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  • 718 1  -  romanian govt must ensure justice is served or there will be consequences for bilateral relations, says MfA ESTHER NG estherng@mediacorp.coms.g SINGAPORE Romania’s suspended diplomat Silviu Ionescu is now a wanted man around the world. Singapore has issued a warrant of arrest against him and Interpol
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  • 1478 4  -  THE BIG STORY the upward trend of marriages ending in divorce is making a mockery of traditional marriage vows ANSLEY NG ansley@mediacorp.com.sg DESPITE its stately facade, the colonial-style building in Havelock Road is where some of the fiercest and highly emotional battles in Singapore are
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  • NEWS
    • 406 6  -  NEO CHAI CHIN chaichin@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Temporary suspension of operations will become standard procedure for businesses that repeatedly flout fire safety rules, under a new demerit point system that the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) intends to roll out. Under this system, the businesses’ offences will
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    • 345 6 AGENCIES BANGKOK Hurling rocks and Molotov cocktails, thousands of Thai anti-government protesters stormed into a telecom company compound on Friday where the authorities had shut down their vital television channel, as soldiers and riot police failed to hold them back with tear
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    • 494 6  -  TEO XUANWEI xuanwei@mediacorp.com.sg TEO XUANWEI SINGAPORE Singapore Civil Defence Force NSmen, who were firefighters by vocation, will now have to serve 18 days’ in-camp training a year, up from the current eight days. This is so that they can
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    • 242 7 diplomat must return to face the music, they say NG JING YNG SINGAPORE The Government has done right in protecting the country’s interests and its strongly-worded message to the Romanians correctly reflects Singapore’s stand. This was the view of most Singaporeans interviewed by MediaCorp on
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    • 543 7  -  ESTHER NG esther@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE For weeks, since the former Charges’ d’Affaires of the Romanian Embassy here returned home, what Singaporeans knew about the Romanian government’s actions in the matter was that it had suspended and charged Dr Silvio Ionescu, and that it had requested more
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    • 168 8 AFP HANOI South-east Asian leaders urged Myanmar to ensure its elections this year are fair and inclusive at a summit in Hanoi on ~riday~ Vietnam’s Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung said at an Association of South-east Asian Nations (Asean) meeting that he had delivered
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    • 492 8  -  S RAMESH IN HANOI rameshs@mediacorp.com.sg HANOI With the Association of South-east Asian Nations (Asean) facing the challenge of staying relevant on the global radar screen, leaders have agreed to study the possibility of involving the United States and Russia in its dialogue
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    • 319 10  -  NG JING YNG jingyng@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Lower-income families with young children will get free insurance cover under a scheme that has been set up just for them by NTUC Income. This insurance scheme called the Income Family Micro-Insurance Scheme (IFMIS) will pay out
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    • 82 10 College green, formerly known as dunearn road Hostels, has returned to the fold of the national University of Singapore. the 35,000-square-metre estate is lined with 63 pre-war terrace houses converted into hostels that can house 248 students. it was officially opened on Friday by president S r
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    • 470 10 LEONG WEE KEAT SINGAPORE He was not a credible witness, given the inconsistencies riddling his testimony. But the police said there was no direct evidence to link Mr Jason Ho Zhi Yuan, 29, the last person to see American student Scott Jared Monat alive,
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    • 198 16  -  LEONG WEE KEAT SINGAPORE A former operations manager of a halfway house was charged in the Subordinate Courts on Friday for allegedly obtaining $5,000 in loans from four residents in return for favourable treatment. Supramaniam Arujunan, 61, allegedly sought the inducements between February and June
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    • Article, Illustration
      32 16 Models posing with Samsung 3d glasses in front of Samsung’s latest full high definition 3d led tVs during its launch at tampines Courts MegaStore on friday. treVor tan TREVOR TAN
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    • 430 16  -  online game aimed at educating public about old Singapore HETTY MUSFIRAH hetty@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Museums are not always about the past. They are finding their place in the future by going interactive virtually. Acting Minister for Information, Communication and the Arts Lui Tuck Yew said this would
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    • 156 16 SINGAPORE In a multi-agency operation that ended early Friday morning, 108 people were nabbed for a host of criminal offences that included illegal gambling activities, secret society involvement, peddling contraband cigarettes, vicerelated activities, trafficking and drugrelated offences. The arrests were made at various locations including
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    • 114 17 LYNDA HONG SINGAPORE An accident on Friday afternoon along the Pan Island Expressway left two people dead and one seriously injured. The accident involved two lorries, a prime mover and a motorcycle on the PIE heading towards Tuas, near Pioneer Road. The stretch
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    • 136 17 With less than two weeks to the deadline for filing tax returns, only 53 per cent or about 512,000 taxpayers have filed their tax returns. Responding to queries from MediaCorp, the Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore (Iras) said this number
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    • 121 17 More than 90 young inmates received the National Youth Achievement Award (NYAA) on Friday. Minister for Education and Second Minister for Defence Dr Ng Eng Hen presented the awards to the 94 inmates at Kaki Bukit Centre (Prison School). These inmates have proven
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    • 257 17 GLENDA CHONG HAINAN Political leadership renewal is a challenge both Singapore and China face, and both can learn from each other’s experience, noted Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong. It was one of many topics he discussed with Chinese Vice-President Xi Jinping on Friday after Mr Goh’s
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  • VOICES
    • 216 18  -  Letter from Lim Xiang Jun I REFER to “League of their own” (April 8). The new strategic plan indicates that the Football Association of Singapore (FAS) has a much clearer vision on achieving the goals set. Taking into account that Goal 2010 was slightly ambitious,
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    • 350 18  -  They are irreplaceable, and they reflect the soul of Singapore Letter from Murali Sharma I REFER to “Sheng Siong’s wake up call” (April 8). It is good that the Housing and Development Board (HDB) has unequivocally disapproved the would-be conversion of wet markets into
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    • 153 18  -  ALAN TAN i visited Brunei late last year, and as part of a tour of the city, we went to a wet market that only opens on Fridays. our host was excited about recounting the history of the market, but my colleagues and i just
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    • 214 18  -  Tracing is easier for dogs licensed after Sept 2007 Letter from Goh ShihYong Deputy Director, Media Division For CEO, Agri-food Veterinary Authority (AVA) WE REFER to the letter “Dog has ID but can’t be traced” (April 7) by Ms Jaclyn Liew. Microchipping of all
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    • 100 18  -  Letter from Lionel De Souza I REFER to “Poison pen letters hit Sengkang” (April 8). This despicable way of political canvassing and reaching out to the electorate in Singapore is most deplorable. If the author of the anonymous letter is brave enough, and is able to substantiate whatever
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  • COMMENT & ANALYSIS
    • 803 20  -  opposition still needs to manage the egos of key players and keep distrust between parties at bay EUGENE K B TAN The writer is assistant professor of law at the School of Law, Singapore Management University. A mini-election fever is palpable. Although the next General
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    • 873 22  -  athens’ woes illustrate the extreme danger posed by a deflationary monetary policy PAUL KRUGMAN The writer is a professor of economics and international affairs at Princeton University. He won the Nobel prize for economics in 2008. THE NEW YORK TIMES The debt crisis in Greece
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    • 718 22  -  the need for a new understanding among the races in Malaysia is being strongly felt ooi kee Beng The writer is a Fellow at the Institute of South-east Asian Studies. His latest book is Pilot Studies for a New
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    • 740 23  -  16 years on, it seems no lessons were learnt from the tragic case of Mariam Hamza PAUL GILFEATHER gilfeather@mediacorp.com.sg The writer is the principal correspondent at Today. It’s not often that a story which I have covered has reduced me to tears. Staring
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  • WORLD
    • 364 24 Vote marked by low turnout, President not assured of two-thirds AGENcIES COLOMBO Sri Lanka’s ruling party crossed the halfway mark to win a majority in Parliament on Friday, following the first legislative polls since the end of the war with Tamil rebels, official results showed. President Mahinda
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    • 45 24 A child holds up a banner as people gather to rally against racism ahead of a planned anti-immigration and anti-Islam protest in Melbourne on Friday. Hundreds of demonstrators gathered to confront the anti-immigration protest which did not eventuate. AFP AFP
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    • 172 24 AFP DHAKA Bangladesh’s high court has banned educational institutions in the Muslim-majority country from bullying female employees into wearing headscarves or veils, a lawyer said on Friday. Wearing a burqa or niqab in the country of 144 million is not compulsory, but women are often pressured
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    • 231 24 THE MALAYSIAN INSIDER KUALA LUMPUR The Member of Parliament for Sibu in Sarawak died on Friday, paving the way for yet another byelection in Malaysia. Mr Robert Lau, 67, from the Barisan Nasional component party, Sarawak United People’s Party (Supp) died from cancer
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    • 302 24 AFP VATICAN CITY The Roman Catholic Church must cooperate with police and the judiciary on child abuse by priests as “the only way to regain trust”, Vatican spokesman Federico Lombardi said on Friday. Speaking on Vatican Radio, he also said that Pope Benedict XVI
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    • 349 25 ousted kyrgyz president defiant following ouster AGENCIES JALALABAD Kyrgyzstan’s ousted but defiant President Kurmanbek Bakiyev said on Friday he had no intention of resigning and accused the country’s new self-proclaimed leadership of causing many deaths this week. Speaking in an exclusive interview with
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    • 258 25 AFP TOKYO The portraits of North Korea’s “two Kims”, gaze down solemnly as 30 pupils hunch over their desks in a slightly run down classroom (picture). A map of the Korean peninsula hangs on the wall, and the teacher talks about its
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    • 150 25 AFP SEOUL A South Korean court on Friday acquitted a former Prime Minister of corruption, rejecting allegations she took a US$50,000 ($69,600) bribe from a businessman while in office. Ms Han Myeong Sook was charged last December with accepting the sum from Mr Kwak Young
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    • 239 25 AFP LONDON Former United States President George W Bush and his top aides were accused on Friday of covering up their knowledge that many Guantanamo Bay detainees were innocent, amid fears releasing them could harm the “war on terror”. The allegations were made by Colonel
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    • 285 26 THE GUARDIAN LONDON Public sector chiefs earning hundreds of thousands of pounds a year would have their salaries cut back by a Conservative government under a radical scheme to link their earnings to the lowest-paid workers in their
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    • 232 26 AGENCIES JERUSALEM Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has pulled out of United States President Barack Obama’s international nuclear weapons conference in Washington next week at the last minute after learning his country was likely to face pressure over its own presumed atomic arsenal. Mr
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    • Article, Illustration
      82 26 an indonesian soldier jumping through fire during an exhibition to celebrate the 64th anniversary of the indonesian air Force in Jakarta. the air force showed off its 16 fighter jets, including F-16 Fighting Falcons, in a spectacular aerial display, while special forces demonstrated their shooting and combat
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    • 193 26 AGENCIES WASHINGTON A Qatari diplomat who sparked a national security scare by joking about setting fire to his shoe on a flight to Denver was on his way to visit an imprisoned Al Qaeda conspirator, officials said. Mr Mohammed Al Madadi, 27,
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    • 283 26 AP CALIFORNIA Apple’s iPhone and iPad devices will soon be able to run more than one program at a time, an ability that phones from Apple’s rivals already offer and that iPhone owners have long sought. The changes, coming this summer to iPhones and this fall
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    • 57 27 a woman cries as she surveys the scene following a fire at a slum area in ghazipur, on the outskirts of new delhi, india. the blaze was reportedly started after a power transmission line fell. about 600 dwellings were gutted but no casualties were
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    • 101 27 AFP pakistan’s president Asif Ali Zardari, unpopular and tainted by corruption, is on the threshold of losing much of his power as constitutional reforms move through parliament. In a unanimous vote, the lower house of parliament approved a 102-clause Bill on Thursday that reverses sweeping
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    • 94 27 AP scores of carlsberg workers walked off the job on Thursday after the danish brewer tightened rules on workplace drinking, a company spokesperson said. The company’s new rules restrict drinking beer to lunch hours in the canteen. previously, warehouse and production workers could help
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    • 105 27 AFP norway’s roman catholic church received so many email tip-offs about possible paedophile priests, following revelations of abuse by a bishop, that its computer server crashed, a senior cleric told a newspaper on Friday. “I received so many email tip-offs about possible aggression
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    • 112 27 AP A Thai man has been released from an Indonesian prison after spending three extra years behind bars because of a typo in his paperwork, a report said on Friday. mr Kamjai Khong Thavorn, 53, should have been released in 2007 after
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    • 92 27 AFP The owners of a chinese ship (picture) that ran aground on the Great Barrier reef causing an environmental crisis admitted on Friday that the vessel was off course and apologised for the accident. The Australian authorities began pumping nearly 1,000 tonnes of
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  • BUSINESS
    • 373 28 DBS, Keppel announce sterling financial results for 2009 DBS Group Holdings and Keppel Corporation released their 2009 annual reports on Friday. The two Temasek-linked companies saw the challenging year through with resilience and reported sterling financial results. As part of their management’s disclosure, both companies
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    • 113 28  -  DOW JONES GMR Energy, the energy unit of India’s GMR Infrastructure, said on Friday Singapore’s Temasek Holdings would invest US$200 million ($278 million) in the company, which will use the funds for its existing projects. The investment, via compulsory convertible bonds, will be
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    • 103 28 Mainboard-listed Asia Food and Properties (AFP) said it has received permission from the Singapore Exchange (SGX) to list its new unit called Bund Center Investment. It’s part of the firm’s plans to separate its China property business, which will now be held
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    • 117 28 The Urban Redevelopment Authority has awarded the tender for the industrial site at Yishun Avenue 6 to developer OKH Management after the company submitted the highest bid for the site at $27.2 million. This works out to about $766.59 per square meter
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    • 297 28  -  JONATHAN PEERIS SINGAPORE The British insurer Aviva is confident about the outlook of the general insurance industry in Asia and has staged a comeback into the Singapore market after five years with the launch of its first direct online car insurance product to consumers. Asians are
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    • 244 28  -  JULIE QUEK SINGAPORE Culford Garden, a 24-unit apartment at Siglap, has successfully been sold for $39 million to Fragrance Properties in a collective sale the third successful collective sale this year. This means each owner could get an average of $1.625 million from the
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    • 223 29 A United States businessman was sentenced on Thursday to 50 years in federal prison for operating a US$3.6-billion ($5-billion) Ponzi scheme that included buying Polaroid as a cover. Thomas Petters, 52, was sentenced four months after he was convicted on charges of wire fraud, mail
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    • 178 29 AGENCIES South Korea’s central bank on Friday froze its key interest rate at a record low for the 14th straight month, citing risks to the global economic recovery. At his first rate-setting meeting, the Bank of Korea governor Kim Choong
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    • 142 29 AGENCIES Malaysia’s national oil company Petronas said on Friday its petrochemical and engineering units would be selling shares to the public this year as part of efforts to reduce the government’s presence in the industry. The petrochemicals business and Malaysia Marine and Heavy Engineering
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    • 521 29 Bidding frenzy for MacArthur set to intensify AGENCIES BRISBANE Australian miner Macarthur Coal on Friday rejected a A$3.7-billion ($4.8-billion) bid from fellow national New Hope Corp and said Swiss mining giant Xstrata had held talks with one of its major shareholders, signs that a week-long bidding frenzy could
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  • 508 30  -  COMMENTARY PROPERTY COLIN TAN Colin Tan is head of research and consultancy at Chesterton Suntec International. Anew spell of collective sales is upon us once again. Over the past few weeks, several notices by owners to sell their homes en-bloc have been announced. And at a
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  • SPORTS
    • 524 31  -  S’pore’s youth olympic triathlon hopefuls set to face off this weekend IAN DE COTTA ian@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Saturday is D-Day for four of Singapore’s finest young triathletes as they vie to represent the Republic at the inaugural Youth Olympic Games, to be held here from August 14
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    • 177 31  -  IAN DE COTTA After a participant died during the swimming segment in last year’s osim International triathlon race, organisers triathlon Association of Singapore (tAS) have stepped up efforts to increase the safety levels at this weekend’s event. the swimming course is now modified
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    • 318 31  -  TAN YO-HINN SINGAPORE With six months’ to the 16th Asian Games in Guangzhou (Nov 12 to 27), Singapore bowling star Remy Ong’s game is shaping up nicely. On Thursday night (Friday morning, Singapore time), the 31-year-old (picture) stumped some of the world’s best
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    • 713 32  -  SportS MatterS FaS deserve applause for their bold six-year plan, but how will they pay for it? LEONARD THOMAS leonard@mediacorp.com.sg The writer is executive sports editor at MediaCorp. The Football Association of Singapore’s (FAS) blueprint to turn the country into one of the 10
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    • 266 32  -  request granted, but delay means SSC will continue to withhold funds ian de Cotta SINGAPORE The Singapore Athletic Association (SAA) have asked for more time to sort out their paperwork, after a team from the Singapore Sports Council (SSC) visited their office for a
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    • 415 33 AFP AUGUSTA Obviously, Tiger Woods was the main attraction in the opening round of the Masters at Augusta National on Thursday. But it was also a day for the old-timers. Fred Couples (picture), 50, was hot with his swing and even hotter with his
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    • 638 33  -  despite layoff, woods turns in amazing first round GOLF 2010 MASTERS AGENCIES AUGUSTA Up was down and east was west at the most mixed-up opening day in Masters history on Thursday. A 60-year-old man was leading the tournament at one point (Tom Watson). A Champions Tour
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    • 854 34  -  offside there is a sense of an end of an era at united, as fergie ponders his next move DAVID NGIAU david@mediacorp. com.sg The writer is deputy sports editor at Today. Over the last few seasons, many pundits have declared Manchester United a
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    • 649 35 cristiano ronaldo may play it down, but his upcoming duel with lionel messi is must-see tV AGENCIES primEra liga real madrid v Barcelona Sunday morning, 4am MADRID What a week. On Thursday, Tiger Woods’ return to golf captivated the world. On Saturday night (Sunday morning, Singapore
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    • 403 35 TAN YO-HINN SINGAPORE Despite a star-studded cast that included a young Diego Maradona, Argentina crumbled at the 1982 World Cup, knocked out in the second round in Spain. Back then, they failed as a team. Osvaldo Ardiles, a member of that side, prays the
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  • Page 34 Miscellaneous
    • 167 34 sPorts on sAturdAy dAVid ngiAu david@mediacorp.com.sg footBALL 9.55pm ePL Hull v Burnley (StarHub Ch27) 10pm ePL W’ham v S’land (StarHub Ch 119) 11.30pm fA Cup A Villa v Chelsea (StarHub Ch 24) 2.45am serie A Fiorentina v Inter Milan (mio TV Ch 61) 3.55am La Liga R Madrid v Barca
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    • 55 37 from thigh-baring to floor-sweeping: there’s a frock for every body this season. >> T8 length matters April 10, 2010 A publicATion of columns >> T2 mAlAdjusTed: nobody likes A foreigner. in reAl life: AnoTher blog biTes The dusT. why Are you TAking picTures of your food? >> T4 The Audi
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    • 916 38  -  MaladjusTed You might feel like no one understands you in a foreign land. That’s because they don’t Phin Wong phin@mediacorp.com.sg I HAD an Australian teacher in secondary school. Her name was Mrs Rose Harland. Gosh did everyone hate her. She had arrived, fresh off the
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    • 681 39  -  in reaL LiFe Why some of us have pulled the plug on our blogs Chung Lyn-Yi lynyi@mediacorp.com.sg The writer is a senior producer at Channel NewsAsia. A FEW years ago, a couple of friends and I survived a heart-stopping car chase in Vietnam. Those
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  • FOOD
    • 1267 40  -  There’s a fine line between ‘foodie’ and ‘crazy’. Which type of food paparazzi are you? Kate Murphy food@mediacorp.com.sg THE NEW YORK TIMES TwenTy-eighT-year-old neuroscientist Javier garcia was in the pub recently having a grilled cheese sandwich. But before he took a bite, he snapped a digital
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      193 42 DON MENDOZA What a pair Featuring two local obsessions Chinese herbs and Japanese cuisine it is no surprise that the 2010 World Gourmet Summit’s Eu Yan Sang Experience is selling out fast, very fast. But this is not the only partnership making the news at this year’s dinner
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  • 747 43  -  DRINK How do wine critics possibly divine the future of wines still in their barrels? It could just be luck Robert Booth food@mediacorp.com.sg THE GUARDIAN THERE is a sliding door off the tasting room at Chateau Mouton Rothschild, 32km north-west of the city of Bordeaux, which opens
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  • STYLE
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      726 44  -  The hemlines on this season’s best frocks go from thighgrazing to floor-sweeping Lynette Koh lynettek@mediacorp.com.sg IS the economy up, or is it down? If you are confused by the mixed messages sent out by recent financial reports, spring’s hemlines could be to blame. After all, economic folklore has
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      192 46  -  Lynette Koh Whitening skincare that shrinks pores One of our favourite skincare brands, Murad, has just launched White Brilliance, a new three-step whitening regimen. Besides boosting the skin’s fairness, the range is also meant to address other complexion troubles, such as large pores and fine lines. Comprising
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    • 681 46 Don’t brush off those trendy, affordable suits THE NEW YORK TIMES BACK in the day, there were many choice slurs to run a fellow down, but somehow nothing was more damningly dismissive than to sneer that he wore a cheap suit. Then, of course, there
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    • 478 47 Resist the urge to wash your new pair of denims your rear will thank you for it later ARTHUR CHUA I WAS six when I received my first pair of jeans. It was 1973 yes, I have a photographic memory, especially when it comes to style
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  • SHOP
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      219 48  -  twice the quirk with Miko and F.U.n at Parco Marina Bay Sheryl Wong shop@mediacorp.com.sg THE creations of fresh young designers at the fashion incubator zone may be hogging the attention at Parco Marina Bay, but there are plenty other attractions worth checking out at this new kid
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    • 257 48 FORMERLY based in New York City, Singaporean actress Pamelyn Chee has starred in short films such as Wayne Wang’s The Princess Of Nebraska, as well as MediaCorp TV’s Channel 8 drama serial The Little Nonya. The Fly Entertainment artiste can currently be seen in the
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    • 245 48 Today’s picks Rubik’s cube pepper shaker from London brand nPW ($35.90), Miko This cleverly designed Rubik’s cube-slash-pepper shaker promises you’ll be kept busy at dinner either passing the pepper around or trying to solve the puzzle. Lollipops ($1.50 each), F.U.n Lollies from the United states to brighten up your day.
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    • 243 49 5«vV M>» s iL&i V Rihlah Arabs in Southeast Asia 11 April Exhibition 10 October 2010,10.00 am 9.00 pm (closed on public holidays) Exhibition Area, Level 10, National Library Building Presenting photographs and artefacts ranging from personal documents to musical instruments and items on public display for the first time,
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  • 462 50 DÉCOR This Ang Mo Kio flat is a perfect marriage of clean space and ‘scars’ HEIDIYEO JIMMY Tan chuckled at he showed us around his Ang Mo Kio flat. He said: “I don’t like ‘shabby chic’ to describe our place that’s pretentious. But... what we really did
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  • CARS
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      550 52  -  cAR Audi’s hottest TT has 340bhp and eats Porsches in a straight line, but comes with a walloping price tag Derryn Wong car@mediacorp.com.sg The “RS” in its name might mean it is the most aggressive member of the sporty TT coupe family, but in many ways, the TT
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      204 52 DERRYN WONG Wear more to ride safe ACeM (Association des Constructeurs européens de Motocycles) has released an online booklet aimed at getting more motorcyclists to wear protective clothing the lack of this is a more critical issue here in Singapore. ACeM’s survey says more than 90 per cent
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      468 54  -  CaR REVIEW If you’re a fan of Volkswagen’s Golf GTI, you might ask yourself if there really is a need for an even hotter version of an accomplished hot hatch Julian Low car@mediacorp.com.sg Well, the answer is that with the ability to scorch to 100kmh in 5.7
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    • 591 54 Fans of Swedish car-maker Saab have no reason to be worried official dealer Trans Eurokars tells us why IT’S been a rollercoaster ride for Swedish auto-maker Saab as well as its dedicated fan base which has endured the threat of being closed down by its American
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    • 1013 56 SATURDAYTV incredible tales (pG-sUpernatUral) Channel 5, 10pm A man sends a stranger home, but she turns out to be more than just a young girl. Could she even be the ghost of a young girl? Exactly who or what is she? Find out on this episode of Incredible Tales entitled
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    • 1041 57 SUNDAYTV FilMart: letters FroM iwo JiMa okto, 10pm Thirty-six days, 21,000 Japanese and 6,800 Americans dead, and the course of a world war and of global history changed. Academy Award winner Steven Spielberg teams up with another Oscar winner, Clint eastwood to tell the unforgettable story of the World War
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    • 1551 59 Headlines 12.30pm, 1pm, 1.30pm, 5.30pm, 6pm, 6.30pm, 10.30pm, 11.30pm, 12.30am, 1am, 1.30am Headlines/s’pore Updates 9.30am, 11.30am, 2.30pm, 4.30pm Headlines/sinGapore Market report 10.30am, 3.30pm 9.00AM Sesame Street (prescHool) 10.00 Rupert Bear (prescHool) 10.30 Pinky Dinky Doo (prescHool) 11.00 Eloise (prescHool) 11.30 Sid The Science Kid (prescHool) NOON Clifford’s Puppy Days (prescHool)
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  • 647 60 TODAY'S top 5 plus 5 others THINGSTO DO 1 Black White Blinds This exhibition showcases a series of Impressionist watercolour art works by French artist Didier Bayle, on various scenery featuring iconic pre-war houses with their distinctive blinds of black and white stripes. Date: Till April 17 Time: 11am to
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    • 43 61 our tough weekend treat for Sudoku die-hards supeR suDoku plus DIFFIcultY RAtIng: how to plAY The rules are easy. Fill in the grid so that every row, every column, and every 3x3 box contains the digits 1 through 9. CopyrighT uCliCk FRIDAY’s solutIon
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  • TRAVEL
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      768 62  -  Australia’s Northern Territory is an adventure wonderland for the anti-spa traveller Nellie Huang traveller@mediacorp.com.sg BUSH-walking in Australia’s back country, in true Crocodile Dundee style, had always been on my bucket list. I was drawn to the country’s wilderness, to the idea of traipsing through its scrubland and
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      484 63 What’s on in April and May MARK MALBY Dancing between the slots What: Macau Salsa Festival Macau celebrates its Latin roots with its second annual Salsa Festival, held in the sumptuous locale of the Venetian hotel. Take a break from the city’s slots and sightseeing with a full-on
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