The Straits Times, 16 May 2011

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    17 1 THE STRAITS TIMES. MICA(P)108/11/2010 MONDAY, MAY 16 2011 A SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS PUBLICATION ESTABLISHED 1845 90 CENTS
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      Lock icon Woman power in India
      44 1 MORE women than ever are holding powerful political positions in India after two female regional leaders scored massive victories in the recent state assembly elections. Observers say their rise can only be positive for maledominated India. L WORLD PAGE A11
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      Lock icon Rare cancer on the rise
      57 1 MORE people here are coming down with renal cell cancer, a fairly rare cancer that presents few obvious symptoms until it is quite advanced. But the silver lining in this is that patients are seeking medical help much earlier, when the cancer is still confined
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      Lock icon Auctions with a catch
      56 1 BARGAIN-hunters such as Mr Fabian Koh are being drawn to a new kind of auction website pay-to-bid. Such sites offer them the chance to buy coveted items cheap but there is a catch. Users have to pay to bid, so those who are unsuccessful risk being
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      Lock icon Q1 profits up 33 per cent
      52 1 PROFITS at companies reporting first-quarter results have shot up about one-third overall so far, boosted by Singapore’s strong economic recovery. As of last Friday, their combined profits were 33.1 per cent higher at $8.29 billion compared to the same period last year. L MONEY
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    Lock icon S’poreans confident PM Lee can overcome Cabinet losses
    1339 1  -  EXIT OF MM LEE AND SM GOH BY CHONG ZI LIANG, HUANG LIJIE ziliang@sph.com.sg lijie@sph.com.sg Additional reporting by Jalelah Abu Baker and Feng Zengkun SHOCKED at first, sad even, but confident that Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong’s team is strong enough to
    ST PHOTOS: TED CHEN, ASHLEIGH SIM  -  1,339 words
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    Lock icon IMF chief charged with sexual assault
    836 1 He was nabbed in plane after allegedly trying to rape hotel maid in NY REUTERS AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK: International Monetary Fund (IMF) chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn was yesterday charged with an alleged sexual assault, including an attempted rape on a maid in
    REUTERS; AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE; ASSOCIATED PRESS; PHOTO: REUTERS; PHOTO: ASSOCIATED PRESS  -  836 words
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      73 1 Subscribe to The Straits Times. Get a gift and win cash prizes. Call 6388-3838 HOME, PAGE B1 REVERSAL OF ROLES More young people are mentoring the elderly LIFE! PAGE C4 ART AS THERAPY Jimmy Ong works out his issues in paint BREAKING NEWS: www.straitstimes.com INTERACT: E www.stomp.com.sg EMAIL:V stomp@stomp.com.sg VIDEOS:
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        Lock icon Life after Lee Kuan Yew
        52 2 WE SAY The resignations from Cabinet of Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew and Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong were inevitable given the stage of Singapore’s political evolution, where ideas of representative government and the interplay between the state and the governed have changed. L EDITORIAL
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          Lock icon Japan’s royal touch
          39 2 Japan’s royal couple’s travels across the nation to reach out to survivors of the March 11 natural disasters have brought some comfort to those still struggling to cope, says Kwan Weng Kin. L WORLD PAGE A13
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          Lock icon Russia-Asean arms trade
          33 2 Russia is looking to South-east Asia to cultivate new and expanded defence sales, for commercial reasons and as an extension of its diplomacy, says Robert Karniol. L REVIEW PAGE A19
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        Lock icon Nation before self-interest
        52 2 OUR READER SAYS Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew’s and Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong’s offers to step down to make way for changes needed in the new political landscape is a hallmark of Singapore’s political culture that has served Singapore well, says Ang Kok Thiam. L FORUM
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        Lock icon ONLINE BLOGS
        20 2 www.straitstimes.com L Chua Chin Hon looks at the increasing popularity of Chinese language lessons in the United States.
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      Lock icon PM Lee the reformer to the fore
      1070 2  -  Exit of two former PMs is powerful symbol of commitment to change BY CHUA MUI HOONG DEPUTY REVIEW EDITOR muihoong@sph.com.sg SENIOR Minister Goh Chok Tong and Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew shocked the nation on Saturday with a short statement saying they had
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      186 2 See Editorial Page A18 Forum Page A20 Advance Surgical Group MEDICAL SYMPOSIUM FOCUS ON x WHAT DOCTORS CAN DO FOR YOU? Topic: Medical Consequences of Obesity; Problem of the Fatty Liver Speakers: Dr. Vincent Lai MBChB (Sheff) MRCP (Edin) PhD (Bham) Topic: Simple and Effective Ways to Lose Weight Rapidly
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      Lock icon High-flying career with some blips
      386 3 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE REUTERS DOMINIQUE Strauss-Kahn’s arrest is likely to end a high-flying career in politics and world finance that took him to the peak of success, with a real shot at becoming the next president of France. Brought up in a secular and liberal Jewish
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      Lock icon Influence of MM, SM will continue to be felt: Analysts
      1009 4  -  Their personalities and wealth of experience are bigger than official titles BY ANDREA ONG, TEO WAN GEK andreao@sph.com.sg wangekt@sph.com.sg THERE is no question that Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong and Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew still have much to contribute
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      Lock icon ‘A loss for S’pore, but economy is in good hands’
      779 6/7  -  BY FRANCIS CHAN COMPANIES CORRESPONDENT WHILE many in the local business community are dismayed at the decision by Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew and Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong to leave the Cabinet, economists are confident the impact on the
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      Lock icon SPP, SDP criticise timing of announcement
      553 6/7  -  BY TESSA WONG TWO opposition parties have criticised Singapore’s two former prime ministers for the timing of the announcement that they are leaving the Cabinet. Said Mr Chiam See Tong, secre-tary-general of the Singapore People’s Party (SPP): “The question is: Why now, and not
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      Lock icon They’re still our MPs and will take care of us, say residents
      490 6/7  -  BY HUANG LIJIE, JALELAH ABU BAKER THEIR status does not matter because their hearts are always with us. This is what residents of Tanjong Pagar GRC and Marine Parade GRC said about a decision by the leaders of
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      Lock icon Gamble of pay-per-bid online auctions catches on
      875 8  -  Some win goods cheap, but losers walk away empty-handed, poorer BY JAMIE EE WEN WEI jamieee@sph.com.sg THE prices sound too good to be true: a brand new iPad 2 for $7.86 and a Canon SLR camera at $50.58. These are just some of
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      Lock icon Talent drive ‘not derailed by race rhetoric’
      875 9  -  KL is working towards greater inclusiveness, says chief head-hunter BY CAROLYN HONG MALAYSIA BUREAU CHIEF carolynh@sph.com.sg KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia’s economic reforms are still in progress but it will keep working towards inclusiveness, said the man heading the country’s talent drive, as he sought
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      Lock icon WHAT’S ONLINE MOST READ, MOST COMMENTED ON AND MORE
      117 9 www.straitstimes.com MOST-READ ONLINE L Osama’s ‘dutiful fifth wife’ L Teen digs himself into a hole L CIA chief’s blown cover deepens rift MOST COMMENTED ON L Egypt’s crime wave has even the cops running scared. Says kian118chan: “It goes to show
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    • world.regional
      • PAKISTAN’S SHIFTING ALLIANCES
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          Lock icon Fraying ties with the US
          557 10 Islamabad demands halt to drone strikes as top senator visits ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK TIMES REUTERS WASHINGTON: The United States and Pakistan are veering towards a deeper clash, with Pakistan’s Parliament demanding a permanent halt to all drone strikes just as the most senior US
          ASSOCIATED PRESS; NEW YORK TIMES; REUTERS  -  557 words
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          Lock icon Osama? Crew keeps mum
          228 10 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE MANILA: The United States Navy ship from where Osama bin Laden was buried at sea arrived in the Philippines for a port call yesterday, but the crew avoided any mention of the incident. Crewmen of the USS Carl Vinson aircraft carrier said they were
          AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE; PHOTOS: REUTERS, AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE  -  228 words
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          Lock icon Stronger ties with China
          514 10 Islamabad turns to Beijing to counter pressure from US AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE BEIJING: Tensions between the United States and Pakistan over the killing of Osama bin Laden and a speedier US withdrawal from Afghanistan are likely to reinforce China and Pakistan’s already strong ties, analysts say. When
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        Lock icon Taleban using Twitter in propaganda war
        385 10 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE KABUL: The Taleban once banned all television, music and cinema in Afghanistan, but now it is fighting its war via Twitter, the online messaging network that revolutionised global communication. The Islamic extremists sent out their first tweet in English on May 12,
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        Lock icon Indonesian maid influx expected
        267 10 THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK KUALA LUMPUR: Indonesian labour agents expect to dispatch 1,000 maids to Malaysia every month after Jakarta lifts a two-year moratorium later this month. Recruitment agencies in Indonesia have been training workers over the past two months in anticipation of the lifting of
        THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK  -  267 words
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        Lock icon The rise of women in Indian politics
        684 11  -  Experts say women in key positions can only be good for the country BY RAVI VELLOOR SOUTH ASIA BUREAU CHIEF velloor@sph.com.sg NEW DELHI: The wins by mercurial Mamata Banerjee in West Bengal and former screen siren J. Jayalalithaa in Tamil Nadu in India’s
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        Lock icon Taking centrestage
        223 11 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE WOMEN now rule a third of the 1.2 billion population in India. A look at the four female chief ministers: L Ms Mamata Banerjee, 56, leader of the Trinamool Party, last week demolished 34 years of communist rule in West Bengal, India’s fourth most populous state.
        AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE; PHOTOS: ASSOCIATED PRESS, AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE  -  223 words
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        Lock icon North Korea and Iran ‘in missile tie-up’
        587 12 China trying to suppress report on illegal technology transfers, says UN REUTERS NEW YORK TIMES NEW YORK: China has tried to suppress a report at the United Nations suggesting that North Korea and Iran have been routinely sharing ballistic missile technology, UN diplomats
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        Lock icon Food safety reporting in China on a longer leash
        467 12 ASSOCIATED PRESS XINHUA BEIJING: Toxic bean sprouts, filthy cooking oil, drug-tainted pork: The relentless headlines in Chinese media have churned up queasy feelings for months about the dangers lurking in the nation’s dinner bowls. The stories are grim reading but show
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        Lock icon PlayStation Network partially restored
        361 12 ASSOCIATED PRESS AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE TOKYO: Sony began restoring its PlayStation Network service in the United States and Europe yesterday, after shutting down the service for almost a month due to a massive security breach affecting more than 100 million online accounts. Restored operations are mainly limited
        ASSOCIATED PRESS; AGENCE; FRANCE-PRESSE  -  361 words
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        Lock icon Royals reach out to quake survivors
        860 13  -  Elderly Emperor and Empress have brought comfort to many on their tireless travels MEMO FROM TOKYO BY KWAN WENG KIN JAPAN CORRESPONDENT wengkin@sph.com.sg JAPAN’S silver-haired royal couple have been travelling tirelessly to reach out to a nation still very much in distress after the
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        Lock icon Tsunami risks ‘listed before March 11 crisis’
        258 13 REUTERS TOKYO: A Japanese government body conducted analyses on the damage that tsunamis of various scale would inflict on a nuclear power plant, according to documents made public yesterday, adding to allegations that Japan and its largest utility failed to heed warnings. The
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        Lock icon 12 die in Arab clashes with Israeli troops
        614 14 Violence along at least 4 borders as protesters mark founding of Israel ASSOCIATED PRESS REUTERS JERUSALEM: Israeli troops clashed with Arabs along at least four hostile borders yesterday, leaving 12 dead and dozens wounded as Palestinians marked the Nakba (catastrophe), their term
        ASSOCIATED PRESS; REUTERS; ST GRAPHICS; PHOTO: REUTERS  -  614 words
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        Lock icon Nato urged to widen Libya bombing campaign
        537 14 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE ASSOCIATED PRESS TRIPOLI: The head of Britain’s armed forces urged Nato to “up the ante” in Libya by widening its bombing campaign to include infrastructure targets. In an interview with The Sunday Telegraph, General David Richards, chief of the defence staff,
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        Lock icon Mob attacks protesters
        189 14 ASSOCIATED PRESS AN ANGRY mob in Cairo attacked a group of mainly Christian protesters demanding drastic measures to heal religious tension amid a spike in violence, leaving at least 51 people injured, officials said yesterday. The protesters have been holding a sit-in outside the Egyptian state television
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        Lock icon Raising hell over school chaplains
        704 15  -  Australian government accused of breaching requirement to separate church and state BY JONATHAN PEARLMAN FOR THE STRAITS TIMES jonathanmpearlman@gmail.com SYDNEY: The Australian government has drawn flak and triggered a court challenge over the separation of church and state, with its plans to deploy large numbers
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        Lock icon ‘Planking’ stunt leads to death fall in Australia
        300 15 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE BRISBANE (Australia): A new craze sweeping the Internet known as “planking” claimed a life in Australia yesterday. Police last week warned “plankers” of the dangers, and their fears were realised with the death of a man in Brisbane who plummeted
        AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE; PHOTO: PLANKING AUSTRALIA, FACEBOOK  -  300 words
    • world.at a glance
      • IN BRIEF
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          Lock icon No Huckabee election bid
          89 17 ASSOCIATED PRESS LITTLE ROCK: Former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee says he will not launch a second campaign for the Republican United States presidential nomination, choosing to continue as a television and radio personality. His decision, announced on Saturday, further muddies the Republican field as the party
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          Lock icon Thai refugee deal floated
          105 17 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE SYDNEY: Thailand yesterday expressed interest in an asylum-seeker deal similar to that which Canberra plans with Malaysia, as Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard reiterated that new boat people will not be processed in Australia. Under the plan, Australia has proposed sending 800 asylum seekers
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          Lock icon Suicide tourism to go on
          61 17 REUTERS ZURICH: Voters in the Swiss city of Zurich yesterday rejected proposed bans on assisted suicide and “suicide tourism”, or foreigners coming for help in ending their lives. Early projections showed voters had rejected both plans by about 80 per cent, Swiss news agency SDA
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          Lock icon Bomber ‘moving market’
          93 17 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE SEOUL: A South Korean man staged two minor bomb attacks with homemade explosives in Seoul, in an attempt to cash in on investments by affecting market sentiment, police said yesterday. The 43-year-old man, surnamed Kim, was arrested on Saturday in connection with Thursday’s bomb blasts
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          Lock icon Probe into bad pork
          65 17 KUALA LUMPUR: The government is investigating the safety of pork products after an ntv7 news item claimed that “rubbish pork” had been used in dim sum, sausages, pork balls, and buns. Disease-stricken and old pigs are supposed to be culled, but some farmers are believed to
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        Lock icon Donkey now US resident
        306 17 SLICEOFLIFE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON: It took 37 days and a group of determined animal lovers but a donkey from Iraq is now a resident of the United States. Smoke the donkey became a friend and mascot to a group of US Marines living in Iraq’s Anbar
        ASSOCIATED PRESS; PHOTO: ASSOCIATED PRESS  -  306 words
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        Lock icon Mississippi floodgate opens
        119 17 Water from the overflowing Mississippi River gushed through a floodgate for the first time in nearly four decades on Saturday and headed towards thousands of homes and farmland in Louisiana’s countryside, threatening to submerge the land by up to 7.6m. The opening of the Morganza Spillway diverted
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  • REVIEW & FORUM.
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      Lock icon Life after Lee Kuan Yew
      455 18 GENERATIONS of Singaporeans have with little demur regarded Mr Lee Kuan Yew and Singapore as one. They set the country’s methodical rise and then their personal circumstances by the labours of this extraordinary man, who was supported in the foundation years by like-minded acolytes. Now,
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      Lock icon Countering Osama’s ideological legacy
      804 18  -  BY MOHAMED FEISAL, MOHAMED HASSAN FOR THE STRAITS TIMES The writer is a senior analyst with the International Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism Research at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University. NOW that news of Osama bin Laden’s death has reverberated
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      Lock icon Controversy over burial could have been avoided
      892 18  -  BY MUHAMMAD HANIFF HASSAN, ZULKIFLI MOHAMED SLILTAN FOR THE STRAITS TIMES Muhammad Haniff Hassan is an associate research fellow and Zulkifli Mohamed Sultan is a researcher at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University. NEWS about the killing of Osama
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        359 20  -  Alena Yap (Madam) DR ANTHONY Tay commented that housing type used in wealth-sharing schemes by the Government is a fair reflection of personal asset and wealth (“Downgrade to HDB for easier retirement”; Thursday). Although the Government makes a marked distinction between private
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        156 20 "Public housing already enjoys subsidy at point of purchase. Yet it continues to receive higher financial benefits." MR GAY KOK PENG: “Mr Robert Ong’s view is a common refrain of older Singaporeans (“Why part of the silent majority voted differently”; last Wednesday). It is simplistic to consider owner
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          192 20  -  Ang Kok Thiam I READ with great regret that both Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew and Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong have announced their desire to retire from the Cabinet (“Lee Kuan Yew steps down”; yesterday). Their joint response to the outcome of GE 2011
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        199 20 "Most Singaporeans are not xenophobic by nature. Our own parents and grandparents were immigrants from foreign shores." MR ADAM TAN: “I regret that permanent resident Juniarto Samsudin has been made to feel unwelcome in Singapore (“From feeling of home to an unwelcome presence in days”; last Friday).
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      150 2 AN SMRT bus burst into flames last night at a bus stop near Circuit Road but no one was hurt. The bus, service number 61, was headed towards Eunos interchange. The Singapore Civil Defence Force received a call at 10.51pm about a bus
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      588 3  -  BY MELISSA PANG BACK in 1991, when little was known about HIV, a patient in his 50s was diagnosed with the virus. Treatment options were limited in those days, so having HIV which causes Aids was seen as a death sentence. He gave away
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      217 4 JAPAN’S tourism industry, hard hit by the recent devastating tsunami, is taking slow steps to recovery and is now ready to welcome back visitors. The first travel agency in Singapore to organise packaged tours to Japan was Prime Travel, which took a group
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      210 4 ITS first Singapore outlet opened in Changi Airport in 2001 and Popeyes has grown to 10 outlets islandwide since then. A Popeyes outlet is due to open in the Orchard shopping belt and there will be a drive-through in the north-east. There are plans
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      204 4 SIEMENS is raising awareness on hearing health and it will be conducting free hearing screening as part of its corporate social responsibility project. Targeted at adults aged 25 years old and above, Siemens Medical Instruments(SMI) plans to spend $50,000 on the annual HearingAwareness Weeks
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      467 5 NOTICE Claim to moneys in client account of T H Tan Raymond Co, a law practice The Council of the Law Society of Singapore (the “Law Society”) had on 30 November 2010 intervened in the client account of a law practice known as T H TAN RAYMOND CO. which has
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      192 6 REUTERS Dec 13: Park Ji Sung scores to give United a 1-0 win over Arsenal. The result moves them above the Gunners into first place and severely dents their rivals’ title hopes. Jan 25: Dimitar Berbatov scores twice and Javier Hernadez nicks one as the
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      388 7 Chelsea 2 Newcastle United 2 ASSOCIATED PRESS AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE LONDON: Chelsea’s miserable weekend went from bad to worse, as the Blues conceded an injury-time goal to allow Newcastle to escape with a 2-2 draw at Stamford Bridge yesterday. Any result would not have
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      433 7 SANJAY NAIR THE Courts Young Lions will give this year’s RHB Singapore Cup, the nation’s most prestigious Cup competition which starts on June 6, a miss. The reason: The Under-23 team have a packed schedule in the lead-up to November’s South-east Asia Games including the
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        75 8 REUTERS ROME: Venus Williams has joined her sister Serena in withdrawing from tennis’ French Open because she has not fully recovered from an abdominal injury suffered during the Australian Open in January. With Serena recovering from a pulmonary embolism and a foot injury, it
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        94 8 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE KILMARNOCK (Scotland): Rangers clinched their third successive Scottish Premier League title in style as Kyle Lafferty scored a hat-trick in a 5-1 final-day rout of Kilmarnock yesterday. Celtic, who trailed Rangers by a point going into their game with Motherwell, won 4-0 but
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        62 8 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE KARACHI: Former Pakistan international off-spinner Akram Raza has been detained by police in Lahore for running an illegal betting ring. Police said that Raza, now a first-class umpire, and six others were arrested at a shopping mall during a late-night raid on Saturday,
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        56 8 ASSOCIATED PRESS DUBAI: Diego Maradona is in the United Arab Emirates amid reports linking him with a coaching vacancy at Al Wasl. The 50-year-old Argentinian football legend, who has been out of coaching since he led Argentina to the 2010 World Cup quarter-finals, visited
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      489 9  -  LIN XINYI ROTTERDAM: The Singapore squad return to the Republic today without the one medal they had targeted at the World Table Tennis Championships. But Singapore Table Tennis Association high performance manager Eddy Tay believes that their preparations for the London Olympics are
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      652 14 REUTERS BLOOMBERG WASHINGTON: With the United States government about to hit its US$14.3 trillion (S$18 trillion) debt limit, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has warned of “catastrophic” consequences and a new recession if Washington is not able to borrow more. A divided Congress
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          102 11 May 13 CHNG YR 2011 CLOSE FR May 12 S$ LOW S$ HIGH US$ 1.2402 +0.12 1.4219 1.2252 Euro 1.7739 -0.67 2.0153 1.6758 2.0171 +0.29 2.2831 1.9853 fl$ 1.3258 -0.74 1.3406 1.1515 Yen* 1.5377 -0.35 1.6205 1.4467 Rupiah* 0.***** -0.11 0.***** 0.***** Where S$ stands May 13 CHNG YR
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          2837 11 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS A unit trust or investment-linked insurance policy qualifies for inclusion under the CPF Investment Scheme if it has: a three-year track record, top quartile performance, a sales charge not exceeding 3 per cent and an expense ratio that is lower than the median of existing funds in
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          208 11 Week's Top Rises CENTS DBXT iBoxxKR 5US$ ***** 623.0 4.1 IS DJ US Tech 6841 381.5 4.7 GLD 10USS ***** 272.5 1 5 JMH 4946 188.3 3.2 Jardine C&C 3856 178.0 4.8 DBXT Nifty 10US$ ***** 175.9 1.1 Hyflux 6% CPS 10 ***** 122.0 1,2 DBXT MSTHAI
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      679 12  -  GE, public holidays here behind sluggish market, mirroring global trends BY GOH ENG YEOW SENIOR CORRESPONDENT engyeow@sph.com.sg MAY is shaping up as something of a washout for the share market here and around the region as investors beat a retreat. Trading has slowed dramatically, with
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      268 12  -  BY MELISSA HO BUMPER crops and favourable weather conditions are tipped to send the price of sugar tumbling from its two-year high. Industry experts here for the 2nd Kingsman Asia Pacific Sugar Conference last week said sugar stocks will soon move into
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      958 12  -  C A I JIN BY GOH ENG YEOW SENIOR CORRESPONDENT engyeow@sph.com.sg LITTLE fanfare greeted the addition by the Singapore Exchange (SGX) of eight counters to GlobalQuote its over-the-counter market for trading international securities last week. Indeed, very few traders bothered about the move,
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        34 12 Lien Chien-Liang: Resigned as executive director and chief financial officer of Action Asia last Friday to pursue other career opportunities. Mr Lien, 45, was responsible for the group’s finance and treasury strategies.
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        64 12 C.S. Kwang Kay@Chua Kwang Kay: Resigned as chief operating officer yesterday. Mr Chua, 61, plans to retire. He was responsible for introducing and instituting best practices in the group and building a strong plantation management team. Albert Maknawi: Appointed chief operating officer yesterday to oversee the group’s overall
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        50 12 Hong Qing Ke: Resigned as executive director last Wednesday. Mr Hong, 51, will continue to remain in the group as an executive officer to oversee its business operation in Qingdao. Mr Hong Shui Ku, 48, the group’s general manager, will take on the role of executive director.
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        89 12 Daniel Lin Wei: Appointed non-executive director last Friday. The firm said his legal and fund-raising background will add skills and diversity to the board composition in this area. Mr Lin, 28, is the son of Viking Offshore’s executive director and chairman Andy Lim. Ivan Chong Hon
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      237 12 THE rigbuilding arm of Keppel Corporation has secured rig orders worth US$772 million (S$957 million). In a statement yesterday, the main-board-listed company said S.D. Standard Drilling has ordered four more KFELS B Class rigs from Keppel FELS, a subsidiary of Keppel Corp. The
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      687 13 Bidders say cash-equity offer above current TMX share price, likely trumping LSE proposal REUTERS TORONTO: Canada’s TMX Group, operator of the Toronto Stock Exchange, has received a takeover proposal from a group of Canadian banks and pension funds that could trump a friendly US$3
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      516 13  -  BY ROBIN CHAN RISING fuel costs and soft trade during the Chinese New Year period sent Neptune Orient Lines (NOL) sailing into the red for the first quarter. The shipping giant posted a net loss of US$10 million (S$12.4 million) for the
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      335 13  -  BY CHERYL LIM THE site of Lion City Hotel and adjoining former Hollywood Theatre could be developed into a commercial and retail project, said UOL Group, which bought the sites for $313 million in January. Speaking to The Straits Times last
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      311 13  -  GABRIEL CHEN WBL Corp has posted a 15 per cent rise in second-quarter net profit to $20.9 million and signalled better prospects as a stronger, re-energised entity. Revenue increased 14 per cent to $541.4 million. Chief executive Tan Choon Seng said last Friday
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        410 3 The National Wage Council has recommended that workers here get higher pay increases this year, because of the strength of Singapore's economy and the good economic outlook for companies. The council made up of people from the labour movement, employer groups and government
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        160 3 Parts of Ang Mo Kio and Bishan were under water on May 4, the first time these areas have been hit in recent years. But the water subsided within 20 minutes. PUB, the national water agency, said the areas were affected after about
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        820 4  -  BY ANDREW DUFFY Who are these hobbyists? The newest tribe of hobbyists are the DIY enthusiasts who make robots, phone chargers and even 3-D printers from scratch. Engineer Limor Fried, founder of DIY electronics kit company Adafruit, said that this DIY movement has taken off
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        220 5 Sources: BBC News AFP CIA World Factbook This year, the country marked the 63rd anniversary of its founding on May 14, 1948. At the time, it had a mere 806,000 residents; today, the population has increased to over 7.7 million, most of whom were born in the country. The
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        641 5 Sources: The Straits Times, BBC News, MyNorthWest.com THE NEWS As the price of gold soars, companies and individuals in Australia have gone digging for the precious metal, whose value often soars during tough economic times. THE RUSH A “gold rush” is when a lot of people
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        140 5 Reuters Thousands of Mexicans took to the streets of the capital recently to protest against the bloody war that the government has waged on the country’s drug gangs. Some 38,000 people have died since President Felipe Calderon launched a campaign against the gangs in 2006. The crackdown saw the
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        1103 6/7  -  Although there are now more skateparks, many are poorly designed, skateboarders tell EISEN TEO EISEN TEO ore than ever before, skateboarders have no shortage of skateparks to hang out at in Singapore. The number of such parks has almost doubled in the last three years, from
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        646 12  -  BY GERAINT WONG While some teens may think it a blessing to have parents as walking ATMs, ask any working adult and you are likely to hear about the joys of financial independence. Buying something with your own money brings great satisfaction. But you
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        521 15  -  BY MARDIANA ABU BAKAR A pun is a play on words, which is often humorous. Let us look at four examples of “famous” puns. 1. In Shakespeare’s play Julius Caesar, one of the characters was a cobbler. When asked what he did, he replied: “I am a mender
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        484 16 / 17  -  Read the article about reverse mentoring in the Home section of The Straits Times today. Lesson activity by SONIA SNG SONIA SNG LEARNING OUTCOMES G Part 1 activates Reading Viewing LO2 you will get to skim for the gist/ main idea, and make inferences. G Parts
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        1130 18 / 19 The recent General Election has revealed much about the PAP’s lack of engagement with young Singaporeans. What are your views? LEARNING OUTCOMES This activity has been designed to let you practise the following skills: G Reading and viewing apply critical reading and
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        487 20 It seems that Hollywood has exhausted its store of A-list superheroes, and are trotting out B-listers like Thor, Green Hornet and Green Lantern instead this year. IN looks at some unheralded heroes and assesses if they have what it takes to anchor movies of their own.
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      76 13 CALLING ALL BUDDING PHOTOGRAPHERS The Straits Times Media Club is organising a specialised workshop on photography, conducted by a Straits Times photojournalist. Date: May 25 Time: 3.30 to 5.30pm Venue: GRID MMS *SCAPE Participants will need to have their own cameras with them. Places are limited so we have to
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      66 1 From clown to killer New York’s coolest band Bill Irwin talks CSI C3 Fashion parade The Drums play in Singapore C5 Beautiful people at Audi Fashion Festival C8 Jimmy Ong’s art was shaped by the fact that his parents abandoned him when he was three. He tells ADELINE CHIA that
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        939 2  -  8QUESTIONSWITH...RussellJames Photographer Russell James, who captures Victoria’s Secret Angels, sees beauty everywhere rachael boon rachaelb@sph.com.sg After spending 13 years shooting scantily-clad models for lingerie brand Victoria’s Secret, you would think that photographer Russell James is immune to the charms of the fairer sex. But the 48-year-old starts raving
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        409 2  -  nicholas yong Before the late Wee Kim Wee became the “People’s President”, he was a journalist, eventually rising to become editorial manager of The Straits Times. A book that pays tribute to Dr Wee’s journalistic exploits has been re-released, with almost half the proceeds
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        526 2 Agence France-Presse Tianjin The deck of a decommissioned Soviet aircraft carrier docked on China’s coast seems an unlikely place to make a fashion statement, but to Pierre Cardin, the backdrop made perfect sense. The feisty 88-year-old French designer, who has said he wants to
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        576 3  -  Actor Bill Irwin, trained as a professional clown, now plays a serial killer in hit crime-drama yip wai yee yipwy@sph.com.sg A clown becomes a serial killer. Sounds like the first line of a bad joke? It is actually the career arc of American actor Bill Irwin.
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        757 3 Associated Press Agence France-Presse Cannes A provocative new documentary making its debut at the Cannes Film Festival claims Britain’s royals are racist “gangsters in tiaras” and Prince Philip is a womanising psychopath. Unlawful Killing revives claims that Princess Diana (right), adored
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        2279 4  -  Drawing has helped USbased artist Jimmy Ong come to terms with being abandoned by his parents adeline chia chiahta@sph.com.sg Over his 20-year career, Singapore artist Jimmy Ong has made a name for himself doing expressive charcoal drawings of nude figures. The robust, muscular bodies are often
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        751 5  -  The American post-punk trio broke into the British charts, but are not so well-known back home eddino abdul hadi music reporter dinohadi@sph.com.sg Despite being an American band based in New York, indie post-punk trio The Drums have found commercial success only across the Atlantic. Their
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        337 5  -  reviewconcert STRING CLASSICS BY MIN HUI FEN Ding Yi Music Company School of the Arts Auditorium/Last Friday chang tou liang This young Chinese instrumental ensemble is just into its fifth year and is beginning to make waves as an exciting and dynamic chamber group. Its guest
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      602 6  -  reviewtheatre DECIMAL POINTS: 4.44 Cake Theatrical Productions The Substation Theatre/Last Friday corrie tan In his directorial debut for the theatre, multimedia artist Brian Gothong Tan dangles a loaded question in front of his audience: If the screen and the stage were to battle it
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      288 6 “I thought the performance was very interesting. I especially liked its beginning, where the play with lights lent it a magical feel. The darkness and fast movements made the performers seem like hologram projections. The second half of the dance was a bit more confusing as it was
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      281 8  -  rebecca lynne tan rltan@sph.com.sg The Audi Fashion Festival kicked off with a fashion show by Italian fashion house Missoni last Friday night. The annual week-long event, which is into its third year, is being held in a tent outside Ngee Ann City and will end on Thursday. Saturday
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      404 8  -  reviewconcert VIENNESE DELIGHTS Singapore Symphony Orchestra Conservatory Concert Hall/Last Saturday chang tou liang It is always interesting to see and hear the Singapore Symphony Orchestra performing outside of the Esplanade. For the season’s last pair of subscription concerts, the orchestra moved to the smaller space of
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