Today, 10 December 2013

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    15 1 TODAY TODAYONLINE.COM WE SET YOU THINKING yVI bdiaCorp TUESDAY, 10 DECEMBER 2013 MICA (P) 053/06/2013
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    Lock icon Committee of Inquiry to look into Little India riot
    1620 1  -  Govt to also impose temporary alcohol ban in the area to give police time to assess situation 26 PEOPLE TO BE CHARGED TODAY AMIR HUSSAIN amirhussain@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —More details of the events leading up to Sunday’s riot in Little India emerged
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    MND tweaks cancellation fees, resale levy for ECs
    617 1  -  KOK XING HUI xinghui@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —The Ministry of National Development has introduced three new measures for Executive Condominium (EC) developments to bring the terms of buying an EC closer to those of public housing and support a “stable and sustainable EC market”.
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      103 1 THE OFTEN-RACIST VITRIOL AMONG S’POREANS ONLINE IS AS MOB-LIKE AS WHAT HAPPENED DURING THE RIOT: DEVADAS KRISHNADASCOMMENT&ANALYSIS 16 TRENDS&BAGS STRAIGHT OFF THE RUNWAYS 2COLLECTIONS AHEAD www.FashionFirst.tv IF SHOP ONLINE Available only at Pepper Lunch Food Court Outlets SUPER Set 'JjUA includes Wee m4“ ,soSouP RepperjSteak withlEqq .uJ I > iV,
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      56 2 HOT NEWS LITTLE INDIA RIOT: NETIZENS COMBAT RACISM ON SOCIAL MEDIA4 S’POREANS URGED NOT TO SPREAD RUMOURS 6 MOREMEASURESTO BE TAKEN TO LIMIT ALCOHOL SALE IN LITTLE INDIA 8 DORMS SEARCHED FOR WORKERS INVOLVED IN RIOT 10 COMMENT &ANALYSIS LET’S NOT RIOT ONLINE ABOUTA RIOT 16 VOICES SHARING INFORMATION WITHOUT
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      Lock icon Little India riot: Netizens combat racism on social media
      646 4  -  S’poreans quick to criticise those out to incite hatred as they urge for calm online POLICE CLARIFY RUMOURS CIRCULATING ONLINE WOO SIAN BOON woosianboon@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —Netizens were quick to criticise those out to incite hatred or xenophobia online after Sunday’s riot
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      S’poreans urged not to spread rumours
      659 6  -  LEADERS TAKE TO FACEBOOK TO APPEAL FOR COOL HEADS WOO SIAN BOON woosianboon@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE In the wake of the Little India riot, several public figures, migrant workers’ welfare organisations and an employers’ group yesterday urged Singaporeans to remain calm and avoid fanning online speculation
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      Lock icon More measures to be taken to limit alcohol sale in Little India
      647 8  -  Home Affairs Ministry to propose rules such as cap on liquor licences, no-alcohol zones ‘HARD TO SAY DEFINITIVELY’ IF RIOT WAS SPARKED BY ALCOHOL-FUELLED CROWD SIAU MING EN siaumingen@mediacorp.com.sg ADDITIONAL REPORTING BYTIARA HAMARIAN SINGAPORE —Too many liquor licences
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      Lock icon Residents, shops pick up the pieces after riot
      525 8  -  TIARA HAMARIAN tiarabtemh@mediacorp.com.sg ADDITIONAL REPORTING BY SIAU MING EN SINGAPORE —Shattered concrete pavement slabs, overturned dustbins and broken glass bottles were among the items Little India residents, businesses and cleaners had to deal with in the aftermath of the riot on Sunday
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      Lock icon Dorms searched for workers involved in riot
      349 10  -  ABOUT 10 WORKERS TAKEN AWAY BY POLICE XUE JIANYUE xuejianyue@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Hours after they quelled the riot in Little India on Sunday night, dozens of police officers including elite troops fanned out to various foreign worker dormitories when it was still dark, in
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      Socio-political website Breakfast Network to shut down
      328 10 SING A PORE The socio-political commentary website Breakfast Network (BN) announced yesterday that it has decided to shut down. In a post on the site last night, Editor Bertha Henson said it was a “tough” decision to make, but that the site owners
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      Lock icon Thai Premier calls for elections, but protests continue
      734 12 YINGLUCK DISSOLVES PARLIAMENT AGENCIES BANGKOK Facing volatile street protests and the mass resignation from Parliament of the main opposition party, Thailand’s Prime Minister yesterday dissolved Parliament and called for fresh elections, the latest in a series of attempts to defuse anger against
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      Lock icon N Korea says Kim’s uncle dismissed for ‘criminal acts’
      741 14 AGENCIES SEOUL North Korea yesterday confirmed that Mr Jang Song Thaek, the uncle of the country’s leader, Mr Kim Jong Un, had been stripped of his many positions and expelled from the ruling Workers’ Party in the biggest purge since Mr
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      Lock icon Beijing expresses regret over Seoul’s air defence zone extension
      675 15 China conveys concerns to S Korea, but says no territorial dispute currently on submerged reef in both countries’ADIZ JAPAN SAYS S KOREA’S MOVE NOT IMMEDIATELY PROBLEMATIC AGENCIES BEIJING —China expressed regret yesterday that South Korea had extended its air defence zone
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  • comment &analysis
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      Lock icon Let’s not riot online about a riot
      1062 16  -  A RESPONSE TO KNEE-JERK REACTIONS DEVADAS KRISHNADAS Devadas Krishnadas is Managing Director of Future-Moves. For 10 years, he was a Senior Officer in the Singapore Police Force. The incident at Little India on Sunday evening was regrettable but not improbable. This is for
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      A look in the mirror
      574 18  -  REACTIONS TO LITTLE INDIA RIOT TAN WU MENG Tan Wu Meng is a medical doctor working in a public-sector hospital. We do not yet know the full reasons for last night’s riot. But our early reactions have shown us something of ourselves. During and after
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      Lock icon Hard line against China’s air defence zone won’t help
      709 18 A CHANCE TO RESTART DISCUSSIONS BLOOMBERG BLOOMBERG EDITORS Mr Joe Biden’s trip to northeast Asia has left some in Japan feeling abandoned. By not demanding that China roll back its new Air Defence Identification Zone (ADIZ), the United States Vice-Presi-dent tacitly
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      Lock icon Bringing the Chinese consumer to life
      956 20  -  THE MOMENTOUS SHIFT TO A CONSUMER SOCIETY STEPHEN S ROACH Stephen S Roach, a faculty member at Yale University and former Chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia, is the author of the forthcoming book Unbalanced: The Codependency of America and China. PROJECT SYNDICATE History will
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  • voices
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      Sharing information without context can inflame a situation
      323 22  -  FROM FRANCES ESS While the riot in Little India has saddened and shocked many Singaporeans, all of us must be responsible when we share information on social media. I have always reminded my children that “a text without context is a pretext”.
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      False accusations may hamper cultural relations
      197 22  -  FROM ANDREW WANG WENKUN Yesterday morning, as I read the comments about the Little India riot on a local Web portal, I was comforted to see the solidarity of the people behind both the quick government responses and the condemnation of the rioters. I
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      Riot culprits must be punished with full severity of law
      219 22  -  FROM RAYMOND KOH BOCK SWI It was unbelievable to see the headline, “400 people riot in Little India” (Dec 9). After all, this is Singapore, and the behaviour of these rioters was one of mass gangsterism and hooliganism. A small
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      Opt-in approach to registry provides people, firms more flexibility
      216 23  -  FROM AMOS TAN Director (Communications and Operations), Personal Data Protection Commission I refer to Mr Kamaruzaman Mohamad Shariff’s letter “Simpler to opt out than opt in to Do Not Call Registry” (Dec 4). The Personal Data Protection Commission (PDPC) believes individuals
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      Safety of Little India’s residents can be improved
      297 23  -  FROM LEE KOK LEONG Little India’s residents have voiced concerns about overcrowding and disamenities in the area caused by weekend crowds, rowdy and drunken behaviour and bad traffic (“Make Little India a better place”, March 30,2012; “Little India to match the rest
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      Correction
      29 23 The report “Injured knee doesn’t crush young photographer’s dream” misstated the title of Mr Andrew Lim’s book. It should be Silhouette of Serenity. We apologise for the error.
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  • singapore
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      Lock icon S’pore can do better in ensuring educational equity
      868 24  -  PISA results reveal Republic’s strength in terms of quality of educa tion but it scores only average marks for equity DISADVANTAGED STUDENTS HAVE REACHED ‘VERY GOOD’ STANDARDS NG JING YNG jingyng@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —The Republic has a highquality education system, but it can
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      ICA officer jailed for taking bribes from overstayers
      235 25  -  CLAIRE HUANG SINGAPORE —An immigration officer who accepted bribes from at least 30 foreigners and helped extend their stay illegally was yesterday sentenced to 21 months’jail. Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA) specialist Mohammed Mustaffa Mohabat Ali, 29, pleaded guilty to 12 counts
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      Lock icon 50 years of TV
      56 25 Minister for Communications and Information and Minister-in-charge of Muslim Affairs Dr Yaacob Ibrahim and MediaCorp CEO Shaun Seow looking at a camera from yesteryear used to record television shows. Dr Yaacob was visiting the 50 Years of TV: Experience the Magic exhibition at the National Museum
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      Lock icon Merlin still in talks to acquire S’pore Flyer
      602 26  -  Operator of visitor attractions will also bring Madame Tussauds to Sentosa next year PLAN TO EXPAND IN ASIA LEE YEN NEE leeyennee@med iacorp.com .sg SINGAPORE The British company behind the London Eye, Merlin Entertainments, said yesterday it is still interested in acquiring
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      New workshop for nurses on caring for elderly’s eyes
      362 26 SINGAPORE —A course on how to care for the elderly’s eyes and eye conditions has been launched for healthcare professionals working in care facilities such as nursing homes, to help the elderly maintain the healthy vision crucial to living independently. The
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      Plastic may be used to treat fungal infections in future
      250 26 SINGAPORE —Polyethylene terephthalate (PET), which is widely used to make plastic bottles, may one day be put to better use: To prevent and treat topical fungus-induced diseases like skin infections and keratitis. Researchers at Singapore’s Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology
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  • education
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      Lock icon Taiwan’s alternative schools offer natural settings for learning
      846 30  -  PARENTS DISSATISFIED WITH STRESSFUL EDUCATION SYSTEM NG JING YNG NGJING YNG IN TAIPEI jingyng@mediacorp.com.sg TAIPEI To get to school every day, 11-year-old Allen Chen goes on an hour-long bus ride on winding, mountainous roads. Nevertheless, he looks forward to classes at Seedling
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      Lock icon Industry-specific technology to enhance competitive edge
      1666 32 Technology can greatly decrease administrative time and boost customer satisfaction company. PRODUCED BY THE TODAY SPECIAL PROJECTS TEAM In today’s marketplace, there is such easy access to information that consumers have come to expect a high level of transparency from their transactions. This is
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      122 30 Computational Maths or Thinking Maths Which is more Relevant for your Child? You may be familiar with the maverick child who can count to 100, or perform impressive additions and subtractions at a young age. Question is, can they think critically, reason and discern? Can they articulate their solutions? Singapore
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      37 33 CATCH UP ON ALL THE EPISODES OF PROJECT-I These case studies were featured on Project-I on MediaCorp TV Channel 8. Watch all the episodes atwww.youtube.com/IDASingapore and find out howSMEs have used technology to sharpen their business edge.
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  • china&india
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      Lock icon After state wins, BJP vows to broaden appeal to nation
      896 34 Opposition eyes next year’s polls after defeating ruling party in four out of five states VICTORIES PARTLY DRIVEN BY PUBLIC ANGER OVER GRAFT AGENCIES NEW DELHI India’s Hindu nationalist opposition party yesterday vowed to seize the momentum from a string
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    • Article
      Lock icon Prices of properties near top schools surge in Beijing
      863 35 Trend set to accelerate with easing of one-child policy, parents’focus on education REUTERS BEIJING —Mr Zhong Jian and his wife are willing to pay double the going rate for a tiny home in a Beijing neighbourhood so their 18-month-old daughter will
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      Lock icon Smog engulfs Shanghai
      98 35 A man wearing a mask while walking on the Bund in front of the financial district of Pudong in downtown Shanghai yesterday. The city entered a second week shrouded in smog as the air-quality index was at 238, or ‘heavily polluted’, at 5pm, according to the local
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      Lock icon China withholds visas for NYT, Bloomberg reporters
      397 35 AP BEIJING —The Chinese authorities have been withholding residence visas for reporters working for The New York Times and Bloomberg in apparent retaliation against the agencies’ investigative stories on wealth accumulated by the families of leaders. If the authorities do not start approving
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  • world
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      Lock icon Mandela memorial logistical nightmare for South Africa
      790 36 Policepromise tight security as world leaders congregate for event today PARLIAMENT HOLDS SPECIAL SESSION IN HONOUR OF NATION’S HERO AGENCIES JOHANNESBURG —Workers rushed frantically to construct a stage yesterday at the Soweto soccer stadium where world leaders will eulogise Nelson Mandela before tens
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      Lock icon US Defence Secretary talks drones, security with Pakistan PM
      640 37 AGENCIES RAWALPINDI (PAKISTAN) —United States Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel discussed the use of US drones against militants in remote areas of Pakistan yesterday during the first visit by a Pentagon chief to the South Asian ally in almost four years. The
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      Lock icon IT giants issue call for limits on govt surveillance of users
      783 38 Firms present plan to regulate online spying, urge US to lead global effort to restrict practice TECH COMPANIES MOUNT PUBLIC CAMPAIGN AGAINST GOVT SPYING THE NEW YORK TIMES NEW YORK —Eight prominent technology companies, bruised by revelations of government
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      Lock icon Seven killed in train crash in Jakarta
      117 38 An Indonesian soldier walking away from the fire after a commuter train derailed when it collided with a fuel tanker truck yesterday in southern Jakarta, Indonesia. At least seven people died in the accident and more than 70 others were injured. A burned-out
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      760 40 Former HUDC development Eunosville andfreehold Jervois Gardens up for collective sale ‘MARKET IS ADJUSTING TO LIFE POST-TDSR’ S ING A PORE —The en bloc property market is stirring again with the launch of two collective sale tenders yesterday one at the former Housing
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      775 41 BLOOMBERG HONG KONG Ms Chu Kin Lan has already closed six out of 11 offices of her Hong Kong real estate agency, whose Chinese name translates as Precious Prosperity, and let go of half of her 70 employees amid
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      559 41 THE NEW YORK TIMES WASHINGTON —Federal Reserve officials are in no hurry to retreat from their bond-buying campaign to stimulate the economy and are likely to postpone any cuts to the programme until next year, according to public statements by
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      455 42  -  GAUGING VIEWERS’ TRUE REACTIONS TO ADS KHOO BEE KHIM khoobeekhim@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Facial expressions can reveal what people do not say. And that is the premise that the Link with Facial Coding technology uses to gauge viewers’ true reactions to prelaunched advertisements. The
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      487 43 MOVE TO SHOW FIRM IS NOT ‘ONE-HIT WONDER’ AGENCIES LONDON King, the mobile games maker behind Candy Crush Saga, has delayed its initial public offering until next year, amid fears that the flagship game has been “too successful”. The British company, which is gearing up
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        612 44  -  S’pore water polo team aim to beat hosts to win their first gold of Games MORALE STRONG IN SINGAPORE CAMP ADELENE WONG adelenewong@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —A record-extending 25th gold medal in men’s water polo at the South-east Asian (SEA) Games is almost in the
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        492 44  -  DAN GUEN CHIN S I NG A POR E The defensive lapse that allowed Laos a late equaliser could return to haunt Singapore’s quest to reach the semi-finals of the South-east Asian (SEA) Games men’s under-23 football competition in Myanmar, but national
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        769 45  -  Myanmar set to deliver a colourful SEA Games opening ceremony to signal return to international fold PHILIP GOH Deputy Sports Editor philipgoh@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —The pre-opening ceremony performances are over and the singers have left the stage. The Wunna Theikdi stadium hushes in silent anticipation as hundreds of
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        271 45 AGENCIES NAYPYIDAW Malaysian wushu exponent Phoon Eyin caused a stir and created sporting history for her country when she won Malaysia’s 1,000th gold medal of the South-east Asian Games since 1959 yesterday. The 17-year-old schoolgirl clinched the women’s Qiangshu (spear) crown at
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        845 46  -  TODAY’S countdown to the SEA Games focuses on the young talent who have the potential to win medals both in Myanmar and at the 2015 Games in Singapore. We turn the spotlight today on pole vaulter Sean Lim, who was on the verge of quitting
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        313 46 SINGAPORE —Goh Choon Huat, Ho Jun Rong and Low Ji Wen’s attempt to win Singapore’s first cycling gold medal at the SEA Games in 16 years has been given a boost by OCBC Bank, which announced yesterday that
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      503 47 Ex-Premier League player latest to be involved in British match-fixing probe REUTERS LONDON —Following the recent arrest of two Singaporeans for match-fixing activities, former English Premier League striker D J Campbell has become the latest to be implicated. The Blackburn Rovers player has been arrested as
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      516 47 AGENCIES LO N DO N Roberto Martinez described Ross Barkley as “unique” and a “real English diamond” after the Everton midfielder starred in his team’s 1-1 Premier League draw at Arsenal on Sunday (yesterday morning, Singapore time). Gerard Deulofeu’s 84th-minute equaliser cancelled out
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      683 48 But Shakhtar win unlikely to ease criticisms of under-fire United boss 8 PLACES IN LAST 16 STILL UP FOR GRABS AGENCIES LONDON —Manchester United manager David Moyes will be looking for a much-needed morale boosting win in the Champions League after admitting he has failed
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      495 48 REUTERS LOS ANG ELES —Kobe Bryant’s long awaited return to the basketball court began as a wild celebration on Sunday (yesterday morning, Singapore time), but ended as a quiet reminder that the rusty All Star has more work ahead to get back
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        1133 50  -  WHAT EXACTLY IS METHOD ACTING? WE FIND OUT FROM A PRO MAY SEAH may@mediacorp.com.sg “Don’t starve yourself,” said a wide-eyed colleague when I told him I was going to attend a method acting workshop. “I’m going to come back and do a Christian Bale on all
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        323 53 SINGAPORE The ongoing 50 Years Of TV: Experience The Magic exhibition at the National Museum is not just about enjoying exhibits about popular dramas like The Little Nyonya. There are other activities that you can be a part of. For instance, why not pack a
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