHIEF IN NEW DELHI kianbeng@sph.com.sg gnirmala@sph.com.sg BESIDES extending disaster relief aid to their quake-stricken neighbour Nepal,
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      Lock icon Number of foreigners in country when disaster struck
      287 6 / 7 REUTERS L AUSTRALIA: There were 549 Australians registered as travelling in Nepal, and 200 have been confirmed to be safe. There are no reports of deaths. L BANGLADESH: Fifty nationals, including members of the country’s under-14 girls’ football team, were evacuated. L
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      Lock icon Diversion of RSAF planes puts evacuation, relief plans on hold
      409 6 / 7  -  NEPAL QUAKE SINGAPORE’S EFFORTS By JERMYN CHOW jermync@sph.com.sg PLANS to evacuate Singaporeans from quake-hit Nepal were delayed when three Republic of Singapore Air Force C-130 planes could not land at Kathmandu airport yesterday because of congestion. Two of the RSAF
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    • IN BRIEF
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        Lock icon Todt, Michelle Yeoh stranded
        165 6 / 7  -  JALELAH ABU BAKER MALAYSIAN actress Michelle Yeoh and her husband, Mr Jean Todt, are reportedly stranded in Nepal, following an earthquake that shook the country last Saturday. On Sunday, world motor sport governing body International Automobile Federation (FIA) released a statement to say that it held
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        Lock icon Israel saves surrogate babies
        134 6 / 7 REUTERS JERUSALEM Israel has begun evacuating infants born to surrogate mothers and their Israeli parents from Nepal, on the return leg of flights sent to provide earthquake relief. Many Israeli male couples have fathered children with the help of surrogate mothers in Nepal. In Israel, the
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        Lock icon Social media pitches in
        150 6 / 7  -  JALELAH ABU BAKER MANY people have turned to social media to send their prayers and to locate their loved ones in Nepal, as the effects of a 7.8-magnitude earthquake last Saturday are felt in the Himalayan region. The Nepalese have also been updating the world on
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        Lock icon Tremors in north-east India
        99 6 / 7 REUTERS PATNA Tremors shook north-east India yesterday, two days after a severe earthquake caused devastation in neighbouring Nepal, sending residents rushing out of their homes fearing for their safety. The United States Geological Survey said the quake was centred in the Indian state of West Bengal
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      Lock icon Push forward on regional integration: PM Lee
      630 8  -  He notes Asean’s good progress, and calls on nations to press on ASEAN SUMMIT By ZAKIR HUSSAIN DEPUTY POLITICAL EDITOR IN KUALA LUMPUR zakirh@sph.com.sg PRIME Minister Lee Hsien Loong has called on Asean countries to press on with the work of creating a
      ST PHOTO: AZIZ HUSSIN; PHOTO: EUROPEAN PRESSPHOTO AGENCY  -  630 words
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      Lock icon Asean seeking to resolve sea row ‘through peaceful means’
      442 8  -  By SHANNON TEOH MALAYSIA CORRESPONDENT IN KUALA LUMPUR shannont@sph.com.sg ASEAN was cool on Filipino efforts to censure China over reclamation work in disputed areas of the South China Sea, saying yesterday it would instead try to convince the superpower that a
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      Lock icon PM Lee to meet Najib at retreat next week
      437 8  -  By ASRUL HADI ABDULLAH SANI MALAYSIA CORRESPONDENT IN KUALA LUMPUR asruls@sph.com.sg PRIME Minister Lee Hsien Loong will be meeting his Malaysian counterpart, Datuk Seri Najib Razak, at a leaders’ retreat next week to discuss areas of cooperation, such as the high-speed
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      Lock icon China takes swipe at critics over S. China Sea disputes
      293 8  -  By TEO CHENG WEE CHINA CORRESPONDENT IN BEIJING chengwee@sph.com.sg CHINA has accused unnamed countries of hijacking the ChinaAsean relationship for their own interest, in a veiled swipe at the Philippines and Vietnam’s push for Asean to take a stronger stand
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      Lock icon Singapore ‘must act to avoid regressing’
      527 9  -  Republic risks becoming ordinary if it fails to boost jobs, skills: Swee Say By JOANNA SEOW joseow@sph.com.sg SINGAPORE risks regressing to become “just a normal country” unless it moves faster to enhance workers’ skills and create new jobs, labour chief Lim Swee Say said
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      Lock icon Parade and party at SEA Games closing ceremony
      435 9  -  By CHUA SIANG YEE siangyee@sph.com.sg SPECTATORS at the SEA Games’ closing ceremony will be treated to a snazzy cocktail of past, present and future, as the Singapore SEA Games Organising Committee (Singsoc) revealed its plans for the June 16 event yesterday. A
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      Lock icon Colourful medals reflect diverse sports
      125 9  -  AFIQ ROSLAN WITH their kaleidoscope of colours, the 28th SEA Games medals are one of the most vibrant in recent history. Designed by Ms Joys Tan of Sport Singapore, the front face of each medal features various sporting icons that reflect the Games’ diverse sports
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      Lock icon Chew Gek Khim bags business award
      292 9  -  MARISSA LEE IT MAY be called the Businessman of the Year award but a woman ruled the roost last night when Ms Chew Gek Khim was presented with the top prize by Trade and Industry Minister Lim Hng Kiang. Ms Chew, 53, picked up
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      Lock icon Maid jailed 3 years for spiking breast milk with oil
      387 9  -  By ELENA CHONG COURT CORRESPONDENT elena@sph.com.sg A MAID tried to harm her employer’s baby because she wanted to be scolded and sent back to Indonesia. Annisa, 28, who goes by one name, put eucalyptus oil in packs of stored breast
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  • WORLD WORLD
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      Lock icon Japan’s wartime past overshadows Abe’s US visit
      731 10  -  Groups push for him to apologise for atrocities during address to Congress By JEREMY AU YONG US BUREAU CHIEF IN WASHINGTON jeremyau@sph.com.sg JAPANESE Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is sounding a conciliatory note on the contentious issue of Japanese wartime atrocities although it remains
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      Lock icon US, Japan unveil new defence cooperation guidelines
      749 10  -  More global role for Japanese army, US reaffirms it will defend Japan By JEREMY AU YONG US BUREAU CHIEF IN WASHINGTON jeremyau@sph.com.sg THE United States and Japan have unveiled new defence cooperation guidelines that stake out a more global role for the Japanese
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    • Article
      Lock icon Fitch cuts Japan’s credit rating
      370 10 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE TOKYO Fitch yesterday cut its credit rating on indebted Japan by one notch, saying it has not done enough to plug a budget gap caused by its decision to delay a sales tax rise. The move trimmed Japan’s rating to “A” from “A+”,
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    • Article
      Lock icon Fitch cuts Japan’s credit rating
      370 10 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE TOKYO Fitch yesterday cut its credit rating on indebted Japan by one notch, saying it has not done enough to plug a budget gap caused by its decision to delay a sales tax rise. The move trimmed Japan’s rating to “A” from “A+”,
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      Lock icon Abe govt ‘strong-arming press’ to curb critical coverage
      718 10 NEW YORK TIMES TOKYO It was an unexpected act of protest that shook Japan’s carefully managed media world: Mr Shigeaki Koga, a regular television commentator and fierce critic of the political establishment, abruptly departed from the script during a live news programme
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    • Article, Illustration
      Lock icon Abe govt ‘strong-arming press’ to curb critical coverage
      718 10 NEW YORK TIMES TOKYO It was an unexpected act of protest that shook Japan’s carefully managed media world: Mr Shigeaki Koga, a regular television commentator and fierce critic of the political establishment, abruptly departed from the script during a live news programme
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    • ASIA
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        Lock icon Abe’s ‘womenomics’ takes a beating
        471 11 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE XINHUA TOKYO Local elections in Japan produced just four female mayors of the 222 positions up for grabs, underlining the challenges for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s pledge to put women in 30 per cent of senior roles by 2020. Nationwide, there was an
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        Lock icon Mysterious land mass rises out of sea
        364 11 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE TOKYO Crowded Japan has become a little bit roomier after a 300m strip of land emerged from the sea and attached itself to the coast. Experts said yesterday that the extra stretch of coastline at the town of Rausu on Hokkaido
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      • Article
        Lock icon Top sushi restaurant turns down bookings by non-Japanese
        306 11 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE TOKYO A top-notch Michelin-starred sushi restaurant in Tokyo defended its special reservation rules for foreigners after a report in Japan said it had refused to accept a booking from a Chinese customer. Sushi Mizutani, which has two Michelin stars, said
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        Lock icon Park accepts S. Korean premier’s resignation
        412 11 PM’s departure over bribery scandal fresh blow for beleaguered President AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE SEOUL South Korean President Park Geun Hye has accepted the resignation of her prime minister over a bribery scandal that has tainted senior members of her faltering administration. Ms Park was on
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        Lock icon China mulls over merger of top state enterprises
        392 12 M&A will help them compete with foreign firms, prevent infighting: Report AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE SHANGHAI China is considering merging scores of its biggest state-owned enterprises to create around 40 national champions from the existing 112, the official Xinhua news agency said. The report
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        Lock icon Eight arrested in pro-democracy protests in HK
        530 12 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE HONG KONG Eight people have been arrested in Hong Kong after scuffles broke out between police and demonstrators during a pro-democracy protest, as tensions rise following the launch of a controversial election roadmap. Television footage showed clashes in the shopping district
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        Lock icon Put N. Korea back on terror blacklist, US urged
        307 12 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE WASHINGTON North Korea has increased its “material support” for terrorist organisations and should be placed back on America’s list of nations that are state sponsors of terrorism, a report released yesterday said. The Pyongyang regime was taken off the
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        Lock icon 3 tonnes of ivory seized in Thailand
        411 12 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE BANGKOK More than 3 tonnes of elephant ivory have been found at a Thai port stashed in a container shipped from Kenya, the second huge haul of tusks from Africa in less than a week. The discovery, which would be worth
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      • ASIA BRIEFS
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          Lock icon Parties to review charter
          99 12 REUTERS BANGKOK Thailand’s draft Constitution went to political parties for review yesterday, but they are forbidden by the junta from meeting to debate the charter. The National Reform Council completed a week-long debate on the charter on Sunday before drafters sent the text to the Cabinet,
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        • Article
          Lock icon Antibiotics in Chinese kids
          87 12 XINHUA BEIJING Chinese school children are exposed to antibiotics through the environment and contaminated food, Health News, a Chinese newspaper reported. Fudan University researchers tested urine samples of 1,064 children between eight and 11 years old and detected antibiotics in 58.3 per cent of them. The
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          67 12 REUTERS BEIJING Internet users in China were unable to use a number of popular foreign websites yesterday. Users first reported on Sunday that they were being sent to software website wpkg.org and travel website ptraveler.com when trying to access news websites like cnn.com and games website runescape.com,
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        351 13 REUTERS WASHINGTON Two-thirds of the world’s major defence companies get a “fail grade” for combating corruption in their business operations, despite improvements in industry practices in the past three years, an anti-corruption group said yesterday. In its survey of
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        482 13  -  Sinopec president ‘gave deals to family members’ By KOR KIAN BENG CHINA BUREAU CHIEF IN BEIJING kianbeng@sph.com.sg THE president of Sinopec Group, one of China’s largest state-owned enterprises (SOEs), has been placed under corruption investigations, joining a string of senior state-owned firm bosses
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        591 14  -  Hard-line Islamist group hits out at DAP’s campaign to raise awareness By ASRUL HADI ABDULLAH SANI MALAYSIA CORRESPONDENT IN KUALA LUMPUR asruls@sph.com.sg A MAJOR debate has broken out in Malaysia about Muslim women’s rights involving rape. The dispute began after the
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        184 14 KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim, who is serving a five-year jail term for sodomy, is planning a review petition against the Federal Court’s guilty verdict. Lawyer Latheefa Koya, a member of Anwar’s legal team, said the application was being finalised and
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        401 14 REUTERS AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE PESHAWAR A freak “mini-cy-clone” tore roofs off buildings and brought down trees and power poles in Pakistan, killing 45 people and injuring more than 200, officials said yesterday. Intense rain and strong winds buffeted the city of Peshawar and adjacent districts
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        417 14 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE ISLAMABAD Fruity sweets and packets of chicken soup that fall foul of halal laws are disappearing from Pakistan’s shops as the country looks to clean up its Islamic food credentials to boost exports to rich Gulf states. At the start
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        878 15 Forty years after Vietnam War ended, thousands of families still struggling REUTERS DANANG (Vietnam) On a hill above his home, former North Vietnamese soldier Do Duc Diu showed the cemetery he built for his 12 children, who all died soon after being born disabled. There
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        494 15 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE YANGON As he smoothens a gold plaque on the glistening flank of Myanmar’s most prestigious Buddhist pagoda, a merchant pays his ancestors the highest honour –and contributes to a bumper year of donations to re-gild the sacred site. The Shwedagon Pagoda,
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        952 16 Philippine president, boxing champ join chorus of appeals, but are rebuffed REUTERS AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE CILACAP/SYDNEY Indonesia said yesterday the execution of nine drug traffickers would go ahead this week, rebuffing last-minute appeals from Australia and the Philippines to spare their nationals
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        721 16  -  By JONATHAN PEARLMAN FOR THE STRAITS TIMES IN SYDNEY jonathanmpearlman@gmail.com MYURAN Sukumaran, like his criminal partner Andrew Chan, was lured by the prospect of an “easy pay cheque” into pushing drugs. The son of Sri Lankan parents who moved
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        336 17  -  By DANSON CHEONG dansonc@sph.com.sg THE mandatory death penalty was a mainstay of Singapore’s criminal justice system part of its uncompromising stance against heinous crimes such as drug trafficking and murder. But these laws were revised in November 2012 to give judges more discretion
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        360 17 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE MEMPHIS Tennessee suspended all executions this month, ahead of a United States Supreme Court ruling on the future of lethal injections, but could still subsequently put prisoners to death, with the electric chair. The southern state recently brought the electric chair
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        587 17  -  By JONATHAN PEARLMAN FOR THE STRAITS TIMES IN SYDNEY jonathanmpearlman@gmail.com DESPITE his looming execution, Australian drug convict Andrew Chan married his Indonesian fiancee Febyanti Herewila yesterday. His family members were present during the short ceremony at the prison on Nusakambangan island, where he will face
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        337 17 JAKARTA As his presidency crossed the six-month mark, Indonesian leader Joko Widodo saw a steep fall in his popularity, two independent surveys said, prompting calls for a Cabinet reshuffle to boost performance. The dip has been attributed to some policy initiatives like the controversy surrounding the appointment
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      410 18 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE WASHINGTON United States officials are expected to stop prosecuting families of American hostages who communicate with kidnappers abroad or raise funds and pay ransoms. A National Counter-terrorism Centre (NCTC) advisory group, ordered by the White House, is expected
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      425 18 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE SYDNEY A 10-year-old Filipino boy who has autism yesterday made an emotional plea for permission to remain in Australia, as tens of thousands called for him not to be deported despite the potential cost of his condition. Tyrone
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      46 18 A child plays a game with food during a special flea market for those under 16 years old in Vondelpark in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, yesterday during King’s Day, the celebration of King Willem-Alexander’s birthday. PHOTO: EUROPEAN PRESSPHOTO AGENCY PHOTO: EUROPEAN PRESSPHOTO AGENCY
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        91 18 BLOOMBERG ASTANA, Kazakhstan Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev, who has ruled the former Soviet Union’s second-biggest energy producer for more than a quarter century, won a fifth term by a landslide. The president got 97.7 per cent of Sunday’s vote, with turnout at 95.2 per cent, the Astana-based
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        95 18 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE PARIS The uncle of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is under investigation in France for amassing a 90 million euro (S$130 million) fortune, despite being kicked out of Syria “with nothing” 30 years ago. French investigators have provided details of their year-long probe into the finances
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        131 18 REUTERS CHICAGO Hundreds of farm workers exposed to a highly pathogenic strain of bird flu have been offered antiviral medication as a preventative measure in recent days, United States public health officials said. To date, the virulent H5N2 influenza, which has infected turkeys and chickens
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      453 18 Man in video urges other medical professionals to join militants AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE SYDNEY Canberra yesterday said it was deeply concerned about an Australian-trained doctor who appears in a propaganda video of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) which urges other medical
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      652 19 Since 2008, law firms have cut hires; graduates now in a variety of jobs NEW YORK TIMES NEW YORK Mr Jonathan Wang has not practised law since he graduated from Columbia Law School in 2010, but he did not plan it that
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      494 19 NEW YORK TIMES HELSINKI Getting a speeding ticket is not a feel-good moment for anyone. But consider Mr Reima Kuisla, a Finnish businessman. He was recently fined €54,024 (S$78,295) for travelling at a modest, if illegal, 103kmh in a 80kmh zone.
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      431 19 NEW YORK TIMES WASHINGTON Rick Santorum said he would never attend a same-sex wedding. Marco Rubio said he might. Scott Walker actually went to a same-sex wedding reception, not to be confused with an actual ceremony. Ted Cruz said he is firmly
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      356 19 NEW YORK TIMES SAN FRANCISCO US President Barack Obama’s newly installed defence secretary, Mr Ashton Carter, toured Silicon Valley last week to announce a new military strategy for computer conflict, starting the latest Pentagon effort to invest in promising start-ups and to meet engineers whose talent
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      635 20 Party lays out plan to tackle Britain’s housing crisis ahead of May 7 polls REUTERS BLOOMBERG LONDON Britain’s Labour Party wants to scrap the stamp duty for first-time home buyers and give them the right to buy up to half of new homes
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      502 20 REUTERS NEW DELHI Mr Ajit Lakha, who runs a mid-sized garment export business in the north Indian textile hub of Ludhiana, prays daily that the rupee will weaken and the euro recover to cut the losses he is taking on his overseas sales. “Only a
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      383 20 REUTERS SHANGHAI China’s employment situation is good and progress has been made in structural adjustments, so there is no need for strong stimulus for the economy despite downward pressure, according to the central bank’s top economist. “The central bank’s recent lowering of rates
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      588 20 BLOOMBERG TOULOUSE At the tender age of 10, the Airbus A380 is already entering a mid-life crisis. The double-decker aircraft has failed to win a single order from any new airline customer for two years now, and senior management was forced to
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      588 21 Finance minister’s wings clipped after rubbing peers the wrong way REUTERS BLOOMBERG ATHENS Greek prime minister Alexis Tsipras has reshuffled his team handling talks with European and IMF lenders, after his finance minister was sharply criticised for his performance at a
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      363 21 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE FRANKFURT Deutsche Bank, Germany’s biggest lender, has unveiled details of a huge strategic shake-up in which it will rid itself of its Postbank unit and massively curb costs. Ending months of feverish speculation, Deutsche Bank yesterday finally lifted the veil on its blueprint
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      370 21 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE WASHINGTON The US Federal Reserve dropped its reference about staying patient before raising interest rates in its policy statement in March. But signs indicate that could be its stance tomorrow, when it concludes a two-day policy meeting amid a
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        83 21 XINHUA BERLIN China became the biggest investing country in Germany in 2014 with a record number of investment projects, an official report has shown. Last year, China invested in 190 greenfield projects in Europe’s biggest economy, outpacing the United States and Switzerland, said Germany Trade Invest,
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        103 21 REUTERS LONDON Britain’s biggest banks face £19 billion (S$38.4 billion) of charges relating to past misconduct over the next two years, on top of £48 billion in misconduct and litigation charges over the past five years, ratings agency Standard Poor’s (S&P) said yesterday. S&P said the mis-selling
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      414 22 TRYING to gauge how people will react in an emergency helps to prepare for it. To that end, simulations are useful if they provide an accurate picture of what is most likely to occur. Singapore’s preparations for eventualities would benefit from fruitful collaboration between a French
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      1389 22  -  Some observers think MAS should switch to more frequent policy statements than its current six-monthly cycle to update markets. But the benefits of this have to be weighed against the costs of having too short-term an outlook on monetary policy. EYE ON THE
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      2630 23  -  Three abiding values in Singapore’s system of governance the pillars of incorruptibility, meritocracy and impartiality need to remain in the future, although the definition of meritocracy and the recruitment process need updating. By EDDIE TEO The writer is the chairman
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      617 23  -  By JOHN LEE FOR THE STRAITS TIMES stopinion@sph.com.sg The writer is a senior fellow in Hudson Institute and an adjunct associate professor at the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Australian National University. WHEN Prime Minister Shinzo Abe becomes the first Japanese
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        353 24  -  Teo Kueh Liang IT IS regrettable that the United States and Japan have not joined the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) because they are afraid that China has the intention and clout to shape the new world order (“Banking on infrastructure of
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        58 24 1. MS AMY LOH: Reverse trend of speaking poor English. 2. MR CHUA KOK NAM: Use service charge to recognise workers. 3. MR JEFFREY LAW: Remind passengers to behave themselves. 4. MR TEO KOK SEAH: Recycle rainwater, save the greenery. 5. MS YVONNE KONG: Why I’m thankful to
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          427 24  -  Estella Young (Ms) WHILE the recent video on maids has been accused of shaming women who apparently know their own children less well than their maids do (“Video to get maids a day off ends up riling mums”; last Saturday), it has achieved its objective
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          181 24  -  Tan Li Feng (Dr) DOMESTIC helpers, for better or for worse, are a part of our national landscape. They play important roles in helping the average Singapore family juggle the pressures of daily life. Our domestic helpers are deserving of much gratitude and respect. However, the
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          357 24  -  Jolovan Wham Executive Director Humanitarian Organisation for Migration Economics ECONOMIC empowerment, access to education and the creation of jobs are what the government of Indonesia needs to put in place, in order to provide its women with better lives (“Indonesia’s dilemma over foreign
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        248 24  -  Evelyn Lee Yi Jing (Miss) President Association for Music Therapy, Singapore WHILE we applaud HCA Hospice Care’s effort to provide holistic patient-centred care, its music programme for paediatric palliative care is not considered true music therapy (“Star Pals a lifeline for critically ill
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        261 24 Should cyclists be allowed to ride on little-used pedestrian paths? No cyclists on pavements, please. They have scratched me, knocked people down and just keep ringing their bells... and shout at you to get out of the way. Eunice Nah Imagine a grandparent holding a walking toddler, or
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        299 24  -  Yeo Kheng Hui I READ Mr Tan Heng Choon’s letter (“LionsXII’s boost to football can be tapped”; last Thursday) with some consternation. Mr Tan pointed out that our top players have moved out to other leagues in the region. Nothing keeps the other players from
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      663 1  -  But closer attention will be given to higher-risk groups: elderly, m-cyclists By CHRISTOPHER TAN SENIOR TRANSPORT CORRESPONDENT christan@sph.com.sg FEWER people died in traffic accidents in the first three months of this year, but the Traffic Police will pay closer attention to the two
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      596 2  -  Outgoing labour chief to address first global tripartism conference here By TOH YONG CHUAN MANPOWER CORRESPONDENT tohyc@sph.com.sg FOR labour chief Lim Swee Say, the one thing that he kept focused on in his eight years on the job was growing
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      409 2  -  By JOANNA SEOW joseow@sph.com.sg THE outgoing labour chief gave a ringing endorsement of his successor, saying that Mr Chan Chun Sing has the right qualities to be an effective link between the Gov- ernment and the unions.
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      323 2  -  TOH YONG CHUAN UNTIL labour chief Lim Swee Say came along, there were no words such as “betterer” and “better est”. He has also created snappy catchphrases, like “cheaper, better, faster” and “upturn the downturn”, and gamely used them in
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      224 2  -  By CHONG ZI LIANG ziliang@sph.com.sg THE partnership between the Government and unions that helped Singapore develop economically needs to be re-examined, said the Singapore Democratic Alliance (SDA) in its May Day message. SDA’s chairman Desmond Lim said that the relationship now favours economic growth
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      436 3  -  Figure down 0.9% year on year, but there are still pockets of growth By KARAMJIT KAUR AVIATION CORRESPONDENT karam@sph.com.sg CHANGI Airport’s passenger traffic in the first quarter slipped 0.9 per cent year on year to 13.1 million passengers, compared with the same January
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      491 3  -  By OLIVIA HO oliviaho@sph.com.sg FOR the past 18 years, a lot of Singapore’s history has passed through Mr Looi Tai Yew’s hands. The 62-year-old senior technical support officer at the National Archives of Singapore (NAS) au-dio-visual lab manually cleans, repairs,
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      445 4  -  It will hook up its business customers to fibre network By IRENE THAM TECHNOLOGY CORRESPONDENT itham@sph.com.sg AT LEAST one Internet service provider (ISP) has taken things into its own hands after continued delays in the roll-out of Singapore’s high-speed fibre broadband network. From
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      354 4  -  By MELISSA LIN mellinjm@sph.com.sg IN 2008, Madam Wong Kuan Ying saw how a team of doctors and nurses looked after her relative in a hospital’s intensive care unit over three months. The relative recovered and Madam Wong, then a housewife, decided to join these
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      450 4  -  By JERMYN CHOW DEFENCE CORRESPONDENT jermync@sph.com.sg TWO aviation exhibitions will be held in Singapore next year as demand for helicopters soars in the Asia-Pacific. Besides the biennial Singapore Airshow in February next year, an exhibition of helicopters and other types
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      168 4  -  JERMYN CHOW AT LEAST 20 warships from 12 navies are expected to sail into Singapore waters next month for one of the region’s premier naval exhibition. To be held for the 10th time, the International Maritime Defence Exhibition
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      565 5  -  It gives facts on parts of dinosaurs, allows visitors to take selfie with one By AUDREY TAN audreyt@sph.com.sg THE lair of three rare dinosaurs opens to the public today, after more than five years in the making. Guests to the Lee
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      445 5  -  By AMELIA TENG ateng@sph.com.sg STUDENTS at the National University of Singapore’s (NUS) Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine could be dissecting 3D holographic cadavers in three years’ time. The medical school is aiming to be the first in the
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      497 6  -  Four iconic buildings from S’pore’s nation-building years featured in book By MELODY ZACCHEUS melodyz@sph.com.sg FOR decades, four grand old dames from Singapore’s na-tion-building years stood tall as the city grew. Of the red-brick National Library, the National Theatre with its cantilevered steel roof, the National Stadium
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      527 6  -  CITY HARVEST TRIAL By DANSON CHEONG dansonc@sph.com.sg SERINA Wee, former finance manager of City Harvest Church (CHC), maintained yesterday that the church did not control Xtron, the company that managed singer Sun Ho, wife of church founder Kong Hee. She told the
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      176 6 ELECTRONIC Road Pricing (ERP) rates at four locations will be raised from next Monday. In its latest quarterly review, the Land Transport Authority said car drivers passing gantries along the Ayer Rajah Expressway after Jurong Town Hall towards the city will have to
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      482 6  -  LITTLE INDIA RIOT By HOE PEI SHAN hpeishan@sph.com.sg THE last of the 25 men to be dealt with for their roles in a riot in Little India more than a year ago was tried in court yesterday. Arun Kaliamurthy, a 29-year-old Indian national who has
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      684 7  -  All-round robust performance helps bank defy China slowdown By WONG WEI HAN whwong@sph.com.sg DBS Group Holdings enjoyed a record-breaking first quarter thanks to a robust performance across all sectors that defied the slowdown in China. Net profit for the three months to
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      511 8  -  Doubts cast on Fed’s scope for rate hikes as data is unexpectedly weaker By GRACE LEONG gleong@sph.com.sg THE Singapore dollar has hit a three-month high against the greenback after a slew of weak United States economic data. The latest round of weak-er-than-expected
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      777 8  -  By RENNIE WHANG wrennie@sph.com.sg FRASERS Commercial Trust (FCOT) said yesterday that an entity of Frasers Centrepoint will build a hotel on its China Square Central site. FCOT has struck a conditional deal for the proposed hotel, which will be operated by
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      547 8  -  By ANN WILLIAMS ann@sph.com.sg SINGAPORE has fallen to sixth place for financial literacy, recording the largest decline out of 16 Asia-Pacific markets, according to a annual survey by MasterCard. The key reason for the overall decline in financial literacy here
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      833 10  -  Automotive industry working to lift sector’s image and attract technicians By ONG KAI XUAN ongkx@sph.com.sg OWNING a car is regarded as glamorous in Singapore but not working as a mechanic in a car workshop, it seems. The local industry is now making effort to
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      613 10  -  By MARISSA LEE marilee@sph.com.sg SHAKING up one of Singapore’s most venerable companies earned Ms Chew Gek Khim the title of Businessman of the Year 2014 at the Singapore Business Awards (SBA) last night. Ms Chew, The Straits Trading Company’s executive chairman,
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      354 10 BREAD-MAKER QAF will restructure a key Malaysian subsidiary to comply with a pre-2004 national economic policy (NEP) that has already been superseded by a new one. The move could effectively reduce QAF’s ownership of the Gardenia Bakeries unit, which accounted for
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        517 11  -  Group posts its highest Q1 revenue as it gives details of upcoming facilities By ARIEL LIM ariellim@sph.com.sg RAFFLES Medical Group will open a new facility in Shaw Centre in June that will provide a wide range of services, it announced yesterday. The 17,000 sq ft
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        642 11  -  By JACQUELINE WOO tsjwoo@sph.com.sg HUTCHISON Port Holdings Trust (HPH Trust) has posted a steep drop in first-quar-ter earnings on the back of weaker contributions from its shipping terminals. Net profit for the three months ended March 31 fell 48.9
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        305 11  -  By STEPHANIE HENG hsteph@sph.com.sg A FALL in demand for rig-building and repairs sent earnings down at Sembcorp Marine in the first quarter. Net profit declined 13.6 per cent to $106 million, compared with the same period last year, while revenue
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        355 11  -  By ANN WILLIAMS ann@sph.com.sg CATALIST-LISTED EMS Energy said it plans to merge with engineering, procurement and construction management firm Koastal Group in a cash-and-scrip deal valued at $150 million to diversify its earnings stream. The enlarged group will become an integrated offshore and
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          156 12 Sing Investments Finance SING Investments Finance has reported a 31.2 per cent drop in first-quarter net profit to $2.6 million. This was despite revenue rising 7.7 per cent to $13.6 million for the three months to March 31. Net interest income and hiring charges fell by 5.3 per cent to
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          112 12 MAINBOARD-LISTED Aztech Group reported yesterday a 27.5 per cent year-on-year fall in net profit to $1.2 million for the first quarter ended March 31, due largely to higher administrative expenses from one-off start-up costs. Administrative expenses for the quarter rose 5.5 per cent to $5.2 million, with the
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        447 12  -  Market waiting for signals from US central bank on interest rate hike BULLS AND BEARS By WONG WEI HAN whwong@sph.com.sg LOCAL shares closed a tad higher on a day of choppy trading, paving the way for a volatile week likely to be swayed
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          18 12 STI trading volume 234.19 million shares STI up down Gainers: 13 Losers: 11 Unchanged: 6
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          84 12 Points Change Mid Cap Small Cap Fledgling Catalist China China Top Maritime 811.95 509.73 931.86 748.21 246.43 216.34 287.87 5.67 3.68 0.41 3.59 1.28 4.10 6.33 Points Change Basic materials Consumer goods Consumer serv Financials Healthcare Industrials Oil and gas 151.03 505.34 868.94 935.05 1,433.09 813.86 581.48
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          21 12 Stock trading volume 1.76 billion shares worth $1.19 billion Up down Gainers: 231 Losers: 184 Unchanged: 882
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          57 12 Yesterday’s close Index Change Hang Seng Nikkei 225 Seoul Kospi Shanghai Comp Shenzhen Comp Bursa KLCI 28,433.59 19,983.32 2,157 .54 4,527 .396 2,271.276 1,859.58 372.61 -36.72 -2.26 133.71 14.914 -3 Yesterday’s close Index Change 5,245.446 1,548.83 5,982.694 Jakarta Comp SET Thailand Sydney ASX 200 Friday’s close Dow Nasdaq
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          180 12 For a full list of SGX stocks, warrants and bonds, visit btstocks.asiaone.com TRANSACTION DATE: APRIL 27,2015 Top Rises Apr 27 CENTS SPDR S&P500 US$ ***** 255.8 0.9 DBXT MSAsExJp US$ 4043 111.9 2.1 DBXT China50 US$ 4233 83.9 1.5 Lyxor ChinaH US$ 2023 76.0 2.9 DBXT MSUSA
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          97 12 52-WEEK CURRENCY LAST 'VOL DAY GROSS NET M CAP HIGH LOW COMPANY TRADED SALE +OR-'000 HIGH LOW YIELD P/E $MIL COMPANY CORRENCY LAST TRADED SALE +0R'VOL ‘000 DAY 296 239 Global Logistic 274 unch ***** 277 272 1.5 15 *****.2 LOW GROSS 830 646 HongkongLand USD
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          136 12 52-WEEK CURRENCY LAST 'VOL DAY GROSS NET M CAP HIGH LOW COMPANY TRADED SALE +OR-'000 HIGH LOW YIELD P/E $MIL COMPANY CURRENCY LAST TRADED SALE +0R'VOL '000 193.5 156.5 CapitaCom Trust HIGH LOW GROSS YIELD NET P/E M CAP $MIL 184 155 ARA Asset Mgmt
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          41 12 By Volume CENTS Vol CENTS SIIC Environment 23 55,299,500 WE Federal Int 147,958,900 SinoConstruction 3.7 50,639,900 23 55^299^500 Golden Agri-Res 42.5 39,397,500 51,881,900 Federal Int 3.9 50,883,500 SinoConstruction 3.7 50,639,900 Artivision Tech 8.4 21,346,600 Mirach Energy 7.8 21,146,000 49,619,800
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          67 12 Apr 27 Against S$ Against US$ Currencies Bid Offer Bid Offer S$/US$ to one unit of foreign currency: Australian dollar Bid Offer S$AJS$ to one unit of foreign currency: NZ dollar S$/US$ to 100 units of foreign currency: 1.0415 Danish krone 0.7811 1.0929 1.0943 0.8207 0.8203 *****
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          199 12 Top Rises Apr 27 CENTS ISDN W*****0 UOB VT eCW*****5 24 60.0 9.0 CN*****MBeCW*****0 18.6 19.2 3.0 UOB MB eCW*****1 19.6 15.3 2.6 UOB MB eCW*****2 .........16.8 15.1 2.2 CapitalaMBeCW*****3 7.7 14.9 1.0 2.7 DBS MB eCW*****4 34 13.3 4.0 SingTelMBeCW*****3 8.5 11.8 0.9 SingtelMBeCW*****4 11.8 10.3
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          168 12 52-Wk Last Vol High Low Company Sale +/-(’000) Company Last Sale Vol ('0001 123.5 163 110.2 123.5 ABF SG Bond ETF CIMB APAC Div S$D 115.6 146.4 +0.6 +0.4 172 2 110.5 98 CIMB APAC Div US$ US105.3 1440 1308 CIMBASEAN40 S$D 1364 1113 995 CIMBASEAN40 US$ ...US1019 +6
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      261 14 NEXT 48 HOURS TodayBasketball NBA Conference play-offs, 1st rd Eastern, Game 4: Brooklyn v Atlanta (StarHub Ch216, 7am). Cricket IPL: Chennai v Kolkata (StarHub Ch238, 10.20pm). 1st Test, day 1: Bangladesh v Pakistan (Singtel TV Ch123 StarHub Ch236, 11.55am). Football S-League: Home v Young Lions (Yishun, 7.30pm). AFC Cup, Group
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      333 18  -  By CLARA CHONG chongcjy@sph.com.sg FOUR kilos. That is all that separated judoka Lily Ana Abdul Rahman from a first SEA Games appearance. Initially a medal hopeful in the below-52kg category, the 21-year-old student has had to drop out of Singapore’s Games squad after failing
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      492 18  -  SEA Games-bound players can join up with LionsXII for first leg of semi-final By DEEPANRAJ GANESAN drajac@sph.com.sg THE results in the lead-up to the 2015 SEA Games may have been disappointing but Singapore Un-der-23 coach Aide Iskandar retains the full support of the Football
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      88 18  -  DEEPANRAJ GANESAN SINGAPORE Under-23 head coach Aide Iskandar (above) was hospitalised with dengue fever yesterday. The 39-year-old, tasked with masterminding the nation’s bid to land a first SEA Games football gold, had been down with fever and rashes for the past week. Assistant coaches S. Subramani and
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      949 18  -  SPORTING LIFE By ROHIT BRIJNATH rohitb@sph.com.sg TWELVE years later, James Wong can still hear the crowd. Can still remember that December day at the SEA Games in 2003. Can still recollect how he “got excited” when he walked into
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      634 14 They win a bruising Game 4 but Love is injured and Smith may get suspension REUTERS BOSTON The Cleveland Cavaliers won a game, clinched a series but lost an important piece of their puzzle at TD Garden on Sunday. In fact, they may have lost
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      265 14 REUTERS L Washington Wizards 125 Toronto Raptors 94 Guard Bradley Beal scored 23 points and centre Marcin Gortat added 21 points and 11 rebounds as the Washington Wizards destroyed the Toronto Raptors and completed the first play-off sweep in a seven-game series in franchise history. Guard John
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      349 14 REUTERS SAN ANTONIO The Game Three thrashing which the San Antonio Spurs administered to the Los Angeles Clippers on Friday was no sign that the defending champions were in control of their National Basketball Association (NBA) play-off series. Guard Chris Paul
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      374 14 Basketball NBA Conference Play-offs, 1st rd Eastern, Game 4: Washington 125 Toronto 94 (Washington win the best-of-seven series 4-0), Boston 93 Cleveland 101 (Cleveland win 4-0). Western, Game 4: Dallas 121 Houston 109 (Houston lead series 3-1), San Antonio 105 LA Clippers 114 (series level at 2-2). Cricket IPL
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      789 15 Critics say Mayweather has been let off too easily over spousal abuses THE GUARDIAN LAS VEGAS A lingering shadow hangs over Floyd Mayweather. As hundreds of journalists from around the world descend on Las Vegas this week to pour over every detail of his fight
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      346 15 REUTERS OSCHERSLEBEN (Germany) Michael Schumacher’s 16-year-old son Mick sprayed the winner’s champagne after capping an impressive debut weekend in German Formula Four with the first victory of his motor-racing career on Sunday. Competing for Dutch-based Van Amersfoort Racing team, the German lined up second on
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      301 15 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE LAS VEGAS The countdown is on for Saturday’s showdown between Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather, the US$400 million (S$533 million) “fight of the century” that has a place in boxing’s pantheon of greats on the line. More than five years in
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      400 15 REUTERS LONDON Paula Radcliffe struggled to hold back the tears as she ran the London Marathon for the final competitive time in front of adoring fans on Sunday. The 41-year-old brought the curtains down on her career with Buckingham Palace looming in the
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      225 16 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE L Aug 30, 2014: Lee tests positive for dexamethasone, a banned anti-inflammatory, at the World Championships in Copenhagen, a day before he loses the men’s singles final to China’s Chen Long. L Nov 8, 2014: Malaysian officials say an unnamed badminton player has failed a drugs
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      337 16 REUTERS SAN FRANCISCO Women’s golf world No. 1 Lydia Ko secured a late birthday present when she birdied the second extra hole to beat American Morgan Pressel in a play-off and win the Swinging Skirts LPGA Classic in California on Sunday. Two days after
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      489 16  -  Shuttler, who is entered for event, has 8-month dope ban backdated By CHARLES ONG ocharles@sph.com.sg HE MIGHT have been slapped with an eight-month ban yesterday but, come June, Malaysian shuttler Lee Chong Wei can take part in the SEA Games in Singapore. This, after the
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      132 16 Singapore’s Leon Kwek (centre) tipping the ball away from Laos’ Siphandone Lothalath (left) and Khonesavanh Lattana during the Republic’s resounding 113-21 South-east Asia Basketball Association (Seaba) Championship win at the OCBC Arena last night. Singapore raced to a 30-2 lead by the end of
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        63 16 SUZHOU (China) Yang Zi and Yu Mengyu have advanced to the second round of the mixed doubles event at the World Table Tennis Championships, after beating Marco Rech Daldosso and Debora Vivarelli of Italy 11-1, 11-7, 10-12, 11-4, 11-6. Clarence Chew and Isabelle Li, however,
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        60 16 FORMER national youth shuttler Adrianus Adi retained his Red Bull Smash Zone title, after beating Johor state player Chian Chin Yong 21-9 at the Pasir Ris Sports Hall on Sunday. But defending women’s champion Joy Lim lost to Mok Jing Qiong 11-21. The unique playing
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        51 16 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE SYDNEY Chelsea will play a football friendly against Sydney FC in June on their first visit to Australia in 50 years. The match, at the 83,000-capacity Olympic Stadium on June 2, comes just days after the end of the English Premier League
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        52 16 REUTERS LONDON The Williams Formula One team made a loss of £42.5 million (S$86 million) last year but said yesterday they expected a significant improvement next year. The loss, with turnover of £71.2 million, compared to a profit of £11.9 million and turnover of £106 million
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        449 4 New York Times New York The decision by PEN American Center to give its annual Freedom of Expression Courage award to French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo has prompted six writers to withdraw as literary hosts at the group’s annual gala on
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        521 5 New York Times New York King Kong was so 20th century. All that climbing and heavy breathing so low-tech. This is the 21st century. Marc Brickman can have his way with the Empire State Building from wherever he happens to be which, on
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          64 8 Fly on Turkish Airlines to Istanbul from $749*, book yourself on a Trafalgar land tour such as the 8D Highlights of Turkey (from $2,008*) and enjoy a 10 per cent discount off the tour price. Additional perks include a $100 shopping voucher. This promotion is valid
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        112 8 travel NEWS Travellers who want to book their holidays earlier will be pleased with the new dates for the Natas Holidays 2015 travel fair. Natas president Devinder Ohri recently announced that the Association would hold its travel fair earlier than usual, from July 31
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        936 12  -  Lengets a crash course in the founding of the United States of America Winston Len “ENTERING America’s Historic Area”, the road sign announced as my family drove into Virginia, one of the oldest states in the United States. If you are a history buff, Virginia is
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      501 13  -  Foong Woei Wan American actress Jennifer Lawrence’s falling-down act at two consecutive Academy Awards, in 2013 and 2014, has finally caught on in Singapore. Long skirts and slippery stages proved to be a hazard at the Star Awards Show 2 on Sunday. Best Actress
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      914 14 Chauvet cave paintings were discovered 20 years ago and now replica lets public see what is inside The New York Times Chauvet Cave, France After the retreat of Neanderthals across the European continent, modern humans made their way to this cave and began to create the
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        211 16 New York Times Reuters Los Angeles The big-budget, visual-effects-driven summer movie season has arrived as Avengers: Age Of Ultron topped the worldwide box office over the weekend. It took in an estimated US$201.2 million (S$268.1 million), according to Rentrak, which compiles box-office data. It will open
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          92 16 Two tour buses carrying rap star Lil Wayne and his entourage came under fire early on Sunday in Georgia, according to the American media, which said no one was injured in the shooting. The Atlanta journal-Constitution said the shooting by unknown assailants
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          69 16 Google plans to start issuing fashion trend reports, based on user searches, twice a year. The aggregations are part of its bid to become a bigger player in e-commerce and fashion, beyond its product search engine and advertising platform. According to six billion fashion-related
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        273 16 New York Times New York Jay Z took to Twitter on Sunday to defend his new streaming music service Tidal after news reports suggested that the app was slipping into early oblivion. In more than a dozen messages posted in rapid succession, the
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        263 16 Agence France-Presse London The family of the late singer Amy Winehouse (inset) condemned a forthcoming documentary about her life as “misleading” on Monday. Due to premiere at the Cannes film festival next month, Amy traces her story from her early career to the fame she won
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      56 5 Celebrating 170 years The Straits Times celebrates its 170th year this year with treats for readers. Up for grabs is a pair of tickets to Katy Perry’s “The Prismatic World Tour” concert in Singapore on May 11, sponsored by AEG Live. Visit1845.straitstimes.com for more details on how to win the
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      27 13 TOMORROW IN Seeing double They are often paired together, the latest being Avengers: Age Of Ultron. But is there real chemistry between Elizabeth Olsen and Aaron Taylor-Johnson?
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        252 9  -  By Lim Yaohui For The Straits Times Dinosaurs are here to stay at the new 8,500 sq m, $46 million Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum, which opens its doors to the public today. Prince, Apollonia and Twinky, three 150-million-year-old diplodocid sauropod dinosaur skeletons, are the
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      1387 10 Property Prices Here is the list of private residential property transactions with caveats lodged for apartments, condominiums and executive condominiums in March 2015 This week: 20 23 PROJECT NAME PRICE SQ FT PROJECT NAME PRICE SQ FT PROJECT NAME PRICE SQ FT PROJECT NAME PRICE SQ FT District 20 Bishan
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      359 13 D.15 STUDIO NEAR P aya Lebar/ Dakota MRT. Newly reno, f/furn, wifi, immed. Can cook. $1.5K. 8161-5658 BAYSHORE PARK 1292 sf. 3+1 Renovated. Full sea view. $4K. Call Peter Koh 9670-0629 6297-7177 SEAFRONT MEYER 1600 s.f 3rm P/furn. F/facilities. Owner *****802 SOVEREIGN 3305SF. 4+1. Balconies. Reno. Full sea/ city view.
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      314 13 CANBERRA RES. 2 bdrms. Grd flr. Partial/ f/furn. Airy Only $2.6K. Michael Ng *****623. mnprop.com.sg CANBERRA RES PH Duplex. 2267sf. 4+1, windy. Designer decor. Unfurn. Avail 1st May. $5k. Irene *****063 Best Deal OKIO/ BALESTIER STUDIO. Brand new/ R66, Rangoon Race Course Rd, 2 mins MRT. F/aircon. 9646-4649 Excellent Location
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      291 13 New Listing 4’NG’ BLK 601. New reno Near NUS park, West Coast Plaza, mkt sch. F/furn. 9477 9997 Serena Ong EUNOS CRES 4RM (4NG) HDB approved,immed rent, $neg, f/furn, AC, near MRT amenities, move in cond. Call Owner *****506 DON’T MISS! 3-RM Ubi Ave 1 F/aircon. Unfurn. Eateries, supermart, school.
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      274 14 Index Factory/lndustrial Space for Rent THE STRAITS TIMES Factory/lndustrial Space for Rent Factory/lndustrial Space for Rent Factory/lndustrial Space for Rent Factory/lndustrial Space for Rent CLASSIFIED SPI for HDB Rentals sum SELL IT FIND ITIndex: Base 2009 Jan 140.0 135.0 130.0 125.0 120.0 115.0 110.0 105.0 100.0 Year Month 2015 March
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      112 14 GOOD LOCATION TUAS 2-STY DETACHED fty 18.000 sqft High ceiling Jurong 12,000/ 15,000sqft Immed. Ronnie *****922 GOOD FRONTAGE 18 TRADEHUB21. B1 Grd Flr. Approx. 12,753 sf. High Ceiling/ Full Glass. $3 psf. Avail Immed. 8388 2662 CHANCER LODGE COMPLEX 1346sf. Near Aljunied MRT. Immed PIE/CTE/KPE/City fringe Hurry! Closing Soon! JURONG
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      116 14 BEST PRICE NEW! GROUND FLR 9,000 sf Containers ramp-up 2nd flr 9K-150,000sf lorry245lots $1.35psf 9101-6433 LamHH OPEN YARD FOR rent near Punggol. Min 9000sf/ near Khatib Camp 2000sf/ Kim Chuan 2500sf. 9131-5109 Near MRT LINK AMK Rent $1.50 psf Size 2153sqft 4306sqft, Ramp up. Centrally located Call 9697 7494 Leon
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      208 14 9@ TAGORE. B1 #02 2433sf Ramp up, Mezzanine office. F/fitted, No window Avail Jun. Wilkie 9619 1191 MACPHERSON 4600SF, OFFICE/ warehse/ ind fty w/toilet, free parking. *****225/ *****258 MUST VIEW EUNOS TECHNOLINK, 2905 sf. W/ office. Easy access, Ramp up, Direct carpark. neg. Nancy 9489 8939 CENDEX CTR Bt Merah.
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      197 14 GOOD LINK@AMK, New 3-sty terr, 9289sf, aSK $2.90psf. Chris 9386 2390 CT HUB 1&2 Fr 969-***** sf. 6m ceiling hgt, s/pool, gym, mrt. Chris *****390 PANTECH BIZ HUB, Pandan Loop 2110/1206sf Reno,gd view. F/aircon 9631-6939 A’POSH BIZ HUB, Yishun Ave 6.1281/1550/3843sqft Avail immed. 9139-0654 W’LANDS IND PK E1 Flatted fty
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      288 14 BEST PRICE 60 yrs B1 Ramp Up Units, Northstar AMK 2077/ 1873/ 1765 sf, 6m ceiling, from $4xx psf only Enterprise One @KB, 2164/ 2271sf, No GST,mins to UBI /Kaki Bukit MRT, $5xx psf Woodlands Horizon, Just TOP, 1711 sf, NO GST, only $4xx psf. All units must go. *****970
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      179 15 OFFICE SPACE FOR LEASE NEAR MRT FULLY FITTED R T YI AttractiveRentalfrm$2.XXpsfl ALEXANDRA TANJONG PAGAR 374 560 722 932 2,052 sqft Ample Parking Available Variety of F&B (ARC Pasir Panjang Food Centre) Near Pasir Panjang MRT West Coast Highway 354 670 770 990 1,308 2,200 sqft Complimentary Season Parking Accessible
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      418 15 Office Space for Rent Office Space for Rent THE CONCOURSE (beach ROAD) or Lease: Office 920 1,184 1,625 3,897 6,300 16,264 sq ft From 12,000 to 40,000 sq ft on contiguous floors (Available August 2015) Next to Nicoll Highway MRT Broadband enabled Panoramic Sea View Fringe of CBD Attractive leasing
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      335 15 Near MRT PAYA LEBAR SQ, new, corner 1389, 1550, 2939 sf, full glass, MRT amenities, neg Lynn *****664 ERA. SMALL OFFICE. MINS to Tg Pagar MRT. Fitted/ wi-fi. Immed. 2 pax $800/ 6 pax $1800.9009-3990 Irene THOMSON RD NEAR Novena 640 sf. Fully fitted. Furn, aircon. Central location. $2100 neg.
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      519 15 50% OFF 1ST mth rent. Svc office@ Henderson. Furn, 24/7, recep, conference rm, pantry. HP: *****087 best price **PAYA LEBAR SQ. Brand new.Beside MRT.538/ 1076 /1614sf water pt. $4.80 psf SM Chia 9068-6500 CLUB ST 1200SF. Conservation w/attic. Top flr. Split level. AC. Toilet. Well kept. Avail July. *****038 KPC
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      404 15 Good Investment CENDEX CTR (11 units). 1100 3700 sf. $850 psf. 50 yrs lease. Mins drive CBD.Near AYE. Eileen 9022 5599 D07 THE PLAZA @Beach Rd 731 1313sf. High flr/ Unblocked. Other units avail. Bugis MRT C&W *****662 Henson Pang 9107 8070 ***PAYA LEBAR SQ Grade A Brand new. Squarish
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      357 15 NEAR MRT. EXCELLENT Frontage. Near City Sq. Farrer Pk. Approx 398 sf. Partially fitted, Agents welcome. Owner *****795 Prime Location RARE! LUCKY PLAZA. #01. 380/ 500sf. Strong crowd. Facing concourse/ double frontage. Ask $35K/ $25K neg. Hurry! Jon 9183 6774. BRAND NEW ALEXANDRA Ctrl. 194 sf. Water Pt. Dual frontage.
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      512 16 Shop Space for Rent Shop Space for Rent Shop Space for Rent Shop Space for Rent velocity 280 sq ft to 1,198 sq ft Available immediately May 2015 Suitable for sporting fashion and goods, fashion and accessories, hobbies, telecommunication, lifestyle related trades, F&B etc. Directly above Novena MRT station and
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      210 16 RARE FH RETAIL space Upp Thomson. 11,000 sf. Suit Child Care/ Sch/ Fitness. Walk to Marymount MRT. Anna C&W *****662 3 ADJOINING 2-STY ’Commercial’ shphse. Rare-Ap-proved Hotel. Off Victoria St. Walk to 3 MRTs. 4275/ 7911 sf. C&W *****662. QUEENSWAY RARE UNIT FH next to food kiosk. Double frontage Investor’s
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      277 16 PRICED TO SELL 2-STY SHOPHSE Syed Alwi 1600/ 2500sf, near main rd/ food ctr/ future MRT. Call *****988 Liz realestategroup Good Investment SIM LIM SQUARE. 388sf. Tenanted till 12/’15. Serious seller. VTO. Call Timothy Lim 9696 7863 PRIME LOCATION JLN BESAR 2-STY shop hse FH. 1674/ 2234sf. Heavy human traffic.
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      175 16 S’GOON GDN 2-STY 999yrs. Approx 1500/2500sf Good crowd.Bank/ChompChomp Call Evone Yap *****898 PRICED TO SELL ROWELL ROAD 2½ S T Y Shophse. Land 108.5 sqm. Good traffic. Selling at valuation. Call 9791 6225 FOODCOURT RESTN on grd flr facing main road in retro-fitted high-rise office bldg near MRT. Fitted equipped.
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      253 16 SEEKS PASSION INVESTORS at Orchard Rd. About 4500 sqft. Suit F&B/ KTV. Owner Rep 9008-4709 NEAR MUTHU CURRY F’hold 2 units of F&B shop. 960 930 sf. MRT. Good investment. Loh YS 9238-6788 Warehouse 10,000 to 250,000sf Mechanical workshop 13,500sf Open Yard 25,000sf Office 2,000-20,000sf Call 9138 3281 BRIGHT AND
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      325 16 INDUSTRIAL SPACE FOR LEASE WEST 24 Jurong Port Road 2,700 to 20,000 sq ft 3 Pioneer Sector 3 15,000 to 29,000 sq ft 30 Toh Guan Road 560 to 2,500 sq ft 3C Toh Guan Road East 2,700 to 12,000 sq ft 79 Tuas South Street 5 68,000 sq ft
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      185 16 ISKANDAR HARVEST GREEN Sime Darby Biz Pk 5200 sf F’hold Factories fr S$680K Gated. A1 location+2 ports. tanmary.com 9746 9109 BUKIT TERESA ROAD. FH 11,430 sqft. $1356 psf. Rare. Quiet tranquil. Pls call Jacky *****649 KF Auction Today 28 Apr ’15 2.30pm Amara Hotel 3rd Lvl 28 One Tree Hill
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      715 18 THE STRAITS TIMES NOTICES Toll free 1800-289-8822 Email notices@sph.com.sg www.sphclass.com.sg/notices TENDER NOTICE Tenders are invited from interested parties for the supply of pheasant pellets and flamingo pellets. Description The supply and delivery of pheasant pellets and flamingo pellets to the Singapore Zoological Gardens, Night Safari, River Safari and Jurong Bird
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      1035 18 nri TENDER NOTICE BCA registered contractors, Bizsafe Level 3 and above, are invited for the following: Invitation to Tender for Term Contract for the Provision of Grass-Cutting Horticulture Services at Singapore Land Authority Zone A Residential Properties for a Period of Nineteen (19) Months from 1 August 2015 to 28
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      1173 19 THE STRAITS TIMES RECRUIT Executive Appointments 1800-289-8822 Classified Jobs 1800-289-9988 www.sphclass.com.sg/recruit Classified Jobs Executive Appointments lassified Jobs assified as ie o s bs s Recruit Guide e Classified Jobs 1800-289-9988 email class@sph.com.sg 706 Professionals/ Executives 709 Engineers 710 Building/ Construction 711 Finance 712 IT/ Infocomm 715 Lecturing/ Teaching 718 Tutors
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      313 19 An established Company dealing with industrial equipment tools requires: SALESENGINEERS The Job: Responsible for achieving sales targets and providing technical support to our customers Training will be provided Requirements: Diploma or ITC NTC2 in Mechanical Electrical or Marine Engineering Excellent interpersonal, communication negotiation skills Must possess Class 3 licence and
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      212 19 A trading company has a vacancy Customer Service Assistant Ability to multi-task and prioritize task Self-motivated, initiative and willing to learn Pleasant disposition Bilingual, Liaise with Eng /Mandarin speaking clients Computer literacy in MS office ’N’/’O’ Levels, SPM 5 days work week S’porean Walking distance to Tai Seng MRT station.
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      606 19 Charles Keith Group of Companies has established as a fast–fashion retailer with more than 400 stores worldwide. In Charles Keith Group, we believe in our business philosophy of offering fast-fashion products and services to its customers with utmost commitment to perfection. CUSTOMER SERVICE FASHION ASSOCIATE Passionate in delivering premium customer
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      438 19 SALES ASSISTANT for fashion apparel at Pomo (Dhoby Ghaut MRT) $1500 commission 11am-8-pm Off Sunday PH Experience preferred S’porean only È 6743 1196 CUSTOMER SERVICE SALES CONSULTANTS Beauty sales exp required Salary $2000 $5000 Upp Bkt Timah/ Kallang SALES MARKETING EXEC Beauty sales exp required 5-Day Week (Incl Sat/Sun) Ubi
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      757 19 NOW HIRING HOTEL CLEANERS/ SUPERVISORS CALL BETWEEN 10am to 6pm BASIC SALARY: $1300 -$2000 (depending on experience) FLEXIBLE WORKING SHIFTS *****691 Clement! and City H-hours work shift) WE WELCOME *****646 City and Kallang RETIREES/PART TIMERS! *****949 Balestier CAREER ADVANCEMENT CUSTOMER SVC OFFICER Attractive pay comm. Existing customer base Able to
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      248 20 An Estab F&B Company requires urgently 1) FACTORY SENIOR SUSHI CHEF/ ASSISTANT CHEFS Must have relevant experience Able to innovate on products Possess leadership quality Able to handle English Mandarin speaking co-workers 6 days week Singaporean only 2) KITCHEN HELPERS/ CLEANERS Min experience working in the kitchen Hardworking energetic 171
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      171 20 Expanding Beauty Chain requires BEAUTY CONSULTANTS Min 2 yrs experience in face slimming Gteed basic comm $5000-$12K per mth Incentive 10% Holiday trip incentive Work in town Great career advance opportunity No agts please Call 9172 8588 after 11am Email resume to: sally@beautehub.com www.beautehub.com A Skincare Cosmetic Co. requires Senior
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      155 20 Factory Require Immediate 1. Account Clerk Min 2 yrs experience in Full Set MYOB 2. Admin Assistant Both positions required: Bilingual Independent, Multi-task 5-day week, 8am 5.45pm Resume To: mfw_hr@metaltec.com.sg Tel: 6564 1645 for appointment (Woodlands Ind Area) Admin Executive Min ’O’ Level Prefer experienced Able to liaise with dialect
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      473 20 Admin Executive Required GCE ’A’/ Dip Work in Jurong area Singaporean preferred Email: chiewkeok@ safetechtc.com.sg ADMIN EXEC (2 posts) required Jurong West û 5.5 days week. û Min ’O’/ ’N’ level. û Admin duties. At least 2 yrs experience. Pls send resume expected salary to: mhemach@singnet.com.sg WANTED ADMIN ASST 5-days
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      389 20 Technical Technical T Ui 3 Experience not necessary as training will be provided Willing to work weekends and public holidays 2 shifts duty c 3 Only applicable for Singaporeans Walk-in interview from 28 th April to 12 th May 2015, 12pm to 5pm during weekdays only 5 Stadium Walk #02-22
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      410 20 Furniture manufacturing Company is looking for PROJECT MANAGER *Liaise with English and Mandarin speaking clients *Good at co-ordination works Site work. *Singaporean preferred Suitable candidates, please email your full resume to: recruit@richecho.com.sg CNC Sheet Metal Machineries Manufacturing Company in Jurong requires: ELECTRICAL/ ELECTRONICS TECHNICIAN Must be Singaporean Relevant working experience
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      611 20 FOOD PROCESSING/ QC OPERATORS Responsibilities: Prepare materials and processing work areas Requirements: Able to read write simple English Must be physically fi t Must have QC experience All applicants must be able to work on rotating shifts Walk-in Interview Wed, (29/4/15) Thu, (30/4/15) 9am 11am or 2pm 4pm POKKA CORPORATION
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      375 20 X40 Logistics Vacancies for MNC Clients: (A) Storekeepers (Forklift) (B) Warehse/Logistics Assts (C) Store Packers (D) Drivers/ Delivery Assts Up to $1800/basic Islandwide Temp/ Perm Vacancies Walk in Interview at: Tampines CPF Bldg #08-08 Mon Fri (9am 5pm) look for: Gary Chng Weileng, (R*****53) Call 6786 0200 Recruit Express Services
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      379 21 SECURITY PERSONNEL FOR Commercial Chin Bee Condo Cairnhill $2K $2.1K Officer Day $2350 $2.4K Supervisor D/N. Call: Kan 9758 2178 Must Grab! DAILY CASH Day/ Night Take Home $60-$80 Specific sites Sentosa $80 with trpt provided to fro at specific pick up point (Sentosa) Scott 9230 9131 PERM GUARDS NEEDED
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      383 21 Asst Supervisor Floater needed at Bendemeer È *****905 Cleaner Novena È *****523 Defu Lane /Outram Park È*****606/*****058 Harbourfront È *****096 SUPERVISOR, TEAM LEADER CLEANERS REQUIRED (Part time and Full Time) Dover Rd, City Hall, Pioneer Turn, AMK YCK We provide .Attractive salary package .Medical benefit, .Site Allowances .Annual Performances Incentives
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      215 21 Celebrate Together! OFFICE CLEANER+ PANTRY Asst required City Hall, Shenton Way Tg Pagar. 5.5 days, $1250 up. Call 9235-7902/ 6579-2050 Celebrate Together! CLEANERS REQUIRED AT Tampines. 8am-5pm, 5pm10pm, 10pm-8am. Salary up to $1300. Full/ part time workers. 9634-5512 SCHOOL MOBILE FLOATER Cleaner required Lor Chuan/ S’goon Avenue 3 Bishan. Start
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      293 21 CLEANERS SUPERVISOR needed Sentosa Cove. Only S’poreans. Interested please Call 9006-9667 URGENTLY REQUIRED CLEANERS near Hougang area. Only S’poreans preferred. Call *****255 Celebrate Together! PEOPLE’S PARK/ NGEE Ann Polytechnic Woodlands Civic Centre urgently require Cleaners. 9189-8822 SCHOOL CLEANERS NEEDED Woodlands Marsiling area Only S’poreans. Interested pls Call 9239-8613 FULL/ PART
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      399 21 NEW HOSPITAL AT Jurong East requires Dish Washer Call 9834-1933 HOLLANDSE CLUB ADAM Rd requires Cleaner Team leader. 9834-1933. CLEANERS WANTED Aljunied 5.5 days, $1,100 onwards. Call: 9353 6181 FLOATERS CCK/ Jurong Area, $1.4k neg, 7am-4pm More OT, 8182-9669 URGENTLY REQUIRE CLEANER at Tampines Central. Call: *****832/ *****114 DAILY PAY
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      196 22 Class 4/ VL Bus drivers Part-time: 6am-9am (MonSat or 5pm-8pm (Mon-Fri) ÊFull-time also welcome ÊBasic CPF contribution other benefits 6861-9731 5 Tuas Ave 11 Hock Seng Heng requires experienced Loose Cargo PRIME MOVER DRIVER Class 4/5 driving license DG Cargo relevant experience preferred Familiar with S’pore routes Call *****142 or
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      268 22 LIMO DRIVERS: CLASS 3 or/ PA lic. Min $2k G’teed $500 Bonus for successful candidates (Terms Apply). Full CPF/ 6 Day Week Benefits. Vehicle Drive Home. SMS 9107 3553. DELIVERY DRIVER. CLASS 3. Pasir Panjang. 5.5 days week. Physically fit Start Immed. Please Call during office hours, *****065 DRIVER CLASS
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      228 22 CLASS 3 DRIVER. Living in Hougang area. Physically fit. Walk in 34, Lorong 1 Realty Park. Tel 6283 9601 CLASS 4 BUS Driver. Immed. Stay CCK Bt Panjang. Call 9445-2137 CLASS 4 DRIVERS. SMS 8227 9774. Start immediately. Location: West Area CLASS 4 DELIVERY Driver required. With or w/o experience.
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      155 22 70 DR-TO-DR SURVEYORS Face-to-face interview Islandwide. Min ’N’, Bilingual Training given. Students welcome. S’poreans. MonFri 9am-6pm Walk-in: Int’l Plaza. #24-14 (Tg Pagar MRT). Tel *****288 TEMP RETAIL ASSTS (1-2 mths) Central locations Shift hrs/ Weekends. Call *****955 Look for Janet Tan Hui Yung (R*****87) Recruit Express 99C4599 PART-TIME VALET DRIVERS
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      180 22 PART TIMER NEEDED for 23 mths. Simple data entry, filing, etc. Call 9727 2084. PART-TIMER STUDENT for typing admin job. Next to Lavender MRT. 6296 2545 WORK FROM HOME $12/hr Appt Setting Officer.House wife welcome Hp 9171-8718 EX-SCDF, SPF, REGULARS. Sat/ Sun. 12 hrs, day/ night SMS *****008 Reachfield Immediate
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