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    16 1 TODAY TODAYONLI NE .COM WE SET YOU THINKING /AbdiaCorp SATURDAY, 25 APRIL 2015 MCI (P) 046/06/2014
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    Lock icon Malaysia’s dangerous turn down the road of religious politics
    1894 1  -  ALBERT WAI albertwai@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The furore over an anticross protest at a church in Selangor that has grabbed headlines over the past week is a development in Malaysian politics that has been brewing for some time and is a result of
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    Lock icon Indonesia signals executions of 10 drug convicts are imminent
    764 1 Embassies asked to send representatives to maximum security prison today APPEAL CASE OF ONE IS ONLY HURDLE TO 72-HOUR NOTICE OF EXECUTION AGENCIES JAKARTA —Indonesia yesterday asked foreign embassies to send representatives to a maximum security prison today to prepare for
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    New rules to check money laundering, terror financing
    669 1  -  RUMI HARDASMALANI rumih@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The Republic has toughened its stance against money laundering and the financing of terrorism with new measures to detect illicit funds and greater scrutiny of customers who may have ties to shadowy organisations. The new rules, announced yesterday
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      30 1 EQUATING UNAUTHORISED FILE SHARING WITH THEFT DOES NOT RE SONATEWITH PUBLIC AT LARGE AND IS THUS INEFFECTIVEVOIC E S 8 HOT NEWS 5 Duo who rushed to save toddler hailed
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  • hot news
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      Lock icon MOH to track outcome management of critically ill
      767 2  -  Ministry to set up database on intensive care, data collected to be used to guide clincal practices S’PORE’S INTENSIVE CARE OUTCOMES ‘COMPARABLE WITH OTHER DEVELOPED COUNTRIES’ NG JING YNG jingyng@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The Ministry of Health (MOH) is setting up a national database
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      Lock icon Jokowi shifts Indonesia away from ‘zero enemies’ diplomacy
      851 4 President’s more proactive foreign policy the antithesis of Yudhoyono’s low-key stance REAL FOREIGN POLICY STRATEGY LACKING, SAYS ANALYST BLOOMBERG JAKARTA Six months after taking office, Indonesian President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo is starting to step away from his predecessor’s foreign policy of keeping
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      Lock icon Riot control weapon, P4.1, among new police initiatives
      562 5  -  The P4.1 fires projectiles that can be filled with indelible paint to mark, identify rioters, or form of irritant like tear gas AMANDA LEE leeguiping@mediacorp.com.sg S I NG A POR E —All riot troops will be equipped with a new weapon in
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      Lock icon Duo who rushed to save toddler hailed
      582 5  -  YVONNE LIM SINGAPORE —Two construction workers who scaled walls to catch hold of a toddler precariously dangling by her neck from a second-floor clothing rail have been hailed as heroes, after a video capturing their gallantry went viral on social media. The two
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      Lock icon Chinese scientists edit genes of human embryos, raising concerns
      799 6 Failed experiment ‘should give pause’ to anyone thinking technology is ready to eradicate disease genes: Harvard prof SOME WORRY MOVE COULD ENCOURAGE MORE RESEARCHERS TO ATTEMPT EXPERIMENT THE NEW YORK TIMES BEIJING The experiment with human embryos was dreaded, yet widely
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      30% pay rise for landscape workers under Progressive Wage
      664 6  -  VALERIE KOH SINGAPORE By June next year, most local landscape maintenance workers will see their starting pay go up by at least 30 per cent, after the Progressive Wage Model (PWM) became mandatory for those competing for contracts given out by
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      WORKERS IN LANDSCAPE INDUSTRY GET MORE WAYS TO CLIMB THE LADDER
      201 6  -  VALERIE KOH Taking a 70-per-cent pay cut is not a move most young Singaporeans would be comfortable with, but 29-year-old Low Kee Chong did just that six months ago, quitting his job as a liaison officer at the National
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  • voices
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      Equating piracy with theft ineffective
      382 8  -  FROM HENG CHO CHOON The report “Piracy losing its stigma here” (April 24) again resurrected the issue of whether unauthorised file sharing is tantamount to stealing. The hare of technological advancement has outpaced the tortoise of legal development. Dr Stuart Green, a Rutgers Law School
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    • Article
      Manner in which views are communicated matters too
      337 8  -  F ROM AMOS MAXIMILIAN LEE I refer to the letter “Fear of backlash can censor debate” (April 24), which stated: “When individuals collectively demand the removal of support from something they consider deeply offensive and harmful, it communicates that the public will
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      Lock icon Ministry of Education not averse to change with purpose
      426 9  -  FROM CHEONG WEI YANG Director, Planning Division, Ministry of Education We agree with Mr Kwan Jin Yao’s sentiment that it is important for education to prepare our students for their future (“S’pore can embrace risk in education with small changes”, April
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      ‘Blanket’ cycling rules defy common sense
      199 9  -  FROM SUM SIEW KEE I refer to the debate over cycling rules in Singapore (“Enforce dismount and push rules on bridges”, April 21; “Stricter rules needed for two-wheel-ers”, April 22). There should be separate bicycle and pedestrian lanes on overhead bridges and underpasses. The
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      More, improved train arrival monitors at older MRT stations
      146 9  -  FROM DAVID KWOK NG KAN Train arrival monitors have long drawn complaints from commuters at the older MRT stations. As the rail network becomes more comprehensive and also more complex, it is important that they be improved, es- pecially when more
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      Ferry safety must not be taken for granted
      252 9  -  F ROM LIM LIH MEI Reading news reports about a ship capsizing and sinking in the Mediterranean Sea, killing hundreds, brought to mind the Sewol ferry tragedy in South Korea about a year ago, which killed more than 300, many of them
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  • singapore
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      New centre ‘to prepare for avalanche of social issues’
      625 10  -  SOCIAL CHANGES CAN INTERACT TO PRODUCE POTENTIALLY DISRUPTIVE OUTCOMES: ESM GOH SIAU MING EN siaumingen@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE As social service agencies and policymakers deal with pressing problems on the ground, a research centre has been launched to help fill the gap in
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      VWO adopts evidence-based practice for debt programme
      384 10  -  NEO CHAI CHIN SINGAPORE At the end of a year-long pilot programme to help low-income families clear their debts, both clients and staff from family service centres run by the Methodist Welfare Services (MWS) felt good. Total arrears of the families that were
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      Lock icon More help for accused who cannot afford lawyers: CJ Menon
      619 11  -  Court expands Guidance for Plea scheme, among other initiatives, to address problem KELLY NG kellyng@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE More will be done to help accused persons who cannot afford lawyers to get one at an earlier stage in the criminal justice process,
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      EU urges Singapore to reinstate halt on executions
      261 11  -  LAURA PHILOMIN SINGAPORE The European Union (EU) has called on the authorities in Singapore to reinstate its halt on capital punishment, following the execution of a convicted murderer here last week. Reiterating its opposition to the use of capital punishment, the EU
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      Lock icon State Courts’ processes to be simpler under new initiative
      394 11 KELLY NG SINGAPORE —Information booklets, videos on legal processes and self-service kiosks to pay fines and court fees are among initiatives to simplify court procedures for the man in the street, announced at the State Courts’ workplan seminar yesterday. In his
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      Lock icon Recommendation on heritage site bid likely next week
      755 12  -  PROPOSAL FROM COUNCIL PART OF BID PROCESS JORDON SIMPSON jsimpson@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) recommendation on the Republic’s bid to list the Singapore Botanic Gardens as a UNESCO World Heritage site could be out as early as
      Source: National Heritage Board, National Parks Board, Singapore National Commission for UNESCO; Adolfo Arranz/TODAY  -  755 words
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      Lock icon National Gallery S’pore should ‘deepen visitors’ understanding of the past’
      439 13  -  MATTHIAS TAY matthiastay@med iacorp.com .sg SINGAPORE The former Supreme Court building facing the Padang has long closed its doors, but Dr Jack Lee, a litigation lawyer in the 1990s, will always remember the old-fashioned elevator located on the left-hand side
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      Singapore’s first electric taxi ‘now road ready’
      453 13  -  XUE JIANYUE SINGAPORE The prospect of locally designed electric-powered cabs plying the roads here is a step closer to realisation, with talks started with automobile makers on mass production of the technologies in the vehicle. First unveiled as a prototype without engines, batteries
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      More HDB flats approved for subletting as resale prices fall
      299 13 SINGAPORE The number of Housing and Development Board (HDB) flats approved for subletting rose slightly in the first quarter of this year, the latest HDB figures showed. Between January and March, 10, a total of 385 applications for subletting were
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  • world
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      Lock icon Legal ‘jihad’ against private sector in Indonesia alarms foreign investors
      761 14 MUHAMMADIYAH HAS IDENTIFIED 115 LAWS THAT ‘VIOLATE’ CONSTITUTION REUTERS JAK ARTA The head of an Indonesian Muslim organisation has filed cases to overturn three laws, escalating what he calls “a constitutional jihad” that has already dealt a blow to investors
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      Lock icon No decision yet to charge cross protesters with sedition: Police
      470 14 AGENCIES SELANGOR The Malaysian police have not decided what law will be used to investigate the protesters who demanded last Sunday that a church in Selangor remove a cross outside its premises, despite growing public pressure for the activists to
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      Lock icon Japanese rice lobby choking progress of TPP deal with US
      994 15 BLOOMBERG TOKYO A powerful lobby stands in the way of two of the world’s biggest economies completing a trade deal: Japanese rice farmers. Rice is the island-nation’s staple grain and a powerful symbol of selfsufficiency. It is also among the
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      Lock icon Xi to meet Kuomintang chief next month, says party
      431 15 Eric Chu will lead a party delega tion to attend a forum on relations across Taiwan Strait in Shanghai on May 3 AGENCIES TAIPEI Chinese President and Communist Party chief Xi Jinping will hold talks with the chairman of Taiwan’s ruling
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      Lock icon Ghani’s trip a chance for India to regain clout
      687 16 PAKISTAN, CHINA PLAYING BIGGER ROLES IN AFGHANISTAN REUTERS NEW DELHI —When Afghan President Ashraf Ghani makes his first official visit to India next week, it will be a chance for New Delhi to regain ground lost to regional rivals Pakistan and
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      Lock icon Mounting waste on ‘rubbish island’ a threat to Maldives
      839 16 THE FINANCIAL TIMES M ALE —The low-lying coral islands of the Maldives scarcely rise more than 2m above sea level except in one place the “rubbish island” of Thilafushi, where 15m-high mounds of garbage are heaped in a oncepristine lagoon. The
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      Lock icon Expansion dreams
      142 17 China’s aggressive reclamation work in the disputed waters of the South China Sea will be a key topic at the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit that starts this weekend. Recent satellite images show China has made rapid progress in building an airstrip suitable for military use
      Sources: Council on Foreign Relations, IHS Jane’s 360, The New York Times, Dsjunshi.net, Reuters, US Energy Information Administration; Adolfo Arranz/TODAY  -  142 words
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  • business
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      Lock icon Private home prices fall 1% in Q1
      568 18  -  Decline may speed up with mounting supply, rising interest rates HOMES ON CITY FRINGES LEAD THE SLIDE LEE YEN NEE leeyennee@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —Private home prices fell more moderately in the first quarter than earlier estimated, but analysts warned that the pace of decline
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      Lock icon China expands yuan convertibility
      429 18 REUTERS BEIJING —China plans to take a giant step towards making the yuan more convertible by extending to all its free trade zones (FTZ) a pilot scheme that will allow the currency to be traded with few restrictions, before taking the scheme nationwide later this year.
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      Manufacturing output continues to fall in March
      393 18  -  ANGELA TENG SINGAPORE —Weighed down by declines in electronics, pharmaceutical and transport engineering production, manufacturing output continued to fall last month, reflecting weak external demand, but economists are hopeful of a pick-up in the months ahead on the back of an improving United
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      MediaCorp, Indon digital media firm in strategic alliance
      604 19 JAKARTA MediaCorp has invested in a 52 per cent equity stake in Indonesian digital media company KapanLagi Network (KLN), which owns several of Indonesia’s most successful Web portals including kapanlagi.com. The deal, signed yesterday in Jakarta, cements a strategic, long-term partnership that
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    • BLOC ON TRACK TO BECOME ASIA’S THIRD ENGINE OF GROWTH AFTER CHINA, INDIA
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        Lock icon ASEAN needs 15 years to become a borderless economic community
        717 20  -  Despite region’s potential, challenges such as low levels of financial integration could hinder progress LEE YEN NEE leeyennee@med iacorp.com .sg SINGAPORE A borderless economic community among the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) member states will not emerge for at
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        Lock icon ASEAN integration ‘risks more corruption’
        457 20 BLOOMBERG KUALA LUMPUR Greater economic integration in South-east Asia could worsen corruption in the region and governments need to work together to strengthen anti-graft agencies and regulations, a watchdog group said yesterday. As the 10 members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) seek
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      169 19 STYLE:WEDDINGS PRESENTS Weddings by the Sea a t S h a n g r i L a s R asa S en t osa R esor t S p a S i n g a p ore DATESaturday, 23 May 2015 TIMENoon 5pm VENUEHorizon Pavilion, Shangri-La's Rasa Sentosa Resort Spa,
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  • sports
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      Lock icon S’PORE NETBALLERS WARY OF MALAYSIAN THREAT
      768 21  -  Netball Singapore names 12-strong squad in quest to earn first gold at home SEA Games TEAM TO FACE BRUNEI IN OPENING MATCH ON MAY 31 ADELENE WONG adelenewong@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The Republic’s national netballers may be widely tipped for gold at the 28th South-east Asian
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      NO CLASH FOR SINGAPORE-JAPAN MATCH
      243 21  -  SHANJAYAN MUNIAPPAN SINGAPORE —World governing body FIFA, and the Asian and Japanese football authorities have agreed to Singapore’s request to a switch of venues in their upcoming 2018 World Cup qualifying fixture against Japan. The Lions were originally scheduled to host the first leg on
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      Lock icon IT’S NOT CHELSEA IN ARSENAL’S SIGHTS, BUT THE SPECIAL ONE
      1077 22  -  WENGER AIMING TO FINALLY GET THE BETTER OF MOURINHO COMMENTARY BY ADRIAN CLARKE sports@mediacorp.com.sg Adrian Clarke is a former Arsenal midfielder who has played at every level of English football. Now an experienced sports journalist, he writes for publications around
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      Lock icon I’M STILL THE BEST MAN FOR LIVERPOOL: RODGERS
      738 23 Reds boss has backing of club owners, hints at targeting more established stars THE DAILY TELEGRAPH LIVERPOOL Brendan Rodgers insists he remains the best man to bring the glory days back to Liverpool, but admitted the club must be “more forceful” to
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      Lock icon HULL CITY PLAYERS ‘WILL PAY PRICE’ IF CLUB ARE RELEGATED
      336 23 REUTERS LONDON —Hull City’s players can expect to have their wages cut by up to 50 per cent if they are relegated from the Premier League, manager Steve Bruce (picture) said yesterday. Seventeenth-placed Hull are level on 28 points from
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    • WHAT HE SAID DID NOT DO JUSTICE TO THE GAME, OCCASION OR SPORTSMEN INVOLVED
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        Lock icon HENRY’S RANT AT HERNANDEZ WAS PUNDITRY GONE MAD
        1020 24  -  COMMENTARY BY JASON BURT Jason Burt is The Daily Telegraph’s deputy football correspondent. THE DAILY TELEGRAPH If Thierry Henry’s reaction to Javier Hernandez’s celebrations after scoring the late winning goal that propelled Real Madrid into the Champions League semi-fi-nals is anything to
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        Lock icon GUARDIOLA EXPECTING A ‘SPECIAL’ GAME AGAINST BARCA
        340 24 REUTERS BERLIN Bayern Munich coach Pep Guardiola (picture) said yesterday he was happy to have drawn his former club Barcelona in the Champions League semi-finals and expected the clash to be a special experience for him. Defending champions Real Madrid will face Juventus
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      Lock icon MANNY PACQUIAO SNUBS MGM GRAND
      590 25 Filipino to skip ceremony at hotel and stay at the Delano in Mandalay Bay AP L AS VEGAS Manny Pacquiao is not feeling much love for the hotel where he will fight Floyd May weather Jr in boxing’s richest fight ever. Pacquiao plans to skip
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      Lock icon ORGANISERS MAKE IT HARDER TO RESELL TICKETS
      331 25 BLOOMBERG L A S VEGA S It will be more complicated to turn a quick resale profit on tickets to the fight on May 2 between Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao. Organisers are requiring buyers of tickets at Thursday’s limited public sale to
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      Lock icon EX-WALLABIES COACH HELMS JAPAN’S SUPER RUGBY TEAM
      403 26 New director of rugby Eddie Jones to help build team for Top League EX-AUSTRALIA COACH WILL LEAD JAPAN TO THIS YEAR’S WORLD CUP IN ENGLAND REUTERS TOKYO Former Australia and current Japan coach Eddie Jones has been appointed director of rugby for the
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      Lock icon NBA WATCH
      299 26 PELICANS 119 WARRIORS 123 (WARRIORS LEAD SERIES 3-0) Stephen Curry wasn’t about to turn down the music or put any kind of damper on a giddy locker room celebration that seemed more reminiscent of a series-clinching triumph.The Golden State Warriors still need one more victory to close out
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      71 22 LIVE FIXTURES Tonight, 7.45pm Channel Singtel StarHub Southampton v Spurs 102 227 Tonight, 10pm West Brom v Liverpool 102 227 QPR v West Ham 103 228 Newcastle v Swansea 104 229 Stoke v Sunderland 105 230 Burnley v Leicester 106 231 Crystal Palace v Hull 107 232 Tomorrow, 12.30am Man
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      54 27 SATURDAY, 25 APRIL 2015 OFF THE WALL STREET ARTIST ERNEST ZACHAREVIC ON HOW HE MAKES HIS ART COME TO LIFE [32] PRESERVING THE PAST ARCHIVED EXHIBITIONS ARE WELL AND GOOD BUT WHAT HAPPENS AFTER IT’S OVER [28] HOLLYWOOD BOUND ACTOR DAI XIANG YU TAKES ON AN ENGLISH MOVIE [30] PHOTO:
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        Lock icon THE SHOWS MUST GO ON
        1863 28  -  ARCHIVAL EXHIBITIONS ARE IN VOGUE THIS MONTH BUT WHAT HAPPENS AFTER SG50? MAYO MARTIN mayo@mediacorp.com.sg Very few things scream “rock ‘n’ roll” better than a pair of scruffy, dressedup Levi’s 501s. Much like the two hanging in one corner of the National Museum of Singapore’s
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        STATE of the ARTS
        93 29  -  MAYO MARTIN SINGAPORE The National Gallery Singapore announced its plans of going “naked” it will be holding its Naked Museum Building History Tours this weekend and the next prior to the installation of the artworks. This year’s Life! Theatre Awards was held, with a tie between
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        Lock icon Hollywood bound?
        986 30  -  Dai Xiang Yu gets a foot in the door to Tinseltown with his latest movie. Now if only speaking English wasn’t so hellish HOT STAR MAY SEAH SINGAPORE Things are starting to pick up for Dai Xiang Yu, whom you may remember as the artiste formerly known as
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        Drawings on the wall
        1428 32  -  Street artist Ernest Zacharevic on the good, bad and ugly of his famed Penang murals RAW TALENT SERENE LIM serenelim@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Just search the hashtag #penangstreetart or google “Georgetown murals” and more likely than not, images by artist Ernest Zacharevic pop up. You may not know
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        Lock icon It’s a yes for Entang Wiharso
        690 34  -  From ‘iPhones’ to zen paintings, the Indonesian artist’s show at STPI has an adventurous streak LANGUAGE OF THE BOLD MAYO MARTIN mayo@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Are those iPhone cases we see at the Singapore Tyler Print Institute? From afar, they certainly look like it, but they
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        The future of crowd-funding
        838 35  -  Crowd-sourcing funds for films and creative content will become ‘more common’ in Asia RAISING POSSIBILITIES MAY SEAH may@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Crowd-funding may not be a huge deal in the Asian arts and entertainment scene here at the moment, but it will be soon. That’s what Jouko Ahvenainen,
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        Lock icon Gordon Ramsay hated dining at Noma
        459 35 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH LONDON Renowned British chef Gordon Ramsay may have fans all over the world, but he himself isn’t a big fan of Danish restaurant Noma, said Rene Redzepi, the man behind the former “world’s best restaurant”. In a Reddit AMA (Ask Me
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      1117 36 CHANNEL CHANNEL tellchannel5@mediacorp.com.sg tellchannel8@mediacorp.com.sg 6.00AM Right Frequency III 6.30 Sizzling Woks (Last Episode) 7.00 Priceless Wonder 9.00 Pleasant Goat And Big Big Wolf VI 9.30 Happy Family Family Of Joy 10.00 Tales From Journey To The West (HD) 10.30 Heritage Hunters (HD) 11.00 The Voice Of China (Season 3) (HD)
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