Today, 2 April 2012, Afternoon Edition

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1 12 Today
  • 22 1 AFTERNOON EDITION TODAY MICA (P) 031/10/2011 A PUBLICATION OF NEWS HOTLINE 6822 2268 Monday April 2, 2012 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking
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  • 583 1 AGENCIES YANGON Supporters of Myanmar opposition icon Aung San Suu Kyi erupted in euphoric cheers yesterday after her party said she had won a parliamentary seat in a landmark election, setting the stage for her to become an MP for the first time. Ms
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  • HOT NEWS
    • 443 2  -  AMANDA LEE leeguiping@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The last time she saw her father was at 2am on Saturday, four hours before he left for his fishing trip. Mr Husin Mohd Yunos would always come back later in the day with a
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    • 211 2  -  HON JING YI, NG JING YNG The search continues for the man missing in a fishing trip tragedy on Saturday. Mr Hamidzan Abdullah was one of 10 men who were on board a pleasure craft which collided that morning with another boat
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    • 518 3  -  GEOFFREY LIP geoffreylip@mediacorp.com.sg ADDITIONAL REPORTING BY TANYO-HINN DORTMUND Maybe China’s women’s table tennis team never forgot how they were stunned by the Singaporeans in the world team final in one of the biggest sports stories of 2010. They exacted some sort of
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    • 276 3 CHANNEL NEWSASIA SINGAPORE The kampung spirit that thrives in the heartlands can also flourish in private housing estates, National Development Minister Khaw Boon Wan said yesterday on his blog. He cited the example of Goldhill estate in Moulmein constituency, where the
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    • 606 4  -  NG JING YNG, TAN WEIZHEN jingyng@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The Singapore Institute of Technology (SIT) plans to have its own campus headquarters to bring students together and is also exploring new degree options in line with possible expansion plans. SIT president Tan Chin
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    • 140 4 CHANNEL NEWSASIA One hundred dustbins were yesterday transformed into works of art at Singapore’s first community arts festival. More than 500 residents, artists and students celebra­ted the inaugural PAssionArts Month by giving dustbins a new coat of paint. The painted bins
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    • 648 6 AGENCIES SINGAPORE After two years of hard work to improve Singapore’s largest bank and lift its underperforming Hong Kong unit, DBS Group chief executive Piyush Gupta is embarking on his biggest challenge yet a bid for Indonesia’s Bank Danamon. Mr Gupta, 52, a graduate of
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  • COMMENT & ANALYSIS
    • 951 8  -  What reforms are needed, to develop a mature, well-functioning market economy by 2030 JUSTIN YIFU LIN Justin Yifu Lin, chief economist and senior vice-president for development economics at the World Bank, founded the China Center for Economic Research at Peking University. PROJECT
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    • 1186 10  -  MARTIN WOLF Martin Wolf, chief economics commentator at The Financial Times, is considered one of the world’s most influential writers on economics. THE FINANCIAL TIMES LIMITED Oil prices are up. United States President Barack Obama is to blame. Drilling in the US
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    • 92 8 FEAST OF NATURAL DELIGHTS 1 TO 30 APRIL 2012 PEACH BLOSSOMS r ORGANIC GOODNESS This April, savour the goodness of delectable Cantonese dishes prepared using fresh organic ingredients at the newly renovated Peach Blossoms. Choose from two wholesome set menus which include tantalising dishes such as the flavoursome Organic Pumpkin
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  • VOICES
    • 80 14  -  transport. Kudos to the driver. LETTER FROM MICHAELYEE KOK KEONG MICHAEL YEE KOK KEONG I commend the effort made by the bus captain of SBS 7490Z to greet every passenger who boards the bus. He was driving Service 76 on Wednesday at about 4.30pm when I
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    • 536 14  -  I SAY Leong Wai Ying, Andrea Lee The average number of smokers here has been rising. Despite the fewer public places at which to light up and one of the world’s highest cigarette prices, sales hit a four-year high in 2009:
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    • 224 15  -  Letter from Patrick Sio I REFER to the reports “HDB resale flats ‘more affordable than condos’” (March 30) and “PropertyGuru report misleading: HDB” (March 24). Indeed, a simple extrapolation from the PropertyGuru report would give wrong conclusions since the international
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    • 201 15  -  Letter from Patrick Tan Choon Hong PRICES of real estate here should not be left too open to market forces, as we are a small island with limited land for development. The market is also imperfect because big players such as developers can control prices. It
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    • 238 15  -  Letter from Lim Poh Seng READERS have often contributed ideas to the press to improve our public transport, such as “Foldable seats can boost MRT efficiency” (March 26). Hence, I hope that the Land Transport Authority (LTA) could hold a competition to extract such ideas
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 114 16  -  VIMITA MOHANDAS The month-long Daffodil Days campaign, which aims to raise cancer awareness and give hope to people who are battling or have survived cancer, began yesterday with a run and a cheque donation of S$20,000 to the Singapore Cancer Society by
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    • 86 16  -  JOANNE CHAN A 38-year-old man has been charged with the murder of a woman in Jurong West. Gabriel Lee Haw Ling is believed to be the boyfriend of the 25-year-old woman found dead in a flat on Saturday morning. The woman was pronounced dead by
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    • 353 16 CHANNEL NEWSASIA SINGAPORE The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) is advising Singaporeans to postpone non-essential travel to Thailand’s southern provinces of Yala, Pattani, Narathiwat and Songkhla for now. This comes after car bomb blasts in Yala and Hat Yai, which led to the fire
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    • 204 17 SINGAPORE With effect from today, the Police Security Industry Regulatory Department (SIRD) and the Police Licensing Division will be merged to form the new Police Licensing and Regulatory Department (PLRD). It will regulate all the licensing regimes previously under the responsibilities of SIRD and
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    • 170 17 CHANNEL NEWSASIA SINGAPORE The annual Singa-pore-Indian Maritime Bilateral Exercise between the navies of Singapore and India, which began on March 21, ended yesterday. The Republic of Singapore Navy (RSN) deployed a frigate and a missile corvette, while the Indian Navy participated with a destroyer, a
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    • 200 17 CHANNEL NEWSASIA The Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) has taken over the marine fire-fighting and rescue functions from the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA). In a joint statement, the SCDF said it has set up the Civil Defence Marine Command (CDMC)
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  • WORLD
    • 405 18 AP PYONGYANG The sprawling site, which buzzes in the shadow of a giant bronze statue of North Korea founder Kim Il Sung, looks at first like a high-security military installation. Scores of soldiers march through a zone sealed off by green mesh fencing and checkpoints.
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    • 222 18 AP TOKYO Much of Japan’s Pacific coast could be inundated by a tsunami more than 34m high if a powerful earthquake hits offshore, according to revised estimates by a government panel. The panel of experts said any tsunami unleashed by a magni-tude-9.0 earthquake in
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    • 177 20 BLOOMBERG SUVA Hundreds of tourists were stranded in Fiji yesterday as flights were cancelled after floods displaced almost 7,000 people and inundated the main road to the airport, the Australian Broadcasting Corp (ABC) reported. Fiji’s national carrier, Air Pacific, cancelled all flights
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    • 162 20 THE MALAYSIAN INSIDER The controversial Eastern Dispersal Link (EDL) opened yesterday without any toll collection after being delayed from a scheduled first quarter launch. Malaysian Highway Authority director-general Ismail Md Salleh said in a statement on Saturday that no toll would be charged
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    • 261 20 AP SANDAKAN (Malaysia) A luxury cruise ship stranded at sea for 24 hours due to a fire safely reached a Malaysian port where the police and embassy officials stood by yesterday to help 1,000 people aboard. The Azamara Quest (picture) drifted off the
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    • 184 22 AP A fugitive Italian banker implicated in the “Pizza Connection” drug-and money-laun-dering trial has been detained in Thailand after the Italian authorities tracked his whereabouts via Facebook. Italy’s highest court in 2009 had upheld the 2006 conviction and
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    • 413 22 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH BEIJING The text message on the mobile phone screen was to the point: “Neil Heywood was killed.” Sent anonymously in the middle of the night in February, it referred to the case of a British businessman found dead
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    • 204 23 AP ISTANBUL Saudi Arabia and other Gulf countries are creating a multi-million-dollar fund to pay salaries to members of the rebel Free Syrian Army and soldiers who defect from the regime and join opposition ranks, participants at a meeting on Syria said
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    • 76 23 The police shooting pepper spray on a demonstrator during a protest in Hong Kong yesterday against the Chinese government’s meddling into Hong Kong’s chief executive election. Organisers of the protest yesterday said Beijing’s involvement destroys the spirit of ‘one country two system’. Mr Leung Chun
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    • 156 23 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH Seventeen people detained by French police in a crackdown on suspected Islamist networks might have been plotting a kidnap, the head of the police intelligence’s unit said. The crackdown last Friday followed a pledge by President Nicolas Sarkozy, who is
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    • 163 23 AP The fundamentalist Muslim Brotherhood has named its chief strategist and financier as a candidate for president, a surprising reversal of an earlier pledge to stay out of the race, in a move that sets the group on a collision course with Egypt’s
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    • 209 25 BLOOMBERG MELBOURNE Huawei Technologies, China’s largest maker of telephone equipment, said yesterday it will continue to pursue projects related to Australia’s broadband network after being banned from bidding on contracts over security concerns. Huawei will not be allowed to bid for
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    • 307 25 THE GUARDIAN LONDON A computer piracy website, secretly supported by one of Mr Rupert Murdoch’s companies, openly promoted advice on how to hack British Sky Broadcasting’s (BSkyB) rivals, according to documents obtained by the Observer. Emails obtained by the newspaper also reveal that
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    • 62 25 Renowned ‘Karat chef’ Angelito Araneta Jr places African diamonds on top of pearls to re-create his Guinness World Record for the most expensive sushi in Manila yesterday. Mr Araneta was recognised by the Guinness Book World of Records in June 2010 as the maker of the World’s
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    • 261 18 MARRIAGE ANNOUNCEMENT I, Gary Thomas Luton, divorcee of 74 Farrer Road, 0204 Gallop Gables, Singapore intend to marry Hannah Ruth Hitchings, divorcee of 74 Farrer Road, 0204 Gallop Gables, Singapore at Vincigliata Castle, Via di Vincigliata, 19 ***** Fiesole, Florence, Italy on 23 June 2012. Any person knowing of any
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    • 410 20 MARRIAGE ANNOUNCEMENT I, Hannah Ruth Hitchings, divorcee of 74 Fairer Road, 0204 Gallop Gables, Singapore intend to marry Gary Thomas Luton, divorcee of 74 Fairer Road, 0204 Gallop Gables, Singapore at Vincigliata Castle, Via di Vincigliata, 19 ***** Fiesole, Florence, Italy on 23 June 2012. Any person knowing of any
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    • 252 25 fii The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them. -William Bragg MDIS School of Life Sciences L MDIS, Your for SI THINK SUCCESS. THINK MDIS. UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD MAKING KNOWLEDGE WORK northumbria N I V E
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  • BUSINESS
    • 429 26  - NGNBN take-up rate set to take off if THOMAS CHO thomaschokm@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The take-up rate for Singapore’s Next Generation Nationwide Broadband Network (NGNBN) is expected to jump higher only after the installation of fibre optic terminal points in buildings and apartments are completed. This is according to market play- ers
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    • 236 27 BLOOMBERG AFTERNOON LATEST TOKYO Asian stocks rose, extending the biggest quarterly gain since 2010, after better-than-expected economic data in the United States and China fueled optimism the global economy is recovering, boosting the earnings outlook for the region’s exporters. Honda Motor, a Japanese carmaker that
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    • WEEKLY ROUNDUP (MARCH 26 TO 30)
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        74 27 FRIDAY CLOSE 13,212.00 (+0.50%) Thursday 13,145.80 p 0.15% Wednesday 13,126.20 q 0.54% Tuesday 13,197.70 q 0.33% Monday 13,241.60 p 1.23% THEWEEKTHATWAS After a bumper first quarter fuelled by central bank largesse, investors are looking for signs which will derail a stock market rally which has already shown signs of
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      • 9 27 È NASDAQ 3,091.57 S&P5OO S&P500 1,408.47 (+0.37%) Ç
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      • 13 27 Ç FTSE100 5,768.45 (+0.46%) Ç Ç DAX 6,946.83 (+1.04%) CAC40 3,423.81 (+1.26%)
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      • 5 27 Ç OIL US$103.50 (+US$0.48)
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      • 87 27 STOCK CALL SELL s$14.18 Maybank Kim Eng maintains Sell and target price at S$11.50. With Singapore, Hong Kong and Greater China accounting for about 86 per cent of 2011 pre-tax earnings, DBS earnings are susceptible to a slowdown in China and the global economies. House also noted that its
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    • 134 27 BLOOMBERG Starbucks is planning a bigger push into smaller cities in China as the world’s largest coffee-shop operator triples stores in the country that will become its second-biggest market by 2014. The company will have 1,500 stores in more than 70
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    • 241 28 AGENCIES TOKYO Japan will support Mr Jim Yong Kim, the United States nominee to head the World Bank, Finance Minister Jun Azumi said yesterday after meeting Mr Jim here as part of his world tour. Mr Jim, a Korean-American, will contest
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    • 229 28 SINGAPORE Mainboard-listed Tianjin Zhong Xin Pharmaceutical Group has proposed for the second time to dispose of two of its non-core Western-medicine businesses worth S$54.4 million. The company said in a press release yesterday that the proceeds from the sale will be
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    • 31 27 FROM BROKERAGE RESEARCH ANDAGENCYREPORTS 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.
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  • DIGITAL
    • 402 30  -  PETER YEO AGENCIES MOUNTAIN VIEW (California) Exploring towns on Google Maps just got a little more interesting. Depending on whether you like games or not, Google’s 8-bit nudge to the Nintendo 8-bit classic video game may excite you or disappoint. While tech news site Mashable
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    • 866 30  -  Technology is shrinking the world, and changing how we work COMMEN TARY DINESH MALKANI Dinesh Malkani is managing director of collaboration sales, Asia Pacific Japan, Cisco. The workplace across Asia is evolving. There are major technological and demographic transitions occurring today that are fundamentally
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  • SPORTS
    • 535 32 Newcastle continue to dream of European football next season as pressure mounts on Dalglish AP ENGLISH PREMIERSHIP Newcastle 2 Liverpool 0 NEWCASTLE Papiss Demba Cisse scored two goals for the second successive weekend to guide Newcastle to a 2-0 win over 10-man Liverpool yesterday,
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    • 140 32 AP LONDON Preston North End manager Graham Westley has accused four of his players of leaking his line-up to the opposition a day before their English thirdtier match at Sheffield Wednesday on Saturday. Preston, who are 16th in the 24-team table and not yet clear of relegation, lost
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    • 326 32 REUTERS MADRID Cristiano Ronaldo inspired Real Madrid to a rampaging 5-1 win at Osasuna as the leaders hit the 100-goal mark this season and maintained a six-point lead over champions Barcelona on Saturday (yesterday morning, Singapore time). Barcelona, also
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    • 228 33 RESULTS Saturday Aston Villa 2 Chelsea 4, Everton 2 West Brom 0, Fulham 2 Norwich 1, Man City 3 Sunderland 3, QPR 2 Arsenal 1, Wigan 2 Stoke 0, Wolves 2 Bolton 3 Sunday Tottenham 3 vs Swansea 1 Newcastle 2 Liverpool 0 Monday Blackburn vs
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    • 524 33 THE GUARDIAN AFTERNOON LATEST ENGLISH PREMIERSHIP Tottenham Hotspur 3 Swansea City 1 LONDON Tottenham Hotspur, at last, have recovered their rhythm. A first win in six Premier League games and over seven weeks has hauled Harry Redknapp’s side back behind Arsenal in third place only
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    • 273 33 THE GUARDIAN AFTERNOON LATEST SERIE A Juventus 3 Napoli 0 TURIN Juventus reduced the arrears on AC Milan at the top of Serie A to two points with a 3-0 victory over Napoli yesterday (this morning, Singapore time). An enthralling weekend of Italian action ended
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    • 462 34 Mancini backs Blackburn as Ferguson throws down a challenge to his chief striker AGENCIES ENGLISH PREMIERSHIP Blackburn vs Man Utd LONDON Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini boldly predicted arch-rivals Manchester United would drop points to keep the Premier League title race open. City had just drawn
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    • 303 34 AGENCIES MANCHESTER Roberto Mancini has again been scathing in his criticism of Mario Balotelli after Manchester City failed to win at home for the first time in the Premiership this season. After a 3-3 draw at home to Sunderland on Saturday,
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    • 654 36 The roars from the crowd at Augusta National can even make the ground shake AP ATLANTA Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy passed each other yesterday at Augusta National last year, players from different generations who appeared to be headed in opposite directions.
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      • 731 2  -  Singapore artists give unusual spaces a makeover in the second season of okto’s Watch This Space MAYO MARTIN mayo@mediacorp.com.sg FOR visual artist Shubigi Rao, the Changi Airport viewing gallery at Terminal 1 is “a funny place”. “People go there to watch planes which are actually very
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      • 665 3 THE NEW YORK TIMES WHEN the American painter, sculptor and installation artist Paul Thek taught art classes at Cooper Union in the late 1970s, he wrote and then gave to his students a long, provocative and now famous list of questions and marching orders he
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      • 150 4 AP THE New Jersey teen who is fighting cancer and scored a date with country music star Taylor Swift to The Academy of Country Music Awards is in the hospital and cannot make it to the show. A Facebook post on Saturday
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        512 4  -  CONCERT REVIEW: CHEATING SONS Christopher Toh christophert@mediacorp.com.sg WE’VE always upheld the position that the Singapore rockers known as Cheating Sons were one of the few bands here who’ve managed to successfully push the musical envelope. And at their concert on Friday at the Esplanade Recital Studio, dubbed
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      • 190 5 Timbre Rock Roots 2012 provided a smorgasbord of melody and rhythm IT’S hard to believe that it’s been a year since the last Timbre Rock Roots music festival. And, like its previous editions, the 7,800-strong crowd who thronged the Marina Promenade last Friday and Saturday weren’t disappointed.
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      • 449 5  -  CONCERT REVIEW: LOVELECTRIC KEVIN MATHEWS IN RECENT times, local electro-pop bands have surfaced and thrived on platforms such as the Baybeats Festival and the Fred Perry Subculture Night.The setup for the Lovelectric event at The Blujaz Cafe last night was a rarity, featuring, in this case, only electro-pop
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      • 1073 6 What will happen when furniture catches up with the digital age? THE NEW YORK TIMES PHILIPPE Starck was in New York last week, ostensibly to introduce the Zik wireless headphones he designed for the French company Parrot. But Starck, who had just flown in from Paris,
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      • 851 7  -  Architectural historian Victoria Newhouse on why China seems obsessed with architects and opera houses Manuela Hoelterhoff feature s@mediacorp.com.sg BLOOMBERG YOU may not know this, but Paul Andreu is very big in China. The French architect, who made news when part of a terminal ceiling at the Paris-Charles
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      • 123 8 This LASALLE production of Middletown, a deeply moving and funny play by Pulitzer Prize-finalist Will Eno, tells the story of the universe of a small town. When a friendship develops between longtime resident John Dodge and new arrival Mary Swanson, the lives of the inhabitants of Middletown intersect in
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      • 99 8 The Fullerton Heritage and Singapore General Hospital are showcasing the works of North American artists Nadia Bertrand and Janette Maxeyto raise awareness and support forthe SGH Needy Patients Fund. Their paintings capture and celebrate the beauty of the ordinarythat surround us in everyday life.
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      • 98 8 Talk about spices and the images conjured up are those of camel caravans snaking through deserts and shadowy bazaars teeming with aromatics and aphrodisiacs. How did this conception of spices come about, evolve and then abate? In this session of weekly Monday morning lectures organised
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      • 87 8 Pick up tips on howto create floral drawings in various illustrative styles. In this four-session workshop, learn about the anatomy of flowers, drawing compositions and how to sketch flowers in a life-like manner. Participants should bring along drawing materials such as sketch books, pencils, erasers, fine-tip markers,
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      • 60 8 Travelling through Changi Airport? Check out Asia’s largest collection of rare and exclusive spirits, wine and champagne. Organised jointly by Singapore Changi Airport and DFS Group,travellers will be treated to a rare display of liquorthat are not normally found in stores. Until April 30, Changi Airport
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      • 101 8 UPCOMING Don’t miss an exciting line-up of events at Plaza Singapura this weekend. Look on as contestants of the Dance Central Championships 2012 battle it out using Kinect to win exciting prizes. The semi-finals will be held on Friday and
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