The Straits Times, 26 April 2016

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  • 558 1  -  Unprecedented disruption caused by power dip, says SMRT Royston Sim Assistant News Editor roysim@sph.com.sg A power fault triggered an unprecedented breakdown of train services along three MRT lines and one LRT line last night, disrupting the journeys of thousands of commuters near the end
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  • 166 1 (From left) Adrian Pang, Glen Goei, Ivan Heng and Siti Khalijah Zainal showing off their trophies at the M1-The Straits Times Life Theatre Awards held at the Esplanade Recital Studio yesterday. The annual awards honour the best Singaporean plays from the previous year and this
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  • 221 1 China’s divisive influence in Asean was the focus of a conference in Jakarta yesterday, with three veteran diplomats voicing their concerns about it. Among them was former Asean secretary-general and Singapore’s Ambassador-at-Large Ong Keng Yong, who criticised China’s consensus with Asean
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    • 124 1 Opinion Seoul’s ‘favourite daughter’ falls out of favour A21 Home ‘Lorry couple’ move into HDB flat B1 Top of the News Task force to tackle rat menace A3 Sport Saiyidah rows her way to Rio OlympicsC14 World Election campaign begins in Sarawak A9 Business CPI down but core inflation rises
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  • BRIEFING
    • What’sNext
      • 66 2 A Taiwanese court is set to make a ruling today on the explosion at a water park in Taipei last year that killed 15 people and injured hundreds. The blast occurred at the Formosa Fun Coast Water Park in New Taipei on June 27
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      • 68 2 The Science Centre Singapore is launching Butterflies Up-Close, an indoor butterfly sanctuary, this month. There, visitors will be surrounded by more than 500 tropical butterflies, including the Singapore favourite, the Common Rose. They will be able to experience all stages of a butterfly’s metamorphosis at
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      • 62 2 Yet another dismal picture is likely to emerge today with the release of the monthly industrial production data. Factory output in Singapore suffered a worse-than-expected 4.7 per cent slide in February, hurt by global demand that is still weak as well as the fallout from
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    • What’sNews
      • 48 2 Three MRT lines and an LRT line were disrupted for up to two hours yesterday, in an unprecedented breakdown of train services here. A power fault at 7.53pm led to blackouts and the stopping of air-conditioning at multiple stations. A1
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      • 59 2 Johor will continue to meet its obligation to supply 250 million gallons of water to Singapore every day, even though water rationing has been introduced in parts of the state. Johor Public Works, Rural and Regional Development Committee chairman Hasni Mohammad said cloud-seeding operations
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      • 64 2 Election campaigning kicked off in Malaysia’s largest state, Sarawak, yesterday, with 82 seats up for grabs amid continued scrutiny of controversies plaguing Prime Minister Najib Razak. Multi-cornered fights could be decisive at the polls, with both the ruling coalition and opposition affected by internal bickering.
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      • 97 2 Gareth Bale, having struck a rich vein of form for Real Madrid, is focused on ending Manchester City’s Champions League dream in the first leg of their semi-final today. But he refuses to accept the theory that City are the perceived underdogs. “When
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      • 60 2 Mayor Rodrigo Duterte’s rape “joke” had little bearing on his chances in the upcoming Philippine presidential election, according to a new survey in which he held on to a significant lead over his nearest rival, Senator Grace Poe. He is likely to cruise his
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      • 42 2 Today, Japan and Singapore celebrate 50 years of diplomatic ties, despite unhappy memories of the wartime occupation. Singapore remembers the past but has chosen not to be imprisoned by it, writes Ambassador T ommy Koh. A20
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      • 59 2 A man who allegedly hurt three female madrasah students this month was found to be suffering from a major psychiatric illness at the time of the alleged offences. Yesterday, the prosecution rejected bail for Koh Weng Onn, 48, as a doctor had assessed
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      • 46 2 The Government will pump $700 million into the tourism industry here for the next five years, Minister for Trade and Industry (Industry) S. Iswaran said yesterday. The funds will be invested in areas like technology to boost the sector’s productivity. B7
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      • 40 2 China Construction Bank (CCB) will collaborate with Singapore on infrastructure financing and to encourage more Chinese firms to list here, after signing framework agreements yesterday with International Enterprise Singapore and the Singapore Exchange. C4
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      • 57 2 A new exhibition on the work of prominent Singapore artist Ng Eng Tengcame about because its curator Kenneth Tay noticed patternsinhisname–eachwordin the late artist’s name ends with the preceding word and the letters “ng” are repeated. This led Mr Tay to seek recurring
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      • 72 2 TV host and radio DJ Dennis Chew beat the odds and ousted hot favourites actor Romeo Tan and host Pornsak to get a coveted spot on the Top 10 Most Popular Male Artistes list at Sunday’s second show of Mediacorp’s annual Star Awards. Tan
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    • 365 2  -  WhyItMatters Seow Bei Yi byseow@sph.com.sg Last week, the United Nations General Assembly held a special session to discuss the issue of drugs for the first time since 1998, amid growing calls for reforms to the global war on drugs. Back in 1998, the UN had
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  • TOP OF THE NEWS
    • Straits Times Digital
      • 43 3 As dusk falls across Singapore, newlyweds pose for photos at UpperSeletar Reservoir Park and mountain bikers race across Bukit Timah Nature Reserve. Photojournalist Ashleigh Sim captures the dying lightat seven nature spots in seven time-lapse videos. http://str.sg/4Z6T
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      • 26 3 Slide between pictures of the devastation after the quake in Nepal in April lastyearand photos of the same places now. http://str.sg/4Z6X
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      • 57 3 1. Man arrested after stand-off with police at Changi Airport T3 2. Elephant dies after carrying tourists in Cambodia’s Angkor Wat 3.SMRT concludes investigation into accident that led to death of two staff members 4. 82-year-old man jailed eightyears for killing daughter-in-law 5. Singaporean woman, 27,
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    • 647 3  -  NEA ropes in stakeholders to coordinate controls in 4 hot spots Chitra Kumar kchitra@sph.com.sg The authorities are trying out a new approach to tackling the problem of rat infestation, by setting up a task force of parties such as town councils and
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    • 564 4  -  Findings on incident that killed 2 staff submitted to the authorities Christopher Tan Senior t ransport Correspondent christan@sph.com.sg Rail operator SMRT Corp has admitted that a failure to follow safety measures before allowing a work team onto train tracks had “directly” caused an
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    • 588 4  -  Royston Sim Assistant News Editor roysim@sph.com.sg For Mr Peter Teo, a typical 20minute train ride from Tai Seng to Botanic Gardens stretched to an hour last night after multiple MRT lines were hit by a power fault. The 32-year-old, who works
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    • 586 6 REUTERS AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE HANOVER US President Barack Obama yesterday announced the biggest expansion of American ground troops in Syria since the civil war there began, saying he would dispatch 250 special forces soldiers to help local militia build on successes against the Islamic
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    • 670 6  -  Its S. China Sea consensus called ‘shortsighted’ and ‘meddling’ Francis Chan Indonesia Bureau Chief In Jakarta tkchan@sph.com.sg Beijing came in for criticism by veteran diplomats yesterday at a conference in Jakarta, for its apparent move to split Asean over the territorial claims
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    • 433 6 REUTERS AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE BEIJING Beijing will start construction on a South China Sea islet in the Philippines’ claimed exclusive economic zone this year, as it seeks to project its power in the disputed sea, Hong Kong media said yesterday. China will establish an
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    • 361 6  -  Francis Chan Beijing’s claims in the South China Sea are not the only issues that threaten to spilt Asean. Its growing influence over mainland Southeast Asia may have even wider geopolitical implications for the 10-nation grouping, cautioned veteran diplomat Bilahari Kausikan. “On land, the very rapidly growing
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    • 563 7 Top official says it can still supply agreed amount of raw water despite dry spell JOHOR BARU Johor will continue to meet its obligation to supply 250 million gallons of raw water to Singapore daily even though the state is in the
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    • 356 7  -  Rachel Au-Yong rachelay@sph.com.sg Political donation certificates, which candidates must submit to contest in the Bukit Batok by-elec-tion, have been issued to five people, the Elections Department (ELD) said yesterday. It is one of the documents electoral candidates must hand in on Nomination Day
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    • 760 8  -  Wild Rice epic play takes 4 prizes; new award for children’s theatre Akshita Nanda Arts Correspondent akshitan@sph.com.sg Wild Rice’s two-night, five-hour historical play Hotel swept the M1-The Straits Times Life Theatre Awards yesterday, with four wins that left co-directors Ivan Heng and
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    • 591 8  -  Leslie Lopez Regional Correspondent In Kuala Lumpur ljlopez@sph.com.sg State-owned 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) was declared in default yesterday after it failed to settle a US$50.3 million (S$68 million) debt payment on billions of dollars in bonds guaranteed by an Abu Dhabi
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    • 13 3 WATCH THE VIDEO Rat control measures at East CoastFengshan Town Council. http://str.sg/ 4Zuq
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  • WORLD
    • 597 9  -  Coalition won them uncontested, after opposition failed to field viable candidates Sarawak state election Eunice Au Malaysia Correspondent In Kuching euniceau@sph.com.sg Malaysia’s largest state kicked off its election campaign yesterday, with the ruling Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition getting off to a good
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    • ASIA
      • 485 10 Relations between ruler and chief minister Razif have soured; BN state government fears damaging fallout LUNDU, Sarawak Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak said yesterday that he would have an audience soon with the Sultan of Terengganu over a leadership crisis involving the
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      • 158 10 Members of the Thai bomb squad inspecting the site of a motorcycle bomb attack which injured 13 people, including five police officers and a young girl, in Thailand’s southern province of Narathiwat yesterday. The bomb was one of two hidden
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      • 493 10  -  Raul Dancel Philippines Correspondent In Manila rdancel@sph.com.sg Islamist extremists have beheaded one of three foreigners they abducted from a high-end resort in the strife-torn southern Philippine island group of Mindanao last September, carrying out their threat to execute their hostages if they were not paid
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      • 306 10 AGENCEFRANCE-PRESSE JAKARTA An Indonesian minister has suggested an unusual reason for the scourge of corruption in the graft-ridden country men are just trying to please their greedy wives. Indonesia has struggled against graft for years, with the country’s vast bureaucracy crippled
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      • 604 11  -  Profanity-spewing candidate could yet cruise to Philippines’ highest public office Raul Dancel Philippines Correspondent In Manila rdancel@sph.com.sg A tough-talking mayor kept his wide lead in the Philippines presidential race, surviving an uproar over a joke he cracked about rape and coming out unscathed
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      • 176 11 REUTERS JAKARTA Indonesia will set up a crisis centre, headed by President Joko Widodo, to handle security situations involving its citizens overseas, a senior minister said yesterday, following recent abductions of Indonesian sailors in Philippine waters. The centre will include senior ministers
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      • SPECIAL REPORT
        • 1281 12 / 13  -  Quake-hit Nepali village in the mountains slowly but surely getting back on its feet Nepal quake: One year on Desmond Foo Executive Photojournalist In Langtang, Nepal desmondf@sph.com.sg ereasyforguesthouseworkerSuppa Lama, but he and his fellow villagersalwaysknewtheywerelucky tolive ina breathtakingly beautiful valley sought out by thousands of trekkersfromaroundtheworld.
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      • 524 14 US won’t back down from boosting alliances until Pyongyang‘shows seriousness’, he says AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE BLOOMBERG HANOVER (Germany) American President Barack Obama has dismissed North Korea’s offer to halt nuclear tests if the United States suspends its annual military exercises with South
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      • 197 14 Beijing's famed but overcrowded tourist spot Nanluoguxiang is now closed to tourist groups. The narrow alleyway, known as hutong in Chinese, is still open to independent travellers, according to a notice from the Beijing Municipal Commission of Tourism Development. The neighbourhood,
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      • 352 14 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE SHANGHAI The head of a Chinese wealth management firm who allegedly fled with more than US$150 million (S$203 million) in investors’ money surfaced in an online video yesterday, saying he will “be right back”, as police looked for him. Mr Yang Weiguo, chairman
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      • 370 14 HONG KONG Five columnists have submitted blank columns to investigative newspaper Ming Pao in two days in protest against the sacking of a top editor last week. Mr Keung Kwok Yuen, Ming Pao’s former executive chief editor, was fired
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      • 585 16  -  Both countries can tap common assets to take friendship to greater heights: Japan PM Walter Sim waltsim@sph.com.sg As Singapore and Japan mark 50 years of diplomatic relations today, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said both countries should tap what
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      • 373 16  -  Walter Sim Constructive, peaceful and cooperative ties between Japan and its neighbours will benefit the entire region, Japanese Premier Shinzo Abe and Singapore Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan agreed at a meetingyesterdaymorning. Both leaders discussed the important role that Japan plays in
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      • 128 16 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE BEIJING Chinese legislators are considering a new draft of a controversial law requiring foreign non-profit organisations to report their activities to government agencies while curtailing the recruitment of supporters, state me- dia said yesterday. The law on overseas non-govern-mental organisations (NGOs)
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      • 320 16 PHNOM PENH A petition to end elephant rides in Angkor Wat has been signed by more than 12,000 people after an elderly female elephant trained to carry tourists collapsed and died last Friday. According to The Phnom Penh Post, the elephant named
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      • AsiaBriefs
        • 119 16 XINHUA YANGON Myanmar’s former ruling Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) has sacked 17 senior members. They include Mr Shwe Mann, the former acting party chairman and former speaker of the Union Parliament and House of Representatives, local media reported yesterday. Along with Mr
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        • 104 16 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE TAIPEI Taiwan has protested to Japan after one of its fishing boats was seized early yesterday in an area where Tokyo claims exclusive economic rights. The 50-tonne Tung Sheng Chi 16 was chased for hours by a Japanese boat and finally seized 150
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        • 96 16 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE HANOI Taiwanese conglomerate Formosa was under attack in Vietnam’s state media yesterday over allegations of industrial pollution leaching from a multibillion-dollar steel mill that may have caused mysterious mass fish deaths. Tonnes of dead fish, including rare species that live far offshore and
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    • WORLD
      • 628 18 New campaign aims to disable terror group’s operations and recruitment efforts NEWYORKTIMES LONDON The United States has opened a new line of combat against Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), directing the military’s six-year-old Cyber Command for the first time to mount
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      • 77 18 A Belgian soldier standing guard as a train arrives at the Maelbeek metro station in Brussels yesterday. It was the station’s first day of operation since being closed following the terror attacks in the city on March 22. The station and the city’s airport
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      • 490 18 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE SYDNEY Australian police have charged a teenager over a “truly chilling and disturbing” planned attack on an Anzac Day service, as people across the nation and in New Zealand honoured their war dead. Reports said the 16-year-old had tried to
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      • 563 18 NEW YORK TIMES AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE REUTERS AL MUKALLA (Yemen) More than 800 Al-Qaeda militants have been killed in an offensive by Yemeni government forces and their Arab allies in the group’s main stronghold intheportcityofAlMukalla. The Saudi-led coalition said in a statement yesterday that
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      • 589 19 They will ‘cede’ certain states to each other in bid to deny tycoon the Republican nomination US Elections 2016 NEW YORK TIMES AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE BLOOMBERG WASHINGTON Republican rivals Ted Cruz and John Kasich have agreed to coordinate in future primary contests in
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      • 428 19 REUTERS LONDON Bookmakers’ odds have shifted sharply towards Britain voting to remain in the European Union in the June referendum, a move in sentiment also reflected by the pound rising yesterday to near a six-week high against the euro. Both moves followed
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      • 329 19 REUTERS FLORENCE A rare inscription found on a stone unearthed near Florence is exciting archaeologists, who say it may help reveal the secrets of the Etruscans, one of Italy’s earliest and most enigmatic civilisations. The Etruscans flourished in central Italy 2,500 years
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      • WorldBriefs
        • 94 19 AGENCEFRANCE-PRESSE SYDNEY A 19-year-old man on a family camping holiday in northern Australia had a lucky escape yesterday when he fought off a crocodile that bit his foot as he slept. The reptile struck at 4.30am at the campsite in the N orthern T erritory. Mr
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        • 76 19 REUTERS MOSCOW Iran is holding talks with Russia about sales of heavy water, Russia’s RIA news agency quoted an Iranian foreign ministry official as saying yesterday. Heavy water is used in the making of nuclear weapons and nuclear energy. It is not radioactive.
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        • 53 19 REUTERS DUBAI Dubai will introduce legislation to promote the use of driverless vehicles and invite companies to propose automated transport systems for the emirate, the government said yesterday. The fast-growing city state, which has about 2.5 million permanent residents, aims to make 25 percentofitstransport– bothpublicandprivate–
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      • 356 19 BLOOMBERG DALLAS In January 1966, the first ship carrying “citizen-explorers” arrived in Antarctica. Only a handful of leisure travellers had ever considered visiting the world’s most remote land mass. “I was aware the idea of setting up tours to that frozen continent
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  • OPINION
    • 488 20 The Straits Times says The disappearance of sui generis assets, like heritage and natural biodiversity, tends to be rued only when it’s apparent that loss is irreversible. While it exists in one form or another, historical buildings and places might be left in a state
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    • 579 20  -  ByInvitation Tommy Koh For The Straits Times stopinion@sph.com.sg The writer is Ambassador-at-large at Singapore’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. OnApril26,1966,newly independentSingaporeestablished diplomaticrelationswithJapan. Todayisthereforethe50th anniversaryofthathappyoccasion. Wehavemanyreasonstocelebrate theanniversarybecause,overthe past50years,ourrelationshave blossomedeconomically, politically,culturallyandbetween ourtwopeoples. ThefirstissueIwishtodiscussis howthetwocountriessucceeded inforgingsuchastrong relationshipinspiteoftheunhappy memoriesofthe31/2yearswhen Singaporewasoccupiedandruled byJapan.AfterWorldWarII,the publicsentimentinSingaporewas understandablynotfriendlyto Japan. Itwasdecidedin1963tobuilda CivilianWarMemorialinBeach Roadtohonourthememoriesof thecivilianskilledduringWorld
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    • 215 20 Foreign Affairs Minister Vivian Balakrishnan’s congratulatory message on the 50 th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Singapore and Japan. Today marks the 50th anniversary of the excellent bilateral relations between Singapore and Japan. This is a significant milestone.
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    • 1028 21  -  Chang May Choon South Korea Correspondent changmc@sph.com.sg SEOUL When the Disney movie Frozen was all the rage in South Korea in early 2014, comparisons abounded between the cartoon’s ice queen character Elsa and the country’s President Park Geun Hye. Much like Elsa, Ms Park, 64,
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    • 294 21 Japan’s Foreign Affairs Minister Fumio Kishida’s congratulatory message on the 50th anniversary of the establishment of Singapore-Japan diplomatic relations. Today, I am pleased to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the establishment of Japan-Singapore diplomatic relations. First of all, I would also
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    • 1243 22  -  Childrenbornduringthesefiveyearsofwar do not know the taste of fruit, says one Syrian Janine di Giovanni Thewriteristheauthorofthe forthcoming book,The Morning They Came For Us: Dispatches From Syria. NEW YORK TIMES Five years is a long time to be frozen in the grip of war. Five years is
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    • 869 22  -  Lucy Kellaway THE FINANCIAL TIMES After writing recently about my latest bike accident, I received a fat virtual mailbag. Half the messages came from well-meaning people telling me I was insane to cycle in London, and urging me to learn my lesson.
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  • FORUM
    • 399 23  -  Tang Li As someone who has spent the better part of a decade in freelance employment, I was delighted to read Dr Patrick Liew Siow Gian’s letter (“Unemployment benefits: Better to focus on raising number, quality of jobs”; last
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    • 152 23  -  Ronnie Lim Ah Bee A system that ensures a minority-race president being elected is a step backwards for Singapore (“More equitable way to have minority-race president” by Mr K. Kalidas; last Thursday). Since independence, citizens of Singapore have pledged to build a united people,
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    • 193 23  -  Gurmit Singh Kullar I read Sunday’s report (“Fare cuts by Uber, Grab will hurt sector: Taxi body”) with incredulity and dismay. It is unfair for the National Taxi Association (NTA) to criticise Grab and Uber’s creative business strategies when some of the
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    • 296 23  -  Andrew Seow Chwee Guan Private-hire car services such as Uber and Grab have landed in many countries and are now a whole new ball game here (“Fare cuts by Uber, Grab willhurt sector: Taxi body”; Sunday). Understandably, the National Taxi Association is concerned over undercutting
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    • 298 23  -  Helen Lim (Ms) Group Director Corporate Communications Group Land Transport Authority The report on April 16 (“Am I covered by insurance if I’m a Grab or Uber car passenger?”) said that private-hire cars are “not required by law” to buy insurance that covers passengers. The
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    • 269 23  -  Sim Hui Ting (Ms) Assistant Commissioner of Charities Office of the Commissioner of Charities We note that online platforms for fund raising have been growing (“Donors clicking with acause–andgiving”;April10). Indeed, the availability of such platforms facilitates giving, and has been making it easier
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    • 67 23 1. MR GAVIN MOEY: Taxi firms must innovate to bring passengers back. 2. MR PATRICKTAN SIONG KUAN: Taxi firms have only themselves to blame. 3. MR NG KOK BENG: Not right for Uber to compete for COEs. 4. MS MARGARET COBAN KIAT: Make public transport more attractive before
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    • 309 23 Do young adults tend to pursue personal ambition at the expense of building meaningful relationships with loved ones? The young may have misplaced priorities, but who are the ones who brought them up to have such thinking in the first place? If parents teach their children well, then these
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    • 158 23  -  Kwok Shao Jong The Government has announced that engineering graduates joining the public sector will get higher pay (“Higher starting pay for public service engineers”; April 14). While I understand that the Government needs to hire more engineers, I question the
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    • 122 24 Members of the Albert Battery performing a gun salute during the Anzac Day dawn service held by the Currumbin Retired and Services League on Australia’s Gold Coast. Anzac Day marks the landing of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps troops at Gallipoli in
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    • 731 1  -  HDB allows them to rent entire two-room flat; they will buy own flat after son’s birth Yeo Sam Jo yeosamjo@sph.com.sg After nearly two years of living in a lorry, rice delivery man Ong Poh Hwa and his Vietnamese wife finally have a
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    • 682 2  -  A*Star has not only helped SMEs stay competitive but also got start-ups running Samantha Boh samboh@sph.com.sg The Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*Star) said it has helped small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) stay competitive, and get start-ups off the ground. Over
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    • 359 2  -  Elena Chong Court Correspondent elena@sph.com.sg The security officer accused of hurting three madrasah students earlier this month was found to be suffering from a major psychiatric illness at the time of the alleged offences. Koh Weng Onn, 48, who had been
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    • 526 4  -  2,300 people will be tracked to find causes of the disease Linette Lai linettel@sph.com.sg For some people, it takes years for their high blood sugar levels to result in full-blown diabetes. For others, all it takes is a matter of months. To
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    • 671 5  -  Retiree who stabbed 54-year-old to death after argument found to be mentally ill Selina Lum selinal@sph.com.sg An 82-year-old mentally ill retiree who stabbed his 54-year-old daugh-ter-in-law to death, following a quarrel over the washing of curtains, was yesterday jailed eight years. Char
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    • 208 5  -  Olivia Ho and Zhaki Abdullah oliviaho@sph.com.sg azhaki@sph.com.sg A Singaporean woman was found dead in Indonesian waters yesterday morning after going missing on a scuba diving trip. Ms Neo Qiu Ping Vera, 27, was reported missing on Sunday after she disappeared in the
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    • HomeBriefs
      • 76 5 A suspect has been arrested for a break-in and theft at a Sentosa home, police said in a statement yesterday. The 38-year-old is believed to be involved in other similar cases. Police said they received a report on Saturday at about 5.20pm. Cash was found
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      • 91 5 A traditional board game stamp set will be launched tomorrow, Singapore Post (SingPost) said yesterday. The set will comprise five stamps, each featuring a free-hand drawing of a traditional board game that was popular in Singapore during the 1970s and 1980s. The games are
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      • 125 5 Two domesticated rabbits were found dead in Sembawang on Sunday. Private rabbit rescue group Bunny Wonderland said the animals were discovered under some bushes at the junction of Admiralty Road East and Sembawang Wharves. One rabbit had bite wounds and blood oozing out of its
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    • 547 5  -  Amir Hussain amirh@sph.com.sg A coroner’s inquiry into the case of a 73-year-old woman who died after a horse fell on her last year began yesterday with several questions posed to a police investigator which he was unable to answer. Madam Lim
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    • 622 7  -  Fund to be used to tap big data for insights into visitors’ behaviour; plan for central info hub Melissa Lin mellinjm@sph.com.sg Chinese tourists to Singapore tend to make a detour to temples before visiting the integrated resorts. While one can only hazard a guess at the
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    • 615 8  -  Defendant not entitled to defence that it was using its ‘own name’, Court of Appeal rules K.C. Vijayan Senior Law Correspondent vijayan@sph.com.sg An event management company has won its case on appeal against a rival which had used a similar acronym for its
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    • 655 8  -  Yeo Sam Jo yeosamjo@sph.com.sg It is assembly time at Anderson Primary School, and an entire hall of pupils is chuckling to the antics of two goofy “technicians” on stage. The duo hold up unlikely items found in an escalator shaft, from a
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    • 78 4 Have a question? Let Si's correspondents provide the answers Send your questions to askst@sph.com.sg THE STRAITS TIMES d O f 0 skSt L. you ask. we answer. www.straitstimes.com/askst 4Bc O n o 4 What is the difference I between I conservation I and i preservation? How can I capture A
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  • MIND&BODY
    • 1045 9  -  Missing a training session means a decline in fitness, says national athlete Raviin Kumar. Ng Wan Ching reports. FitAndFab Ng Wan Ching wanching@sph.com.sg Q What is your secret to looking so fabulous? A It’s all thanks to running. Somehow, all that intense working out, basic core
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    • 274 10  -  Ng Wan Ching RAVIIN KUMAR AGE: 26 HEIGHT: 1.71m WEIGHT: 53kg Mr Raviin will be racing againstthe sun on June 21 the longest day of theyear. In Asics Beat The Sun 2016, eight teamsfrom Europe,the Americas, Oceania, Asia and Africa will have 15hr41min35sectocovera150km course at Mont Blanc in Switzerland,
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    • 641 11  - Pick the right moisturiser and use it JoyceTeofindsoutwhattolookforwhen choosing a moisturiser for your skin type HealthySpaces Joyce Teo joyceteo@sph.com.sg Moisturisers trap water in your skin, and can help to improve your skin barrier function temporarily. People who have eczema, a non-contagious skin condition that causes dry, itchy skin and rashes,
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    • 821 11  -  HelpAtYourFingertips Joan Chew joanchew@sph.com.sg Atopic or allergic dermatitis is a common condition that shows up as dry skin and inflamed rashes. A woman’s history of allergy affects the odds of her child developing it within six months of birth. From age six to 12
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    • 851 12  -  Stay cool in the heat with a healthy guava dish rich in vitamins and antioxidants EatToLive Sylvia Tan wdspice@gmail.com Sylvia Tan is a freelance writer and cookbook author. Her previous Eat To Live recipes can be found in two cookbooks, Eat To Live
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    • 251 12  -  Bibi Chia Principal dietitian, Raffles Diabetesand Endocrine Centre Guava is a low caloric fruit and is an excellent source of vitamin C. A 100g serving of guava gives us only 68kcal and 228mg of vitamin C, which is three times the amount of
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    • 674 13  -  Woman suffers from a serious prolapse which sometimes makes it hard to pass urine AskTheExperts Han How Chuan Associate Professor Head and senior consultant in the department of urogynaecology at KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital QIama65-year-oldwomananda mother of two grown-up sons. After giving birth
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    • 1236 14  -  Constantly being plugged into listening devices one of the reasons for noise-induced hearing loss among youth Ng Wan Ching Editor, Mind&Body wanching@sph.com.sg Getting diagnosed with hearing loss when he was 22 was the last thing he expected. Leon, now 25, thought it was
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      • 65 13 THURSDAY, APRIL 28 Join the Caregivers Alliance’s 12-session English programme for those who care for the mentally ill. Inthis peer-led programme, caregivers can learn howto look aftertheir loved ones as well as themselves. Deutsche Bank, One Raffles Quay, South T ower, 7pm to 9.30pm,
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      • 70 13 SATURDAY, APRIL 30 Find out more about parenthood; the difference between a natural delivery and a Caesarean section; what to eat during your pregnancy; what to do about your crying baby; and more. The speakers at this Joy Of Motherhood event include Gleneagles Hospital obstetrician and gynaecologist
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    • 442 13  -  Dr Tabitha Chng Paediatric dentist at Thomson Specialist Dentistry. Q My three-year-old daughter grinds her teeth when she sleeps at night. I’m worried that this may cause her teeth to be misaligned and affect her permanent teeth later. Are there any treatments for this? What
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    • 507 14  -  Ng Wan Ching A temporary loss of hearing can occur after a short exposure to loud noise. This is known as temporary threshold shift. Generally, the hearing loss in this condition is reversible and will not last for more than 24
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    • 96 13 GOTAPROBLEM? E-mail your question to sthealth@sph.com.sg. Specify AskThe Experts asthesubjectand includeyour name, age, gender, identity card number and contact details. Note: Thesurveywas part ofa final-year project campaign called “Down the Sound” by NTU students. It aims to raise awareness of recreational noise-induced hearing loss among young people and to keep
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  • BUSINESS
    • 536 1  -  Consumer price index down 1% in March from same period a year ago, after 0.8% decline in February Marissa Lee marilee@sph.com.sg Consumer prices fell again in March the 17th straight month of decline the longest stretch here since 1977. The consumer price
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    • 565 2  -  Sally Low faces 19 charges totalling $8.89m in claims after she retracts guilty plea in 2014 Lorna Tan Senior Correspondent lornatan@sph.com.sg The long-awaited criminal trial involving former AIA agent Sally Low began yesterday. Low, 38, had retracted her guilty plea in June
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    • 402 2  -  Rennie Whang wrennie@sph.com.sg More launches are in the works in the coming months as the residential market continues to show signs of waking from its slumber. Two projects where sales started last weekend had decent take-ups while bookings for an
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    • 285 2  -  Wong Siew Ying wongsy@sph.com.sg Higher occupancies and rents lifted turnover and earnings at Mapletree Industrial Trust (MIT) and delivered a higher distribution per unit (DPU). DPU came in at 2.81 cents for the fourth quarter, up 6 per cent from the corresponding period
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    • 237 2  -  ChiaYan Min Most Singaporeans support measures in the recent Budget aimed at helping the elderly and vulnerable, according to a telephone poll by Government feedback unit Reach. A total of 1,327 randomly selected citizens aged 20 and above were polled,
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    • 433 3  -  Major client Sete Brasil deep in arrears since Nov 2014; rig builder also in US$214m dispute with another client Grace Leong gleong@sph.com.sg Sembcorp Marine stock slumped nearly 4.9 per cent yesterday after news that one of its major clients got the nod
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    • 353 3 BLOOMBERG BEIJING Two of China’s largest developers took steps that moved them closer to potentially switching their stock market listings from Hong Kong to China, where their top executives have said they can get higher valuations. Dalian Wanda Commercial Properties, controlled
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    • 592 3  -  Wong Wei Han whwong@sph.com.sg Midas Holdings is eyeing expansion into new business segments and geographical markets while continuing to strengthen its position in China's rail transport sector. The mainboard-listed firm, which mainly provides aluminium alloy products to train manufacturers, will be able to
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    • 447 3 BLOOMBERG SINGAPORE BOC Aviation, Asia’s biggest aircraft-leasing company by asset value, began gauging demand yesterday for a Hong Kong initial public offering that could raise as much as US$1.5 billion (S$2 billion), people with knowledge of the matter said. The company expects to
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    • 493 4  -  China Construction Bank also signs MOU with SGX to boost fundraising activities Lee Xin En xinen@sph.com.sg China Construction Bank (CCB) will collaborate with Singapore on infrastructure financing and to encourage more Chinese firms to list here. CCB signed a memorandum
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    • 443 4 BLOOMBERG LONDON BHS Group appointed administrators to protect against insolvency, putting 11,000 jobs at risk in what would be the biggest retail collapse in the United Kingdom since Woolworths Group in 2008. Advisory firm Duff Phelps was appointed after failed negotiations to
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    • 507 4 AGENCEFRANCE-PRESSE LONDON•London has more billionaires measured in pounds sterling–thananyothercityinthe world, according to the Rich List 2016 by Britain’s The Sunday Times. Some of the richest tycoons in Britain have lost vast chunks of their fortunes because of a retail slump, sinking oil prices and
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    • MoneyBriefs
      • 130 4 NEW DELHI India is planning to ease rules for domestic airlines to start international flights, a move that will benefit the local affiliates of Singapore Airlines and AirAsia, three people familiar with the process said. Under new rules, local carriers won’t have to
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      • 78 4 BLOOMBERG RIYADH Saudi Arabia is considering a dual listing as a way to reach investors beyond the local stock market for the sale of shares in state-owned oilgiantAramco,whichcould be the world’s largest initial public offering, the kingdom’s deputy crown prince Mohammed bin Salman
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      • 61 4 REUTERS BANGKOK Thailand’s exports rose again in March from a year earlier, government data showed yesterday, contrary to market expectations of a decline. Exports rose 1.3 per cent, driven by gold, cars and machinery, Customs data showed. Shipments to all major markets fell,
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    • 499 6  -  All key markets in region end in the red as investors turn cautious ahead of Fed meeting BullsAndBears Wong Wei Han whwong@sph.com.sg Asian markets were mauled by bearish sentiment yesterday with Singapore shares recording their biggest fall in almost two months as investors
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    • 43 6 1 Goldpriceswerelittlechanged, aheadof centralbankmeetings intheUnitedStatesandJapan thisweekastraderslookedfor anysignalsofpolicychanges, saidBloomberg.Bullionfor immediatedeliverywasat US$1,234anounce. 2 Thefivelargestminingplays ontheSGX–FalconEnergy, GCCPResources,GeoEnergy Resources,WiltonResources CorporationandCNMC Goldmine–haveaverageda1.8 percentgainsofarthisyear. 3 SGX-listedJasonMarineunit JasonVenturewillsubscribe for51,340convertible preferencesharesinSense Infosysfor$850,000.Sense Infosysprovidesanalyticsand otherservicesintheportand logisticsareas. 4 ChinaMiningInternational planstoacquireacontrolling stakeinAeroWindProperties fromSino-AfricaMiningand MrZhangYan-Bing.AeroWind hasarighttoprospectinan ironoremineinSouthAfrica. 5 Moody’shasupgradedthe issuerratingofFrasers CommercialTrustfromBaa3to Baa2withastableoutlook, citingitsstrongerfinances.
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    • 438 7  -  Revenue jumped to $116.9 million, thanks to healthcare services, hospital services divisions Jeremy Koh jkoh@sph.com.sg First-quarter earnings rose slightly at Raffles Medical Group but times could be tougher ahead, given the “more measured” pace of local and regional economic growth that may dampen demand,
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    • 79 7 Points Change Mid Cap Small Cap Fledgling Catalist China China Top Maritime Basic materials Consumer goods Consumer serv Financials 699.82 398.65 722.09 452.88 199.51 167.73 206.79 101.50 483.50 802.02 771.96 -7.39 -2.72 -4.33 -6.10 -1.26 -1.45 -3.40 -0.94 -3.56 -11.16 -7.10 Points Change Healthcare Industrials Oil and
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    • 40 7 Apr 25 AgainstS$ AgainstUS$ Currencies Bid Offer Bid Offer S$/US$tooneunitofforeigncurrency: Australiandollar Bid Offer Canadiandollar Euro NZdollar Australiandollar 1.0429 1.0438 S$/US$to100unitsofforeigncurrency: 0.7711 1.0658 1.0666 0.7879 0.7876 Euro 1.5234 1.5244 1.1257 1.1261 NZdollar 0.9289 Swissfranc 0.6864 0.6869 Source: OCBC
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    • 911 9 Golden State await result of MRI scan, shrug off star’s absence to go 3-1 up against Houston NEW YORK TIMES AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE HOUSTON The first half of a ferocious National Basketball Association (NBA) game ended with bodies sprawled all over the place. At one end of
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    • 609 9 REUTERS AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE BOSTON Evan Turner called Boston Celtics team-mate Marcus Smart the best player on the court on Sunday at TD Garden. Hewasprobablyright–afteraNational Basketball Association game in which Atlanta Hawks forward Paul Millsap scored 45 points. Smart scored
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    • 327 9 REUTERS TOKYO The organisers of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics unveiled a new logo yesterday, featuring traditionalJapanesedesigns–sevenmonths after they were forced to scrap the original motif over accusations of plagiarism. The new logo, chosen from more than 14,000 submissions, has an in-digo-blue chequered pattern
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    • 391 10 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE REUTERS BARCELONA Rafael Nadal maintained his ominous claycourt form by seizing back tennis’ Barcelona Open title from Japan’s Kei Nishikori with a 6-4,7-5 victory on Sunday, matching Guillermo Vilas’ record title haul on the surface. A week after reclaiming the
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    • 91 1 IN A NEW LIGHT Re-examining the work of Ng Eng Teng D4 YOUNG FREE Fifty-something theatre practitioner Tan Kheng Hua is organising the first Twenty-Something Theatre Festival in June, with eight productions by young playwrights. They were given free rein, with no mentors and no support by a theatre group.
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      • 847 2 / 3  -  Artists in their 20s are given free rein to come up with works for the upcoming The TwentySomething Theatre Festival Lee Jian Xuan jianxuan@sph.com.sg Theatre practitioner Tan Kheng Hua, organiser of The TwentySomething Theatre Festival, has a fascination with people of that age
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      • 382 2 / 3 In a theatre festival that places little emphasis on mentorship, the irony is not lost on poet Euginia Tan that the idea for her new play, Tuition, came from her former mentor, playwright Joel Tan. He had mentored her during a playwright residency at the
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      • 440 2 / 3 For his new play, Trees, A Crowd..., playwright-director Irfan Kasban had to read up on trees. “I thought to myself, I’m going to challenge myself to write about trees. This is probably the most research I’ve ever done on trees. If you pointed to a
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      • 256 2 / 3 Visitors to The Twenty-Something Theatre Festival can look forward to The Festival InstaGala, a series of curated events such as music performances, talks and pop-up stores. Here are five things to do. 1. Tuck into a barbecue meal Cafe Melba, which is located at
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      • 601 2 / 3  -  OffStage Lee Jian Xuan Actor Rupert Glascow, 56, stars in The History Boys, a 2004 Tony Award-winning play by British playwright Alan Bennett. Playing next week, the production by The Stage Club follows a group of history students who prepare for their examinations under the
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      • 415 5  -  These are the elements of an inter-disciplinary theatre show at the Esplanade’s upcoming Super Japan Festival Lee Jian Xuan jianxuan@sph.com.sg An inter-disciplinary theatre production about a shamaness-queen who ruled ancient Japan two millennia ago and a concert featuring the thunderous sounds of taiko, a type of
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      • 669 6  -  Artist Yeo Chee Kiong’s solo show mimics a beauty centre and aims to provoke viewers to consider the definition of beauty Huang Lijie Arts Correspondent lijie@sph.com.sg A beauty centre has taken over the galleries at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (Nafa) for a month,
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      • 500 6  -  REVIEW/CONCERT VIRTUOSOS OF CHINESE MUSIC Ding Yi Music Company Esplanade Concert Hall Last Sunday Chang Tou Liang Every year in its first concert of the season, Ding Yi Music Company invites soloists luminaries from the world of Chinese instrumental music. These names may not be
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      • 416 6  -  REVIEW/CONCERT ENCHANTING EVENING Christina Siu,Toh Meng Wan and Friends Esplanade RecitalStudio Last Sunday Marc Rochester It was hard to escape the strains of Georges Bizet’s Carmen at the Esplanade over the weekend. Not only was the opera put on twice, but it cropped up
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      • 76 12 she hid behind her sunglasses, but pop star Faye Wong, 46, made a rare public appearance in Beijing on Sunday to support her daughter Leah Dou Jingtong at the 19-year-old’s signing event for her first original English album, Stone Cafe. They posed behind an album on which
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    • 33 4 VIEW IT/ NG ENG TENG: 1+1=1 WHERE: Ng EngTeng Gallery, National University ofSingapore Museum,50 Kent Ridge Crescent WHEN: 10am to 7.30pm (Tuesday to Friday), 10am to 6pm (weekend), closed on Monday ADMISSION: Free
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    • 318 15 FACTORY/INDUSTRIAL SPACE FOR SALE 532 GOOD FRONTAGE WOODLANDS 11. B1 Ground flr 2454/ 5317 sqft High ceiling, mezzanine, full glass frontage. $600 psf. 8388 2662 104,118SF/ 74,689SF URA fty cum dorm (512pax). Bal 40 yrs. 9m Ceiling. 3000 Amps. 40ft accessible. *****558 FREEHOLD PEMIMPIN. NEAR MRT 1195/ 2390 sf; Upp
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    • 399 16 OFFICE SPACE FOR RENT 534 GOLDHILL CENTRE PRIME office unit, 1205 sqft, renovated. Novena MRT. Walk up $5,000. Owner *****082 best price **MOHD SULTAN/ RIVER Valley Shophse. Few units 800 to 1060sf. Fitted. Immed Low neg. SM Chia 9068-6500 RCHARD TOWER 840 sf, reno, windows, partitio ned rm, ample parking
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