The Straits Times, 3 May 2010

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  • 19 1 THE STRAITS TIMES. MICA (P) 094/11/2009 MONDAY, MAY 3 2010 A SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS PUBLICATION ESTABLISHED 1845 90 CENTS
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  • INSIDE 68 PAGES IN FOUR PARTS
    • 53 1 CHELSEA are within touching distance of their first Premier League title since 2006 after beating Liverpool 2-0 at Anfield yesterday. Manchester United’s 0-1 victory at Sunderland in a later game meant the race will come down to the last day of the season on Sunday.
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    • 72 1 MINISTER Mentor Lee Kuan Yew does not think last year’s climate change summit in Copenhagen was a complete failure, despite the lack of any concrete agreement on emission targets. The major stumbling block against progress is the lack of political will to tackle a long-term
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    • 45 1 PROPERTY firms with moneylending arms that do a roaring business are now halting their ventures after National Development Minister Mah Bow Tan said in Parliament that his ministry is looking at stopping moneylenders from exploiting cash-strapped flat sellers. HOME PAGE B4
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    • 59 1 RISING tourism and retail figures appear to show Japan’s economy finally making a recovery, even if economic prospects remain murky, and jobs are still hard to come by. South Korea, on the other hand, is making a splash, pulling strongly out of the global recession
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    • 40 1 CHINESE shipbuilder New Century Shipbuilding plans to list on the Singapore Exchange and raise as much as $666 million from its initial public offering, making it the largest IPO for the year so far. MONEY PAGE B20
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  • 540 1 Tough talk on warship incident could fuel tensions with North AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE REUTERS AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, REUTERS, ASSOCIATED PRESS SEOUL: South Korea’s Defence Minister Kim Tae Young yesterday vowed retaliation over the sinking of a South Korean warship which killed 46 sailors near the
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  • 50 1 Police officers examining a Nissan Pathfinder sport utility vehicle that was packed with bomb materials in New York’s Times Square on Saturday. An alert street vendor tipped off the police when he spotted smoke emerging from the vehicle. SEE PRIME PAGE A4 PHOTO: REUTERS
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  • 612 1  -  BY NUR DIANAH SUHAIMI A PROGRAMME to encourage the elderly to stay active and healthy is to go nationwide, with a centre set up for them at each of the 84 constituencies in Singapore. All will be up and running in three years’ time,
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    • 111 1 A DAY WITH: Socialite Sharel Ho preps for a party LIFE! PAGE C4 Foreigners pack places of worship PRIME, PAGE A7 Chinese investors go shopping in the US WORLD, PAGE A8 BREAKING NEWS: www.straitstimes.com INTERACT: www.stomp.com.sg EMAIL: stomp@stomp.com.sg VIDEOS: www.razortv.com.sg NEWS TIPS: 1800-*****28 CALL 6388-3838 TO SUBSCRIBE OR GO TO
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  • prime.commentary
    • 943 2  -  Latest Malaysian by-election results reveal deep racial rifts BY CAROLYN HONG MALAYSIA BUREAU CHIEF carolynh@sph.com.sg NOW that the dust has settled over last Sunday’s Hulu Selangor by-election, it’s time to take a look at just what the result says about Malaysian politics. The
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    • VIEWPOINTS
      • 55 2 WE SAY Changes to sentencing options which aim to move the balance further towards proportional and rehabilitative justice, from the purely punitive, are appropriate and in tune with the times. They try to reflect community requirements and expectations. Uniform sentencing for less serious offences has
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      • 35 2 COLUMNS A plan to overhaul the US space programme is raising questions about whether the US still has what it takes to lead in space, says Tracy Quek. WORLD PAGE A16
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      • 34 2 The vagaries of TV contracts and greed mean most of South-east Asia will no longer be able to watch major rugby tournaments on television, says John McBeth. REVIEW PAGE A19
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      • 40 2 OUR READER SAYS Reverting to traditional approaches will not arrest the alarming trend of rising sexual activity and incidence of sexually transmitted diseases, teenage pregnancies, and abortions among youths, says Yap Kim Hao. FORUM PAGE A20
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      • Article, Illustration
        19 2 www.straitstimes.com Lee Siew Hua finds that many older Singaporeans have a quiet vitality and should be valued.
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    • 273 2 AUCTION Global Economic Crisis Forced Sale Seized and Confiscated Valuable Assets Previously Held, Sold and Released by Financial Entities Government Agencies; to be Auctioned to the Public Piece by Piece with other Consignments which constitute the Majority of other Inventory from Private and or Commercial Interests, Auctioneer's Note: 54.04ct. Natural
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  • prime.news
    • 746 3  -  But political expediency makes it hard for countries to act, he says BY JEREMY AU YONG jeremyau@sph.com.sg THE Copenhagen climate change summit last December was not a complete failure, said Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew, although world leaders failed to agree on
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    • 400 3  -  BY VICTORIA VAUGHAN ENGLISH is the missing ingredient that stands in the way of Shanghai becoming a global banking centre and competing with the likes of Hong Kong, Singapore and Tokyo, said Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew. The city has the
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    • 613 4 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE ASSOCIATED PRESS Thousands evacuated after alert vendor spots smoke coming from car NEW YORK: Police have foiled an attempted car bomb attack in the heart of Times Square, evacuating the famous square and avoiding what could have been a disaster on
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    • Article, Illustration
      108 4  -  BY ALPHONSUS CHERN 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. A KTM railway station
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    • 690 6 PM tells Greek people to expect big sacrifices in return for aid REUTERS NEW YORK TIMES ASSOCIATED PRESS BLOOMBERG ATHENS: Greece has sealed a deal with the European Union (EU) and International Monetary Fund (IMF) that opens the door to a multi-billion euro financial bailout
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  • prime.special report
    • 1354 7  -  With at least one in three people in Singapore now a foreigner, Yen Feng explores what impact the migrant swell has had on religious groups here IMMIGRATION AND RELIGION Yen Feng zengyan@sph.com.sg IN A country where four out of every five Singaporeans profess a religion, foreign-born
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    • 210 7 Congratulations to p sembcorp w on the Official Opening of the Sembcorp NEWater Plant Today, the Sembcorp NEWater Plant officially opens. This NEWater facility, Singapore's largest and among the world's biggest water recycling plants, has the capacity to produce 228,000 cubic metres of NEWater per day. This plant was developed
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  • WORLD.
    • 949 8  -  American slump sees investors journey West to snap up bargains BY BHAGYASHREE GAREKAR US CORRESPONDENT bhagya@sph.com.sg WASHINGTON: There is no Chinatown in the state of Maryland, but a small corner of the local university could well qualify for that label. Of
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    • 104 8 www.straitstimes.com MOST-READ ONLINE Noah’s Ark remains found? Director in hot water over beach boy film MOST COMMENTED ON Director in hot water over beach boy film. Says kennyticks2010: “Actually we just have to be sensitive to any country that we visit.
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    • 477 11 Malaysian parents, educators and activists concerned after fatal shooting of teen by police THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK KUALA LUMPUR: The controversial killing by Malaysian police of a teenager who was driving without a licence at 2am has put the limelight on young people
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    • 217 11 BERNAMA SIBU: Malaysia is confident that bilateral talks to resolve sea and land boundary issues with Brunei will result in a win-win solution for both countries, Prime Minister Najib Razak said yesterday. In his first comments on the issue, he said both countries
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    • world.regional
      • 958 10  -  Chances of bringing rival factions together for talks not promising The Philippines goes to the polls on May 10 to pick a successor to President Gloria Arroyo. The Straits Times Foreign Desk this week explores the issues and personalities in the polls. We begin today
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      • 456 12 Cabinet okays funds to contain protesters; martial law ‘unlikely’ ASSOCIATED PRESS BANGKOK: Thailand’s Prime Minister said yesterday that he had no plans to declare martial law despite growing demands that the government take firmer measures to end protests that have para- lysed parts
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      • 218 12 ASSOCIATED PRESS KATHMANDU: Maoist opposition supporters armed with bamboo sticks enforced a general strike that closed transportation, schools and markets across Nepal yesterday to demand the Prime Minister’s resignation. Thousands of supporters of the former communist rebels marched in the streets of the
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      • 609 13 ASSOCIATED PRESS Countries and companies out in force to network at event that has yielded huge contracts SHANGHAI: China’s commercial capital of Shanghai has always been all about business. Nowhere is that more evident than at its World Expo, a giant bazaar of ideas,
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      • 186 13 BEIJING: A catchy, casual greeting to President Hu Jintao during the opening ceremony of the Shanghai World Expo last Friday has created a buzz among Chinese netizens, reported a Hong Kong newspaper yesterday. The words “Hu ge hao”, meaning “Hello Brother Hu”, were projected on
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      • 652 14  -  Japan’s economy looks rosier, but job scarcity and deflation are worries Two of Asia’s largest economies have climbed out of the global economic crisis, with varying success. The Straits Times Foreign Desk looks at how Japan and South Korea are faring. BY KWAN WENG
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      • 483 14  -  BY LEE JUN BOK SEOUL: While many firms are just about getting their heads above water in the wake of the global crisis, Samsung Electronics has seen its profit surge sixfold in the first three months of this year. Buoyed by strong demand for
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      • 467 14  -  KWAN WENG KIN WHEN the latest outlet of high street fashion brand Forever 21 opened in Tokyo’s Ginza shopping district on Thursday last week, hundreds of young women thronged the store. And after McDonald’s upgraded a part of its network in Tokyo, families
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    • world.international
      • 572 15  -  Parties wooing undecided voters who could tilt result in their favour ELECTION '10 BY ALISON DE SOUZA alisonds@hotmail.com LONDON: With just three days to go, the British elections are still wide open, with the three main parties practically neck and neck in polls. Among
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      • 409 15 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE LONDON: Ms Gillian Duffy, the widow dismissed by British Prime Minister Gordon Brown as “bigoted”, has spoken out for the first time. In an interview with the Mail On Sunday, she said she felt sorry for the embattled Prime Minister but
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      • INBRIEF
        • 115 17 ASSOCIATED PRESS VATICAN CITY: Pope Benedict XVI has cracked down on the scandal-plagued Legionaries of Christ, announcing that a papal envoy would take over and reform the conservative order, which has been discredited by revelations that its founder sexually abused seminarians and fathered at least one
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        • 108 17 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESS NEW DELHI: Thousands of police and paramilitary soldiers guarded New Delhi’s markets and shopping centres yesterday after foreign embassies in India issued warnings of imminent militant attacks. The United States, British, Australian and other Western embassies issued urgent alerts advising their nationals to
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        • 111 17 ASSOCIATED PRESS TAIPEI: A Taiwanese-American man has been detained in China after falsely claiming that his luggage contained explosives during a flight from Taipei to the eastern Chinese city of Shanghai, Taiwanese police said yesterday. Taiwan’s China Airlines had to divert the plane with 293 passengers
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        • 73 17 An Indonesian holding up a 10th-century Chinese bronze mirror plate from the Five Dynasties era, at a South Jakarta showroom last Wednesday. It is part of an ancient treasure trove salvaged from a 1,000-year-old shipwreck in the northern waters of Cirebon, West Java. The relics are
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        • 94 17 XINHUA ZHENGZHOU (China): The abbot of Shaolin Temple in central China’s Henan province said a newly built underground funeral parlour is only for monks’ ashes and not for sale, after suspicions arose online claiming that the parlour would be used for profit. “The parlour was built
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        • 114 17 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE TEHERAN: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) has failed and that Iran will propose changes, as he flew off to New York yesterday to take part in a conference to review the pact. The hardline leader is to address the
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      • 538 17 Obama awaits update as efforts to stop spill meet with little success ASSOCIATED PRESS, AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE VENICE (Louisiana): As United States President Barack Obama awaited a first-hand update on the Gulf Coast oil spill yesterday, a sense of doom settled over the American
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    • world.memo from washington
      • 996 16  -  Critics say scrapping lunar mission hurts US, but others back plan to go deeper into space BY TRACY QUEK US CORRESPONDENT tracyq@sph.com.sg IN 1966, as the United States-Soviet Union space race raged, a new science-fiction TV series fired up the public’s
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  • REVIEW & FORUM.
    • 395 18 CHANGES to the Criminal Procedure Code being considered by Parliament aim to move the balance further towards proportional and rehabilitative justice, from the punitive end of the sentencing spectrum. The Community Court has, since 2006 when it was established, taken a comprehensive approach towards young
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    • 818 18  -  BY HAROLD JAMES The writer is professor of history and international affairs at Princeton University and Marie Curie Professor of History at the European University Institute, Florence. PROJECT SYNDICATE BRITISH politics has always been something of an experimental laboratory for the industrialised world.
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    • 858 18  -  BY PHIL BATY The writer is editor of the Times Higher Education World University Rankings, and deputy editor of Times Higher Education magazine. THE publication of the Times Higher Education World University Rankings has become one of the key annual events in the international higher
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    • review.
      • 864 19  -  SOUTH CHINA SEA DISPUTE BY MICHAEL RICHARDSON The writer is a visiting senior research fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. IS CHINA becoming more assertive in enforcing its claims to as much as 80 per cent of the South China Sea? A
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      • 942 19  -  BY JOHN MCBETH SENIOR WRITER thane.cawdor@gmail.com FORGET the recent dust-up in Singapore. Because of the vagaries of television contracts and the greed of sports bosses, a much greater disaster has befallen the great game of rugby in our part of the world. For the
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      • 743 19  -  BY DAYAN JAYATILLEKA The writer, formerly Sri Lanka’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Geneva, is a visiting senior research fellow at the Institute of South Asian Studies. SRI Lanka’s leader Mahinda Rajapakse has scored a triple triumph or in the parlance of cricket, a
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    • forum.
      • 251 20  -  SEXUALITY EDUCATION Yap Kim Hao I REFER to last Thursday’s report, “Ministry picks groups to teach sexuality education”. While thanking the Ministry of Education (MOE) for selecting and auditing sexuality education in schools, I would like to raise some questions with the intention of improving
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      • 231 20  -  Dennis Tan I REFER to Mr Lee Seck Kay’s Forum Online letter recommending that Singapore introduce television debates before the General Election, similar to the series of three debates held recently in Britain (“Have TV debates before
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      • 161 20  -  Gerard Ee I AM writing as a concerned citizen of Singapore. United States Ambassador David Adelman had declared at his nomination hearing before the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee in February that he planned to interfere in Singapore politics, albeit through so-called
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      • 72 20 More letters on www.straitstimes.com 1 MS RENE YAP: Dissecting UN expert’s findings 2 DR PETER HARDSTONE: Service unbecoming of an icon 3 MS XIAODAN WANG: It tasted like over-sweetened cough medicine 4 MR ALISTAIR DUFFIELD: Spelling bee contestants’ woes 5 CITIBANK: Sorry for miscommunication 6 MS CAROLINE LIM:
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      • 55 20 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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      • 297 20  -  Png Eng Huat I REFER to last Thursday’s report, “Foreign Ministry responds to UN expert’s comments”. On the sensitive issue of race, Singapore’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs noted that United Nations Special Rapporteur Githu Muigai appears to advocate some form of “affirmative action” to help
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      • 279 20  -  Jeremy Soo Managing Director Head Consumer Banking Group (Singapore) DBS Bank I REFER to the letter by Mr Frankie Chan, “Better service at DBS? Here are 5 issues” (April 23). We thank Mr Chan for his suggestions, and would like to inform
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  • HOME
    • 1103 1  -  More products and services targeting growing seniors market BY KIMBERLY SPYKERMAN STACEY CHIA kimspyke@sph.com.sg staceyc@sph.com.sg MORE businesses are pulling out all the stops to chase the silver dollar, with products and services specially tailored to woo seniors. Studies by MasterCard’s eco- nomic adviser Yuwa Hendrick-Wong have
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    • 110 1 www.straitstimes.com MOST-READ ONLINE Maid dies saving baby girl MOST COMMENTED ON If China’s students can do it, why can’t we? Says cchan4: “Our top students do not have any trouble learning a third or fourth language but the problem Singapore faces
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    • 284 2  -  TEH JOO LIN A SUSPECT in a fatal stabbing 27 years ago resurfaced yesterday morning in a special court session and was charged with the capital offence of murder. Lee Hong Mun, now 55, was accused of being involved in a knife fight
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    • 637 2  -  Nurse coordinator is discharged patients’ direct contact at CGH BY JOAN CHEW joanchew@sph.com.sg SHE is a lifeline to patients who have passed through the emergency department at Changi General Hospital (CGH). And many grab it, calling nurse coordinator Laily Sapan,
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    • 662 4  -  Move comes in wake of MND plans to curb milking of flat sellers BY MAVIS TOH mavistoh@sph.com.sg PROPERTY firms with moneylending arms that do a roaring business are now putting the brakes on their ventures. Their activities came under the spotlight last Tuesday when Minister
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    • 634 5  -  Student feedback paves way for built-in elastic bands and longer blouses for neater look BY LIEW HANQING, JENNANI DURAI hanqing@sph.com.sg jennanid@sph.com.sg A SIMPLE elastic band has done wonders for female students of Victoria Junior College (VJC) and Nanyang Junior College. Sewn into the hem
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    • 1063 6  - Soaring with help from the staff at Changi Industry-renowned as being among the best, Changi Airport has already bagged three top airport titles this year, the most recent by Skytrax, which based its results on 9.8 million questionnaires completed by travellers. Aviation Correspondent Karamjit Kaur did a tour of duty
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    • 650 7  -  New scheme includes info on local festivals, help on stress relief BY MELISSA SIM simlinoi@sph.com.sg THIRTY foreign domestic workers were given a tour of a few historical and cultural sites in Singapore yesterday as part of a new programme to help them feel
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    • 249 7 A SIX-MAN team from the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) has been sent to Afghanistan as part of Singapore’s contribution to the international effort to rebuild and stabilise the conflict-torn country. The team of construction engineering personnel will serve as part of the New Zealand
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      • 554 9  -  E-learning arms soldiers with know-how but field training still vital SOAPBOX BY JERYMN CHOW jermync@sph.com.sg THE modern young soldier the Websavvy, laptop-toting, text-messaging millennial is not quite the picture of traditional, hardcore military muscle. But before you accuse recruits armed with laptops during Basic Military
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      • 390 9  -  MY THOUGHTS BY NICHOLAS LIM The writer, 21, will read business at Nanyang Technological University this year. WHEN I hung up my army boots on my operationally ready date, Feb 10, I was as excited as the next man that that phase of my
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      • 59 8 Guardian Health Beauty has launched a series of Doraemon products. Guardian Doraemon Mosquito Re- j pellent Spray 'v and Lip Balm are retail- v ing at $6.95 and $2.50 respectively. In celebration of Mother's Day, spend $25 and above in a single receipt at any Guardian store and
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    • 565 8  -  Liquid egg and powder egg are better because they are pasteurised and more hygienic than shell eggs, and they taste just as good i -i W AaA. BY GAYLE QUAH MANY people are not used to eating eggs out of a carton and the Agri-Food Veterinary
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    • 276 8 THE City Hawker Food Hunt 2010 is back. The event was launched last month at Maxwell Road Food Centre with 60 senior citizens from Kreta Ayer Seniors Activity Centre. A donation of $2,000 was made to the centre as a token of support
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    • 204 8 ASIA Pacific Breweries (APB) arid its flagship brew Tiger Beer won big at the World Beer Cup 2010 that concluded last month in Chicago. APB was awarded Brewers Association World Beer Cup 2010 Champion Brewery and Brewmaster for the Large Brewing Company
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    • 239 8 AVIVA has plans to expand into the general insurance market in the region and the company has started with its direct online car insurance service here. The products will be gradually introduced and include home and travel insurance for affluent Asian consumers who wish
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    • 261 9 -.9. ARE YOU INTERESTED IN ENHANCING YOUR H CAREER IN HEALTH CARE? MERIT SCHOLARSHIPS ARE AVAILABLE Curtin Singapore is pleased to announce the launch of the School of Nursing Masters programs including the Master of Science Clinical Leadership for commencement at Curtin Singapore in August 2010. The Master of Science
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  • SPORT.
    • 133 10 www.straitstimes.com.sg MOST-READ ONLINE STORIES Devil’s dilemma for Liverpool Majestic Chelsea Get behind the Games, Singapore MOST COMMENTED ON Get behind the Games, Singapore Said getawake: “We should groom younger talents instead of ‘recycling’ sportsmen who have been around for so long.
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    • 763 10  -  Gerrard blunder and insipid Liverpool help them move nearer to EPL title Liverpool 0 Chelsea 2 BY RICHARD JOLLY stsports@sph.com.sg A GRAND Slam completed, a title will surely be secured by Chelsea. They knocked down the biggest hurdle in their path, aided by the generosity of Liverpool.
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    • 632 10 Sunderland 0 Manchester United 1 LONDON: Manchester United ensured that the English Premier League title race would go down to the wire with a 1-0 win over Sunderland at the Stadium of Light yesterday. Chelsea’s 2-0 victory at Liverpool earlier in the day had left
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    • SPORTSWORLD
      • 111 11 ASSOCIATED PRESS BARCELONA: Spain international footballer Xavi Hernandez is playing with a muscle injury that could keep him out of the World Cup. “The truth is, I’m carrying a number of aches but the team have a lot on the line and I want
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      • 52 11 ASSOCIATED PRESS KINGSTON: Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt won the 200m in the Jamaica International Invitational on Saturday in 19.56 seconds, the fourth-fastest time ever. His time was 0.37sec off the world record of 19.19 that he set last year at the World Championships
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      • 83 11 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE LOUISVILLE (Kentucky): Calvin Borel (above) guided Super Saver through the mud to victory in the 136th Kentucky Derby on Saturday to give trainer Todd Pletcher his first Derby win after 24 fruitless attempts. For Borel, it was a third triumph in four years
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      • 62 11 REUTERS PARIS: French football side Paris St Germain salvaged a mediocre season by winning the French Cup final on Saturday, with striker Guillaume Hoarau’s header in extra time securing a 1-0 victory over Monaco. PSG, who languish in 11th place in Ligue 1, secured
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      • 79 11 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE MUNICH: Bayern Munich chairman Karl-Heinz Rummenigge will appeal to Uefa in person to try to overturn the ban which threatens to keep Franck Ribery out of football’s Champions League final. The France international midfielder is set to miss the final against Inter Milan
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      • 65 11 REUTERS JEREZ: Spaniard Jorge Lorenzo passed compatriot Dani Pedrosa on the last lap to win a thrilling Spanish MotoGP Grand Prix yesterday. Pedrosa had led the field from pole position, but with two laps remaining, Lorenzo caught up with him and, after a gripping tussle,
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    • 501 11 Man City, Spurs will go head to head for fourth spot on Wednesday THE TIMES, LONDON AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE LONDON: After all the calculating, all the safety-first pursuit of goalless draws against Manchester United and Arsenal, Roberto Mancini has what he planned for. On Wednesday, Manchester City
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    • 416 11  -  BY ROYSTON SIM GOMBAK United are ruing their luck in the draw for the RHB Singapore Cup, which kicks off on May 24. They have been drawn to play Australia’s South Melbourne FC in the preliminary round of the competition. Should Gombak get past that hurdle,
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    • 318 11 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE GROS ISLET (St Lucia): Afghanistan coach Kabir Khan has invited cricket’s leading nations to help his side build on their remarkable rise, following their World Twenty20 debut against India on Saturday. The minnows may have lost by seven wickets, but they were far
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    • 244 11 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE LONDON: The world’s best snooker player, John Higgins, was yesterday suspended from all World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association (WPBSA) tournaments over a report that he agreed to take a bribe for fixing matches. The news came after British tabloid News
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    • 71 11 Four-goal pro Sattar Khan (left) of hosts Singapore Polo Club attempting a shot during their 4-1 victory over Wine Investment Fund yesterday as his opponent Wayne Glennie, a three-goal pro from Sydney, looks on. Khan, the tournament’s top scorer with 13 goals, led
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    • 512 12  -  Swim coach returns to Hobart today after splitting with Tao Li BY TERRENCE VOON tvoon@sph.com.sg AUSTRALIAN swim coach Peter Churchill’s seven-year love affair with Singapore will end on a quiet note today with a flight home to his native Hobart. There will be no fanfare or sending-off
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    • 425 12  -  BY FRANKIE CHEE SEBASTIAN Calle was determined to bow out with a bang. The French expatriate did that when he finished a 750m swim, 20km bike and 5km run at Changi Beach Park in 1hr 2min 52sec to snag the men’s overall title at the Singapore
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    • 100 12 Charles Chong, an MP for Pasir Ris-Punggol GRC (centre), opening the Inspiring Sporting Singapore Photography Exhibition with the click of an antique camera at the Sengkang Sports and Recreation Centre yesterday. Organised in support of the upcoming Youth Olympic Games, it features local athletes in action, including
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    • 246 12 REUTERS LAS VEGAS: Floyd Mayweather was reluctant to commit to a mega-fight with Manny Pacquiao, after embellishing his unbeaten record by outclassing fellow American Shane Mosley in a welterweight bout on Saturday. He was expected to meet the Filipino earlier this year in a match-up
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    • 597 12  -  ARUNNER’S DIARY BY JEANETTE WANG jwang@sph.com.sg WHEN Robert Kiprono Cheruiyot cruised to the Boston Marathon title two weeks ago in 2hr 5min 52sec, he smashed the course record by over a minute. But what was more amazing was how relaxed he looked.
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    • 58 13 AI MIYAZATO, who shot a 71 on Saturday to take a one-stroke lead in windy conditions at the LPGA Tour’s Tres Marias Championship in Mexico. The 24-year-old Japanese golfer was raised in the small village
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    • 84 13 Today Football S-League: Albirex v Geylang (Jurong East), SAFFC v Woodlands (Choa Chu Kang) 7.45pm. English Premier League: Wigan v Hull (Live, Ch222 Ch255, 8.25pm), Blackburn v Arsenal (Live, Ch222 Ch255,11.55pm). Tomorrow Football S-League: Etoile v Beijing (Queenstown, 7.45pm). Scottish Premier League: Celtic v Rangers (Live, Ch218,
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    • 534 13 Basketball NBA play-offs 2nd rd (best-of-seven series): Cleveland 101 Boston 93 (Cleveland lead series 1-0). Cricket World T20 In Gros Islet, St Lucia: Afghanistan 115-8 in 20 overs (N. Ali 50; A. Nehra 3-19). India 116-3 in 14.5 overs (M. Vijay 48; H. Hassan 1-8). India won by 7
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    • 474 13 Back-to-back MVP winner overcomes elbow pain to fire Cavaliers to victory AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, REUTERS CLEVELAND: LeBron James celebrated his second straight National Basketball Association (NBA) Most Valuable Player award by scoring 35 points, as the Cleveland Cavaliers began their second-round play-off series with a 101-93 win
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    • 355 13 ASSOCIATED PRESS TOGO (Japan): Japanese teenage golf prodigy Ryo Ishikawa made history yesterday when he shot a 12-under 58 the lowest score on a major golf Tour to win The Crowns. The 18-year-old, who was six shots behind leader Shigeki Maruyama at the start of the
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    • 360 13 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE CHARLOTTE (North Carolina): Tiger Woods’ poor performance at the Quail Hollow Championship caught many by surprise, but not Geoff Ogilvy. When Woods tied for fourth in his return to competition at last month’s Masters, many assumed he was back in business after taking
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    • 45 10 SHOWDOWN Wednesday’s City-Spurs match will play key role in deciding who is 4th. B11 MOVING ON Tao Li’s Australian coach returns to Hobart today after split with swimmer. B12 WHAT A ROUND Golfer Ryo Ishikawa shoots 58 to win his seventh Japan Tour title. B13
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  • 360 13 OBITUARIES “In my Father’s house are many rooms, if it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you?” Jesus Christ (John 14:2) LIM SONG LIANG, FRANCIS Age: 82 was called home to be with God on 1 May 2010 Dearly missed
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  • 941 14 OBITUARIES TOH LYE CHOON Director of Benwin Singapore Pte Ltd Age: 82 passed away peacefully on 1/5/2010, leaving behind loved ones. (Wife: Goh Ai Boon, deceased) Sons: Daughters-in-law: Toh Sing Kim Teo Yak Fa Toh Seng Huat, Peter Lua Soh Hoon Toh Seng Teck, Michael Sun Sopheap Daughters: Sons-in-law: Toh
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    • 128 16 ENERGY EFFICIENT INDUSTRIES It is not just a vision, it is in your hands. Energy efficiency is fast becoming a currency for the global competitiveness of companies as it enhances long-term business competitiveness and improves bottomlines. As such, the National Environment Agency (NEA), Energy Market Authority (EMA) and Economic Development
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    • 30 18 FOUR-DIGIT DRAW May 2 2010 FIRST◆3105 SECOND◆5406 THIRD◆5255 STARTERS 0915 1257 1500 1597 3440 4078 4928 6434 6440 8765 CONSOLATIONS 1258 2522 3855 4453 6788 7187 7600 8306 9355 9595
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  • MONEY.
    • 737 20  -  It is offering 560 million shares at a maximum price of $1.19 each BY HARSHA JETHNANI harshamj@sph.com.sg CHINESE shipbuilder New Century Shipbuilding has launched its initial public offering (IPO) with plans to raise $666.4 million, which
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    • 118 20 www.straitstimes.com MOST-READ ONLINE ‘Cage home’ rents above condos’ MOST COMMENTED ON More say Singapore a great place to live in. Says otherside: “Every country has its own problems. At least Singapore is far better than many other countries in the world,
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    • 684 16  -  Revamp is part of exec chairman’s plan to take investment firm forward BY LEE SU SHYAN ASSISTANT MONEY EDITOR sushyan@sph.com.sg IN THE two years since she triumphed in a very expensive takeover battle for Straits Trading, executive chairman Chew Gek Khim has been
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    • ONTHEMOVE
      • 63 16 Christopher Pan and Ruziah Mohd Amin: Teledata chairman and director respectively were voted off the board at the company’s annual general meeting on Friday last week. Lennard Ng Wee Chong and Rayson Nobin Kumar Hazra: Appointed non-executive director and executive director respectively. Low Suk Ling: Mr
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      • 20 16 Craig McGee: Appointed head of South-east Asian equities and head of sales trading at Standard Chartered.
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      • 53 16 Kng Hwee Tin: Appointed head of group audit. Ms Kngwill take over from Mr Lai Teck Poh, who retired after 22 years with the bank. Ching Wei Hong: Appointed head of global consumer financial services. Soon Tit Koon: Returns to the chief financial officer position, following
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      • 73 16 Tony Tan Tee Hieong: Appointed deputy chief executive of CapitaRetail China Trust Management. Hazel Chew: Appointed financial controller for CapitaMalls Asia. Lui Chong Chee: Leaving as chief executive of CapitaLand Financial from June 1, but will continue to serve as chairman of Australand. Chief investment officer
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    • 438 17 PM Rudd prepares for backlash as tax means big cut in earnings for mining firms BLOOMBERG CANBERRA: Australia will impose a 40 per cent tax on the profits of resource companies like BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto Group to pay for infrastructure,
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    • 368 17 REUTERS OMAHA: Billionaire Warren Buffett launched a strong defence of Berkshire Hathaway’s US$5 billion (S$6.8 billion) investment in Goldman Sachs and the investment bank’s embattled chief executive, Mr Lloyd Blankfein. Speaking at Berkshire’s annual meeting before an estimated 40,000 shareholders, Mr Buffett’s forceful defence
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    • 825 18  - Greek crisis not quite Lehman redux yet But global fallout may ensue if Europeans don’t get rescue act together fast C A I JIN BY GOH ENG YEOW SENIOR CORRESPONDENT engyeow@sph.com.sg Cai Jin runs every Monday and covers financial matters and corporate governance issues that can affect investors. The two
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    • 620 18  -  BY JONATHAN KWOK LAST month was not one for the faint-hearted, with the local market turning into a roller-coaster that left investors hanging on to their seats. There were plenty of mixed signals with some sectors China stocks and maritime firms turning
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      • 455 15  -  Jitters over ongoing woes; reporting season could lift sentiment BULLS AND BEARS BY DAWN ZENG dzeng@sph.com.sg AFTER weathering a tumultuous market rocked by fears over Europe’s debt crisis last week, investors hoping to catch a breather this week may be in for
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      • 196 15 Week's Top Rises CENTS GLD 10US$ ***** 437.3 2.9 Lyxor MS India 10US$ 1722 155.8 7.1 Thai Prime Fd 503 127.1 22.7 JMH 3682 103.9 2.1 DBXT FTVietnam 10US$ 4707 94.3 1.5 OUE 1720 92.0 5.7 DBXT AUDMM 5SG$ ***** 64.0 0.3 Jardine C&C 3048 60.0 2.0
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      • 386 15  -  BY LEE SU SHYAN ASSISTANT MONEY EDITOR SEMBCORP Industries said over the weekend that it had not received any documents relating to legal action taken by Dutch water company Cascal over Sembcorp’s proposed buyout bid. Sembcorp’s announcement came after Cascal released a statement
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      • 2719 15 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS A unit trust or investment-linked insurance policy qualifies for inclusion under the CPF Investment Scheme if it has: a three-year track record, top quartile performance, a sales charge not exceeding 3 per cent and an expense ratio that is lower than the median of existing funds in
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      • 911 19  -  Experts say such social networking websites can be useful for sharing information beneficial to the company BY DICKSON LI dicksonl@sph.com.sg WHAT’S on your mind? That is a question some of the more mature staff at OCBC Bank have been asking their younger, Generation
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    • 545 3  -  lin wenjian Chinese actress Bai Bing had to overcome several childhood fears while filming the period drama The Myth. The 24-year-old Xi’an native tells Life! over the telephone in her crisp Mandarin: “The role I played required me to ride a horse
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    • 382 5  -  But still, his more famous twin brother, Kim Jun Su aka Xiah of pop group TVXQ, stole the show adeline chia chiahta@sph.com.sg Over 2,000 fans packed a Resorts World Sentosa ballroom to catch a glimpse of new Korean pop singer Kim Jun Ho, also known as
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    • 246 5  -  reviewdance VELOCITY Horse (Taiwan) Esplanade Theatre Studio Last Friday tara tan Despite its energetic title, Velocity never really went anywhere. This hour-long performance by Taiwanese all-male dance troupe Horse (below) played with mime, acrobatics and puppetry. Using five bodies, a bicycle and reams of brown parcel paper,
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    • 444 6  -  They include comedies, dramas and romances kezia toh keziatoh@sph.com.sg This year marks the 20th edition of the European Union Film Festival, making it the longest running film festival in town after the home-grown Singapore International Film Festival, which has just held its 23rd edition.
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      188 6 The Father Of My Children (PG) France A drama about family directed by Mia Hansen-Love, where a dedicated film producer, despite his seemingly perfect life, succumbs to depression. When: Friday, 9pm (110 minutes) Same Same But Different (PG) Germany Based on true events, director Detlev Buck tells the love
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    • 503 8  -  The Silk Road Ensemble perform works by cross-cultural composers and breach barriers reviewconcert THE SILK ROAD ENSEMBLE WITH YO-YO MA Esplanade Concert Hall Last Friday chang tou liang stlife@sph.com.sg TheSilkRoadEnsemble,founded by eminent cellist Yo-Yo Ma, celebrated its 10th anniversary with an Asian tour, which concluded with two
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    • 371 8  -  Chang Tou Liang reviewconcert BEETHOVEN THE BOYS T’ang Quartet Esplanade Recital Studio, Last Saturday In what seems like the T’ang Quartet’s first concert on its own for many months, it presented a well-thought-out 90-minute programme that was a primer on the string quartet genre. Cellist
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      • 909 2  -  8QUESTIONSWITH...DanielHenney The Korean-American is a womaniser in Three Rivers and had a hard time with medical terms jocelyn lee jocelee@sph.com.sg Korean-American actor-model Daniel Henney played a caring heart-throb doctor when he broke into the scene with Korean idol drama, My Lovely Samsoon, in 2005. In
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      • 475 2 Washington Post Washington The distant war in Afghanistan has felt a whole lot closer since seven American soldiers in the 82nd Airborne shucked off desert fatigues for tattoo-baring costumes made from caution tape and cardboard, in a viral remake of Lady Gaga’s
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      • 633 2  -  cheryl tan Actor David Krumholtz plays a maths genius on crime television drama series Numb3rs, but the math equations he scrawls and solves for it used to scare him as a kid and in fact, still do. The 32-year-old New Yorker keeps journalists chuckling with
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      • 2080 4  -  Socialite and former beauty queen gets primped and polished for a ball in seven hours a day with Sharel Ho akshita nanda akshitan@sph.com.sg Socialite Sharel Ho says inner beauty is more important than what is on the outside. At the same time, she is well aware that
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      • 571 7  -  French graffiti artist Miss.Tic has been chased and arrested by the police for ‘vandalising’ christa yeo mpyeo@sph.com.sg Say graffiti and one thinks of young punks armed with spray cans and playing hide-and-seek with the police. So French street artist Miss.Tic, 54, does not fit into the
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      • 683 7  -  veronica koh It is just a humble cup of teh-o kosong (tea without sugar) that costs 80 cents. But Mr Stephen Twining, a 10thgeneration member of the family which lends its name to the famed Twinings tea, lowers his nose into the styrofoam cup and
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    • 2923 9 mustwatch free to air channel 5 SUNSHINE Channel 5, 7.30pm AM 6.00 Entertainment Tonight (V) 6.30 Primetime Morning 8.00 The Amazing Race 16 (V) 8.45 Just For Laughs Gags 8 (V) 9.00 Planet’s Funniest Animals 8 (V)/9.30 The Martha Stewart Show 3 (IE) 10.30 The Ellen DeGeneres Show 7 (V)
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    • 135 9 The weather Showers with thunder mainly over northern and western Singapore in the afternoon. SUNRISE 6.57am MOONRISE 11.28pm SUNSET 7.07pm MOONSET 10.57am °C 34/27 AIR QUALITY PSI 35 (GOOD) FOR UPDATES AND MORE DETAILS, CALL METEOROLOGICAL SERVICES DIVISION, NEA: 6542-7788 OR GO ONLINE TO www.nea.gov.sg/metsin TIDES TODAY FIRST HIGH TIDE
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      • 360 2 A few teenagers have been hurt during sports competitions and some experts are looking into how to prevent more injuries from occurring. The Government has approved a safety review of sports activities in schools that will be finished in three or four months. Among other
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      • 126 2 A one-stop centre for students to get information, make complaints or get redress from private schools opened late last month. The Student Services Centre hopes to protect students from unscrupulous private school owners. It is located in the YMCA Building in Orchard Road, and was set
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      • 338 2  -  The INside Track BY SERENE GOH BY SERENE EDITOR To science fiction fans, “sensawunda” is what distinguishes the genre from other types of writing. The term is literally the literally mash-up of the words “sense of wonder” and refers to that point in a science fiction
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        96 3 Agsnce F r ance-Presse BSC News The President of South Africa Jacob Zuma revealed that he does not have HIV, the virus that causes the disease Aids, during the launch of a programme to encourage more South Africans to get tested for the disease. The 68-year-old, who has
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      • 671 3 sources: The Guardien Times of London Wall Street Journal Christien Science Monito THE NEWS Extraterrestrials probably exist, but humans should avoid making contact with them because there is a chance it could be a disaster for us, says scientist Stephen Hawking (below). THE FACE British scientist
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        96 3 .Agence France- Presse The Guardian One of the world’s top bullfighters has been gored during a bullfight. Spaniard Jose Tomas was injured by a 470kg bull named Navegante in the Mexican city of Aguascalientes. The bull’s horn pierced his left thigh, puncturing a major artery and causing him to
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        91 3 Agence France-Presse The British ambassador to Yemen has escaped a suicide bomb attack that officials say may have been carried out by Al-Qaeda terrorists. The bomber, who was wear- ing a belt stuffed with explosives, threw himself at a convoy of cars that was escorting ambassador Timothy Torlot through
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      • 1246 4/5  -  EISENTEO finds out if a teenage band can survive on just a handful of power chords and a head full of dreams. EISEN TEO oung rockers are fuelling a growing number of jam studios here. They spend hundreds of dollars a month to rent rooms
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      • 482 6  -  BY EISEN TEO It is not every day that professional stage actors come to your school to answer your burning questions about performing a Shakespeare play yes, the William Shakespeare. But 1,700 junior college and secondary school students had that opportunity early last month when actors
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      • 275 6  -  SERENE LUO At one booth, two presenters wore traditional Korean hanboks; at another, students wore Mexican sombrero hats they had made using cardboard and paper. At Pei Hwa Secondary School, which celebrated International Friendship Day with a carnival on April 21, students from its graduating classes
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      • 259 7 You do not need sophisticated cameras to take good shots, as shown by this week’s feature. Fifteen-year-old Crystal Lim Mei Yin and 16-year-old Nur Syahidah snapped their shots with the pocket digital cameras that they usually carry around. Crystal, a Secondary 3 student from Evergreen
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      • 191 7 Members of the anti-govern-ment “red shirt” movement cheering atop abandoned military vehicles near the Democracy Monument in Bangkok on April 13. Their rallies, bent on forcing Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva to step down, is the worst Bangkok has seen. To date, 27 people have died
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      • 252 7 If your name is Stacy Khaw Shan Wen of Tanjong Katong Girls’ School, congratulations. The Straits Times hosted its first Media Club workshop of the year on March 26, and the 100 students who attended were invited to interview and write an article about Singapore Idol
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      • 386 8/9  -  BY SERENE LUO If you are a follower of TV teen dramas, then you would ouareafollwerofTVteendramas,thenyouwould know that being a nerdy geek is social suicide for a teenager. But it is different when you are a music geek, as Wilson Wyatt Hoe, 18, will
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      • 288 10 Early last month, IN asked you how you would like your father to be more involved in your school and lifestyle. Here is what Brenda Foo, 15, from Bowen Secondary School had to say: “I would be more than willing to get my father involved in my
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      • 632 10 QUESTION “I feel that sex education is becoming more obscene. I feel that sex is a very dirty and degrading thing to do. “Whenever there are sex education lessons, I feel disgusted and refuse to talk about it. I even try to skip the lectures or presentations.
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      • 736 11  -  BY ANDREW DUFFY What is happening in the world of fashion here? A new international show, the Asian Fashion Exchange (AFX) has just boosted interest in fashion. Three government agencies the Singapore Tourism Board (STB), International Enterprise Singapore and Spring Singapore joined forces with
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      • 525 12/13  -  Read the YouthInk articles in the Home section. Lesson activity by SONIA SNG The topic of discussion in today’s “My Life” is safety in sports. With all the hype about the Youth Olympic Games and the encouragement to adopt healthy and active lifestyles, it is important
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      • 278 12/13  -  Read the editorial found at the start of the Review section. Lesson activity by SONIA SNG The editorial represents The Straits Times’ official opinion on the current issue of the day, be it international or local. This opinion normally draws on several news articles
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