Today, 29 March 2011, Afternoon Edition

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  • 21 1 MICA (P) 057/10/2010 A PUBLICATION OF NEWS HOTLINE 6822 2268 Tuesday March 29, 2011 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking AFTERNOON EDITION
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  • 524 1 Levels of radioactive material ‘not harmful to human health’, insists plant operator REUTERS TOKYO Plutonium found in soil at the crippled Fukushima nuclear complex heightened alarm this morning over Japan’s protracted battle to contain the world’s worst atomic crisis in 25 years. Plant operator
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  • 462 1 REUTERS WASHINGTON President Barack Obama told Americans last night (this morning, 7.30am Singapore time) that the United States would work with its allies to hasten the day when Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi leaves power, but would not use force to topple him.
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  • SINGAPORE VOTES 2011
    • 693 2  -  As three more candidates are introduced, PAP will tackle ‘comprehensive set of issues’ in its election manifesto LEONG WEE KEAT weekeat@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE As three more new People’s Action Party (PAP) candidates were introduced yesterday making it nine so far the party kept the focus
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    • 344 2  -  LEONG WEE KEAT SINGAPORE He may well turn out to be the only People’s Action Party candidate with six children, ranging from four to 18 years old. And Mr Zainal Sapari, 46, quipped yesterday that he hoped to inspire young couples to have many children,
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    • 342 3  -  LEONG WEE KEAT SINGAPORE After she was first identified by the media as possibly the People’s Action Party’s youngest new election candidate, Ms Tin Pei Ling found herself on the sharp end of comments online. Yesterday, after being
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    • 304 3  -  LEONG WEE KEAT SINGAPORE If elected, People’s Action Party candidate Gan Thiam Poh said the first thing he would raise in Parliament would be the need for a higher payout to workers under the Workfare Income Supplement Scheme. “The Government is going to increase foreign worker
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    • 491 4  -  TEO XUANWEI xuanwei@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE When he meets his friends at the neighbourhood coffeeshops nowadays, retiree Lee Yong Fong, a Potong Pasir resident since 1984, has been seeing a fair number of unfamiliar faces. “In the past, most of the people I bump into here
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    • 472 4  -  ESTHER NG esther_ng@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The game plan for veteran Member of Parliament Charles Chong who will leave Pasir Ris-Punggol GRC to contest in Joo Chiat single member constituency is to meet as many residents and grassroots leaders as possible in the coming days,
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  • JAPAN CRISIS
    • 623 6 AGENCIES TOKYO Radiation levels that can prove fatal were detected outside reactor buildings at Japan’s Fukushima Dai-Ichi plant for the first time, complicating efforts to contain the worst disaster since Chernobyl in 1986, while environmental group Greenpeace said it had detected
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  • NEWS
    • 330 8  -  HETTY MUSFIRAH SINGAPORE To give them a good feel for concerns on the ground and ensure the creation of practical and relevant policies, more top-level Civil Service officers will be attached to community-based organisations, Civil Service head Peter Ong announced yesterday. “As public
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    • 370 8 SINGAPORE A series of appointment changes at the top rungs of the public sector were announced yesterday, including the retirement of one highflier tipped to be a People’s Action Party election candidate. Energy Market Authority chief executive Lawrence Wong, 38, will step
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    • 297 10  -  DYLAN LOH dylanloh@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The Workforce Development Agency has set a target for 300 wafer fabrication workers to get full qualifications under its certification framework by next year, after 500 workers recently attained the higher skills set. The latter group are
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    • 288 10  -  MAYO MARTIN SINGAPORE If the contemporary art at the Singapore Biennale has been flying over your head, fear not, because help on how to enjoy it is on the way courtesy of teenagers. Today will be running a series of
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    • 231 10  -  HOE YEEN NIE SINGAPORE Two Singaporeans were badly beaten up during an early-morning fishing trip in Perth on Saturday, according to Australian media reports. Nine News reported that the pair, aged 19 and 20, are trainee pilots with the Republic of Singapore Air
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    • 229 10 Come April 1, Ren Ci Hospital will have a new CEO: Ms Loh Shu Ching (picture), who has extensive experience in healthcare management, according to a statement issued by the hospital yesterday. Ms Loh is currently the general manager of the Home Nursing Foundation
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  • VOICES
    • 432 12  -  How about a subsidy to help HDB dwellers with recurring cost of repairs? Letter from Siva Govindasamy AMID all the ongoing talk about sprucing up and upgrading HDB estates, and building new ones for a younger generation, I would like to revisit the old chestnut
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    • 119 12  -  Letter from Eileen Tan Chwee Lin I READ with quite a bit of indignation the reports of MPs going around hawker centres and coffeeshops urging stallholders to be part of the Retail Price Watch Group by making them promise to maintain their prices. I don’t
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    • 164 14  -  Letter from Tan Chor Hoon AT 10.45 on a weeknight, as I was tuned in to a Mandarin current affairs programme, Focus, on Channel 8, I was appalled to see an explicit advertisement for a maximizer bra of a renowned lingerie brand. The approximately one-minute commercial
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    • 120 14  -  LETTER FROM LILY CHUA SENIOR VICE-PRESIDENT, PRICING MANAGEMENT AND COMMERCIAL OPERATIONS, MEDIACORP We refer to Madam Tan’s letter and thank her for her feedback. The said 30-second advertisement was aired at 10.45pm, past the family-viewing time of 6am to 10pm, in adherence to the
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    • 163 14  -  Letter from Jeffrey Law Lee Beng ALMOST every Monday, I find it difficult to slot letters and documents into the neighbourhood mail collection boxes which are invariably full to the brim. This is due to the five-day work week practised by the postal authority,
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    • 137 14  -  LETTER FROM DANNY G TAN I drive across Singapore using several expressways every day. I notice that there is a type of debris common on our roads: Wooden poles. They are usually square-shaped in crosssection, less than 1m in length and have a diameter of
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    • 134 14  -  LETTER FROM COLIN ONG TAU SHIEN As an economics educator, I would like to commend National Development Minister Mah Bow Tan on the book, Reflections On Housing A Nation, because it allows me to use a local success story to teach economics to
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  • COMMENT&ANALYSIS
    • 1171 16  -  Let’s get some crucial perspective on alarmist reports of radiation levels BILL DURODIE Dr Bill Durodie is a Senior Fellow at the Centre for Non-Traditional Security Studies, S Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University. Over the weekend, many media worldwide
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    • 1004 18  -  PAUL SHEARD Paul Sheard is global chief economist and head of economic research at Nomura. Tragic as it is, this natural disaster may serve as a catalyst for Japan to forge a brighter future. Prime Minister Naoto Kan described Japan’s
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    • 786 20  -  The high percentage of recent grads in contract positions is worrisome RICHARD HARTUNG Richard Hartung is a consultant who has lived in Singapore since 1992. Jay, an economics degree-holder, has only found three-month contract jobs in banking since he graduated over a year
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  • WORLD
    • 302 22 BLOOMBERG BEIJING China has found traces of radioactive iodine-131 in the atmosphere above north-eastern Heilongjiang province as the authorities monitored food and water for contamination from the Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan. The low levels of radioactive particles found in Heilongjiang were one-100,000th the normal
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    • 61 22 A protester with portraits of three Filipinos on Death Row in China during a rally at the Department of Foreign Affairs yesterday in Manila, Philippines. The Filipinos were sentenced to death by the Chinese authorities for drug trafficking. China has set a March 30 date for
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    • 265 22 REUTERS LONDON At least 527 people were executed around the world last year, down from 714 in 2009, although China is believed to have put to death thousands more, human rights group Amnesty International said yesterday. It said Beijing was thought to
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    • 254 22 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH SHANGHAI The seemingly endless flow of young Chinese workers that helped to create the country’s economic miracle has now finally “dried up”, according to a leading economist. For decades, China has been able to rely on its vast workforce to manufacture
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    • 324 24 AGENCIES BANGKOK Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva promised policies to help families cope with rising fuel and food costs that threaten to undermine his party’s gains ahead of this year’s national elections. Mr Abhisit’s Democrat
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    • 114 24 Roxy Sterbenz wears headphones to listen to white noise downloaded by her parents in an attempt to get her to stop crying at her home in Queens, New York but after listening quietly for a just few minutes she resumed crying. Parents will try almost anything to
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    • 118 24 AP A team of suicide bombers shot their way into the compound of a road construction company in Afghanistan’s restive south-east and detonated a truck loaded with explosives, killing 24 people and wounding another 53. The attack occurred late on Sunday in
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    • 257 24 AP PHNOM PENH The man who admitted to overseeing the torture and killing of 16,000 people as the Khmer Rouge’s chief prison warden returned to the courtroom yesterday in Cambodia to appeal against his 19year prison sentence for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
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    • 296 26 AGENCIES DAMASCUS Syrian forces opened fire to disperse hundreds of protesters in Deraa calling for an end to emergency laws yesterday but demonstrators regrouped despite a heavy troop deployment, a witness said. At least 61 people have been killed in 10 days of
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    • 376 26 THE NEW YORK TIMES, AGENCIES TRIPOLI As rebel forces backed by allied warplanes pushed toward one of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi’s most crucial bastions of support, the American military warned yesterday that the insurgents’ rapid advances could quickly be reversed without continued coalition air
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    • Article, Illustration
      49 29 Cherry blossoms or ‘Sakura’ in Japanese in the Sensoji Temple, a major tourist attraction in downtown Tokyo. The Japan Meteorological Agency yesterday announced the start of the capital’s annual cherry blossom viewing season. The flowers are expected to be in full bloom in about a week. AP
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    • 374 29 AGENCIES BERLIN Mrs Angela Merkel will share the blame for the election rout of her Christian Democrats in the key state of Baden-Wuerttemberg on Sunday but that is unlikely to cost the German Chancellor her job, say analysts. The anti-nuclear Greens doubled their voter share
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    • 157 29 AP Add “Facebook depression” to potential harms linked with social media, an influential doctors’ group warns, referring to a condition it says may affect troubled teens who obsess over the online site. Dr Gwenn O’Keeffe, a Boston-area paediatrician and lead author of new American Academy
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    • 151 29 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH LONDON Up to one in 10 women could benefit from anti-cancer treatments such as tamoxifen even before they show signs of the disease, according to an international panel of experts. The latest study, published yesterday in The Lancet Oncology, suggests that
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  • SPORTS
    • 361 30  -  Famed tennis academy confirm talks to open school here TAN YO-HINN yohinn@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Earlier this month, Senior Parliamentary Secretary for the Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports (MCYS) Teo Ser Luck revealed in Parliament plans for a tennis academy, as well as a tennis facility in
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    • 186 30 SINGAPORE The sporting habits of Singaporeans will come under the microscope starting next Monday with the launch of a six-month nationwide survey by the Singapore Sports Council (SSC). The SSC have commissioned Ernst Young to conduct the National Sports Participation Survey 2011, which will
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    • 214 30 REUTERS JAKARTA A row over the leadership of Indonesia’s soccer association (PSSI) escalated yesterday when world governing body FIFA said one of their observers had been prevented from attending a PSSI congress. The Indonesian government said it had cut funding to the PSSI and
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    • 264 30  -  SHAMIR SINGAPORE He has kept himself busy since his return to Singapore last month. The Fandi Ahmad Academy is up and running and he has co-authored a book Optimal Fitness for Junior Champions, Ages 7-17 to help the development of young athletes. While
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    • 545 31 Kiwis aim to be on the front foot, whether the spin wizard is in or out CRICKET WORLD CUP Sri Lanka vs New Zealand AGENCIES COLOMBO They could face opponents missing one of the greatest spin bowlers in the history of the game but that
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    • 252 31 REUTERS PARIS Jose Mourinho (picture) came within a hair’s breadth of succeeding Steve McClaren as the England coach in 2007 after he was fired by Chelsea, the Real Madrid manager said yesterday. “Clubs were interested and I was close to taking the leap
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    • 203 31 AGENCIES MOHALI Angry protesters hurled stones and clashed with the police outside the Punjab Cricket Association Stadium yesterday in the run-up to tomorrow’s IndiaPakistan cricket World Cup semi-final. Baton-wielding police and security forces on horseback tried to push back an estimated 1,000-strong crowd
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    • 802 32 Worryingly for England, coach Capello seems to be running his mouth where it might hurt him later AFTERNOON LATEST THE DAILY TELEGRAPH LONDON Every silver lining has a cloud with Fabio Capello. Just when he should have been basking in the warm glow of a win over Wales,
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    • 226 32 THE GUARDIAN LONDON Brazil forward Neymar has opened the door on a move to Chelsea by revealing he would relish the chance to play in the English capital. The 19-year-old produced his latest impressive display for his country on Sunday, with
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    • 109 32 THE GUARDIAN Sir Alex Ferguson has branded the concept of international friendlies “a waste of time”. As a former manager of Scotland himself, Ferguson said he “understands completely” why international coaches such matches are arranged. “I am all in favour of the competitions. The players should
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    • 277 33 AGENCIES ORLANDO Martin Laird became the first European winner of golf’s Arnold Palmer Invitational to give Scotland a pair of champions on the same day. Laird made par at the final hole on Sunday (yesterday morning, Singapore time) for a one-shot win
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    • 381 33 NBA Miami 125 Houston 119 AP MIAMI LeBron James knew he, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh were on the cusp of something unique. He had no idea how rare it truly was. For the second time in NBA history the other coming 50 years
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  • IMPACT
    • 271 5 MARTELL has announced its continuing commitment to the photography industry here with the Icon de Martell Cordon Bleu. Already in its second year, the award recognises the artistic achievements of established local photographers. The prize money of S$30,000 is said to be the largest
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  • BUSINESS
    • 176 1 REUTERS WASHINGTON Sprint Nextel urged American regulators to block AT&T’s US$39-billion (S$49-billion) bid to buy Deutsche Telekom’s T-Mobile USA, saying the merger would harm consumers. “This transaction is fundamentally an-ti-competitive, and you can’t fix that with merger conditions,” Mr Charles McKee, Sprint’s vice-president
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    • 100 1 REUTERS EBay moved to bolster its ability to take on No 1 Web retailer Amazon.com with a US$1.96-billion (S$2.47-bllion) takeover bid for e-commerce service provider GSI Commerce. EBay would gain expertise in helping major retailers fill online orders and build relationships with big toy, electronics and
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      • 104 1 Wavering on uncertainty Stocks fell as the corporate outlook was clouded ahead of earnings and uncertainty continued to creep from abroad, while volume hit its lowest level of the year. The Japan crisis and Middle East turmoil loom large over the next quarter’s earnings, warn analysts. “If companies
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      • 102 1 Lowest volume this year US crude fell for a third day in the lowest trading volume of the year, as Libyan rebels regained key territory and redoubled efforts to resume oil exports from the OPEC country. Uncertainty running high due to Middle East unrest, the Japan nuclear crisis, unsure
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    • 333 1 Bank of England says reform of ratings agencies desperately needed REUTERS LONDON Rating agencies need to become more transparent and less dominant if they are no longer to pose a risk to the financial system, a Bank of England research paper has argued. Debate about
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    • 317 3 BLOOMBERG WASHINGTON Consumer spending in the United States rose more than forecast last month as incomes climbed, helping to bolster the expansion in the world’s largest economy. Purchases increased 0.7 per cent, the most since October, after advancing 0.3 per
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    • 180 3 SINGAPORE OCBC Bank yesterday said that it has launched a mobile banking application, allowing its customers using Android phones to scan barcodes to obtain billing details and make payments from their OCBC Bank accounts. The bank said its customers have started downloading the
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    • 147 3 SINGAPORE SingTel yesterday announced the launch of a cloud computing service which will help companies cut their information technology cost. SingTel said it has tied up with the US virtualisation software leader, VMware, to launch SingTel PowerON Compute, enabled by VMware vCloud
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    • 93 3 About 8,000 staff of the United Overseas Bank pounded the streets on Sunday morning in the UOB Heartbeat Run/Walk the bank’s annual corporate social responsibility initiative to raise funds for beneficiaries such as AWWA School, Fei Yue Early Intervention Programme for Infants and Children (EIPIC) and tihe
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    • 135 3 SINGAPORE One of the world’s top commodity firms, Olam International, has signed an agreement with Gabon to secure the supply of natural gas for its coming fertiliser project in the African country. Olam had announced in November plans to set up a port-based
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    • 222 2  -  TRAVIS TEO SINGAPORE Businesses should take advantage of Singapore’s strategic location and strong economic connectivity, and serve as a bridge for China and India, said Mr S Iswaran, Senior Minister of State, Ministry of Trade and Industry. Speaking at an industry conference, he
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    • 270 2  - Temasek writes to the Aussie media CONRAD RAJ SINGAPORE Temasek Holdings has written to the Australian media to reiterate that it does not control the Singapore Exchange (SGX). The letter was in response to a number of articles in the Australian media inaccurately reporting Temasek’s role vis-a-vis the Singapore bourse.
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    • 256 2  -  JO-ANN HUANG joannhuang@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Asian governments are going all out to tame inflation, which is in double digits in Vietnam and also stubbornly high in India and Indonesia, bankers said. They said monetary tightening in the region will continue unabated, with most Asian central banks increasing interest
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    • 38 1 SIMON COWELL SAYS EVERYTHING IS HUNKY DORY T8 MARCH 29, 2011 A PUBLICATION OF WHAT DO STUDENTS THINK OF THE BIENNALE? T2 JIMMY EAT WORLD WANTS NEW SONG EXPERIENCES T6 AMY ADAMS IS THE NEW LOIS LANE T10
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      416 2  -  This year’s Singapore Biennale through the eyes of student participants of the festival’s Young Art Writers Programme MAYO MARTIN mayo@mediacorp.com.sg UNTIL a couple of weeks ago, I was one of those who thought of contemporary art an “adult” thing. That all changed when I found myself listening
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    • 361 2  -  Channelling the special energies of a room for a conversation between cultures and dimensions ART REVIEW: THE DRAGON, THE PURPLE FORBIDDEN ENCLOSURE CHUA QI WEI CHUA QI WEI, VALERIE, NANYANG GIRLS’ HIGH SCHOOL A LOUD neon-orange sign in a peculiar room at Old Kallang Airport sets
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      451 4  -  Your random scribbles are a crucial part of his art ART REVIEW: WRAPPED KEZIAH QUEK NGEEANN POLYTECHNIC, SCHOOL OF FILM AND MEDIA STUDIES CLIMB the stairs of SAM at 8Q and you’ll find a vandal’s delight. Drawn directly onto the museum’s wall in stark black pencil are objects
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    • 471 5  -  Perhaps we are more influenced by technology that we’d like to think ART REVIEW: FREQUENCY AND VOLUME MELODY LEE SINGAPORE POLYTECHNIC, SCHOOL OF COMMUNICATION, ART AND SOCIAL A CACOPHONY of jarring voices and sounds fill the ears, while upon a white wall, the shadows
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  • ENTERTAINMENT
    • 616 6  -  Alt-rockers Jimmy Eat World on songwriting and getting ‘warm and fuzzy’ about their fans Kevin Mathews features@mediacorp.com.sg THERE’S little doubt that American rock band Jimmy Eat World has exerted a strong musical influence on alternative rock bands around the world for almost two decades. Certainly, in
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    • 631 8  -  Ex-American Idol judge Simon Cowell says it’s all good with him Kim Masters fetaures@mediacorp.com.sg REUTERS TEN years after helping launch American Idol into an American national pastime, Simon Cowell is again playing the role of underdog. He’s back auditioning talent for a largely unknown singing competition
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    • 246 10 REUTERS AMY Adams will play Lois Lane in the upcoming Superman reboot, filling iconic shoes worn at various times by Noel Neill, Margot Kidder,Teri Hatcher and Kate Bosworth. She will play the enterprising Daily Planet journalist and key love interest opposite British actor
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    • 199 10 SINGAPORE-based jazz outfit Organamix comprising organist Jeremy Monteiro, guitarist Andrew Lim and drummer Chanutr Techatana-nan has been nominated at the 10th Independent Music Awards (IMA). The IMA celebrates self-released work or works by independent label artistes across all music genres. Organamix got their nod for
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    • 630 13  -  Pretend play helps kids learn and develop Eveline Gan eveline@mediacorp.com.sg YOU invest in sophisticated learning software, the latest toys and gadgets, and go through flash card drills with Junior. Experts, however, say there is a simpler, and less expensive, way to enhance your preschooler’s development. And
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    • 260 13 HEALTH BITE UNHAPPY children are more likely to be involved in underage drinking and sexual activity, according to a study reported in BioMed Central’s open access journal Substance Abuse,Treatment, Prevention And Policy. The study, on more than 3,500 11 to 14 year olds from 15
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    • 61 14 HEALTH LISTINGS Endometriosis is a common condition which can cause painful periods and pelvic pain. Learn more about this chronic condition, as well as its treatment options. Date: Saturday Time: 1.30pm to 4.30pm Venue: KKH Auditorium, Level 1, Women’s Tower, KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital Fee/Registratio: S$5.
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    • 65 14 Most pigmentation and wrinkles are caused by sun exposure.Therefore, sun protection knowledge is a woman’s key to maintaining youthful skin. Find out how you can protect your skin. This talk is presented in Mandarin. Date: Friday Time: 1pm to 2pm Venue: Health Education Hub, 5 Lower Kent Ridge
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    • 700 14  -  Don’t neglect ear infections Eveline Gan eveline@mediacorp.com.sg IT SOUNDS like a harmless childhood ailment. However, a simple ear infection could possibly lead to hearing loss in babies and young children, warn medical experts. Ear infections, or otitis media in medical lingo, are common in children under
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