Today, 9 April 2010, Afternoon Edition

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    48 1 TODAY MICA (P) 160/10/2009 A PUBLICATION OF/ A=DIACORP NEWS HOTLINE 6822 2268 Friday April 9, 2010 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking AFTERNOON EDITION TODAY MICA (P) 160/10/2009 A PublICAtIon of nEWS HotlInE 6822 2268 friday april 9, 2010 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking April 9, 2010 A publicAtion
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    Lock icon Govt gets tough, Reds turn defiant
    536 4 ‘red’ tv station, websites closed Warrants issued for 7 protesters red Shirts vow to ramp up protests PM cancels trip to Asean summit AGENCIES BANGKOK Nearly a month after demonstrations by the Red Shirts in Thailand began, the Thai government has clamped down on
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    FIST-PUMPING DELIGHT
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    Lock icon Obama, Medvedevsign nuclear treaty
    417 4 leaders hail ‘new era of cooperation’, put pressure on Iran BLOOMBERG PRAGUE United States President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev signed a treaty to cut their nuclear arsenals this morning (Singapore time), in a ceremony that both men said marks a new era of
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      55 4 comment&AnAlySIS SHEng SIong WEt MArkEtS try tHE ‘koPItIAM’ ModEl? 22 PrEdAtor PrIEStS PoPE’S SHIEld AgAInSt lAWSuItS HAS A HolE or tWo 24 CAr InSurAnCE PrEMIuMS drIvErS Could SAvE $100M 26 In your T SECtIon CovEr Story tHE WAr HollyWood forgot entertainment tHE MAn WHo’ll gEt you tAlkIng tECH 3d tElEvISIon
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      242 5 1ST AND LARGEST SHOWCASE OF 3D TVS, CAMERAS LAPTOPS IN SINGAPORE (SUNTEC SINGAPORE 'REM ELECTRON! ,1 LEVEL 6, HALL 602 WOW Deals The best bargains in town s® BRANDED 4GB THUMBDRIVE mj 1 Hi L VISA BRANDED TOASTE ONLY ONLY ONLY t EXCLUSIVELY FOR ALL DBS POSB CREDIT CARDMEMBERS Spend
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    Lock icon First floor of Mustafa Centre closed until tomorrow morning
    549 8  -  EVELYN CHOO AND SHAFFIQ ALKHATIB evelynchoo@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE It was an unprecedented move, one that threw shoppers some of them from overseas and Mustafa Centre’s own management, into a tizzy when the District Court slapped it with a prohibition order yesterday. The
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      31 8 LOCK IN MOISTURE, BLOCK OUT EXTERNAL AGGRESSIONS. 'j?" LIU YIFEI International Actress INJIII: I ■'!Lui I 'WAI:::? V 7 wmr' v i ■pi JXIQ 9 y g\RNI£| SKIN NATURALS Aqua Defense
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    Lock icon S’poreans in Bangkok stay calm
    303 9  -  SAIFULBAHRI ISMAIL saifulbahri@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Singaporeans in the Thai capital of Bangkok have remained calm amid the State of Emergency declared on Wednesday evening. Mr Gilbert Lim, who has been working in Bangkok for 16 years, told MediaCorp in a telephone interview that the situation was
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    Car prices up after COE premiums hit new highs
    348 9  -  WANG ENG ENG engeng@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE As widely expected a day after COE premiums hit new highs in recent years the impact is being felt in car showrooms. Car dealers MediaCorp spoke to said they have increased prices by $5,000 to $15,000.
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    Changes afoot for Tobacco Control Act
    240 9 SINGAPORE They come in various forms such as lozenges and strips but these socalled “smokeless tobacco” still constitute a health hazard. To ensure that Singapore’s antismoking laws are in tune with the times, the current Tobacco Control Act will be amended, Health Minister Khaw
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      94 9 GARNIER AQUA DEFENSE NON-STOP INTENSIVE MOISTURIZING ESSENCE Instantly and deeply replenishes moisture to skin dehydrated by external aggressions (UV rays, pollution and air-conditioning). Fruit waters form an invisible moisture barrier to protect against external aggressions. Skin is hydrated, smooth and protected all day long. laquadefense in NON STOP MOISTURIZING 1-FOR-1
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    Lock icon Getting tough on illegal sub-lets
    255 10 JOANNE CHAN SINGAPORE Since the beginning of the year, the Housing and Development Board (HDB) has started taking action to repossess three flats their owners had rented out their entire units without fulfilling a minimum occupation period and gaining prior approval from the HDB. On
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    Lock icon StarHub nets basketball line-up
    267 10 Telco to also slash rates for its Sports group Channels IAN DECOTTA SINGAPORE After losing the English Premier League television rights to rival SingTel, StarHub yesterday announced its own multiyear exclusive deal with the American National Basketball Association (NBA). StarHub also announced that from June, it
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    Burnt by Wax, they get some help
    460 10  -  Spa, Beauty and Wellness alliance firms extend aid TEO XUANWEI xuanwei@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The three spas which bailed out stranded customers of Wellness Village Spa and Simply Spa have, together with 14 other spas, once again come to the rescue of4,000 customers who have
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    Lock icon Salon accused of cheating old woman
    391 10 ONG DAI LIN SINGAPORE Lured by a hard-to-resist $28 facial and massage package, the elderly woman ended up handing over $5,800 for a health therapy programme. The 76-year-old victim, who only wanted to be known as Mrs Yip, was in Chinatown last month when
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      108 11 Standard Cg Chartered i Can a bank really stand for something? Can it balance its ambition with its conscience? To do what it must. Not what it can. As not everything in life that counts can be counted. Can it not only look at the profit it makes but how
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    Lock icon They’ll raise the curtain on the YOG
    480 12  -  TANYO-HINN yohinn@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The opening ceremony for the Beijing Olympics, which reportedly cost over US$100 million ($140 million), is widely regarded as the greatest-ever curtain raiser for the summer Games. And organisers of the opening and closing ceremonies of the inaugural 2010 Youth
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    Press on with implementation: PM Lee
    351 12  -  5 RAMESH sramesh@mediacorp.com.sg HANOI South-east Asian leaders kicked off their summit yesterday with calls to step up the integration of Association of South-east Asian Nations’ (Asean). Speaking at the Plenary Session, Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said Asean needs to fulfil its key
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      166 12 The Dental Studio aesthetic and implant dentistry r A Solutions to missing teeth forum Speaker Dr Lynette Ng Prosthodontist (Specialist) BDS (S'pore), MDS (Prosthodontics) (S'pore), MRD RCS (Edinburgh), FAMS (Prosthodontics) Date 14 Apr 2010 (Wed) Time 7:00pm Venue The Dental Studio Paragon Medical #13-01/06 Agenda 1. Dentures What are the
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    As problem youth open up, so will the purse strings
    576 14  -  Govt funding the carrot as counselling centres challenged to offer more one-on-one care NG JINGYNG jingyng@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Counselling centres will have to reduce group activities and offer more one-on-one counselling services to problem youth if they are to receive funding
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    Lock icon TRAFFIC ARRANGEMENTS DURING THE OSIM TRIATHLON
    81 14 The Triathlon Association of Singapore will be organising the Osim International Triathlon (picture) tomorrow and Sunday at East Coast Park. The police said on these two days, the East Coast Park Service Road between Changi Coast Road and Car park E2 will be closed
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    Lock icon NEW HEALTH CARE CENTRE FOR SENIOR CITIZENS
    80 14 DYLAN LOH Senior citizens can now tap on a new healthcare centre to stay active in their golden years. The Singapore Polytechnic’s Nutrition, Health and Wellness Centre has a nutrition laboratory, exercise facilities and a healthy food kitchen. This was opened yesterday by
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    Lock icon EXHIBITION ON EARLY ARABS IN SINGAPORE
    104 14 RIZ SUNAWAN An exhibition on earlyArabs in Singapore Rihlah —Arabs in South-east Asia (picture)— will open at the National Library on Saturday. The event also comprises a conference, a business seminar and activities that focus on the culture and contributions of the Arabs in
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      317 14 A warm, welcoming place to work. 0 t A positive, inclusive environment. And the assurance you'll be treated with dignity and respect. These are two basic commitments that Starbucks offers to customers and to the people who work at Starbucks. If that sounds interesting to you, then let's talk. WE'RE
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      487 15 putting my name on a piece of Singapore's sporting history VISA, ©DBS W ppfOT^EB ~""Q99 BA**®* 3 CjppvCVWO" o o a 3* Si*, ATOM J" 10 en 91 4679 8^¥ 8 8888 r From v A v* a memory you can cherish forever Own a piece of history with the
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    Lock icon Carnival organiser in trouble again
    232 16 Charged in court for outrage of modesty had been told not to lEONG WEE KEaT SINGAPORE The beleaguered organiser of a large Chinese New Year carnival in Bishan was charged in the Subordinate Courts yesterday for allegedly outraging the modesty of a 26-year-old woman. Ronnie
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    MAN JAILED 12 MONTHS FOR HELPING FOREIGNERS GET PERMITS
    114 16 A 37-year-old man who applied for work passes for six foreigners he had no intention of hiring and also collected $350 in levies each from some of them was jailed for 12 months by a Subordinate Court yesterday. Tan Han Boon
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    Lock icon We were platonic friends: Witness
    673 16  -  But photo of topless Monat lying in bed with him suggests otherwise LEONG WEE KEAT weekeat@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The last person to see American student Scott Jared Monat on the night before he died spent more than five hours on the witness stand yesterday, denying a
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      317 16 MASTER THE 6 STEPS TOWARDS ACHIEVING THE LIFE YOU WANT THIS YEAR 6 Essential Success Strategies You Must Learn! 1. DESIGN A POWERFUL LIFE PLAN Do you know where you will be in 5 years' time? Most people never achieve what they want because they fail to design a powerful
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    Lock icon A liberal arts programme at NUS?
    225 18 SATISH CHENEY SINGAPORE The National University of Singapore (NUS) could conduct a study on the desirability and feasibility of setting up an undergraduate liberal arts programme initially for a selected group of students, said Dr Tony Tan, chairman of the National Research Foundation, yesterday.
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    Lock icon Good Karma for Asian, Mid-East media firms
    356 18  -  Terminator producer to set up fund to help develop promising companies SATISH CHENEY satishkumar@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE A US$50-mil-lion ($70-million) investment fund aimed at helping media companies achieve “new levels of recognition” has been set up here. The Karma Media Fund is headed by Mario
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      159 19 go with the first Youth Olympic Games prepaid cards that work for ticketing and transit as Singapore hosts the inaugural Youth Olympic Games, Visa is proud to bring you the first Youth Olympic Games prepaid cards with ticketing and transit functions, issued in conjunction with DBS Bank, with transit powered
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    Lock icon Specialised falls clinic helps elderly folk find their feet
    526 20  -  patients are trained to improve reaction time, while some are given customised treatments thereafter ALICIA WONG alicia@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE There was a time when an elderly person who suffered a fall might have to visit the hospital a few times for different
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    Will tourists take flight from Bird Park as Universal’s magic grows?
    497 20  -  NEO CHAI CHIN chaichin@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Three weeks after opening its doors, Singapore’s newest tourist attraction, Universal Studios Singapore (USS), has begun to draw the tour groups. Within the next month, USS will be firmly lodged in many travel itineraries
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      683 21 City Square Mall is bursting with excitement! HEALTH, BEAUTY AND WELLNESS FORTNIGHT 10 23 APR Find all your beauty, health and wellness needs with the freshest deals at City Square Mall. Beauty from the inside and out awaits! EXCITING EVENTS "V JOCIE GUO MEI MEI <1 AM JOCIE> PERFORMANCE AND
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    Lock icon Grooming online troopers key to winning wars of the future
    278 22 SINGAPORE Finding ways to make our emails and SMSes virtually hack-proof. This is just one of the areas of research that students in the Young Defence Scientists Programme (YDSP) have embarked on. The programme is a joint initiative of the
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    Lock icon Complaints of workers deployed illegally up from 16 to 412
    577 22  -  LEONG WEE KEAT leong Wee Keat weekeat@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Despite toiling at numerous construction sites for seven months and earning some $4,000 in wages, Bangladeshi worker Bul Bul Sadad (picture) may return home with less than 10 per cent of the
    LEONG WEE KEAT  -  577 words
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      135 22 Lfi l«r it I INSTITUTE OF ART V vLI IWU 7 O LONDON NEW YORK SINGAPORE YOUR PATHWAY TO A CAREER IN THE INTERN ATIONALART WORLD Career Presentation A career presentation by Phil Whittaker, Director, Sotheby's Institute of Art Singapore, on the international art markets and potential careers and opportunites
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  • VOICES
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      Wheeler dealers?
      342 24  -  Cut car dealers out of the COE bidding process Letter from Alfred Lim I REFER to “COEs the next lightning rod?” (April 8). It is heartening to know that Government Parliamentary Committee chairman (Transport) Lim Wee Kiak realises the increased Certificate of Entitlement (COE) premiums could be seen
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      There’s no place like home
      156 24  -  Retirement in foreign country just doesn’t cut it Letter from Jeffrey Law Lee Beng I READ with concern “A retirement village finally, but (April 6). Some parents find it uncomfortable to live with their adult children due to differences in values and lifestyles. Older people
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      Banks merely the ‘processors’
      246 24  -  Letter from Ong-Ang Ai Boon Association Banks in Director, Association of Banks in Singapore I REFER to reports in Today on the closure of beauty chain Wax in the City. We wish to clarify that banks are only facilitators of the payment transactions between the cardholders
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      FOCUS® ON THE FAMILY
      161 26  -  BY DR BILL MAIER EMPTY NEST DAD We hear a lot about mothers struggling with Empty Nest Syndrome, but often it’s good old dad who takes it the hardest. All parents have a hard time when kids leave home, but a recent survey showed that many
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      PRESSED FOR PARKING
      93 26  -  leTTer FroM eSMond Chng Over the years, residents of Blocks 150 to 161 at Yishun Street 11 have been experiencing problems renewing their season parking passes. Car owners who are unable to secure season parking there are allocated a lot at the car park at Yishun Avenue
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      Lock icon Breathless in Hong Kong
      606 26  -  budgeT Tai Tai Maybe Singapore has a part to play to improve air quality in this city TABITHA WANG Every time I receive an email from Singaporeans saying they’re coming to Hong Kong, it always ends with their top-most concern: “How is the air over there?”
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      62 24 have your say email your letters to voices@mediacorp.com.sg join the community www.todayonline.com/voices >> DRIVERS COULD SAVE $100M IN INSURANCE IF COMMENTARY HIT a ii is«a PORNSAK > K WMh uL?m mmnae* V Z i .V suse SESKI r K 6 Hi PA m V l(MW2)l y fflEBH X ?ss 111'
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  • COMMENT & ANALYSIS
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      Lock icon A‘Kopitiam’ model for wet markets?
      750 28  -  Sheng Siong could set a new benchmark for how wet markets are run CONRAD RAJ conrad@mediacorp.com.sg The writer is editor-at-large at Today. I’m sure it came as a surprise to many just how emotive the subject of wet markets could still be today. Like many
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      Lock icon Pope’s shield against lawsuits has a hole or two
      867 30  -  To hold Holy See liable, plaintiffs have to show molestation was possible only because of the priest’s job ANN WOOLNER The writer is a columnist for Bloomberg News. The opinions expressed are her own. BLOOMBERG More than a billion people around
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      Drivers could save $100m in premiums
      676 32  -  if motor insurance taskforce ideas are implemented quickly RICHARD HARTUNG The writer is a consultant who has lived in Singapore since Vehicle owners in Singapore could save an average of about $190 a year each if motor insurance premiums simply dropped from the $1.08
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      129 32 EOsced (sQflQll Raffles Women's Centre Public Forum 2010 Venue: Level 11, Learning Centre, Raffles Hospital Date: 17th April 2010 (Saturday) Time:!2.30pm 5pm TIME 12:30pm-l :20pm l:20pm-1:30pm 1:30pm-2:00pm 2:00pm-2:30pm 2:30pm- 3:00pm 3:00pm- 3:45pm 3:45pm-5:00pm 5:00pm PROGRAM Registration Welcoming address Myths Facts Of Pregnancy Dr Watt Wing Fong Specialist in Obstetrics Gynaecology,
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  • WORLD
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      Lock icon Can Rajapakse tighten his grip?
      396 36 Election victory could see president amend Constitution to remain in power AGENCIES COLOMBO Sri Lankans faced a clear choice in parliamentary elections yesterday between further strengthening President Mahinda Rajapakse’s hand in deciding the nation’s postwar fate or trying to check his power~ President Rajapakse, who
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      Lock icon Malaysian man to be caned, jailed for drinking
      233 36 AP KUALA LUMPUR A cook at a religious school in Malaysia was sentenced to six strokes of the cane and a year in jail for drinking alcohol, an official said yesterday~ In Pahang’s Sharia High Court, Judge Abdul Rahman Mohamad Yunos sentenced
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      198 36 AFP BANDA ACEH A couple caught having extramarital sex in Indonesia were paraded naked through their village, beaten by an angry mob and now face a public caning, an official said yesterday~ Bus, a 36-year-old man, and Yus, a 28-year-old housewife,
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      410 36 AGENCIES WASHINGTON United States air marshals wrestled a Qatari diplomat to the floor on a flight to Denver, in a security scare that sent jet fighters scrambling to intercept the plane, officials said~ The incident on Wednesday turned out
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      288 39 AGENCIES BISHKEK An opposition coalition proclaimed a new interim government yesterday in Kyrgyzstan and said it would rule until elections are held in six months. Opposition leader Roza Otunbayeva, the former Foreign Minister, said Parliament had been dissolved and she would head the interim government,
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      184 39 AFP MELBOURNE Australia and India pledged to expand education links yesterday after a series of attacks on Indian students tarnished relations. Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard and India’s Human Resources Development Minister Kapil Sibal agreed to extend exchanges and set up a joint education
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      134 39 AFP ISLAMABAD Militants bombed three girls’ schools on the outskirts of Pakistan’s city of Peshawar, the latest in a wave of attacks on educational institutions, a provincial minister said yesterday. Nobody was hurt in the pre-dawn attacks in the northwestern capital, the gateway to
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      154 40 AFP BEIJING Angry customers mobbed Kentucky Fried Chicken outlets in China this week, turning over tables at a restaurant here, in anger over a coupon promotion gone awry, state media reported yesterday. The trouble started on Tuesday when KFC launched a promotion in
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      351 40 pM Brown in populist bid to close polls gap on rivals AFP LONDON British Prime Minister Gordon Brown sought to fight back yesterday in an increasingly heated debate on the economy, laying out a key pledge to freeze income taxes after the election. Mr
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      146 41 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH BEIJING An Chinese protester has attempted to throw ink over the famed giant portrait of Chairman Mao Zedong that hangs in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square, the police said. Police officers wrestled the man to the ground last weekend after he threw a
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      319 41 Missing for over a year, he resurfaced two weeks ago AP BEIJING A Chinese rights lawyer whose disappearance more than a year ago caused an international outcry said on Wednesday that he was abandoning his once-prominent role as a government critic in the hope
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      176 41 AFP TAIPEI Taiwan’s Health Minister apologised yesterday after he came under fire for suggesting single people should pay more health insurance because they have a higher risk of mental illness. “I apologise. I should not have used the term ‘mental illness’,” Mr
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      20 42 rr^T 1 i 1 i Mr Bergdahl pleads for his release in a video released by the taliban. AP
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      210 42 AFP WASHINGTON Afghanistan’s Taliban movement has released a video of a captured US soldier, offering to release him as part of a prisoner exchange, the IntelCenter monitoring service said yesterday. In the video, Private First Class Bowe Bergdahl says he wants to return to his
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      178 42 AP SANTIAGO With United States President Barack Obama shifting his nuclear non-proliferation strategy to rogue states and terrorists, Chile has become an example of how small countries help make the world safer. Vast amounts of highly enriched uranium (HEU) are being stored in relatively unsecured
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      335 42 THE GUARDIAN PRAGUE United States president Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev yesterday signed a nuclear arms control treaty that will slash their respective arsenals by one-third. Mr Obama said the new agreement made the US and the world more secure
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      290 44 AP WELLINGTON New Zealand’s Roman Catholic Church said yesterday it is investigating five new complaints of sexual abuse of children from at least 20 years ago. The revelation of fresh inquiries comes as the Church worldwide is rocked by allegations of child sex
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      46 44 The world’s tallest remote controlled two-legged robot demonstrated its walking and communication skills at a launch in Tokyo yesterday. The 1.7m-tall ‘Tsutenkaku robo’ was developed to promote Osaka city’s symbolic tower, and will be showcased at the Shanghai World Expo next month. aFp AFP
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      191 44 AP MANILA The Philippine government, grappling with electricity shortages brought on by a long drought, yesterday said it will ask shopping malls and factories to shut down for several days to ensure uninterrupted power supply during the May 10 elections. Optical scanning
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      206 44 AFP SYDNEY More than twothirds of Australians are uncomfortable with a projected population surge of more than 50 per cent by 2050, according to a poll released yesterday. Most were happy with a bigger population but did not want numbers to rise from 22
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      100 46 AFP A 13-year-old Yemeni girl who had been forced into marriage died five days after her wedding when she suffered a rupture in her sex organs and begun haemorrhaging, a local right’s organisation said yesterday. Ilham Mahdi al Assi was married last Monday in
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      81 46 AFP Former rio Tinto executive Stern Hu will not appeal against a 10-year jail term handed down by a Chinese court for accepting bribes and stealing trade secrets, his lawyers said yesterday. The sentence delivered to the Australian last week had evoked
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      96 46 AFP Japan’s high school students, once renowned for their diligence, are slacking off and falling behind their peers elsewhere in the world, the Japan Youth research Institute has found. About per cent of Japanese students surveyed said they sleep during classes, compared
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      93 46 AFP Japanese police have arrested the head of a pet funeral service for allegedly dumping the remains of about 100 dogs and cats. Police charged Shinobu Abe, 71, with violating the industrial waste disposal law and were also investigating him for fraud. Tipped off
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      442 46 She was only trying to be a good mum arkansas teen accuses mother of Facebook harassment, slander AP LITTLE ROCK The mother of a 16-year-old boy said she was only being a good mum when she locked him out of his Facebook account after reading he had driven home at
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      489 46 THE NEW YORK TIMES WASHINGTON The sight of unarmed human beings being gunned down is jarring enough. But for many people who watched the video of a 2007 assault by an Army Apache helicopter in Baghdad, released on Monday by WikiLeaks.org, the most disturbing
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      376 48 Rare diamond a bargain’ at $8.9m for 10.5 million HONG KONG A rare, flawless blue diamond has fetched US$6.4 million ($8.9 million) at an auction in Hong Kong. Originally from the De Beers Millennium Collection, the 5.16-carat pear-shaped diamond had been expected to sell for between US$4.6 million and US$5.9
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      216 48 AFP PARIS People who have “near-death experiences”, such as flashing lights, feelings of peace and joy and divine encounters before they pull back from the brink may simply have raised levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the blood, a study suggests. Near-death
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      102 48 FROM UNDERTHE RUBBLE IN RIO rescuers extricating a man from the ruins of a house knocked down by a landslide in western rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He was one of few pulled out alive from the wreckage, officials said. Fire and rescue officials struggled to find survivors after another mudslide
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      260 48 AP WASHINGTON Two skeletons nearly 2 million years old and unearthed in a pit in a South African cave are part of a previ-ously-unknown species that scientists say fits the transition from ancient apes to modern humans. The fossils bear traits from both lineages,
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      532 52 rooney gets united off to great start but bayern have the last laugh AGENCIES ChampionS lEaguE, quartEr-Final 2nd lEg manchester united 3 bayern munich 2 (4-4 aggregate, bayern win on away goals) MANCHESTER For 43 minutes, it looked as if Alex Ferguson’s gamble to
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      379 52  -  CommEntary Fergie’s unspoken message to berbatov: ‘you’re not good enough’ DAVID NGIAU david@mediacorp.com.sg The writer is deputy sports editor at Today. Rarely has Sir Alex Ferguson said so much without opening his mouth. More than a few eyebrows were raised when the teamsheets came out
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      536 54 premiership’s Champions league dominance over, but Ferguson won’t panic AGENCIES MANCHESTER English football completed its Champions League retreat on Wednesday night (yesterday morning, Singapore time) as Manchester United surrendered a 3-0 lead to be knocked out by Bayern Munich 24 hours after the Lionel
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      431 54 AGENCIES Champions league quarter-Final 2nd leg Bordeaux 1 lyon 0 (lyon win 3-2 on aggregate) BORDEAUX Just when many were predicting their decline, Olympique Lyon sharpened their claws and showed they were very much alive by making the Champions League breakthrough they have threatened
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      614 56 AFP AUGUSTA Showing no diminishment of his golf skills despite a five-month layoff and a humiliating sex scandal, Tiger Woods roared into contention at the 74th Masters after a warm welcome back this morning (Singapore time). Woods made his best
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      670 56 aFternoon latest europa league liverpool 4 Benfica 1 (5-3) AFP LIVERPOOL Fernando Torres fired Liverpool into the Europa League semi-finals this morning (Singapore time) after a 4-1 win against Benfica clinched a 5-3 aggregate triumph over the Portuguese club. Rafael Benitez’s side trailed 2-1 from the
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      616 57  -  Six athletes in the spotlight, their target an individual medal each in 2012 LOW LIN FHOONG linfhoong@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The national women’s table tennis team ended 48 years of hurt when they won silver at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. In a bid to win Singapore’s
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      450 57  -  Title Sponsor Mannas inflict more pain on champions LOW LIN FHOONG linfhoong@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The defending champions of the Fairprice Foundation Netball Super League, the adidas Sneakers Stingrays, are not enjoying themselves so far this season. With five games of the 10-match season played, Round 2
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      175 58 Having tasted her first Olympic final in the women’s 100m butterfly in 2008, Tao li, 19, is eyeing a medal in london 2012. The auckland University of Technology student’s quest received a boost yesterday when she was awarded the British Chamber of Commerce’s (BCC)
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      468 58  -  SHAMIR OSMAN shamir@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE He lambasted the state of local football before heading for the greener pastures of Indonesia last year, but retracted his statements after being shown what was then a provisional copy of the Football Association of Singapore’s (FAS) Strategic
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      703 59  -  FAS’ sports and medical science chief is searching for a mindset revolution SHAMIR OSMAN shamir@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE There is a school of thought which believes sports science gave Australia the added boost to see them through to the 2006 World Cup finals in Germany. Facing
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      712 60  -  Corporate community give football associations’ vision for the future the thumbs up TAN YO-HINN yohinn@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE It is an ambitious blueprint, aimed at making Singapore one ofthetop 10 footballing nations in Asia by 2015. It includes the setting up of a national training centre, five
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      88 52 your Sporting Fix Football today 7.25pm S-league Tampines Rovers FC v Home United FC (Ch27) tomorrow 6pm J-league FC Tokyo v Kashima Antlers (Ch27) 9.55pm bpl Hull v Burnley (Ch27) 10pm bpl West Ham United v Sunderland (Ch119) CriCKEt today 10.30pm ipl Kings Xi Punjab v Mumbai Indians (Ch111) tomorrow
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      123 61 D c "Waiter, &CA&S cocktails ffipl?! Hail $5 Who knew the "gayest show on TV" L3?° u a bunch of singing, prancing would rekindle our faith in nsion (read it and weep teel the multi-talented 7< Globe award-w' ■"SSST 1 food court Irene Ang OFITFS JTOFKSX I anowonW Why Glee
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      173 64 Dental Implants Dental Implants look and feel just like natural teeth. But are they the “perfect solution” to replace your lost teeth? Find out the answer at a special Consumer Education Forum on Dental Implants Organised by the Singapore Dental Health Foundation Date: Sunday, April 18th Time: 2-4pm Venue: Suntec
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      357 66  -  protracted unrest in bangkok cause of concern for businesses CHRIS HOWELLS christopherh@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The closure of four popular shopping malls in central Bangkok due to the ongoing political unrest in the city may cost businesses there some US$30 million ($41.8 million)
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      62 66 wednesday 10,897.52 q 0.66% tuesday 10,969.99 q 0.03% monday 10,973.55 p 0.42% thursday 10,972.07 p 0.70% thUrsday Close 10,927.07 (+0.27%) nyse top 5 by VolUme name Vol priCe Change Citigroup 555m 4.47 p 0.11% bank of america 164m 18.65 p 0.03% mgm mirage 99m 14.73 p 1.38% ford motor
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      13 66 oil $85.39 (-0.6%) È gold $1,150.60 (-0.2%) È Ç Copper 357.70 (+0.01%)
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      25 66 Us$1 $1.394 Us$1 £0.654 Us$1 €0.747 Us$1 ¥93.453 Us$1 hK$7.759 Us$1 a$1.076 Us$1 Chf$1.072 Us$1 C$1.001 all figures correct as at 8am this morning
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        83 66 stocks rebound US stocks rebounded yesterday after retailers posted surprisingly strong March sales, raising hopes for a revival in consumer spending that could underpin the struggling economic recovery. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 29.55 points (0.27 per cent) to finish the day at 10,927.07. The tech-rich Nasdaq
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        90 66 stocks close lower European stock markets closed lower, extending losses on growing concerns that Greece will not be able to resolve its debt and public deficit problems without outside help. In London, the benchmark FTSE 100 index closed down 0.86 per cent at 5,712.70 points. In Paris, the
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        62 66 prices down Oil prices fell, dropping further away from recent 18-month highs amid concerns of softening demand and growing US crude inventories. New York’s main contract, light sweet crude for delivery in May, ended the day down 46 cents to US$85.39 a barrel, after spiking above US$87 on Tuesday.
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        55 66 dollar mixed The dollar fell slightly against the euro and rose against the yen, amid quiet New York trading. The euro rose almost a fifth of a cent against the dollar to US$1.3359 at 2200 GMT, up from US$1.3339 on Wednesday. Against the Japanese currency, the dollar rose to
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      326 66 british pm promises extra curbs on bank bonuses in UK if re-elected BLOOMBERG LONDON British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said he will impose new curbs on bankers’ bonuses if he wins next month’s election, giving regulators power to override employment contracts. Mr Brown said he will
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      184 66 BLOOMBERG SAN FRANCISCO Apple Inc’s Steve Jobs said the company sold more than 450,000 iPad tablet computers in less than a week and unveiled new software designed to make the iPhone more appealing to mobile users and developers yesterday. The new iPhone operating system software adds
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      233 64 JULIE QUEK SINGAPORE Singapore’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in the first quarter of this year is expected to grow by double-digits compared with last year, making it the most bullish forecast in almost six years, initial projections by economists show. “Capacity expansion in the pharmaceutical
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      205 64 SINGAPORE The auditors of Advanced Systems Automation (ASA) have cast doubt on the company’s ability to continue as a going concern. Ernst Young say that as at Dec 31 last year, ASA’s net liabilities exceeded its net assets. It incurred a net loss of $6.8
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      147 64 independent auditors have raised doubts about united Fiber system’s ability to continue as a going concern based on the company’s financial statements ending Dec 31 last year. They said the firm incurred a net loss of over us$74 million ($103 million) during the
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      88 64 JO-ANN HUANG sT engineering’s aerospace arm, sT Aerospace, has clinched a component maintenance contract worth $148 million from Chinese low-cost carrier spring Airlines. The maintenance-by-the-hour contract will boost the support it provides to spring Airlines’ fleet from 15 Airbus A320 planes to an expected fleet
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      112 64 GEORGINAJOSEPH Thomson Medical Centre said its half-year profit rose 2 percent on-yearto $7.2 million. Revenue for the six months to February rose about 18 per cent to $38 million. Thomson Medical said the improvement in its performance was due to higher deliveries, inpatient admissions
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      447 63 Comment comes as Geithner meets with Vice-premier Wang AGENCIES SHANGHAI China should resume a man-aged-float foreign exchange system soon because the impact of the global financial crisis has faded, Mr Xia Bin, a recently-ap-pointed adviser to the People’s Bank of China, said yesterday.
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      209 63 AGENCIES TOKYO Japan’s current account surplus expanded in February by 29.6 per cent from a year ago, but machinery orders a closely-watched indicator of future business investment unexpectedly fell for the second straight month. The surplus in the current account the broadest measure of trade
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      158 63 AGENCIES economic growth across the 10-member Association of south-east Asian nations (Asean) could reach 5.5 per cent this year, outpacing the global average, the international Monetary Fund (iMF) said yesterday. “We are expecting world growth to be around 4 per cent this year. in the
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      120 63 AGENCIES Job creation in Australia continued to run hot last month, with a further 19,600 people finding employment, helping to validate the central bank’s decision to aggressively raise interest rates and pointing to more tightening ahead. economists said the employment rise
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      416 61 AGENCIES BRUSSELS The European Central Bank’s (ECB) decision to change its lending rules may end up hurting debt-laden Greece more than helping it. While ECB President Jean-Claude Trichet (picture) has assisted Greece by extending the ECB’s emergency collateral rules into next year, the move
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      202 61 AGENCIES HONG KONG Hong Kong’s graft watchdog has charged a senior manager at consultancy KPMG with corruption stemming from a mainland company’s initial public offering in the city last year. The Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) said Leung Sze-chit was charged with offering a HK$100,000
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      286 61 AFP GENEVA Banks and other informants raised the alarm on a record number of suspicious financial transactions in 2009, implicating assets worth 2.23 billion Swiss francs ($2.9 billion), the Swiss authorities said yesterday. “Increasing by 5.3 per cent over the previous year, the number
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      1051 70  -  Joseph Mazzello went from battling dinosaurs at the age of nine to fighting in WWII at 26.And Uncle Spielberg didn’t help the second time GENEVIEVE LOH in Los Angeles genevieveloh@mediacorp.com.sg THE preppy guy in the powder blue sweater and brown corduroys walked into the Four Seasons Beverly
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      183 70 Jon Seda, 39, as Sgt John Basilone, the only enlisted US Marine in WWII to receive the Medal Of Honour for his actions at the Battle of Guadalcanal and the Navy Cross. Remember him from: TV’s Homicide: Life On The Street as Detective Paul Falsone on; Selena as
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      556 74  -  The Arena’s ashraf safdar aims to elevate levels of discussion with Singapore May seah may@mediacorp.com.sg WITH his intellectual-looking glasses, impeccable cuffs and good hair,Ashraf Safdar outwardly exudes a confidence that seems to say: “If anyone can get Singapore talking, I can.” This, no doubt, is also due
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      895 76  -  When life hands you Liz Lemon, make a Hollywood movie.Tina Fey goes to the movies with Date Night John Hiscock John features@mediacorp.com.sg THE DAILYTELEGRAPH One day Tina Fey was an actress in a little-seen television sitcom, worshipped by an ardent cult following but mainly ignored
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      1145 78  -  Have professional critics been replaced by a sarky mob on the Internet? Perhaps but so what? AO Scott AO Scott features@mediacorp.com.sg THE NEWYORKTIMES TWO weeks ago I went to Atlanta to give a talk at a conference devoted, in part, to “The Future Of Criticism”. The
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      416 79 AP ROMAN Polanski’s lawyers have filed a last legal volley in a California appeals court, saying that the 33-year-old sex case and its lengthy delays have been an assault on the state’s judicial system. The attorneys said in papers filed Tuesday that the court should order
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      546 80  -  10 artists revealed, including two Singaporeans and Lady Gaga collaborators, for Singapore Biennale Mayo Martin Mayo Martin mayo@mediacorp.com.sg THE next Singapore Biennale will only kick off in March next year, but the first artwork has already been unveiled. It’s the logo. The minimalist work includes
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      117 82 AP JON Gosselin has sued ex-wife Kate for primary custody of their eight children. The former reality TV star also asked the court on Wednesday to review his child support obligation. Gosselin’s attorney has previously accused Kate of neglecting the children because she appears on
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      272 82  -  4 THinGs He sAid Grant Heslov, director of the military satire The Men Who Stare At Goats, and buddy of leading man George Clooney (they met in acting class and worked together on Goodnight, And Good Luck on rubber-band fights and A-list
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      397 84 Hip-hop producer wants about $1.4 million for being shot during rapper’s party THE DAILY TELEGRAPH MUSIC promoter and producer Marion “Suge” Knight is set to sue Kanye West for more than US$1 million ($1.39 million) after he was shot in the leg during a party the
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      571 85  -  Right now, Andy Lau is ‘very happy’ with life Genevieve Loh ANDY Lau’s latest film has him playing a 2080 policeman who travels back in time to 2020 to protect a young boy, who would grow up to be a powerful scientist who holds the key
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    324 87 THINGS TO DO 1 The Bag: Carrier bags in Singapore from the 1950s to the 1980s The exhibition showcases over 60 paper and plastic bags in the National Museum’s collection, many on display for the first time. Date: Till April 18 Time: 10am to 8pm Venue: The Balcony,
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      1025 88  -  Hedirman Supian Supian hedirman@mediacorp.com.sg DiD you know your smartphone can be a magical viewing glass? A locally-developed food-spotting application called buUuk on the iPhone can tell you which eateries are nearby on a 2D map using the phone’s GPS feature.And when you hold the phone
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      193 90 TREVORTAN SooN, all of us will be watching full highdefinition (HD) 3D TV programmes in the comfort of our living rooms. Panasonic has joined the growing list of TV manufacturers to offer full HD 3D TVs with itsVieraVT20 series. Available in 50-inch and 58-inch models,the VT20 plasma
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