Today, 28 March 2009

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    11 1 weekendTODAY March 28 29, 2009 www.to^d H^om we set you thinking
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    Lock icon IN SEARCH OF KINDNESS
    1932 1  -  JUNE WAN GENEVIEVELOH MAYO MARTIN WEEKEND(x)TRA WEEKEND(x)TRA WEEKEND(x)TRA Weekend Xtra sends a team out to see if locals andjoreignegjierewil^ xtra@mediacorp.com.sg FOR any parent, taking young children out is a learning experience. You suss two facts out very quickly. One: You are often invisible to the general
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    22 1 Shut them down MBA schools have produced so many of the individuals who are behind the current financial crisis. Page 21
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    WORLD
    29 1 Mosque bombed A suicide bomber blows himself up in a packed Pakistani mosque during Friday prayers, leaving more than 50 dead and at least 100 wounded. Page 16
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    SPORTS
    26 1 Alonsosetto reign Our Fl correspondent lan De Cotta picks Renault's two-time world champion Fernando Alonso to gut it out with the Ferrari flyboys. Page 40
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    LIVING
    33 1 Creative confections Fancy cakes and crazy confections are not just a feast for the stomach, but for the eyes too. But can everyone have their cake and eat it, too? Page 23
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    Lock icon Eyes on the crisis
    586 1  -  LEONGWEEKEAT TEOCHEE HEAN New DPM says his role is to help PM in two key areas weekeat@mediacorp.com.sg AS THE Prime Minister's new right-hand man, there are two areas that Mr Teo Chee Hean (picture) wants to focus on, for a start. One, to help make sure
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    Lock icon Fatimah Lateef speaks up
    604 1  -  DERRICK A PAULO LOHCHEEKONG deputy news editor derrick@mediacorp.com.sg DR FATIMAH Lateef was about to leave for a community event last Saturday morning, when she picked up The Straits Times. The Member of Parliament (MP) for Marine Parade GRC was "of course upset" after spotting an article
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  • NEWS
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      So, what will Mdm Minister do at the PMO?
      461 4  -  ALICIA WONG alicia@mediacorp.com.sg NOW that Singapore has a full-fledged woman minister, is the creation of a women's desk next on the cards? While it is tempting to speculate that with Mrs Lim Hwee Hua as Minister in the Prime Minister's Office
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      Lock icon Dr Lee Boon Yang on those difficult moments ...
      318 4 Dr Lee Boon Yang on those difficult moments AS SOMEONE with 24 years' experience in Government service, Dr Lee Boon Yang (picture) has had his fair share of challenges to grapple with. But ask him to list his most difficult moments and he would cite the raising of the retirement
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      Axed PMETs give workshops thumbs up
      411 6  -  ESTHERNG estherng@mediacorp.com.sg RETRENCHED PMETs who have trouble landing a job interview, could start by ditching pedestrian salutations such as "Dear Sir", "To The Human Resource Manager" and opening lines such as "I wish to apply for the position of a sales executive as advertised".
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      Lock icon A double sigh of relief
      659 6  -  LINYANQIN LINYANQIN CONSULTANCY ATTACHMENTS Business Advisors Programme places retrenched PMETs in six-month stints at SMEs yanqin@mediacorp.com. sg IT'S a scheme with advantages for two groups crying out for aid: Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) and retrenched professionals, managers, executives and technicians (PMETs). For resource-strapped SMEs,
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      Lock icon Selling the Singapore brand
      610 8  -  NEOCHAICHIN GET SINGAPORE chaichin@mediacorp.com.sg ENTREPRENEUR Elim Chew is sometimes stumped by visiting foreign friends asking which Singapore brands they should take home with them. And, when on trips to China and South-east Asia with the National Youth Council, RISIS orchid figurines are the usual gifts packed
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      COKE WITH A LOCAL TOUCH
      128 8 London-based fashion designer Ashley Isham, whose dresses are worn by stars such as Angelina Jolie and Kylie Minogue, now has another feather in his cap. He is the first Singaporean to join a coveted list of Coca-Cola artists, including Andy Warhol and Manolo Blahnik, who
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    • Article
      11 more charges for Ee
      205 8  -  TEOXUANWEI FORMER Cortina Watch supervisor Jerry Ec was on Friday slapped with 11 additional charges of misappropriating Rolex timepieces worth $1.1 million between May and December last year. The 35-year-old who was charged last Saturday with criminal breach of trust of $27,137 and 386 timepieces
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    • SINGAPORE ROUNDUP
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        SINDA HELPS COMMUNITY COPE WITH RECESSION
        127 10  -  LEONGWEE KEAT The Singapore Indian Development Association (Sinda) will leverage on existing Government schemes to help the community fight the economic downturn, and the self-help group will step in to develop new programmes if necessary, said its president Balaji Sadasivan, also Senior Minister of
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        A COOL IDEA THATIS HOT
        117 10 By tweaking the air-conditioning system so that it works less hard when there are fewer shoppers, retail malls can optimise energy consumption, leading to cost savings and a smaller carbon footprint without much capital outlay on mall owners' part, noted Senior Parliamentary Secretary (Environment and
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        16 NABBED FOR DRINK DRIVING
        103 10 Police arrested 16 drink drivers in a fourhour islandwide ring-fencing operation in the early hours of Friday. Fifteen men and one woman, aged between 26 and 52 years, were arrested. If convicted, they will be disqualified from driving for at least 12 months. In addition,
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        Lock icon OIL COMPANY EXEC CHARGED
        107 10 938 LIVE An oil company executive has been charged in court for siphoning marine fuel oil worth more than $330,000 in return for bribes. Shanker Balasubramaniam, an operations executive at Chevron Singapore, is accused of collaborating with Remy Khaizan, a freelance marine cargo surveyor. They allegedly
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        ASSOCIATION PUMPS OUT $500K TO HELP FAMILIES
        105 10  -  ZULOTHMAN The Association of Muslim Professionals (AMP) is dipping into its reserves to pump in $500,000 into a new Temporary Assistance Package to help Malay/Muslim families affected by the downturn. The move is expected to benefit 1,000 people from 200 families. AMP's executive
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      Lock icon A RACE TO THE RESCUE
      100 10 DONWONG A Disaster Assistance and Rescue Team worker (right) from the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) works to free a trapped 'passenger' while rescue workers from the Philippines and Thailand (left) prepare to evacuate a 'motorist' from a car wreck during the 15th Civil Defence
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    • Article
      'Mistaken traffic lights'
      356 10  -  TEOXUANWEI IN COURT Lawyer for driver convicted of causing fatal accident says in her appeal xuanwei@mediacorp.com. sg SHE had beaten the red light not because she was rushing for a spa appointment that afternoon but because she was "looking at the wrong traffic lights". Did that "inattentive"
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      Lock icon Helping hand for the nation
      891 11  -  -MELODY TAN Needy Singaporeans get a boost during the economic crisis, thanks to initiatives by the Government Since she started secondary school lastyear, Geraldine Gan had to stay back after class once a week, or more, while her peers went home. The reason: The Secondary
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  • WORLD
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      Lock icon Muhyiddin to lead by-elections
      389 12 AGENCIES,THE MALAYSIAN INSIDER MALAYSIAN POLITICS 3 newVPstotake charge of one seat each KUALA LUMPUR The newly-elected deputy president of Malaysia's ruling party, Mr Muhyiddin Yassin (centre), has been picked to head the Barisan Nasional (BN) election machinery for the three by-elections on April 7. The three
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      Khairy not seeking ministerial post
      254 12 KUALA LUMPUR Newly-elected United Malays National Organisation (Umno) Youth chief Khairy Jamaluddin said he has no intention of seeking a ministerial post in the Cabinet of incoming Prime Minister Najib Razak, The Star newspaper reported. "I have no such intention, my mind is on winning
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      Lock icon Shahrir to quit as Trade Minister
      335 12 THE MALAYSIAN INSIDER KUALA LUMPUR Following his defeat in the United Malays National Organisation (Umno) Supreme Council elections, outspoken Johor Member of Parliament Shahrir Abdul Samad (picture) said he will resign as the Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs Minister. Mr Sharir said he will
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      Former Chief Minister blames defeat on opposition-led probe
      183 12 KUALA LUMPUR Former Selangor Chief Minister, Dr Khir Toyo, who lost in the United Malays National Organisation (Umno) Youth Chief elections, has blamed his defeat on an op-position-led corruption probe. Earlier this month, the Pakatan Rakyat Selangor government alleged that a charity
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      Lock icon CAN NAJIB BE THE REFORMIST ABDULLAH FAILED TO BE?
      867 13  -  001 KEEBENG WEEKEND®TRA M'SIAN POLITICS New PM's future depends on him being tough against his own xtra@mediacorp.com.sg FIVE years after the 2004 general elections gave unprecedented support to Mr Abdullah Badawi, he leaves office a disappointed man eased out by his
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      Lock icon Virus kills 18
      364 14 AGENCIES HFMD INCHINA Authorities expect hand, foot, mouth epidemic to reach peak in May June BEIJING Chinese health officials said on Friday that hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD) has hit 41,000 people and killed 18 children so far this year. The outbreak appears more widespread than
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      Lock icon Radioactive material missing in China
      265 14 .AFP BEIJING Authorities in China have ordered an all-out search for a missing nuclear scale that contained a dangerous radioactive component. The scale, used to make precision measurements, was found to be missing on Monday after workers began dismantling a cement factory where it was
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      Lock icon This is truly a catastrophe'
      379 15 'AGENCIES BURST DAM CIREUNDEU (Indonesia) A man-made earthen dam burst its banks near Jakarta early on Friday morning, drowning at least 58 people in a deadly torrent of muddy water that flooded hundreds of homes. Dozens were also missing after water broke through the dam
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      Lock icon Thai PM defiant in the face of protests
      238 15 AGENCIES BANGKOK Thailand's Prime Minister refused to bow to anti-government protesters surrounding his offices fora second day to demand his resignation. Mr Abhisit Vejjajiva (picture) said on Friday that he would not be swayed by the 2,000 "red shirts" loyal to former
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    • GLOBAL ROUNDUP
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        Lock icon ANTI-ROCKET SYSTEM TEST A'MILESTONE': ISRAEL
        97 15 I. AP Israel's Defence Ministry said it has successfully tested a high-tech system designed to intercept incoming rockets. A ministry statement said the Iron Dome system dealt with incoming rockets of the types fired by Palestinian and Lebanese militants. Defence officials called the tests a
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        Lock icon AL QAEDA CLAIMS YEMEN ATTACK ON S KOREANS
        121 15 AFP An Al Qaeda group has claimed responsibility for a suicide attack that killed four South Korean tourists in Yemen this month, the Site Intelligence Group said. Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula apparently said in a statement that the attack was
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        Lock icon 'ITALY'S FRITZL' LOCKED UP DAUGHTER FOR 25 YEARS
        131 15 AFP Italian police have arrested a man for sequestering his daughter and forcing her to have sex with him for 25 years. He also incited his 40-year-old son, who was also arrested, to have sex with his own daughters, who range in
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        HE'S NOT THE DAD, AFTER ALL
        95 15 The British schoolboy thought to have become a father at age 12 is not the baby's father. Alfie Patten, now 13, took a £300 ($652) DNAtest after six boys claimed to have slept with 15-year-old schoolgirl Chantelle Stedman, reported the Daily Mirror. It proved
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      Lock icon We will defeat you: Obama to terror groups
      466 16 AP WASHINGTON United States President Barack Obama on Friday ordered 4,000 more US military troops into Afghanistan, vowing to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat" the Al Qaeda terrorist network in Afghanistan and neighbouring Pakistan. In a war that still has no end in
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      Lock icon Blast demolishes mosque
      340 16 AGENCIES SUICIDE BOMBING Attack kills at least 50 PESHAWAR (Pakistan) Bloodsoaked caps, shoes and shirts lay around the flattened mosque. Dazed survivors looked on as rescuers plucked bodies out of the rubble, covered in pools of blood. This was the scene after a suicide bomber blew himself
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      Lock icon A new Taliban alliance
      339 16 THE NEWYORKTIMES ISLAMABAD After agreeing to bury their differences and unite forces, the top three Taliban leaders based in Pakistan have closed ranks with their Afghan comrades to ready a new offensive in Afghanistan as the United States prepares to send 17,000 more troops there this
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      Lock icon IS AMERICA LOOKING ACROSS THE PACIFIC?
      932 17  -  SIMON TAY WEEKEND(x)TRA GLOBAL CITIZEN Domestic problems turn Obama's attention inward, but he's keeping an eye thisway__ xtra@mediacorp.com.sg THERE are days when America seems only to care about America. The headlines report how the Obama administration is struggling to restart the economy. Then attention
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      Lock icon Police warn of 'unprecedented' threat to London
      177 18 THEDAILYTELEGRAPH LONDON Police are describing the threat to London from protesters during next week's G2O summit as "unprecedented", with seven different protests expected in the capital on the day of the meeting. However, senior officers insisted that London would not be shut down
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      Lock icon Exams flawed, standards slipping
      358 18 THE DAILYTELEGRAPH BRITISH EDUCATION GSCE and A level papers fail to stretch brightest students LONDON Serious flaws in the General Certificates of Secondary Education (GCSEs) and the A-levels were laid bare by the Britain government's exam watchdog on Friday, amid "significant concerns" that standards are slipping.
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      MP Fatimah Lateef is warm and approachable
      171 19  -  Wong Weng Fai Letter from President Buddhist Research Society Buddhist Library I REFER to "SM Goh slams Sireport" (March 27). lam a volunteer for the Buddhist Research Society/Buddhist Library in Geylang. For the past few years, we have had the privilege of working
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      Newspaper should apologise
      206 19  -  Lionel De Souza Letter from I REFER to "SM Goh slams SI report" (March 27). I have witnessed how fanatical and violent people can become when it comes to matters of race and religion. As a police officer I had a front row view of the atrocities
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      Lock icon THEY'RE DEAD POLITE
      561 19  -  NURYVITTACHI MANNERS Lessons we can learn from the super-courteous Japanese xtra@mediacorp.com.sg THANK you for opening this newspaper or reading it over someone's shoulder. Thank you for reading the previous sentence and now this sentence. Thank you for not yet lining a bird cage with this newspaper. Today,
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  • business
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      A Jekyll-and-Hyde year for PSA
      386 20  -  BARRY PORTER GLOOMY CORPORATE OUTLOOK I executive editor, newsplex barryporter@mediacorp.com.sg DESPITE another record-breaking year for volumes, port operator PSA International's profits sank 46 per cent last year to $1.04 billion. This was its first profit drop in six years and its group chief executive Eddie
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    • Article
      Experts welcome SM's remarks
      347 20  -  KELVIN CHOW TAN HUI LENG AND kelvinc@mediacorp.com. sg EXPERTS have welcomed Senior Minister Goh ChokTong's call for more stringent supervision of Chinese companies listed here, saying his comments are unlikely to damage ties with Beijing. As the Monetary Authority of Singapore's chairman, Mr Goh has valid
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      Of Reits, 'clever' and 'stupid' bankers
      377 20  -  CHEOWXINYI cheowxinyi@mediacorp.com.sg AS THE global credit crunch bites, some Singapore property trusts could fail. At a National University of Singapore forum, experts warned some Singapore real estate investment trusts, or S-Reits, risk going bankrupt, being swallowed up or taken private if they fail to
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    • BUSINESS ROUNDUP
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        Lock icon PROPERTY REPOSESSIONS UP
        79 20 The number of repossessed properties put up for sale by banks and financial institutions rose by 18 per cent on quarter for the first three months of this year A total of 53 properties have so far been repossessed this year, compared to 45 in the last
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        4 CARRIERS SWITCH TO T2
        71 20 Four airlines are switching to Changi Airport's Terminal 2 from Sunday, to give them more room to grow. They are Air India, Air India Express, Asiana Airlines and Korean Air. "The airlines' move from Terminal 1 to Terminal 2 will also better distribute capacity usage
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        STARHUB WINS 2 AWARDS
        58 20 Star Hub has picked up two top honours in this year's annual Telecom Asia Awards. Its boss Terry Clontz was voted Telecom CEO of the Year. Star Hub also took first place in the broadband category. Other winners include India's Bharti Airtel, a unit of Sing
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        Lock icon SOCIETE GENERALE CUTS STAFF, PAY
        88 20 DOWJONES French bank Societe Generale has cut up to 10 per cent of private banking staff in Asia, excluding Japan, sources said on Friday. A Societe Generale spokeswoman said this was part of a larger move to "realign the company's operations in line with current
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        Lock icon RESTRUCTURING OF POLICY BONUSES AT NTUC INCOME
        81 20 CHANNEL NEWSASIA NTUC Income will restructure life policy bonuses for a remaining 195,000 life insurance policyholders this year. This follows an earlier move last year to lower annual bonus rates, and raise special bonus rates for 310,000 life insurance policyholders. This allowed the
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      Lock icon MBA SCHOOLS, JUST SHUT THEM DOWN
      934 21  -  MATTHEW LYNN WEEKEND®TRA FINANCIALCRISIS If flight training schools produced this number of crashes, we'd be asking questions_ xtra@mediacorp.com.sg WHEN King Henry VIII broke with the Church in Rome, he shut England's monasteries. When Fidel Castro took power in Cuba, he did the same with
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      Lock icon McEnroe duped in art scam
      383 22 AGENCIES THE owner of a now-closed Manhattan art gallery with a star-stud-ded clientele was painted as a thief who stole US$BB million ($133 million) from art owners, a bank and investors, including tennis starjohn McEnroe. Lawrence B Salander used the money to try to corner
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      Lock icon Beyond bailouts and bonuses
      198 22 BLOOMBERG UNITED States President Barack Obama sought support on Friday from bosses of the nation's largest banks for his plan to stabilise the financial system and try to get beyond the furore over bailouts and bonuses. The White House meeting was scheduled to include chief executive
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      THE MARKET MYSTIQUE
      652 22  -  PAULKRUGMAN BUSINESS COMMENT ON MONDAY, Mr Lawrence Summers, the head of the National Economic Council, responded to criticisms of the Obama administration's plan to subsidise private purchases of toxic assets. "I don't know of any economist," he declared, "who doesn't believe that better-functioning capital markets in which
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      Lock icon HAVING YOUR CAKE
      893 23  -  DON MENDOZA weekends SS CREATIVE CONFECTIONS L I Clever confectionery at its sweetest and most expensive donm@mediacorp com sg "FOR goodness sake, man. It's just a cake." This was the response from a friend when he heard that the pretty I.skg birthday cake I had ordered for
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  • MAKAN
    • Bakers Quartet ... Choice picko for some Of the sweetest treats
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        THE PATISSIER
        156 24 Tel: 6220 5565 (Ann Siang Rd) 6737 3369 (Mohamed Sultan Rd) Four talented female chefs, who translate traditional French techniques into innovative cakes and pastries for any occasion, run this popular homegrown patisserie. Helmed by executive chef Tan Siang Yee, it aims to "provide a complete sensual feast".
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        BAKERZIN
        162 24 Tel: 6251 5550 (United Square) 6333 6647 (Paragon) A 3D cake, CEO Daniel Tay explained, requires three working days to make. A customised cake will take seven days. Tay also emphasised the fact that customers are enjoying the best of both worlds quality and good design. "It's hard to
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        Lock icon SNACK ATTACK
        88 24 DON MENDOZA Here's another reason to kick back with a finger-licking good snack: The new Kentucky Fried Chicken Snackers. Some of KFC's popular side orders are now available in three affordable combos. Priced at $2.90 each, peckish folks can choose to have a set of four pieces of
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        Lock icon INSTANT GRATIFICATION
        137 24 SHERMAINE WONG With the opening of Cold Storage's Specialty store at Tanglin Shopping Centre, instant food has taken on a literal meaning. For the first time, customers can enjoy the food they have just purchased from the supermarket instantly, with the store's free heating, grilling and baking facilities.
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      Lock icon THIS SPICE IS NICE
      553 25  -  ANNETTE TAN An exhaustive menu of regional dishes, and then some food@newstoday.com.sg ONLY a month old, the new Indian Curry House along Upper East Coast Road offers a rambling menu of "multi-cuisine" dishes. "Multi-cuisine", in this case, refers to the dishes from various parts of India,
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      67 25 jjy Available on Android-Powered Phone. China deploys extra troops II along Tibet border China said Monday it had deployed extui soldiers along Tibet's international border as part of H ahead of the 50th anniversary of a I Sing Tel Dream is avaliable only at Sing Tel retail shops. For the
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  • STYLE
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      A GEM OF AN IDEA
      851 26  -  PEARLYN THAM NEW TRENDS With precious stones as ingredients, these products will make your skin sparkle news@newstoday.com.sg DIAMONDS may be a girl's best friend. But in this economy, beauty brands are offering women a more affordable way of indulging in the gilt without the guilt.
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      A BEE IN MY BONNET
      276 27  -  PEARLYN THAM ROALD Dahl's short story Royal Jelly put me off the bee manna for a while. Blame it on the disturbing tale of a couple feeding their infant generous doses of royal jelly and then witnessing him transform into an almost beelike creature. Thankfully,
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      394 27 Besides royal jelly, certain bees also produce the golden nectar C C I known as honey, which is used in some DIV beauty recipes. But if you aren't inclined towards the idea of slathering a gooey H mess of egg white and honey on your face, these ready-made I products
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      STRONG, SILENT TYPE
      736 28  -  COLIN YONG MERCEDES-BENZ E 250 CGI Quality and refinement figure big in the new Mercedes E-class IN MADRID, SPAIN colin@mediacorp.com.sg IS IT hip to be square? Mercedes-Benz certainly seems to think so, going by the styling of its brand new E-class. In place of the old model's
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    • NEWSTRACKS
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        VW DOES SMASHINGLY WELL
        95 28 There are worse places to be than in a Volkswagen Golf if you were to have an accident: The mid-sized hatchback recently became the highest-scoring car tested by the independently-run European New Car Assessment Programme (Euro NCAP). It gained the maximum fivestar rating by chalking up
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        SMALLER ROLLS GETS 500BHP
        88 28 Rolls-Royce's forthcoming smaller saloon will be even more powerful than the company's Phantom flagship. The BMW-owned automaker has revealed that the car (accurately previewed by the 200 EX concept, picture) will have a 6.6-litre turbocharged VI2 engine delivering "upwards of 500bhp". In comparison, the Phantom's 6.7-litre
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        AIMING FOR COMMERCIAL SUCCESS
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      292 29 4~ MocCarnival r> I J-^ I LOADS OF FAMILY AND HOUSEHOLD BARGAINS UNDER ONE ROOF! 28 29 MARCH 2009 D' MARQUEE, DOWNTOWN EAST 11am 10pm ADMISSION IS FREE! Get the whole family down for two days of great household deals at MocCarnival FULL HOUSE! Catch MediaCorp artistes and DJs in
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      129 30 CHRISTOPHERTOH MOVIE buffs now have another reason to cheer independent operator Film Garde opens its flagship Cineplex on Saturday at the new shopping mall, Illuma. Comprising eight halls, Film Garde Illuma (FG Illuma) is also the first and only Cineplex in Singapore to offertheJßL3-Way Sound facilities
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      475 30  -  MAYO MARTIN THEATRE REVIEW THE WINTER'S TALE From a mad king to a sly thief, its an all-in-one theatrical package mayo@mediacorp.com.sg ONE of Shakespeare's lesser-known plays, The Winter's Tale was written and performed five years before he died. And indeed, after stepping out of the theatre, one
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      428 31  -  NANCYANG Channel News Asia THE PRIMETIME MORNING INTERVIEW nancyang@mediacorp.com. sg IF YOU'VE always kept your torch lights, spare batteries and candles for an emergency, well, Saturday night's the time to take them out for a good cause. By switching off your lights at home for one hour from
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