Today, 19 July 2014

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  • 15 1 TODAY TODAYONLINE.COM WE SET YOU THINKING /VI bdiaCorp SATURDAY, 19 JULY 2014 MCI (P) 046/06/2014
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  • 833 1 AGENCIES KIEV —President Obama said last night that the United States believes that the Malaysia Airlines MH17 jetliner felled over eastern Ukraine was shot down by surface-to-air missiles from an area inside Ukraine that is controlled by Russian-backed separatists. Mr Obama’s remarks at the White
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  • 441 1 K UA L A L U M P U R As questions are raised about whether the downed Malaysia Airlines (MAS) Flight MH17 should have been flying over eastern Ukraine at a time when conflict is high and increasingly powerful surface-to-air missiles
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    • 29 1 ISRAEL HAS EVERY RIGHT TO PROTECT ITS CITIZENS; MAKING HAMAS PAY HIGH PRICE FOR ATTACKS ONLY REALISTIC OPTION VOICES 13 Ukraine releases phone recording of ‘inhuman crime’ PAGE 3
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    • 13 1 Shift swap saved life of steward’s wife, but cost him his PAGE 5
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    • 50 1 Download the new TODAY APPS FOR APPLE, ANDROID AND WINDOWS 8 smartphones and tablets todayonline.com/apps HOT NEWS 10 Books reinstated; NLB to involve more voices in reviews Families gather again at KL airport this time without hope PAGE 6 CALLS FOR SUPPORT GROW AS DISASTERS COMPOUND MAS’ FINANCIAL STRIFE 7
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  • hot news
    • 573 2 U.N. CALLS FOR A FULL, THOROUGH AND INDEPENDENT INTERNATIONAL PROBE KUA L A LUM PU R Malaysia has said Ukraine will lead the investigation into Flight MH17, but whoever leads the probe will face daunting challenges. A tug of
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    • 670 10  -  REQUESTS TO REVIEW TITLES ON HOLD TILL EVALUATION COMPLETED ALFRED CHUA alfredchuamf@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE After drawing flak and support for removing three children’s book titles from its collection due to feedback that they were not “pro-family”, the National Library Board (NLB) has
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    • 359 10  -  TAN SHI WEI SINGAPORE Members of the writing fraternity, some of whom had boycotted events and resigned from posts in protest against the National Library Board’s (NLB) decision to pulp two children’s titles, applauded the announcement yesterday that the books would be reinstated. And
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    • 325 10  -  ALFRED CHUA SING A PORE A poll by government feedback unit REACH has found six in 10 Singaporeans surveyed were aware of the debate surrounding the National Library Board’s (NLB) decision to withdraw three children’s book titles. Among those who
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    • 903 11 THE NEW YORK TIMES JERUSALEM Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday said he had ordered the military to prepare for the possibility of widening “significantly” its ground operation in the Gaza Strip, which began on Thursday night, as he offered his condolences to
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    • 464 11 REUTERS The United Nations said yesterday it was stepping up emergency aid to Gaza, where Israel’s military offensive has made water shortages worse and stoked fears of more sewage contamination and waterborne diseases. “We are still very concerned about the
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    • 722 12  -  CONVICTED DRUG TRAFFICKERS COULD HAVE GONE THROUGH RE-SENTENCING PROCESS KOK XING HUI xinghui@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Two convicted drug traffickers who chose to forsake their legal avenues to escape death row were hanged yesterday, becoming the Republic’s first executions since all capital sentences were
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    • 388 12 SINGAPORE A psychiatrist at the Institute of Mental Health who initiated an affair with a patient he was seeing has been suspended from practice for 24 months, the Singapore Medical Council (SMC) said yesterday. Dr Solomon Wong Kee Miew, 42, started seeing the
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  • the downing of mh17
    • 345 3 SINGAPORE —President Tony Tan Keng Yam and Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong have written to their foreign counterparts to express their condolences following the crash of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 on Thursday. In his condolence letter to Malaysian Sultan Abdul Halim Mu’adzam, the
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    • 720 3 US officials suspect surface-to-air missile was either an SA-11 or SA-20, both Russian made AGENCIES KIEV —Ukraine’s security service, the SBU, has released what it said was an intercepted telephone conversation in which a pro-Russia rebel leader admitted to shooting down Malaysia Airlines Flight
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    • 240 3 AGENCIES There have been at least a dozen incidents of commercial airliners being shot down since the 1940s, with over 1,000 people killed. Of particular resemblance to Thursday’s tragedy was a crash some 32km off the Crimean coast on Oct 4, 2001. Siberia Airlines Flight
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    • 578 4 MH17 crash represen ted dou ble tragedy for Australian family after disappearance ofMH370 FLAGS AT HALF-STAFF IN NETHERLANDS, MINUTE’S SILENCE AT TOUR DE FRANCE AGENCIES R OZ S Y P N E U K R A I N E —Emergency workers, police officers and
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    • 427 4 REUTERS ROZSYPNE (UKR AINE) First came the loud explosion that made buildings rattle: then it started raining bodies. One of the corpses fell through the rickety roof of Irina Tipunova’s house in this sleepy village, just after Malaysia Airlines Flight
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    • 337 5 THE MALAYSIAN INSIDER KUA L A LUM PU R In a bizarre twist of fate, Malaysia Airlines (MAS) flight steward Sanjid Singh, 41, had swapped flights to fly on Flight MH17 that crashed with 298 on board in eastern
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    • 300 5 REUTERS M E LBOU R N E/ LON DON The world of AIDS research was in a state of shock yesterday after dozens of leading experts in the field on their way to a conference in Australia were killed in the MH17
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    • 828 6 Families gather again at KL airport this time without hope Malaysia is in shock again just as people were beginning to get on with life after MH370 COUNTRY DEALS WITH SECOND AIR TRAGEDY IN JUST FOUR MONTHS AGENCIES KUAL A LUMPUR —It should have been a time for celebration in
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    • 699 7 AIRLINE’S SHARES PLUNGE AS MUCH AS 18% AGENCIES HONG KONG —Hit by two astonishing tragedies in quick succession, the Malaysia Airlines (MAS) brand may become the airline industry’s equivalent of asbestos: Toxic to the public and, experts say, impossible to
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  • singapore
    • 277 14 CHANNEL NEWSASIA SINGAPORE —The Ministry of Transport (MOT) has contacted its counterparts in Malaysia over Malaysia’s decision to impose an entry fee on foreign-registered vehicles, following concerns that the move is directed towards Singaporean vehicles, as it was reported that
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    • 384 14  -  REVISED CODE OF PRACTICE TO BE READY NEXT YEAR LAURA PHILOMIN lauraphilomin@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —The Ministry of Manpower (MOM) will launch a simplified Risk Management (RM) guide for workers and a revised Code of Practice on Workplace Health and Safety (WSH) early next
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    • 291 14  -  XUE JIANYUE SINGAPORE —Against growing global demand for solar energy, the Solar Energy Research Institute of Singapore (SERIS) has opened a new facility to develop and test new solar panels under one roof. The S$6 million facility, described by SERIS which is part
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    • 534 16  -  NEO CHAI CHIN chaichin@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE He had maintained that City Harvest Church and multimedia company Xtron Productions were independent entities, and said the views of the head honcho at an audit firm would prevail over that of the lead auditor
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    • 124 16 MrGoh Kiah Khin, winner ofthisweek’sTODAY Shop to Win draw, receiving the S$10,000 cheque from Holland Barrett assistant brand manager Sherly Kan (left) and marketing manager of MediaCorp Press, Ms Caroline Bone (right), at Holland Barrett, Parkway Parade. Mr Goh, who had bought S$156.80 worth of
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  • world
    • 382 17 Several houses damaged as powerful storm strikes Hainan with 210kmh winds MORE THAN 26,000 EVACUATED, ACCESS TO SCENIC SPOTS ON ISLAND CLOSED AGENCIES BEIJING —A powerful typhoon killed one person and damaged several houses on the southern Chinese island of Hainan yesterday, as
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    • 888 17 BLOOMBERG BEIJING —After 43 years of watching the world’s largest multinational naval exercises take place offHawaii, China this year has the second-largest fleet at the United States-led Rim of the Pacific Exercise (RIMPAC), offering it a step towards the great-power parity it
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    • 1101 18  -  RECORD LET DOWN BY FAILURE TO TACKLE CORRUPTION IDAYU SUPARTO, RACHAEL ANNE GOH nuridayus@mediacorp.com.sg WITHADDITIONAL REPORTING BY HERA DIANI IN JAKARTA S I NG A PO R E Outgoing Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono will end his second term in office leaving behind a
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    • 520 19 AP MANIL A Two German tourists who went missing off Borneo island in April had been abducted by Abu Sayyaf militants and are being held “unharmed” in the jungle in the southern Philippines, security officials said on Thursday. Lieutenant-General Rustico Guerrero,
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  • business
    • 388 20 Alibaba to delay US listing as talks with SEC continue IPO WILL TAKE PLACE AFTER SEPTEMBER, SAYS SOURCE AGENCIES NEW YORK The Alibaba Group will wait until after September to conduct its United States initial public offering (IPO), a source said, as the Chinese online retail company works through the
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    • 95 20 OCBC Bank has announced its new chairman, Mr Ooi Sang Kuang (picture), who will take over from Dr Cheong Choong Kong when he retires from the position on Aug 31. Dr Cheong, who took up the post in 2003, will remain a director of the bank.
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    • 403 20  -  LEE YEN NEE SINGAPORE CapitaCommercial Trust (CCT), the commercial real estate investment trust of CapitaLand, Southeast Asia’s largest listed developer, reported a 7.6 per cent on-year increase in distributable income in its second financial quarter to S$64.1 million, helped by higher rents. That translates
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    • 356 21 AGENCIES BEIJING —China’s new-home prices fell in a record number of cities tracked by the government as developers cut prices to boost sales volume, sparking a surprise rally in Chinese property stocks as investors anticipated imminent government support. Prices fell in
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    • 357 21 AGENCIES SAN FRANCISCO —Google’s sales exceeded estimates in the second quarter as the company sold more advertising alongside Web-search results, but the increasing shift from desktops to mobile devices is creating some challenges. Revenue, excluding sales passed on to partners, was
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  • sports
    • 602 22  -  Injury leaves top S’pore marathoner’s crack at national record in doubt INJURY WAS ‘MENTALLY DRAINING’ FOR RUNNER ADELENE WONG adelenewong@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —A niggling injury could scupper the target of Mok Ying Ren, Singapore’s top male marathon runner, to better the national record at the
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    • 392 22 AGENCIES BERLIN Germany captain Philipp Lahm has retired from international football, bowing out at the top just days after lifting the World Cup. The 30-year-old tweeted his decision on Sky Sport Deutschland’s Twitter feed yesterday, reported Deutsche Welle. The news was later confirmed by the German
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    • 646 23  - NOT THE CHOSEN ONE JUST NO. 1 NO SELF-DOUBT IN VAN GA AL COMMENTARY BY JIM WHITE Jim White is a sports columnist with The Daily Telegraph. THE DAILY TELEGRAPH Twelve months ago, David Moyes, the then-new Manchester United manager, arrived for his introductory press conference at Old Trafford wearing
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    • 537 23  -  Since the end of the World Cup, there has been a flurry of transfer activity in the European leagues. Diego Costa has joined Chelsea, Liverpool have signed winger Lazar Markovic from Benfica, Toni Kroos joined Real Madrid. Those, however, were dwarfed by Luis
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    • 370 24 AGENCIES CHAMROUSSE —Stamping his dominance in the mountains and on the race overall, Italy’s Vincenzo Nibali has won the 13th stage of the Tour de France as the race entered the Alps and went up the hardest climb so far
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    • 507 24 Defending British Open champion stumbles into the weekend despite mixed day WEATHER CONDITIONS TO PLAY A PART IN HIS TITLE DEFENCE REUTERS HOYLAKE —Phil Mickelson tried to accentuate the positives despite a chequered British Open second round yesterday that featured “a terrible putt”, a
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    • 453 25  -  But LionsXII captain vows to regain spot in S’pore national side DAN GUEN CHIN danguenchin@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE LionsXII captain Isa Halim has admitted he is mystified over his omission from the Singapore national side’s tour in Europe, but he has vowed to regain his
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    • 184 25 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH HOYL AKE —The R&A issued a statement pleading with spectators to keep mobile phones on silent and to not take pictures after Tiger Woods expressed his frustration at being distracted during his first-round 69 by ringtones and the click of photographs being taken.
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    • 91 25 You know when you have like 5 bowls ofcereal inarow without realizing it. @geniebouchard Canadian tennis star Eugenie Bouchard sees no fault in serving too much cereal. Mountains beware here I come @tonymartin85 German cyclist Tony Martin wins a stage, then fails on the next day’s
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    • 697 26  -  EDUCATION THE WAY TO PROMOTE RESPONSIBLE DRIVING COMMENTARY BY IAN DE COTTA ian@mediacorp.com.sg Ian De Cotta is senior F1 correspondent at TO DAY. Formula 1 arrives at Hockenheim this weekend as Germany continues to celebrate a fourth World Cup win, and the
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    • 264 26 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH LAUSANNE —Michael Schumacher’s wife, Corinna (picture), has issued a message of heartfelt thanks to Formula 1 fans and the sport at large for their support as the seven-time champion continues his recovery after a life-threatening skiing accident six months ago. Schumacher, 45, is
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    • 46 27 SATURDAY, 19 JULY 2014 RANT AND RAVE SINGER TAY KEWEI’S KAWAII MOMENTS 30 BRIDE TO BE NO WEDDING JITTERS FOR ACTRESS YVONNE LIM 37 STORY TI M E T’ANG QUARTET AND OTHER ARTISTS REMINISCE ABOUT THE OLD VICTORIA THEATRE AND CONCERT HALL 28 PHOTO: SAMUEL CHENG
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    • arts
      • 1960 28  -  FROM A ‘GARAGE’ BAND TO A HEAVY ORGAN, THE OLD VICTORIA THEATRE AND CONCERT HALL HAD A LOT OF STORIES TO TELL MAYO MARTIN mayo@mediacorp.com.sg Who doesn’t have any fond memories of the Victoria Theatre and Concert Hall? After the Singapore Symphony Orchestra’s (SSO) opening concert earlier
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    • culture&lifestyle
      • 287 30 REUTERS NEW YORK— Elaine Stritch, a huskyvoiced actress whose performances over six decades lit up New York’s Broadway and London’s West End and brought a touch of the profane to the stage with her brassy personality, died on Thursday at age 89. Stritch,
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      • 563 30  -  When an artist has something to say about something RANT AND RAVE MAYO MARTIN SINGAPORE —Singer-songwriter Tay Kewei joins a growing list of singers who are trying out their acting chops onstage. She makes her theatre debut in Toy Factory’s upcoming new Mandarin
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      • 278 30  -  MAYO MARTIN SINGAPORE —It was an eventful week for the art scene. After a long renovation process, the revamped Victoria Theatre and Concert Hall finally opened with a Singapore Symphony Orchestra concert graced by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong. The public will also get a chance
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      • 532 32  -  Jessica Aguilar wanted to be an actress but ended up being an MMA champ FIGHT CLUB LAETITIA WONG laetitiawong@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Since making her debut in the world of mixed martial arts (MMA) in 2006, Jessica Aguilar has won 18 times and has become the first female fighter
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      • 389 32 REUTERS LOS A NG E LE S First came news of a woman taking over the Norse god Thor’s mantle. Now an AfricanAmerican character will strap on the star-emblazoned shield and step into the red, white and blue uniform of Captain
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      • 659 33  -  LAETITIA WONG SINGAPORE As singer Hunter Hayes performs, frantic female fan are wildly attempting to yank his arm hair out to serve as personal mementos; holding up hilarious signs bearing words such as “I must be a horse, because I’m hunting for Hayes”; and
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      • 311 33  -  HON JING YI SINGAPORE For a 24-year-old, Lee Hong-gi is quite remarkably accomplished. Not only is Lee the lead vocalist of Korean band F.T. Island, the K-pop star has also starred in popular drama series Bride Of The Century and was recently cast in the
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      • Article, Illustration
        687 34 Performances and exhibitions you should check out this week SHARING SESSIONS CRIT GRP A gathering of visual art novices and seasoned practitioners, this session aims to promote art discussions in public spaces, provide a support network for artists and allow for peer evaluation. July 19, 3pm to 5pm,
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      • 277 34 REUTERS LOS ANGELES —R&B singer Beyonce and rappers Eminem and Iggy Azalea lead the nominations for the MTV Video Music Awards, one of the industry’s top televised showcases. Beyonce garnered eight nominations and will go up against Azalea in the coveted Video of
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      • 184 34  -  HON JING YI SINGAPORE —K-pop boy band EXO is set to perform in Singapore next month as part of their EXO From. EXOPLANET #1 The Lost Planet world tour. Presented by MediaCorp VizPro International, the concert will be held at 7.30pm on
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    • family
      • 502 36 KIDS 12 AND BELOW TODAY’S PICK MOVIE SCREENING: THE KITE RUNNER Set against a backdrop of political turmoil in ’70s Afghanistan, the movie shows how Amir and Hassan’s lives change forever in an event that no one could predict. Find out what hap- pens in this tale of
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    • television
      • 602 37  -  The actress is calmly anticipating her wedding in September I DO, I DO MAY SEAH may@mediacorp.com.sg S I N G A P O R E Contrary to her own expectations, soon-to-be-married Yvonne Lim is a fuss-free bride. Preparations for her wedding to former Taiwanese boyband
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      • 278 37 REUTERS LOS ANGELES NBC is clearly trying to get the gang back together again for Heroes Reborn. We already know that Jack Coleman, who played the glasses-wearing Noah Bennett in Heroes, will reprise his role. But who else will creator Tim Kring lure back? Zachary Quinto,
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  • WORLD TRENDS
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    • 752 3  -  By ELLEN BARRY THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY SWANG GULGULIA DHOURA, India For many years, under a tall, spreading neem tree in the middle of this settlement, the village headman has adjudicated disputes between his neighbors, doling out tongue-lashings and occasional penalties. This,
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    • 589 3  -  By CARLOTTA GALL THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY D JERBA, Tunisia —On a recent Sabbath morning, just five men sat reciting prayers in the sanctuary of the Ghriba synagogue, the oldest synagogue in North Africa and the holiest place for the Orthodox Jews
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    • 841 9  -  By SARITHA RAI THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY DARJEELING, India The tea plantations here in the Himalayan mountains may be the last place to find technological innovation. Many of the colonial-era practices involved in tea-growing and processing still follow the time-hon-ored manual labor
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    • 622 13  -  By RACHEL DONADIO THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY LONDON A pair of Primark cargo shorts made at a Bangladeshi sweatshop that collapsed last year, killing more than 1,100 people. The first 3-D printed handgun. An “Occupy Sandy” sign made by
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    • 812 14  -  By BARBARA POLLACK THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY When the people of Cairo took to Tahrir Square in January 2011 to oust Egypt’s longtime ruler, Hosni Mubarak, the streets exploded with murals and graffiti that both mirrored the revolutionary spirit of the
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    • 541 14  -  By VALERIE GLADSTONE THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY Music is at the heart of Valencia, Spain’s third-largest city. For hundreds of years, people in and around the city have formed symphonic brass bands. Children have grown up learning to dance the jota
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