Today, 13 February 2012, Afternoon Edition

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  • 20 1 TODAY MICA (P) 031/10/2011 A PUBLICATION OF NEWS HOTLINE 6822 2268 Monday February 13, 2012 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking
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  • 582 1 WHITNEY HOUSTON: 1963-2012 AGENCIES LOS ANGELES The music industry was jolted yesterday by the death of Whitney Houston on Saturday, the eve of the annual Grammy Awards. Houston, who emerged in the 1980s to become pop music’s queen only to deteriorate through years of
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  • 799 1  -  Former principal’s alleged involvement in online vice ring casts spotlight again on the MOE’s selection process SUMITA SREEDHARAN sumitas@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE News over the weekend that a former principal of a top primary school here is being investigated for his alleged involvement in an online vice
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    • 52 1 @tdysports SPORTS FANS, STAY UP TO DATE ATTWITTER.COM/TDYSPORTS SCORES ANALYSIS NEWS CARE CENTRES FOR THE ELDERLY: WHY COMPLAIN? VOICES 16 COMMENT&ANALYSIS STEPHEN R PLATT IS CHINA RIPE FOR A REVOLUTION? 10 JOHN AVLON DEFENDER OF THE FORGOTTEN MIDDLE CLASS? 12 PETER SINGER THE ETHICS OF INTERNET PIRACY 13 T SECTION
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  • HOT NEWS
    • 417 2 REUTERS ATHENS Greek lawmakers looked set to endorse a new austerity deal yesterday to secure a European Union-International Monetary Fund bailout and avoid national bankruptcy, defying public rage and protesters who fought pitched battles with riot police outside parliament. Lawmakers came under immense pressure
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    • 249 2 REUTERS LISBON More than 100,000 people packed Lisbon’s vast Palace Square on Saturday in the largest rally against austerity and economic hardships since the country resorted to a European Union-International Monetary Fund bailout last May, and organisers vowed to step up protests
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    • 210 3  -  EVELYN CHOO With the convenience and anonymity it offers, the online sex trade here seems to be growing. One private investigation consultancy said the number of requests to track husbands mostly young adults suspected of using such services, which are advertised on online forums,
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    • 741 4  -  Other factors at play in recent petitions against facilities for the elderly TAN WEIZHEN, NEO CHAI CHIN weizhen@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE It might be tempting to attribute the recent petitions from two groups of residents against the setting up of facilities
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    • 328 4 AGENCIES LONDON Britain’s top-selling newspaper, The Sun, has been plunged into its worst crisis following the arrest of five of its most senior journalists over corruption allegations, moving Mr Rupert Murdoch to pledge his support for the tabloid amid rumours that
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    • 402 6  -  DYLAN LOH dylanloh@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Some 70,000 tickets to this year’s Singapore Airshow have been snapped up, and organisers expect the remaining 20,000 tickets to sell out over the next three days. Besides these tickets for the public, 10,000 have been set aside
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    • 148 6  -  CLAIRE HUANG Travellers may soon be able to send SMSes through their own GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) handsets while on a flight. The Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) has inked a deal with local aerospace firm Flight Focus to develop this technology.
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    • 284 6 BLOOMBERG SINGAPORE Chinese airlines are in an “intolerable” position because of a spat between China and the European Union over emissions levies, said Mr Tony Tyler, the head of the International Air Transport Association (IATA). “They face the impossible choice
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    • 133 6 AGENCIES A steering problem forced pilots on a Qantas A-380 Singapore-bound flight to twice abandon take-off at London’s Heathrow Airport on Saturday. Flight QF10, with 435 passengers aboard, was scheduled to depart London at 9.30pm local time on Saturday. The flight eventually took-off for Singapore at
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    • 671 8 THE NEW YORK TIMES BEIJING When China’s Vice-President and presumptive next President, Mr Xi Jinping, arrives at the White House tomorrow, United States leaders will be scrutinising him for hints of future stances on crucial issues, from Chinese military intentions
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    • 264 8 AGENCIES China is getting increasingly wary of its allies as the United States stepped up its diplomatic efforts in Asia last year, an article on the government’s official China Internet Information Centre website said yesterday. Notably, North Korea, Myanmar and Pakistan are referred to
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    • 160 4 >r* I received 4 University offers to read for a law degree based on my provisional results at Stansfield College!” i Michael James Anstey was accepted by University of Manchester, York University, Exeter University and Brown University (US), based on Stansfield’s provisional results and recommendation by our faculty. Michael is
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    • 9 4 >> CARE CENTRES FOR THE ELDERLY: WHY COMPLAIN? VOICES 16
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  • COMMENT&ANALYSIS
    • 1372 10  -  Those in the West who think so should beware of getting what they wish for STEPHEN R PLATT Stephen R Platt is an associate professor of history at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and the author of Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom: China, the
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    • 881 12  -  Obama’s re-election strategy of portraying himself as such is working, thanks to the ugly Republican nomination race JOHN AVLON John Avlon is senior columnist for Newsweek and The Daily Beast. THE DAILY TELEGRAPH For the first time since the short-lived boost after the death
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    • 845 13  -  How to maximise the Web’s potential while properly rewarding creators?The clue lies in public libraries PETER SINGER Peter Singer is professor of bioethics at Princeton University and laureate professor at the University of Melbourne. His books include Practical Ethics, One World, and most recently, The
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  • VOICES
    • 363 14  -  Letter from Adnan Suppiah Muniandy I REFER to Mr Nicholas Aw’s letter “Please do not abuse facilities for the disabled” (Feb 2) and the Centre for Enabled Living’s reply “Car park operators can act to help the disabled” (Feb 8). As a handicapped driver, I thank
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    • 298 15  -  Letter from Jedidiah Tan I READ with interest the article “Starting them young” (Feb 6) and other stories on the Arts and Culture Strategic Review report. An educator by training, I have never been opposed to adopting a multi-literacies approach to
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    • 269 15  -  Letter from Claire Chua Director (Corporate Communications), Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore WE REFER to Mr Paul Chan and Mdm Yeo Siok Peng’s letters “Why most homes should be excluded from AV amendments” (Jan 28) and “We do not need more expenses to deal with”
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    • 110 15  -  Letter from Thomas Lee Chee Chee TWO Sundays ago, I was surprised to see our national flag still fluttering in the wind at about 7.30pm at Parliament House and also at the Ministry of Information, Communication and the Arts building. I was at a loss
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    • 313 16  -  Letter from Angeline Tan I REFER to the report “Residents move against studio apartments” (Feb 9). While the Housing and Development Board (HDB) has planned for studio apartments in Toh Yi with good intentions, I doubt that these would benefit the
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    • 756 16  -  I SAY Tabitha Wang Tabitha Wang lives in Hong Kong but still dreams of retiring in a nice little HDB flat in Singapore. I don’t know what the residents of Blocks 860 and 861, Woodlands Street 83, have to complain about. If I
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 493 17  -  ‘Yes’ to P1, P2 Holistic Assessment SUMITA SREEDHARAN sumitas@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Madam Junaidah Hameed had expected a rough induction for her daughter when she started Primary 1 in 2010. “She cried every day for six months when she had to go to kindergarten. I was expecting the
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    • 130 17  -  NG LIAN CHEONG From January to June last year, the Manpower Ministry took 27 employ­ers to task for hiring illegal foreign workers. Two were sentenced to one month’s jail and fined S$5,000 each; the rest were fined between S$1,000 and
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    • 92 18 Nestle Singapore managing director Valerio Nannini (picture) and members of the company’s senior management joined children from Operation Smile Singapore on Saturday in giving out cups of NESCAFE coffee at 313 Somerset. At the event, which is held in conjunction with World Happy Day, the
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    • 385 18  -  VIMITA MOHANDAS vimita@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Retail spending at Changi Airport soared to a record high last year. Stores at the airport raked in S$1.5 billion, a 17-per-cent growth over the year before. The Changi Airport Group said the expansion of
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  • WORLD
    • 390 20 Narrow victory renews doubts about his appeal among conservatives THE GUARDIAN PORTLAND (Maine) Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has got his campaign back on track by winning the Maine caucuses, holding off a strong challenge from the outsider, Texas Congressman Ron Paul. Although the United States
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    • 362 20 THE NEW YORK TIMES WASHINGTON From the moment he left business for politics, the issue of abortion has bedevilled United States presidential hopeful Mitt Romney. In 1994, as a Republican Senate candidate, he invoked the story of a “close family relative” who had died after
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    • 365 21 THE NEW YORK TIMES NEW YORK The ragtag Occupy Wall Street encampments that sprang up in scores of United States cities towards the end of last year, thrusting “we are the 99 per cent” into the vernacular, have largely been dismantled, with a
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    • 311 21 THE GUARDIAN LONDON Close friends and advisers of Mr Bill Clinton at the time of the Monica Lewinsky affair will speak publicly for the first time of their disbelief and sense of betrayal in a much-anticipated four-hour documentary about the former
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    • 224 22 REUTERS SHANGHAI A Chinese maritime court on Saturday ordered the detention of a South Korean cargo ship over a chemical leak that polluted the Yangtze River, contaminating drinking water in parts of Jiangsu province, the Xinhua News Agency reported. The country’s second
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    • 317 22 AP OSLO It’s not the face of North Korea the world is used to: Five young musicians adding a playful twist to one of the most popular Western pop songs of the 1980s. On Saturday, an accordion quintet that gained unexpected YouTube
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    • 141 22 AP An 18-year-old Tibetan nun set herself on fire in western China’s Sichuan province in the latest such protest against Beijing’s handling of the vast ethnic Tibetan regions it rules, an overseas activist group said yesterday. Free Tibet said in a statement
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    • 136 23 REUTERS Malaysia deported a Saudi Arabian blogger yesterday, the police said, despite fears voiced by human rights groups that he could face execution in his home country over Twitter comments he had made that were deemed insulting to the Prophet Mohammad.
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    • 285 23 AP BIRMINGHAM (Alabama) A dream honeymoon to scuba dive on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef turned into a terrible nightmare and the horror is about to play out years later in an Alabama courtroom today. Alabama man Gabe Watson, 34, who
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    • 173 23 AP The Maldives’ new President expanded his Cabinet yesterday to include religious conservatives who have been demanding the introduction of strict Islamic laws in the Indian Ocean nation that relies on high-end tourism. Demonstrations over the past year calling for more religiously conservative
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    • 120 23 AGENCIES Malaysia’s Tourism Minister announced yesterday that the Johor Premium Outlets (JPO) has surpassed expectations and that there are plans to open two new premium outlets in Malacca and Sepang soon. “JPO has managed to attract more than one million visitors since
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    • 178 24 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH A new video has surfaced showing the chaos on the Costa Concordia cruise ship as it began to capsize off the coast of Italy, with the captain apparently unmoved. At least 17 people died in
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    • 101 24 THE GUARDIAN After weeks of rumours and teasing, French President Nicolas Sarkozy is expected to officially announce his candidacy for the April-May presidential election in the next few days. MrSarkozy, 57, had initially led the country to believe he would declare he
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    • 232 24 AP PODGORICA (Montenegro) A five-year-old girl has been found alive in the rubble of a house flattened by a massive avalanche that killed at least seven people in a remote mountain village in southern Kosovo, as the death toll from Europe’s
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    • 215 24 THE GUARDIAN LONDON A winter drought is threatening much of England with a summer of parched landscapes and rivers reduced to trickles. The impending crisis which could have widespread consequences for farmers, food production, tourism, industry and domestic life has been building for
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    • 231 25 REUTERS ISLAMABAD Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, in an interview broadcast on Saturday, said corruption charges against Pakistan’s President were “politically motivated” and that the President had immunity as the head of state. In the wide-ranging interview with AlJazeera television, Mr Gilani
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    • 233 25 AP BAGHDAD Al Qaeda’s chief has called on Muslims from other countries to support rebels in Syria seeking to overthrow President Bashar Assad, saying they cannot depend on the West for help. Ayman Zawahiri, in a videotaped statement released late on Saturday,
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    • 148 25 AP The United States’ top ge neral discussed an Egyptian crackdown on Western-funded prodemocracy groups with the head of the country’s ruling military council, as another two foreigners were arrested on charges of fomenting discontent on the first anniversary of former President Hosni
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    • 106 25 AP Three South Korean women were freed a day after they were kidnapped by armed tribesmen in Egypt’s Sinai peninsula when clan elders negotiated their release. The head of security in South Sinai, Major-General Mohammed Naguib, said the women and their Egyptian tour guide
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  • BUSINESS
    • 350 26  -  THOMAS CHO thomaschokm@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE More airlines are seeing fuel cost crimping their profitability and analysts warn some airlines may even have to go bust if jet fuel prices continue to soar. The International Air Transport Association (IATA) estimates that this year’s fuel bill
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    • 140 26 DOW JONES SINGAPORE Boeing is focused on raising the production rate of its 787 Dreamliner aircraft, which is running nearly three years behind schedule, and aims to produce 10 jets every month by the end of next year, a senior company executive said in Singapore
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    • 175 27 Regional phone company Si2i has reported a net loss of US$32.4 million (S$40.9 million) for its third quarter ended Dec 31 a reversal from a net profit of US$1.79 million in the previous year, according to a stock
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    • 197 27 SINGAPORE Multinational conglomerate WBL has booked a net profit of S$23.7 million for its first quarter 2012 ended Dec 31, according to a stock exchange filing on Saturday. The result which is similar to its restated net profit in the previous quarter was driven mainly
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    • WEEKLY ROUNDUP (FEB 6 TO 10)
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        42 27 FRIDAY CLOSE 2,960 (-0.71%) THEWEEKAHEAD The uncertainty over a second Greek bailout is likely to continue shaking up investor confidence when trade opens this week. Thursday 2,981.17 q 0.03% Wednesday 2,982.20 p 0.83% Tuesday 2,957.78 p 0.60% Monday 2,940.10 p 0.76%
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      • 31 27 HANG SENG 20,783.86 (+0.13%) Ç Ç NIKKEI 8,947.17 (+1.31%) SHANGHAI 2,351.98 (+0.93%) Ç È AUSTRALIA 4,245.30 A MALAYSIA MUMBAI 17,748.69 (+0.82%) Ç MALAYSIA 1,561.66 (+1.49%) Ç Ç SEOUL 1,993.71 (+1.08%)
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      • 115 27 STOCK CALL Hold S$6.52 Kim Eng downgrades from Buy and lowers target to S$7.05 from S$7.18, saying fiscal first-quarter results were below expectations. It notes first-quarter revenue fell 11 per cent on-year to S$1.4 billion on lower contributions from soft drinks, dairies and property, while recurring net
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  • DIGITAL
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      342 28 AGENCIES Apple has applied for an injunction against the sale in the United States of Samsung’s Galaxy Nexus smartphone, saying that it had violated four of its patents, according to a CNET report. The smartphone is believed to be a showcase for Google’s heavily touted Ice Cream Sandwich
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    • 470 29 REUTERS NEW YORK Security researchers claim they have found a vulnerability in the Google mobile payment platform currently available in phones sold by Sprint Nextel. Mobile payment services that allow consumers to pay by waving their phone at a checkout terminal, instead of using a
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  • SPORTS
    • 644 30 Suarez apologises to Evra for not shaking his hand, Liverpool reveal striker had ‘misled’ them AGENCIES LONDON A ball had yet to be kicked in Saturday’s tension-filled match between Manchester United and Liverpool at Old Trafford when the fierce rivalry between English football’s two most
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    • 330 30 AGENCIES More and more, it looks as if Sir Alex Ferguson has stumbled on his first-choice strike partnership in the form of Wayne Rooney and Danny Welbeck. Rooney has combined brilliantly with Welbeck this season and surpassed the 20-goal mark with another match-win-ning
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    • 527 31 Spurs run riot to close gap at the top as FA chief talks up their manager AGENCIES ENGLISH PREMIERSHIP Tottenham 5 Newcastle 0 LONDON Tottenham ensured their manager Harry Redknapp remained in the news on Saturday (yesterday morning, Singapore time) with a stunning 5-0 Premier
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    • 253 31 REUTERS ENGLISH PREMIERSHIP Wolves 1 West Brom 5 LONDON Peter Odemwingie scored a hat-trick as West Bromwich Albion thumped Wolves 5-1 yesterday to move further away from danger and leave their beleaguered local rivals inside the Premier League drop zone. Roy Hodgson’s side continued their strong
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    • 548 32  -  He thought of becoming a coach, now Singapore’s No 1 is back in winners’ circle TANYO-HINN yohinn@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE After going nearly six years without a win, he thought of quitting his sport. Mardan Mamat has wife Siti Nazariah to thank for talking him out of it,
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    • 402 32  -  TANYO-HINN SINGAPORE Former Olympic champion Sergei Beloglazov will step down as coach of Singapore’s wrestling team in April. Budget constraints have forced the Wrestling Federation of Singapore (WFS) to release the 55-year-old two-time Olympic champion. Speaking at the national selection trials yesterday, WFS president Bernard
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    • 197 33  -  LOW LIN FHOONG More than 3,000 fans were treated to a highly-charged clash between AirAsia Asean Basketball League (ABL) rivals the Singapore Slingers and the Philippine Patriots at the Singapore Indoor Stadium yesterday. In a see-saw battle, the visitors handed the Slingers their second consecutive
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    • 1152 2  -  Move over, Melbourne, as Sydney stakes its claim in the world of arts MAYO MARTIN mayo@mediacorp.com.sg WHEN discussing Australia’s arts and culture scene, many Singaporeans prefer to look to Melbourne rather than Sydney as the place to be. It’s the city that often gets the spotlight
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    • 227 4  -  How to own Bondi Beach in style ZHANG WEIFANG zhangweifang@mediacorp.com.sg IFYOU are perfecting your itinerary to Sydney, there’s one place you can’t miss with or without a boogie board and that is Bondi Beach.Whether in balmy summers or serene winters, hanging out at the beach
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    • 749 10  -  Bring a piece of Sydney home literally SERENE LIM serenelim@m ediacorp.com.sg THE architecture and design of Sydney does not begin and end with the Sydney Opera House. For far too long, many travellers even hip young things have missed out on the city’s quirkier, innovative aspects
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      • 84 12 David Gurteen has been running knowledge cafes all overthe world. These great social learning and networking events allow people from all industries to come togetherto have an open, creative conversation on a topic of mutual interest. Forthis knowledge cafe, Gurteen will focus on the transformative role
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      • 72 12 The Sa’dan Toraja people of highland South Sulawesi, Indonesia are famous for their rich ceremonial life and the architecture of their extraordinary houses, the tongkonan. These houses have helped to make this area a populartouristdestination. The lecture offers insights into this Indonesian
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      • 107 12 This photography exhibition aims to raise awareness of Timor Leste (the newest nation in South-east Asia). The photographer, Alvana Yap, was a volunteer at the Singapore International Foundation and spent a year in Timor Leste as a teacher. Through a series of postcards, an e-book and
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      • 146 12 Rare textiles decorated with striking patterns and inventive motifs reveal the creativity of Indian textile artists. These textiles, which date from the 15th through 19th centuries, trace the history of trade and cultural exchange at a time when India was said to
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      • 68 12 UPCOMING Don’t miss the inaugural FighterZone world event! Watch renowned kickboxers Andy Souwer (Holland), Albert Kraus (Holland) and Naruepol Fairtex (Thailand) in action. There will be adrenalinefuelled professional fights and undercard fights. Come share the pain and passion ofthese warriors as they battle for
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