The Straits Times, 5 July 2010

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    19 1 THE STRAITS TIMES. MICA (P) 094/11/2009 MONDAY, JULY 5 2010 A SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS PUBLICATION ESTABLISHED 1845 90 CENTS
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      Lock icon India reviews caning
      52 1 THE case of a 12-year-old pupil who committed suicide after being caned in school has created an uproar over the illegal but often tolerated practice in India’s school system. Studies have shown that two out of three children in India have been victims of corporal punishment. ?WORLD
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      Lock icon Way to stay in touch
      74 1 A GROUP of National University of Singapore students have come up with a novel way for foreign workers to stay in touch with their families. Armed with a video camera and a laptop, the students filmed messages from the workers to their families and uploaded
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      Lock icon English in KL schools
      47 1 PARENTS in Malaysia have formed a group to campaign for the use of English to teach science and mathematics in schools. They are concerned with the standards after the government reverted to teaching the two subjects in Malay last year. ?WORLD PAGE A12
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      Lock icon Outsourcing to France
      51 1 MORE Chinese companies are setting up beachheads in France. The Chateauroux Business District alone will see 30 to 50 Chinese electronic and light manufacturing companies open assembly plants there, creating 4,000 jobs a total of 80 per cent of which will be for French workers. ?REVIEW PAGE
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      Lock icon Nadal wins Wimbledon
      39 1 RAFAEL Nadal captured his second Wimbledon men’s singles title yesterday. The Spanish world No. 1 beat Czech Tomas Berdych 6-3, 7-5, 6-4 in the final yesterday. It was his eighth Grand Slam title. ?SPORT PAGE B12
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    Lock icon THE GAME IS UP:
    65 1 A suspect being arrested by police after a Geylang coffee shop secretly operating as an illegal betting centre was busted late on Saturday night by police officers who swarmed the place. The 60-strong crowd watching the World Cup match between Germany and Argentina were shocked when
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    Lock icon Rising yuan forces rethink of China ops
    563 1 Manufacturers consider moving to places with lower costs like India AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE REUTERS XINHUA THE recent rise of the yuan is prompting a rethink among Asian companies with manufacturing operations in China. Analysts say a more robust yuan would further erode China’s labour-cost
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    Lock icon Wang Yuegu triumphs at Japan Open
    517 1  -  BY FRANKIE CHEE frankiec@sph.com.sg SINGAPORE paddler Wang Yuegu ended her 31/2-year singles title drought on the international circuit yesterday. She beat China’s Zhu Yuling 11-7, 17-15, 11-6, 11-1 to win the women’s singles crown at the US$172,000 (S$240,000) Japan Open. The tournament is the
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      127 1 ST star artist Miel captures the charms of Tiong Bahru Peh Shing Huei returns to Urumqi one year after the riots Goh Eng Yeow on why IPO of Chinese bank is being closely watched LIFE! PAGE C3 WORLD PAGE A8 MONEY PAGE B18 BREAKING NEWS: www.straitstimes.com INTERACT: www.stomp.com.sg EMAIL: stomp@stomp.com.sg
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        Lock icon US finance: Middling controls likely
        79 2 WE SAY The financial regulatory reform Bill that will emerge from the United States Congress this month will be weaker than intended. It may not be designed to forestall another financial crisis, not that any nation’s legislature looking at law changes will be able to.
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      • Article
        Lock icon Uphold value system
        33 2 COLUMNS The military profession is not just any job and the Singapore Armed Forces should guard against seeing it as a mere occupation, says Ho Shu Huang. REVIEW PAGE A16
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        Lock icon The invisible culprit
        29 2 Political leaders must put a price on carbon emissions and not wait for an elusive global agreement on climate change, says Warren Fernandez. REVIEW PAGE A17
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        Lock icon Gantries deter motorists
        37 2 OUR READER SAYS The current ERP system works because it is supported by the psychology of human behaviour and a satellite-based system may not be as effective, says reader Soh Star. FORUM PAGE A18
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        Lock icon ONLINE BLOGS
        31 2 www.straitstimes.com Loh Keng Fatt shares which Youth Olympic Games song he prefers. Janice Tai looks at the view on domestic help in Japan after an expatriate couple was stabbed.
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      Lock icon Life is tough at 24 with Us and Them
      1086 2  -  Young Singaporeans too are discomfited by huge foreign presence here BY RACHEL CHANG rchang@sph.com.sg MY SISTER was back in town this past month for the first time since moving to Tanzania, in East Africa, a year ago. During an idle conversation
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      Lock icon YUP, teens can take part in PAP activities
      788 3  -  They will learn how party works, join in constituency activities BY LI XUEYING POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT xueying@sph.com.sg THE People’s Action Party (PAP) is wooing young members. Its youth wing, the Young PAP (YP), has started a programme for teenagers aged between 15 and
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      Lock icon Four new faces in WP central executive committee
      365 3  -  BY SUE-ANN CHIA EVEN as the top two leaders in the Workers’ Party (WP) remain unchanged, four new faces were elected to its 15-member central executive committee last night. The four newbies elected at the party’s conference of organisers were Ms Frieda
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      Lock icon Civil Service could see 40% budget cuts
      451 4 Move comes in bid to shrink record deficit THRIFTY BRITAIN REUTERS AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE LONDON: Britain’s Civil Service is bracing for possible unprecedented spending cuts of up to 40 per cent, which if made could put whole swathes of spending programmes and hundreds of
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      Lock icon 6.39 PM
      95 4  -  BY AIDAH RAUF 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 Muslim finds a
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      Lock icon Govt’s lavish ways under scrutiny
      358 4 Clampdown on misuse of public funds SPENDTHRIFT FRANCE LOS ANGELES TIMES PARIS: French government ministers are under orders to lose the easy-come, easy-go attitude. That’s particularly true for secretary of state for overseas development Alain Joyandet, who spent US$143,000 (S$199,000) of taxpayer money on a
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      Lock icon Scientist bags top youth award
      799 6  -  Stem cell expert among four winners honoured this year ANG YIYING TWO scientists who have made waves in the field of stem cell research one of whom had mentored the other were honoured yesterday at the Singapore Youth Awards. Dr Loh Yuin Han, 33, received
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      Lock icon Yip Pin Xiu: Paralympic gold medallist
      91 6 YIP Pin Xiu, 18, did not let her muscular dystrophy get the better of her. Instead, she became one of Singapore’s top athletes, taking home the gold medal in backstroke at the 2008 Paralympic Games in Beijing. She was named Sports Girl of the
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      Lock icon Making desalinated water cheaper
      969 7  -  Challenges remain in finding best way to boost capacity 10 times by 2060 BY GRACE CHUA, LESTER KOK caiwj@sph.com.sg lesterk@sph.com.sg DESALINATION, the process of removing salt and other minerals from water to make it drinkable, is set to play a growing role here. By 2060, Singapore
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      Lock icon Scars of Urumqi riots remain
      1364 8  -  Urumqi, capital of China’s Xinjiang region, was torn in two on July 5 last year as the mainly Muslim Uighur minority clashed with the dominant Han ethnic group. Nearly 200 people were killed and 1,700 injured. The Straits Times was there to witness China’s worst
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      Lock icon A look back at the unrest
      295 9 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Aug 4, 2008: China says “terrorists” killed 17 police officers and border guards in the western city of Kashgar, days before the Beijing Olympics open. Aug 10: At least 10 attackers and one security guard are killed in bombings and a shootout
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      Lock icon WHAT’S ONLINE MOST READ, MOST COMMENTED ON AND MORE
      110 8 www.straitstimes.com MOST-READ ONLINE Gong Li splits from hubby Korean actor found dead MOST COMMENTED ON Major breakthrough: Najib. Says gowherenow: “An estate held in perpetuity is an irreversible interest. This simply means that no one and nothing can take that land
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        Lock icon Xinjiang’s Silk Road past to be revived
        467 9 XINHUA REUTERS KASHGAR (Xinjiang): With China’s central government planning to ramp up growth in Xinjiang, Kashgar has a good chance of catching up, officials and analysts say. The authorities aim to restore southwest Xinjiang, near the borders of Pakistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Afghanistan,
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        Lock icon Beijing’s resource quest goes on
        552 10 No let-up in acquisition bids in neighbouring countries as it becomes more import-dependent REUTERS ASSOCIATED PRESS BEIJING: China is forging ahead with studies of resource reserves and acquisition possibilities in its neighbouring countries, in part spurred by repeated failures to gain much weight in iron
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        Lock icon China’s urbanites to exceed rural dwellers
        407 10 ASSOCIATED PRESS AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE REUTERS BEIJING: China’s urban population is expected to surpass 700 million in the next five years, exceeding the number of rural dwellers for the first time, the country’s top population policy official was cited as saying in a report yesterday.
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        Lock icon 15 die after brakes fail downhill
        239 10 DEADLY BUS CRASHES ASSOCIATED PRESS CEBU: Fifteen people were killed after the brakes on a speeding bus packed with passengers failed and the vehicle slammed into a concrete barrier in the central Philippines. Another 48 people were injured, police said yesterday. The bus carrying
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        Lock icon 12 killed in 10m plunge off bridge
        205 10 ASSOCIATED PRESS SEOUL: A bus plunged off a bridge as it headed to South Korea’s main airport, killing 12 passengers and injuring another dozen people. Last Saturday, the bus struck a guardrail as it tried to avoid a broken-down car and plummeted about
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        Lock icon Base move: US asks Japan to pay extra
        308 10 REUTERS TOKYO: The United States has asked Japan to shoulder additional costs for moving part of the US Marine airbase in southern Japan to Guam, Kyodo news agency said. The request could further complicate bilateral ties already hurt by disputes over where
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        Lock icon Thaksin ‘must play a role’ in peace plan
        612 11  -  Independent group says Thai reconciliation effort will not work otherwise BY NIRMAL GHOSH THAILAND CORRESPONDENT nirmal@sph.com.sg BANGKOK: The International Crisis Group (ICG) yesterday urged the Thai government to “turn away from authoritarianism” and build a new “national consensus” encompassing deep reforms, including
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        Lock icon Cambodia arrests 2 Thais over Bangkok attack
        226 11 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE PHNOM PENH: Cambodia has arrested two Thais, believed to be linked to the anti-gov-ernment “red shirt” movement, over a bomb attack in Bangkok last month. The suspects, a man and a woman, both 33, were arrested in Cambodia’s northwestern Siem Reap
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        Lock icon Monorail project hits a snag
        66 11 The much-awaited Aug 29 opening of the RM15.9 million (S$6.9 million) monorail project along the Malacca River has been delayed. Head engineer Rafiee Mamat said there were still components of the project that had yet to be completed and said the monorail would likely be
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        Lock icon Malaysian group wants maths and science taught in English
        304 12 THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK KUALA LUMPUR: Parents concerned about the standard of mathematics and science teaching have rallied under a new body to pressure the government to revert to teaching the two subjects in English. The Parent Action Group for Education
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        Lock icon Caning under fire in India after boy’s suicide
        556 12 Death of 12-year-old from top school sparks outrage against illegal but common practice AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE NEW DELHI: Illegal but often tolerated, caning is rife in India’s school system but the recent suicide of a 12-year-old pupil after a beating has brought the
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        Lock icon Petraeus vows to smash Afghan safe havens
        432 12 ASSOCIATED PRESS AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE KABUL: United States General David Petraeus formally assumed command of the 130,000strong international force in Afghanistan yesterday, declaring “we are in this to win”, despite rising casualties and growing scepticism about the nearly nine-year-old war. During a ceremony at
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        Lock icon Pakistani PM to hold terror forum
        203 12 ASSOCIATED PRESS ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s Prime Minister has agreed to hold a national conference on ways to combat terrorism, after the main opposition leader said the government should negotiate with the country’s Taleban militants to improve security. Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani’s decision late on
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        Lock icon ‘A Whale’ swims in to help clean up the Gulf
        541 13 Converted tanker under test; it’ll skim water to remove oil ASSOCIATED PRESS REUTERS NEW ORLEANS: Latest hopes of clearing oil from BP’s spewing well in the Gulf of Mexico are riding on a massive new skimmer. Taiwan-based TMT Shipping has
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        Lock icon Lebanon’s top Shi’ite cleric Fadlallah dies
        328 13 ASSOCIATED PRESS AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE BEIRUT: Lebanon’s top Shi’ite cleric, Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah (left), died yesterday after a long illness, a close aide and a hospital official said. He was 75. Sheikh Fadlallah, known for his staunch anti-Ameri-can stance, was instrumental in the
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        Lock icon Beware govts crushing civil society: Clinton
        543 15 She decries worldwide curbs on rights groups, even in democracies ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON POST REUTERS BAKU (Azerbaijan): On America’s Independence Day, its Secretary of State Hillary Clinton challenged what she called a global crackdown on human rights, lamenting a “steel vice” squeezing the life
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          Lock icon Tight race in Polish polls
          86 15 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE WARSAW: Poles voted yesterday in an election forced by the death in an air crash of conservative president Lech Kaczynski, in what looks to be a tight race between his hardball twin and the governing liberals’ candidate. Opinion polls show Acting President Bronislaw
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          Lock icon Iran ‘proof’ in kidnap case
          104 15 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE TEHERAN: Iran has submitted “evidence” to the Swiss Embassy in Teheran that its nuclear scientist was abducted by United States intelligence agents, the English-language Press TV website reported yesterday. Iranian officials have long maintained that Dr Shahram Amiri was kidnapped by American agents
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          Lock icon Archbishop says ‘sorry’
          77 15 ASSOCIATED PRESS MELBOURNE: One of Australia’s most senior archbishops apologised yesterday to victims of sexual abuse by priests in a message condemning the behaviour and the Catholic Church’s failure to properly deal with the problem. Archbishop of Melbourne Denis Hart sent the message to all churches in
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          Lock icon Bomber outlives prognosis
          97 15 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE LONDON: The Lockerbie bomber could survive for 10 years or longer, according to the cancer specialist who said last year he would be dead within three months of his release, reported The Sunday Times. Professor Karol Sikora, who assessed Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi for the
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          Lock icon Sumo wrestler sacked
          59 15 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE TOKYO: Japan’s sumo authority yesterday fired a stable master and a high-ranking wrestler mired in an illegal gambling scandal that exposed the ancient sport’s ties to organised crime, reports said. Kotomitsuki, 34, who is ranked second only to the yokozuna, or grand champion, became the
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          Lock icon Female Syariah judges
          73 15 BERNAMA THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK KUANTAN: Two women have been appointed Syariah Court judges, the first for Malaysia. Ms Suraya Ramli, 31, and Ms Rafidah Abdul Razak, 39, were made Federal Territory of Putrajaya and Kuala Lumpur Syariah Court judges, respectively, in mid-May after receiving the consent
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          Lock icon India firm on price hikes
          71 15 REUTERS KOLKATA: India will not back down on a recent increase in fuel prices, said Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee yesterday. His comments came a day ahead of a nationwide strike by the main opposition party. India freed up state-subsidised petrol prices late last month and
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        Lock icon Oil blast survivor
        50 15 10-year-old Olivier Jerrard, who survived an oil explosion, taking a rest in Sange, Congo, on Saturday. A tanker truck hauling fuel on a rural eastern Congo highway overturned last Friday night, gushing oil and exploding in a massive fireball that killed scores of bystanders. PHOTO: ASSOCIATED PRESS
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        Lock icon A shot in the arm for US gun ownership
        908 14  -  Supreme Court ruling makes it easier to own handguns for self-defence BY TRACY QUEK QUEK US CORRESPONDENT tracyq@sph.com.sg IT HAS been 17 years since Mrs Elizabeth Wasson was strangled in her home in Oregon. But Ms Erika Gonzalez still cannot help
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  • REVIEW & FORUM.
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      Lock icon US finance: Middling controls more likely
      431 16 THE United States Senate is likely to pass a weaker financial regulatory reform Bill in coming weeks than one capable of preventing another destructive banking blowout. It is unrealistic to expect that any legislature, the US Congress included, can forestall fully such disasters. A
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      Lock icon Fundamental values should still be SAF personnel’s target
      772 16  -  INSTITUTION VS OCCUPATION BY HO SHU HUANG FOR THE STRAITS TIMES The writer is an associate research fellow at the Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies, a unit of the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University. AS THE Singapore
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      Lock icon Afghan mission: Revisit, rethink needed
      821 16  -  BY ROBERT KARNIOL DEFENCE WRITER rkarniol@sph.com.sg THE United States Central Intelligence Agency director, Mr Leon Panetta, said recently that the Al-Qaeda network’s presence in Afghanistan has been reduced to near irrelevance. “I think, at most, we’re looking at maybe 50 to 100 (operatives). Maybe fewer,”
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        Lock icon Put a price on the carbon culprit
        982 17  -  BY WARREN FERNANDEZ FOR THE STRAITS TIMES The writer, a former deputy editor of this paper, is regional director (Asia-Pacific) for global communications strategy with Shell, and a board member of the Energy Studies Institute. BY THE time your copy of The Straits
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        826 17  -  BY MICHAEL RICHARDSON FOR THE STRAITS TIMES The writer is a visiting senior research fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. SLOWLY but surely, the barriers preventing the spread of nuclear technology and materials that can be used to make weapons of
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        446 18  -  Soh Star THE report last Thursday (“ERP system: From gantries to satellites”) said a gantry-free system based on the use of satellites to track vehicles is being proposed, and that it can be easily extended to congested roads islandwide. A satellite-based Electronic Road Pricing (ERP)
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        451 18  -  Tan Quee Hong Director Pollution Control Department National Environment Agency WE REFER to Mr Ng Ya Ken’s letter (“Are we prepared?”; June 21) and the articles by Ms Victoria Vaughan (“Haze ‘is bad for your heart’”; June 14) and Dr Andy Ho (“Clear
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        164 18  -  Tan Khim Ser President Singapore Life Art Society WE THANK Ms Devagi Sanmugam for her valuable feedback last Tuesday (“Language discourtesy leaves sour taste”). The Singapore Life Art Society usually opens its art exhibitions with speeches in Mandarin as the invited guests are generally Mandarin-speaking.
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      277 2  -  SUE-ANN CHIA AS THE cool morning breeze blew across Woodlands Stadium yesterday, almost 3,000 people swayed to a slow and steady rhythm. Dressed in red and white, participants looked like they were rehearsing for a mass display in the upcoming National Day Parade. But
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      619 3  -  12 men nabbed, $1,500 seized in police raid at coffee shop in Geylang BY KIMBERLY SPYKERMAN kimspyke@sph.com.sg A GEYLANG coffee shop allegedly secretly operating as an illegal betting centre was the focus of police operations late last Saturday night. The 60-strong crowd watching
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      660 7  -  Let’s support each other, rather than strive to put everyone down especially ourselves SOAPBOX BY YEO SAM JO styouth@sph.com.sg IT IS official: We hate ourselves. I say this because of some recent events which should have been proud moments for our country, but instead degenerated
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      527 7  -  LETTERS HOME BY TABITHA MOK The writer, 23, is a final-year medical student at the University of Western Australia. WHEN I was growing up in Singapore, I would always wonder when I would be able to support my country in the
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      199 6 THAI Express founder Ivan Lee has bought into the MindChamps PreSchool franchise and has opened a centre at Paragon. The pre-school is on Level 6 and occupies a total floor area of 5,700 sq ft, including an outdoor sand play area. It
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        54 6 The CATS Classified Car-nival is on this Sunday at Singapore Expo Hall 5. Look forward to great deals with close to 100 booths and more than 60 exhibitors. Look out for activities such as the race queen pageant and petrol vouchers of up to $3,500 to be given
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        52 6 VenoGel is an analgesic treatment that relieves muscular aches with no stickiness or strong medicinal smells. Available at Unity outlets at the introductory price of $10.90 (Usual: $12.90). From now till July 15, exchange your old tube of analgesic gel at selected Unity outlets for a 20g tube
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        43 6 Milo contains Protomalt, a special malt extract made from malted barley grains. The chocolate drink has complex carbohydrates, which is a combination of glucose, maltose, oligosaccharides and polysaccharides. Also present in barley are nutrients such as Vitamin B, C and calcium.
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        41 6 Bee Cheng Hiang is the first in Singapore to introduce the new Gems bak kwa. Made from 100 per cent marbled pork cheek meat, they are shaped into slender slices to satisfy snacking impulses.Retailsat$7per100g. Visit www.bch.com.sg for more information.
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        51 6 Burger King has launched BK a4dables a selection of four selected meals priced at just $4.95. Available after breakfast hours (after 11am), the meals are BK Singles Mushroom Swiss, BK Singles BBQ Turkey Bacon, WhopperJr or Spicy BKChick’n Crisp. Each meal comes with me-dium-sized fries and a soft
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      275 6 LOCAL directory search engine rednano.sg by SPH (Singapore Press Holdings) Search is now in collaboration with the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA) for the Digital Concierge Programme. The programme supports players in the retail and food and beverage sectors who are setting
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      242 6 READERS of The Sunday Times may have been surprised to find a fridge magnet with the June 27 edition of the paper. The magnet, which highlighted the importance of planning early for retirement, was part of an advertisement campaign by investments firm
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      180 6 TANGS is offering a selection of treats to itsshopperswiththemessage“Wearethe World”forthemonthsofJulyandAugust. Shoppers who spend a minimum of $300 and $250 for Citi Tangs Platinum Cardmembers at selected concepts, such as Wardrobe Men, Timepiece, Playlab and Style Travel, will be entitled to a gift with purchase a limited-edition organic“We
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        1168 8  -  South American teams fail big tests after easy routes to quarter-finals Our man ini South Terrence Voon tvoon@sph.com.sg IN THE space of two days, the World Cup has shown us what a fickle beast it can be. The best player in the tournament has gone home, the
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        272 8 RESULTS Paraguay 0 Spain 1 TODAY Rest day TOMORROW Uruguay v Netherlands (Semi-final) Live, Wednesday, 2.30am StarHub Ch261 263, mio TV Ch88, MediaCorp Ch5 HD5 Having seen off favourites Brazil, the Dutch now face Uruguay, who will be without suspended star Luis Suarez (right). The
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        718 9  -  Teams show that games can be won without dominating possession STEXPERT’S VIEW BY GERRY ARMSTRONG stsports@sph.com.sg IN THEIR last two games, Germany smashed in four goals each against England and Argentina. And they did not even have to dominate possession on either occasion. Against the South
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        694 9 Paraguay 0 Spain 1 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE REUTERS JOHANNESBURG: It may not have been the most convincing of victories but with their 1-0 win over Paraguay on Saturday, Spain finally put to rest years of futility in the World Cup. David Villa
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        416 9 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE ASSOCIATED PRESS JOHANNESBURG: Paraguay coach Gerard Martino was left feeling aggrieved after seeing his side denied what he felt was a legitimate goal in the first half of their quarter-final against Spain on Saturday. The South American side were generally considered the
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        390 9 ASSOCIATED PRESS AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE JOHANNESBURG: Uruguay captain Diego Lugano is struggling to be fit for his country’s World Cup semi-final against the Netherlands tomorrow. He injured a right knee ligament in the quarter-final win against Ghana but
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        545 10 Isolated and thwarted, Messi’s World Cup ends in tears ASSOCIATED PRESS CAPE TOWN: Lionel Messi left the World Cup in tears on Saturday after Argentina were demolished by Germany, once again unable to display his genius at the highest level of international football. He showed only
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        671 10 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE CAPE TOWN: Argentina headed home yesterday with their World Cup dream in tatters and coach Diego Maradona lamenting the toughest day of his life as he considered whether to quit. The South American giants did not just lose to
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        410 10 ASSOCIATED PRESS BUENOS AIRES: At the obelisk where Argentinians traditionally gather to celebrate victories, people cried and buried their faces in their hands as they came to terms with the national team’s humiliating World Cup quarter-final loss to Germany. Many
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        196 11 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE ASSOCIATED PRESS JOHANNESBURG: Nelson Mandela met Ghana’s national team on Saturday, welcoming the World Cup’s most successful African side to his home the day after their heart-breaking penalty shoot-out loss to Uruguay in the quarter-finals. He hailed the team for their achievement. “They
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        608 11 Associated Press RONALDO HAS A SON: Was Portugal star Cristiano Ronaldo, who had a poor World Cup, distracted during the tournament? Portuguese media reported yesterday that the Real Madrid player had become a father, quoting sources close to his agent and an “official” Facebook and Twitter post. According
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        751 11 But England coach has few new young talents in time for Euro 2012 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE LONDON: Fabio Capello, who has been spared the chop as England coach despite his team’s early exit from the World Cup, has indicated that he will be axing some of
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        60 11 ?Siti Nadiah Mahfod and Muzammir Ahmad Kamal (top) at the England-Algeria game on June 18 in Cape Town, and posing with an Algerian fan (above). PHOTOS: SITI NADIAH MAHFOD ?Jo Anne Sukumaran (right) at the June 24 game between Cameroon and the Netherlands in Cape Town
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        452 11  -  COUCHVIEW BY TAY YEK KEAK stsports@sph.com.sg THE crystal ball I’ve been using to forecast World Cup matches is in the dustbin. I had advised some friends to put their flats, cars, kids and retirement savings on Brazil versus
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      611 12 World No. 1 demolishes Berdych to underline mastery of all surfaces WIMBLEDON AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE REUTERS LONDON: Rafael Nadal reinforced his position as the world’s No. 1 tennis player when he dismantled Tomas Berdych to reclaim the Wimbledon men’s singles crown yesterday. The Spaniard gave a
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      446 12  -  BY JONATHAN WONG THE World Cup has drawn Singaporeans out of their homes to embrace football as a community and Minister for Community Development, Youth and Sports Vivian Balakrishnan hopes this spirit will continue with the upcoming Youth Olympic Games (YOG).
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        57 13 SINGAPORE golfer Mardan Mamat finished a creditable joint fifth in the Indonesian Open in Jakarta, after a final round one-under 71 yesterday. He ended the US$1 million (S$1.4 million) tournament on the One Asia Tour tied with two others on 279, 10 strokes behind
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        90 13 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE SYLVAN IA (Ohio): South Korean golfer Choi Na Yeon hit a hole-in-one in her three-under 68 on Saturday as she clung to a one-shot lead over American Christina Kim at the LPGA Jamie Farr Owens Corning Classic. Choi, who is seeking her
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        75 13 REUTERS DALLAS: Dirk Nowitzki has agreed terms on a new deal with National Basketball Association team the Dallas Mavericks. The German free agent cannot officially sign a new deal until July 8. But his adviser told the Dallas Star-Telegram that an agreement had already
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        60 13 SINGAPORE karter Daim Hishammudin, 12, won Round Four of the Yamaha SL Cup 2010 Championship yesterday at the Speedway Plus Circuit in Subang Jaya, near Kuala Lumpur yesterday. The Axle BHPetrol Racing Team driver leads the standings with 134 points with one round
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      392 13 ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWTOWN SQUARE (Pennsylvania): Justin Rose found himself in a now-familiar position at the top of the leaderboard in a United States PGA Tour event on Saturday, although the Englishman knows that holding a 54-hole lead counts for little. Having blown a
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      85 13 Today Cycling Tour de France: Stage 2 (Live, Ch205, 8.15pm). Football S-League: Home v Gombak (Clementi, 7.30pm). Tomorrow Cycling Tour de France: Stage 3 (Live, Ch205, 8.15pm). Football S-League: Etoile v Albirex (Queenstown, 7.30pm). World Cup S-final 1: Uruguay v Netherlands (Live, Ch5, mio TV Ch88, StarHub
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      54 13 ASSOCIATED PRESS EUGENE (Oregon): American sprinter Walter Dix (above) spoilt Tyson Gay’s return by winning the 200m at Saturday’s Prefontaine Classic in 19.72sec, edging out Gay by 0.04sec. “It’s not bad for a first race,” said Gay, who had not competed since May because a hamstring
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      460 13 Athletics Prefontaine Classic In Eugene, Oregon (selected winners) Men’s 200m: 1 Walter Dix (USA) 19.72sec. 110m hurdles: David Oliver (USA) 12.90. 5,000m: Tariku Bekele (Eth) 12min 58.93sec. Long jump: Irving Saladino (Pan) 8.46m. Shot put: Christian Cantwell (USA) 22.41m. Women’s 100m: Veronica Campbell-Brown (Jam) 10.78. 400m: Allyson Felix (USA)
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      61 13 MARTINA NAVRATILOVA, the tennis legend, who underwent surgery and radiation treatment after being diagnosed with breast cancer in February. The 53-year-old, who won 18 Grand Slam titles during her career, plans to mark her return to health by
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      473 13 Petacchi wins on return after six years as spills, crashes mar first stage ASSOCIATED PRESS REUTERS BRUSSELS: Alessandro Petacchi of Italy marked his return to the Tour de France after a six-year absence in style, when he won the crash-marred first stage yesterday. The day, however, will
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      489 13  -  ARUNNER’S DIARY BY JEANETTE WANG jwang@sph.com.sg The writer is the Associate Editor of Shape, Singapore’s premier health, fitness, wellness and nutrition magazine for women. Check out the July issue of Shape for more time-saving workouts for a strong core and butt WARM up for five minutes,
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      133 12 S.League S.League World Cup Home United Etoile FC Uruguay Gombak Albirex Holland Mon, 05/07/10 7.30pm Tue, 06/07/10 7.30pm Wed, 07/07/10 2.30am All World Cup matches are on sale. For more details, please check Singapore Pools website. i/v/V Draw No. 2550/2010 Draw Today. Monday, 5 July 2010 Group 1 Prize *650,000
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      38 15 Memory wanders as shadows fall Back to the days of happiness, Days betjond recall. A vision comes before us, So calm, so dear, so sweet, Of her I ips now silent And whose lids are closed in sleep.
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        831 16  -  Some bright spots for traders on local bourse despite US job data gloom BY GOH ENG YEOW SENIOR CORRESPONDENT engyeow@sph.com.sg THERE may still be bright spots left on the local bourse to look forward to, even though global investors’ risk appetite soured considerably with
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      556 17 Leadership shake-up also on cards once leaking oil well is capped: Report REUTERS DUBAI: Troubled oil giant BP could get a reprieve from Middle East financial institutions looking to make a strategic investment in the company, newspapers reported yesterday, citing informed sources. Britain’s Sunday Times
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        103 17 REUTERS KIEV: An International Monetary Fund (IMF) mission said on Saturday it had agreed to recommend a loan of US$14.9 billion (S$20.9 billion) for Ukraine in a deal to help fill the country’s budget gap and boost investor confidence. The deal commits the former Soviet
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        77 17 BLOOMBERG NIAMEY: Bharti Airtel, the Indian mobile phone company that last month completed a US$9 billion (S$12.6 billion) acquisition of Zain’s African assets, said it plans to invest US$100 million in Niger over the next three years. The funds will be used to expand the
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      1056 18  -  Successful listing vital to allay investors’ fears of a hard landing in China’s economy C A I JIN BY GOH ENG YEOW SENIOR CORRESPONDENT engyeow@sph.com.sg JITTERS in the once red-hot Shanghai stock market have emerged as a big concern for investors, as the second half
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      828 19  -  Expansion reflects vital role of Republic in the bank’s growth in Asia BY FRANCIS CHAN franchan@sph.com.sg SINGAPORE is set to play a pivotal role in Standard Chartered Bank’s (Stanchart) growth plans across its key Asian markets. The British banking behemoth is expanding its hub
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      735 19  -  WORKING LIFE BY IAN POH THE demarcation lines may have been clear BlackBerry phones are for business while iPhones and Android devices tend to be for fun but times could be changing. More consumers are downloading applications that are turning their fun phones into
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        95 19 WANG LAISHENG: Appointed executive chairman from last Thursday. RUDOLPH SCHLAIS JR: Retired as executive chairman last Wednesday. He is relinquishing his directorships with companies within the China Auto group on or after the same date. The 69-year-old was responsible for the strategic expansion of the group and
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      641 20  - A concierge at your service at home Such perks being offered by more high-end residential projects BY ESTHER TEO esthert@sph.com.sg CONCIERGE services used to be the preserve of posh hotels but an increasing number of high-end residential developments are including them as perks to attract buyers. Developers and property experts
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      322 1 CPART MONDAY, JULY 5 Table tennis star Feng Tianwei has a shot at earning the World No. 1 ranking. She tells SANDRA LEONG why she does not wear dresses and what she thinks about those cynics who question foreign talent. Her father’s daughter Neighbourhood sketches Monica Mancini on composer Henry
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        1289 2  -  The daughter of Henry Mancini says that her dad’s name opens doors but she had to deliver too eddino abdul hadi dinohadi@sph.com.sg Her father is Henry Mancini, the American tunesmith who gave the world Moon River and is regarded as one of the greatest
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        689 3  -  Four artists capture the enclave’s ‘kampung’ scenes and architecture in an exhibition boon chan bchan@sph.com.sg Tiong Bahru is turning out to be one of the most inspiring neighbourhoods in Singapore. First there was the documentary, Civic Life: Tiong Bahru, shot by London-based film-makers Joe Lawlor and Christine
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        2129 4  -  the monday interview with Feng Tianwei Feng Tianwei wants to buy an HDB home for mum and herself, and bring more glory to Singapore sandra leong sandral@sph.com.sg It is in many ways fitting that table tennis player Feng Tianwei, Singapore’s most decorated athlete in recent years,
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        595 6 The actress does not like onscreen kissing or such films, but is starring in her husband’s Love Ranch Reuters The Washington Post Los Angeles Twilight is likely not very high on Helen Mirren’s movie list. Because, when it comes to romance on film, the Oscar
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        468 6  -  veronica koh At the new Light Editions gallery in Tanjong Pagar Distripark, the art is not just on the walls. While the gallery wants to specialise in showcasing photography-based art, it will also host jazz performances, ikebana demonstrations and sword-fighting shows. This is the brainchild
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        602 7 Tearjerker epic revisits Tangshan earthquake of 1976 and delves into its impact on survivors Associated Press Hong Kong Tangshan, 1976. With China closed to the world, the north-eastern city was impoverished, a crude electric fan considered a luxury. Residents were witnessing the final days of the
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        469 7 Reuters Montreux (Switzerland) British art rockers Roxy Music have returned to the Montreux Jazz Festival with a vintage performance of favourites, 37 years after their first and only previous appearance. Roxy Music, flanked on stage by four backup singers in body-hugging, off-the-shoulder dresses, staged
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      360 8  -  reviewconcert THE SOUND OF MUSIC Singapore Lyric Opera Children’s Youth Choir Esplanade Concert Hall/Last Saturday chang tou liang Singapore is fortunate to have two high-profile children’s choirs which perform regularly. Like the Singapore Symphony Children’s Choir which celebrated its fourth anniversary recently, the Singapore Lyric Opera
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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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        220 2 National water agency PUB has a new 50-year plan to double the country’s use of Newater and desalinated water. Currently, 40 per cent of Singapore’s water comes from those sources, but the PUB plans to double that figure to 80 per cent by 2060.
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        182 2 MRT train users here do not have it as bad as those in Taipei or Shanghai, said SMRT chief executive officer and president Saw Phaik Hwa. According to her, at its most crowded, an SMRT train carries 1,400 passengers far from a train’s “crush load” of
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        186 2 For the sixth month in a row, Singapore’s tourist arrivals have hit record figures. A total of 946,000 foreigners visited the island in May, a 30.3 per cent jump from the 726,000 in May last year. Visitors from Hong Kong showed the highest increase in tourist figures,
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        666 3 Sources: The Straits Times Agence France-Presse The New York Times BBC News Rolling Stone magazine THE WAR In response to the Sept 11, 2001 attacks which were carried out by the Al-Qaeda terrorist network the US and other members of the 28-country North Atlantic Treaty
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        440 6  -  BY LEONG JIA WEI IN CROWDER Research in the United States shows that as many as a third of young people are either bullies or their targets an indicator of the se- gets riousness of bullying in schools. Why so many? I think it is
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        307 7  -  BRYAN TOH Full colour is not always better. That is the belief of 16-year-old Nevin Tan, whose three monochrome photos make up this week’s feature. “The effect contributes to the feeling and emotion that I want my photos to convey,” said the St Joseph’s Institution student, who shoots
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