Today, 26 April 2014

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  • hot news
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      HDB resale prices fall by more than expected in Q1
      605 2  -  BOARD CEASES PUBLICATION OF QUARTERLY C.O.V. FIGURES, AS FORESHADOWED LAST MONTH AMANDA LEE leeguiping@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Prices of Housing and Development Board (HDB) resale flats fell more than expected in the first three months of the year, figures released yesterday showed.
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      Lock icon Private home price decline accelerates as curbs bite
      650 2  -  LEE YEN NEE leeyennee@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE There was no last-minute reprieve for the private housing market in Singapore in the first three months of the year, with finalised data from the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) confirming that the price decline had picked up
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      Lock icon Hard to imagine jet is not lost, says Najib
      687 4 Malaysian PM says report about Flight MH370’s disappearance likely to be released next week SITUATION GOVT FACES ‘UNPRECEDENTED’ AGENCIES KUAL A LUMPUR —Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak said his government would make public a preliminary report about the disappearance of a
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      Lock icon Drunk passenger causes hijack scare on Virgin flight to Bali
      427 6 AGENCIES BALI —A drunk passenger who caused a hijack scare on a Virgin Australia flight by trying to break into the cockpit was arrested yesterday, after the plane landed on Indonesia’s resort island of Bali, said officials. The airport was
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      Lock icon Former Indon vice-president may be Jokowi’s running mate
      808 6  -  Jusuf Kalla reportedly one of PDI-P’s 3 shortlisted choices but worries over his age business background remain GOVERNOR’S PARTY TO UNVEIL VICE-PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE IN A FEW DAYS HERA DIANI today@mediacorp.com.sg JAKARTA —The Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P), which emerged as the
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      Lock icon Obama calls on S Korea, Japan to mend ties, while noting comfort women past
      261 8 AGENCIES S EO U L —United States President Barack Obama said Japan’s use of South Korean “comfort women” during World War II was a terrible and egregious violation of human rights. Touching on the sensitive regional
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      Lock icon Obama, Park issue warning against N Korea nuclear test
      910 8 Leaders bring up possibility of further sanctions if Pyongyang follows through with threats CHINA UNDER PRESSURE TO REIN IN ITS ALLY AGENCIES SEOUL —North Korea represents a threat not just to Asia but to America, United States President Barack Obama said
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      Lock icon US, Europe to impose broader sanctions on Russia if it invades eastern Ukraine
      641 9 AGENCIES SEOUL —The United States and Europe are laying the groundwork to sanction broad sections of Russia’s economy if Moscow invades eastern Ukraine, President Barack Obama said yesterday, though he acknowledged those sanctions may fail to deter
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      Lock icon OBAMA SAYS HE WOULD SAVE PUTIN IF HE WERE DROWNING
      108 9 AP With Moscow and Washington trading harsh words, the crisis has brought renewed attention to the testy relationship between United States President Barack Obama and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, who was asked during a recent news conference whether Mr
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  • voices
    • Article
      On-the-job training could be a better way to retain teachers
      481 12  -  FROM RICHMOND LEE A programme in the United Kingdom, run by the charity Teach First, exposes outstanding fresh graduates to teaching in less-advantaged schools without prior professional training. Its philosophy is that there is no better training than first-hand experience
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      Make children’s transition to primary school better
      486 12  -  FROM HO YIN FONG Chief Early Childhood Education Officer, NTUC First Campus Co-operative Limited I refer to the letters “Ease transition to primary education in Pri 1, not kindergarten” (April 7) and “Pre-school education should develop children holistically” (April 16). First, I agree
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      Fixed tuition fee per term common
      263 12  -  FROM TAN LEE CHUAN Director, Office of Registrar, Singapore Management University We refer to Mr Aaron Low’s letter “Universities should communicate fee policies clearly” (April 19). Undergraduates at the Singapore Management University, as at most other public-funded universities, pay a fixed tuition fee per
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      Yasukuni: S’poreans are simply realists who want to move on
      128 13  -  FROM STEVEN CHUA I refer to the letter “No patriotic response from S’pore about Yasukuni visit?” (April 24). Japan is behaving like a spoilt child. Not only are the visits to the Yasukuni shrine open defiance, I suspect they are
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      Affinity, ties with Japan may explain S’pore’s response
      80 13  -  FROM ABEL TAN My take on the letter “No patriotic response from S’pore about Yasukuni visit?” (April 24) is that, firstly, Singaporeans are more engrossed with their livelihoods than with such matters. Secondly, by the early 1980s, many of us now in
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      Cut food wastage by selling smaller portions
      183 13  -  FROM MICHELLE CHUA One way to tackle food wastage is perhaps to get hawkers and shopkeepers to sell smaller portions at a cheaper price. (“Food waste reduction an issue of values, behavioural change”; April 24) Consumers would not have to pay as much
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      Bosses, customers owe sales staff more respect
      187 13  -  FROM JEFFREY LAW LEE BENG I refer to the Talking Point topic “More job dignity, please”. Although salespeople today are better educated, their service is seldom appreciated. Even though the salesperson’s job has assumed greater scope and a higher degree of professionalism, he
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  • singapore
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      Lock icon New Geylang will retain Malay character
      201 14 Geylang will continue to be upgraded and modernised, but in a way that will keep its Malay character, said Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong yesterday, noting that the area is a historic part of Singapore. Speaking at the 50th anniversary celebration of the Geylang
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    • Article
      Bigger cleaning firms find licensing requirements tough
      724 14  -  Companies with more than 200 workers make up only 13% of 70 applicants PROGRESSIVE WAGE MODEL FOR CLEANING SECTOR UPDATED XUE JIANYUE xuejianyue@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —More than three weeks after applications for mandatory cleaning licences opened, about 70 firms of the more than 900
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      Second man in Kaki Bukit dormitory fracas gets a week’s jail
      218 14  -  CLAIRE HUANG SING A PORE The second man to be implicated in a fracas at a Kaki Bukit dormitory was yesterday sentenced to a week’s jail for grabbing the shirt of another worker during a confrontation. Arumugam Velmurugan, 28,
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      Diversity taskforce calls for special training of women to be board directors
      670 15  -  Legislation might be counterproductive and send the wrong signals, says Chan TAN SHI WEI tanshiwei@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE If Singapore aspires for women to hold one out of every five directorship by 2020 instead of the forecast 12 per cent,
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      100 15 SINGAPORE-INTERNATIONAL PHYSIOTHERAPY CONGRESS 2014 Enhancing Health through Physiotherapy 50 years and beyond. I 9 4 lh May JjO <^nnumAamy PUBLIC FDRUM EXERCISE^ HEALTHIER YDU! HIGHLIGHTS 1st May 2D14 FDR THE DAY Limited to 1st 2DD far each session! Health Promotion Board Auditorium, Level 7 Outram MRT) Free educational talks! Free
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  • world
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      Lock icon MH370 search to widen again, could ‘drag on for years’
      540 16 Underwa ter drone operation over 310 sq km area fails to find wreckage after two weeks PARTIES UNWILLING TO DISCUSS POSSIBILITY OF CALLING OFF SEARCH AGENCIES PERTH The search for the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 is likely to drag
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      Lock icon AIRLINE STAFF DETAINED BY ANGRY RELATIVES IN CHINA
      333 16 AGENCIES Former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has laid blame on Boeing, the maker of the lost Malaysia Airlines plane, following reports that angry relatives of people missing on Flight MH370 had detained some members of the national carrier’s staff for more
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      Lock icon Russia warns Kiev after deaths of rebels
      702 17 Itsays Ukraine govt will face justice for ‘crime’, vows its commitment to Geneva pact REUTERS KIE V Russia warned Kiev yesterday that it would face justice for a “bloody crime” in eastern Ukraine, where Ukrainian forces killed up to five pro-Russian rebels a
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      Lock icon Moscow, on brink of recession, sees currency rating cut
      699 17 AGENCIES MOSCOW While the annexation of Crimea has rocketed Russian President Vladimir Putin’s approval rating to more than 80 per cent, it has also contributed to a sobering downturn in Russia’s economy, which was in trouble even before the West imposed
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      Lock icon Pahang’s Islamic council draws flak for banning Bibles in hotels
      764 18 MP urges the authority to be balanced in its approach while church official says it has acted outside its jurisdiction THE MALAYSIAN INSIDER PAHANG Islamic authorities in Pahang have overstepped their jurisdiction by banning non-Islamic religious materials in hotels in
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      Lock icon China’s new model army
      1167 19 For the first time, China’s People’s Liberation Army has allowed a Western TV station into its fold, to film an international exchange featuring British and US officer-cadets. BBC World News’ Steve Hewlett reports. STRICT REGIMEN, AMERICAN FLAVOUR AMONG THE FIRST THINGS TO STRIKE THE OUTSIDE OBSERVER
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  • business
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      Marina Bay Sands Q1 profit up 9.7%
      393 20 SINGAPORE Lady Luck returned to Marina Bay Sands (MBS) in the beginning of the year as punters wagered more on the slot machines, the house’s winning percentage at the VIP tables increased and the hotel business brought in more revenue. Profit at the
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      Lock icon CapitaLand profit falls 1.7% in Q1
      504 20 Singapore unit hit by fall in sales due to cooling measures but China, Vietnam projects help to moderate impact OVERALL REVENUE PLUNGES 37.7% IN SINGAPORE AGENCIES SINGAPORE CapitaLand, South-east Asia’s largest listed developer, said first-quarter profit declined 1.7 per cent as lacklustre sales from
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      POSH inches up in weak trading debut
      236 20 SINGAPORE Shares in PACC Offshore Services Holdings (POSH), part of the business empire of Malaysia’s richest man Robert Kuok, ended the day marginally higher after a choppy trading debut, pulled down by weak market sentiment around the region. POSH closed up 0.4 per
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      Lock icon Microsoft sees gains from new CEO’s cloud computing push
      588 21 Change in focus helps firm increase sales of Web-based tools, save costs; but headwinds in diversification remain AGENCIES SEATTLE —Microsoft’s push into cloud computing, which is accelerating under new chief executive officer Satya Nadella, is paying off. Mr Nadella, who took
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  • sports
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      Lock icon TODT KEEPS F1 THOUGHTS MOSTLY TO HIMSELF
      663 22  -  FIA president chooses instead to focus on road safety and Singaporean Tay’s election to FIA Audit Committee HE IS SURPRISED BY CRITICISM ABOUT NEW ENGINES ADELENE WONG adelenewong@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —With Jean Todt present as guest of honour for the official opening yesterday of
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      Lock icon BERLUSCONI DISMISSES LIM’S S$870M MILAN BID
      331 22 REUTERS ROME —Silvio Berlusconi has denied that AC Milan are up for sale after reports claimed Singaporean businessman Peter Lim was ready to fork out €500 million (S$869 million) for a majority stake in the club. “Milan is not for sale, not for €500
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      Lock icon A BASIC WAY OF WORKING UP A SWEAT
      1065 23  -  Smaller, niche gyms are drawing people who might not otherwise go to the gym LOW LIN FHOONG linfhoong@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —It is 2.30pm on a Tuesday at The PIT, and one of their clients, or “PITbulls”, is straddling a punching bag, delivering a
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      Lock icon ANCELOTTI, NOT GIGGS, IS UNITED’S BEST BET FOR NOW
      635 24  -  PERFORMING SURGERY ON AN OVER-THE-HILL SQUAD WOULD BE TOO MUCH FOR A ROOKIE COMMENTARY BY ADRIAN CLARKE sports@mediacorp.com.sg TODAY’s EPL analyst Adrian Clarke is a former Arsenal midfielder who has played at every level of English football. Now an experienced sports
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      Lock icon MAN UNITED’S BUSY SUMMER
      607 24 Despite being manager-less, Manchester United are determined to press ahead with negotiations over a series of high-profile signings which, if successfully completed this summer, will constitute the biggest spending splurge in the club’s history, as The Daily Telegraph sums up. The budget: A nine-figure fund United
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      Lock icon RAMPANT REDS MUST AVOID FALLING FOR MOURINHO’S BLUFF
      537 25  -  COMMENTARY BY ADRIAN CLARKE sports@mediacorp.com.sg TODAY’s EPL analyst Adrian Clarke is a former Arsenal midfielder who has played at every level of English football. Now an experienced sports journalist, he writes for many publications around the world. Follow him on Twitter @adrianjclarke
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      Lock icon RAMIRES TO MISS CHELSEA’S TITLE RUN-IN
      404 25 THE GUARDIAN LONDON Chelsea midfielder Ramires has accepted a four-game ban after being charged with violent conduct by the Football Association for an off-the-ball incident that was not seen by the match officials, but caught on video. The incident occurred during Chelsea’s Premier League
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      Lock icon NBA PLAYOFF WATCH
      378 26 GAME OF THE DAY MEMPHIS 98 OKLAHOMA CITY 95 (OT) (Grizzlies lead 2-1 in best-of-seven series) A second straight overtime win for the Memphis Grizzlies, belying their seventh seeding against Western Conference second seeds Oklahoma City Thunder. Overcoming a 17-point deficit with under eight minutes to go,
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      Lock icon PHELPS BEATEN, BUT HAPPY
      675 26 Comeback at Mesa swim meet leaves most-successful Olympian with nerves SWIMMER’S FIRST RACE IN 628 DAYS THE NEW YORK TIMES MESA (ARIZONA) —Michael Phelps’ possible pursuit of a fifth Olympics has the swimming world abuzz, but before he could entertain thoughts of defending his 100 metres
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      153 25 LIVE FIXTURES Tonight, 7.45pm Channel mio TV StarHub Southampton v Everton 102 227 Tonight, 9.55pm Stoke v Tottenham 103 228 Swansea v Aston Villa 104 229 West Brom v West Ham 105 230 Fulham v Hull 102 227 Tomorrow, 12.30am Man United v Norwich 102 227 Tomorrow, 7pm Sunderland v
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    • arts
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        Lock icon EYE FOR A CAUSE
        680 28  -  LEGENDARY PHOTOGRAPHER SEBASTIAO SALGADO WANTS US TO GO BACK TO THE BEGINNING WITH GENESIS MAYO MARTIN mayo@mediacorp.com.sg The world’s splendour is spread out in all its blackand white glory, as more than 200 photographs of captivating landscapes and seascapes, wildlife and people, from the Amazon jungle
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        Lock icon Life through her lens
        725 29  -  Why not everyone can be like photographer Annie Leibovitz SAY CHEESE HON JINGYI honjingyi@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE If my name were Annie Leibovitz, I would probably be a real pain in the bottom. I would be so terribly pleased with myself, knowing that I am one of the
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        STATE OF THE ARTS
        136 29  -  MAYO MARTIN SINGAPORE Singapore will finally return to the Venice Biennale after the National Arts Council announced it would be sending artist Charles Lim and curator Shabbir Hussain Mustafa to the event next year. At the annual Patron Of Heritage Awards, National Heritage Board honoured 108
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        Lock icon The medium is the message
        799 30  -  SAM’s latest collection show is playful and fresh ART REVIEW: MEDIUM AT LARGE MAYO MARTIN mayo@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE With the National Gallery Singapore set to open next year, it’s the perfect time for Singapore Art Museum (SAM) to fully embrace its position as a space completely
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        Lock icon Chong Tze Chien doesn’t like latecomers
        407 30  -  When an artist has something to say about something RANT AND RAVE MAYO MARTIN S ING A POR E —If you’ve been kicking yourself for missing the first staging of Rant Rave back in 2012, you can catch the restaging next week. Presented by
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    • culture&lifestyle
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        Lock icon What’s on
        582 31 Performances and exhibitions to check out this week TODAY’S PICK (MUSIC) LOMOGRAPHY BLUE HOUR SESSIONS This will be the final installment of the sixpart collaboration between local musicians and graphic artists, and will feature Astreal, and collaborations between Monster Cat, Do Not Design and Satellite in Air Orbiting;
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        Return of the Rendang Burger
        152 31 QUICK BITES SINGAPORE Almost three decades after it was first created, the original BK Rendang Burger is back to tantalise the hearts and stomachs of Singaporeans. Created in 1987, the Rendang Burger was the first local-style burger introduced by BURGER KING Singapore. Its removal from
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    • family
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        Weekend planner
        495 32 KIDS 12 AND BELOW TODAY’S PICK CORNETTO’S RIDE TO FAME The search for a local act to perform at Taylor Swift’s RED Tour Concert comes to a head at the finals of Cornetto’s Ride to Fame. The five remaining finalists will face off on the Cornetto mobile music
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    • television
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        Lock icon Everest avalanche documentary to air
        281 33 It will focus on accounts of the avalanche that struck on April 18 and killed 13 people PEAK SHOW REUTERS LOS ANGELES —Discovery Channel will broadcast a 90-minute documentary on May 4, about the Mount Everest avalanche that claimed 13 lives last week. The show
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      • Article, Illustration
        Lock icon Adam Levine to leave The Voice?
        222 33 REUTERS LOS A NG E LE S —Could The Voice be heading for yet another shake-up? Adam Levine, who serves as a coach on NBC’s hit singing competition, hinted during an appearance on The Ellen DeGeneres Show on Thursday that he might not be
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      • Article
        Lock icon Stephen Colbert bids Jon Stewart goodbye
        165 33 REUTERS NEW YORK Stephen Colbert stopped by his old workplace, Jon Stewart’s The Daily Show, to break the news that he’s leaving Comedy Central. “Jon, this is going to come as something of a shock to you,” Colbert said, after urging his old boss
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      466 32 Redang Island Sundeck V a FATHER’S CRUISE DAYS with Chen Hanwei m This June, celebrate Father’s Day with Redang Island onboard SuperStar Gemini as you ddights and enjoying game while indulging in Internationa g retail therapy. You can also catch Kids at Play Exclusively for 8 DAYS readers: Fun and
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      395 34 MediaCorp’s latest online TV service offers entertainment, lifestyle, information and news across multiple devices. Log on to www.toggle.sg or download the Toggle App now. STAR AWARDS 2014 FREE STAR AWARDS 2014 Catch this prelude to the Star Awards with insights into this year’s nominees for Best Drama Serial, Best Variety
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