Today, 29 November 2014

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  • 15 1 TODAY TODAYONLINE.COM WE SET YOU THINKING /VI bdiaCorp SATURDAY, 29 NOVEMBER 2014 MCI (P) 046/06/2014
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  • 146 1 A draw may be enough for Singapore but we must get all three points. We will be ready and you can expect something new from the Malaysian team. Dollah Salleh MALAYSIA COACH Singapore players Shakir Hamzah and Hassan Sunny being put through their paces by national
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  • 716 1  -  Govtpolicies externalfactors helped raise labour force participation rate, say analysts 18.9-PERCENTAGE-POINT RISE IN PARTICIPATION RATE OF WORKERS AGED 55 TO 64 XUE JIANYUE xuejianyue@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —Efforts over the past decade to persuade more women and older workers to rejoin the
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  • 638 1 THE FINANCIAL TIMES BEIJING “Ghost cities” lined with empty apartment blocks, abandoned highways and mothballed steel mills are sprawled across China’s landscape the outcome of government stimulus measures and hyperactive construction that have generated US$6.8 trillion (S$8.9 trillion) in wasted investment since
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  • hot news
    • 377 2  -  Increase in real median income in the same period has slowed because of higher inflation ONGOING INITIATIVES HAVE HELPED EMPLOYEES: MOM XUE JIANYUE xuejianyue@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —Low-wage workers have seen their incomes grow faster in the past five years than in
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    • 834 4  -  Argument by town council’s lawyers wholly misconceived and untenable, says judge SENTENCING ADJOURNED TO DEC 24; TOWN COUNCIL MAY BE FINED UP TO S$1,000 AMANDA LEE leeguiping@mediacorp.com. sg S I N G A PO R E The Workers’ Partyrun Aljunied-Hougang-Punggol East Town
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    • 356 4 SINGAPORE —Following the court’s verdict, the National Environment Agency (NEA) yesterday said Aljunied-Hougang-Punggol East Town Council (AHPETC) had “sought to disingenuously portray its deliberate flouting of the law as an attempt to obtain guidance from the court” during the trial from Oct 14
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    • 729 5 BLOOMBERG TAIPEI Taiwanese President Ma Yingjeou’s slumping popularity may cost his party the Taipei Mayor’s office for the first time in 20 years in local voting today seen as a bellwether for national elections in 2016. The ruling pro-China
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    • 581 5 AGENCIES TAIPEI Beijing is watching today’s Taiwan local elections closely for signs that the ruling pro-China Kuomintang (KMT) party is losing its political grip, amid opinion polls showing unfavourable odds for the party, analysts said. The vote is taking place as
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    • 162 6 London Mayor Boris Johnson yesterday took the MRT en route to meeting Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong during his official visit to the Republic, surprising some commuters who were also caught off guard by the media attention. Mr Johnson posted
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    • 429 6  -  KL Minister says assessmen ts will take at least three months to complete S’PORE, M’SIAN ENVIRONMENT MINISTERS MET ON TUESDAY YVONNE LIM yvonnelimsy@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —Malaysia has since last month suspended land reclamation projects in the Strait of Johor pending the completion
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    • 569 8 MALAYSIAN PM’S COMMITMENT TO UMNO MORE IMPORTANT THAN TO PEOPLE: OPPOSITION LEADER AGENCIES KUAL A LUMPUR The Malaysian Bar Council and opposition lawmakers yesterday criticised Prime Minister Najib Razak for failing to keep his promise to the people, following
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    • 405 8 AGENCIES KUALA LUMPUR —In its last earnings announcement as a publicly listed company before a planned nationalisation and overhaul, Malaysia Airlines (MAS) yesterday reported that losses had widened 53.5 per cent in its worst quarterly performance in nearly three years,
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    • 296 8 THE MALAY MAIL After a second social media gaffe since losing two planes this year, Malaysia Airlines (MAS) has apologised and removed a poorly worded tweet on its year-end promotion following a slew of criticism. The national carrier, whose Flight MH370 disappeared in March
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    • 119 4 AUSTRALIAN PROPERTY expo in Singapore TODAY& SUNONLY! (29 30 November) 10am to 7pm BRAND NEW MELBOURNE CITY APARTMENTS Conrad Centennial Hotel (Salon III IV) Two Temasek Boulevard from A$429,000* BUY DIRECT FROM AUSTRALIAN OWNED DEVELOPER Foreign investors can buy! Freehold Property! Full property management services available Walk to Melbourne University
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    • 169 9 Welcome Singapore’s 50 th year with the BIGGEST Countdown Party! I nne ng nan Pavithra -o he Duk s "17' Aloysius Pang, Romeo Tan Jeffrey Xu Des V, Sezain entle Bo f he S Kew Difck Lee "'"A T®P a, Xu Bin uHOan I i I f urhalfza IP x
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  • voices
    • 339 12  -  FROM FRANCIS CHENG CHOON FEI There is a perception here that a jobseeker with a degree from a local university has an advantage in the job market over another with a private degree. With the increasing legitimacy of private degrees, though, such a perception
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    • 304 12  -  FROM JUNE CHEAH-NICHOLLS I read with interest Professor K Ranga Krishnan’s commentary “Debunking the myth of sugar and hyperactivity” (Nov 24). As this myth is debunked, and as society gets busier and less handson in the upbringing of children, it is
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    • 201 12  -  FROM MAX LEONG WAI KIT I am concerned about how employers may view part-time students of foreign universities at private institutions here (“Private grads must go for accredited degrees”; Nov 28). There must be stronger recognition and awareness of the certificates job candidates
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    • 122 12  -  FROM SEBASTIAN TAN GEE HOW I refer to the debate in Voices on degrees from private universities. While some graduates with these degrees are as good as, if not better than, graduates of our local universities, it is a fact that some
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    • 394 13  -  FROM GABRIEL GOH I refer to the letter “Community interest should not become tyranny of the majority” (Nov 28). “Compromise” is easier said than done. To consider an issue outside Singapore, to allow for some distance and, perhaps, objectivity, let us take a hot
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    • 243 13  -  FROM JAMES CHI Over the years, the Housing and Development Board has done well in providing a roof over the heads of the majority of Singaporeans. I am concerned, though, about the diminishing tenure of my flat, which has
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    • 97 13  -  FROM ADRIAN TAN HO GIAN I support Mr Amos Lee’s arguments, in “Tweak wage index in current transport fare review exercise” (Nov 25), especially against comparing fare affordability in other countries and about the high cost of car ownership here. The latter
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    • 203 13  -  FROM ADRIAN HO KOK WAI I echo the views voiced in the letter “Flats should be for those with real housing needs”, in contrast to “Barring private owners from HDB market is the right call” (both Nov 25). The issue
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  • singapore
    • 666 14  -  CULTURE OF MUTUAL SUPPORT CRUCIAL AS COUNTRY ENTERS NEW PHASE OF DEVELOPMENT SIAU MING EN siaumingen@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —As Singapore moves into a new phase of development, strengthening the society will require a set of principles that run contrary to those
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    • 270 15 Enjoy plenty of perks and support for your parenthood journey baby next year. PRODUCED BY THE TODAY SPECIAL PROJECTS TEAM Growing with the family When it comes to starting a family while pursuing a career, Mdm Joanne Seah, 30, is appreciative of the Marriage and Parenthood (M&P)
      baby next year. PRODUCED BY THE TODAY SPECIAL PROJECTS TEAM; GR APHIC: CINDY CHAN; PHOTO: JOANNE SEAH  -  270 words
    • 449 14  -  VALERIE KOH valeriekohsf@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —While social assistance has often been channelled towards lowincome groups, more attention needs to be paid to the middle class now, said several experts at a workshop on the state of the middle class yesterday. Associate Professor Tan Ern Ser,
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    • 245 14 CHANNEL NEWSASIA SINGAPORE —The two Germans who are allegedly involved in a vandalism case involving an SMRT train at Bishan Depot are now facing two additional charges each for entering the area without authorisation. Andreas Von Knorre and Elton Hinz, both
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    • 488 16  -  SPACES SET ASIDE FOR READING ROBIN CHOO robinchoorb@mediacorp.com.sg S ING A PORE —Those looking for resources on brushing up their work skills can now turn to a new library dedicated to materials on adult learning and work-skills development. The first of its kind here,
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    • 455 16  -  YVONNE LIM yvonnelimsy@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE A man who was involved in the Little India riot last December will be getting three strokes of the cane on top of his existing 25-month prison sentence following an appeal by the
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    • 278 16  -  EMILIA TAN SING A PORE Glamorously dressed, they came together at the grand ballroom of the Ritz-Carlton Millenia Singapore yesterday evening with a common goal: To raise funds to bring relief and happiness to children in need. By the end of the biannual Singapore
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    • 297 17 Drugs seized include heroin and Ecstasy; suspects under probe for offences such as drug abuse SINGAPORE —A total of 100 drug offenders were arrested and S$10,000 worth of drugs seized in a three-day islandwide operation, the Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB) said yesterday. The
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    • 144 17 Ms Sharon Lim (centre), 58, winner of S$10,000 in the weekly TODAY Shop to Win draw, receiving the cheque from Ms Jasmine Seow (right), marketing director of Courts Singapore, and Ms Caroline Bone, marketing manager of MediaCorp Press. Ms Lim had spent S$69 on a
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  • world
    • 760 18 Critics say city’s committee that chooses leaders is opaque filled with pro-China loyalists BEIJING WANTS SIMILAR PANEL TO VET 2017 ELECTIONS BLOOMBERG HONG KONG In a former fishing village, now packed with high-rise apartment blocks, Mr Law King-shing reflects on the
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    • 739 20 INDIAN PM AIMS TO PREVENT RUSSIANS FROM LEANING TOO MUCH ON CHINA BLOOMBERG N E W D E L H I Russian President Vladimir Putin will seek to bolster energy ties with India on a visit next month,
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    • 621 20 REUTERS JAKARTA —From flying economy class to making surprise visits to street markets and poor neighbourhoods, the leadership style of new Indonesian President Joko Widodo is proving very different to his predecessors, who were often seen as stiff and aloof. On a recent visit
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    • 570 21 AP BEIJING The Chinese authorities this week released figures from their sixmonth report card on their security crackdown in Xinjiang, showing they had quashed 115 terrorist groups and detained 334 suspects, but tallies of death tolls in the ethnically-tense region suggest the violence
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    • 265 21 BLOOMBERG BEIJING China now has about the same number of licensed drivers as there are people in the United States. Data from the Chinese Public Security Ministry and US census reveal that there are now more than 300 million
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    • 440 21 REUTERS BANGKOK Thailand’s military-appoint-ed legislature yesterday started impeachment proceedings against ousted former Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra (picture) over a loss-mak-ing rice subsidy programme, seen as a further step to try to end the political influence of her powerful family. Yingluck was removed
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  • business
    • 540 22  -  FINANCIAL INNOVATION-FOCUSED GROUP LOOKING TO SUPPORT UP TO 10 LOCAL START-UPS LEE YEN NEE leeyennee@med iacorp.com .sg S ING A POR E The local technology scene is getting a fresh boost with the launch of an accelerator programme by European firm Startupbootcamp
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    • 445 22 AGENCIES SINGAPORE —Shares in China and Japan jumped yesterday as the plunge in oil prices overnight boosted the economic outlook for the two largest economies in Asia, while energy-related stocks slumped to limit broader gains in Singapore. “The fall in oil prices
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    • 766 23 US output at its highest in three decades due to fracking boom contributing to global surplus BLOOMBERG LONDON —The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries’ (OPEC) decision to cede no ground to rival producers underscored the price war in the crude
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    • 409 23 REUTERS TOKYO —Japan’s annual core consumer inflation slowed for a third straight month in October due to falling oil prices, highlighting the economic gloom facing Prime Minister Shinzo Abe as he seeks a new mandate to implement his stalled recovery plan. “Inflation could
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  • sports
    • 749 24  -  Bernd Stange, Dollah Salleh both want victory to win back support for their teams DRAW ‘NOT AN OPTION’ FOR EITHER SIDE DAN GUEN CHIN danguenchin@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —The stakes are high for the final round of group matches in the 2014 ASEAN Football Federation Suzuki
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    • 418 24  -  EMMANUEL PHUA ADDITIONAL REPORTING ADDITIONAL REPORTING DAN GUEN CHIN It was the last thing Malaysia coach Dollah Salleh needed as he prepared his team for tonight’s crucial final Group B match in the AFF Suzuki Cup against hosts Singapore.A picture of Malaysian striker
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    • 638 25  -  New track head coach Cunha wants Singapore sprinters to be elite athletes 24/7 LOW LIN FHOONG linfhoong@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Newly-appointed sprints and hurdles head coach Luis Felipe Cunha may joke about feeling like football superstar Cristiano Ronaldo, particularly with the amount of attention his appointment by the
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    • 558 25  -  IAN DE COTTA SINGAPORE A third karting track is set to open in February, but unlike the existing facilities in the west and north of the island, the latest venue is targeted primarily at fun-seekers. To be built on a plot of
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    • 951 26  -  WHY THE BLUES ARE UNTOUCHABLE THIS PREMIER LEAGUE SEASON COMMENTARYBY ADRIAN CLARKE sports@mediacorp.com.sg Adrian Clarke is a former Arsenal midfielder who has played at every level of English football. Now an experienced sports journalist, he writes for publications around the world. Follow him on
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    • 79 27 AGENCIES Manchester United’s injury woes took another hit with news that left-back Luke Shaw is expected to be sidelined for four to six weeks, reported the Daily Mail. The 19-year-old injured ankle ligaments in last week’s 2-1 win at Arsenal, and was earlier thought to
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    • 71 27 AP Arsenal midfielder Jack Wilshere is facing three months out following surgery on his left ankle. It is the latest lengthy layoff for the England international, who was injured in Saturday’s loss to Manchester United. Arsenal says Wilshere, 22, underwent surgery on Thursday. Wilshere wrote on
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    • 78 27 AP The English FA has charged Wigan chairman Dave Whelan for his controversial comments about Jewish and Chinese people in a newspaper interview. The FA says Whelan’s remarks “were abusive and/or insulting and/or constitute improper conduct and/or bring the game into disrepute and that “it
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    • 521 28 OFFICIALS BEING INVESTIGATED FOR CORRUPTION AP G E N E VA Retired German great Franz Beckenbauer is one of five officials at football’s world governing body FIFA being investigated in the corruption probe into the bidding contests for the 2018 and 2022
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    • 400 28 REUTERS MELBOURNE —Cricket Australia will “immediately” launch a review into safety protocols and protection for players after the death of batsman Phillip Hughes, its chief executive James Sutherland said yesterday. Hughes died in a Sydney hospital on Thursday, two days after
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    • 264 28 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH SAO PAULO —Brazil legend Pele says he is not seriously ill, easing fears that his health deteriorated while being treated for a urinary tract infection. Pele successfully underwent surgery to remove kidney stones on Nov 13, but was readmitted to the
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    • 1178 30 New league backed by fading stars, big money and Bollywood glamour may well awaken a sleeping giant FIRST STEP TOWARDS INDIA BECOMING FOOTBALL NATION THE NEW YORK TIMES NEW DELHI —Indian football fans still dream of an alternate reality, one in which their
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  • Page 30 Miscellaneous
    • 82 30 For the latest live’ telecast listing, visit www.singaporepools.com.sg iw mww! Live wire (MBS) Livewire (RWS) (21 years and above) Livewire (Singapore Pools) (21 years and above during live’ telecast) SB SportsBuzz@Kranji (18 years and above) Ip Y(i> Always play with care. Do not bet illegally. Singapore Pools Account Service. Call
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    • 32 31 SATURDAY, 29 NOVEMBER 2014 32 LOOKING OUT FOR NO. 1 WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO GET TO THE TOP OF THE CHARTS? TWO PRODUCERS OFFER SOME TIPS ARTWORK: KENNETH CHOY; GETTY IMAGES
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    • culture&lifestyle
      • 801 32  -  PRODUCERSONGWRITERS TAT TONG AND ROLAND LIM ON HOW TO TAKE ON THE MUSIC WORLD AND WIN KEVIN MATHEWS features@mediacorp.com.sg What do One Direction, Taylor Swift and Slipknot have in common? They’ve all hit No 1 on the Billboard music charts in the past month. Now, musicians
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      • Article, Illustration
        307 32  -  A 12-year-old singer wants to shoot for the stars HON JING YI SINGAPORE Like many of her peers, 12-year-old Kellyn Ng has big dreams of becoming a star. Unlike many 12-year-olds though, she is already on her way to achieving them. The Coral Secondary School student has just
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      • Article, Illustration
        468 33  -  A love letter to Singapore by non-Singaporean dancers DANCE REVIEW: CONTACT 2014 MAYO MARTIN SINGAPORE THE Dance Company’s contemporary dance festival M1 Contact 2014 kicked off with the latest DiverCity showcase. Deviating from the formula of previous instalments which were basically a bunch of performances from homegrown groups
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      • 121 33  -  MAYO MARTIN SINGAPORE It was a treble at The President’s Design Award ceremony, with three people bagging the Designer Of The Year award: Peter Tay, Larry Peh and Tan Kok Hiang. The National Gallery Singapore tapped star power for its Portraits Of The People project (part
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      • 489 33  -  Two shows at Gillman Barracks pay homage to a human bone and to public mourning ART REVIEW: PARABOLA AND REQUIEM (THE SEA CAN’T REACH YOU NOW) BRUCE QUEK SINGAPORE Public mourning and the history of the human pelvis. That’s what you get in two concurrent solo art shows
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    • family
      • 494 34 KIDS 12 AND BELOW TODAY’S PICK MYSTICA See the Night Safari in a whole new “night” at MYSTICA. Look out for the glow-in-the-dark Guardian Fairy who only presents herself at sundown. Let the Singing Golden Birds serenade you with their soulful tunes and be amazed by the Lion
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    • television
      • 326 35  -  Why the Tumultuous Times star is turned off by his image in the drama ON THE FACE OF IT MAY SEAH may@mediacorp.com.sg S I N G A P O R E The sight of his face irritates Romeo Tan. Watching himself as the villainous
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    • 436 34 Mother Baby Presents I I X’MAS c c K w i Join Mother Baby's exclusive Candyland X'mas at Rochester Mall this Yuletide season. For two Saturdays 29 November and 6 December your chemb will get into the full festive swing when she takes part in fun-filled candy-themed activities. To top
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    • 139 35 Performances and exhibitions From Tenacious D (left) to Don Quixote, here’s what you can catch onstage and at galleries this coming week http://tdy.sg/artsguide http://tdy.sg/gig-guide WSQ DIPLOMA PROGRAMMES V i Km WSQ SPECIALIST DIPLOMA IN INTERACTIVE MEDIA (BUSINESS MANAGEMENT) WSQ DIPLOMA IN FILN^IELE/ISION (PRODUCTION) WSQ DIPLOMA IN FILNKS1ELE/ISION (SCRIPT) Developed and
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  • Page 36 Miscellaneous
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  • Page 38 Miscellaneous
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  • 860 1  -  ESSAY ANTHONY TOMMASINI INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY Is it permissible for a playwright or filmmaker to alter a story for artistic ends? What about the inherent power of the arts to explore the emotional interiors of characters, especially bad ones, like the title characters of Verdi’s “Macbeth” and Shostakovich’s
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    • 839 3  -  By AZAM AHMED THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY CHARKALAH, Afghanistan The explosion ripped through the floor of the Humvee, tearing a hole in the armored vehicle and injuring the district governor. The crack of Taliban gunfire followed. Seeking cover, the Afghan police convoy sped
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    • 526 3  -  By CARLOTTA GALL THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY TUNIS Leila Mustapha Saidi returned home on a recent day to find her daughter missing. Mrs. Saidi, who had watched her daughter grow religious and “obsessed” with the conflict in Syria,
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    • 686 4  -  By RAPHAEL MINDER THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY CASTELLAR DE LA FRONTERA, Spain La Almoraima, a farming estate at the edge of a nature reserve, is prized by environmentalists. Home to one of Europe’s largest cork forests, it is a place where deer and
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    • 560 5  -  ALAN MATTINGLY THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY We would like to interrupt your regularly scheduled news about the ascendance of video-gaming as a competitive sport to take you someplace different. Outside. Let’s go fishing. With much hand-wringing going on in the United States these days about
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    • 683 6  -  By VICTORIA BURNETT THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY MEXICO CITY From a lectern at a provincial Cuban church center in October, Roberto Veiga González and Lenier González Mederos took turns talking before about 60 intellectuals and activists about the value of political dialogue.
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    • 877 8  -  By LIZ ALDERMAN, JONATHAN SOBLE THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY PARIS Japan looked like the model for economic revival. Growth was back on track. The stock market was surging. Inflation, which had eluded Japan for decades, was even returning.
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    • 531 8  -  By SHANSHAN WANG PAUL MOZUR THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY HANGZHOU, China With an underdeveloped retail sector and a flourishing network of online merchants offering huge selections at cheap prices, consumers in China look to the web first to buy everything
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    • 669 9  -  By NEIL IRWIN THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY The market for crude oil is in veritable free fall, dropping 30 percent since June, and the ripples have only begun, with analysts warning of bankruptcies of Texas oil fields and economic troubles in
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    • 790 9  -  By JOHN BRANCH THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY Moments before the San Francisco premiere of “Valley Uprising,” a documentary about the evolution of rock climbing in Yosemite National Park, Gary Erickson, the Clif Bar founder, was asked to stand and be acknowledged.
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    • 709 10  -  By LIZA GROSS THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY Dara Satterfield hadn’t planned to conduct experiments at the Texas State Fair, but that is where her study subjects showed up in October. She was in Georgia when they arrived, so she drove all night. When
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    • 565 10  -  ESSAY JOHN NOBLE WILFORD THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY “Philae is talking to us,” announced the manager in charge of the little piece of machinery that had just achieved the first landing on a comet, a frozen remnant from the formation
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    • 672 11  -  By PATRICK McGEEHAN THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY As a pair of window washers clung to a scaffold dangling outside the 68th floor of 1 World Trade Center recently, the captivating drama left some below wondering: Why were they up
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    • 718 11  -  NEWS ANALYSIS By LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN, M.D. THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY WASHINGTON A mysterious virus emerges in Africa and spreads. An anxious and skeptical public rejects scientific evidence that the lethal virus is transmitted only through body fluids. There are no drugs to effectively treat
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    • 810 12  -  By SIMON ROMERO THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY BELÉM, Brazil To start things off right at Thiago Castanho’s laboratory of Amazonian culinary revelations, take a sip of his signature cocktail, which blends cachaça, made from sugarcane, and jambu, an herb with analgesic properties whose
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    • 740 12  -  By KIM SEVERSON THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY SHELLSBURG, Iowa Corn confronts you at every turn in Iowa. Much of it will fuel cars, feed cattle and sweeten food. But, in front of Gene and Lynn Mealhow’s sturdy farmhouse, ears of corn no
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    • 711 13  -  By LARRY ROHTER THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY The Israeli pianist Idan Raichel was at the airport in Berlin in 2008 when he spotted the Malian guitarist Vieux Farka Touré. From that chance encounter has blossomed one of the most intriguing collaborations
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    • 901 13  -  By DEBORAH SOLOMON THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY Hortense Fiquet Cézanne sat for 29 paintings by her husband and smiles in none of them. More often than not, she is portrayed indoors, a matronly woman with her hair primly parted in the middle and her
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    • 863 14  -  By RACHEL DONADIO THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY ISTANBUL At a glittering dinner on an island in the Bosporus here recently, Ali Gureli, the chairman of Contemporary Istanbul, the city’s annual art fair, told hundreds of international collectors, gallery owners and artists
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    • 555 14  -  By PATRICK HEALY THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY They’re not exactly the von Trapps trilling about edelweiss, but members of the Robertson family form the TV reality series “Duck Dynasty” want to sing to you about faith and food, duck calls and
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