The Straits Times, 15 March 2010

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    703 1  - BY SIM CHI YIN CHINA CORRESPONDENT simcy@sph.com.sg BEIJING: Premier Wen Jiabao yesterday firmly rebuffed calls for China to revalue its currency and put the blame squarely on the United States for a rough patch in bilateral ties. Speaking at his annual keynote press conference after the closing of China’s 10-day
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    647 1  - BY NIRMAL GHOSH THAILAND CORRESPONDENT nirmal@sph.com.sg BANGKOK: Well over 150,000 red shirt protesters converged in Bangkok yesterday and gave the government until noon today to call fresh elections or face escalating protests. Despite rumours of negotiations and possible rifts behind closed doors, Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva appeared unfazed, saying in
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    117 1 IN 1942, when Singapore was under Japanese occupation, Mr Yew Kian Chang (left), then in his 20s, was lined up with eight other young men. AJapanese solder wielding a metre-long sword then beheaded the group one by one. Mr Yew was the last in line, but the blade did not
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      186 1 RED-HOT Manchester United striker Wayne Rooney scored twice yesterday as the Red Devils crushed Fulham 3-0 to go two points clear at the top of the English Premier League. SPORT PAGE B10 MORE executive condominiums (ECs) will be built this year to meet the housing needs of the “sandwiched group”,
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      68 2 WE SAY The good news is that it will be easier from next year for women to seek and enforce maintenance orders against ex-husbands. The sad news is that tougher measures were necessary at all. To be completely useful, the measures must have an impact on
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      30 2 COLUMNS Despite there being bodies to help resolve tensions, there seems to be an arms build-up in South-east Asia, says Robert Karniol. REVIEW PAGE A17
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      22 2 Understanding “country risk” is vital for investors and companies venturing overseas, says Lee Su Shyan. MONEY PAGE B15
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      27 2 OUR READER SAYS The Jack Neo saga has highlighted the issue of workplace sexual harassment, says women’s advocacy group Aware. FORUM PAGE A19
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      36 2 www.straitstimes.com Evelyn Yap wonders why an amorphous entity like the Internet should be in the running for the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize. Nirmal Ghosh reports on the massive gathering of Red Shirts in Bangkok.
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    937 2  - BY PEH SHING HUEI CHINA BUREAU shpeh@sph.com.sg WHEN US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton declared to Asean last year, “We’re back,” it was a clear signal that the Americans were looking to challenge China’s rising influence in South-east Asia. During the years the Bush administration left Asean on the far
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    771 3  -  Ability to manage with smaller crew impresses US Navy BY JERMYN CHOW jermync@sph.com.sg ABOARD RSS STALWART (in the Pacific Ocean): Deep in the bowels of the stealth frigate RSS Stalwart, Singapore naval officers in thewarship’s Combat Information Centre have their sights locked on
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    412 5  -  S’pore is ready to work with the authorities there, says BY AMRESH GUNASINGHAM amreshg@sph.com.sg LAW Minister K. Shanmugam said yesterday heexpects Romaniato“seriously consider” the evidence from a recently concluded coroner’s inquiry into a fatal road accident that allegedly involved former Romanian diplomat Silviu Ionescu. He
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    77 5  -  BY NG SOR LUAN PHOTOJOURNALIST It’s that golden time of the day when things start to wind down, people head home, and friends and family start getting together. Straits Times photographers show their take on that moment in the Prime pages every Monday entitled 6.39pm. As dusk approaches,
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    197 5  - MELISSA SIM WEEKEND plans all over Singapore were disrupted by showers over the weekend but not many people would complain. A total of 8.1mm of rainfall was recorded by theNational Environment Agency’s climate station in Changi from Friday to 5.20pm yesterday a reprieve to the hot and dry weather which
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    398 7 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE ASSOCIATED PRESS KANDAHAR (Afghanistan): A sophisticated Taleban assault on a key southern Afghan city killed 35 people, officials said yesterday as the militants claimed it was in revenge for plans to wipe them out. A series of 12 massive explosions
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    576 7 esthert@sph.com.sg ment Board (HDB) flats because their combined monthly income exceeds the $8,000 cap, but who may find private property too expensive. Mr Mah, who was a guest on Channel NewsAsia’s programme Talking Point aired last night, said that ECs will make up about 10
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    596 10  - BY ELIZABETH LOOI MALAYSIA CORRESPONDENT elizlooi@sph.com.sg KUALA LUMPUR: An 11-year-old girl, whose father married her off to a 41-year-old man, was found semi-con-scious in a mosque on Saturday. Local media reports identified the “groom” as Mr Shamsuddin Che Derahman, said to be an elder of a Muslim group. He is
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    337 10 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON: The United States is looking to break a taboo and train an elite Indonesian force linked to past abuses, as US President Barack Obama courts the world’s largest Muslim-majority nation with a visit. With its moderate form of Islam and democratisation since the 1990s, Indonesia
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    587 11  - BY SHEFALI REKHI shefali@sph.com.sg JEMAAH Islamiah (JI) leader Abu Jibril was detained by the Malaysian authorities in 2001. He had led theJI’s Malaysian cell which helped to procure weapons used in attacks in Maluku and Poso between 1998 and 2000. After he was released three years later, he returned to
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    964 12  -  Princess Aiko’s refusal to attend classes creates unwelcome attention BY KWAN WENG KIN JAPAN CORRESPONDENT wengkin@sph.com.sg JAPAN’S royals, including reigning Emperor Akihito, have long prided themselves on receiving the same education as ordinary people. Yet it can be an experience that includes learning to
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    705 13  - BY GRACE NG CHINA CORRESPONDENT graceng@sph.com.sg BEIJING: A bubble in China’s economy is a cause of great concern as runaway prices may form a potent mix with corruption and social inequity to destabilise society and state power, Premier Wen Jiabao said yesterday. Tackling rising inflation and the income gap will
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    363 13 ASSOCIATED PRESS BEIJING: Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao yesterday disclosed that he was snubbed at last year’s Copenhagen climate change conference, firing at critics who accuse China of arrogance. China was blamed by some for undermining efforts to reach a binding agreement at the December conference, and Mr Wen was himself
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    975 15  - Former analyst finds his calling as virtual tutor in his borderless academy BY BHAGYASHREE GAREKAR US CORRESPONDENT bhagya@sph.com.sg WASHINGTON: What started out as a mathematics lesson for a school-going cousin is today a video library of 1,200 tutorials on YouTube, used daily by thousands who want to master things as
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    393 15 REUTERS NEW YORK TIMES TIMES, WASHINGTON POST WASHINGTON: United States President Barack Obama, already battling for health-care reform, jobs and financial regulation, says he will be pushing forward on a major overhaul of education. By announcing that he would send his education blueprint to
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    193 16 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE ASSOCIATED PRESS REUTERS has ruled out a major reshuffle if theresults areas bad as expected. But he said last week that he would be“attentive” towhat voters say and someCabinet changes are possible. The fallout from France’s worst recession since World War II is still pinching industries from car-making
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    96 16 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE ASSOCIATED PRESS now and we’ve been through some fairly tough times and I can honestly say that I don’t think in that time he’s ever let me down,” she told ITV television. The Conservatives have led the governing Labour Party in opinion polls for more than two years,
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    514 17 ASSOCIATED PRESS JERUSALEM: Israel is launching a potentially trail-blazing experiment in organ donation: Sign a donor card and you and your family move up the queue for a transplant if one is needed. The new law is the
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    105 17 ASSOCIATED PRESS million yuan (S$1.4 million) to improve conditions at a zoo after the recent deaths of 11rare Siberian tigers other animals, state media reported yesterday. The tigers at the Shenyang Forest Animal Zoo starved to death in past three months, having been fed nothing but chicken bones as the
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    55 17 Tokyo HONG KONG: Earthquakes hit north-eastern Japan and Indonesia’s North Maluku province yesterday, but were no immediate reports of casualties or damage. The Japan Meteorological Agency a 6.6-magnitude earthquake hit at 5pm, with tremors felt in most buildings in Tokyo. The Indonesian quake struck at 8am, the
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    127 17 SHANGHAI: Shanghai will unveil a new airport terminal tomorrow the latest mega-infrastructure project to be completed as the city prepares to welcome tens of millions of visitors to 2010. US$2.2 billion (S$3.1billion) was on the makeover of Hongqiao Airport, 35minutes from the city centre, to make it
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    867 18  - BY THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN NEW YORK TIMES IAM a big Joe Biden fan. The United States Vice-President is an indefatigable defender of US interests abroad. So it pains me to say that on his recent trip to Israel, when Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu’s government rubbed his nose in some new
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    773 18  - BY ROBERT KARNIOL DEFENCE WRITER rkarniol@sph.com.sg SOUTH- EAST Asia has seen deliveries of major conventional defence equipment nearly double over the past five years, as compared with the period 2000-2004, according to a new report to be released today. Malaysia led the regional pack with a surge of 722 per
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      889 18  -  ALTERNATIVE FUELS BY MICHAEL RICHARDSON The writer is a visiting senior research fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. WHEN Singapore switched some years ago from oil to natural gas as its mainstay for generating electricity, gas was seen as a “transition” fuel until
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      708 18  -  BY NAYAN CHANDA The author is director of publications at the Yale Centre for the Study of Globalisation, and editor of YaleGlobal Online. CAN you combat global warming and create jobs? Can you develop green energy on your own and spurn globalisation? Answers to these questions
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      730 18  -  BY TILAK K. DOSHI The writer is the chief economist at the Energy Studies Institute, National University of Singapore. SINCE the Copenhagen climate change meeting in December, much ink has flowed on the subject of energy efficiency and what governments can do about it. Much
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    378 19  -  Corinna Lim (Ms) Executive Director Association of Women for Action and Research (Aware) THERE are two issues that concern us in the Jack Neo affair. First, it puts paid to the notion that a husband’s extramarital affairs areacceptable as long as
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    376 19  -  BRANDING SINGAPORE Clinton Lim LAST Saturday’s report (“What’s unique about Singapore? It’s now yours”) on the Singapore Tourism Board’s (STB) adoption of its new catchphrase “Your Singapore” and its reasons for doing so has left me flummoxed. “Uniquely Singapore” was not appropriate, but adopting
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    88 19 More letters on www.straitstimes.com 1 MR DARIUS LEE: Don’t equate the man with his films 2 MR AZRI ZAINUDDIN: Celebrities, remember you are role models 3 MR WINSTON WONG: Cost-efficient payment system dear 4 MADAM TERRIE WONG: Dental clinic inflexible on deposit 5 MS MABEL TOH: Why the
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    253 19  - Cricket’s popularity a snapshot from the past Narayana Narayana THE writer of the report, “Why cricket’s fun for Chinese, Malay boys” (March 6), appears to be out on a limb in asserting that “cricket does not come naturally to Chinese and Malay boys because it is not steeped in their
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    368 19  -  Phua Hooi Boon Director (Land Transport Division) Ministry of Transport I REFER to last Friday’s report, “Big drop in COEs ahead”, and Saturday’s commentary, “COE supply: Jams ahead?”, by Mr Christopher Tan. The writer suggests that one reason for the
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    55 19 Letters should be sent only to The Straits Times. They should be no longer than 400 words and must include the writer’s full name, address and phone numbers. The Forum editor reserves the right to edit a letter. For women, please indicate Miss, Ms, Mrs or Madam. Please
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    251 19  -  Michele Batchelor (Ms) Deputy Director, Corporate Communications SingTel I REFER to last Tuesday’s letter by Mr Tan Chak Lim, “SingTel’s EPL bid: A yellow card for non-disclosure?” SingTel’s pay TV service called mio TV is an important part of our
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      233 1  -  Top 10 of complaints list feature same old sectors like timeshare and travel WORLD CONSUMER RIGHTS DAY BY TESSA WONG MILLIONS have been spent on improving service and quality standards, yet consumer complaints have skyrocketed in the past decade and mostly about the same old industries.
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      274 1  -  JESSICA LIM THE education, real estate, maid recruitment and beauty-related industries have the dubious honour of being new entrants in the Top 10 list of businesses that were hit with the most complaints last year. In 2000, few people complained about them to Case. Various
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      99 1 www.straitstimes.com MOST-READ ONLINE We had sex in car: Wendy Chong Jack Neo admits affair MOST COMMENTED ON Grants for Singaporeans studying medicine abroad. Says imwellfed: “Although I would agree that Oxbridge and (the Ivy League universities) are more selective in their
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    509 3  -  Two in 10 sufferers here are women, say IMH and private SEX ADDICTION BY JUDITH TAN judith@sph.com.sg CHAMPION golfer Tiger Woods’ treatment for sex addiction has trained the spotlight on the disorder. But for people grappling with the problem, it
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    348 3  -  JUDITH TAN BY DAY, the 26-year-old petite, fresh-faced woman with long, wavy hair is a secretary who would blend right into a crowd of office workers. But Fiona, which is not her real name, has a secret: She has been treated for sex addiction in
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    469 4  - BY YEN FENG THE crowd at the Taoist College’s debut class was the kind of turnout Taoist leaders have been dreaming for decades: People who were interested in the religion’s history, rather than a prediction for next week’s Toto numbers. No joss-stick was in sight in the small classroom, once
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    856 5  - BY K.C. VIJAYAN vijayan@sph.com.sg IN EARLY 1942, Mr Yew Kian Chang and eight other men in their 20s were roused by a squad of Japanese military police from their dormitory in Bukit Timah. They were marched, hands tied, to a nearby railway track and made to squat there. The next
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      96 6 Firming creams RoC Complete Lift range of skincare products contains patented ingredients (THPE and Bugrane) that are clinically proven to tighten and firm the skin. Targeted at women aged 25 and above, the range includes flash serum, daily moisturiser, anti-dark circle eye cream, among others. Name the mall The former
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    618 7  - BY KARAMJIT KAUR AVIATION CORRESPONDENT karam@sph.com.sg THE cost-cutting measures introduced by Singapore Airlines in the middle of last year are unlikely to be extended given the business turnaround in recent months. Since July, SIA pilots have had to take a day of no-pay leave as well as a cut of
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    527 7  -  BY MELISSA SIM THE Canberra Citizens’ Consultative Committee (CCC) will be the first grassroots group to embark on a comprehensive package, called the Anti-Shark Programme, to crack down on loan shark activities in their area. As part of the programme, the CCC
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    206 7  -  TEH JOO LIN A NIGHT of drinking ended in death after a man allegedly smashed a beer bottle and fatally stabbed his friend. The 36-year-old unemployed man died at the scene, the void deck of Block 170, Toa Payoh Lorong 1. He lived
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    601 8  - BY YEN FENG zengyan@sph.com.sg EVERYONE loves a good chat, but too much talk is not always a good thing. Last weekend, a minister told a group of community leaders that in managing thecountry’s religious matters, “all talk”, along with“ no talk” and“ all Government”, were just not quite right. Not
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    805 8 Assess youth crime, please AN AREA that could be addressed more in future Budget debates is youth crime and juvenile delinquency. As The Straits Times reported recently, although cases of young people running afoul of the law have been declining in recent years, there are still thousands of them arrested
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    564 10 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE REUTERS Manchester United 3 Fulham 0 LONDON: Wayne Rooney fired Manchester United back to the top of the Premier League, his double-strike inspiring a 3-0 home win over Fulham yesterday. Alex Ferguson’s team had been knocked off the top spot following Chelsea’s 4-1victory over West Hamon Saturday, but
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    124 10 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Bendtner had missed a host of chances during their 3-1 win over Burnley last weekend. But, having claimed the first hat-trick of his career in the 5-0 Champions League drubbing of Porto in midweek, he struck in the 93rd minute against Hull. Saturday’s win was the Gunners’ fifth
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    446 10 LONDON: Here is some good news for an-ti-Rafael Benitez Liverpool fans: He may be leaving soon. But here is some bad news: Star striker Fernando Torres may also quit the Reds. According to reports, Benitez is considering his future at the Premier
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    387 10 ASSOCIATED PRESS ARLINGTON (Texas): It was not as flashy as his knock-out of Ricky Hatton, or as savage as the beating he gave Oscar de la Hoya. But Manny Pacquiao still walked away with a handsome paycheque of at least US$12 million (S$16.8 million) on Saturday for retaining his World
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      525 11  -  ARUNNER’S DIARY BY JEANETTE WANG jwang@sph.com.sg IT’S a four-letter word that most runners dread hill. Yes, that painful trudge against gravity, the pace-wrecker, the lung-buster, the leg-breaker. But the beauty of this beast is just 10 seconds of running uphill as fast as you
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        64 11 KATHMANDU: Singapore have entered the final of the Asian Cricket Council Under-16 Elite Cup tournament. Yesterday, they beat Hong Kong by 133 runs in the semi-final. Singapore scored 230-8 in 40 overs and then bowled out Hong Kong for 97 in 30.1 overs.
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        82 11 REUTERS DALLAS: The struggling New York Knicks denied the Dallas Mavericks a season’s best 14th consecutive victory with a lopsided 128-94 win on Saturday. Reserve Bill Walker had a career-high 23 points, Wilson Chandler added 22 and Al Harrington 20 for the Knicks, who
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      334 12  -  BY GABRIELLE NG SAINT Andrew’s Junior College (SAJC) have emerged as the team to watch at next month’s Schools National Canoeing Championships after their sterling performances at the National Junior Championships over the weekend. Regular top-five finishers at the Schools National Canoeing Championships, SAJC surprised
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      349 12  -  BY CHIA JIE MIN TWENTY-TWO seconds. That was all the time Ng Chin Hui had to salvage his Youth Olympic Games (YOG) dream at the36th SingaporeJunior Athletics Championships yesterday. The Under-18 200 metres final was the Anglo-Chinese School (Independent) student’s last chance to
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      79 12 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE DUBLIN: Ireland’s Tomas O’Leary powering his way past Wales’ Leigh Halfpenny to score a try in their Six Nations Championship match at Croke Park in Dublin on Saturday. The Irish, whose skipper Brian O’Driscoll made his 100th Test appearance, won 27-12.
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      277 12  -  BY FRANKIE CHEE SINGAPORE’S gymnasts had plenty to celebrate over the weekend as two young hopefuls qualified for August’s Youth Olympic Games (YOG) after meeting the Games’ qualification requirements at the 11th Junior Artistic and Trampoline Asian Championships in Japan. Rachel Giam, 15, secured a total of
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      624 12 Athletics World Indoor C’ships In Doha (winners only): Men Long jump: Fabrice Lapierre (Aus) 8.17m. 60m: Dwain Chambers (Gbr) 6.48sec. Women High jump: Blanka Vlasic (Cro) 2m. 3,000m: Meseret Defar (Eth) 8:51.17. Badminton All-England C’ships In Birmingham, s-finals Men’s singles: Kenichi Tago (Jpn) bt Bao Chunlai (Chn) 18-21 22-20
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      326 13 World No. 1 Lee becomes 3rd Malaysian to win All-England REUTERS AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE BIRMINGHAM: Malaysian world No. 1 Lee Chong Wei captured his first All-England men’s singles title when he defeated Japan’s Kenichi Tago 21-19, 21-19 in the final yesterday. In the100th edition of badminton’s most prestigious tournament,
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      308 13  -  FRANKIE CHEE MORE than 1,200 people of all ages braved the hot sun yesterday morning to take part in the Singapore Sprint Series duathlon. Even eight-year-olds were pushing themselves hard in the run-bike-run competition, which had four categories, including one for children aged eight to 11. Theoverall
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    284 16 LEADING integrated vegetable processor China Minzhong Food Corporation has lodged its preliminary prospectus to list on the mainboard. Among its biggest shareholders is the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation, with a stake of 32.6 per cent prior to the initial public offering (IPO). It
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    58 17 PATRICK TSE (left): Appointed chief executive of HSBC Global Asset Management (Singapore) from March 2. He is a former head of Strategic Business Development for the Asia Pacific based in Hong Kong. His predecessor, Ms Mah Yeok Fun, will take up a newly created post
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    55 17 YIP SOOK FUN: Appointed chief financial officer of Leeden Ltd from last Monday. Ms Yip, 43, has 17 years of experience in corporate banking, loan syndication and investment banking with various financial institutions. She takes over Mr Lim How Boon, who is set to retire as
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      84 1 8 Questions With... Asia’s Michael Buble Lambert laps it up Babyface talks a good game American Idol runner-up a winner here Singer could be talkshow host C8 C2 C3 a chef Eric Teo, president of Singapore Chefs’ Association, says he is popular with aunties for his many gueststarring turns on
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      1027 2  - cheryl tan tcheryl@sph.com.sg Filipino-Taiwanese crooner Richard Poon may be touted as Asia’s Michael Buble, but back when he was a nobody, he thought that jazz standards were for old people. The Manila-based 35-year-old, who is performing at his concert, Richard Poon: For You, at The Arts House on Wednesday and
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      613 5  -  cheryl wee Malaysian singer-songwriter Zee Avi spent the last year practically living in a van while touring all over the United States opening for American singersongwriter Pete Yorn. It is a price she is all too willing to pay in pursuit of her music-making dream.
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      646 6  -  Vashti Bunyan vanished from the music scene in 1970 when she thought her album was no good Mosaic Music Festival eddino abdul hadi dinohadi@sph.com.sg She performed with the Rolling Stones in the 1960s, released her first album in 1970 and promptly disappeared from the music
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      475 6  -  reviewconcert BREAKESTRA Esplanade Theatre Studio/Last Friday samuel lee If you thought that funk and soul are oldish genres, you are probably not clued in to new-generation funksters such as Briton Will Holland (a.k.a. Quantic), The Bamboos from Melbourne, and Los Ange-les-based Breakestra. These latter-day
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      596 7  -  reviewconcert BRANFORD MARSALIS QUARTET Esplanade Concert Hall Last Saturday kelvin tan stlife@sph.com.sg Kelvin Tan is a writer and musician. He will be performing at the Mosaic Music Festival. If there is any jazz saxophone player who truly deserves to be the one who keeps the hard bop tenor
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      484 7  -  11TH HOUR MELODY GARDOT Esplanade Concert Hall Last Saturday akshita nanda Jazz vamp Melody Gardot sings as though she knows all your secrets, but reveals none of her own on the stage. Based solely on recordings, one would expect her smoky songs purred in a dark theatre at
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      413 7  -  reviewconcert CHRISTIAN MCBRIDE INSIDE STRAIGHT Esplanade Recital Studio Last Friday kelvin tan Jazz bassist Christian McBride wowed the audience when he performed at the 2006 Mosaic Festival with legendary guitarist Pat Metheny. He came back this year with his new band Inside Straight and it was
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      511 8  -  reviewconcert KENNY “BABYFACE” EDMONDS Esplanade Concert Hall, last Friday john lui johnlui@sph.com.sg One just never knows. This reviewer went into the concert expecting to hear a blandly smooth tour of times long past. Babyface is, after all, the uber producer and songwriter behind much of the generic soul
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      345 8 Mr Manruth Srisook, 40, engineer Show: Signal to Noise (Hong Kong), Jazzology, Mosaic Music Station (Outdoor Theatre) ‘I think the songs are songs really easy to listen to, it suits the atmosphere here very windy, easy and comfortable.’ Mr Raymond Lim, 62, unemployed Show: Omniform, Jazzology, Mosaic Music Station (Outdoor
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      386 10 Taipei Taiwanese TV host Dee Hsu (right) yesterday defended her marriage against a report which said she called up a hotline for domestic violence in the midst of a marital spat. Hsu, 31, spoke at a press conference with husband Mike Hsu, 40, the same day that Apple Daily Taiwan
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      166 10 Agence France-Presse Los Angeles Luxury furniture Michael Jackson commissioned before his death will be auctioned on June 25 in Las Vegas along with other personal items. Julien’s Auctions said the 22 pieces of furniture Jackson ordered from Italy’s Colombostile Artisans for his home where he
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        80 10 Jack Neo, who last week admitted to an extramarital affair with actress-model Wendy Chong, said he may make a movie out of it. He told Shin Min Daily News that, after the scandal broke, people had asked him if he would make the
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        123 10 A Washington columnist was evicted from an event after asking Sean Penn about his hope that critics “die screaming of rectal cancer”. The actor has been working in earthquake-hit Haiti but critics have been cynical about such celebrity do-gooderism. In response, Penn last week
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        47 10 Bollywood star Amitabh Bachchan (right) will attend the Hong Kong International Film Festival’s Asian Film Awards next Monday to accept a Lifetime Achievement Award. Organisers will also present Chinese director Zhang Yimou with an award for outstanding contributions to Asian cinema.
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      266 5 NUS Centre For the Arts flSIIUUE NUS Arts Festival 2010 For a chance to win tickets, SMS <ARTS> to ***** Standard SMS charges apply 5-21 MARCH The Ethics of Progress Unlimited Theatre (UK) 21 Mar, 3pm 8pm, UCC Theatre $28 $19 The Ethics of Progress imagines the world as it
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      22 9 THINGS TO DO: To find out what’s happening in and around Singapore, go to www.straitstimes.com CALL US: Life!/LifeStyle, tel: 6319-5416 fax: 6319-8276
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      478 3 Have you kept an eye on the world and your nose to the news this year? Test your knowledge with this quiz. Try picking up The Straits Times once in a while! 0 to 2: Have you been living in a cave? 3 to 6: Hmm not
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      429 6  -  BY EISEN TEO There should be no laws restricting the freedom of speech. Nations should pay reparations for the injustices committed by previous generations. Do you find these statements mind-boggling? Imagine being given just one hour to build arguments for or against these motions and
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      303 6  -  CHUANG BING HAN Samsui women, rickshaw pullers, coolies and opera singers are back in town. Chinatown, that is. Students, taking on avatars of these personas, will walk around Chinatown carrying specially programmed mobile devices on a special learning trail that was launched on Feb 27. At each of
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      160 7  -  BY LYNN YANG This week, IN puts three CHIJ Toa Payoh Art Elective Programme students and their works in the spotlight. The school’s programme is 25 years old. Students are allowed to enter its popular art course in secondary school through the Direct School Admission scheme. There
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      147 7 Japanese men in loincloths jostling one another in a muddy rice paddy at the Mimusubi shrine in Yotsukaido, near Tokyo, in Japan. Hundreds of local residents took part in “the muddy rite” on Feb 25 as part of a ceremony to pray for a good harvest
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      183 10 On Feb 22, IN reported that some schools were giving prizes to motivate their students to get to school on time. Canberra Secondary School’s Chua Han Au, 13, wrote back with his view on school and punctuality. “Some students may think that being late
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      723 11  -  BY ANDREW DUFFY What has been happening? Home prices have been going up fast and this could lead to a price bubble. That happens when prices keep going up like a bubble inflating. That is fine for a while as home owners are pleased
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      70 11 INTERACT! Read the story again and pretend you are a home owner. In 100 words, write what you think is going through his head as he watches his home value go up and down. Some people have used their homes as investments. Other see their houses as places to live
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      248 12 / 13  -  Turn to the sports pages and look for the column “Next 72 hours”. Lesson activity by SONIA SNG The table shows sporting events locally and internationally which will take place over the next 72 hours, or three days. Study the information in the column and answer
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