The Straits Times, 22 February 2015

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  • 612 1  -  Admitted on Feb 5, his condition is stable; he is conscious and on a mechanical ventilator to help him breathe Zakir Hussain Deputy Political Editor zakirh@sph.com.sg Former prime minister Lee Kuan Yew is in intensive care with severe pneumonia, and has
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  • 376 1  -  Charissa Yong charyong@sph.com.sg An important theme of tomorrow’s Budget will be how the Government can continue to support families, from their children’s education to helping them care for their elders, said Senior Minister of State for Finance and Transport Josephine Teo. “That is a
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  • 66 1 A fire engulfed The Torch, a 79-storey residential yesterday. Hundreds evacuated from of the tower in Dubai, early yesterday. Hundreds were evacuated from one of the world’s tallest residential buildings, at 336m. The fire began around the 50th floor, and spread above the 70th storey. It appeared to
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    • 287 1 MAY 2 CLASH PACQUIAO-MAYWEATHER One’s an icon, the other’s unbeaten. Their duel to be world’s best. SPORT PAGE43 More join ranks of Singapore’s INTERNET MILLIONAIRES THINKPAGES32&33 THIS WEEK IN 1965 Sunny Ang committed the perfect crime.Almost. THINKPAGE34 COMMENTARIES IGNATIUS LOW Will Budget 2015 be an ‘election Budget’? THINKPAGE31 HAN FOOK
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  • top news
    • 1096 2 / 3 Renowned musician attacked victims in soundproof practice rooms of top school London Renowned British musician Philip Pickett has been jailed for 11 years for sex attacks on two teenage girls and a young woman in the 1970s and 1980s, when he was a teacher
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    • 546 2 / 3  -  Rare holiday abroad for 120 in Malaysia as they take in sights such as Batu Caves Aw Cheng Wei In Kuala Lumpur awcw@sph.com.sg At 11pm last Thursday, as festivities for the first day of the Chinese New Year were drawing to a
      ST PHOTOS: AW CHENG WEI  -  546 words
    • 436 2 / 3  -  Kok Xing Hui kxinghui@sph.com.sg When Mr Nishal John Vethanayagam saw a $50 note slip from his hand and fall into the gap between the steps and side wall of the escalator at Novena MRT station, he did not expect to see
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    • 606 4  -  Residents, MPs hope for speedy recovery for Singapore’s first prime minister Charissa Yong charyong@sph.com.sg Deliveryman Ong Eng Hue, a Teck Ghee resident, turned up for the ward’s annual Chinese New Year dinner last night hoping to catch a glimpse of Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong.
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    • 663 4 The Star/Asia News Network Reuters Kuala Lumpur The 14-year-old Malaysian girl suspected of attempting to head to Syria to join the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq (ISIS) terror group was funded by a man based in the capital. Senior
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    • 453 4 Bloomberg Reuters San Francisco Apple Inc, which has been working secretly on a car, is pushing its team to begin production of an electric vehicle as early as 2020, people with knowledge of the matter said. The timeframe carmakers typically spend five to
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    • 296 4  -  Salma Khalik Pneumonia is an infection of the lungs, usually caused by bacteria or a virus. In severe cases, it can result in respiratory failure, and the patient will require mechanical ventilation to help him breathe. The ventilator takes over the breathing function of the lungs and
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    • 917 6  -  More elderly retirees are now living on their own as Singapore’s population ages, a survey on household incomes last week showed. The same survey also found that middle-income households are feeling the squeeze more than ever, having experienced the smallest rise in their salaries
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    • 607 6  -  Lim Yan Liang yanliang@sph.com.sg Middle-income families in Singapore continued to feel the squeeze last year. They saw the slowest rise in their monthly real incomes, compared with households at the top and bottom, going by the latest official figures. Wages for households in the middle
      SOURCE: Department of Statistics; ST GRAPHICS  -  607 words
    • 359 6  -  Lim Yan Liang Mr Ben Lim, 35, is a part-time taxi driver and insurance agent. Together with his wife, who works in an accounting firm, they make about $4,000 a month. Some of that income goes towards paying off debts that Mr Lim
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    • 260 6  -  Walter Sim Heart problems and high cholesterol have dampened Madam Chin Chu Eng’s enjoyment of her golden years. Madam Chin, 81, who lives with her husband in a tworoom Housing Board flat in Taman Bukit Ho Swee, has to visit her doctor every three
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    • 505 8  -  33 people die each day from abuse, and number of addicts rising: Narcotics board Wahyudi Soeriaatmadja Indonesia Correspondent In Jakarta wahyudis@sph.com.sg This is how bad Indonesia’s drug problem is: 33 people died from drug abuse each day last year, and the use of illicit drugs
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    • 1030 8  -  Jonathan Pearlman In Sydney jonathanmpearlman @gmail.com Long before they found themselves together on death row in Indonesia in a case that has captivated Australia, Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan the masterminds of a drug smuggling ring attended the same high school in
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    • 300 8 AFP Brasilia Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff last Friday refused to accept the credentials of the Indonesian ambassador to demonstrate her anger at last month’s execution of a Brazilian citizen for drug smuggling. Indonesia expressed its “strong protest” against Ms Rousseff’s gesture, recalling its new ambassador in
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    • 960 10  -  Indian movie industry hopes to repeat success of Dhoom 3 and 3 Idiots, which overcame language and cultural barriers Nirmala Ganapathy India Bureau Chief In New Delhi gnirmala@sph.com.sg A Bollywood film about an alien who lands on earth and questions some religious practices in
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    • 531 11  -  750 bought first flats during new launches last year, a quarter more than in 2013 Yeo Sam Jo yeosamjo@sph.com.sg More tenants under the Housing Board’s subsidised rental scheme are purchasing a flat of their own. Last year, 750 of them bought their first
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    • 143 11 The Supertree Grove at Gardens by the Bay was turned into a sea of red, yellow and white yesterday by 50 “lions” from awardwinning lion dance troupe Tian Eng and Dragon Dance Centre. The lion dance performance set a record for the “largest mass
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    • 365 11  -  Charissa Yong charyong@sph.com.sg Marine Parade GRC MP Tin Pei Ling is expecting her first child, and the Jubilee baby is due around National Day. Ms Tin, who is the youngest MP at 31, announced that she is four months’ pregnant on her Facebook
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    • 586 12  -  $2m donated last year through SG Gives site during occasions such as birth and marriage Priscilla Goy goyshiyi@sph.com.sg More people are donating to charity while marking occasions from birth to marriage to death. About $2 million of such donations was raised last year
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    • 422 12  -  Priscilla Goy Like most children celebrating Chinese New Year, the Ho brothers will count the hongbao money they collect over the festive period. But Kah Howe and Kah Wye, nine and 11 respectively, are not counting to see if they have enough
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    • 555 12  -  Priscilla Goy At first, the Bendemeer neighbours got to know one another while walking their dogs and their chats centred mainly around Man’s best friend. But since one of them, Ms Mabel Tan, 26, started organising gatherings over food last September, they now
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    • 913 13  -  Many support SCGS decision to use Hunger Games as text but some question violence levels Amelia Teng ateng@sph.com.sg The teen hit The Hunger Games has found its way into local mainstream education. This year, Secondary 2 students at Singapore Chinese Girls’ School (SCGS)
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    • 557 13  -  Kok Xing Hui kxinghui@sph.com.sg Some pupils can write out numbers in sequence, but others struggle to even hold a pencil. A disparity in ability has made it a challenge for Katong School, a special education (Sped) school, to make sure each cohort of
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    • 974 14  -  S’pore’s only public cord blood bank turns to social media to get more mums to donate Samantha Boh samboh@sph.com.sg It started with difficulty in breathing. Then 18-year-old Sean Goh noticed that his gums bled frequently and even light knocks gave him bruises. Doctors told him
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    • 697 14  -  Carolyn Khew kcarolyn@sph.com.sg It may cost $30,000 to treat a sick pet, but some owners here do not mind footing the bill. Many now expect better medical care for their pets and are willing to pay because they regard the
      ST PHOTOS: KEVIN LIM, LIM SIN THAI  -  697 words
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    • 194 13 YOUR CPF MORE FLEXIBILITY, .MORE OPTIONS. How much will you need during your retirement? The CPF Advisory Panel recommends giving you more flexibility: g What it is now Everyone can withdraw up to $5,000 from their CPF accounts from age 55. Anything above half the CPF Minimum Sum and Medisave
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  • world
    • 750 15 Athens has 2 days to meet conditions in return for 4-month extension New York Times AFP Athens Greece’s radical government yesterday scrambled to finalise reform proposals to keep alive a compromise deal reached with European leaders to extend its bailout by four
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    • 128 15 New York Times The next stage of negotiations could prove just as contentious as the talks in recent weeks. Tomorrow, Greece must send its creditors a list of all the policy measures it plans to undertake over the next four months. If the measures are acceptable, European
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    • 500 16 Panel probing Syria’s civil war wants to put pressure on world powers to do justice New York Times United Nations A United Nations panel investigating potential war crimes in Syria’s civil war has threatened to release a closely guarded list of names of those
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    • 769 16  -  Melissa Sim US Correspondent In Washington simlinoi@sph.com.sg A protester in front of the White House holds up a sign which reads “It’s Islam Stupid”. It is a direct challenge to President Barack Obama, who had avoided using the term “Islamic extremism” when referring to
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    • 312 16 Reuters Bloomberg Kabul Newly appointed United States Defence Secretary Ashton Carter said yesterday that he would not comment on the precise timing of an upcoming Iraqi offensive to retake the city of Mosul from Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) militants, after
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    • 268 16 Reuters Juba Gunmen in war-ravaged South Sudan have abducted at least 89 boys, some as young as 13, from their school in the oil-rich Upper Nile state, the United Nations said yesterday. The boys were taken while they were sitting their exams and
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    • 521 16  -  Jeremy Au Yong US Bureau Chief In Washington jeremyau@sph.com.sg The global terror threat has evolved since the Sept 11, 2001 attacks, said Senior Minister of State for Home Affairs Masagos Zulkifli, even as he stressed that Singapore was in
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    • 702 17  -  Tension and flow of refugees pose dilemma for China as well NEWS ANALYSIS Nirmal Ghosh Indochina Bureau Chief In Bangkok nirmal@sph.com.sg The ongoing war in northern Myanmar pitting its army against the ethnic minority Kokang is a vicious mix of revenge and political brinkmanship. And as
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    • IN BRIEF
      • 63 17 Reuters Shanghai China has lodged an official protest against Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit last Friday to India’s Arunachal Pradesh state, a region claimed by China. “The Chinese government has never recognised the so-called Arunachal Pradesh,” a statement on the Chinese Foreign Ministry’s website said
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      • 44 17 AFP Paris Kristen Stewart last Friday became the first American actress to win a Cesar, France’s equivalent of the Oscars. Stewart, 24, received the best supporting actress award for her role alongside Juliette Binoche in Clouds Of Sils Maria.
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      • 61 17 AFP Colombo A Dutch honeymooner became the first person to survive a fall from World’s End a 1,219m cliff, one of Sri Lanka’s tourist attractions. The 35-year-old had taken a few steps back to take pictures of his bride. He fell on top of a
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    • 701 18 Economic boom that creates chances also fosters resurgence of traditional values New York Times Beijing Fresh out of college, Ms Angela Li was proud of her job as a teller at the state-owned China Everbright Bank maybe it was not exciting, but it
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    • 419 18 AFP Seoul North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has guided a military drill simulating an attack on and seizure of a frontline South Korean island, said Pyongyang’s state media. The drill came as tensions grow ahead of an annual United StatesSouth Korea joint Key
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    • 312 18 The Star/Asia News Network Petaling Jaya A group of aggrieved Indonesians have protested in front of the Malaysian Embassy in Jakarta to assert their country’s ownership of a cheap and popular snack: the popiah. Malaysian Ambassador to Indonesia Zahrain Mohamed Hashim uploaded two
      The Star/Asia News Network; PHOTO: TWITTER PAGE OF ZAHRAIN MOHAMED HASHIM  -  312 words
    • 592 20 Cyclones cause extensive damage in Australia, but no serious injuries AFP Rockhampton Australia has begun to clean up after two severe cyclones left a trail of destruction, wrecking hundreds of homes and cutting electricity to tens of thousands, even as the authorities warned of
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    • 492 20 AFP Reuters Donetsk Pro-Russian rebels said they will swop prisoners with the Ukrainian side yesterday as part of a battered truce that the West hopes will cool a deadly conflict that has poisoned relations with Moscow. “Today, there will be an exchange
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    • 476 20 New York Times New York On many Friday nights, Mr Jeremy Little waits tables at a Perkins Restaurant and Bakery outlet near Minneapolis and does not climb into bed until 3am. He returns by 10am for the breakfast rush, and
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    • 322 20 Reuters AFP Sanaa Yemen’s former president, Mr Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, has escaped his official residence after weeks of house arrest by the Houthi militia and flew to his home town of Aden, a senior political source and a Houthi
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    • 639 21 Nearby residents also told to leave as glass, metal rain down from 79-storey skyscraper AFP Reuters Dubai Hundreds of people in Dubai were evacuated from one of the world’s tallest residential buildings early yesterday morning, when fire swept through The Torch, a 79-storey skyscraper,
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    • 350 21 Reuters Frankfurt US and British spies hacked into the world’s biggest maker of phone SIM (subscriber identity module) cards, allowing them to potentially monitor the calls, texts and e-mail of billions of mobile users around the world, an investigative
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    • 276 21 New York Times Hanoi It is the closest thing Vietnam has to the popular American satirical news programme, The Daily Show. The programme, Meeting Each Other At Year’s End, is aired on state television on the eve of every Chinese New Year. Highly anticipated
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    • 264 22 Hong Kong A flu outbreak in Hong Kong has killed a 17-month-old girl on the first day of the Chinese New Year, its youngest casualty since the virus began gaining strength at the start of the year. The baby developed a high
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    • 555 22 It also lifts nationwide curfew and reopens schools, but two experts worried about rebound AFP New York Times Abidjan Liberia is lifting a night curfew imposed six months ago and reopening borders closed to contain the spread of Ebola, as the threat from
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    • 310 22 Reuters London An international team of United Nations human and animal health experts has flown to Saudi Arabia to investigate a recent surge in cases of a deadly virus known as the Middle East respiratory syndrome, or Mers. Speaking from
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    • 417 24 Reuters Washington United States President Barack Obama yesterday began a broad sales pitch to the US public about the merits of free trade deals, an area in which he faces stiff resistance from many in his own Democratic party. Mr
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    • 622 24 Millennials’ job prospects improving and pay rising; more leaving parents’ home to set up own nest Bloomberg New York America’s young adults are finally showing signs of regaining their economic footing after being bogged down for more than five years following the
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    • 314 24 Bloomberg Moscow Russia’s credit rating was cut to below investment grade by Moody’s Investors Service as the conflict in Ukraine and plunging oil prices curbed growth and eroded financial stability. The rating company downgraded Russia one level to Ba1, the highest level of junk
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    • 168 15 YOUR CPF MORE FLEXIBILITY, —MORE OPTIONS How much will you need during your retirement? The CPF Advisory Panel recommends giving you more assurance: What it is now The Minimum Sum for your age group was hard to predict because the rate of change was different each year. 1 THE NEW
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    • 191 21 °phi, r A Public Forum On Eating Disorders RECOVERY: ONE BITE AT A TIME I PROGRAMME Date: Saturday, 28 February 2015 Time: 10.00 am -12.00 pm Venue: Singapore General Hospital, Block 6, Level 9, Deck on 9 (access floor from Block 7 lift lobby) Admission: Free To register your attendance
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  • Page 24 Miscellaneous
    • 479 24 Weather Vane Cloudy Storms ChengduChicago Dubai London Bangkok Kuala Lumpur Phuket Johannesburg Showers Clear Buenos Aires Bahrain Barcelona Adelaide Guangzhou Washington Abidjan Sydney Singapore Today: Monday and Tuesday: Partly cloudy. Outlook: 33 24 Partly cloudy. Sunrise Sunset 7.16am 7.21pm Moonrise Moonset 10.27pm 10.00am Air Quality PSI: 44-51 (Moderate) 24-hour reading
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    • 1583 27  -  Investors must be nimble amid tough times for markets, say fengshui experts Rachael Boon rachaelb@sph.com.sg After the wild ride the Year of the Horse took us on, expect a slower and moody 12 months ahead. Fengshui experts say people born
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    • 572 28  -  Reme Ahmad reme@sph.com.sg Is your stable of stocks and bonds doing poorly? And the property market has yet to find its legs? Mr Teo Ah Khing is offering an investment that can set your heart, quite literally, racing. Investing in thoroughbreds
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      • 830 29  -  Fantasising about winning $12m Hong Bao Draw can make your life’s priorities clearer Goh Eng Yeow Senior Correspondent engyeow@sph.com.sg I have a good friend who can sniff out a Toto betting outlet a mile away. Each time he sees one,
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    • 1965 30  -  In the final Me My Money sports edition, Olympic sprinter Calvin Kang discusses his wealth management strategies and businesses ME MY MONEY Rachael Boon rachaelb@sph.com.sg National sprinter Calvin Kang approaches his personal finances the same way he does his sporting career by careful
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    • 358 30 Many Singaporeans are optimistic about their financial future, yet few have actually drawn up a formal retirement plan, according to a new survey. It also found that savings rates tend to be linked to income levels the higher the pay, the more people
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    • 366 27 INSIDE INVEST PLANNING FOR A WINDFALL It may be a chance in a million that you win the top prize at Toto, but planning for a windfall is important to ensure that it does not dissipate quickly, says Goh Eng Yeow. See >>Page 29 MONEY PLANS ON TRACK National sprinter
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    • 310 31 EDITORIAL The bane of illegal moneylending was once characterised as much by usurious interest rates that enslaved borrowers as it was by gangster-style tactics of loan sharks’ henchmen. Thanks to rigorous law enforcement, the dreaded Ah Longs are less visible now. What Singaporeans are seeing instead is
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    • 917 31  -  Question is whether giving out goodies to voters before polls still works Sunday with Ignatius Low Managing Editor ignatius@sph.com.sg Tomorrow is Budget Day in Singapore, and it is looking more and more like it will be an election Budget. At least that is
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    • 966 31  -  Han Fook Kwang Editor At Large hanfk@sph.com.sg It is Chinese New Year, and a good time to talk about elderly people. They have always had a special place during this festive period, when families show respect to them in time-hon-oured
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    • [ special report: singapore’s start-up millionaires ]
      • 1238 32 / 33  -  Since 2008, about 35 Singapore start-ups have been acquired for a total of US$530 million Grace Chng Senior Correspondent chngkeg@sph.com.sg Singapore’s band of millionaires emerging from the tech start-up industry is growing.Since 2000, there have been about 100 of them, mostly men aged between
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      • 596 32 / 33 Singapore start-up YFind Technologies was one of only six firms in the world that could monitor people movement in shopping malls based on their cellphone signals. Mall owners here found it compelling, but none wanted to be the first to use it. Instead, YFind
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      • 492 32 / 33 Mr Kelly Choo was a fresh graduate in 2008 when he became one of three co-founders of Brandtology, a start-up that monitors the online reputation of companies. He had started and left three other Internet companies while studying at the National University of
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      • 362 32 / 33 Entrepreneur Tuchoras Fuad is a corporate escapee who gave up a cushy job at Internet firm Skype in 2012 to chase his dream of starting his own business. He naturally gravitated to starting an online business called travelmob, connecting property owners with travellers
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      • 666 32 / 33 When he was a teenager, Internet entrepreneur Douglas Gan would receive phone calls from website owners in Europe in the wee hours of the morning, complaining of content that would not get uploaded or photos that could not be downloaded. Sometimes, he could fix the
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      • 425 32 / 33 Cash flow was a major challenge for Mr Wesley Oxenham, 30, and his brother Oliver, 33, who were in Singapore when they founded a start-up called Peekspy in 2008. The Mauritians developed a 3D mapping software called Fanvenues that let concert-goers and sports fans
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      • 558 32 / 33 National University of Singapore student Rex Huang had an idea for a sleek portal to connect advertisers and consumers via online communities, making the experience more interactive. He got his university mates Wayne Chia and Leon Leong who had developed websites for small companies
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    • [ This week in 1965 ] A look back at the events that shaped Singapore 50 years ago
      • 540 34  -  Grand Prix driver was sentenced to death even though victim’s body was never found Hoe Pei Shan hpeishan@sph.com.sg It appeared to be the perfect murder there were no witnesses, and there was not even a body. Yet, one-time Grand Prix driver Sunny Ang was
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      • 120 34 FEB 27 The eastern part of Singapore was rocked by a mysterious explosion close to midnight on a Saturday. Police descended on the Katong, East Coast and Changi areas to investigate, as marine police patrol boats scoured the waters near these areas. Troops
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      • 18 34 CARS REGISTERED IN SINGAPORE 1965: 104,729 (private cars only) 1985:221,279 1995:342,245 2005:432,827 2014:600,176 (private and company cars)
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      • 74 34 “It is a pleasure to see so many of them in such good health. It shows that in looking after the health of others, they have been practising what they preached by following the rules of good health, and are therefore looking both useful and healthy.” HEALTH MINISTER
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      • 460 34  -  I REMEMBER: LIFE IN SINGAPORE’S FIRST HOUSING ESTATE Samantha Goh samgohwy@sph.com.sg Madam Alice Lee moved to Queenstown in 1968 after getting married, and has never left the estate since. Previously, she had lived in a three-storey house at Tras Street in Tanjong Pagar
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        13 34 up at Raffles Place: First underground carpark, with garden on top
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      • 162 34 [PEOPLE] Malcolm X (below), the black American rights leader, was assassinated in a hail of bullets on Feb 21, 1965, while addressing followers in Harlem, New York City. He was 39. Born Malcolm Little in Nebraska, he was taken away by welfare
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      • 159 34 Professor R.S. Milne (below), who founded the political science department in 1961 at the then University of Malaya in Singapore, now the National University of Singapore, announced this week in 1965 that he was leaving the university. He left to become chair of political
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    • 1270 35  -  Ironically, responding to the ‘nonsense’ of the activists raises the profile of their cause Li Xueying Hong Kong Correspondent xueying@sph.com.sg Dr Max Chung dreams of a day when the Union Jack once again flutters over Hong Kong and governors are sent from
      PHOTOS: LI XUEYING,COURTESY OF MAX CHUNG  -  1,270 words
    • [ YOUR LETTERS ]
      • 238 35  -  Wong Shih Shen The proposal of the use of in-ward-facing cameras may be for the safety of taxi drivers and commuters and to resolve disputes related to fare payment (“Cab cameras to record passengers’ behaviour?”; last Sunday). But the implementation of this initiative
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      • 86 35  -  Markus Christopher Ruddock The lights along the corridors in Housing Board blocks are currently turned off automatically at 7am. But the sun has not yet fully risen at that time, and some corridors are plunged into darkness. This is the time that many
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      • 224 35  -  Cedric Lai In many Asian cities such as Seoul, Hong Kong and Tokyo, eateries serve complimentary water or tea (“More eateries charging for glass of water”; Feb 8). This is considered the most basic form of hospitality, just as one would serve water
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      • 83 35  -  Tan Suan Jin Although the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has limited loan-to-value financing for car loans at between 50 per cent and 60 per cent, and cut loan tenors to five years, I still see car dealers advertising loans of up to 90
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      • 378 35  -  Quek Koh Choon (Dr) Senior writer Andy Ho has pointed out the difference between epidemiological studies and experimental studies (“Is standing up at work better than sitting?”; last Sunday). It may sound technical, but it is helpful, as there are practical implications. Many people are
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    • [ science ]
      • 1526 36  -  Hard to see impact now, but it could make same leap as quantum mechanics: Nobel laureate [I AM A SCIENTIST] Audrey Tan audreyt@sph.com.sg Q: What is particle physics? Particle physics is the study of the most basic building blocks of the natural world
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      • IN BRIEF
        • 199 36 A molecule that can block the progress of Alzheimer’s disease at a crucial stage in its progress has been identified, raising the prospect that more such molecules may now be found. Researchers have found that a molecular chaperone a type of molecule that occurs naturally in humans
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        • 160 36 Scientists at the Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS), which comes under the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*Star), have made a breakthrough in developing expert systems that can trawl large datasets, integrating complex disease information to guide doctors in the diagnosis and treatment of diseases. They
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        • 105 36  -  Compiled by Chang Ai-Lien Homegrown MerLion Pharmaceuticals has had a drug for ear infections approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). It is believed to be the first novel drug from a Singapore company to get FDA approval. The drug, whose active ingredient
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      • 97 36 “It is extremely important that we understand what different brain regions are doing as we search through our memories. Diseases like Alzheimer’s and epilepsy are devastating to memory, and this information can help us develop treatments to preserve patients’ memories, and identify adverse effects that new
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      • 83 36 A human T lymphocyte (also called a T cell) from the immune system of a healthy donor. Investigators with the National Institutes of Health in the United States have discovered the genomic switches of a blood cell key to regulating the human immune system. The findings open the
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    • 115 41 Join us at the The Straits Times is giving 20 readers a chance to attend the ST Athlete of the Year award ceremony lunch in March. Winners will also have a chance to meet and greet the nominees for the award. To stand a chance to win, simply choose the
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  • sport
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      1099 43 Mayweather will meet Pacquiao on May 2 in a welterweight showdown that will be boxing’s richest Reuters AFP NYT Los Angeles It is a mega fight more than five years in the making. Just as patience was wearing thin on whether the bout would ever materialise, unbeaten American
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    • 392 43 AFP Manila Manny Pacquiao may be a hero in the Philippines, but even his fans and associates admit he will be the underdog in his bout against the undefeated Floyd Mayweather. Betting odds in Las Vegas, where the highly-anticipated fight will be held on May
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    • 503 38 Red Bull driver in fine fettle as teams prepare for next month’s first race of the new season AFP Barcelona Australia’s Daniel Ricciardo was fastest on the second day of Formula One pre-season testing in Barcelona on Friday, as defending champion Lewis Hamilton made a
      AFP; PHOTO: AFP  -  503 words
    • 234 38 AFP Rio de Janeiro Top-seeded Rafael Nadal overcame the stiffest test so far in his first clay-court tournament of the season, defeating Pablo Cuevas of Uruguay 4-6, 7-5, 6-0 to reach the Rio Open semi-finals. The tennis match ended at 3.21am local time on
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    • 606 38 BASKETBALL NBA Orlando 95 New Orleans 84, Philadelphia 95 Indiana 106, Atlanta 80 Toronto 105, Detroit 100 Chicago 91, NY Knicks 87 Miami 111, Minnesota 111 Phoenix 109, Washington 89 Cleveland 127, Dallas 111 Houston 100, Milwaukee 89 Denver 81, Utah 92 Portland 76, Sacramento 109 Boston 101, Golden
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    • 306 38 AFP Barcelona Ferrari are prepared to supply their engines from last season to Manor F1, the successor of the bankrupt Marussia Formula One team, the Italian team’s principal Maurizio Arrivabene announced on Friday. “We said to Marussia yesterday that we would supply them with
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    • 325 38 Bloomberg New York New York Yankees manager Joe Girardi said he has no idea what to expect from Alex Rodriguez, who is coming off the longest performance-enhancing drug suspension in Major League Baseball (MLB) history. Rodriguez, who will turn 40 this
      Bloomberg  -  325 words
    • 606 39 One day after landing crafty point guard, they learn Bosh has blood clot in the lungs NYT Miami According to Dwyane Wade, he and Chris Bosh “got very close over the last year and a half,” suggesting that their enhanced bonding
      NYT; PHOTO: REUTERS  -  606 words
    • 392 39 AFP Washington The Cleveland Cavaliers launched the second half of their National Basketball Association season in spectacular fashion on Friday, with a 127-89 pummelling of the Washington Wizards. Four-time NBA Most Valuable Player LeBron James scored 28 points and Kyrie Irving added 25 with
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      265 39  - HOT BODS Text and pictures by Kua Chee Siong Ding Jun He, 31 Gymnastics coach Height: 1.68m Weight: 60kg Exercise regimen: I usually do gymnastics strength training like hand-balancing, acrobatics and tumbling. Each session can stretch from half an hour to a full three hours and I tend to vary
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    • 679 40 Windies inflict 150-run thrashing as Misbah admits his team failed in all departments Reuters AFP Christchurch A spell of destructive fast bowling and a fine all-round performance from Andre Russell restored Caribbean smiles and laughter to the West Indies dressing room yesterday, as
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    • 370 40 Reuters AFP Brisbane Australia captain Michael Clarke will have to wait another week before he can join the cricket World Cup party after steady rain washed out the hosts’ Pool A match against Bangladesh at the Gabba yesterday. Cyclone Marcia brought torrential rain to the
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    • 492 40 AFP Melbourne After finally playing like a unit in their cricket World Cup opener against Pakistan, India will seek their first victory at the global showpiece against South Africa today for an “immense self-belief booster”, said batsman Virat Kohli. The reigning champions thrashed arch-rivals
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    • 920 41  -  Unknown local, via dint of passion and hard work, gets to lead S-League club Chua Siang Yee siangyee@sph.com.sg With seven out of 10 S-League clubs this season opting to employ foreign-born coaches, it is rare to see a relatively young Singaporean given a place
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    • 585 41  -  Chua Siang Yee The Singapore Under-23 team lost 1-2 to Syria last night at the Jalan Besar Stadium, their second consecutive defeat in a week, but coach Aide Iskandar can at least seek solace in an improved performance from his
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    • IN BRIEF
      • 57 41 AFP Dortmund Borussia Dortmund moved further clear of the relegation zone in the German Bundesliga on Friday with a 3-2 victory at Stuttgart. It was a third consecutive win for Jurgen Klopp’s football side, who move up to 10th place in the table,
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      • 69 41 AFP Melbourne Golf’s world No. 1 Lydia Ko and Thai teenager Ariya Jutanugarn shared the lead after the third round of the women’s Australian Open at Royal Melbourne yesterday. The New Zealand teenager collected three birdies in a round of one-under 72
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      • 51 41 Reuters Dubai Simona Halep beat Caroline Wozniacki 2-6, 6-1, 6-1 in the semi-finals of tennis’ Dubai Championships on Friday. The Romanian top seed will play Karolina Pliskova in the final, after the Czech subdued Spaniard Garbine Muguruza 6-4, 5-7, 7-5 in the other
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      • 43 41 Reuters Kingston Craig Reedie, the president of the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada), arrived in Jamaica on Friday to check on the Caribbean sprint capital’s anti-doping efforts. He later said Jamaica is striving hard to improve its drug testing programme.
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    • 283 41  - LionsXII draw on grit fight Wang Meng Meng Fandi Ahmad has made it abundantly clear that nothing but grim determination can help the LionsXII to a successful Malaysian Super League (MSL) season, and his men responded to that call with a gritty 2-2 draw at Perak last night. Pre-match, the
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    • 564 42 Chelsea apologise to man who was blocked from entering a train by their supporters Reuters AFP London Chelsea have come out to deal forcefully with the racist actions of their fans in Paris during their midweek Champions League football match. The Premier League leaders’ weekend
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    • 339 42 The Times, London AFP Liverpool Mario Balotelli’s status as Liverpool’s problem child has been further underlined by manager Brendan Rodgers, who criticised the forward for not working hard enough towards the end of their 1-0 win over Besiktas on Thursday. Though he exonerated the Italy
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    • 1104 42  -  HEART OF FOOTBALL Rob Hughes stsports@sph.com.sg A most intriguing Premier League match, with a possible Champions League place at stake, takes place at St Mary’s Stadium on the south coast this evening. Not until shortly before kick-off will either manager reveal the line-ups, partly because
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    • 291 42 The Times, London London West Ham manager Sam Allardyce said on Friday that his football club would have got the best from Emmanuel Adebayor had Tottenham Hotspur not blocked his proposed loan move earlier this month. The striker is already a thorny issue at
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    • 101 1 SHARON LOH Racial hatred: we fear what we don’t know PAGE13 UNDERWATER DRAGON DANCE New Year attraction at Resorts World Sentosa PAGE6 ANKITA VARMA meets five business heirs who are taking their traditional family businesses into the 21st century. PAGES4&5 WELLNESS HOLIDAYS 10 destination spas for the new year FLOATING
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  • Sunday life!
    • live
      • 646 2  -  Unlike the bigger and longer wooden skateboards, plastic skateboards are winning fans for their price, portability and design Lee Jian Xuan jianxuan@sph.com.sg Plastic skateboards are riding high on a wave of popularity here, thanks to their fancy, customisable designs and compact sizes. Weighing about 1.5kg
        PHOTOS: KEVIN LIM, SEAH AN-GEL, WHITE & BLACK TRADING  -  646 words
      • 1481 3  -  Amex is celebrating its 90th year here, together with Singapore’s 50th birthday, with a series of heritage-themed articles. In the eighth of a 10-part series in which card members reflect on local heritage and the past, AUDREY NG talks to janet Ang, managing director of IBM
        PHOTOS: LAW KIAN YAN FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES, COURTESY OF JANET ANG  -  1,481 words
      • 3370 4 / 5  -  Five business heirs share how they are injecting new ideas into old trades Ankita Varma avarma@sph.com.sg Making Chinese medicine appealing to the young At one point in his life, 30-year-old Dylan Hu was a high-flying management consultant in a top international consulting firm after graduating
        ST PHOTOS: TIFFANY GOH, DANIEL NEO  -  3,370 words
      • 954 6  -  You can see dragons being manoeuvred on ice, underwater and in the air during Chinese New Year Benson Ang bang@sph.com.sg In mythology, the dragon is known to be a creature who not only can move on land, but can also fly and swim. And fly and swim
        PHOTOS: RESORTS WORLD SENTOSA, DESMOND WEE; ST PHOTO: NEO XIAOBIN  -  954 words
    • connect
      • 988 7  -  Michelle Goh’s conservative parents were not happy when she left her IT career to start a dating agency Relatively Speaking Venessa Lee venessal@sph.com.sg When Ms Michelle Goh, 34, founded a dating agency, CompleteMe, in 2012, her parents did not fully embrace the idea. Her father, salesman
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      • 1276 8  -  Siblings with close age gaps are naturally closer, but what really matters is strong families, in which they are loved and nurtured Lea Wee leawee@sph.com.sg Three months after the birth of her first child in November 1994, Madam Siti Hawa Shaini found herself pregnant
        ST PHOTOS: KEVIN LIM, SEAH KWANG PENG  -  1,276 words
      • 939 8  -  Seriously Kidding Tee Hun Ching stlife@sph.com.sg The requests started coming about a month ago. “Mama, can we put up some Chinese New Year decorations, please? Why don’t we have any?” my son asked. Then he began asking for red paper, spare red packets and
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      • 418 8 REAL ESCAPE GAME: LAST GARDEN In this escape game, set in Singapore in the year 2065, participants race one another to discover the orb that can save nature and humanity. Created by the Real Escape Game (Singapore). Where: Supertree Grove, Gardens by the Bay, 18 Marina Gardens Drive
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    • go
      • 2084 9  -  SundayLife! rounds up destination spas which make the most of their setting to provide an immersive, sensory experience. Lydia Vasko reports Lydia Vasko vlydia@sph.com.sg ASIA THE BANJARAN HOTSPRINGS RETREAT (right) In a verdant 6ha valley, amid towering 280 million-year-old limestone hills, The Banjaran Hotsprings Retreat
        PHOTOS: THE BANJARAN HOTSPRINGS RETREAT, HUVAFEN FUSHI, ST REGIS LHASA, DHARA DHEVI CHIANG MAI, ROYAL MANSOUR MARRAKECH, KULM HOTEL ST MORITZ, ENCHANTMENT GROUP  -  2,084 words
      • 1027 10  -  Walking through the fort town with narrow streets and old buildings is like being in a museum Simon Cameron’s TRAVEL BLACK BOOK Lydia Vasko vlydia@sph.com.sg Who: Simon Cameron, 40, founder and managing director of Lightfoot Travel. The Briton and Singapore permanent resident is married with two
        PHOTO: COURTESY OF SIMON CAMERON  -  1,027 words
      • 546 10 Xinhua Hangzhou Just before Chinese travellers began streaming overseas for the Spring Festival holiday, tourism industry insiders appealed to them to mind their manners. Ctrip, a Nasdaq-listed travel service company, published a report on Chinese travellers’ behaviour abroad last month, which claimed most of
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        • 1122 11  -  Enjoy the ultimate outdoor destination onboard Royal Caribbean International’s Jewel of the Seas and Radiance of the Seas Lai Yi Ming THE best time to appreciate the pristine Alaskan wilderness is between May and September, when days are long and nature is in full bloom. Dramatic
          PHOTOS: ROYAL CARIBBEAN INTERNATIONAL  -  1,122 words
      • Article, Illustration
        414 12  -  Lydia Vasko RAJASTHAN, INDIA L Holi, the Hindu Festival of Colours, takes place across India, but is most popular in its northern states such as Rajasthan. The two-day festival, which celebrates spring and good overcoming evil, culminates in a colour fight, where thousands of people fill the streets and
        PHOTOS: ROSSITER PHOTOGRAPHY, AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, ASA HOLIDAYS  -  414 words
    • reflect
      • 966 13  -  A greater understanding of different cultures would help overcome prejudice and fear Sharon Loh sharonl@sph.com.sg So, what are we in, the year of the sheep or goat? While better minds parse the etymology, I can tell you my brother was born a “yang” and he’s no meek lamb,
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      • 745 13  -  Akshita Nanda akshitan@sph.com.sg At a recent dinner with friends, guests were asked to avoid using suggestive words and to spell them if necessary, in deference to the children present. Within minutes, we were saying things like: “These p-r-a-w-n-s are delicious, you say you
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      • 755 13  -  Pamela Druckerman New York Times Paris I recently discovered the secret to livening up even the dullest conversation: Introduce the topic of clutter. Everyone I meet seems to be waging a passionate, private battle against their own stuff and they perk up as soon as you mention
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    • read
      • 986 16  -  Japanese academic seeks pioneering poet who went silent after the fall of Singapore The Read Interview Akshita Nanda Arts Correspondent akshitan@sph.com.sg Twenty years after she left Singapore, a Japanese researcher is looking back to the island for answers about a littleremembered pioneering Malayan poet
        PHOTOS: COURTESY OF DR ERIKO OGIHARA-SCHUCK, NUS CENTRAL LIBRARY  -  986 words
      • 355 16  -  Akshita Nanda POETRY HEY THERE, TOT! By Jocelyn Lau, illustrated by Lydia Yang Kucinta Books/ Paperback/ 96 pages/ $18 before GST/Books Kinokuniya and Booktique pop-up store at CityLink Mall Lau captures the highs and lows of parenting her almost three-year-old son, writing haiku verses about temper tantrums and
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        354 16  -  Sarah Giam Who: Max Chen (right), 30, director of non-profit dance company Paragraph. It is presenting its first production, Unassuming Voices a collaboration between Paragraph’s dancers and visual artist Jaxton Su, pianist and composer Aditya Permana, and lighting designer Iskander Abori at the Drama Centre Black Box at 8pm
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    • taste
      • 1828 17  -  It is common for cooks to get abusive in the kitchen, as a lawsuit against a chef from celebrity chef Joel Robuchon’s restaurants shows LUsing vulgarities LThrowing pots pans LPunching shoving Eunice Quek euniceq@sph.com.sg Punches, burns and verbal abuse; chefs here have endured all this and more, with
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      • 2358 18  -  The best seafood thrive in the pure waters that surround the Australian island-state. On land, there are artisanal cheeses, cured meats and impeccable produce Tan Hsueh Yun Food Editor hsueh@sph.com.sg Seafood seduction The day-long Tasmanian Seafood Seduction tour is the ultimate indulgence for anyone who loves seafood:
        PHOTOS: PENNICOTT WILDERNESS JOURNEYS, TAN HSUEH YUN; PHOTOS: TAN HSUEH YUN, SAM SHELLEY FOR GOURMANIA  -  2,358 words
      • 1145 19  -  Kenneth Goh When Frederic Deshayes was a pastry instructor at At-Sunrice GlobalChef Academy, he baked one cake a day for classroom demonstrations. These days, he moves at a much faster pace baking 10 cakes in an hour to keep up with orders at his two-month-old French
        ST PHOTO: LAU FOOK KONG  -  1,145 words
      • 900 20 Posh Nosh Tan Hsueh Yun Food Editor hsueh@sph.com.sg facebook.com/tanhsuehyun When you think of cacao, countries such as the Ivory Coast, Ghana and Venezuela come to mind. Indonesia is a big grower too. But Vietnam? Yes, the crop started being grown there in the late 19th century.
        ST PHOTOS: NEO XIAOBIN, CHEW SENG KIM; ST PHOTOS: KUA CHEE SIONG  -  900 words
      • 477 20  -  Magazine editor Carol Kraal’s brunch dish with a dessicated coconut crust is served with kaya spread and caramelised bananas Singapore Cooks Eunice Quek euniceq@sph.com.sg Like many Singaporeans, brunch is Ms Carol Kraal’s favourite meal of the day. The Eurasian magazine editor’s love for brunch started with
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      • 361 20 INGREDIENTS For the kaya cream 500ml heavy cream 4 Tbs kaya For the caramelised bananas 6 Tbs sugar 60g butter A pinch of salt 1 Tbs lime juice 6 bananas, peeled and sliced For the toast 2 cups
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