Today, 9 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 9, 2012 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking
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  • 608 1 AGENCIES SEOUL North Korea, which has moved a long-range rocket fully into position for a controversial launch, is also preparing a third nuclear weapons test, South Korean news reports said yesterday, a move bound to scare neighbours and infuriate the West. South Korea’s
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  • 592 1  -  NG JING YNG jingyng@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The passing of a resolution last week by Yale College faculty was not out of any disrespect to the Republic and the National University of Singapore (NUS), said the professor who crafted the resolution. Among other things,
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  • HOT NEWS
    • 320 2 AP TOKYO Just two months ago, amid celebrations of the 1979 Islamic Revolution, an Iranian rocket roared off a military launch pad and placed a 50kg Earth observation satellite into orbit. The United States State Department grumbled about
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    • 214 2 BLOOMBERG BANGKOK Myanmar wants the United States to lift sanctions faster after Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said some restrictions on investment and financial services would be eased, according to an adviser to President Thein Sein. “They should do more if they want
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    • 564 3  -  TAN WEIZHEN weizhen@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The first nationwide study to find out how heart disease differs between the sexes has found that, among other things, women have different symptoms and face greater risk than men. These findings could change the way that
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    • 878 4  - Living with dementia Unaware of their condition, patients usually seek help too late NG JING YNG, AMANDA LEE jingyng@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Mr Peter Seow, 80, was recounting to this newspaper’s reporter the vivid details of how, in the 1990s, he used to organise activities for his peers: He was spending so
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    • 386 6 SINGAPORE An international team of scientists led by researchers here has identified hundreds of novel genes that are mutated in stomach cancer, paving the way for treatments tailored to the genetic make-up of stomach tumours in individuals. The Singapore researchers who led
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    • 66 6 The PAssionArts Month came to a close yesterday, with a seven-hour music festival featuring 30 music acts, including community bands. The animated silhouettes of dancing residents were projected onto the facing HDB block near the Punggol Waterway. Residents also got the chance to submit artworks which
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    • 456 6  -  SAIFULBAHRI ISMAIL saiful2@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Victims of human trafficking may soon have adequate shelter to remain in Singapore while their cases are being investigated. Amid concerns that there is a lack of such facilities, an inter-agency taskforce set up to tackle the
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  • COMMENT & ANALYSIS
    • 1348 8  -  New forms of governance and capitalism are being forged by China, Middle East and other rising nations CHARLES A KUPCHAN Charles A Kupchan is a professor of international relations at Georgetown, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and the author of
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    • 801 10  -  DERRICK A PAULO Derrick A Paulo is senior editor (Voices) at Today. When Yale University president Richard Levin visited Singapore last month, the resolution by faculty members who wanted to express concern about the planned Yale-NUS College was gathering steam. But such criticism,
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    • 1007 12  -  How to moderate growth rate without causing a hard landing is one of its severest challenges YU YONGDING Yu Yongding, currently president of the China Society of World Economics, is a former member of the monetary policy committee of the People’s Bank of China and
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  • VOICES
    • 286 14  -  Letter from Soon Sze Meng I REFER to the report “Framework to get civil servants to watch financials dropped” (April 6). The market-driven Net Economic Value framework may have resulted in the public being underserved and its scrapping signals a potential
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    • 123 14  -  Letter from Teo Kueh Liang I REFER to the report “Undergraduates concerned about bread-and-butter issues” (April 5). It is interesting that at the Kent Ridge Ministerial Forum, an undergraduate expressed concern about rising Certificate of Entitlement (COE) premiums and argued that the high cost
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    • 164 15  -  Letter from Heng Cho Choon MR GORDON Reid’s letter “This foreigner sees another side of Singapore” (April 7) strikes a chord with me as a nature lover. The Singapore Flyer is a commercial project and the manicured lawns of the Botanic Gardens are too
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    • 427 15  -  Letter from Asavari Sinha I REFER to the one-page article “Going native” (Today on Sunday, April 8), on Ms Beatriz Naguiat. While I am happy that she has flourished in her new school, I am immensely disappointed at the way in which my school, United
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    • 43 15 POINT OF VIEW It is not a wise move by DBS Bank/POSB to have ATMs that issue only $50 notes. Many of its customers are schoolchildren. A $50 note is too big for most of them. The bank could reconsider this. Rahmat Sawie
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    • 93 15  -  RICKY JIANG SHANG ZHI Thank you, Mr Gordon Reid, for highlighting the peaceful, green and natural side of Singapore, in the letter “This foreigner sees another side of Singapore” (April 7). It is a pity that this is not being promoted more
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    • 234 14 have your say email your letters to voices@mediacorp.com.sg join the community www.todayonline.com/voices PROPERTY SHOW The latest properties across India all under one roof! 14 th 15 th April 2012 I Suntec International Convention and Exhibition Centre, Singapore <®> Hall 601 11 am 8 pm Entry Free V VS m V?
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 78 16  -  HON JING YI Some 600 young people and senior citizens were paired up for a short walk yesterday to promote inter-generational bonding. The participants, who ranged from six to 84 years of age, began their walk along the Marina Bay Promenade. Organised
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    • 342 16  -  SARA GROSSE saragrosse@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The National Addictions Management Service (NAMS) yesterday launched a new outreach programme to step up efforts to reach out to families of gambling addicts. The “Families in Recovery through Education and Empowerment” (FREE) programme is targeted at family members
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    • 123 17 Retired Manchester United and Denmark legend Peter Schmeichel (left), is in Singapore for two days as the new brand ambassador for leading home, electronics and furniture retailer Courts in Singapore and Malaysia for the year. Seen here with Courts CEO Terry O’Connor, Mr Schmeichel, a
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    • 221 17 CHANNEL NEWSASIA SINGAPORE The annual Kindness Week aims to go a step further this year by reminding residents that acts of kindness should also extend to their environment. Organised by youths from Siglap South Community Centre and the People’s Association Youth Movement,
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    • 140 17 The Republic’s first cable radio station, Rediffusion, will stop broadcasting from April 30. In a statement yesterday, the management announced the last date of its service. They were quoted by The Straits Times as saying they “would like to express our deepest gratitude
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    • 98 17 CHANNEL NEWSASIA About 500 passengers were affected by a 45-minute train disruption yesterday. According to SMRT, an eastbound train at Paya Lebar MRT Station was unable to depart from the station at 3.15pm. As a result, passengers were asked to alight. A second train,
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  • WORLD
    • 467 18 AGENCIES NEW DELHI The leaders of India and Pakistan agreed in talks yesterday that the two countries should adopt a step-by-step approach to resolve their differences and continue to build on a recent thaw in their strained relations. Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh
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    • 274 18 AP ISLAMABAD Rescue workers used bulldozers yesterday to dig through huge banks of snow following a massive avalanche a day earlier that engulfed a military complex and buried at least 135 people, most of them soldiers, in a mountain battleground close to
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    • 233 18 THE NEW YORK TIMES Hundreds of Tibetans who attended an important Buddhist ceremony in January in India have been detained without charge by Chinese security officers on their return to Tibet, according to family members and friends living in exile in India,
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    • 374 19 AP YANGON Leaders of Myanmar’s most enduring ethnic rebel group met opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi a day after meeting the country’s President, the latest step in the group’s effort to open a dialogue to achieve greater autonomy. The two-and-a-half-hour meeting yesterday of
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    • 298 19 AGENCIES KUALA LUMPUR Anti-Lynas groups will take their campaign to “selected” mosques nationwide this Friday, hoping to boost support for their efforts to stop Lynas Corporation’s rare earth project in Kuantan, The Malaysian Insider reported yesterday. An estimated 22 groups, including
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    • 137 20 AGENCIES Iranian state media said Istanbul has been confirmed as the venue for a new round of talks, scheduled for this week, between Tehran and the six major powers over the Islamic Republic’s disputed nuclear programme. The official English-language station Press TV
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    • 561 20 THE NEW YORK TIMES NEW YORK The two young men had woefully little in common: One was a wealthy Mormon from Michigan, the other a middle-class Jew from Israel. But in 1976, the lives of Mr Mitt Romney and Mr Benjamin
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    • 156 21 AGENCIES Afghanistan and the United States signed an agreement yesterday to curb night raids on Afghan homes, giving Kabul veto power over the operations, despised by most locals, and control over the treatment of any detainees. Instead, a new elite force of
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    • 186 21 AP Nearly a hundred years after the Titanic went down, a cruise with the same number of passengers aboard was to set sail yesterday to retrace the ship’s voyage, including a visit to the North Atlantic waters where it collided with an iceberg
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    • 271 21 THE NEW YORK TIMES NEW YORK Once the scourge of email providers and the postal service, spammers have infiltrated the last refuge of spam-free communication: Mobile phones. Consumers in the United States received about 4.5 billion spam texts last year, more than double the
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    • 120 21 AGENCIES A car bomb exploded in the northern Nigerian town of Kaduna on Easter Sunday, after security officers stopped the driver from approaching a church. At least 50 people were killed, said Mr Shehu Sani, president of the Civil Rights Congress
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    • 191 19 d it Scientists investigate that which already is; 3 Engineers create that which has never been.JJ Albert Einstein MDIS School of Engineering 1 Bachelor of Engineering (Hons) in Electrical and Electronic Engineering Awarded by the University of Bradford, UK Bachelor of Engineering (Hons) in Mechanical Engineering Awarded by the University
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  • BUSINESS
    • 360 22 SINGAPORE Banks here may soon be the first to test market response to covered bonds, according to a recent consultation paper launched by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS). While covered bonds are often mistaken to be a form of
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    • 372 22  -  LYNDA HONG lyndahong@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The demand for small-sized apartments, also known as shoebox units, could be on the wane, with analysts questioning their investment potential. Already, prices of shoebox units in the resale market are falling, suggesting that investors have turned cautious. And
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    • 203 22 Face-to-face networking is likely to remain the best way to find new customers for business. According to Regus, a provider of flexible workspaces, 66 per cent of Singapore companies polled believed this would remain the best way to
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    • 372 23 AP WASHINGTON The United States job market took a breather last month after its best hiring stretch since the Great Recession. Employers added 120,000 jobs last month half the DecemberFebruary pace and well short of the 210,000 economists were expecting. The unemployment
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    • 508 23 BLOOMBERG NEW YORK The cost of living in the United States probably rose at a slower pace last month as increases in energy expenses subsided, economists said this week. Consumer prices advanced 0.3 per cent after climbing 0.4 per cent in February,
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    • 171 23 REUTERS AFTERNOON LATEST NEW YORK Since October, estimates for first-quarter earnings growth have tumbled while the S&P 500 has surged. With the earnings season starting next week, the outlook is not as sunny as in previous quarters. Investors will assess whether slower growth
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    • 298 23 AP AFTERNOON LATEST NEW YORK About 40,000 AT&T landline employees will work this week without a contract, their union said yesterday. The workers’ contracts expired over the weekend, raising the possibility of a strike. But the Communications Workers of
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  • DIGITAL
    • 290 24 OS X can be infected by software posing as installer for Adobe Flash THE DAILY TELEGRAPH LONDON A software Trojan reportedly controls about 600,000 Macs, an anti-virus firm has reported. Apple has already issued a fix for the Trojan, dubbed “Flashback”, but Russian Web security
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    • 266 24 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH LONDON Respected Apple blogger John Gruber has claimed that Apple is working on a 7.85-inch prototype for a new, smaller iPad. Mr Gruber, who blogs at Daring Fireball, told a technology-based podcast, The Talk Show, that the 7.85-inch device ran at the
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    • 140 24 Facebook has issued an official statement claiming that its smartphone users do not need to worry about their accounts being breached, unless their device has been lost, stolen or illegally modified. Concerns arose after it was found that the Facebook app for mobile devices may hold login data that
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  • SPORTS
    • 631 26  -  But should the United boss retire now, Danish goalkeeping legend believes Guardiola would be the right choice TAN YO-HINN yohinn@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE In his heyday, Peter Schmeichel had an answer to everything the world’s best forwards threw at him. However, the retired Manchester United legend
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    • 349 26 AGENCIES LIVERPOOL Luis Suarez’s goal may have averted four consecutive defeats for Liverpool, but the result would have been a meek reason to celebrate or even think that the club had finally stopped the rot. Anything less than a win against Aston Villa was deemed
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    • 473 27 Mancini’s faltering side now trail neighbours United by eight points AGENCIES ENGLISH PREMIERSHIP Arsenal 1 Man City 0 LONDON Manchester City’s faint title hopes were ended by a brilliant strike by Arsenal’s Mikel Arteta in the 87th minute of a match the hosts dominated
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    • 291 27 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH Arsene Wenger is not sure whether mind games seep through to the dressing room but the Arsenal manager admits he would ‘love it’ to be involved with all the banter again as the championship race closes in. There has been plenty of hot
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    • 222 27 Brought to you by RESULTS Saturday Bolton 0 Fulham 3, Chelsea 2 Wigan 1, Liverpool 1 Aston Villa 1, Norwich 2 Everton 2, Stoke 2 Wolves 1, Sunderland 0 Tottenham 0, West Brom 3 Blackburn 0 Sunday Man Utd 2 QPR 0 Arsenal 1 Man City
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    • 455 28  -  DAN GUEN CHIN DanGuenChin@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Australia’s Scott Hend (picture) beat the rain and the rest of the field to win the ISPS Handa Singapore Classic title at the Orchid Country Club with a six-under-par 64 final round yesterday. The US$400,000 (S$504,260) Asian Tour event was reduced
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    • 791 28 American Watson sinks Oosthuizen in thrilling playoff, breaks down in tears AFTERNOON LATEST GOLF 76 Masters AUGUSTA Trapped in the trees, Bubba Watson had no chance. Good thing he’s one of those guys who never hits the ball straight. Unable to even see the green
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  • Page 28 Miscellaneous
    • 150 28 SPORTS FIXTURES Home Team Away Team Match KickOff (Singapore date/time) Asian FC Cup M League Terengganu LionsXII Tampines Perak Tue, 10/04/12 4.45pm Tue, 10/04/12 7.45 pm For fixtures of all E Premier, E League Champ, Spanish, Italian and German League, please visit Singapore Pools website. LIVE TELECAST AT LIVEWIRE(MARINA BAY
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    • 32 1 ARTS MUSIC MOVIES TELEVISION WINE DINE STYLE DESIGN HEALTH TECH TRAVEL CARS APRIL 9, 2012 A PUBLICATION OF Photos courtesy of Independence: The History Of Graphic Design In Singapore Since The 1960s
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  • T TODAY
    • ARTS
      • 1504 2  -  The systematic world of artist Michael Lee is explored in a retrospective MAYO MARTIN mayo@mediacorp.com.sg A BUILDING comprising playrooms for death row convicts. Given the chance to actually design and build a real, functional building, this unique structure would be Michael Lee’s dream project. “I believe recreation
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    • ENTERTAINMENT
      • 602 4  -  The stiff upper lip is optional in this version of a Shakespeare classic Mayo Martin mayo@mediacorp.com.sg IS SHAKESPEARE best experienced via the Queen’s English? Ivan Heng says it’s high time to get over that hang-up. W!ld Rice’s artistic director is helming the theatre company’s staging of Romeo
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      • 144 4  -  MAYO MARTIN The biggest news last week took place not in Singapore but across the Causeway. Singapore Dance Theatre was reportedly banned from performing in Malaysia last weekend due to “indecent costumes”. In Singapore, meanwhile, it was a week that brimmed with positive energy courtesy of
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      • 282 4 VISUAL ART Universe Acclaimed Chinese sculptor Zhan Wang’s new show takes on the Big Bang Theory. Until April 28, 10am to 6pm, Singapore Tyler Print Institute, 41 Robertson Quay. Free admission. Mondays by appointment only. Closed on Sundays. Wawasan 2020:The Malaysian Dream This survey show features a cross-generation
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      • Article, Illustration
        116 4  -  CHRISTOPHER TOH SANDY Lam promised a show that would surprise some people, and the iconic Hong Kong singer really went the whole hog on Friday night when she took to the stage at the Singapore Indoor Stadium. Offering a delectable mix of musical styles, Lam, who turns 45
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      • 170 5 AP HEIDI Klum moved on Friday to formally end her marriage to singer Seal a little over two months after they separated. The supermodel’s divorce filing in a Los Angeles court draws to a close a storybook romance that included numerous testaments to their affection for
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      • 153 5 REUTERS ACTRESS Amanda Bynes was arrested early Friday morning in the Los Angeles area of West Hollywood on suspicion of drunken driving after her car allegedly struck a sheriff’s vehicle, a police spokesman said. Bynes, 26, was taken into custody around 3am after her car
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      • 378 5 AP A VIRGIN Atlantic employee has resigned following allegations she routinely fed information about the airline’s celebrity clientele from Madonna to Sienna Miller to a paparazzi agency. The employee was a junior member of the team that looks after high-profile clients,Virgin said on
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    • DESIGN
      • 981 6  -  Our local graphic design scene is all grown up and a new book shows just how far we’ve come SERENE LIM serenelim@mediacorp.com. sg SIGNS, posters, food packaging, paper bags, logos, book covers we encounter these items every day, consuming them unthinkingly with nary a
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    • THINGS TO DO
      • 44 8 Australian photojournalist Matthias Heng takes you through his pictures capturing the strength, hope and survival of the Japanese people in the wake of the tsunami lastyear. Until April 14,11am to 7pm. The Cathay Gallery, #02-16,2 Handy Road.
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      • 61 8 For those interested in creating music, don’t miss the chance to learn more from Gao Ping, a leading member of the “sixth generation” of Chinese composers, as he explains the roles of notation and improvisation in creating music. Today, 5.30pm. Steven Baxter Recital Studio, Yong Siew
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      • 56 8 Explore some of our planet’s most unique caves with Dr Hazel Barton and Nancy Aulenbach asthey discover more about Earth’s history and the micro-organisms living in these caves. Until April 30, 1pm and 4pm. S$10 for adult, S$7 child. OmniTheatre, Science Centre Singapore. www.omnitheatre.com.sg
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      • 70 8 Tin Tin the boy explorer even has a full range of postage stamps! Check outthe collection including rarely seen stamp artwork issued by Belgium, France and the Netherlands from the museum’s Universal Postal Union Collection forthe first time in Singapore. Until May 2012,1pm to
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      • 63 8 The works of 12 writers such as playwright Ovidia Yu and poet Bani Haykal onthethemes of desire and belonging are presented in this 12-month projectwhere one writer every month will have his or her letters shown and published
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