The Straits Times, 7 April 2012

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  • 36 1 THE STRAITS TIMES MICA(P)002/02/2012 SATURDAY, APRIL 7 2012 A S IN G AP O REPRE SS H O LDIN GS P U BLI C ATI O NE NE S TABLI S HED1 8 4 5 1.00
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    • 57 1 WORK on the first stage of a 420m undersea tunnel at Marina Bay has been completed. The tunnel is part of the Marina Coastal Expressway that is slated to be finished by the end of next year. Drivers can use it to bypass the Marina Bay
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    • 59 1 THE Singapore Table Tennis Association is standing by its move to rest top paddlers earlier in the year, even though the national women’s team now have less time to earn ranking points ahead of the Olympics. Feng Tianwei and company can earn ranking points at
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    • 50 1 THERE were red faces at Malaysia’s information ministry after it first banned “soft” men on state-owned TV, then swiftly retracted the ban. The U-turn was the second this week by the ministry, and came right after a Singapore ballet troupe’s Kuala Lumpur show was cancelled.
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    • 35 1 THE business community is abuzz with excitement about the opportunities that Myanmar has to offer. Experts say that in this frontier market, there is strength in numbers, and companies should team up.
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  • 598 1  -  Ng Eng Hen thinks budget cuts won’t affect US defence capabilities By CHUA CHIN HON US BUREAU CHIEF chinhon@sph.com.sg WASHINGTON: Singapore welcomes the United States’ continuing commitment to the Asia-Pacific, visiting Defence Minister Ng Eng Hen has said, noting that he thought
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  • 288 1  -  By KARAMJIT KAUR AVIATION CORRESPONDENT FLIGHT SQ747, which took off from Changi Airport’s Terminal 3 yesterday, took about four hours 30 minutes longer than usual to land in Hong Kong. But the full load of 375 passengers and 25 crew would not have
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    • 294 1 Drawing power Bid for Rangers Awfully big adventure Singaporean crosses world’s largest sand desert Bill Ng unfazed by club’s £130 million debt PRIME, PAGE A4 Big brands at new suburban malls LIFE! PAGE E3 HOME, PAGE B1 BREAKING NEWS: www.straitstimes.com INTERACT: www.stomp.com.sg EMAIL: stomp@stomp.com.sg VIDEOS: www.razortv.com.sg NEWS TIPS: 1800-*****28 L
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    • VIEW POINTS
      • 49 2 WE SAY The controversy over the shelf life of sports honchos points to the glaring paucity of volunteers to fill posts at national sports associations. For a sustainable and wide volunteer base, take an inclusive approach. Tap veterans and harness the young.
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      • 43 2 COLUMNS There are sound reasons for introducing a social health index, says Phua Mei Pin, but the point is not just to gather information or measure success. Measurement is not an end in itself; it is a means for participation.
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      • 31 2 Jeremy Au Yong fears that the $2 million asking price for a roast meat recipe will lead Singapore’s hawker fare down the slippery slope of soul-less franchises.
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      • 27 2 OUR READER SAYS Maids have a critical part to play in ensuring their own safety while cleaning high-rise windows, says Janis Tan.
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    • 65 2 THE graphics, “To market, to market”, published on April 2, used information from organisers of an exhibition which said that 10 hawker centres with wet markets will be built over the next decade. The National Environment Agency has clarified that wet markets will not necessarily
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    • 1119 2  -  Was comment on women’s table tennis team defeatist or truth? By ROHIT BRIJNATH rohitb@sph.com.sg UNBEATABLEisasportingmyth, invincible is a fabrication. Always there is a chance. Sprinter Usain Bolt may false start and Barcelona FC may have collective diarrhoea. But often, it is a
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    • 621 3  -  It will form part of 5km-long Marina Coastal Expressway By ROYSTON SIM roysim@sph.com.sg A 420M undersea tunnel for motorists the first of its kind here will be completed by the end of this year. The first stage of the tunnel, which dives 20m under the
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    • 611 4  -  By SANJAY NAIR HOUGANG United chairman Bill Ng will not budge in his bold bid for Scottish football club Rangers FC despite reports that its debts could rise past the £130 million (S$260 million) mark. The Straits Times reported yesterday that
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    • 626 4  -  Tycoon faces probe over land deal, alleged soccer match-fixing By PEH SHING HUEI CHINA BUREAU CHIEF shpeh@sph.com.sg BEIJING: New details about detained tycoon Xu Ming’s alleged wrongdoings appear to further implicate troubled Chinese leader Bo Xilai, in this latest twist of a continuing
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    • Article, Illustration
      801 6  -  Fans of B-747 come from far and wide to take jet’s last flight in SIA livery By KARAMJIT KAUR AVIATION CORRESPONDENT karam@sph.com.sg el aircraft, a notebook, a coffee table book on the airline’s B-747 journey and a lanyard. Since 2001, when the last new B-747 entered its
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    • 592 6  -  KARAMJIT KAUR THE first time he saw the jumbo jet, Captain Kenneth Toft told himself there was no way it could take off into the air. “It was just enormous; at least three times bigger than any other aircraft at
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    • 847 8  -  Many in 20s turning to better-paid jobs elsewhere, or waiting for day-off rule to start By AMELIA TAN ameltan@sph.com.sg IF HE had had his way, engineer Matthew Goh would have hired a maid in her 20s, not the 35-year-old he took on
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    • 963 10  -  Exchanges with China ‘qualitatively different’ By CHUA CHIN HON US BUREAU CHIEF chinhon@sph.com.sg WASHINGTON: Singapore has begun building closer defence ties with China, using a familiar template of joint exercises and mutual exchanges that is common to most military-to-military relations. But the relationship remains
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    • 636 12  -  Minister lays to rest latest controversy over ‘ban’ on ‘effeminate’ men on TV “BAN” #1 The Information Ministry’s Information Department, in a post on its Facebook page on Thursday, said radio and TV stations had been asked to immediately halt programmes
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    • 605 14  -  Some of those who went on business mission plan to set up offices there By LENNARD ONG lenong@sph.com.sg SINGAPORE firms are setting their sights on Myanmar following trouble-free elections held recently and the positive results of a business mission to the country in February.
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    • 500 14  -  By LESLIE KAY LIM MYANMAR software engineer Thet Naing Soe’s circle of friends has shrunk considerably over the last six months. Half are back home, nurturing newly minted businesses. The other half are building up their savings to at least $25,00 0 before doing
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    • 1298 16 / 17  -  Case of 13-year-old turns spotlight on rampant child labour By NIRMALA GANAPATHY INDIA CORRESPONDENT gnirmala@sph.com.sg THE case of a 13-year-old maid who spent five days locked up in an apartment with little food and water while her employers went for a holiday in Thailand
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    • 504 18 Syndicate ran it from six bungalows in upscale area near KL AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE KUALA LUMPUR: A football betting and fraud ring busted in Malaysia may have raked in up to US$1.3 billion (S$1.6 billion), police said yesterday, a day after an operation that
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    • 646 20 It has spread fast from Cambodia to Thailand-Myanmar border: Studies AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE WASHINGTON: Deadly malaria that is resistant to drug treatment has spread rapidly from Cambodia to the border between Thailand and Myanmar, raising concerns of an uncontrollable epidemic, scientists said. A pair of studies published on
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    • 796 24  -  Hawker fare, local celebrities and Zouk’s Mambo Jambo await overseas Singaporeans By JERMYN CHOW AMANDA TAN jermync@sph.com.sg tamanda@sph.com.sg Additional reporting by Lim Yan Liang IT WILL take some travelling by van and train but student Tan Siyou will not let that deter
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    • 862 26  -  NSW hopes they can help boost skills and investment By JONATHAN PEARLMAN jonathanmpearlman@gmail.com SYDNEY: Australia’s largest state, New South Wales, is planning to lure thousands of “high-val-ue” migrants to Sydney to help boost skills and investment. The proposal would reverse years of resistance
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    • 100 28 Australian golfer Darren Tan is all smiles on receiving a mock key from Mr Chin Kee Min (left), senior manager for Kia Operations, after winning a Kia Optima K5 car for his hole-in-one during the second round of the ISPS Handa Singapore Classic yesterday.
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    • 519 28 Buyer from Vietnam secures 4ha ‘American dream’ in 11min bid REUTERS AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE SALMON (Idaho): A town in the state of Wyoming with a population of one has been sold to a buyer from Vietnam for US$900,000 (S$1.1 million). The sale of
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  • prime world health day
    • 1458 30  -  3 active ageing envoys stress that respect is key to ageing in style By CHERYL ONG ongyiern@sph.com.sg TODAY marks World Health Day, and this year’s active ageing theme could not be more apt for Singapore, where the first cohort of baby boomers is turning
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    • 773 32  -  Discounts, easy-to-read labels and easy-to-reach shelves for older folk By KWAN WENG KIN JAPAN CORRESPONDENT wengkin@sph.com.sg TOKYO: Senior citizens in Japan look forward to the 15th of each month, when they receive their pension payments. So does Aeon, Japan’s biggest retailer, which wants them
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    • 765 32  -  By GRACE NG CHINA CORRESPONDENT graceng@sph.com.sg Additional reporting by Carol Feng BEIJING: Invest at least 350,000 yuan (S$70,000) a year in an insurance policy and get to live for free when you retire in a high-end elderly home at various places across China.
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    • 208 32 DOCTGIMN EDUCATION r~T< W Broadening your perspectives through an EdD NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION SINGAPORE Upcoming EdD EdD DA information briefing: Date: Saturday, 14 April 2012 Time: 10am Venue: NIE To register, please e-mail joanne.lee@nie.edu.sg by 10 April 2012. The Doctor in Education (EdD) programme and the Doctor in Education
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  • REVIEW & FORUM
    • 415 34 THE controversy over the shelf life of sports honchos points to the glaring paucity of able volunteers to fill posts at national sports associations (NSAs). The bodies need people who are passionate about sports to keep a slew of regular events running, support those chasing
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    • 1389 34 This is an edited extract from a talk by Deputy Prime Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam at the Kent Ridge Ministerial Forum on Wednesday. IF YOU look at this year’s Budget, and what we have been doing in the last few years, you can see
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    • 587 34  -  By DENNIS POSADAS FOR THE STRAITS TIMES The writer is an energy consultant who writes on clean energy issues. His latest project is the Greenthinkingfable (http://greenthinkingfable.blogspot.com) ON MARCH 31, millions across the globe once again pledged their support to cut carbon by switching
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      • 1716 36  -  BHUTAN By WOON TAI HO FOR THE STRAITS TIMES The writer is the founder of The Green Orange, a boutique media consultancy. LAST May, I visited Bhutan for the first time to help the Tsao Foundation build a sanctuary for elderly monks in Punakha. The proportion
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      • 802 36  -  By PHUA MEI PIN mpphua@sph.com.sg DURING the recent Budget Debate, Nominated MP Laurence Lien suggested measuring something nebulous: The health of Singapore society. The chief executive of the National Volunteer and Philanthropy Centre wants clear metrics of how Singapore fares in social health:
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      • 897 38  -  By FAREED ZAKARIA The writer is the host of CNN’s Fareed Zakaria GPS, editor-at-large of Time magazine and a successor trustee of the Yale Corporation. This article first appeared at www.yaledailynews.com WHEN I arrived at Yale from India in the fall of 1982,
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      • 958 38  -  LONDON EYE By TERESA LIM FOR THE STRAITS TIMES The writer is a Singaporean based in London. LONDONERS have been watching with a mixture of trepidation and awe the crowning in their own backyard of Europe’s tallest building with a spire 66m high. This
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      • 790 38  -  BY SALIM OSMAN SENIOR WRITER salim@sph.com.sg ISRAEL may be thousands of kilometres away from Malaysia. Yet it has dominated political debate between the government and the opposition in recent weeks. The debate was not triggered by Israel per se but by the opposition leader Anwar
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    • forum
      • 225 40  - Chivalry is not dead at least in female MRT commuters Anthony D’Cruz I AM 76 years old and, of late, have taken to travelling on the MRT instead of driving or taking a taxi. Upon entering the train carriage, I invariably find myself standing in front of the seat nearest
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      • 436 40  -  Juliana Chow (Ms) Director, Corporate Communications Energy Market Authority MR LEONG Sze Hian (“Power tariff peg to fuel prices raises question over latest hike”; Forum Online, Tuesday) asked why the electricity tariff’s fuel component increased by 113 per cent from January
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      • 341 40  -  Adrian Tan WHILE cooling measures to quell foreign and, to some extent, domestic property speculation appear to be sufficient, similar moves may not be enough to tackle the mass market obsession with property, especially shoebox apartments. Perhaps the fear of missing the
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      • Article, Illustration
        87 40 More letters on www.straitstimes.com 1 MR JEFFREY LAW: Council should craft clear property brokering guidelines 2 MS ELAYNE KWOK: Standardise Medisave use for cervical cancer jab 3MR SEET ENG NEO: Credit card concern for FairPrice purchases 4 MR IVAN LIM: New hawker centres should target low-income earners 5
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      • 132 40  -  Ignatius Lourdesamy Director (Marketing Development) Housing Development Board WE THANK Ms Karen Lee for her letter on Tuesday (“Flat launches”). The HDB will launch 25,000 Build-to-Order (BTO) flats this year. We understand that some home buyers like Ms Lee may wish to
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      • 303 43  -  SAFE WINDOW CLEANING Janis Tan (Ms) WHILE it is tragic that maids continue to lose their lives while cleaning high-rise windows, it may not be fair to pin the blame entirely on employers (“Onus on bosses to ensure safety of maids”, and “Stop it immediately”
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      • 276 43  -  Peter Wadeley IT IS alarming that there has been a third major incident this year involving a cruise ship (“Cruise ship heads for Malaysian port after engine fire”; Sunday). The Singapore-bound Azamara Quest, which is part of the Royal Caribbean Cruises
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      • 271 43  -  Peter Chen RETIREE Peter Foo’s complaint (“Repeat medication: Retiree walks out rather than pay for doctor’s prescription”; Thursday) and the National University Hospital’s reply on the same day (“It’s an admin charge and a common practice, explains NUH”) highlighted two problems. The first is the
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      • 237 43  -  Moses Wong Chief Financial Officer Singapore National Eye Centre WE THANK Madam Tong Jee Cheng for her feedback on Wednesday (“Eye centre”). As a national speciality centre that treats complex eye conditions, we are committed to providing quality and cost-effective care. No patient shall
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      • 226 43  -  Cheryl Koh (Ms) Director Marketing and Corporate Communications National Heritage Board WE THANK Ms Ong Sor Fern (“Offer free access to museums”; Monday) and other readers for sharing their views on the issue of free admission to museums. The National Heritage Board (NHB)
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    • 838 1  -  Large pools of residents a magnet for retailers during uncertain times Luxury brands and retail giants head to the suburbs By LEE XIN EN xinen@sph.com.sg ORCHARD Road may have been voted the world’s top shopping street but suburban malls are keeping pace by drawing high-profile
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    • 492 2  -  By AMELIA TAN YALE University will go ahead with plans for the upcoming Yale-National University of Singapore (NUS) College despite a resolution passed on Thursday by its professors calling for civil rights and political freedom to be protected at the college. A Yale
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    • 622 4  -  But MBS declines to say why it denied entry to Taiwanese travel writer By LIM YAN LIANG yanliang@sph.com.sg DO ANYTHING remotely suspicious at the gambling tables and you may be put on a casino’s blacklist and barred from entering. The spotlight was thrown on the
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    • 464 4  -  BYK.C.VIJAYAN K.C. VIJAYAN LAW CORRESPONDENT A JAPANESE managing director has been ordered to pay $1.999 million to the court, or provide a banker’s guarantee by next week, if he wants to avoid summary judgment on his gambling debt claimed by
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    • 676 6  -  Ministry hiring experts to find out what it takes to change behaviour By GRACE CHUA caiwj@sph.com.sg SINGAPORE families are dismal when it comes to recycling and using energy efficiently, so much so that the Environment and Water Resources Ministry is seeking the help of
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    • 429 6  -  By LEE XIN EN ONE of her sons was sentenced to 22 years in jail and 15 strokes of the cane on Thursday; another drowned two weeks ago. And now, Mrs Ezan Khan, 48, could well be in trouble with the
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    • 109 6 TRAINS on the MRT’s North-East Line were delayed by about 20 minutes yesterday afternoon due to a signalling fault. The disruption affected services between Chinatown and Harbourfront stations. Ms Tammy Tan, senior vice-president of corporate communications at SBS Transit, which runs the line, said one
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    • 450 9  -  Eatery takes on mission to promote Malay heritage By NG KAI LING kailing@sph.com.sg A NEW Malay restaurant in Kampong Glam will use the food it serves to help promote Malay culture and heritage. To be located at Gedung Kuning (Yellow Mansion), next to a former
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    • 602 9  -  By JESSICA LIM BELEAGUERED customers of travel agency Far East Travel Lifestyle will get their money back, said one of its directors. Mr V. Retnasooria told The Straits Times this week that they will get a full refund by the end of next
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    • 351 9  -  AMELIA TAN RESIDENTS of Punggol South may find parking their cars less of a hassle, with the opening of a temporary carpark for 162 vehicles. The open-air facility beside Block 686, Hougang Street 61, was opened by Deputy Prime Minister Teo Chee Hean yesterday. He is
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    • 591 11  -  Four undergrads map out the wheelchair-friendly routes By STACEY CHIA staceyc@sph.com.sg WHEELCHAIR-BOUND students in the National University of Singapore (NUS) will soon be able to navigate their way around the campus with greater ease. Four undergraduates have designed six maps covering almost every faculty
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      • 377 13  -  28 restaurants join Make-A-Wish Foundation’s fund-raising event By SARAH GIAM sarahgyx@sph.com.sg TWENTY-EIGHT restaurants will donate half the proceeds of a selected dish this month in a move which could raise $150,000 for the Make-A-Wish Foundation. The foundation, which is behind this inaugural event called Wish Dish
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        • 70 13 Canadian artist Nadia Bertrand and American artist Janette Maxey are holding a joint exhibition of their paintings, some of which depict daily life in Singapore. The paintings are for sale, and 20 per cent of the proceeds will go to the Singapore General Hospital Needy Patients Fund.
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        • 48 13 Buy handicraft, brooches, keychains and fridge magnets at $2 each from The Singapore Association for Mental Health pushcart at HarbourFront Centre, Level 2. Proceeds will go to the association’s Oasis Day Centre and its beneficiaries. The pushcart is open until Monday, from noon to 8pm.
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    • 23 11 China woman dons sandwich board looking for missing S’porean lover HELP ME FIND MY BABY’S FATHER thenewpaper -tii V as-: F 1 y
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    • 1187 14  -  Businesses abroad now form 40% of revenue for all three local players By MAGDALEN NG, YASMINE YAHYA songyuan@sph.com.sg yasminey@sph.com.sg DBS Group’s announcement this week that it is acquiring Indonesia’s Bank Danamon has once again cast a spotlight on the need for Singapore’s lenders to
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    • 520 16 120,000 new jobs in March, the smallest rise since October last year BLOOMBERG REUTERS WASHINGTON: US payrolls rose far less than expected last month, keeping the door open for further monetary policy support from the Federal Reserve, even as the unemployment rate fell
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    • 576 18  -  Firms, govts ‘must work together to turn region’s potential into reality’ By ANDREA ONG, MAGDALEN NG andreao@sph.com.sg songyuan@sph.com.sg WHILE the rise of Asia has become a catchphrase in recent years, companies and governments will have to work together and forge their own path to turn
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    • 420 18 INVESTORS can learn more about how to invest in the benchmark Straits Times Index and analyse stock price movements, among other topics, at the Invest Fair 2012 this weekend. The two-day fair is at Exhibition Hall 401, Level 4, Suntec Singapore International
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    • 486 18 IF YOUR company has recently spent money on staff training or bought new computers or high-tech equipment, it is likely that it qualifies for the Productivity and Innovation Credit (PIC). The PIC scheme offers companies a tax deduction or cash allowance
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    • 705 20  -  Directors get shares in own firms in sign of confidence to market: Analysts By JONATHAN KWOK jonkwok@sph.com.sg COMPANY insiders such as directors and substantial shareholders continued buying shares in their firms the past week, even as the general market suffered from a
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    • 574 20 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE BLOOMBERG SAN FRANCISCO: Facebook has picked the technology-heavy Nasdaq exchange for a much-anticipated stock market debut expected next month, according to unconfirmed reports. Facebook will trade under the symbol “FB” in a record-setting initial public offering (IPO) of shares on Nasdaq,
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    • 885 1  -  Government-military ties in India under the spotlight NEWS ANALYSIS By RAHUL BEDI FOR THE STRAITS TIMES shahji.bedi@gmail.com NEW DELHI: India’s deteriorating civil-military relations suffered another jolt this week following a newspaper report that hinted obliquely at an aggressive show of force by the country’s seemingly disgruntled
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      • 799 2 Missive from China’s top military paper reflects leadership jitters REUTERS ASSOCIATED PRESS AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE BEIJING: China’s top military newspaper told troops yesterday to ignore rumours on the Internet and steel themselves for an “ideological struggle” as the ruling Communist Party faces a leadership transition,
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      • 425 2 HONG KONG: An official Chinese paper has heaped praise on the steady development of Shanghai in a front-page commentary seen as an open endorsement of the city’s party chief. The move could boost Mr Yu Zhengsheng’s chances of being promoted later this year
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      • 375 2 REUTERS BEIJING: China’s statistics chief yesterday issued a sternly worded notice telling local government officials not to massage economic data after the media and an internal investigation uncovered a series of irregularities and distortions. The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), in charge
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      • 414 4 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE BEIJING: The hacking group Anonymous yesterday said it would continue targeting China, after announcing that it had hacked hundreds of Chinese websites to protest against Internet censorship in the country. Most of the sites Anonymous China claimed to have hacked were working
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      • 602 4 Unnamed ‘South Asian country’ said to have trained the terrorists REUTERS AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE ASSOCIATED PRESS BEIJING: China has given rare details of the links between militant groups in its restive far western region of Xinjiang and neighbouring countries as it unveiled a list of
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      • 391 4 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE ASSOCIATED PRESS SEOUL: North Korea’s new leader Kim Jong Un has visited the naval unit that captured a US spy ship in 1968, the official news agency said yesterday, amid tensions over its planned satellite launch. In the
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      • 685 6  -  Orderly end to race for governorship key to continued peace By ZAKIR HUSSAIN INDONESIA CORRESPONDENT zakirh@sph.com.sg BANDA ACEH: Voters in Aceh go to the polls on Monday to elect a governor in a close contest set to test the strength or fragility of a
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      • 87 6 Pakistani soldiers cordoning off the site of a suicide bomb attack in Karachi on Thursday. The bomber detonated his explosives near a vehicle carrying a senior police official in Pakistan’s financial capital, killing at least three people, officials said. The target, police officer Rao Anwar
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      • 343 6 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE NEW YORK TIMES MUZAFFARABAD (Pakistan): Hundreds of Pakistani Islamist activists took to the streets yesterday, calling for holy war and torching a US flag to condemn a US$10 million (S$12.6 million) bounty on the founder of a terrorist group. The
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        417 8  -  Myanmar’s landmark by-elections on April 1 heralded Nobel Peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi’s return to politics and gave credence to the ruling government’s claims of its move towards reform. Photojournalist Neo Xiaobin brings you scenes from this historic event Neo Xiaobin xiaobinn@sph.com.sg www.facebook.com/ST.Xiaobin IF COLOURS and visuals
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      • 812 9  -  As Myanmar opens up, NGOs hope assistance will flow By NIRMAL GHOSH THAILAND CORRESPONDENT nirmal@sph.com.sg AS MYANMAR sheds its pariah status, non-governmental organisations (NGOs) are hoping the international donor community will step up its assistance, and the signs are that it will. But
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      • 514 10 Surge in city dwellers also expected in Indonesia, Nigeria and US, says UN report XINHUA AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE UNITED NATIONS: India, China, Indonesia, Nigeria and the United States are set to lead the world’s growth in urban populations during the next four decades, sparking
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      • 192 10 Christians in the region from Indonesia and India to the Philippines and Singapore commemorated the crucifixion of Jesus Christ in Good Friday prayers and processions yesterday. The series of ceremonies will culminate tomorrow with Easter when Christians celebrate the resurrection of Christ. SINGAPORE: Members of St Joseph’s
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      • 782 11 US Navy embraces new ship for better or worse Shallow-water craft pushed into duty soon despite doubts about its combat readiness NEW YORK TIMES MOBILE (Alabama): The Navy’s newest ship is designed to battle Iranian attack boats, clear mines from the Strait of Hormuz, chase down Somali pirates and keep
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      • 223 11 NEW YORK TIMES MOBILE (Alabama): The shipyard here is booming and expects to have 4,500 workers making it one of the largest private employers in the state after two companies were contracted to build 10 of the Littoral Combat Ships. General Dynamics and
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      • 271 11 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE EVRY (France): Fears grew yesterday that a serial killer was stalking housing estates in the suburbs of Paris, where the same weapon has been used to murder four apparently innocent citizens since November. All the victims were shot with
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      • 547 12 Russian who plotted to sell arms to terrorists to serve 25 years in US ARMS SMUGGLER TRIAL AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE NEW YORK TIMES NEW YORK: Russian arms smuggler Viktor Bout (below) was sentenced to 25 years in jail by a judge in New York for conspiring to
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      • 78 12 A plume of smoke rising from the derelict Japanese ship, Ryou-Un Maru, after it was hit by canon fire from a US Coast Guard cutter on Thursday in the Gulf of Alaska. The Coast Guard decided to sink the ship, swept out to sea
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      • 370 12 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE BUCHAREST: A Romanian court yesterday watched Singapore surveillance video footage showing a deadly 2009 car crash allegedly involving a former Romanian diplomat charged with manslaughter. The footage shows a dark-coloured car running down a pedestrian crossing the street but it was
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        • 108 13 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE BEIJING: The alleged mastermind of a multibillion-dollar smuggling racket whose extradition to China sparked a bitter diplomatic row with Canada went on trial yesterday, state media reported. The trial of Lai Changxing, 53, began in Xiamen city, in south-east China’s Fujian province, where the
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        • 121 13 THE Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) and Royal Thai Army (RTA) concluded an annual bilateral exercise underscoring longstanding defence ties between both countries. Codenamed Exercise Kocha Singa, it was the 14th in the series and was held in Thailand from March 20 to Thursday. It included professional interactions
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        • 130 13 HONG KONG: A Singaporean was sentenced to 22 months behind bars on Thursday after he was convicted of attempting to defraud his employer of HK$390,000 (S$63,000). The District Court heard that Ling Chung-hang, 41, a former senior consultant at the Hong Kong Productivity Council, tried to
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        • 127 13 REUTERS LOS ANGELES: The makers of the viral “Kony 2012” video that drew world attention to a violent rebel campaign by Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony released a new film on Thursday, pushing back against criticism that their work oversimplified a long-running conflict. The video, shot in
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        • 127 13 BLOOMBERG NEW DELHI: Jewellers in India, the biggest bullion buyer, suspended the longest nationwide strike yesterday after the government assured them it would consider their concerns on a tax on non-branded gold ornaments. The 21-day strike ended after a meeting with Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, who imposed
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      • 392 13 Watch now you see it, now you don’t SLICEOFLIFE NEW YORK TIMES MOSCOW: Facing a scandal over photographs of its leader wearing an enormously expensive watch, the Russian Orthodox Church worked a little miracle: It made the offending timepiece disappear. Editors doctored a photograph on the church’s website of the
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    • 88 22 News: www.straitstimes.com Connect: www.facebook.com/thestraitstimes Follow: twitter.com/stcom TOP THREE SPORTS STORIES ONLINE L Chelsea on Barcelona revenge mission L Ronaldo double as Real ease into semi-finals L De Jong tells Balotelli to stop acting the fool Get your free breaking news from ST iPad
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    • 735 22 Mancini and Ferguson reveal how they would handle errant players “I told him, ‘If you played with me, 10 years ago, I would give you every day maybe one punch in your head.’ ROBERTO MANCINI, on troublemaker Mario Balotelli “Strangle them maybe. Players can frustrate you... But
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    • 715 15 Coach confirms bid by star to oust him, though Howard denies it later NEW YORK TIMES ORLANDO: A disorienting wave of dissension and acrimony washed over a National Basketball Association team on Thursday, pitting coach against star, in a spectacle that threatened to ruin their season. The
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    • 702 15 ASSOCIATED PRESS MANAMA (Bahrain): A year after an an-ti-government revolt forced Bahrain’s rulers to cancel the kingdom’s coveted Formula One race, the grand prix is again smack in the middle of a power struggle. Protesters aiming to break the Sunni regime’s grip on power
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    • 409 15 ASSOCIATED PRESS CHICAGO: Even without the National Basketball Association’s reigning Most Valuable Player for a major part of the season, the Chicago Bulls have kept up their winning ways. Luol Deng scored 18 of his 26 points in the second half and Joakim Noah
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    • 659 15  -  DRIVER’SSEAT By STEVE SLATER stsports@sph.com.sg IT SEEMS almost impossible to believe that, even in the topsy-turvy world of Formula One, Fernando Alonso is leading the drivers’ championship as the season enters the third round in China next week. Of the likely front runners, Ferrari started the season
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      • 89 16 BRUNEI DPMM maintained top spot in the S-League after a last-gasp 1-0 home win over the Courts Young Lions yesterday. Midfielder Azwan Saleh scored the winner two minutes into second-half injury time. DPMM are two points ahead of second-placed Balestier Khalsa, who beat Albirex Niigata
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      • 87 16 ASSOCIATED PRESS MELBOURNE: Britain’s Victoria Pendleton won the women’s sprint title in dramatic fashion at the world track cycling championships yesterday. After a comfortable win over Lithuania’s Simona Krupeckaite in the first finals heat, the Olympic track cycling champion was edged out in the
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      • 77 16 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE COLOMBO: Off -spinner Graeme Swann grabbed four wickets to leave a rejuvenated England on the brink of a series-levelling win in the second and final cricket Test against Sri Lanka in Colombo yesterday. Sri Lanka, trailing by 185 runs in the first
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      • 90 16 ASSOCIATED PRESS GUANGZHOU: Singapore paddlers Li Jiawei and Yu Mengyu are through to the quarter-finals of the Asian Cup. World No. 14 Li won two of her three Group C matches, finishing second in the group. She plays South Korean Seok Ha Jung today.
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      • 79 16 ASSOCIATED PRESS DUISBURG (Germany): Eight-time Olympic champion Birgit Fischer said cardiac arrhythmia is threatening her attempt to come back from retirement and compete at the London Games at age 50. She was forced to give up plans to compete at the German canoe and
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    • 528 16 ASSOCIATED PRESS CHARLESTON (South Carolina): Venus Williams kept up with sister Serena by winning a third-round match at the Family Circle Cup, moving one step closer to an all-Williams semi-final. They both reached the quarter-finals on Thursday with straight-set victories.
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    • 629 16  -  Zhiqun home and dry on three under, with more wet weather seen today By LESTER WONG qnwong@sph.com.sg THE weather has again played havoc with the 2012 Handa Singapore Classic. Heavy rain caused play to be suspended for more than three hours yesterday at the Orchid
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    • 907 16  -  INGO0D CONSCIENCE By ROB HUGHES stsports@sph.com.sg WHEN the colour bar at Augusta National Golf Club was broken 37 years ago, it was by the natural skill of man to play the game. But this year, like every year, women keep knocking on the
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    • 1360 17 Attention may be on Woods and McIlroy but world No. 3 shows there are others to watch THE MASTERS ASSOCIATED PRESS ASSOCIATED PRESS REUTERS ASSOCIATED PRESS LLee Westwood, 1st rd 67 (7 birdies, 9 pars, 2 bogeys) AUGUSTA: Lee Westwood has a firstround lead at a
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      • 47 17 UNITED States President Barack Obama believes women should be allowed to join the all-male Augusta National Golf Club, adding pressure on the 80-year-old organisation to drop its restrictive policy. “His personal opinion is that women should be admitted,”White House spokesman Jay Carney said.
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      • 100 17 PHIL Mickelson did something he had always wanted to do in 20 years of playing the Masters. Despite having the last tee time of the day, he was at Augusta National six hours early on Thursday to watch Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus and
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      • 120 17 ASSOCIATED PRESS TWO bogeys in his last three holes were not the only thing bothering Sergio Garcia. The Spaniard is playing with an infected nail in the middle finger of his left hand, which affects how strongly he grips the club. “It didn’t
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    • 378 17 REUTERS AUGUSTA: Japanese amateur golfer Hideki Matsuyama continued his love affair with the Masters on Thursday, carding a one-under 71 in the first round to outshoot most of the professionals at Augusta National. The 20-year-old student showed no signs of nerves in the pressure-cooker atmosphere to
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    • 353 18 ASSOCIATED PRESS LONDON: Olympic doping officials are considering whether to tweak their tests after a recent British study showed green tea might hide testosterone from the standard test used to spot it. The study was a test in a lab dish, so scientists are
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    • 604 18  -  STTA says move to rest stars earlier this year was in their best interest By MAY CHEN maychen@sph.com.sg THE Singapore Table Tennis Association (STTA) is standing by its move to rest its top paddlers earlier this year, even though the national women’s team now have less time
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    • 452 18 IN THE past year, there have been 20 tournaments offering world ranking points to women paddlers from top teams China, Singapore, Japan, South Korea and Hong Kong. Here is a look at the form of their key players who
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    • 500 18 Today Badminton Australian Open GP: S-finals (Live, StarHub Ch211, noon). Basketball NBA: Denver v Phoenix (Live, StarHub Ch216, 9am), LA Lakers v Houston (Live, Ch202, 10.30am). Cricket Griffin Kinetic League, Clubs Div 2: SPA I v Marina CC I (Kallang, 12.45pm). IPL: Bangalore v Delhi (6.30pm), Deccan
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    • 126 18 Badminton Australian Open GP Gold In Sydney, q-finals (selected) Men’s singles: Simon Santoso (Ina) bt Shon Wan Ho (Kor) 21-15 12-21 21-10, Sho Sasaki (Jpn) bt Taufik Hidayat (Ina) 21-11 22-20. Women’s singles: Bae Youn Joo (Kor) bt Wang Lin (Chn) 21-14 21-23 23-21. Basketball NBA Orlando 80 New
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    • 50 18 KOSUKE KITAJIMA, whose men’s 200m breaststroke time of 2min 8sec at the Japan national swimming championships beat Hungarian Daniel Gyurta’s world championshipswinning time of 2:08.41 in Shanghai last year. The 29-year-old is bidding for a third Olympic double in the 100m and 200m at the London Games
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    • 1242 19  -  S’pore-M’sia experiment hailed for exposing sides to higher-level football By SANJAY NAIR nsanjay@sph.com.sg THE Singapore-Malaysia football experiment seems to have scored, with both clubs involved in the landmark agreement already mounting title challenges in the respective leagues. Results aside, both teams have also been credited
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    • 404 19 ASSOCIATED PRESS MADRID: Real Madrid’s bid to end Barcelona’s monopoly of the Spanish Primera Liga title is set to enter its toughest stretch starting tomorrow against third-place Valencia. Barcelona have what appears to be an easy match at Zaragoza today,
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    • 238 19 REUTERS BERNE (Switzerland): Athletic Bilbao and Atletico Madrid overcame German opposition to reach the Europa League semi-finals on Thursday, while fellow Spaniards Valencia joined them by demolishing Dutch side AZ Alkmaar. Portugal’s Sporting Lisbon completed an all-Iberian line-up by knocking out Metalist Kharkiv, who missed a penalty
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    • 651 20 He insists he won’t miss congested season finale despite fractured ribs 23 days, 7 games CHELSEA have to plough through a fixtures logjam almost one every three days for the rest of April: Today Wigan Athletic (h) Premier League Monday Fulham (a) Premier League
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    • 302 20 THE TIMES, LONDON LONDON: To reach the Champions League semi-final against a backdrop of adversity is an achievement for Chelsea, particularly in a year when Arsenal, Manchester City and Manchester United have failed on the European front. But it has
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    • 415 20 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE LONDON: Kenny Dalglish has never fined a player in his managerial career, and he is not about to start now as Liverpool look to get their season back on track. A run of six defeats in their past seven
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    • 558 20 THE TIMES, LONDON AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE LONDON: Brad Friedel has vowed to play until his legs cannot take it any longer. He knows he will be between the posts at Tottenham Hotspur at the end of next season when, at 42,
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    • 244 20 REUTERS MILAN: A fresh refereeing row, another match-fixing scandal and failure to get a team to the Champions League semi-fi-nals for the second year running have cast gloom over the weekend’s Italian Serie A matches. Leaders AC Milan, on 64 points, face Fiorentina today
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    • 432 21  -  By RICHARD LENTON The writer is a mio Stadium host and an experienced EPL broadcaster and journalist. Catch him on Samsung Score! (Friday, 10pm) mio TV Ch102 L THREE successive victories have dragged Bolton out of the relegation zone, but if the Trotters slip up
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    • 933 21  -  Title race could be over for poor-travellers City if they lose to the Gunners THE BIG MATCH By RICHARD JOLLY stsports@sph.com.sg THE signs will proclaim that the opulent North London ground is called the Emirates Stadium. In reality, though, Manchester City are entering the last-chance saloon.
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    • 572 21  -  By JAMES DUCKER THE TIMES, LONDON stsports@sph.com.sg ROBERTO Mancini could not stand accused of only recently speaking his mind. On his first day as Manchester City manager, it was his honesty that got Garry Cook, the club’s former chief executive, into a bit
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    • 395 21 THE TIMES, LONDON LONDON: Antonio Valencia has asked Manchester United to delay an operation that he has been scheduled to have until after the end of the season. He hopes that the move will enable him to play for Ecuador in their
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    • 268 1 EXOTIC FINDS AT CHATUCHAK MARKET Report finds trade in illegal wildlife in Thailand has extensive reach. D7-9 SPECIALREPORT THENEW ORTHODOX On Easter weekend, a season of rebirth, Lee Siew Hua explores the revival of Christian movements returning to roots and reflection. It’s iPads and Gregorian chants in Latin for (from
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      • 1983 2  -  Some Christian circles are increasingly taking to ancient traditions, in part as a reaction to growing modernity By LEE SIEW HUA SENIOR WRITER siewhua@sph.com.sg JAZZY megachurches may be winning multitudes but the ancient is alive among some Christian circles that ardently return to their roots
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      • 1140 3  -  By LEE SIEW HUA SENIOR WRITER ANTIQUITY is hot, with young believers often driving the revival of tradition in Christianity. Doctrine and rich history are a delight and not a deadweight for 15-year-old Sarah Lim, who worships at the Covenant Evangelical Reformed Church. Her small, traditional
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      • 326 3  -  LEE SIEW HUA EASTER celebrates the resurrection of Jesus, three days after his crucifixion and death. Christians believe that Jesus died on the cross to pay the penalty of death in place of the sinful human race. He was buried and rose with a glorified body. His
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      • 877 4  -  LEE SIEW HUA IN 1975, Ms Angela Lee and a friend walked up a hill and arrived at a red-stone monastery in the French village of Taize. The two youthful pilgrims in their 20s lingered a week to pray and reflect in the Taize Community,
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      • 1164 4  -  By LEE SIEW HUA SENIOR WRITER siewhua@sph.com.sg DR AUGUSTINE Tan leads a church which celebrates seven Jewish festivals. Just last night, his Hephzibah Christian Fellowship joined Jews worldwide in sharing a Passover supper. This festival celebrates the exodus of enslaved Jews from ancient Egypt.
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      • 960 5  -  By LEE SIEW HUA SENIOR WRITER siewhua@sph.com.sg MR FRANCIS Nyan, a senior vice-presi-dent at a bank, and his Catholic friends fill a gem-like chapel with ancient Gregorian chants sung in Latin every fortnight. Singing from chant sheets on iPads or on paper, his little choir
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      • 753 5  -  LEE SIEW HUA THE church sings psalms from a 1650 Scottish hymn book in a room without adornment. There are no instruments. Pastor J.J. Lim, 46, exhorts the congregation of 150 at Pilgrim Covenant Church, perched on stackable plastic chairs, to obey
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      • 700 6  -  Newcomers hope funny take on local events will resonate with audience WATCH THIS FACE By EISEN TEO eisenteo@sph.com.sg SIGHT Lines Productions may be one of the newest, smallest professional theatre companies in Singapore, but it has plus-sized ambitions. Never mind that it was founded
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      • 638 6  -  MY THOUGHTS By BENJAMIN LOW JIAN YU The writer, 20, is a second-year moving images student at Temasek Polytechnic. THE last time I packed my luggage, it was filled with clothes and tourist comforts. But on a trip to Cambodia last October, bubble-wrapped film
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      • 461 6  -  LETTERS HOME By KRISTIE MICHELLE CHIEW The writer, 22, is a final-year political science and history major at the University of Western Australia. GROWING up in Hong Kong, I remember having shark’s fin soup on every important occasion. Shark’s fin has long been
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      • 285 6 YouthInk writers discuss whether it is possible to wean young people off their electronic devices. MY LIFE I RECENTLY got together with a group of secondary school classmates to visit a bedridden friend. We got a friend in Taiwan to send his regards via video conference
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        • 102 6 “MY BROTHER started taking public transport to school when he was eight, and a mobile phone was necessary so that my parents could ensure he was safe. Children learn from a young age that they can rely on mobile phones as devices which help ensure
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        • 78 6 “I SUGGEST that we refrain from allowing widespread use of electronic devices at the primary school level. For example, instead of getting students to buy laptops for e-learning, textbooks ought to be used. “This way, students can concentrate on studying and not be distracted
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      • 1259 7  -  Ad sites turning into grounds for hunting endangered species By AMELIA TENG ateng@sph.com.sg SOME say cyberspace is a jungle, with no rules. For endangered and other protected animals, the Internet is proving a very dangerous place indeed more dangerous than the natural predators they
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      • 510 8 A shopper’s paradise, Chatuchak Market draws people with unique and kitsch items sold in a sprawling 30ha of shops. Its wildlife section is teeming with exotic animals, some of them endangered. Smugglers put the animals in a suitcase, tape their legs and head, and keep them
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      • 897 9  -  Growing affluence boosts demand for items like rhino horn By AMELIA TENG ateng@sph.com.sg LAST year was a grim year for Asia’s wildlife, says a leading activist in a group trying to eradicate the trade and killing of protected animals. Mr Chris Shepherd, deputy regional director of
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    • 196 1 Life! Takes You Places Jay Talking The eight-seater Nissan ElgrandE17 Big on comfort Five teams in Adelaide travel race E2 Desert daredevil Singaporean woman crosses world’s largest sand desertE3 Save the soul of hawker food E14 British novelist Alan Hollinghurst writes about sex explicitly albeit elegantly. He talks to CORRIE
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    • 501 2  -  Life! Takes You Places contest down to five final pairs, who head to Adelaide on Monday natasha ann zachariah natashaz@sph.com.sg It is ready, set, go for the five pairs of finalists of the Life! Takes You Places travel contest. They will fly to Adelaide
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    • 467 2 New York Times Associated Press New York Jim Marshall (below), who made rock ’n’ roll rawer and noisier by inventing the amplifier that helped define guitarists from Jimi Hendrix to members of countless garage bands, died on Thursday at a hospice in London. He
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      • 264 12 root awakening I bought this small plant (right) which has flowers that bloom in the day and close in the dark. What is its name and how shall I care for it? It is an ornamental cultivar, scientifically known as Portulaca oleracea. It is a
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    • 916 14  -  What will happen to beloved dishes if hawkers start selling their recipes to the highest bidder? jay talking jeremy au yong jeremyau@sph.com.sg When life throws a problem your way, you often have to choose: Do you fight, flee or complain about it to
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      • 686 15  -  Soft-top two-seater Mini Roadster is a tiny bundle of joy that yields loads of driving pleasure christopher tan senior correspondent christan@sph.com.sg The Mini Roadster rattles like a can of marbles, but it looks much better than the Coupe on which it is based. More importantly,
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        759 16  -  christopher tan MORE POWERFUL BRZ IN THE WORKS? Will or won’t Subaru make an STi version of the BRZ? At the launch of the sexy coupe at Clarke Quay on Wednesday, Mr Glenn Tan, executive director of Tan Chong International, distributor for Subaru, said there will not be
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      • 736 17  -  Nissan’s boxy Elgrand keeps big families on the go comfortable and suitably entertained christopher tan senior correspondent christan@sph.com.sg Nissan’s Elgrand has never quite been as popular as the Toyota Alphard in these parts. Which is rather curious because the big, boxy eight seater concedes nothing to its Toyota
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    • 379 20  -  The film also won the Best Male Performance award in The New Paper’s annual film fest chen shanshan sschen@sph.com.sg A short film about the psychological struggles of a chess player ahead of a big match clinched the top prize at The New Paper’s second annual
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    • 489 20  -  chang tou liang review concert THE RETURN OF THE MAD CHINAMAN Dick Lee Singapore Chinese Orchestra Singapore Conference Hall/Thursday If one wondered if there were such a thing as a Singaporean song, as opposed to a Chinese, Malay or Tamil song, then look no further than
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      • 401 22 Reuters Los Angeles Kanye West (right) professed his love for reality TV star Kim Kardashian in a new song leaked online on Thursday, and the pair were spotted out on the town in New York together. In Theraflu, named after the over-the-counter cough medicine,
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      • 331 22 Reuters Missoula, Montana Three Cups Of Tea author Greg Mortenson has agreed to pay US$1 million (S$1.3 million) to compensate his Montana-based charity for using it to promote and buy copies of his books, a report from the state attorney-general said on Thursday. The settlement between
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        • 34 22 Walt Disney Studios announced that a sequel to last year’s superhero hit Captain America: The First Avenger will open on April 4, 2014. The film will feature a modern-day setting.
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        • 44 22 Prices went through the roof on Thursday at a Paris auction of watches owned by French film idol Alain Delon, 76. Auction house Cornette de Saint-Cyr said the sale brought in ¤443,875 (S$730,176), with many Chinese buyers bidding.
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