The Straits Times, 25 March 2013

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    28 1 THE STRAITS TIMES SINCE 1845 MONDAY, MARCH 25, 2013 70 PAGES IN FOUR PARTS TO SUBSCRIBE: 6388-3838 www.sphsubscription.com.sg 90 cents A Singapore Press Holdings publication MCI (P) 050/02/2013
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    Lock icon MediShield may cover big outpatient expenses
    588 1  -  Review also considering extension of Medisave use for home hospice care By SALMA KHALIK SENIOR HEALTH CORRESPONDENT salma@sph.com.sg www.facebook.com/ST.Salma THE scope of both medical insurance and medical savings will likely be expanded under the current review of how health care is to be financed.
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    Lock icon ALONSO CRASHES OUT, VETTEL TAKES TITLE
    67 1 Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso provided a little drama at yesterday’s Malaysian Grand Prix when he drove into the gravel (above) after a minor collision with Red Bull’s Sebastian Vettel (left). The miscalculation forced him to retire on the second lap. Vettel went on to clinch
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    Lock icon Private home resales take a hit amid curbs
    501 1  -  By ESTHER TEO PROPERTY CORRESPONDENT esthert@sph.com.sg BUYERS may be snapping up new private homes despite cooling measures but the resale market looks like it will end the first quarter with a whimper. There were 1,544 resale homes sold this year to March
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    Lock icon Cyprus’ final countdown
    47 1 CYPRIOT President Nicos Anastasiades (left) remained huddled with euro zone finance ministers in Brussels until late last night in a bid to make the most night of what could be the country’s last chance to negotiate for EU aid. TOP OF THE NEWS A6
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      Lock icon Maid agencies rolling out tech aids, nursing help
      625 2 / 3  -  Some are providing eldercare gadgets and maids trained in using them By AMELIA TAN ameltan@sph.com.sg AGENCIES are offering high-tech gadgets and maids experienced in nursing and caregiving, as demand for specialist helpers continues to rise. Agents say tougher regulations in Indonesia and
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      Lock icon Disease experts warn against risk of untreatable TB strain
      594 2 / 3 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE REUTERS PARIS Disease experts have called for decisive leadership and more research funding to fend off the “very real” risk of an untreatable strain of tuberculosis (TB) that is emerging as more and more people develop resistance to existing
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      Lock icon More join biggest private school here
      671 2 / 3  -  SIM global education arm’s enrolment now 23,000, up from 19,500 in 2010 By SANDRA DAVIE SENIOR EDUCATION CORRESPONDENT sandra@sph.com.sg SINGAPORE’S biggest private school the global education arm of the Singapore Institute of Management (SIM) just got bigger with 23,000 students in all. In 2010,
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          Lock icon Expanding MediShield
          64 4 THE current review of health-care financing is likely to see the scope of medical insurance and medical savings expanded, Health Minister Gan Kim Yong said yesterday. One of the several ideas being considered include moving MediShield “beyond hospitals” to cover expensive outpatient treatment, he said. In a speech,
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          Lock icon Myanmar unrest spreads
          55 4 COMMUNAL violence spread in central Myanmar, as reports of the torching of dozens of houses and a mosque in Yamethin town near Naypyidaw trickled in yesterday. No one was injured in the riots between Buddhists and Muslims but the toll in last week’s riot at Meikhtila reached
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          Lock icon Braced for change
          52 4 FOR as long as it has existed, Malaysia Inc has been shaped by a Barisan Nasional ruling coalition. But, as the prospect of an opposition coalition victory in the coming polls looms, corporate Malaysia may have to brace itself for a massive shake-up as power dynamics shift.
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          Lock icon Creating a park buffer
          72 4 AFTER making a fortune in business, Mr Vikrom Kromadit, one of Thailand’s richest men, is trying to save Khao Yai National Park from encroaching urban development. He has bought land beside the park, a World Heritage Site, and has replanted it with native trees to create
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          Lock icon Gillard presses on
          60 4 AUSTRALIAN leader Julia Gillard has dismal opinion poll results, has faced attacks by the opposition and media and has seen off two potential challenges to her leadership, but the country’s first female prime minister insists that she is not deterred. PAGE A14 PM Julia Gillard has so
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      • OPINION
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          Lock icon Consumer is king in bearing costs?
          54 4 THE squabble between Visa and ComfortDelGro over a surcharge for credit card payments raises issues of relative fairness in such multi-party transactions. When all costs tend to be reflected in the mark-up of prices or surcharges borne by consumers, businesses should not look the
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          Lock icon More satisfied patients
          48 4 COURSES to boost staff interaction skills and improved waiting areas are just two reasons why polyclinics say they are getting better customer feedback. SingHealth Polyclinics and National Healthcare Group Polyclinics have both tried to focus on getting employees to better understand patient needs. PAGE B1
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          Lock icon Eye on illegal parking
          56 4 CCTV cameras could be the best way to solve illegal parking, some Singaporeans said, after a successful recent trial saw monthly summonses jump from 200 to 1,400. Residents near hot spots including Joo Chiat Road, Grange Road and Tanjong Pagar Road all said their areas could
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          Lock icon Tablets for social work
          61 4 PENS and paper are on the way out for social workers who are to be given tablet computers by June. Tablets will be given to all 41 family service centres under a five-year plan for the sector to adopt information and communication technology. The computers are
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      • MONEY
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          Lock icon Enhanced security
          54 4 THE Association of Banks in Singapore has reassured bank customers that there have been no other known cases of ATM skimming since enhanced security measures were put into place. This comes after a Canadian was jailed recently for cheating customers of three banks at ATM machines in March
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      • SPORT
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          Lock icon Nuggets still on a roll
          58 4 THE Denver Nuggets stretched their NBA winning streak to 15 games last Saturday with a 101-95 victory over the Sacramento Kings. Danilo Gallinari led the Nuggets with 19 points and eight rebounds as Denver matched their club record winning streak. PAGE B15 Danilo Gallinari led
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      • LIFE!
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          Lock icon 3 new cinema halls
          53 4 CATHAY Cineplex Cineleisure Orchard will have three new halls ready by the June school holidays. Two are premium halls that should appeal to older movie-goers. The $4 million revamp will increase the number of halls there from 12 to 15, and add 200 seats to the
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          Lock icon Selling rare stamps
          70 4 RARE stamps merchant Stanley Gibbons, whose customers include Queen Elizabeth II, will be setting up shop in Singapore to be closer to its investor base in Asia. The region holds about 18 per cent of the company’s total portfolio and its third biggest client is a Singaporean.
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      • WHAT’S ONLINE
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          65 4 www.straitstimes.com www.facebook.com/ thestraitstimes twitter.com/stcom L Two men hurt in Tampines slashing outside Community Club L HOT FM91.3 DJs break record for longest marathon show after 77-hour live broadcast L War relic detonated after being found on Punggol construction site L Man with sexual fetish for wallets jailed
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          Lock icon Top citizen journalism stories
          47 4 www.stomp.com.sg L Pick-up driver arrested for drink driving after hitting motorcyclist in Hougang L Beggar gets agitated and threatens mum and daughter who refuse to give him money L Did financial consultant leave ad on police crime alert just to get more attention?
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          Lock icon Top videos
          44 4 www.razortv.com.sg L Jason Wu hottest name in fashion now? L Circus act Le Noir’s blonde twins do the trapeze L Dance to power a movie screening L Singaporeans kick back at Raffles Place retro playground L Local radio station’s world record attempt
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      Lock icon Cyprus scrambles to save economy from collapse
      574 6 If no EU deal is reached, emergency funds to banks will likely be cut off REUTERS AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE NICOSIA Until late last night, Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades was still huddled in a special make-or-break meeting in Brussels with euro zone finance ministers, desperately
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      Lock icon Racist rant: Amy Cheong gets stern warning from police
      423 6  -  By JOYCE LIM joycel@sph.com.sg THE police have issued a stern warning to Miss Amy Cheong over her expletive-filled racist rant on Facebook last year. The 38-year-old Australian and Singapore permanent resident, who has returned to her family home in Perth, confirmed
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      Lock icon Can’t see Jia Jia? Watch the screen
      491 6  -  By MELISSA LIN mellinjm@sph.com.sg FOR the past six months, visitors to the River Safari’s panda exhibit have not seen much of one half of its cuddly duo. Shy four-year-old Jia Jia has been retreating into her den so often that a closed-circuit television
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      Lock icon Temple seeks court order on valuables
      533 6  -  By K.C. VIJAYAN SENIOR LAW CORRESPONDENT vijayan@sph.com.sg THE death of a founder-abbot has led a Buddhist temple to seek a court order over ownership of valuable religious artefacts and nearly half a million dollars in cash found on its premises. The management committee of
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      Lock icon Violence spreads in central Myanmar
      609 7 Fresh unrest comes as top UN envoy tours strife-torn city ASSOCIATED PRESS AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE YANGON Dozens of houses and a mosque have been torched as communal violence spread in central Myanmar, with security officials arresting dozens of people over the weekend. The fresh unrest comes
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  • WORLD
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      Lock icon Opposition poll win may ruffle KL’s corporate landscape
      1899 8  -  Scene dominated by state-linked firms and moguls tied to BN set for shake-up By ANITA GABRIEL SENIOR CORRESPONDENT anitag@sph.com.sg THE long-entrenched texture of corporate Malaysia is set to change dramatically if opposition coalition Pakatan Rakyat (PR) wins the country’s looming and highly
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      Lock icon Fate of Najib’s banker brother may be telling
      259 8  -  ANITA GABRIEL ONE man could be viewed as a bellwether if the opposition does take power in Malaysia. What happens to the savvy Mr Nazir Razak chief executive of the country’s second-largest bank, CIMB Group, as well as Prime Minister Najib Razak’s
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      Lock icon Tycoons change tack as political winds shift
      205 8  -  ANITA GABRIEL AFTER March 2008 when Malaysia suffered a political tsunami as Barisan Nasional saw its majority in Parliament slip away for the first time since 1969 many Malaysian tycoons shifted the bulk of their investments abroad. Many others have also nurtured ties
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    • ASIA
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        Lock icon 91-year-old leaves many in tears with sketches of six-decade love
        400 9 XINHUA BEIJING Sketches by a 91-year-old man illustrating his six-decade-long marriage have circulated on the Internet, moving Chinese netizens to tears. Mr Rao Pingru, a native of eastern Jiangxi province now living in Shanghai, has spent the past four years
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        Lock icon Uni linked to PLA ‘hacking’ unit
        334 9 Shanghai academics ‘did research with army unit’ AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE REUTERS BEIJING Researchers at one of China’s top universities collaborated with a Chinese army unit accused of carrying out hacking attacks on the United States, academic papers published online show. The elite Shanghai Jiaotong University
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        Lock icon Japan seeks summit with China’s leaders
        180 9 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE TOKYO Japan will seek a bilateral summit between its prime minister and China’s new leaders as early as May as part of efforts to defuse an ongoing diplomatic row, Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida said yesterday. Mr Kishida, speaking on public broadcaster NHK,
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        Lock icon A virtual winner in the art of communication
        926 10  -  Idea of using location-based coupons in cellphones now a thriving business PEOPLE TO WATCH By LEE SEOK HWAI TAIWAN CORRESPONDENT seokhwai@sph.com.sg TAIPEI In the vein of geeks, Mr Victor Wu is more Steve Jobs than Bill Gates, more Mark Zuckerberg than Eric
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        Lock icon Famed Taiwanese baker rejected at home tries NUS
        701 10  -  By LEE SEOK HWAI TAIWAN CORRESPONDENT PEARL LEE seokhwai@sph.com.sg leepearl@sph.com.sg TAIPEI/SINGAPORE He is an award-winning baker, a master of the breaded arts, hailed as the “glory of Taiwan” alongside Oscar-winning movie director Lee Ang. But that is not enough for Taiwanese universities,
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        Lock icon Musharraf vows to ‘save’ Pakistan
        541 11 Former ruler defies Taleban death threat and returns from exile AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE ASSOCIATED PRESS KARACHI Pakistan’s former military ruler Pervez Musharraf returned home yesterday after more than four years in exile, defying a Taleban death threat and vowing to “save” the country at the risk
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        Lock icon Anti-Yudhoyono rally comes amid rumours of a coup
        619 11  -  NEWS ANALYSIS By WAHYUDI SOERIAATMADJA INDONESIA CORRESPONDENT wahyudis@sph.com.sg JAKARTA Indonesians plan to take to the streets today to call on President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to step down for what they see as his failure to perform his duties, from fighting corruption to
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        Lock icon Tycoon’s quest to protect Thai park
        1080 12  -  ‘Green belt’ project aims to buffer forested area from urban sprawl By NIRMAL GHOSH INDOCHINA BUREAU CHIEF nirmal@sph.com.sg BANGKOK After making a fortune building industrial parks in Thailand and Vietnam, Mr Vikrom Kromadit wants to spend his sunset years supporting a different sort of
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      • ASIA BRIEFS
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          Lock icon HK denies ‘belly tap’ checks
          75 12 HONG KONG The Immigration Department has denied that its officers ever asked female travellers to lift their clothing, or tap or press their bellies, at border checkpoints to see if they were pregnant, The South China Morning Post reported yesterday. The department was responding to
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          Lock icon Filipino rebel captured
          82 12 LAHAD DATU (Sabah) Security forces said yesterday that they had captured the military commander of the Filipino gunmen who made an incursion into the state last month. Datu Amir Bahar Hushin Kir am, in his late 40s, was captured along with his wife on Saturday, reported Bernama.
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          Lock icon Woman tells of India sex ordeal
          107 12 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE LONDON A British woman who jumped from a hotel balcony in India fearing a sexual assault told the BBC she shouted for help for more than an hour before she fled. Ms Jessica Davies, 31, said the hotel manager knocked on her
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      Lock icon New Sino-Russian alignment in the making
      891 13  -  Mutual interests may see two powers pivot away from the West, say experts NEWS ANALYSIS By FRED WEIR fred.weir2002@gmail.com FOR THE STRAITS TIMES MOSCOW Russian gas, oil, weapons and engineering goods were on the bargaining table when China’s new leader, Mr Xi Jinping, met
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    • WORLD BRIEFS
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        Lock icon Kerry warns Iraq
        149 13 REUTERS ASSOCIATED PRESS BAGHDAD US Secretary of State John Kerry made an unannounced visit to Iraq yesterday and urged Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki to make sure that Iranian flights over Iraq do not carry arms and fighters to Syria, a US official said. Washington believes such flights
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        Lock icon Syrian opposition head quits
        85 13 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE BEIRUT Syria’s opposition chief Ahmed Moaz al-Khatib has resigned from the National Coalition, a dissident group recognised by dozens of states and organisations as a legitimate representative of the Syrian people. “I announce my resignation from the National Coalition, so that I can work
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        Lock icon Pope to attend youth festival
        69 13 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE VATICAN CITY Pope Francis announced on Palm Sunday yesterday that he would make an appearance at this year’s global Catholic youth festival in Rio de Janeiro. Before he decided to step down, Pope Francis’ predecessor Benedict XVI had also planned to attend World
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        Lock icon African leader flees capital
        65 13 ASSOCIATED PRESS BANGUI (Central African Republic) Central African Republic’s President Francois Bozize fled the capital early yesterday, hours after hundreds of armed rebels threatening to overthrow him invaded the city, an adviser said. The rebel alliance, known as Seleka, issued a statement referring to Mr Bozize
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      Lock icon Steely Gillard can’t wash coup-bloodied hands
      902 14  -  T ough-under-fire Aussie PM still faces critics of her rise to the top IN THE SPOTLIGHT By JONATHAN PEARLMAN jonathanmpearlman@gmail.com FOR THE STRAITS TIMES SYDNEY Ms Julia Gillard’s extraordinary toughness helped her rise to become Australia’s first female prime minister. But she has never
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      Lock icon Labor showdown hurts PM’s popularity
      264 14 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE SYDNEY Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard may have faced down the challenge to her leadership in the Labor Party, but the showdown has hurt her standing with voters. In a poll of 1,005 voters by the Sydney Sunday Telegraph, 60 per cent believed
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      Lock icon Experts sent in to probe Kremlin critic’s death
      357 14 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE REUTERS ASSOCIATED PRESS LONDON Mr Boris Berezovsky, a self-exiled and outspoken Russian tycoon who had a bitter falling out with Russian President Vladimir Putin, was found dead at his home in Britain in unclear circumstances. Yesterday, British authorities ruled out
      AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE; REUTERS; ASSOCIATED PRESS  -  357 words
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      Lock icon China must reform economy: Top official
      528 15 Failure to make sweeping changes could hit growth, warns Vice-Premier REUTERS XINHUA BEIJING China’s economy faces more headwinds as it struggles with surplus production capacity and risks to the financial system, a member of the country’s top decision-making body said yesterday. Calling for sweeping
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      Lock icon Brics nations to launch joint development bank
      389 15 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE DURBAN (South Africa) Leaders from the emerging nations known as Brics look set to launch a joint development bank to rival western-dominated institutions. The grouping of Brazil, Russia, India, China and host South Africa will begin a meeting in Durban tomorrow
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    • MONEY BRIEFS
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        Lock icon Bank ‘bracing for Iran charges’
        106 15 REUTERS FRANKFURT Deutsche Bank is bracing itself for more than ¤300 million (S$486 million) in charges linked to suspected violations of United States sanctions on Iran, a German weekly magazine reported yesterday. Deutsche Bank, Europe’s biggest bank by assets, has already increased its provisions for
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        Lock icon Game-changer deal for Airbus
        110 15 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE JAKARTA A rivalry between the world’s biggest plane makers is heating up after a record deal for Airbus in Indonesia, a market with huge potential that has until now been described as a Boeing fortress. The European company had a consistent record of losing
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        Lock icon StanChart eyes Egypt bank
        134 15 REUTERS DUBAI Standard Chartered is looking to acquire a bank in Egypt to ride an expected boom in one of the Middle East’s largest economies, the firm’s regional head said. The bank also plans to expand its operations in Iraq this year. “The Middle East is
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  • OPINION
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        218 20  - Refrain from DIY brain zapping for now Chan Herng Nieng (Dr) TRANSCRANIAL direct current stimulation (tDCS) shows promise as a treatment for various neuropsychiatric conditions (“Zipping ahead by zapping the brain”; March 11). I received training, and conducted and published research on the treatment of depression with tDCS at Australia’s
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        412 20  -  HEALTH CARE Leong Choon Kit (Dr) I AGREE with the writers (“Health care in Singapore: Primary ways to boost the system” by Dr Tan Wu Meng; March 16, and “3Ms are outdated, says professor” by Professor Feng Pao-Hsii; last Thursday). First, a society must recognise
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        241 20  -  Christopher Tang A FEW Singapore companies have a penchant for complaining whenever the Government announces measures to rein in spiralling prices. Two recent events clearly bear this out. When the property cooling measures were announced in January, developers and analysts alike warned
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        182 20  -  Wendy Ang Kweng Gee (Ms) LAST July, my car was hit from behind by another car. I reported the accident to the insurance firm-designated workshop, thinking I could go ahead with the repairs. However, half a year passed with no progress. The
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      450 2  -  LTA’s recent trial with closed-circuit TV cameras seen to be successful By ROYSTON SIM roysim@sph.com.sg SOME Singaporeans are calling for more electronic eyes at illegal parking hot spots. The Land Transport Authority’s (LTA’s) recent trial with closed-circuit TV cameras at Beach Road and Marine
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      447 2  -  By PEARL LEE leepearl@sph.com.sg IT WAS an emotional evening for the 107 married couples at the Grace Assembly of God church in Tanglin Road yesterday. The couples, who had held their holy matrimony in the church, walked down the
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      489 4  -  All 41 family service centres to get devices by June to boost efficiency By LIM YI HAN limyihan@sph.com.sg WHEN social worker Desmurn Lim, 35, conducts home visits, he uses a pen and paper to take down notes. He then has to transfer the
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      439 4  -  By PEARL LEE leepearl@sph.com.sg A GROUP of Singaporean students have set up a Weibo account, the Chinese equivalent of Twitter, to help Chinese nationals living here learn about Singaporean society and culture in a light-hearted way. Named Xin Jia Po Xiao Hua which
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      289 4  -  By IAN POH pohian@sph.com.sg IT IS rare to find a dog, cat and two small birds living under the same roof and rarer still to find they are best of friends. For their ability to live
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      658 5  -  But they agree anti-foreigner view stems from income inequality By RACHEL CHANG rchang@sph.com.sg TWO prominent academics had differing takes on the recent Population White Paper at a forum yesterday, but agreed that Singaporeans’ resentment towards foreigners stemmed from a discomfort with the income
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      221 5  -  By GRACE CHUA caiwj@sph.com.sg POLICE have nabbed three suspects over the Tampines slashing horror that left two men in hospital –one reportedly having had his nose cut off. The three men, aged 23 and 29, were arrested between Saturday afternoon and early Sunday morning in
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      661 7  -  WALTER SIM THE writing was on the wall for Kampong Glam when it made the news last September for flouting guidelines by having graffiti artwork on its shophouses. Now the area’s business association is in talks with the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA)
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      236 8 THE National University of Singapore (NUS) has appointed three new members to its Board of Trustees. Ms Chan Chia Lin, former chief investment officer of Fullerton Fund Management, and Housing Board chief executive Cheong Koon Hean will take on their appointment on April
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      163 9 FROM tomorrow till April 6, enjoy the best of local cuisine at Singapore Hawker Masters dinner buffet held in Fullerton Hotel’s Town Restaurant. The buffet, held in partnership with The Straits Times, will see 10 Hawker Masters serving their fares: Casuarina Curry Restaurant’s roti prata,
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      169 9 TAKA Jewellery, which is celebrating its 12th anniversary this year, has launched a Membership Rewards programme called Treasures at its stores island-wide. There are three tiers of membership: Sapphire, Ruby and Diamond with respective spendings of $300, $30,000 and $60,000 to qualify. For every $1 spent,
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        33 9 From March 28 to 31, the Gain City Expo Sale at Singapore Expo Hall 6A has a wide selection of products at lowest prices. Exclusive deals await PAssion and Safra cardmembers.
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        34 9 Get up to 50 per cent off selected products including hobs, hoods, ovens and washers at Turbo Warehouse Sale from March 29 to 31 at 52 Loyang Way. Call 6542-2822 for details.
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        33 9 The KFC Zinger Chicken Rice pairs the popular Zinger fillet with chicken rice, topped with aromatic spicy percik sauce. An individual meal costs $5.95 inclusive of a regular Nestea Green Tea.
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        39 9 For City Square Mall’s third anniversary, shoppers get three lucky draw chances with every $100 spent, get a $5 shopping voucher with minimum spending of $200, and enjoy “threerific offers” at participating stores. Valid till April 14.
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        31 9 From now till April 30, buy any four tins of Marigold Canned Milk and stand to win WMF Gourmet Plus five-piece cookware set worth $1,135. Visit www.marigold.com.sg for details.
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      613 10  -  It says no other known cases since enhanced measures were introduced ATM SKIMMING By MAGDALEN NG songyuan@sph.com.sg THE Association of Banks in Singapore (ABS) has reassured bank customers that there have been no other known cases of ATM skimming since enhanced security measures were
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      629 11  -  Those who have friends at work are more happy with their jobs and lives AT WORK WITH JOYCE TEO joyceteo@sph.com.sg GIVEN the politics, competition and back-stabbing that can be found in most workplaces, you would think the office is probably the last place
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      612 11  -  TALKING TO OCBC CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER CHING WEI HONG By MAGDALEN NG songyuan@sph.com.sg THE consumer banking business is set for some tough times ahead as low interest rates limit the profitability of loans, and competition likely becomes stiffer with the entry of
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      863 12  -  Exam on range of products not needed if trader’s focus is on a few CAI JIN By GOH ENG YEOW SENIOR CORRESPONDENT engyeow@sph.com.sg IN JUST over three months’ time, dealers and remisiers here will be barred from dealing in structured products if they have not
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        42 12 HENG HOCK CHENG: Appointed independent director of offshore marine company Otto Marine. Mr Heng, 63, retired from Shell in 2006 after 34 years with the company. He is also a director of AET Tankers Holdings and Employee Provident Fund Malaysia.
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        85 12 CHENG SOON KEONG: Appointed chief financial officer of Boardroom Limited from May 8. The firm helps companies in the region organise their AGMs and provides e-polling services. Mr Cheng, 48, is also a director at Baker Tilly Consultancy. SEBASTIAN TAN CHER LIANG: Retired from his roles as managing
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        52 12 CHIAM SOO TEONG: Appointed group financial controller of the printing and supply chain company Teckwah Industrial Corporation from March 19. Mr Chiam, 39, was previously the acting chief financial officer at Qiao Xing Universal Resources and chief financial officer at Oriental University City, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Raffles
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        43 12 TE LAY GUAT: Resigned as executive director of instant beverage maker Super Group on March 19 to pursue personal interests. Ms Te, 52, had been appointed to her position in 1991 and was responsible for general administrative functions in the company.
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        1194 13  -  In the second of a 10-part series sponsored by Spring Singapore, we look at how various companies have taken steps to improve their service and then benefited from it. Joyce Teo finds out what Epicentre is doing to build a service culture.
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        431 13  -  By CHIA YAN MIN chiaym@sph.com.sg SINGAPORE-LISTED firms that build oil rigs or ships have had an uneven year. Data from SGX My Gateway the Singapore bourse operator’s investor education portal shows that total returns for the industry over the past year range from
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        209 13 BUSINESS space solutions provider Ascendas will have a new chairman come April 1, it announced yesterday. Dr Teh Kok Peng, currently an Ascendas director, will become its chairman, succeeding Mr Lim Hock San who has stepped down. The board noted in a statement: “His wealth
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        647 14  -  Data suggests that at least for Asia, foreign funds are treading carefully MARKETS INSIGHT By GOH ENG YEOW SENIOR CORRESPONDENT engyeow@sph.com.sg SOME traders find the market too calm for comfort. Last week, the financial difficulties dogging Cyprus hit the international headlines. Yet, within
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      746 18  - RED FACES AT RED BULL Winner Vettel duels with team-mate Webber despite orders not to do so By FABIUS CHEN fabiusc@sph.com.sg SEPANG It should have been a night of celebration for Red Bull after they confirmed their 2013 championship credentials with a one-two finish at the Formula One Malaysian Grand
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      221 18 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE SEPANG Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso was left to rue a costly miscalculation in Malaysia after he was forced to retire on the second lap of his 200th Grand Prix race yesterday. His front wing was damaged in the opening turns by a
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      425 18  - Hamilton blushes too after pit-stop blunder FABIUS CHEN SEPANG Old habits die hard Lewis Hamilton can attest to that. After 14 years of entering the McLaren pit, the Mercedes driver yesterday picked the most inopportune time to pay his former colleagues a visit on lap eight of the Malaysian Grand
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      264 15 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE KINGSTON (Jamaica) Jamaican sprint star Usain Bolt, testing himself again over 400 metres, clocked 46.44sec on Saturday in a runner-up finish to Nicholas Maithland at the University of West Indies Invitational. It was the third 400m of the season for Bolt, better
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      407 15 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, ASSOCIATED PRESS MIAMI World No. 1 Serena Williams was rolling on Saturday, even before she got to her third-round match against Ayumi Morita at the Miami ATP Masters and WTA hard-court tournament. The American, seeking a record sixth Miami WTA crown, resorted to
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      266 15 REUTERS AUCKLAND England’s bowlers dragged their side back into the third and deciding Test against New Zealand as they reduced the hosts to 35 for three in their second innings at the close of play on the third day at Eden Park yesterday. New Zealand
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      290 16 REUTERS LOS ANGELES Joe Weider, the self-made fitness and bodybuilding guru who built a magazine empire that included more than a dozen popular publications such as Muscle And Fitness, Shape and Men’s Fitness, died on Saturday at the age of 93. Weider, also known
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      464 16 Woods overcomes four-shot deficit to lead by 2, set for 8th win in event REUTERS ORLANDO (Florida) Looking like his old imposing self, Tiger Woods surged into the thirdround lead at the Arnold Palmer Invitational on Saturday, setting his sights on winning an eighth Bay Hill title
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      459 16 ASSOCIATED PRESS CARLSBAD (California) Karrie Webb was cruising ahead of the pack at the Kia Classic. Then, her game veered off-course. Bogeys on the 13th, 17th and 18th holes dropped the Australian two strokes behind leader Beatriz Recari on Saturday with one round left
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      146 16 REUTERS KUALA LUMPUR Thailand’s Kiradech Aphibarnrat overcame a two-hour storm delay to win the weather-hit Malaysian Open by a stroke for his first European Tour title yesterday. The big-hitting Thai carded a third-round, two-under-par 70 for a 54-hole total of 13-under 203, a shot ahead of
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      291 16  -  By WANG MENG MENG meng@sph.com.sg ALTHOUGH the 44th Singapore National Age Group Swimming Championships concluded without any records broken yesterday morning in the boys and girls’ 1,500m finals, the competition will be remembered for the dominance of a young Singaporean Quah Zheng Wen. The
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      571 17 Gerrard expects ‘real cauldron’ when England visit Montenegro tomorrow THE TIMES, LONDON LONDON The doorman at the Stadio di Serravalle said “it is near the toilet of the soccer”. He was trying to explain, in broken English, that the post-match press conference was being held
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      522 17 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE PARIS Spain may be the reigning European and world champions, but they will arrive in Paris for tomorrow’s crucial World Cup qualifier against France with more than a few nagging doubts. Friday’s 1-1 draw with Group I’s bottom side Finland, coupled with a 3-1
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      68 17 TAMPINES’ perfect start to the S-League season continued yesterday with a 2-1 win over Harimau Muda. The Stags’ fifth league win on the trot fired them above Albirex Niigata on goal difference. Rovers’ marquee signing Martin Wagner (far right) is pictured trying to take control of
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      315 17 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE LONDON Michael Owen is contemplating a move into management or coaching when he retires from football at the end of the season. The 33-year-old Stoke and former England striker, who made his name at Liverpool before spells with Real Madrid, Newcastle
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        1220 2  -  Like his father who founded Dilmah, Dilhan Fernando wants the tea business to benefit others Rebecca Lynne Tan rltan@sph.com.sg Ever since he was a child, Mr Dilhan Fernando has known that he would one day work in the tea business that his father
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        923 2 Reuters Carrboro, North Carolina No arugula could be found in the salad mix for sale this month at a new outdoor food market in North Carolina. Instead, tiny purple nettle flowers were scattered among the familiar pointed oval leaves of the chickweed
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      485 3  -  Two luxury movie suites are part of the addition to Cathay’s Grange Road cineplex Yip Wai Yee yipwy@sph.com.sg Cathay Cineplex Cineleisure Orchard will have three new halls ready by the June school holidays, two of which are premium halls that should appeal to older moviegoers.
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      635 3 Reuters Associated Press Los Angeles The life of Phil Spector (right) could be summed up in three labels musical genius, eccentric and murderer. Playwright David Mamet’s HBO film Phil Spector, which aired yesterday, makes the most of all of them, but
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      922 4  -  Festivalgoers gave Timbre Rock Roots the thumbs-up, but some say more security is needed Melissa Kok melk@sph.com.sg A free-wheeling, rock ’n’ roll spirit reverberated through Fort Canning Park last week when music legends such as Robert Plant, Paul Simon and Bonnie Raitt entertained an 11,500-strong audience
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      446 4  -  Melissa Kok Review Concert BONNIE RAITT AND PAUL SIMON Timbre Rock Roots 2013 Fort Canning Park Last Friday There is nothing like a good dose of folk-rock to wake up the night, like what Bonnie Raitt did when she came on stage at Fort
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      508 5  -  Jo In Sung remains touched by his character in tear-jerker That Winter, The Wind Blows Jan Lee janlee@sph.com.sg Popular Korean drama That Winter, The Wind Blows is such a tear-jerker that even its leading man Jo In Sung, 31, gets emotional when recalling the scenes
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      583 5 Associated Press Bloomberg Reuters New York The seemingly unstoppable hit The Book Of Mormon has broken another record this time on the other side of the Atlantic. The quirky, expletive-filled musical opened last Thursday night to some critical bashing, but the next day earned
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      748 8  -  Rare stamps merchant Stanley Gibbons will be setting up shop in Singapore and will also provide an investment service Nicholas Yong nicy@sph.com.sg Even in this digital age, an estimated 60 million people around the world still engage in the seemingly archaic practice of collecting stamps. In
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      653 9  -  Video artist Yang Fudong says his film-making, like Chinese ink painting, alludes to a certain feeling rather than depict reality Huang Lijie lijie@sph.com.sg The woman in a photograph with eyes like pools of ink gazes at you while you struggle to make out her
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      383 9 New York Times New York The new documentary People’s Park surveys the range of human activity in a bustling urban park in Chengdu, China. People stroll, snack, socialise, practise calligraphy and engage in a wide variety of song and dance. The film-makers, Libbie Dina Cohn
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      677 11 BioShock Infinite, which is full of cultural references and took four years to make, is out tomorrow New York Times Quincy, Massachusetts The office here that houses Irrational Games is not listed on a building directory. The company door is unmarked and locked. And the maze of
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      497 11  -  Ng Yi-Sheng Review Theatre THE BRIDE ALWAYS KNOCKS TWICE Drama Centre Last Friday In a mysterious house live six women, all from different eras of Singapore history. All have suffered trauma in their lives and all have found refuge in this space, cut off from
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      490 11  -  Stephanie Burridge Review Dance HOUSE School of the Arts, Drama Theatre Last Saturday Inspired by Federico Garcia Lorca’s The House Of Bernarda Alba, local playwright Joel Tan’s script focuses on an indomitable Peranakan matriarch. Music led by Spanish guitarist Jorge Padilla and local violinist-composer
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      1188 12 Tight rein on budget and minimal changes may turn London musical into the next blockbuster New York Times New York Matilda is not just one of the most anticipated shows of the Broadway season. This new musical is the theatre’s latest shot at the dream
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      494 12  -  Chang Tou Liang Review Concert ROZHDESTVENSKY. RACHMANINOV Esplanade Concert Hall/Last Friday When the veteran Russian conductor Gennady Rozhdestvensky and his pianist wife Viktoria Postnikova took on the music of Brahms with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra exactly one year ago, the stodgy concert left this
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      434 12  -  Chang Tou Liang Review Concert TREASURES OF TAIWAN Singapore Conference Hall/Last Saturday Led by the young Taiwanese conductor Ku Pao-wen, the Singapore Chinese Orchestra performed a well-conceived programme built around the theme of Taiwanese music and composers. It seems that the politics of separation have not adversely affected
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        435 14 Hong Kong A message left behind by Leslie Cheung before he died may concern the superstar’s death in a fall from a Hong Kong hotel 10 years ago. is former manager Florence Chan was last Saturday asked about a recent online story
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        265 14 Reuters Los Angeles Green slime spewed furiously at the Kids’ Choice Awards last Saturday, where Twilight Saga star Kristen Stewart and British boy band One Direction won two awards apiece. Stewart, 22, escaped the slime, but plunged her hands into the green goo, saying she “felt like
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          71 14 Actress Tilda Swinton is performing the art of sleeping at New York City’s Museum of Modern Art. A museum spokesman said the star presented her one-person piece, called The Maybe, last Saturday. In it, she sleeps in a glass box for the day. There is
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          54 14 American band My Chemical Romance have split up after 12 years together, the group confirmed on their website last Saturday. In a statement, they said that “like all great things, it has come time for it to end”. The four-some thanked fans and said the experience
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      52 1 MCI (P) 050/02/2013 Partners with: MONDAY, MARCH 25, 2013 GOODGAME STEP UP ON SOCIAL CAUSES: More young Singaporeans developing a passion for volunteer work. p9-12 Sporting spirit shines in Singapore Youth Olympic Festival. p6&7 WIN GADGETS! Last chance to win an iPad mini, digital camera or iPod with your short
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        Lock icon Importance of respect for elders
        651 2  -  The INside Track BY SERENE GOH EDITOR In the 70s and 80s, Singaporean children had at least two sets of parents. They were the pair you lived with and the others uncles, aunts, grandparents, teachers, friends of parents and even wet market vegetable sellers who
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        194 2 BY DEBRA ANN FRANCISCO No matter what ethnic group you belong to or faith you ascribe to, you would have been taught the importance of respect for your elders. Personal Reflection Reflect on what your culture or religion teaches you about respect for those who are older
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    • IN THE WORLD
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        Lock icon Grand plan to quench China’s thirst
        722 3 THE NEWS China has embarked on the world’s largest water diversion exercise: the massive South-North Water Transfer Project, which will move excess water from China’s south to its dry north-west. It will take at least 40 years and 380 billion yuan (S$76.4 billion) to
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        133 3 Associated Press Two high school football players in Ohio have been convicted of raping a 16-year-old girl after she passed out drunk at a party. The case has attracted international attention and divided the town of Steubenville, where the high school football team is a source of much
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        132 3 VATICAN CITY ARGENTINA Associated Press No sooner was he elected as head of the Catholic Church did Pope Francis have to face a barrage of criticisms about his past. Jorge Mario Bergoglio, as he was formerly known, was a senior church leader in Argentina before he was chosen to replace
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    • SINGAPORE
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        669 4 / 5  -  The Government has plans to give all Singaporeans the opportunity to experience sports Compiled by EILEEN AUNG-THWIN Acting Minister for Culture, Community and Youth Lawrence Wong announced an injection of $400 million into sports over the next five years, thereby bumping the overall sports budget for
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        420 4 / 5 Defence Minister Ng Eng Hen said he will convene and chair a Committee To Strengthen National Service to review the support network around national service. The committee will have two working groups. Senior Minister of State for Defence Chan Chun Sing will lead the working
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        385 4 / 5 If you have a good idea for a business or project that can benefit society, the Government has set aside more money to bankroll your initiative. Acting Minister for Culture, Community and Youth Lawrence Wong announced the creation of the National Youth Fund (NYF), which
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    • IN DEPTH
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        925 6 / 7  -  About 1,200 young athletes celebrated the second Singapore Youth Olympic Festival this month, which aims to celebrate sports and embrace the Olympic values. ANG YIYING reports ANG YIYING A tradition inspired by the first Youth Olympic Games (YOG), which Singapore hosted in 2010, was re-ignited during
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    • INTERESTS
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        511 8  - Superheroes, fan wars army talk COMPILED BY NG JING XIAN Here is what teens are talking about this week DEADLY SERIOUS K-POP WAR K-pop fans have displayed extreme behaviour before grouping together to attack rival celebrities’ online personas or even poisoning their drinks. But the latest salvo in the “war”
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    • THE YOUTH FORCE
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        325 9 In this special on The Youth Force, find out how the nation’s young people are making a difference ENOUGH TALK, JUST DO IT We are not apathetic. That seems to be the message from more young Singaporeans as they serve communities local and abroad. The Youth
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        1062 10 / 11 Youth groups will be given a big boost as the Government injects $72 million to a fund to champion their pet community programmes wo weeks ago, Acting Minister for Culture, Community and Youth, Lawrence Wong said his ministry would be engaging youth in a bigger way. For one
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        534 12 The National Youth Council offers a host of exciting programmes. Here are some of its key projects YOUTH EXPEDITION PROJECT WHAT: There is no better place to start your volunteering journey than with the Youth Expedition Project (YEP). Under this programme, participants identify a social need or
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        125 12 I feel that youth could play a large part in helping Singapore become a more cohesive place by being open to differing opinions and mindsets held by their peers.” IN Crowder Nicholas Lam, St Gabriel’s Secondary School I think youth
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        519 13  -  DEBRA ANN FRANCISCO gives creative writing tips to those brave enough to experiment with mixed genre essays DEBRA ANN FRANCISCO Anyone who has watched the animated cartoon Shrek would agree that why it was so highly praised was the way in which the plot
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        596 14 This week’s activity is on situational writing skills Whether you are writing a story, an essay or a letter, if you want to do it well in this component of the paper, you need a strategy. Here is our suggested method. Unfortunately, some of the words have
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    • IN THE STRAITS TIMES
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        241 15  -  Turn to the Opinion pages towards the end of Section A of The Straits Times today and read the article about the food, water and energy crunch Lesson activity by SONIA SNG It is not a surprise that the world’s natural resources are limited. However, what exactly
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    • PERSONAL ASSETS
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        1188 16 / 17  -  Lesson activity by SONIA SNG Water is a precious resource for Singapore a message drilled well into us. A Chinese saying goes: “When resources run short, creativity finds a way”. That statement describes how Singapore found ways to have more water through recycling sewage water
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    • THINKING
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        1309 18 / 19  -  This week, we explore ways to make public transport more affordable Lesson activity by SHERLEY SERVOS Read the article below, which considers some ways in which we can make the cost of public travel less expensive. Then do the exercise on the next page. The
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    • IN THE END
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        751 20 IN looks at the gender gap which affects women in developed countries, including Singapore affectswomen ks at the gender gap which affects wmen ooks at the gender gap which affects women ks at the gender gap which affects wmen t the gender gp which ffects women ndr
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      104 4 / 5 Hi Mrs Lim! The water that you are using looks murky. I'm reusing the leftover water from rice-washing to water the plants. Ooh is that good for the plants? I I heard some recommendations for it and it works for my plants! You can try it out! c SI neighbour
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      65 9 Click and win a smartphone! You could win one of 10 Samsung Galaxy Note II smartphones, by answering a few simple questions about youth in Singapore. Go to bit.ly/nyccontest2013. The contest, which starts today to April 22, is open to all secondary school students aged 13 to 17. They should
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      41 9 GET STARTED If you are looking to get started as a volunteer or become a more active citizen, look no further. Over the next few pages, find out about the wide array of programmes or initiatives by the National Youth Council.
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      177 13 Get your creative juices flowing Singapore Press Holdings Foundation (SPH Foundation) has launched a creative writing competition to mark its 10th anniversary this year. YOUth Write, in collaboration with IN magazine, is open to all secondary school students. Choose one of these two topics: 1. How youth/I can make a
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      134 15 Chill out under the stars at the *Scape Confessions Outdoor Concert. Young local bands will perform at The Deck every last Saturday of the month for free, from 7 to 9pm. This month, go down this Saturday and rock out to music by bands OrangeCove, BrainChild The Colony and Stopgap.
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      45 20 This is the last of IN’s four-part series on women’s rights. Look out for a new series next week. his is the last of IN’s four-part erie on women’ right. Look out or a new series next week. READ MORE: The World Economic Forum: www.weforum.org
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