Today, 30 April 2012, Afternoon Edition

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  • 22 1 AFTERNOON EDITION TODAY MICA (P) 031/10/2011 A PUBLICATION OF NEWS HOTLINE 6822 2268 Monday April 30, 2012 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking
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  • 168 1 SINGAPORE It was an evening of overdue wins and surprises at last night’s Star Awards 2012 Show 2, the annual celebration of the best on MediaCorp TV Channel 8. Tay Ping Hui scored his first Best Actor win for his role in Bountiful Blessings, breaking a nine-year
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  • 814 1  -  It will consider public feedback, be carefully calibrated: Health Minister TAN WEIZHEN weizhen@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The ElderShield scheme has to be calibrated “very carefully” to ensure it remains affordable while, at the same time, effective in easing Singaporeans’ financial burden in old age on
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  • HOT NEWS
    • 383 2  -  POINT OF VIEW WONG CHUN WAI Forget about June; the more likely time for the Malaysian polls will be the first week of September. Both sides have also not finalised their list of candidates despite their bravado in making declarations that they are
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    • 578 2 AGENCIES KUALA LUMPUR Government officials, rally organiser Bersih, opposition leaders, police and even members of the media exchanged blame yesterday in the wake of the violence that broke out on Saturday, while the police released all those who had been arrested. Deputy Prime Minister
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    • 355 3 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH LONDON Iran is drawing up plans to cut off its Internet users from the rest of the world with a so-called halal or “clean” Internet. Iranians are already used to censors blocking Facebook, Gmail and foreign news sites from time
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    • 573 4  -  ASHLEY CHIA ashley@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE To make sure that low-wage workers benefit from the country’s economic restructuring efforts, the Government will be pumping another S$70 million over the next three years into a programme aimed at helping to boost the wages of
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    • 416 6  -  TAN WEIZHEN weizhen@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The Health Promotion Board (HPB) yesterday released the findings of a study involving 1,200 seniors, which showed that those who participated in the National Brisk Walking Programme were, on average, 8 per cent fitter than their peers.
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    • 195 6  -  JOANNE CHAN The ongoing Community Games, which aims to bring sports into the heartlands, has drawn more than 10,000 participants so far. Seven of the 10 sports are under way and organisers expect the number of residents taking part to
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    • 357 6 AGENCIES SYDNEY An Australian woman has become the first person in the world to be injected with a new liquid treatment that could prevent heart failure. The treatment, Bioabsorbable Cardiac Matrix, was injected into the heart of Mrs Pauline Fulton, 64, two days after
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  • COMMENT&ANALYSIS
    • 827 8  -  Let us create and reward a civil corps of elder citizens who can be ‘samaritans’ to the frail, poor and illiterate KALYANI KIRTIKAR MEHTA Associate Professor Kalyani Kirtikar Mehta is head of the gerontology programme at the School of Human Development and Social Services,
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    • 1065 10  -  Do not vilify China as a principal economic threat see the relationship as an opportunity STEPHEN S ROACH Stephen S Roach, a member of the faculty at Yale University, is the former chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia and the author of The Next Asia. PROJECT
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    • 844 12  -  Caught between hardliners and need for change, PM Najib’s slow pace of reforms fed Bersih 3.0’s huge crowds OOI KEE BENG The writer is the deputy director of the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. And so the third Bersih rally has taken place. It
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  • VOICES
    • 127 14  -  LETTER FROM LINDA ANG POH GEOK Out of the blue since last year, SingTel has been sending bills for the Land Transport Authority to a Housing and Development Board flat that happens to be my home. None of the measures
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    • 472 14  -  Letter from Ong Qiyan PROFESSOR Lim Chong Yah has suggested a wage increase of 50 per cent over the next three years for low-income earners. Is this at odds with government policies? A reduction in dependency ratio ceilings of foreign workers in manufacturing
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    • 182 14  -  Letter from Victor Teguh Santoso FIRST, I read in amazement the case of a man who was fined $2,000 for taking money from a wallet he had found, reported in “Think twice before pocketing a ‘find’; you may be breaking the law” (April
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    • 260 15  -  Letter from Arthur Lim I REFER to the report “ElderShield under fire” (April 26). The intent behind the scheme is practical but, as with any policy, it must keep up with the times. With the rising cost of living, the payout,
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    • 70 15  -  LETTER FROM ANDREW SEOW ElderShield is a decade old, and a payout is given only if a person insured under the scheme is unable to perform three out of six activities of daily living. In the interests of those who are insured, could the Health
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    • 305 15  -  Letter from Heng Cho Choon LIKE Mr Tan Kim Hock, who feels that “The demise of dialects a loss to society” (April 27), I mourn the gradual erosion of dialects. My take is that a knowledge of dialects would enhance our
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    • 220 14 have your say email your letters to voices@mediacorp.com.sg join the community www.todayonline.com/voices S A A GLOBAL EDUCATION The Education Arm of ICPAS (Mount! UNIVERSITY OF LONDON MJ7 INTERNATIONAL I REGISTERED PROGRAMMES I CENTRE 2nd year entry via SAA Bridging Course starts 23 May 2012 for suitable Polytechnic Students! Preparatory Courses
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    • 44 15 ELDERSHIELD REVAMP WOULD BE MOSTTIMELY Get a QR code reader app from your smartphone’s app store (simply search for “QR reader”) and scan the code using the app, or you can visit http://tdy.sg/edsvmpt on your browser for a letter from Peter Loon Seng Chee.
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 353 16  -  WAYNE CHAN Some 15,000 international delegates will converge in Singapore this July to look into integrated solutions for sustainable development. Three mega events the World Cities Summit, the Singapore International Water Week and the inaugural CleanEnviro Summit Singapore will be held
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    • 474 16  -  SUMITA SREEDHARAN sumitas@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Some six years after a Singapore education company had its branches in Vietnam shut down, another has suffered a similar fate. According to media reports in Vietnam, RafflesEducationCorp which is listed on the Singapore Exchange had its licence revoked last
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    • 179 17 CHANNEL NEWSASIA Former President S R Nathan has received the most prestigious award conferred by the Indian government to overseas persons of Indian origin. Mr Nathan received the Pravasi Bharatiya Samman Award on Saturday night from India’s Minister of Overseas Indian
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    • 334 17  -  S RAMESH rameshs@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE This year’s May Day Awards were conferred on 92 outstanding individuals and companies at the May Day Dinner yesterday, making it the largest number of recipients since the first awards were given out in 1963. The National Trades Union
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  • WORLD
    • 376 18 Ban Ki Moon to push for further reforms, give address in Parliament REUTERS YANGON United Nations SecretaryGeneral Ban Ki Moon made a landmark visit to Myanmar yesterday to encourage its government to carry out more democratic reforms and shore up peace deals with ethnic rebel groups.
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    • 225 18 AGENCIES BEIJING A senior United States official arrived in China on a hurried mission yesterday as new problems from possible US arms sales to Taiwan to the custody of a blind dissident threaten to complicate relations with Beijing ahead of high-level
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    • 248 18 AP HANOI A Vietnamese-Ame-rican pro-democracy activist has been arrested and accused of terrorism for allegedly trying to sabotage liberation celebrations commemorating the end of the Vietnam War, state media said yesterday. Nguyen Quoc Quan (picture), 58, of California, was detained on April 17 after arriving at
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    • 109 20 AP The Philippines said a Chinese government ship made dangerous manoeuvres near two Philippine coast guard vessels in a disputed shoal but there was no collision. Department of Foreign Affairs spokesman Raul Hernandez said the Philippine vessels were not provoked by the “bullying” of
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    • 338 20 AP RAYAGADA (India) The dreams of modern India rarely make it to Rayagada. The Indians of these eastern forests forage for sago leaves and wild mango to survive. Barely a third can sign their names. Most live without electricity. Many have joined
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    • 59 21 Rescue workers amid the wreckage of a bus on a highway in Fujioka, north of Tokyo, yesterday. The bus, carrying tourists heading for Tokyo Disneyland, crashed into a roadside wall and steel wall panels sliced its body in half. The authorities said at least seven
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    • 245 21 AGENCIES LONDON Britain’s military has told residents of an upscale apartment development near the Olympic Park in east London that it is installing a missile battery on top of a tower within their housing complex to defend the games
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    • 105 21 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH A desperate attempt to stop massive queues at immigration during the Olympics is underway. The Border Force will spend £2.5 million (S$5.03 million) to bring back retired passport-con-trol officers to man checkpoints in July, with some coming from as
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    • 154 21 AGENCIES Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard sidelined two scandal-tar-nished parliamentarians yesterday in a move aimed at restoring public confidence in Parliament. The move distances Ms Gillard’s unpopular minority government from the unrelated scandals without cutting loose two crucial supporters who help
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    • 212 22 AP WASHINGTON Secret Service agents are often portrayed in popular culture as disciplined, unflappable, loyal and male. A spiralling prostitution scandal, however, has highlighted the dearth of women in the agency that protects the President and dignitaries and has many wondering: Would
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    • 333 22 REUTERS WASHINGTON United States President Barack Obama (picture) poked fun at his likely presidential rival Mitt Romney and Republican opponents in Congress on Saturday night, including a dig at Mr Romney’s treatment of a pet dog, at the annual White House Correspondents’ Association dinner.
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    • 123 22 REUTERS French President Nicolas Sarkozy challenged former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn on Saturday to take legal action over his allegation that “political enemies” scuppered his presidential bid last year by ensuring his sexual encounter with a New York maid was made
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    • 106 22 AP Saudi Arabia said there is no evidence that Osama bin Laden’s wives and family members who were deported to the kingdom are involved in terrorism. Yesterday’s statement indicated Saudi Arabia would agree to host the entire 14-member group, including three wives
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    • 293 22 AP CAIRO Reform leader Mohamed El Baradei, 70, has launched a new political party that he said aims to unite Egyptians and save the country’s revolution from a messy democratic transition. The Constitution Party marks a return to public life for Dr El
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    • 245 23 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH LONDON The number of British women dying in childbirth has risen dramatically as maternity units struggle to cope with rising numbers of older mothers and more complex cases, research has found. A study of deaths
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    • 391 23 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH LONDON The combined wealth of the 1,000 richest men and women in Britain has risen to record levels in the past year, despite the country’s continuing economic slump. Their total fortune has risen by just under 5 per cent
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  • BUSINESS
    • 333 24 REUTERS AFTERNOON LATEST WASHINGTON The Dow Jones Industrial Average stock index is due for an overhaul, and new-tech giants like Apple and Google have good arguments for joining the elite 30 companies at the expense of old-industry stalwarts like Alcoa, Barron’s said yesterday. The
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        58 24 FRIDAY CLOSE 13,228.31 (+0.18%) THE WEEK AHEAD Caught in a vice between sluggish global growth and worldwide debt deleveraging, investors face another week of potentially gloomy economic news with no relief in sight from the growing concerns about euro zone debt. Thursday 13,204.62 p 0.87% Wednesday 13,090.72 p 0.69%
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      • 9 24 NASDAQ 3,069.20 (+0.61%) Ç S&P500 1,403.36 (+0.24%) Ç
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      • 21 24 Ç FTSE100 5,777.11 (+0.49%) Ç Ç DAX 6,801.32 (+0.91%) CAC40 3,226.27 (+1.14%) All figures correct as at 8am this morning
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      • 85 24 STOCK CALLS Neutral S$3.10 CIMB keeps call and S$3.36 target. House says SingTel’s sale of stake in Far EasTone is positive as the holding was a passive investment. It notes the impact is insignificant, only reducing net debt/Ebitda by 0.05 times to 1.06 times and does not raise likelihood
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    • 153 24 REUTERS China Eastern Airlines said earlier today it has agreed to buy 20 new Boeing B777-300ER aircraft from Boeing Co, valued at US$5.94 billion (S$7.35 billion). In a filing to the Hong Kong bourse, China Eastern said the aircraft were expected to
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    • 144 25 Maybank has upped the ante in the highly-com-petitive credit card market in Singapore with the launch of the Maybank Manchester United Platinum Visa Card (picture) at the weekend. Besides allowing the legion of fans here to declare their loyalty to the football club, the
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    • 416 25  -  LYNDA HONG lyndahong@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Shophouses have not escaped Singapore’s property boom and every indication is that their price appreciation will continue. In limited supply, they are gaining in popularity as owners look beyond traditional uses. Prices for conservation shophouses, where usage is strictly controlled
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  • SPORTS
    • 987 28  -  United midfielder says players have to take it as just another game despite all that is at stake TODAY EXCLUSIVE PHILIP GOH philipgoh@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE It has been a week of unprecedented excitement building up to the English Premier League clash tomorrow morning 3am
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    • 523 29 Redknapp’s men back in Champions League spot as Blackburn edge closer to relegation AGENCIES ENGLISH PREMIERSHIP Tottenham 2 Blackburn 0 LONDON Tottenham Hotspur returned to the top four in the Premier League after a comfortable 2-0 win over relega-tion-threatened Blackburn at White Hart Lane. Despite winning
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    • 376 29 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH ENGLISH PREMIERSHIP Chelsea 6 QPR 1 LONDON Fernando Torres scored his first hat-trick for Chelsea as they celebrated reaching the Champions League final by roaring back into contention to qualify for next season’s competition. Torres and Chelsea produced the polar opposite of a
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    • 599 30  -  Innovative seeding method for RHB Singapore Cup results in two strong teams meeting in opening round TANYO-HINN yohinn@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE A controversial new seeding format for the 2012 RHB Singapore Cup left Lee Lim Saeng, head coach of Home United, shaking his head after his
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    • 406 30  -  Back from injury lay-off, backstroke swimmer set to train with Japanese star Ryosuke Irie in late Olympic bid TANYO-HINN SINGAPORE Multiple SEA Games gold medallist Zach Ong’s bid to reach the London Olympics is set to receive a late boost. The 21-year-old leaves tonight for a month-long
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    • 220 30  -  LOW LIN FHOONG SINGAPORE Paddler Feng Tianwei’s poor form continued at the Chile Open yesterday, as the top seed lost 4-2 in the last eight to South Korea’s world No 29 Yang Ha Eun. World No 9 Feng, 25, has seen her ranking dip four places after
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      • 449 31  -  Veteran of three World Championships still keen on netball but admits game has taken its toll TANYO-HINN yohinn@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The Asian Netball Championships in Sri Lanka in August could be the swansong for one of Singapore’s top international netballers. With 98 international
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      • 431 31  -  TANYO-HINN yohinn@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Even as they celebrated their latest success, the Nike Marlins are not about to take it easy. Last Saturday, they beat the Blaze Dolphins 52-39 in the grand final of the 2012 FairPrice Foundation Netball Super League (NSL) at
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    • 499 32 REUTERS LA LIGA Barcelona 7, Rayo Vallecano 0 MADRID Barcelona kept Real Madrid’s La Liga title celebrations on hold for a few days at least with a crushing 7-0 victory at Rayo Vallecano yesterday after Real had cruised to a 3-0 home
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    • 528 32 REUTERS AFTERNOON LATEST LONDON Roy Hodgson (picture) became the leading contender to take charge of England at Euro 2012 yesterday when the English FA said they had spoken to the West Bromwich Albion manager about succeeding Fabio Capello. The FA said the vastly-experi-enced
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    • 215 32 AP SERIE A Juventus 4 Novara 0 ROME Undefeated Juventus moved a step closer to the Italian league title with a 4-0 rout at neighbour Novara yesterday. Mirko Vucinic scored twice for Juventus, Marco Borriello hit the target for the second straight match and
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    • 50 1 STAR AWARDS 2012 SPECIAL VICTORIOUS APRIL 30, 2012 A PUBLICATION OF JOANNE PEH AND TAY PING HUI OWN THE STAR AWARDS 2012 T2 BACKSTAGE ACTION: WHO ALMOST DIDN’T SHOW UP BECAUSE HE MIGHT BE ‘TOO UGLY’ T5 FASHION THROW-DOWN: WHO WAS BEST-DRESSED AND WHO LOOKED LIKE A WEATHER BALLOON? T6
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      • 1163 2  -  Tay Ping Hui gets his moment in the spotlight, while a certain heartthrob gets left out in the cold again at the Star Awards 2012 Amanda Lee leeguiping@mediacorp.com.sg Jay Park performed. ADDITIONAL REPORTING BY MAY SEAH, GENEVIEVE REPORTING BY MAY SEAH, GENEVIEVE LOH AND
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      • 564 5  -  Reporting by May Seah, Genevieve Loh, Zhang Weifang Employee Of The Month Qi Yu Wu, who required stitches after a car accident last Tuesday:“I’m here because this is a very important event for MediaCorp ...Also, my fans have been very concerned but I can’t
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      • 243 5 @abibas 17 Credit to Chen Han Wei, look outstanding, make effort to style himself without stylist and designers @cheriepjr The opening of Star Awards reminds me ofThe Hunger Games lol. @zeligdhilee Interesting to have Minister Heng Swee Keat at Star Awards. Will MOE forge
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      • 248 6 ...‘For getting me on this list’.Who shone and who bombed at the Star Awards Best Dressed ZhouYing shows off an awesome body fitted perfectly under her custom Francis Cheong. Best Dressed Rui En looking sleek and elegant in Dsquared2. Stylists, pay attention this is
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    • DESIGN
      • 1168 8  -  Democracy reigns at the Milan Furniture Fair welcome to the future Colleen Barry feature s@mediacorp.com.sg AP PHILIPPE Starck says his philosophy of democratic design, or quality pieces at accessible prices, is paying off in the ongoing economic crisis. “People are intelligent.They want quality.They want a high
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    • THINGS TO DO
      • 49 10 Explore some of our planet’s most unique caves with Dr Hazel Barton and Nancy Aulenbach as they discover more about Earth’s history and the micro-organisms living in these caves. Today, 1pm and 4pm. S$10 for adult, S$7 child. Omni-Theatre, Science Centre Singapore. www.omnitheatre.com.sg.
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      • 50 10 Vijay Kiyawat is a self-taught artist who is emerging on the scene of Indian contemporary art. This, his first solo show outside of India, features more than 24 bright and inspirational water-colour works. Today, 11am to 5pm, Art Loft, 249 Alexandra Road (above Volvo showroom). Free admission. www.fiidaaart.com.
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      • 62 10 A comedy musical revue that looks at the flurry of events from last year, with a spotlight on our trains. Stars Siti Khalijah, Darius Tan and Celina Rosa Tan. Directed by Derrick Chew and written by Jeremy Yew. Until May 3, 8pm, Chamber The
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      • 90 10 National Museum of Singapore museum curator Chung May Khuen leads you on an insightful journey through this exhibition of more than 140 cheongsams, with each one contributing to the story of our nation’s progress towards modernity and chronicling the changing social roles
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      • 80 10 India, once the couturier of the world, takes centrestage in this exhibition, which features more than 70 printed Indian textiles, some of which are over 600 years old. The event exposes the deep roots of today’s globalised world and highlights
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      • 39 10 House cathong,tech-house devotee djB and electro enigma Eclipse hold court at another edition of this laid-back resident showcase. Today, 10pm at Zouk, 17 Jiak Kim St. Admission price from S$25 (women) to S$32( men) including two drinks.
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      • 78 10 UPCOMING: A programme of the National Museum of Singapore Cinematheque, this is a monthly screening ofworks by the boldest and most inventive auteurs from the history of cinema. Discover the wonders and possibilities of the art of cinema on the big screen as it was meant to
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    • 230 12 ON MEDIACORP PRIMEVAL V Channel 5, 10pm Philip and Connor secretly open an anomaly within the ARC, only to be invaded by a mass of scurrying futurebeetles, who force the ARC into lockdown. The team have just moments to save the day before the ARC and the beetle threat is
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    • 234 12 ON MEDIACORP PILLOW TALK (LAST EPISODE) Channel 8, 9pm Maoshun’s sudden disappearance worries Yunling. Yunling delivers a heartfelt speech at a talk despite his absence. Chuning and Qiuyu are touched and enlightened by her speech. Both wonder if they have what it takes to work on their broken marriages. KETTATHU
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