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  • 17 1 TODAY TODAYONLI NE .COM WE SET YOU THINKING yVI bdiaCorp FRIDAY, 13 FEBRUARY 2015 MCI (P) 046/06/2014
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  • EIGHT MPs RISE TO SPEAK IN NEARLY FOUR-HOUR DEBATE ON A.G.O. FINDINGS
    • AHPETC actions ‘unlawful’
      • 956 1  -  NG JING YNG jingyng@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Aljunied-Hougang-Pung-gol East Town Council’s (AHPETC) transactions with its managing agent and a vendor, which its senior staff have stakes in, are “unlawful” and the Workers’ Party (WP) Members of Parliament (MPs) have seriously breached their fiduciary duties in
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      • 248 1 AHPETC’s payments to FMSS and FMSI, which are owned by three town council staff, were “unlawful”. The town councillors were “in breach of their legal, fiduciary duties” by allowing the three employees to both bill and approve payments to themselves. 1 These
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      • 756 1  -  LAURA PHILOMIN lauraphilomin@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —Saying the Government can no longer take the light touch on town councils, National Development Minister Khaw Boon Wan (picture) yesterday announced that the Town Councils Act will be amended to enforce greater standards of accountability
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    • 37 1 SUSTAINABLE GROWTH FOR SINGAPORE CAN ONLY BE A REALITY IF LOCAL BUSINESSES THRIVE BEYOND THESE SHORES COMMENT&ANALYSIS 20 HOT NEWS 2 Death of Nik Aziz deals fresh blow to Malaysian opposition MORE REPORTS ON PAGES 8 -16
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    • 248 2 An award that’s in the making years 50 Congratulations to Mr Kwek Leng Beng, Executive Chairman of Hong Leong Group, on being conferred the SG50 Outstanding Chinese Business Pioneers Award The success of Hong Leong Group, which he leads, mirrors that of Singapore’s. Jumeirah Dhevanafushi (Maldives) HUMBLE BEGINNINGS It all
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    • 418 3 GLOBAL FOOTPRINT Mr Kwek continued to help the company consolidate its position in Singapore in the 1980s, amassing a large portfolio of office buildings to become the biggest office landlord in the CBD. He also began the move into the global hotel business, acquiring hotels in the region and listing
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  • hot news
    • 784 2 Effect on opposition uncertain with one less figure to hold PAS, PR together, says analyst ‘CLEAN-LIVING, HUMBLE, PRINCIPLED PERSON DECIDED THE COURSE OF MALAYSIAN POLITICS’ AGENCIES kuala lumpur Malaysia’s political opposition, already suffering from the jailing of leader Anwar Ibrahim,
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    • 583 2 AGENCIES SYDNEY The two men behind what the Australian police called a foiled attack linked to the Islamic State had referred in a seized video to “stabbing the kidneys and striking the necks” of their intended victims, Prime Minister Tony Abbott has said
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    • 601 4  -  LAW SOCIETY ISSUES STATEMENT AFTER LAWYER’S PUBLIC ALLEGATIONS NEO CHAI CHIN chaichin@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —The Law Society (LawSoc) yesterday broke from its usual practice of not issuing media statements on action taken against individual lawyers, shedding light on the circumstances in
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    • 492 6  -  Ting, five people behind website notified of action being taken under anti-harassment laws PRE-TRIAL HEARING SET FOR MARCH 5 NEO CHAI CHIN chaichin@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The Ministry of Defence (MINDEF) is pursuing a court order under anti-harassment laws against a doctor-inventor and the people
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    • 296 8 COMMITMENT TO TRANSPARENCY IN DOUBT Law and Foreign Minister K Shanmugam took four Workers’Party town councillors to task individually yesterday over whether and when they knew about four AHPETC employees’ stakes in two vendor companies, as well as why they
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    • 1088 10  -  Town council chairman Sylvia Lim and Shanmugam lock horns; minister rebukes Singh PREMATURE TO ACCUSE PARTY OF NOT GIVING ANSWERS, SAYS CHAIRMAN KELLY NG kellyng@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE A spirited exchange took place after Law Minister K Shanmugam delivered his speech in Parliament yesterday,
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    • 568 12  -  MND looking into legal action over any monies lost as a result of managing agent’s ‘gross incompetence’, says minister WITHHOLDING OF GRANT WILL NOT AFFECT RESIDENTS LAURA PHILOMIN lauraphilomin@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Calling the current state of affairs “clearly unacceptable”, National Development Minister
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    • 1160 14  -  AHPETC IS SIDE-STEPPING AND AVOIDING RESPONSIBILITY, SAYS KHAW LAURA PHILOMIN lauraphilomin@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —Lacking in transparency, appointing a related party as its managing agent and failing to promptly deal with problems such was the pattern of behaviour on the part of Aljunied-Hougang-Punggol East Town
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    • 724 16  -  DIFFICULTY IN ATTRACTING FIRMS TO ACT AS ITS M.A. COMPROMISED ITS ABILITY TO MANAGE ESTATE KELLY NG kellyng@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The Government should look into the “depoliticising... and professionalising of town management” so incoming town councils whether run by the People’s Action
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    • 685 16 SINGAPORE The Aljunied-Hou-gang-Punggol East Town Council (AHPETC) has never disputed that the town council and the managing agent are related parties, said Workers’ Party (WP) chairman Sylvia Lim, adding that the agent has no decisionmaking powers in award of
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    • 560 18 AGENCIES TAIPEI Taiwanese President Ma Yingjeou yesterday called for a review of Taiwan’s corrections system and for security improvements to be implemented immediately, said a statement from his office. The move was made after six armed inmates attempting to escape a
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    • 593 18 Former Malaysian PM says he is merely exercising his right as a citizen by criticising the govt GOVT IS ‘IN DENIAL’ AGENCIES KUALA LUMPUR Former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has spoken out against current Prime Minister Najib
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  • comment&analysis
    • 994 20  -  COMPANIES WANT EASIER ACCESS TO GOVERNMENT INNOVATION SCHEMES TAY HONG BENG Tay Hong Beng is head of Tax at KPMG in Singapore. The views expressed are his own. Think about Singapore and descriptions such as “successful”, “efficient” and “competitive” spring to mind immediately. However,
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    • 764 20  -  CULTURAL CLASH BETWEEN COMEDY-CLUB GOERS AND MAINSTREAM INDIA JAMES CRABTREE James Crabtree is the Mumbai bureau chief at the Financial Times. THE FINANCIAL TIMES It seems that even innocuous acts will prompt someone somewhere in India to take offence. But rarely has the
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    • 904 22  -  CHANGED NATURE OF WORK AFFECTING HEALTH STEPHEN MIHM Stephen Mihm, an associate professor of history at the University of Georgia, is a contributor to Bloomberg View. BLOOMBERG To sit or to stand? That is the question for a growing number of
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    • 214 23 The world is full of cities and towns growing larger and faster, yet people feel less and less connected to those around them. 14 It seems we’re all seeking a sense of place, a true feeling of belonging. We want to share, to feel accepted, and at home. Now imagine
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  • voices
    • 194 24  -  FROM ONG SIEW CHEY The views in “A clean S’pore requires mindset shift” and “Constant reminders about litter essential” (both Feb 11) are valid. However, we should ask why, after decades of effort to keep Singapore clean, we are not making sustained progress. The
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    • 225 24  -  FROM JOANNE LIM With a growing population, it is inevitable that Singapore is not as clean as it used to be. It is, perhaps, time to bring back the “keep clean” campaign as a reminder to Singaporeans and to educate foreigners here. The campaign should
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    • 306 24  -  FROM HELEN LIM Director, Media Relations, Land Transport Authority We refer to Mr Dave Yap’s letter “Why does road tax for van rise upon renewal of COE?” (Jan 24). A road tax surcharge is payable on all vehicles older
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    • 14 24 •HAVEYOURSAY email your letters to voices@mediacorp.com.sg JOIN THE CONVERSATION facebook.com/todayonline READ MORE LETTERS todayonline.com/voices
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  • singapore
    • 372 28  -  AMANDA LEE S I N G A P O R E Applications to operate unmanned drones weighing less than 7kg surged six-fold last month from the monthly average of 12 last year, said Senior Minister of State (Transport) Josephine Teo in Parliament yesterday. About
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    • 242 28  -  IAN DE COTTA SINGAPORE Car parks at sports facilities around the island that are under-utilised will be reviewed for possible redevelopment to build more amenities for public use, Minister for Culture, Community and Youth Lawrence Wong told Parliament yesterday. He
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    • 428 28  -  JUDGMENT WAS SOUGHT AFTER BROMPTON BIKES CASE NEO CHAI CHIN chaichin@mediacorp.com.sg S ING A POR E When someone tells calculated lies to a public servant to mislead inquiries into matters of public sector governance, should he be sent to jail
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    • 528 30  -  FOCUS SHOULD BE ON ARMED FORCES’ JOURNEY, ACCOMPLISHMENTS: DEFENCE MINISTER MATTHIAS TAY matthiastay@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE It took five years in the navy and the guts to finally ask “the question” before she got the chance of a lifetime to become the first female diver
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  • china&india
    • 482 34 China has to comply even if it will not take part in case before Hague court: Philippine judge MANILA DOES NOT WANT STATES TO RESORT TO ARMED FORCE BLOOMBERG SINGAPORE China must comply with any ruling on competing territorial claims with the Philippines
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    • 645 34 THE NEW YORK TIMES BEIJING As families around China prepare for Chinese New Year celebrations next week, shoppers in one south-eastern city can add another delicacy to their shopping lists “patriotic fish”. Photos of shoppers in Fuzhou, the capital
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    • 615 36 AFTER SPENDING PAST YEAR IN POLITICAL WILDERNESS, ARVIND KEJRIWAL NOW BACK IN LIMELIGHT AS CHIEF MINISTER AP NEW DELHI —There were the public fall-ing-outs with his political allies. There was the crushing defeat when he ran for Parliament against the man who became
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  • world
    • 601 38 PM urges Japan to try the same sweeping transformation it accomplished after defeat in World War II POLICY OF ‘PROACTIVE PACIFISM’ WOULD ALLOW JAPAN TO CONTRIBUTE TO GLOBAL PEACE, HE SAYS THE NEW YORK TIMES TOKYO Prime Minister Shinzo Abe yesterday
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    • 1063 40 While proposal will rescind authority given to Bush, it will leave behind measure letting President wage battle against terrorists BID TO DEFINE BOUNDARIES TURNS HISTORY ON ITS HEAD THE NEW YORK TIMES WASHINGTON In seeking authorisation for his six-month-old military campaign
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  • business
    • 310 42 AGENCIES SINGAPORE Flag carrier Singapore Airlines (SIA) will reduce its fuel surcharges for tickets issued on or after Feb 26 due to lower fuel prices. The cuts (see table), ranging from US$5 (S$6.80) to US$83 per sector depending on the distance
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    • 610 42  -  SMARTPHONE SALES BOOST CONSUMER GROWTH IN S’PORE ANGELA TENG angelateng@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE South-east Asia’s largest telco Singapore Telecommunications (Singtel) has rung in a strong set of third-quarter results, boosted by the growth in mobile data services and higher contributions from its regional
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    • marketbuzz
      • 180 44 KFC is serving up auspicious fare this Chinese New Year. Usher in a year of happiness with the Golden Fortune Box, which includes four KFC golden nuggets, all fried to crispy perfection, and a pineapple egg tart, which boasts pineapple chucks in its custard. Two pieces
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      • 135 44 YHS is marking its 115th anniversary and Singapore’s jubilee year with Colours of Joy. Conceived by YHS as a way for the company to give back to society, Colours of Joy kicked off with a Chinese New Year goodie bag distribution event at Hougang estate on Jan
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      • 120 44 Whether served in festive dishes such as pen cai, or given as gifts to relatives or friends during the Chinese New Year, abalones are a much prized delicacy. The mollusc’s name in Mandarin, bao yu, is auspicious-sounding. When intoned differently, the phrase bao yu may mean
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      • 133 44 Air Asia now flies from Singapore to Sapporo’s New Chitose Airport, via Bangkok, every day. Transiting at Bangkok’s Don Mueang Airport during your trip is hasslefree thanks to AirAsia’s Fly-Thru transit service, which offers connecting conveni- ences such as luggage check-in. Until Sunday, promotional all-in fares start
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      • 157 44 Make Singapore’s jubilee year celebrations memorable with dENiZEN. Every purchase of a dENiZEN SG50 T-shirt (S$19.90 each) gets you an exclusive NETS FlashPay Card featuring The MediaCorp Dukes. Choose from the five winning T-shirt designs of the SG50 De-sign-A-Tee contest. The competition was organised by MediaCorp
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      • 127 44 Score Valentine’s Day prizes for your significant other with this contest organised by gold retailer Luvenus Jewellery and Indonesian carrier Garuda Indonesia. Until Feb 16, head over to http://www.facebook.com/GarudaIndonesiaSG to take part in the Garuda Luvenus Valentine’s Giveaway. Each week, one contestant will walk away
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      • 159 44 Make your Chinese New Year get-togethers more prosperous with new offerings from Pizza Hut. Shaped like a peach blossom, the Cheesy Blossom Pizza comes with a generous array of toppings, including oriental chicken chunks, ham, cherry tomatoes, pineapples, capsicums, and mushrooms. Its specially made crust features a
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      • 82 44 Until March 31, get cash rebates of 20 per cent on your purchases at BHG, OG, Takashimaya Department Store and Tangs when you charge to your Bank of China UnionPay Cards. Start enjoying savings of up to S$100 on your shopping this Chinese New Year
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  • property
    • 512 46  -  TOP OFFER IS S$103.8M, SIGNALLING PERSISTENT SOFTNESS IN THE MARKET LEE YEN NEE leeyennee@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE A plot of land for executive condominium (EC) development drew the lowest bid in three-and-a-half years at the close of its sale tender yesterday in a
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    • 280 46 REUTERS LONDON Home prices across the United Kingdom rose last month at their slowest annual pace since May 2013 and fell for a fifth straight month in London, based on a key industry survey that suggested political uncertainty ahead of a
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    • 361 46 CHANNEL NEWSASIA SINGAPORE Rowsley, a Singaporelisted real estate, architectural and engineering consultancy firm partly owned by billionaire Peter Lim, is making its first foray into Myanmar by investing US$275 million (S$373 million) in a mixed-use property project in Yangon. Under the agreement signed yesterday,
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  • technology
    • 1271 48 TECH GIANT’S STRENGTH TODAY MAY BE ITS WEAKNESS TOMORROW THE NEW YORK TIMES NEW YORK Technology giants often meet their end not with a bang but a whimper, a slow, imperceptible descent into irrelevancy that may not immediately be reflected in the anodyne language
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    • 896 50 New package set to make English clubs more attractive to potential investors LEAGUE WILL BE THE SECOND RICHEST IN THE WORLD, AFTER NFL AP LONDON The English Premier League’s television rights windfalls may soar over US$13 billion (S$17.6 billion) once the
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    • 656 51  -  TV COMPANY ‘DID NOT WANT TO LOSE FLAGSHIP MONDAY AND SUNDAY SLOTS’ COMMENTARY BY BEN RUMSBY Ben Rumsby is The Daily Telegraph’s sports news correspondent. THE DAILY TELEGRAPH While reading out the value of the Premier League’s eye-watering television
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    • 620 51  -  ADELENE WONG adelenewong@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE If the cost of watching “live” English Premier League (EPL) matches on TV climbs again, fans and establishments TODAY spoke to said they may not sign up for the packages. On Tuesday, the Premier League announced that British
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    • 832 52 Former world No 1 to go on indefinite leave to work on his game FAILINGS OF LAT SEEM TOBE MENTL AS GOLF R TRUGGLESWI H ROUTINE SHOTS THE NEW YORK TIMES new YORK city The soap opera that has become Tiger Woods’ life took another shadowy
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    • 334 52 REUTERS LONDON Aston Villa sacked manager Paul Lambert on Wednesday in an attempt to arrest an alarming slump that has left them in the relegation zone and put their unbroken stay in the Premier League in dire peril. The final
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    • 195 53 AP PARIS Pole vault great Sergei Bubka wants measures to better weed out and keep track of coaches involved in the doping of athletes. The Ukrainian, a candidate for the IAAF presidency, said the track-and-field governing body should “initiate a system that
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    • 133 54 THE COMPLETE OSCARS® EXPERIENCE IS NOW ON HBO Jf i I •V 1 .‘cV P. is. f V A* T; JB II ir*. ■7 t*-, vV'f jr- .7= v ■TTA LIVE. EXCLUSIVE T^Lj F E 23 from 5am 6;00am On The Red Carpet The Arrivals 8;00am Oscars® Red Carpet 9;30am
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    • 59 1 FRIDAY, 13 FEBRUARY 2015 RED HOT 2 SINGAPORE COCKTAILS FIVE BARTENDERS COME UP WITH WHAT COULD BE THE NEXT MOJITO 10 TOYING AROUND TOYS BASED ON FROZEN ARE TAKING EBAY BY STORM 14 ON LOCATION SINGAPORE LANDMARKS DOT HOLLYWOOD MOVIE 16 ARCHIE KAO AND ZHOU XUN RAISE THE BAR WITH
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      • 785 2  -  TODAY EXCLUSIVE H&M SPOK SCOUPLE ZHOU XUN AND ARCHIE KAO TALK ABOUT LOVE, HAPPINESS AND STYLE SERENE LIM IN TAIPEI serenelim@mediacorp.com.sg She’s the gamine Chinese art-house darling who has a string of critically acclaimed movies such as Perhaps Love, The Banquet, The Equation Of Love And Death
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        138 4 It’s no surprise that this year’s Chinese New Year collection from H&M features the colour of passionate love, seduction and adventure. The mix of elegance and urban looks was a key influence and this can be seen in the offerings, such as men’s blazers, shirts and chinos,
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      • 716 6 It’s not only the models, observers say, but the American fashion industry in general PREJUDICE AT WORK THE NEW YORK TIMES NEW YORK —When Michelle Obama stepped onto the stage at the Democratic National Convention in 2012 to talk about her husband and the
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      • 487 8  -  The latest must-haves for looking and feeling good GET IT NOW BY ZHANG WEIFANG AND KENNETH CHOY 1 Love dust Philosophy has unveiled its latest fragrance collection, Loveswept, a three-piece offering that consists of an eau de toilette, shower gel and b o dy lot ion
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      • 304 8 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH LONDON We’re more than used to seeing Rosario Dawson dressed to the nines on the red carpet, but her fashion sensibilities actually run a little deeper. The Hollywood star is in fact the co-founder of Studio One Eighty Nine, a foundation that
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      • 1311 10  -  Could the next mojito or pina colada come from a Singaporean bartender? RAISE A GLASS DON MENDOZA donm@mediacorp.com.sg SING A PORE —Five bartenders from Singapore, picked from a pool of 40 hopefuls, will be competing for the chance to represent the country in its first entry
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      • 297 12 REUTERS LOS ANGELES —The French National Film Board (CNC) has given Sam Taylor-Johnson’s Fifty Shades Of Grey a relaxed PG-12 rating. Underscoring the discrepancies in social mores elsewhere, the film was judged much more strictly in the United Kingdom, where the movie has been
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        286 14 REUTERS BERLIN Actress Helen Mirren said her portrayal of a Jewish woman’s struggle to get back paintings confiscated when her ancestors fled Austria to escape Nazi rule throws the spotlight on the slow pace of restitution of looted Jewish property. In Woman In Gold, which is being
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      • 366 14 eBay is selling toys based on the movie like hotcakes with seven items sold every second SOLID SALES THE DAILY TELEGRAPH LONDON It’s not only Taylor Swift who has hogged the top of the popular culture charts of late. It has been more than a year
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      • 202 16 Daughter Melissa wanted to write something that would make her mother laugh REMEMBERING JOAN REUTERS NEW YORK Melissa Rivers, the only child of late comedian Joan Rivers, will write about their relationship in a book to be published later this year, her publisher said on
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      • 250 16 SINGAPORE For the first time in recent history, many of Singapore’s famous landmarks will be featured prominently in a Hollywood studio movie. EsplanadeTheatres on the Bay, The Arts House (former Parliament House), the Supreme Court, ArtScience Museum at Marina Bay Sands and The Singapore Flyer
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