The Straits Times, 19 April 2012

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    17 1 THE STRAITS TIMES. MICA(P)002/02/2012 THURSDAY, APRIL 19 2012 A SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS PUBLICATION ESTABLISHED 1845 90 CENTS
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      Lock icon Employment gripes up
      63 1 COMPLAINTS that employers prefer foreigners have for the first time headed a list of grievances from Singaporeans over unfair employment practices. The Tripartite Alliance for Fair Employment Practices also had more than double the number of complaints last year compared to a year ago. Other main complaints
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      Lock icon CCTVs to nab litterbugs
      51 1 NEW surveillance cameras will be installed in 40 locations islandwide to catch high-rise litterbugs in action. They will be mounted from August in areas with persistent high-rise littering. Each month, about 100 such cases of littering are reported to the National Environment Agency. L PRIME PAGE
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      Lock icon Medical turf war?
      59 1 A WAVE of Singaporean specialist doctors from Parkway, Gleneagles and other medical centres are travelling to Indonesia to recruit wealthy patients from Jakarta and other cities such as Bandung and West Java. But local doctors, worried about losing business to Singapore, say this amounts to practising in
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      Lock icon Suu Kyi ‘to travel abroad’
      65 1 NOBEL Peace Prize laureate and newly elected lawmaker Aung San Suu Kyi will travel outside Myanmar for the first time in 24 years, after accepting invitations to visit Norway and Britain next month, her party said yesterday. However, Myanmar officials said Ms Suu Kyi’s request
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    Lock icon Sex with underage girl: Howard Shaw one of four more charged
    89 1 HOWARD Shaw (left, in white), the former Singapore Environment Council executive director and grandson of the late cinema mogul Runme Shaw, arriving at the Subordinate Courts yesterday, to answer to charges of allegedly having paid sex with an underage
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    Lock icon Another breakdown hits SMRT
    655 1  -  Rush-hour disruption at Circle Line stations from Bishan to one-north BY JESSICA LIM limjess@sph.com.sg Additional reporting by Tay Suan Chiang TRAIN commuters dashing to work yesterday morning faced delays and disruptions on the new Circle MRT Line, which was struck by its second breakdown since it
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    Lock icon COE prices continue steep climb
    361 1  -  BY CHRISTOPHER TAN CERTIFICATE of entitlement (COE) prices for cars up to 1,600cc and taxis are at an all-time high. They posted the strongest gain of 9.7 per cent to hit a record $64,201 in the latest tender which saw prices continuing their rise across
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      144 1 Bard in the park Catch Twelfth Night at Fort Canning LIFE! PAGE C6 ‘$19m pay for CEO too much’ Ω say Citigroup shareholders Building balance Benefits of functional training IN MIND YOUR BODY WORLD, PAGE A27 BREAKING NEWS: www.straitstimes.com INTERACT: www.stomp.com.sg EMAIL: stomp@stomp.com.sg VIDEOS: www.razortv.com.sg NEWS TIPS: 1800-*****28 CALL 6388-3838
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        Lock icon Putting patients’ safety first
        81 2 WE SAY The Health Sciences Authority’s decision to review its procedures for the approval of medical devices for use here is appropriate as they have been unduly restrictive. But health professionals should never be blase about efficacy and safety, even if devices have been passed by
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          Lock icon A woman’s work
          38 2 Akshita Nanda laments the fact that female public figures are not assessed solely on their ability to do their jobs, but are appraised on more personal attributes and choices as well. L REVIEW PAGE A30
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          Lock icon Tempting fraud
          44 2 Academic research fraud is more common than many realise, says Andy Ho, no thanks to inherent biases in research journals and their publication policies which among other things encourage extravagant claims while discouraging the airing of negative results. L REVIEW PAGE A30
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        Lock icon MRT woes
        52 2 OUR READER SAYS Edwin Lim says that even with more frequent service, the capacity of the MRT has been far exceeded, and calls for a solution, such as the provision of parallel bus services, while Sng Choon Kwee is simply sick of train delays and breakdowns. L FORUM
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      Lock icon Shaky economies closer to home
      907 2  -  Fault lines appearing in Asia-Pacific region must not be ignored BY ANDY MUKHERJEE SENIOR WRITER andym@sph.com.sg INVESTORS must not get so caught up with the risk that Europe’s single currency may collapse or the United States may tip into another recession that they totally ignore
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      Lock icon Dad acquitted of sex crimes
      867 3  -  Man was previously sentenced to 29 years for abusing daughter BY K C VIJAYAN LAW CORRESPONDENT vijayan@sph.com.sg Additional reporting by Jalelah Abu Baker Lim Yan Liang and A 37-YEAR-OLD divorcee walked out of court a free man yesterday after Singapore’s highest court set his sentence
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      Lock icon Sizzler in blue hat
      91 3 Japanese actor Tanihara Shosuke (in blue hat) thrilled a full-house crowd at Marina Bay Sands as he took to the runway yesterday at the opening night of Men’s Fashion Week (MFW) Singapore. The actor of Fudoh: The New Generation fame was modelling for British label Spencer
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      Lock icon Shaw family scion, 3 others charged
      1033 4  -  Green activist Howard Shaw appears in court with his wife ONLINE VICE RING BY LEONARD LIM THAM YUEN-C limze@soh.com.sg yuenc@sph.com.sg TWO months ago, green activist Howard Shaw appeared with his wife on the cover of a high-society magazine for an article on enduring love
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      Lock icon Former teacher to plead guilty
      344 4  -  THAM YUEN-C STACEY CHIA FORMER River Valley High School teacher Chua Ren Cheng, who was among four men charged yesterday with having paid sex with an underage girl, intends to plead guilty. He becomes only the second of the 48 men charged with the same
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      Lock icon Rangers’ creditors not playing fair: Bill Ng
      572 4  -  BY SANJAY NAIR SINGAPORE’S Bill Ng has expressed frustration over negotiations with the main creditors of Glasgow Rangers, accusing them of tripling their asking price and “not treating foreigners right”. But the chairman of S-League club Hougang United has stopped short of saying
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      Lock icon Train drivers recount Dec incidents
      717 9  -  No contact possible with control centre as systems were down COMMITTEE OF INQUIRY HEARING BY MARIA ALMENOAR ROYSTON SIM TRANSPORT CORRESPONDENT mariaa@sph.com.sg roysim@sph.com.sg TWO SMRT train drivers were the first of the rail operator’s employees to take the stand yesterday on the third day of
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      Lock icon No fleet-wide checks after first breakdown
      322 9  -  ROYSTON SIM MARIA ALMENOAR TRAIN operator SMRT did not carry out a fleet-wide inspection following the first of the two major breakdowns last December, the inquiry heard yesterday. Its lawyer said it planned to do so but before that could happen, the second disruption
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    • Article
      Lock icon No. 1 employment gripe: Bosses prefer foreigners
      651 9  -  BY TOH YONG CHUAN COMPLAINTS that employers prefer foreigners over locals have for the first time topped the list of grievances that Singaporeans have over unfair employment practices. The Tripartite Alliance for Fair Employment Practices (Tafep) a fair employment watchdog also received more
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      Lock icon Jewellery shop sets the gold standard
      297 9  -  TOH YONG CHUAN WHEN 77-year-old Kuan Ting Chee sprained his ankle last year, he was worried his work would be affected. The operations manager at On Cheong Jewellery needs to be on his feet to attend to customers. But his boss, Mr Charles Ho
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      Lock icon Malaysia to relax control over press
      820 12  -  No need to renew permit every year; legal sector to open up BY CAROLYN HONG MALAYSIA BUREAU CHIEF carolynh@sph.com.sg KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia plans to remove the Home Minister’s absolute control over publishing licences for newspapers, and to open up the legal profession to foreign
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      Lock icon Litterbugs, look out – you can get caught on camera
      647 14  - Litterbugs, look out you can get caught on camera 40 locations will get surveillance cameras to curb high-rise littering BY JUDITH TAN juditht@sph.com.sg NEW surveillance cameras will be installed in 40 locations islandwide to catch high-rise litterbugs in action. The programme, announced yesterday by the National Environment Agency (NEA), costs
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      Lock icon ICA to expand tools and scope of investigation work
      611 14  -  BY BRYNA SIM OFFICERS from the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA) will soon have a new portable screening device, among a string of other innovations, to help make it easier to nab immigration offenders. The ICA will also be taking over
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    • Article
      Lock icon Rules to protect property buyers set to kick in
      687 14  -  BY ESTHER TEO PROPERTY REPORTER ROUND one of the new “what you see is what you get” property rules are finally set to be rolled out next month. The rules aim to ensure developers do not mislead home buyers by gilding
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      Lock icon Passengers at Circle Line stations left scrambling
      567 8  -  Commuters face delays beyond Bishan to one-north stretch BY JOSE HONG josehong@sph.com.sg THE electrical fault that brought the MRT to a standstill between Bishan and one-north stations during yesterday’s morning rush hour had a knock-on effect on passengers travelling on the rest of
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      Lock icon MRT breakdowns: why so often?
      826 8  -  NEWS ANALYSIS BY CHRISTOPHER TAN SENIOR CORRESPONDENT christan@sph.com.sg STRANGER things have happened, but the latest string of MRT breakdowns would have raised more than a few eyebrows anywhere. No fewer than five disruptions took place within a week since last Friday, with all of them
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      Lock icon Late again? Get an excuse slip
      396 8  -  BY MIRANDA YEO AFTER the MRT trains stalled along Circle Line yesterday, there were the usual long queues for shuttle buses and taxis. But a different sort of queue was seen at Bishan MRT’s station control, shortly after service had resumed in the morning.
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      Lock icon Free app sends alerts to commuters
      367 8  -  PETER WONG WITH train disruptions happening more often these days, one Singapore company claims to have the solution an application (app) that allows users to warn each other of problems. Called Mana Rapid Transit, it uses a technique called crowd sourcing to try to
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      Lock icon Singapore docs upset peers in Indonesia
      752 15  -  Talks by specialists in several cities seen as encroaching on local turf BY WAHYUDI SOERIAATMADJA INDONESIA CORRESPONDENT wahyudis@sph.com.sg JAKARTA: Last Saturday, well-known Singaporean oncologist Ang Peng Tiam held court before 800 attendees in a ballroom of a hotel in the Indonesian capital. For about
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      Lock icon WHAT’S ONLINE FOLLOW AND ENGAGE ST ONLINE
      86 15 News: www.straitstimes.com Connect: www.facebook.com/thestraitstimes Follow: twitter.com/stcom TOP THREE WORLD STORIES ONLINE L Girl in Pulitzer-winning picture still has nightmares L Shy Hong Kongers urged to have more sex L ‘I would do it again,’ says Norway killer More Forum letters online at www.straitstimes.com
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      Lock icon Thailand a big draw for patients
      260 15  -  NIRMAL GHOSH BANGKOK: Thailand’s top hospitals have long promoted their services abroad, and by some estimates the country’s “medical tourism” market was around US$2 billion (S$2.5 billion) last year and is expected to more than double by 2015. The Thai government identified medical tourism
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        Lock icon Court stubs out Indonesia’s effort to discourage smoking
        564 18  -  Buildings must observe smokers’ rights and set aside rooms for them BY ZAKIR HUSSAIN INDONESIA CORRESPONDENT zakirh@sph.com.sg JAKARTA: Buildings in Indonesia must set aside rooms where people can exercise the right to smoke, Indonesia’s Constitutional Court has ruled, blowing off efforts by
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        Lock icon Suu Kyi going abroad for first time in 24 years
        605 19 Myanmar opposition leader to visit Britain and Norway in June REUTERS AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE YANGON: Nobel Peace Prize laureate and newly elected lawmaker Aung San Suu Kyi will travel outside Myanmar for the first time in 24 years, after accepting invitations
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        Lock icon Myanmar can do more in key areas: Top US official
        574 19  -  BY BEN NADARAJAN ASSISTANT FOREIGN EDITOR THE United States hopes to see more from Myanmar by way of reforms, and Washington’s recent lifting of some sanctions is meant to help better the lives of the people there, said a top
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        Lock icon Bersih rally will be testing time for police
        652 20  -  All will be watching if police continue with new, gentler approach NEWS ANALYSIS BY CAROLYN HONG MALAYSIA BUREAU CHIEF carolynh@sph.com.sg KUALA LUMPUR: The Malaysian police have bent over backwards to be helpful at recent public rallies, courteously directing crowds and traffic, when
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        Lock icon Minister asked to explain ‘payments to actress’
        264 20 KUALA LUMPUR: The driver of popular actress Zahida Rafik has exposed an alleged scandal said to involve her and Rural and Regional Development Minister Shafie Apdal, who is also Sabah’s Umno chief. In a police report that Mr Noor Azman Azemi lodged on
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        Lock icon Terrorists ‘targeted Malaysian landmarks’
        278 20 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE KUALA LUMPUR: A Malaysian minister has said that a dozen terrorist attacks on landmarks, including the iconic Petronas Twin Towers, have been foiled since 1999. Minister in charge of legal affairs Nazri Abdul Aziz was quoted by the New Straits Times as saying that
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        Lock icon Beijing promises thorough investigation
        657 22  -  Assurance follows London’s call for no political interference ALLEGED MURDER OF BRITON IN BO SCANDAL BY PEH SHING HUEI CHINA BUREAU CHIEF shpeh@sph.com.sg BEIJING: The Chinese government has promised that it will conduct a thorough investigation into the alleged murder of Briton Neil Heywood and release
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        Lock icon British govt finds itself in a tight spot
        626 22  -  BY JONATHAN EYAL EUROPE CORRESPONDENT LONDON: British Prime Minister David Cameron has offered China “all necessary assistance” in its investigations into the death of businessman Neil Heywood, whose alleged murder in Chongqing last year is being linked to the wife of disgraced
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        Lock icon US caught in ‘messy feud’
        618 22 WASHINGTON: On the evening of Feb 6, a vice-mayor of a Chinese city turned up at the United States consulate in Chengdu, wearing a disguise, and telling a tale of corruption and murder that has ensnared the Obama administration in a scandal it wants nothing
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        Lock icon Yale-NUS flak not mirrored in China
        886 24  -  Foreign campuses there do not face as much criticism over freedom as Yale does in S’pore BY HO AI LI CHINA CORRESPONDENT hoaili@sph.com.sg BEIJING: The proposed liberal arts college to be set up jointly by Yale University and the National University of Singapore (NUS)
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        Lock icon 3 Singapore leaders to visit China
        359 24  -  BY KOR KIAN BENG CHINA CORRESPONDENT BEIJING: Three Singapore leaders are visiting north-eastern and central China next week, each leading a business delegation to network with Chinese leaders and seek new business opportunities. From Sunday, Health Minister Gan Kim Yong will lead a group
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        Lock icon Ng Eng Hen meets Cambodian ministers
        198 24 PHNOM PENH: Dr Ng Eng Hen called on top Cambodian leaders yesterday, on his first official trip to Phnom Penh as Singapore’s Minister for Defence. During the introductory visit, Dr Ng met with his counterpart General Tea Banh, also Cambodia’s deputy prime minister, with
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        Lock icon Free online courses by five top US varsities
        597 25 Students won’t get credits but may get job recommendation REUTERS WASHINGTON: Five prestigious US universities will create free online courses for students worldwide through a new interactive education platform dubbed Coursera, the founders announced yesterday. The two founders, both professors of computer
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        Lock icon Girl, 6, handcuffed after tantrum
        91 25 Six-year-old Salecia Johnson (above) was taken away by the police in handcuffs after a tantrum at her school in Georgia, firing up a debate in the United States over whether teachers and police are overreacting with disruptive students. Salecia is said to have torn items
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        Lock icon British Empire files finally made public
        427 25 ASSOCIATED PRESS LONDON: Long-forgotten files carrying secret documents from the waning days of the British Empire were opened to the public yesterday, the first of several releases that promise new insights into an imperial power that stretched from Antigua to Yemen. The files whose
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    • world. money
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        Lock icon Fire sale for $109m mansion
        78 26 A never-occupied, never-sold mega-mansion in southern California’s Newport Coast could be sold at an auction next week for a quarter of the US$87 million (S$109 million) it once commanded. A gaudy symbol of the runaway extravagance that gripped the United States housing market before the
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        Lock icon IMF: World sitting on ageing ‘time bomb’
        852 26  -  Most people likely to live 3 years longer than expected, so costs of ageing set to balloon BY ANN WILLIAMS ann@sph.com.sg FIRST, the good news: We will live longer than we expect. The bad news: We won’t be able to afford it. The
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        Lock icon Warren Buffett has early-stage prostate cancer
        190 26 ASSOCIATED PRESS OMAHA (Nebraska): Mr Warren Buffett (right) told his company’s shareholders in an open letter on Tuesday that he has been diagnosed with early-stage prostate cancer. The 81-year-old billionaire investor and chief executive of Berkshire Hathaway said his condition was “not remotely life-threatening”
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        Lock icon Shareholders revolt over Citi CEO’s pay
        678 27 Vote signals growing anger among big stock owners over outsized Wall Street payouts NEW YORK TIMES ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK: In a stinging rebuke, Citigroup shareholders rebuffed the bank’s US$15 million (S$19 million) pay package for its chief executive, Mr Vikram Pandit, marking the
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        Lock icon Crisis could cost Europe’s banks $4.8 trillion: IMF
        365 27 BLOOMBERG WASHINGTON: Europe’ s banks could be forced to shed as much as US$3.8 trillion (S$4.8 trillion) in assets through next year and curb lending, if governments fall short of their pledges to stem the sovereign debt crisis or face a shock
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        Lock icon Home prices drop in most Chinese cities
        196 27 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE SHANGHAI: New home prices in two-thirds of China’s major cities fell last month, the government said yesterday, as officials maintain policies to curb the property market. China has for more than a year implemented several measures to limit runaway property prices,
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    • world. at a glance
      • IN BRIEF
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          Lock icon Baby sold 10 times: Eight jailed
          116 28 HANGZHOU: Eight people were sentenced to jail this week in eastern China’s Zhejiang province for buying and selling an abducted baby boy, who was sold 10 times in 15 months across eight provinces and regions. A man surnamed Gan, who abducted the 14-month-old and
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          Lock icon Tharman chairing meetings in US
          120 28 SINGAPORE Deputy Prime Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam is in Washington today for a four-day visit, during which he will chair meetings of the International Monetary and Financial Committee, being held in conjunction with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank meetings, said a press statement
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          Lock icon H5N1 outbreak: Chickens culled
          120 28 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE BEIJING: The agriculture authorities in north-west China have culled about 95,000 chickens after an outbreak of the H5N1 bird flu virus, the Xinhua news agency reported yesterday. The outbreak in Touying township of the Ningxia region was discovered last Friday after more than 23,000
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          Lock icon India to quiz Iranian suspects
          104 28 DELHI: Delhi police will send investigators to interrogate two Iranian suspects arrested in Bangkok in connection with an attack on an Israeli diplomat on Feb 13 in the Indian capital, reported The Indian Express. One of the suspects was arrested on Feb 14 at the
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          Lock icon Indonesia to trim state firms
          106 28 XINHUA JAKARTA: Indonesia will trim its state firm sector by shutting down ineffective small firms, but will retain those that belong to three broad business groups, State Enterprises Minister Dahlan Iskan said yesterday. He described the three planned groups firms with businesses connected to staple
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          Lock icon Phone hacking: 11 may be charged
          123 28 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE LONDON: British police probing phone hacking at media mogul Rupert Murdoch’s newspapers have given prosecutors files on 11 suspects after an investigation lasting more than a year, the chief prosecutor said yesterday. The four journalists, one police officer and six other people
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          Lock icon Spend less on defence: Army chief
          94 28 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE SKARDU (Pakistan): Pakistan’s powerful army chief Ashfaq Kayani told reporters yesterday that he would like to see the country spend less on defence, arguing that national security depended on development as much as on protecting borders. General Kayani also said “peaceful coexistence”
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        Lock icon Human hair grown on bald mice
        346 28 SLICEOFLIFE AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE TOKYO: Japanese researchers have successfully grown hair on hairless mice by implanting follicles created from stem cells, sparking new hopes of a cure for baldness. Led by Professor Takashi Tsuji, scientists from the Tokyo University of Science took two types of
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      88 9 London-bound Paralympic sailor Jovin Tan (right) partnering British Association member Tracy Ivinson (middle) for a game of table tennis facilitated by former national sprinter and Olympian C. Kunalan (left) yesterday. The event marked 100 days to the opening of the Olympic Games. Among the estimated 50
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      615 11 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE LONDON: Barcelona coach Pep Guardiola has declared that talk of him leaving the European champions for Chelsea was “fantasy”. He had been reported to be the top target of Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich, who had sacked Andre Villas-Boas earlier this season and installed
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      304 11 ASSOCIATED PRESS MADRID: While Barcelona and Real Madrid chase a “clasico” Champions League final, Sporting Lisbon are the only team keeping Athletic Bilbao, Atletico Madrid and Valencia from making the Europa League final an all-Spanish affair. Valencia travel to Atletico for the first leg
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      333 11 REUTERS JAKARTA: The former caretaker coach of the Indonesian national football team, Aji Santoso, has been banned for four games for suggestions of bribery to match officials during a humiliating 0-10 World Cup qualifying defeat by Bahrain in February, local media reported
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      677 12  -  LionsXII lead MSL but have yet to pack in the crowds consistently BY FABIUS CHEN fabiusc@sph.com.sg FEVER? What fever? The LionsXII may be leading the Malaysian Super League (MSL) table and in white-hot form, but their inability to pack the 7,500-capacity Jalan Besar Stadium to the
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        75 12 REUTERS MONTE CARLO: Former women’s tennis world No. 1 Kim Clijsters will miss her final chance to claim an elusive French Open title after opting to skip the entire clay-court season due to a hip injury. The popular Belgian has been laid low by
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        60 12 ASSOCIATED PRESS READING (England): English football club Reading have secured promotion to the Premier League after a four-year absence with two games left in the second tier. The Championship leaders ensured they would finish in the top two by beating Nottingham Forest 1-0 on
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        62 12 ASSOCIATED PRESS BRISBANE: Former Australia rugby fly-half Michael Lynagh suffered a stroke while visiting Brisbane, his home town, from London, The Courier Mail reported yesterday. The 48-year-old, who was instrumental in Australia’s 1991 World Cup win and captained them from 1993 to 1995, has been
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        54 12 ASSOCIATED PRESS SAO PAULO: A Brazilian court has convicted Ronaldinho’s brother and agent of tax evasion and money laundering and sentenced him to more than five years in prison. Roberto de Assis Moreira has been the Brazilian football player’s agent since the two-time Fifa Player of the
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        58 12 THE S-League yesterday announced its latest initiative to improve the match-day experience for fans a 10-girl cheerleading group known as the S-League SuperGals. Comprising dancers from Singapore, Indonesia, Australia and Argentina, the group will perform at six league matches this season, starting with Sunday’s clash
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      269 12 LONDON: Wigan defender Gary Caldwell has accused Robin van Persie of showing a lack of dignity, after the striker refused to shake his hand following Arsenal’s 1-2 Premier League defeat on Monday. The duo squared up at the Emirates Stadium, where van Persie
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      219 12 Today Basketball NBA: Denver v LA Clippers (Live, StarHub Ch202, 9am). Cricket 2nd Test: West Indies v Australia, Day 5 (Live, StarHub Ch235 and mio TV Ch122, 9.50pm). IPL: Deccan v Delhi (6pm), Chennai v Pune (10.30pm) Live, StarHub Ch231. Football S-League: Home v DPMM (Jalan Besar,
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      42 12 ROMARIO (above), the 46-year-old former Brazil striker and 1994 World Cup winner, on his place in football history
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      284 12 Badminton Asia C’ships In Qingdao, 2nd rd (selected) Men’s singles: Chen Long (Chn) bt Hsueh Hsuan-yi (Tpe) 21-13 21-14, Lin Dan (Chn) bt Huang Chao (Sin) 21-17 21-18, Nguyen Tien Minh (Vie) bt Ashton Chen (Sin) 21-17 21-17, Chen Yuekun (Chn) bt Shon Wan Ho (Kor) 21-18 21-12, Tanongsak
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      342 12 LONDON: Controversial striker Mario Balotelli has pledged to fight for his Manchester City future by improving his discipline. And he plans to do so by drawing inspiration from an unlikely source teammate Carlos Tevez. Tevez went into self-imposed exile in his native Argentina following his
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      343 12  -  BY ALVIN CHIA THERE is no secret to success beyond consistent hard work. That was one piece of advice given to some 40 budding ironman athletes by 10-time New Zealand Ironman champion Cameron Brown. And for those who might be daunted by the prospect of a
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      521 13 Celtics downed by NBA-record 19 three-pointers ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK: As the Celtics staggered to the locker room after getting hit by a National Basketball Association (NBA) record-tying three-point assault, the half-time musical selection perfectly summed up how they must have felt. It was You Dropped A Bomb
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      432 13 ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES: While last week’s blowout loss to the Los Angeles Lakers still stings the San Antonio Spurs, they found a way to feel better while moving into prime position to win the West. Tony Parker had 29 points and 13 assists, Tim Duncan
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      175 11 SPORTS FIXTURES Home Team I Away Team For fixtures of all other S.League, UE Europe and German League, please visit Singapore Pools website. Bahrain Race MOTOR RACING Qualifying Final Sat, 21/04/12 7.00pm Sun, 22/04/12 8.00pm LIVE TELECAST AT LIVEWIRE(MARINA BAY SANDS RESORTS WORLD SENTOSA) SPORTSBUZZ(POMO) S.League Home United Brunei DPMM
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    329 13 OBITUARIES at k I Raymond Tan Chin Chye 1962 2004 42 years Journey ended. His parting journey Late Brother Raymond cried helplessly, took his last deep breath with tears rolling sadly, he said “good-bye.” 2922 days flew past us in a flash but you remained in our heart although your
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      61 15 BeTheFirstToKnow BreakingNewsSMSAlert LianheWanbao ShinMinDailyNews SoccerNews The Straits Times WorldNews The Business TimesNews The StraitsTimes SingaporeNews 02.04.2012 11:32:47pm DBS pays S$6.2 billionsfor 67.37% stake held byo' a subsidiaryof TemaseknHoldings' Fullerton Financial Holdings, to acquire Indonesia's PT Bank Danamon. From SPH THE BUSINESS TIMES Lianhe The NewPaperSoccerNews ZaobaoNews SUBSCRIBENOWFORSPECIALPRIVILEGES!† SingTelmobilesubscribers,call*155 M1mobilesubscribers,smsSPH to*****222
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      177 16 Aood ist 2 days t Asia s '//ospita/it.y 'A'aA& S/&r>l APRIL 2012 r ll THU -rllp ED SON “ON 3 -16 FOI 19 26 6;^‘f° r& /7 allS HAo Log on to our official website for more information! www.foodnhotelasia.comwww.winespiritsasia.com Organiser: S Singapore Exhibition Services Pte Ltd Endorsed by: a jfJ|
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      13 16 URBANREAD ALL ABOUT IT TOMORROW BASICSBEAUTY Male skin doctors on their beauty must-haves
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      16 16 Head to CATS FASTADS in The New Paper for job opportunities! WAT3 BUY IT-SELL IT-FIND IT
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      30 16 FOUR-DIGIT DRAW Apr 18 2012 FIRSTN4917 SECONDN7324 THIRDN7604 STARTERS 0036 0462 2382 3869 4149 5864 6262 6278 6762 9987 CONSOLATIONS 1151 2057 3380 5565 5907 6746 7313 8353 8548 9208
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      1414 17 Brought to you by the Life Insurance Association Singapore’s life insurance industry 50 years in the making Tan Hak Leh President Life Insurance Association That Singaporeans have built life insurance into their financial planning did not happen by accident, It is the outcome of a fundamental objective set out 50
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      18 19 m Head to CATS FASTADS in The New Paper for beauty haircare services! WAT3 BUY IT-SELL IT-FIND IT
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      56 19 Far East Organization INSPIRING BETTER LIVES Development Sites Wanted We are looking for development sites in the city area or suburbs for development of high-rise and low-rise condominiums, apartments, bungalows, mixed landed housing, office buildings or shopping complexes, etc. Land plots of various sizes can be considered. Please call Eddie
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      693 20  -  Case will have implications for how the bourse operates BY MELISSA TAN melissat@sph.com.sg A BITTER stand-off between bourse operator Singapore Exchange (SGX) and listed company China Sky Chemical Fibre began its High Court sequel yesterday, with high-flying senior counsel slugging it
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      96 20 News: www.straitstimes.com Connect: www.facebook.com/thestraitstimes Follow: twitter.com/stcom TOP THREE MONEY STORIES ONLINE L World Bank picks US nominee Kim as president L Samsung Electronics boss vows fight in family feud L China’s yuan weakens after reform move More Forum letters online at www.straitstimes.com Get
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        Lock icon Shares rise as fears over Spain ease
        483 15  -  Market barometer closes at highest level in two weeks BULLS AND BEARS BY JONATHAN KWOK jonkwok@sph.com.sg SINGAPORE shares rose strongly yesterday as the most recent source of worry in Europe, Spain’s debt burden, eased with a successful debt auction there. Equities had picked
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        421 15  -  BY AMANDA TAN CAPITAMALL Trust’s (CMT) first-quar-ter distributable income rose 4.6 per cent to $76.6 million from a year earlier, in part driven by higher rental rates from new and renewed leases. Distribution per unit for the three months ended March 31
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          218 15 REUTERS, THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK Tokyo Nikkei 225 Yesterday’s close: 9,667.26 (+202.55) Japan’s Nikkei rallied 2.14 per cent on robust US earnings, firm demand for Spanish debt and an upbeat German economic sentiment survey. HK Hang Seng Index Yesterday’s close: 20,780.73 (+218.42) The Hang Seng Index rose 1.06 per
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          99 15 STOCK TRADING VOLUME 1.67 billion shares worth $1.03 billion UP DOWN Gainers: 228 Losers: 162 Unchanged: 390 FTSE ST INDEXES Mid Cap Small Cap All Share Fledgling China China Top Basic materials Points Change 5.60 691.24 1.68 465.55 3.75 726.00 -4.85 667.03 0.66 254.91 1.51 222.39 -1.64 212.63 Consumer
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          219 15 For a full list of SGX stocks, warrants and bonds, visit btstocks.asiaone.com TRANSACTION DATE: APRIL 18, 2012 Top Rises April 18 CENTS DBXT Nifty 10US$ ***** 210.0 1.6 DBXT MSEurope 10US$ 4320 72.5 1.4 April 18 DBXT MSKorea 10US$ 5847 67.5 0.9 Lyxor China H 10US$ 1385
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          369 15 Top Rises April 18 CENTS (0) April 18 KepCorp RBeCW*****1 64 15.0 30.6 SembMar.ES.1204 539 13.0 2.5 UOB.ES.1204 OldChangK W*****6 22.5 4.5 25.0 Yangzijiang.ES.1204 124.5 3.5 2.9 2.1 ST Engg.ES.1204 DBS RB eCW*****8 30.5 2.5 8.9 Transpac W*****1 110 2.5 2.3 6.8 UOB MB eCW*****02 15.5 2.2
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          45 15 By Volume CENTS Vol CENTS Vol JEL Corp 4 0.3 8.1 162,883,000 1,9 0.0 0.0 90,536,000 HLH Grp By Value CENTS Value CENTS Value Genting SP 172.5 3.0 1.8 74,939,716 536 10.0 1.9 56,367,659 Keppel Corp UNIT TRUSTS TABLE APPEARS ON MONDAYS
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          52 15 FOREIGN CURRENCY NOTE RATES: (9AM): S$ TO ONE UNIT OF FOREIGN CURRENCY April 18 2012 Selling Buying April 18 2012 Selling Buying 1.329 ....1.266 S$ TO 100 UNITS OF FOREIGN CURRENCY 1.291 1.23 Euro 1.676 Malaysian ringgit 41.543 39.946 2.025 ....1.948 NZ dollar 1.054 ....1.004 Source: United Overseas Bank
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          57 15 52-WEEK CURRENCY LAST 'VOL DAY GROSS NET M CAP HIGH LOW COMPANY TRADED SALE +OR-'000 HIGH LOW YIELD P/E $MIL CURRENCY LAST 'VOL DAY GROSS NET M CAP HIGH LOW COMPANY TRADED SALE +0R'ODD HIGH LOW YIELD P/E $MIL 185 112.5 CapMallsAsia 158 cd +2 3586
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          82 15 52-WEEK CURRENCY LAST 'VOL DAY GROSS NET M CAP HIGH LOW COMPANY TRADED SALE +OR-'000 HIGH LOW YIELD P/E $MIL COMPANY CURRENCY LAST TRADED SALE +0R'VOL 'ODD DAY GROSS HIGH LOW YIELD NET P/E M CAP $MIL 176 101.5 ARA 152.5 cd 1 599 153
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        594 16  -  Survey finds they are now cautious amid renewed fears of euro zone flare-up BY GOH ENG YEOW SENIOR CORRESPONDENT engyeow@sph.com.sg FUND managers have turned noticeably cool towards stocks, amid the latest re-emergence of fears of a flare-up in the long-simmering euro zone debt crisis.
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        397 16  -  BY YUNITA ONG A BUMPER contribution from Reflections at Keppel Bay sent earnings at Keppel Land rocketing in the first quarter. The developer racked up a net profit of $141.9 million, up 70.3 per cent on the same period
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        474 16  -  BY MAGDALEN NG THE road for wealthy foreigners to get permanent residency status in Singapore just got harder. Criteria for the Global Investor Programme (GIP), which targets entrepreneurial investors from overseas, have been tightened. The GIP is administered by the Economic
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        327 16  -  MAGDALEN NG ANOTHER player has just arrived on the main life insurance market in Singapore. Zurich Insurance Group has been operating here for some years, but until now has been limited to the wealthy market or about 5 per cent of the total
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      391 18 PROPERTY veteran Pua Seck Guan, who left CapitaLand to set up his own real estate company about two years ago, has roped in palm oil tycoon Kuok Khoon Hong to his venture. The two businessmen and several other investors have agreed
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      572 18  -  Experts warn investors that thousands of them are set to flood market BY GAN YU JIA yjgan@sph.com.sg PROPERTY analysts have issued a blunt warning to investors keen to buy so-called shoebox apartments in hopes of capital gains and good rental returns. The strong interest in
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      Lock icon Big drop in first-quarter secondary home sales
      521 18 SECONDARY home sales in the first quarter of this year were well down from that of last year, according to a quarterly report by DTZ Research. These sales of existing properties, as distinct from the primary market for new homes, slowed to about
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      Lock icon Blue chips outperforming property since 2009: SGX
      500 18  -  BY JONATHAN KWOK BLUE-CHIP stocks have performed better than private property since the 2009 financial crisis, though real estate trumps shares when the time period is extended to the last 10 years. That is the main message from a release the Singapore Exchange
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      502 19  -  Talks with India’s GVK Group are under way, says paper BY AARON LOW aaronl@sph.com.sg THE Government of Singapore Investment Corporation (GIC) is reportedly in talks with India’s GVK Group to buy a stake in its coal unit, as part of its move to diversify
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      Lock icon HSBC reports productivity dip but calculation method queried
      344 19 PRODUCTIVITY gains in Singapore have ground to a halt, a worrying trend that threatens sustainable growth, according to an HSBC report released yesterday. The bank said productivity actually went into negative territory last year going by a method of calculation called Total
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      566 19  -  BY JONATHAN KWOK LANDLUBBERS can learn more about one of Singapore’s oldest industries, the maritime sector, in a series of events being held this week and next. The seventh Singapore Maritime Week is on next week, covering topics as diverse as piracy
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      543 20 Exclusive Condominium Townhouses Foreigners eligible to purchase r f m m m I I §5 5 m V 4 I I Hfe r •3 V The Seawind Woodhaven euHabitat 99 years leasehold Located at Woodlands Walking distance to Woodlands MRT and Causeway Point Shopping Centre 10-min drive to Johor Bahru
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      184 1 Bard in park Arts Next Gen Art group subverts Hokkien expletives Twelfth Night features Adrian Pang and yacht Islam’s rock star Sami Yusuf to perform here on July 8 C8 C2 C6 LET ME GUESS... YOU LOVE ME FOREVER AND Weepy romance movies are predictable. Why do fans flock to
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        1223 2  -  Art collective Vertical Submarine baffles and amuses viewers with its quirky artworks which push the boundaries of art deepika shetty deepikas@sph.com.sg With tongue-in-cheek works such as paintings inspired by Hokkien expletives, award-winning art collective Vertical Submarine baffles, intrigues and amuses viewers. Vertical Submarine has become known for
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        533 2  -  deepika shetty The who’s who of the arts and corporate world showed up this week to see National Heritage Board chief executive Michael Koh awarded one of France’s highest cultural honours. Mr Koh, 50, was conferred an Officier de l’Ordre des Arts et Lettres (an officer
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        762 6  -  A yacht will take centre stage at the Singapore Repertory Theatre’s staging of Twelfth Night at Fort Canning corrie tan corriet@sph.com.sg Previous Shakespeare In The Park outings boasted a swimming pool on stage, complete with a diving board, and a sweeping walkway running
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        920 6  -  reviewart SUBJECT SHALL REMAIN ANONYMOUS Give Art Space/Till April 28 huang lijie An affable braininess marks the show Subject Shall Remain Anonymous at Give Art Space. The intimate exhibition brings together works by 12 artists and raises a considered discussion on the meaning and act of
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        Lock icon Sensual abstracts play peek-a-boo
        1035 7  -  Jeremy Sharma uses rich textures, smoky shades and high gloss to evoke tactility and depth reviewart APROPOS: JEREMY SHARMA ICA Gallery 2/Till May 11 huang lijie lijie@sph.com.sg Sensuality in grey hues is a delicious paradox nesting in artist Jeremy Sharma’s paintings. Some works are awash in
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        537 7  -  deepika shetty They are not on a Pantone chart yet, but Comfort Taxi, Marina Bay Sands, Curry Chicken, Bandung and Cheongsam are colours created by Japanese artist Shinji Ohmaki. The artist, in town to install a new work at luxury brand Hermes’ in-store gallery, has
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        118 8 ‘People tend to take on the characteristics of a room. They feel glamorous in a glamorous space and rich in a rich space. And who doesn’t want to feel rich?’ Wynn Resorts designer Roger Thomas on creating seductive casinos ‘Deduct four hours from one day for
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          95 8 Britain-based Indian artist Preeti Sood is holding her debut solo exhibition in South-east Asia here, presented by Paradox Gallery. Through the urban imagery of If Walls Could Talk, she explores the theme of dis- placement and the notion of “glocal” (global and local) in her prints,
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          97 8 Curated by freelance art journalist Sonia Kolesnikov-Jessop, this group exhibition by six regional artists is a comment on burgeoning luxury consumerism among Asia’s middle class. With 26 artworks, Buy Bye examines the region’s shift from a traditional saving culture to conspicuous spending and the amassing of
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          116 8 A psychological drama by local theatre company Toy Factory is heading to the Shanghai Modern Drama Valley International 5 Cities Public Theatre Festival 2012, a theatre festival which runs from Wednesday to May 20. Written and directed by Goh Boon Teck, K is a Kafka-inspired
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          66 8 The Singapore Chinese Orchestra returns to the Singapore Botanic Gardens for the final instalment of this season’s Community Series concerts. Led by associate conductor Quek Ling Kiong, they will play familiar Singapore tunes such as Tanjong Katong With Colours and Hokkien favourite Pork Dumpling. Where: Shaw
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          116 8  -  Chen Shanshan British theatre company TNT Theatre Britain presents an adaptation of the Charles Dickens’ novel, Oliver Twist. Directed by Paul Stebbings and produced by The American Drama Group Europe, this retelling of the classic story stars Rebecca Livermore as the orphan boy who wanted
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        610 8  -  Dubbed Islam’s Biggest Rock Star, Sami Yusuf performs his first gig here in July melissa kok melk@sph.com.sg The man dubbed Islam’s Biggest Rock Star by Time magazine will perform his maiden concert in Singapore in July. British-Muslim singer, mul-ti-instrumentalist and composer Sami Yusuf will play the Singapore
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        424 9 Anne Patchett is one of three Americans on the literature prize shortlist for women writers Bloomberg Reuters London One-time winner Anne Patchett and debut novelist Madeline Miller are finalists in the Orange Prize for Fiction, whose winner takes home £30,000 (S$59,700) and a bronze statuette called “the
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      1587 4  - Watch weep The romance may be far-fetched and the plot simple, but fans lap up tearjerkers anyway yip wai yee yipwy@sph.com.sg Film-maker Wee Li Lin is known for her arthouse sensibilities. Her 2007 film Gone Shopping was a satirical drama about the art of shopping, while her 2010 flick Forever
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        390 14 Hong Kong Nineties sex goddess Athena Chu and her companion of 13 years, rock star Paul Wong, are expecting a child and finally marrying. Chu, 40, and Wong, 48, made the announcement at the Hong Kong International Airport on Tuesday evening, after flying in from Kuala
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        309 14 Associated Press Geneva After a decade of promoting refugee causes around the world, actress Angelina Jolie (left) herself has been promoted. The United Nations refugee agency has elevated her from being a goodwill ambassador to a special envoy, a role that will see
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          50 14 Rockers Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers have recovered their missing guitars, after reporting them stolen from a sound studio west of Los Angeles. Police said on Tuesday that a 51-year-old security guard at the studio had been arrested on suspicion of stealing the five instruments.
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          62 14 Singer Leonard Cohen’s ex-manager was jailed for 18 months on Tuesday for harassing him. Kelley Lynch, who had a 17-year professional relationship with Cohen and was briefly his lover, was also sentenced to five years’ probation and ordered to attend anger-management sessions. She will likely
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        231 2  -  LEE HUI CHIEH Editor huichieh@sph.com.sg “Holistic” has been a buzzword in health care in recent years. The movement towards holistic health care means that, rather than just treating a diseased body part, a patient is treated in his entirety. So each patient is now often
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        351 4 Reuters Extracts from the spice turmeric, known for its antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties, may help ward off heart attacks in people who have had recent bypass surgery, a study from Thailand has found. During bypass surgery, the heart muscle can be
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        1756 8/9  -  Robots are able to reach deep into the throat through the mouth to perform surgery. reports Ng Wan Ching wanching@sph.com.sg Mr Remy Tan was not the only one losing sleep because of his sleep apnoea. Almost every night, his wife would stay up all
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        939 19  -  Korean ginseng is used to boost qi and manage diabetes in TCM. Joan Chew reports reports Joan Chew joanchew@sph.com.sg True to its name, the Korean ginseng is widely cultivated in that country, though it is also grown in China, Japan and other parts of Asia. Its scientific
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