Today, 17 March 2011

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  • 20 1 TODAY MICA (P) 057/10/2010 A PUBLICATION OF NEWS HOTLINE 6822 2268 Thursday March 17, 2011 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking
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  • 429 1 THE NEW YORK TIMES, THE GUARDIAN THE GUARDIAN TOKYO They crawl through the labyrinths of the Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant, the utter darkness they are working in pierced only by their flashlights, all the while listening out for periodic explosions as
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  • 605 1 AGENCIES TOKYO An unusual plan to use helicopters to dump water on one of the reactors of the Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear power plant was put off yesterday due to strong winds and high levels of radiation, as the authorities searched for other options to prevent
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  • JAPAN CRISIS
    • 447 2  -  JOANNE CHAN, NEO CHAI CHIN joannechan@mediacorp.com.sg AP SINGAPORE Public hospitals here are geared up to detect radiation in returning travellers from Japan and can ramp up capabilities should there be such a need. This is according to radiation expert Suresh Pillai,
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    • 521 3  -  NEO CHAI CHIN chaichin@mediacorp.com.sg “Stay united,” she said. ADDITIONAL REPORTING BYSARAGROSSE SARAGROSSE SINGAPORE She appeared unprepared for the media’s presence and flash of cameras as she walked into the meeting room at the Japanese Embassy. In the end, Ms Elaine Low, 24, left most of the
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    • 235 4 AGENCIES TOKYO As quake-stricken Japan struggles to get back on its feet and prevent a nuclear crisis from spiralling further, Emperor Akihito made an extremely rare address to the nation, telling the Japanese people not to give up. A televised address by
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    • 417 6 AGENCIES BRUSSELS Shocked into action by Japan’s atomic crisis, European energy officials agreed to apply stress tests on nuclear power plants and Germany moved to switch off seven ageing reactors one of them permanently. The European Union’s (EU) energy chief called for
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    • 160 6  -  ESTHER NG Responding to MediaCorp’s queries, Singapore’s Ministry of Trade and Industry (MTI) reiterated that it “will be a long time” before the Government makes any decision on nuclear energy. According to MTI, the Government was in the midst
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    • 448 8  -  I SAY VENESSA LEE venessa@mediacorp.com.sg Venessa Lee is a correspondent at Today. Some Japanese people in Singapore hope to send food and essential items back to their homeland. When I dropped in at Meidi-Ya supermarket yesterday afternoon, a 35-year-old expatriate housewife told me:
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    • 258 8 AGENCIES Families in Hong Kong rushed to stock up on Japanese infant formula, buying a month’s supply of Megmilk Snow Brand’s products in two days, as explosions at the quake-hit Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant in Japan
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    • 284 10 AGENCIES SENDAI Heavy snow blanketed Japan’s devastated northeast yesterday, hindering rescue workers and adding to the woes of the few, mainly elderly, residents who remained in the worst-hit areas. In Sendai, once a city but now a water-logged wasteland, firefighters and
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    • 703 10 THE NEW YORK TIMES TOKYO Japan, a country lulled by the reassuring rhythms of order and predictability, has been jolted by earthquake, tsunami and nuclear crisis into an unsettling new reality: Lack of control. In a nation where you can set your watch
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    • 344 11 When you have a passion for technology and design, there is no limit to what you can accomplish. I believe that by combining technology with design, we can come up with elegant and viable solutions to tackle the environmental challenges of the future, no matter how complex. I dream of
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  • NEWS
    • 296 12  -  SHARON SEE sharonsee@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Traditional arts groups are getting a boost in funding starting next month, thanks to three new initiatives from the National Arts Council (NAC). The funds will come from a S$23-mil-lion kitty that the National Arts Council plans
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    • 164 12  -  DYLAN LOH SINGAPORE Meet Kai Kai and Jia Jia. The names for the two eagerly-awaited giant pandas from China were selected from nearly 1,000 entries submitted by the public during a six-month-long contest. “Kai Kai” means “victorious” in Mandarin and reflects
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    • 139 12  -  S RAMESH In a sign that the ruling People’s Action Party (PAP) is gearing up for an imminent General Election, almost 100 activists and party helpers held a closed-door meeting yesterday at Downtown East in Pasir Ris. Those present included Deputy Prime
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    • 167 12  -  SAIFULBAHRI ISMAIL The Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority of Singapore (AVA) is stepping up efforts to help fish farms here increase productivity to meet Singapore’s target of 15 per cent of fish consumed locally. There are 111 fish farms here,
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    • 100 12 Into its 10th year, the Singapore Street Festival will for the first time go to the heartlands. The event, which will be held between July 2 and 31, will showcase a host of performances at Heartland Mall in Kovan, and White Sands in Pasir Ris.
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    • 306 14  -  DYLAN LOH dylanloh@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE While the number of workplace deaths last year have fallen, the number of deaths in the construction sector remained high with 32 last year, one more than in 2009. According to statistics from a Workplace Safety and
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    • 227 14  -  SHAFFIQ ALKHATIB SINGAPORE In what is believed to be the first case of its kind, a 22-year-old woman pleaded guilty yesterday to two counts of performing a sexual act on an under-aged girl. The woman, a student, cannot be named
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    • 278 14  -  ONG DAI LIN SINGAPORE A taxi will be brought into the grounds of the Supreme Court today for a re-enactment of the events that led to the death of cabby Yuen Swee Hong, 58. China national Wang Wenfeng is on
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    • 226 14  -  SHAFFIQ ALKHATIB SINGAPORE A man who ran an illegal moneylending franchise was sentenced yesterday to four years and four months in jail, fined S$151,000 and ordered to receive 21 strokes of the cane. The police have also seized his illgotten
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  • VOICES
    • 262 16  -  Letter from Siow Jia Rui AS JAPAN continues to race against time to avert a nuclear disaster in the wake of last Friday’s earthquake and tsunami, described by Prime Minister Naoto Kan as the “most severe crisis” since World War II, it
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    • 253 16  -  LETTER FROM ANTHONY PRAKASAM I AM writing to express my sheer disappointment at the reaction of some Singaporeans to the disaster in Japan. First, it was reported last Saturday that a Singapore Airlines (SIA) passenger was “upset” that her Tokyo flight was delayed by 2.5 hours
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  • COMMENT&ANALYSIS
    • 820 18  -  Concerns about over-charging underline need for a guide to fees of private clinics and doctors CONRAD RAJ conrad@mediacorp.com.sg Conrad Raj is editor-at-large at Today. In the wake of the Susan Lim saga, it might be time to review the ban by the Competition Commission of
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    • 1149 20  -  A deeper look at a wish-list that calls for political and corporate quotas RICHARD HARTUNG Richard Hartung is a consultant who has been living in Singapore since 1992. At a “Women’s Choices, Women’s Lives” conference on March 5, participants drew up a “wish-list”
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    • 783 23  -  ADITYA CHAKRABORTTY Aditya Chakrabortty is economics leader writer for The Guardian. THE GUARDIAN The American author Annie Dillard summed up well the difficulty of empathising with hordes of other people. “There are 1,198,500,000 people alive now in China,” she wrote. “To get
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  • WORLD
    • 535 26 REUTERS MANAMA Bahraini forces, backed by helicopters, launched a crackdown on protesters yesterday, imposing a curfew and clearing hundreds from a camp that had become the symbol of an uprising by the Shia Muslim majority. Hospital sources said three policemen and at least two protesters
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    • 174 27 REUTERS US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (picture) spent 15 minutes yesterday smiling, waving and shaking hands at Cairo’s Tahrir Square, the heart of the revolt that toppled United States ally Hosni Mubarak from power. The highest-ranking US official to visit since Mr Mubarak’s 30-year
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    • 162 27 REUTERS DAMASCUS Syrian security forces wielding batons dispersed 150 demonstrators who had gathered in Damascus yesterday in the most serious protest in Syria since uprisings swept the Arab world. The protest came roughly 24 hours after 40 people marched through a market here chanting political slogans,
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    • 141 27 AGENCIES Supporters of a no-fly zone over Libya introduced a resolution at the United Nations on Tuesday aimed at stopping Colonel Muammar Gaddafi’s planes from bombing civilians, with France urging quick action but Russia and Germany expressing misgivings. Divisions over a no-fly zone
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    • 112 27 REUTERS Private security guards in Oman blocked the main airport in the Gulf Arab state yesterday in a demonstration to demand higher pay, witnesses said. A string of concessions by veteran ruler Sultan Qaboos bin Said have failed to halt a wave
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    • 395 28 REUTERS CAMBRIDGE Publishing United States diplomatic cables helped shape uprisings in North Africa and the Middle East, WikiLeaks co-founder Mr Julian Assange said on Tuesday. The computer expert, who infuriated the US government by publishing thousands of the secret cables, said the leaks may
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    • 136 28 AP KUALA LUMPUR Government prosecutors have dropped a case against a Malaysian newspaper editor charged with publishing false information in a satirical post on his blog. Media activists had criticised the charge against Irwan Abdul Rahman. They said it undermined free speech and violated the
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    • 181 28 REUTERS LAHORE (Pakistan) A Pakistani court yesterday formally charged a CIA contractor on two counts of murder at a hearing held at a prison in Lahore, a police official said, in a move that may further strain relations with the United States. Mr
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    • 310 30 REUTERS CANBERRA Australia’s ruling Labor Party chief a key party powerbroker criticised by some for bungling last year’s election campaign quit yesterday, giving Prime Minister Julia Gillard a chance to recast policies after a slide in support for her government. Labor’s national secretary
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    • 173 30 AP An exiled Uighur activist’s planned speaking tour in Australia next week has failed to provoke a repeat of Chinese protests that strained diplomatic ties when she last visited in 2009, the Australian government said yesterday. Ms Rebiya Kadeer, a United States-based
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    • 261 33 AP MILAN Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi paid for sex with an underaged Moroccan teen 13 times at his villa near Milan, prosecutors said in a document filed on Tuesday seeking indictments against three aides for allegedly soliciting prostitutes for the Italian leader.
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    • 419 33 THE GUARDIAN LONDON The super-rich are to be offered a fast track to settle in Britain under new immigration rules for high-value investors and entrepreneurs to be unveiled today. Overseas “super-investors” who are willing to keep £5 million (S$10.26 million) in
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    • 124 33 AP A convoy of gunmen chased their target into a home in the Mexican resort city of Acapulco and sprayed the residence with bullets on Tuesday, killing two small children and an elderly woman inside. Police in Guerrero state, where Acapulco
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    • 331 34 REUTERS SALT LAKE CITY Utah’s Governor on Tuesday signed a package of immigration laws including one that would allow a police crackdown on illegal immigrants in the United States, similar to Arizona’s attempt last year. The laws, approved by Utah’s Repub-lican-controlled
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    • 41 34 A man taking a shower in public near the Monument of the Revolution in Mexico City on Tuesday. The city council set up two shower stalls to teach people how to save water while taking a shower. REUTERS
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    • 321 34 REUTERS WASHINGTON Nearly three quarters of those seeking health insurance in the United States individual market in recent years faced roadblocks or were turned down due to prior medical conditions, a report released on Wednesday said. The report by the Commonwealth
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    • 120 36 AP Police say an Australian teenager hijacked a girl’s Facebook page and posted an open invitation to her 16th birthday party that drew more than 200,000 positive replies. The girl’s shocked parents had the page removed from the social networking site. Police have not identified the
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    • 110 36 AP A shark mauled a woman who fell off a wakeboard towed by a speedboat off Australia yesterday. New South Wales state Ambulance Service spokesman John Wilson said the 24-year-old woman was attacked on Wednesday in Nelson Bay, north of Sydney. She suffered
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    • 128 36 REUTERS Russian space officials hope to resolve a communications problem on a SoyuzTMA21 rocket in time for it to carry a RussianAmerican crew to the International Space Station early next month. The launch was postponed from March 30 and there still remains
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    • 427 36 THE GUARDIAN LONDON Young men at university spend more time talking on the phone, buying clothes and eating out with friends than female students, according to a survey by the Student Loans Company (SLC), which found that about the
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  • SPORTS
    • 302 38 REUTERS MUNICH Bayern Munich’s surprise Champions League exit has left the Germans facing a year without any silverware and club bosses urging the team to rescue something from a poor season. They were favourites to advance to the Champions League last eight after a superb
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    • 454 38 Last-gasp Pandev strike keeps holders in the hunt CHAMPIONS LEAGUE, LAST 16, SECOND LEG Bayern Munich 2 Inter Milan 3 (aggregate 3-3, Inter win on away goals) REUTERS MUNICH Inter Milan’s Goran Pandev was in such poor form that he was left out of the Champions League
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    • 584 39 Mediocre Manchester United continue to stymie their opponents CHAMPIONS LEAGUE, Last 16, second leg Manchester United 2 Marseille 1 (United win 2-1 on aggregrate) REUTERS MANCHESTER The Red Devils could count themselves lucky yesterday to still be chasing three trophies after this season’s knack
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    • 220 39 REUTERS LONDON Former Manchester United and England captain Bryan Robson (picture) has had surgery for throat cancer, the Premier League club said yesterday. Robson, now Thailand’s national team coach, had an operation to remove a tumour in Bangkok on March 3, the statement said. “The
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    • 519 40  - Calisto feels the pain As Thais fail to shackle veteran striker Duric AFC CUP, GROUP G Tampines 1 Muang Thong 1 SHAMIR OSMAN shamir@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Henrique Calisto knew of the dangers posed, warned his charges and even said jokingly at the pre-match conference on Tuesday that he would like to
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    • 393 40  -  IAN DE COTTA SINGAPORE Athletes competing in an Ironman race have often been called a special breed. For it is no mean feat to finish a route consisting of a 3.86km open water swim, a 180.25km bike race and a 42.195km run all
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    • 609 41  -  National men’s sprint relay quartet to be managed by sports talent company TODAY EXCLUSIVE LOW LIN FHOONG linfhoong@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The Courts Young Lions have Vanda Sports Group behind them. The talent management and sports marketing agency been looking after the under-23 footballers’ off-pitch activities since
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    • 159 5 March to The SAt© EXPO for Hot Bargains! Singapore EXPO Hall 5A 18 March, 10am 3pm (POPULAR Cardholders Closed Door Sale) 3pm 10pm (Open to public) *19-20 March, 10am 10pm .Assayings *Terms and conditions apply. While stocks last. FREE The Manhattan FISH MARKET $10 Dining Voucher with min. $50 nett
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    • 132 3 Food and property conglomerate Fraser and Neave (F&N) plans to raise S$300 million from a bond sale. In a filing to the Singapore Exchange, the conglomerate said it is offering S$150 million of fiveyear, 2.48 per cent bonds. The remaining notes of
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    • 158 3 The Singapore Exchange (SGX) has introduced initial and intermediate price limits on its Nikkei futures contracts, starting from yesterday. In a statement, the SGX said it is setting these additional price limits “in the light of current market conditions”. The initial price
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    • 254 3 SINGAPORE Temasek Holdings executive director and president Simon Israel (picture) will retire from his executive and board roles on July 1, the investment firm announced in a press release yesterday. According to the statement, Mr Israel had been a member of Temasek Board since
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    • 386 3  -  CHRISTOPHER HOWELLS christopherh@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The biggest challenge facing Asian economies this year will be to tame building inflationary pressures, credit rating agency Standard Poor’s (S&P) said yesterday, in its twice-yearly regional outlook. It said the fight against inflation will make further interest rate rises
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    • 374 3  -  CHRISTOPHER HOWELLS SINGAPORE The Federal Reserve’s upbeat assessment of the United States economy is good news for Asian policy-makers who are struggling to manage the appreciation pressure on their currencies and rising asset prices. The US central bank’s policy setting Federal Open Market
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    • 223 2  -  STELLA LEE stellalee@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The managers of Saizen REIT has clarified that its executive director Raymond Wong’s comments about the earthquake in Japan, leading to tighter credit conditions, were of a general nature and did not refer to any delay in refinancing a loan
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    • 489 2 TOKYO Japan’s central bank continued to flood money markets with cash yesterday, bringing its total emergency funding to ¥55.6 trillion (S$882 billion) as it tries to soothe fears about the economic impact of the catastrophic earthquake, tsunami and unfolding nuclear crisis. The
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    • 645 1  -  Greater transparency and more accurate information for prospective buyers RYAN HUANG, ESTHER NG ryanhuang@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Greater transparency and more accurate information beckon for prospective home-buyers under proposed changes put up by the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) yesterday, which analysts believe could tip the balance of power
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    • 56 1 WEDNESDAY CLOSE 2,971.00 (+0.85%) Tuesday 2,946.08 q 2.80% Monday 3,030.86 q 0.41% Friday 3,043.49 q 1.04% Thursday 3,075.44 q 0.56% TOP 5 BY VOLUME NAME VOL PRICE CHANGE Genting SP 95,378 $1.910 p 1.596% GoldenAgr 73,647 $0.650 p 2.362% Dyna-Mac 57,202 $0.450 p 3.448% Yangzijiang 40,718 $1.750 p 5.422%
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    • 29 1 HANG SENG Ç 22,700.90 (+0.10%) NIKKEI Ç Ç 9,093.72 (+5.68%) Ç Ç SHANGHAI 2,930.80 (+1.19%) AUSTRALIA 4,558.20 (+0.65%) MUMBAI 18,358.70 (+1.05%) MALAYSIA Ç 1,492.44 (+0.56%) SEOUL 1,957.97 (+1.77%)
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    • STOCK CALLS
      • 80 1 Buy S$13.20 DMG cuts Singapore Airlines to Neutral from Buy. Slashes the target price to S$14 from S$17.20 after revising down its FY2012 revenue and earnings estimates by 2.7 per cent and 17.5, respectively. Also cuts its FY2011 revenue and earnings expectations by 0.52 per cent and 4.8
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      • 44 1 Outperform S$5.10 CLSA upgrades Wilmar International to Outperform from Sell. Raises its target price to S$5.80 from S$4.70 as the house believes inflation in China has likely peaked and the company’s recent investments provide assurance that it remains focused on its agri business.
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    • 73 1 :[{<.;&-]?+^?_=^~!^,[%)[^>[\&;! SGX SETS PRICE LIMITS FOR NIKKEI FUTURES CONTRACTS B 3 FROM BROKERAGE RESEARCH AND AGENCY REPORTS Disclaimer: Readers should seek independent financial advice before making any investment decision. Today cannot be held liable for any consequence arising from the use of this information. xmmsn. com YE S933 933 AiUi
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    • 342 1 tlSteeMy Celebrates MARCH 22 27, 2011 (TUES SUN) Singapore’s best-selling magazine turns 30 thisyear, and to celebrate the milestone, we’ve lined up activities from March June for readers to party with us! TH s ARv Join us as we kickstart our celebrations in an event filled with love and creativity,
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    • 42 1 MARCH 17, 2011 A PUBLICATION OF ALL HAIL QUEEN BRIAN MAY AND ROGER TAYLOR ON 40 YEARS OF MUSIC AND MISSING FREDDIE. BIEBER CLONED. EYES ROLL. T8 IS MICHAEL HUTCHENCE ROLLING IN HIS GRAVE? T11 TRAVEL CHIANG MAI IS ENDURINGLY ENCHANTING. T16
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  • MUSIC
    • 1541 2  -  Brian May and Roger Taylor reflect on 40 years of being in one of the greatest rock bands the world has ever seen Queen CHRISTOPHER TOH christophertoh@mediacorp.com.sg FORTY years ago, a young bassist named John Deacon joined a band featuring a guitarist called Brian May, drummer Roger
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  • ENTERTAINMENT
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      324 8 AR Rahman Jai Ho Concert Rahman, best known for his work on the score for the Academy Award-winning film Slumdog Millionaire, is back in Singapore. The show will include songs from Slumdog, Lagaan, Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na, Dil Se, Rang De Basanti and Roja. March 17 to 20,
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    • 170 8 REUTERS TEENAGE pop sensation Justin Bieber took time out from touring on Tuesday to visit the Madame Tussauds museum in London and pose next to a waxwork model of himself. The model was one of three Bieber replicas being unveiled the others were in Amsterdam and New
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    • CD REVIEWS
      • 137 10  - BUY GET FREE MC JIN HANJIN KEVIN MATHEWS ONE of the best jazz-folk/hip-hop albums you’re likely to come across this year comes from this collaboration between MC Jin (who raps in Cantonese) and crooner Hanjin (who sings in Mandarin). It is funny as it is inventive. In fact, MC Jin’s
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      • 235 10  -  KEVIN MATHEWS BELLA TEDDY THOMPSON WHO knew? The longplaying album isn’t dead.Teddy Thompson has delivered an album that harks back to the good old days of classic ’60s and ’70s pop-rock. In fact, this is an album that his parents the seminal singersongwriter duo Richard
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      • 103 10  - MUSICA ALMA SEXO KEVIN MATHEWS RICKY MARTIN THE Puerto Rican singer’s star has waned somewhat since the 1990s but we’re not sure if Ricky Martin’s new album, a Spanish language offering produced and written mostly by in-demand hit songwriter Desmond Child will win any favours. True, Martin has an excellent
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      • 143 10  -  CHRISTOPHER TOH EASON CHAN THE best reason to get this mini-album is Eason Chan and Faye Wong’s highly anticipated Mandarin duet Because Of Love from the movie Eternal Moment featured as a bonus track here. In fact, the bonus material here all Mandarin songs aren’t throwaway
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      • 126 10  -  CHRISTOPHER TOH LISTENING to local singer-songwriter Natalie Hiong’s five-track debut EP is a bit like experiencing deja vu you remember hearing something like this before but you’re not sure where or when. True, her style recalls Sara Bareilles or even Zee Avi (and the meanies out
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    • 531 11 INXS is back with an all-star reworking of the best material but not everyone’s impressed REUTERS THIRTEEN years after the premature death of their frontman, Australian rockers INXS still have not settled on a full-fledged replacement. But the five members of the most successful homegrown rock
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    • Article, Illustration
      216 11  -  Relooking a classic record CHRISTOPHER TOH Band On The Run Wings (1973) IT WAS a fraught 1973 for Paul McCartney and his band,Wings. Inspired by the reception to their last album Red Rose Speedway and the song Live And Let Die (recorded for the James Bond film
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    • 177 12 REUTERS BRITISH reggae star Smiley Culture (picture) has died during a police raid in southern England, media outlets reported on Tuesday, and the death is being investigated by the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC). The IPCC said in a statement that police went to
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    • 76 8 IT'S IN OUR NATURE V i TO SHARE NEW EXPERIENCES WITH YOU. Rediscover Singapore's only beachfront resort. We've reinvented ourselves from our guestrooms and restaurants, to our pool and lush gardens. But of course, our heartfelt hospitality remains unchanged. We look forward to welcoming you right by our very own
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    • 261 13 ON MEDIACORP POINT OF ENTRY Channel 5, 8pm When a pair of bodies is found in a barge, Team Epsilon must find the Angel syndicate connection before more victims fall prey to their latest smuggling operation. Glenn grows more disillusioned with Team Epsilon and more convinced of Jackson’s point of
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    • 213 13 ON MEDIACORP SUPERTASTE Channel U, 9pm Aaron and Xinhao visit Bangkok to indulge in and learn how to cook Thai delicacies such as green curry and tom yam soup. Xinhao is ecstatic when he finds a superior breed of durian at a roadside stall. THE MAVERICK Channel NewsAsia, 8.31pm Tay
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  • THINGS TO DO
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    • 598 15  -  Rice bran oil contains plenty of Vitamin E and boasts a lovely, nutty flavour that is a nice addition to any dish Brought to you by ANNETTE TAN food@mediacorp.com.sg We are all familiar with olive oil, canola oil, soybean oil and their ilk.They each have their own beneficial
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  • TRAVEL
    • 960 16  -  Chiang Mai has moved with the times but remains enduringly enchanting Amanda Kok amandakok@mediacorp.com.sg “IFYOU haven’t been to Doi Suthep, you haven’t been to Chiang Mai,” said my guide. As I made my way up to the heavens, the place certainly looked familiar. Wat Phrathat Doi Suthep
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