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  • 39 1 TODAY MICA (P) 057/10/2010 A PUBLICATION OF NEWS HOTLINE 6822 Monday June 27, 2011 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking 10D4Y MICA (P) 057/10/2010 A PUBLICATION OF NEWS HOTLINE 6822 2268 Monday June 27, 2011 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking
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  • 546 1  -  TEO XUANWEI xuanwei@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE On Saturday, former NTUC Income CEO Tan Kin Lian reportedly said he was open to discussion with fellow presidential hopeful Tan Cheng Bock about the possibility of one of them stepping aside, should both
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  • 562 1 China, Vietnam agree to ‘peacefully resolve maritime disputes’ AGENCIES BEIJING A closed-door meeting in Honolulu, Hawaii, on Saturday between senior diplomats from the United States and China appeared to have done the trick: Tensions over territorial claims in the South China Sea which had escalated in the
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    • 45 1 COMMENT&ANALYSIS PAUL GILFEATHER WHO PAYS FOR WHOM, IN A GREYING WORLD 8 JEFFREY D SACHS BAN KI MOON, THE TIRELESS CHAMPION 10 PAVIN CHACHAVALPONGPUN ATTACKS MAY BE TO YINGLUCK’S ADVANTAGE 12 HO SENG CHEE SCRAPS OFF THE G7-TABLE CANNOT SUFFICE 14 T SECTION PAGE 45
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  • HOT NEWS
    • 654 2  -  Performances of Republic’s juniors this week hold much promise for country’s No 1 SHAMIR OSMAN shamir@mediacorp.com.sg 23RD CANON LION CITY CUP Singapore under-16 0 Flamengo 0 (Flamengo win 4-3 after penalties) SINGAPORE Singapore fans were in high spirits throughout the match, even though their
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    • 283 3  -  NG LIAN CHEONG, ALVINA SOH lianchong@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE An uncommon strain of dengue has hit the Marsiling area, with 61 cases reported as of Friday. The National Environment Agency (NEA) said residents may have little or no immunity against the Den-3 virus, leading to
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    • 368 3 AP KUALA LUMPUR The Malaysian police detained dozens of opposition supporters in what activists criticised yesterday as an effort to deter a massive rally next month to demand more electoral transparency. The authorities held about 60 people in various towns, some of them detained
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    • 401 4  -  LOIS CALDERON mecalderon@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Local banks face the risk of taking a hit if there is a downturn in the property market given their heavy exposure to the real estate sector, according to global debt watcher Fitch Ratings.
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    • 190 4 REUTERS BASEL Global interest rates must rise to avoid high inflation becoming entrenched, said the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) yesterday. It also warned that delaying deficit cuts could risk intensifying the sovereign debt crisis and have grave consequences were investors lose confidence in a
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    • 345 4 BEIJING Inflation in China will not exceed 6 per cent in any single month as the pace of price increases stabilises and slows in the second half of the year, said Mr Fan Gang, a former academic adviser to the People’s
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    • 233 6 THE BANGKOK POST BANGKOK A total of 2.6 million voters exercised their right to cast votes ahead of the July 3 election yesterday as cases of votebuying are expected to rise. A poll released on Saturday found that 18.7
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    • 330 6 REUTERS BEIJING One of China’s most prominent dissidents, Mr Hu Jia, was reunited with his family early yesterday after serving three-and-a-half-years in jail on subversion charges, but he needed rest and was not ready to speak in public, his wife said.
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  • COMMENT&ANALYSIS
    • 1078 8  -  With people living longer, Ted Fishman looks at hard questions for economies and Asian parent-child PAUL GILFEATHER gilfeather @mediacorp.com.sg Paul Gilfeather is the principal correspondent at Today. MY father-in-law fell ill recently and although not life-threatening, it led my wife and I
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    • 1052 10  -  Why re-elected UN chief is the man to guide the world at a time of unprecedented risks, unique opportunities JEFFREY D SACHS Jeffrey D Sachs is Professor of Economics and director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University. He is also special adviser to
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    • 525 12  -  PAVIN CHACHAVALPONGPUN Pavin Chachavalpongpun is a Fellow at the Institute of South-east Asian Studies. Thailand’s political temperature has been soaring with only six days to go before the general election. The ruling Democrat Party launched its final campaign rally on Thursday, at last year’s
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    • 1318 14  -  Why the IMF will stay European and what emerging economies must do to chip away at this HO SENG CHEE Ho Seng Chee is a council member of the Singapore Institute of International Affairs He was a staff member of the IMF from
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    • 349 10 WORK. FREEDOM. ROSS WONDERING HOW TO GET THE BEST OUT OF THESE 3P IF YOUR AHSWER IS YES, COME a DISCOVER HOW TO EARN HIGH PASSIVE INCOME FROM THE EDUCATION INDUSTRY The education industry in Singapore is growing at an exponential rate. Singapore is being poised to be positioned as
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  • VOICES
    • 380 16  -  Letter from Ee Teck Siew THE Government is currently ramping up its release of land to address escalating property prices. It is estimated that approximately 53,000 units will be on the market, representing three times the current annual demand, and property analysts expect it to take
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    • 186 16  -  Letter from Loo Kok Swee Leonard I DO agree with Sandra Jayandran (“Monster Invasion”, June 23) and subsequent letterwriters that disproportionately large houses are ruining the aesthetics of the neighbourhoods. However, while I understand the need for culture preservation, it is hardly pragmatic in this
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    • 252 18  -  Letter from Ho Kong Loon PLAY as a form of exercise, relaxation, character building and camaraderie trumps almost any other educational or social activity. Children are bursting with energy. They should be given the time, the space and opportunity to stretch their limbs,
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    • 293 18  -  Making ground rules clear is key Letter from Phillip Ang Keng Hong AS EMPLOYERS, many Singaporeans cite personal reasons to deny their helpers a day to be out with friends. But if our employers cite personal reasons to keep us on overtime every day, we would
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    • 287 18  -  Letterfrom Raymund Koh Joo Guan I REFER to the letter “The troublesome cost of days off for maids” (June 23) by Sheila Shanmugam. Why is it that when it comes to discussing rest days for maids, the first thing employers think of is, “my maid
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    • 172 19 Support Singapore’s Arts and Culture Your contribution will help our Arts, Culture and Heritage to thrive and enrich our lives! We need Arts and Culture because they add so much value to our lives! Not only will they enhance our creativity and enrich our lives, Arts and Culture also bond
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 473 20  -  The night sitter programme is just one of the initiatives by Tan Tock Seng Hospital to enhance elder care PHYLICIA LEE phylicialee@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE By day, Ms Sharon Lim, 51, holds a regular job as an administrator. At night, she casts a watchful eye
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    • 287 22  -  WAYNE CHAN, EVELYN LAM SINGAPORE Premiums for Certificates of Entitlement (COE) which have surged in the past year are expected to increase even further. Industry players who spoke to Media– Corp said they expect COE quotas to be reduced in the next quarter. In
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    • 182 22 Sprinting to the finish line with dad SINGAPORE Almost 280 father-and-child pairs participated in the inaugural Dads for Life Hand-In-Hand Sprint competition over the last two weekends. The new category, which is part of Sprint Kids 2011 organised by SAFRA Jurong, was the first of several initiatives lined up under
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    • 490 24  -  TEO XUANWEI xuanwei@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Former civil servant Hazel Poa yesterday became the first woman to lead a political party here, as she took over from Mr Goh Meng Seng as National Solidarity Party’s (NSP) secretary-general. Ms Poa was part of the NSP team
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    • 209 25 SINGAPORE Minister for Transport and Second Minister for Foreign Affairs Lui Tuck Yew is leading a 77-member delegation to China on a business mission. They are visiting the cities of Guangzhou and Foshan in Guangdong province from today till Thursday. The delegation consists
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    • 215 25  -  ALVINA SOH SINGAPORE For wolfing down 312g or 16 seeds of durian in a minute, Mr Aundrey Bosco Francis, 34, yesterday etched his name the Singapore Book of Records and, possibly, the Guinness World Records. Mr Francis was the winner of a competition
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    • 173 25 SINGAPORE Skyscanner, one of Europe’s leading travel search sites, will open a new regional operation here in September, in a nod to the strong demand for online travel services in the Asia-Pacific. The announcement was made yesterday as the Edin-burgh-based firm
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  • WORLD
    • 353 26 THE MALAYSIAN INSIDER KUALA LUMPUR Talent Corporation (TalentCorp) chief Johan Mahmood Merican said yesterday that the goal of luring back some 700,000 Malaysians working abroad is not possible, and the agency’s strategy is to attract foreign talent, as well as find ways for Malaysians abroad to
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    • 60 26 Pakistani police officers preparing to remove damaged vehicles yesterday, a day after Taliban militants attacked a police station in Kolachi near Dera Ismail Khan, Pakistan. The Pakistani Taliban said they used a female suicide bomber for the first time in an attack on a police
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    • 297 26 AP BANGKOK Thailand’s Prime Minister yesterday defended his country’s decision to quit the United Nations World Heritage Convention, saying its committee’s consideration of a Cambodian plan to manage a protected temple on Thailand’s border would increase tensions. Mr Abhisit Vejjajiva told reporters
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    • 215 27 AP KABUL A suicide car bomber targeted a small clinic in eastern Afghanistan, causing the building to collapse as mostly women and children lined up for vaccinations, maternity care and other services. At least 35 people were killed in one of the deadliest attacks
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    • 228 27 AP PHNOM PENH Four of the top surviving members of the Khmer Rouge’s ruling elite are about to face justice, decades after their plans for a Communist utopia in Cambodia left an estimated 1.7 million people dead by execution, medical neglect, overwork
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    • 108 27 AP ZAMBOANGA (Philippines) The police said a powerful explosion at a restaurant has killed two people and wounded more than a dozen others in Zamboanga, a restive province in the southern Philippines. The police gave conflicting ac- counts of what may have caused the explosion, which
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    • 309 28 AP TAIPEI Taiwan’s parliamentary Speaker said he will consider opening the legislative floor to Chinese tourists so that they can learn from the island’s freewheeling democracy. Lawmaker Wu Yu-sheng of the ruling Nationalist Party had proposed late on Friday that the
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    • 135 28 BLOOMBERG Tropical storm Meari was forecast to hit eastern China’s Shandong province yesterday before heading north-east towards the border area with North Korea, the China Meteorological Administration said on its website. Rainstorms will hit eastern Shandong and parts of Liaoning and Jiangsu
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    • 99 28 AP A Taiwanese military spokesman said the island will unveil an upgraded Indigenous Defence Fighter on Thursday. Mr Luo Shou-he’s statement yesterday reflects Taiwan’s efforts to bolster its defence against possible Chinese attack following a long delay in a United States decision
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    • 136 29 AP Two truck drivers and a train engineer watched helplessly as a trailer truck skid the length of a football field before it smashed through a railway crossing and into two double-decker carriages of an Amtrak train at a Nevada highway crossing. The drivers
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    • 232 29 BLOOMBERG NEW YORK Apple plans to introduce a new iPhone in September that boasts a stronger chip for processing data and a more advanced camera, according to two people familiar with the product. The device will include the A5 processor, the more powerful chip that Apple
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    • 186 29 THE GUARDIAN Tackling corruption should be on the curriculum for every school child in the world’s poorest countries, according to World Bank antigraft chief Leonard McCarthy. “We want to develop a practical manual that the authorities can use, and a curriculum for school
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    • 99 30 THE GUARDIAN Against all expectations, salmon numbers are leaping again in British rivers, after the fish’s disastrous decline two decades ago. However, experts at the Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust in Britain warn that the current increase may only be temporary. Changes in ocean tempera-
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    • 223 30 THE GUARDIAN A new type of tree kangaroo, a 2.5-metre-long river shark, a frog with fangs and a turquoise lizard are among 1,060 new creatures found in New Guinea. The Final Frontier report, which has been put together by WWF as part of its
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    • 274 30 AP ROME Mr Jose Graziano da Silva of Brazil was elected yesterday as director-general of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the United Nations agency tasked with reducing world hunger at a time of high food prices. Mr Graziano, currently FAO’s
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    • 262 31 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH BEIJING —Elite boarding schools such as Eton and Harrow are Britain’s biggest draw for Chinese millionaires looking to spend some of their growing fortunes abroad, according to the creator of China’s leading rich list. Although Britain
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    • 148 31 THE GUARDIAN Children who are slapped or yelled at by their parents are more likely to bully their brothers or sisters, and middle children are more likely to be the bullies, according to new research. The study found that half of children
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    • 28 31 Hundreds of skateboarders riding through Manila, doing tricks and stunts on ‘Go Skateboarding Day’, a global event which promotes skateboarding as a sport. REUTERS REUTERS
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    • 134 31 THE GUARDIAN One girl below the age of 18 is married off every three seconds worldwide, according to a charity which is calling for Britain to help end child marriage. Plan UK is due to publish a report this week, Breaking
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  • BUSINESS
    • 327 34  -  LINETTE LIM linettelim@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The commercial and office property sector in Singapore is set to outshine Hong Kong’s in the medium term. This is according to analysts, who ex- pect dramatic increases in office rents in Hong Kong over this year and the next.
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    • 350 34 REUTERS BASEL Global banking regulators have agreed on a proposal to slap an extra capital charge on the world’s biggest banks to make them safer by 2019. The surcharge is part of a series of regulatory reforms launched in response to the
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    • 388 35 BUDAPEST Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said he was “still confident” that Europe can overcome the debt crisis and said China would remain a long-term investor in Europe’s debt market. Mr Wen spoke at a press conference with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban
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    • WEEKLY ROUNDUP (JUNE 20 TO 24)
      • 53 35 FRIDAY CLOSE 3,066.85 (+0.73%) Thursday 3,044.72 p 0.06% Wednesday 3,042.83 q 0.35% Tuesday 3,053.51 p 1.32% Monday 3,013.60 p 0.28% MARKET OUTLOOK Markets are likely to remain volatile as uncertainty still looms over the Greek debt crisis and the stability of United States economic recovery, with key indicators due
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      • 30 35 HANG SENG Ç 22,171.90 (+2.20%) Ç Ç Ç Ç Ç Ç NIKKEI 9,678.71 (+3.50%) SHANGHAI 2,746.21 (+3.91%) AUSTRALIA 4,508.10 (+0.52%) MUMBAI 18,240.70 (+2.07%) MALAYSIA 1,564.66 (+0.08%) SEOUL 2,090.81 (+2.90%)
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      • 92 35 STOCK CALLS Outperform s$2.92 Credit Suisse keeps and cuts its target price to S$3.82 from S$4.82, after revising down its RNAV to S$4.77 from S$4.81, taking into account its lower CCT target price of S$1.70 after its Market Street plans and lower Australand share price. Says: “In view of
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    • 282 35  - Top emerging enterprise award goes to STELLA LEE stellalee@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE A modern-day rag-and-bone firm, World Metal Recovery, has clinched one of the top three prizes at the Emerging Enterprise Awards 2011 last Friday. Its owner, Mr Darius Loke, 27, walked away with S$390,000 worth of interest-free loans and packages at
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    • 232 35 SINGAPORE The Republic’s two main oil rig builders Sembcorp Marine and Keppel FELS have further made their mark in the industry with significant milestones announced over the weekend. Sembcorp Marine said one of the two harsh environment jack-up rigs that its unit, Jurong Shipyard,
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    • 156 38 REUTERS JAKARTA Malaysian badminton world No 1 Lee Chong Wei tamed familiar opponent Peter Gade of Denmark in a lop-sided final to complete a hat-trick of titles at the Indonesia Open yesterday. The 28-year-old Lee beat Gade 21-11,21 -7 in just over half an hour
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    • 201 39  -  PHILIP GOH The Republic’s canoeists made the most of their latest international outing, grabbing six gold medals in the senior category and two in junior competition at the Southeast Asian Canoeing Championships at Lake Cipule, West Java, yesterday. The rehearsal event for this
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    • 568 40 AGENCIES TENNIS Wimbledon WIMBLEDON With his clubbing flat forehand and big serve, former US Open champion Juan Martin del Potro has all the tools to provide Rafa Nadal with his first stern test in the defence of his Wimbledon crown today. The giant Argentine,
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    • 261 40 REUTERS Tim Howard made the long walk from the United States locker room to the departing team bus (yesterday morning, Singapore time) fuming over his team’s Concacaf Gold Cup final loss to Mexico on home soil. Once Mexico had recovered from
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    • 391 40  -  IAN DE COTTA ian@mediacorp.com.sg HOCKEY Boys’ Under-18 Asia Cup SINGAPORE In their second meeting in four days, Singapore were unable to put in a better performance, falling 6-0 to Pakistan in the battle for third place in the Boys’ Under-18 Asia Cup
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    • 588 41 German looks well on course to defend his world drivers’ title after another imperious drive REUTERS FORMULA 1 European Grand Prix VALENCIA Red Bull’s Formula 1 world champion Sebastian Vettel turned the European Grand Prix into a stroll in the Spanish sunshine yesterday, as he
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    • 288 41 AGENCIES LONDON Chelsea boss Andre Vil-las-Boas insisted yesterday he will hand his new crop of players the initiative to play their own game. Chelsea’s appointment of the former Porto manager has raised a few eyebrows with the Portuguese becoming the Barclays Premier League’s
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    • 214 41 AGENCIES Harry Redknapp admits he will have to offload a number of players before he can spend this summer. The Tottenham boss is working with one of the Premier League’s biggest squads, meaning his hands are tied in the transfer market. He has
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    • 484 5  -  Some familiar names, a debut album and the amazing concert that sprung forth CONCERT REVIEW KEVIN MATHEWS AS THIS writer settled comfortably into the Esplanade Recital Studio on Friday night, I overheard an expatriate youth behind me remark to his friend that he would definitely
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    • 450 5 Rain and mud can’t dampen spirits at the Glastonbury 2011 music fest REUTERS THIS year’s Glastonbury, one of the highlights of the live music calendar, has been blighted by rain and mud, but the feelgood factor was back as the festival neared its climax on Sunday in
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    • 120 5  -  MAYO MARTIN After a break last The returned but year, the third Asia On The Edge returned but with less arts pizzazz and more focus on the business side of things. An exhibit of China’s famed terracotta warriors opened at the Asian Civilisations Museum; but with
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