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  • 20 1 TODAY MICA (P) 057/10/2010 A PUBLICATION OF NEWS HOTLINE 6822 2268 Monday April 11, 2011 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking
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  • 454 1  -  DYLAN LOH dylanloh@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong yesterday announced the line-up for his team contesting Ang Mo Kio Group Representation Constituency in the coming General Election. The team includes Aljunied GRC Member of Parliament Yeo Guat Kwang, Ang Mo Kio GRC
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    • 68 1 THE LATEST NEWS. NOW ON IPAD. DOWNLOAD YOUR FREE APP COMMENT&ANALYSIS THERESE LEUNG PARTISAN RANCOURANDTHEWEARYUS PUBLIC 12 JEFFREY SACHS COUNTRIES MUST RAISE PRODUCTIVITY TO COMPETE WITHYOUNG CHINESE, INDIANS 14 LEAH MCGRATH GOODMAN GLOBAL OIL CASINO BENEFITS ONLY PLAYERS 16 PAULGILFEATHER CAN CHINAAND AMERICAGET ALONG? 18 DIGITAL SECTION SOCIAL MEDIA HAS
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  • SINGAPORE VOTES 2011
    • 319 2  -  LYNDA HONG lyndahong@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The Jurong Town Council (JTC) has launched a five-year concept master plan (this year to 2015) for Jurong Group Representation Constituency (GRC) and the Yuhua single ward. Incumbent MPs, new and potential People’s Action Party (PAP) candidates were all there for
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    • 565 3  -  DYLAN LOH, LYNDA HONG SINGAPORE In a surprise announcement, Minister in the Prime Minister’s Office Lim Boon Heng said yesterday he will retire from politics after 31 years. Speaking at a community event in Jurong Group Representation Constituency, which he helms, he said
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    • 458 3  -  TANYA FONG tanyafong@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Workers’ Party’s much talked about candidate Chen Show Mao yesterday stressed the need for Opposition presence in Parliament as a long-term insurance for Singaporeans, as it can provide “real checks and balances”. Said Mr Chen: “We
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    • 848 4  - Chiam’s wish of contesting in a GRC coming true HOE YEEN NIE yeennie@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE There had been concerns that Singapore People’s Party chief Chiam See Tong (picture) would not have enough candidates to contest the five-member Bishan-Toa Payoh GRC. But yesterday, the SPP secretary-gen-eral named two candidates and promised more
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    • 339 6  -  MAY WONG MAY WONG maywong@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Deputy Prime Minister Wong Kan Seng said Singaporeans should study the details of policies proposed by the Opposition and ask for more explanations. Mr Wong, who is also the People’s Action Party’s first
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    • 1388 6  -  JOANNE CHAN with talk of even fourcornered fights emerging. While conventional wisdom Party’s (SPP) Sin Kek Tong and lead a team in the Jurong Group Representation boundaries campaigning Radin joannechan@mediacorp.com.sgaoevenour-fightsemerging.ygandleadateamintheca dictates that three-cornered fights dilute Opposition votes and cede the battle to the
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    • 265 24  -  MONICA KOTWANI SINGAPORE The Singapore Democratic Party and Singapore Democratic Alliance also held their walkabouts today. The SDP met residents in Ghim Moh and Yuhua, while the SDA visited Rivervale Crescent in the Punggol-Sengkang area. SDA secretary-general Desmond
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    • 343 24  -  DYLAN LOH dylanloh@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE From figuring out those who really need help to those who just need encouragement to stand on their two feet, Mr Wee Siew Kim has done it, said Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong yesterday. Mr
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    • 204 25  -  SARA GROSSE SINGAPORE Community Development, Youth and Sports Minister Vivian Balakrishnan said he is looking forward to a contest from the opposition parties eyeing the Holland-Bukit Timah GRC. He said the next few weeks will be a good time for voters
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    • 519 25  -  NEO CHAI CHIN SINGAPORE The Reform Party (RP) has drafted the head of its women’s wing, Ms Chin Harn Ho, into its central executive committee (CEC), and is in talks with other Opposition parties to share candidates, said secretary-general Kenneth Jeyaretnam. But he
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  • HOT NEWS
    • 262 8  - Look to your breakfast for returns STELLA LEE SINGAPORE —What goes into your breakfast may also give you a good investment return. Standard and Poor’s (S&P) says that exposure to commodities can now provide additional benefits to an investor’s portfolio as returns for at least five food commodities including corn,
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    • 403 8 REUTERS BEIJING China will use all possible measures, including the yuan exchange rate, to keep prices under control, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao (picture) was quoted by the official Xinhua News Agency as saying. This is the first time Mr Wen has publicly
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    • 330 10 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH LONDON Baby foods used to wean infants off milk have been found to contain “alarming” levels of toxic contaminants including arsenic, lead and cadmium, in tests conducted in Sweden. The products tested by researchers were made
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    • 485 10 Japan: One month on AGENCIES TOKYO One month on, and the crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant is still creating lasting scars. Scariest is what cannot be seen in the images of vast destruction from the March 11 natural disasters that led to the nuclear crisis namely radiation. It could take
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    • 199 10 AP Hundreds of dented metal safes, swept out of homes and businesses in Japan by last month’s tsunami, are washing up along the coast and the police are trying to find their owners. It is a unique problem in a country
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  • COMMENT&ANALYSIS
    • 738 12  -  Reasons for the gridlock that almost shut down the American government and why it didn’t THERESE LEUNG Therese Leung is an Associate Fellow at the Singapore Institute of International Affairs. She previously worked for the United States Congress as a policy adviser for
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    • 999 14  -  Countries must raise productivity to compete with young Chinese, Indians for jobs or see lower pay, unemployment JEFFREY SACHS Jeffrey D. Sachs is professor of economics and director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University. He is also special adviser to United Nations Secretary-General on
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    • 983 16  -  The energy-trading fraternity has never let the facts get in the way of a good supply scare LEAH MCGRATH GOODMAN The writer is the author of The Asylum: The Renegades Who Hijacked The World’s Oil Market. She is a fellow at the Center for
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    • 1015 18  -  PAUL GILFEATHER gilfeather@mediacorp.com.sg The writer is the principal correspondent at Today. Ihave been on a bit of a mission of late to discover if the high hopes many people have regarding the political coalescing of China and America are well-founded or simply misplaced. Personally,
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  • VOICES
    • 133 20  -  LETTER FROM LIM JOO JOON I refer to the letter from SATS (“Buggy transport: Customer advised to contact airline”, April 9) in response to Ms Siti Radiah’s letter. I had a similar experience last year when my mother need a buggy service at Changi airport.
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    • 363 20  -  Letter from Sin Wei Xiang MR LOW Thia Khiang is right to say that the stakes of him leading a team to fight a Group Representation Constituency are “very high” (“I believe in evolution: WP’s Low”, April 9). The introduction of the GRC scheme
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    • 347 20  -  Letter from DSP Lau Kian Keong Assistant Director, Media Relations (covering), Public Affairs Department, Singapore Police Force WE REFER to the letters “Short notice for call-ups of Police NSmen” by Mr Yeo Shuan Chee (April 2) and “Recall notice might depend on operations” by
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    • 234 21  -  Letter from Ng Siqi Kelly A SEMESTER in the States is quite a dream come true for an avid runner seeking to run. I did the Cooper River Bridge Run (CRBR) last Saturday and will be doing the Tar Heel 10-miler tomorrow, and I
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    • 283 21  -  Letter from Dr Wong Meng Ee IN RESPONSE to the article “Schools still not using technology effectively” (April 7), a further aspect of the push to introduce technology in our schools is the consideration of students with disabilities. Future Schools are the
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    • 94 21  -  LETTER FROM LIU I-CHUN It is gratifying to see more historic precincts being conserved for posterity. In refurbishing the shophouses in Balestier, I hope the Urban Redevelopment Authority would consult experts with experience in highlyacclaimed conservation projects. I loathe to see the historic buildings
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  • Page 20 Miscellaneous
    • 92 20 The Hows How did the flat viewing go today? Did you finally see something you like? A YEAR LATER... Can wait place of our own Yeah the get room all myself finally! Mr Mrs. How r* •41k, k Michelle Melissa Peter The Neighbours Well... there's a corner unit that's near
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  • SPOTLIGHT ON LEARNING
    • 517 21  -  It is no longer enough to study and work hard here are some skills you need to succeed in the modern economy BY GARY LEE When I was young, my mum used to say: “Son, you must study hard and get a degree.
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 280 22  -  TANYA FONG The clients of licensed moneylenders typically included businessmen who need cash to tide through their business and housewives who habitually gamble on cruise ships. In the last half year, the profile is changing to include more young professionals aged between
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    • 707 22  - Beware of whom you get your loan from TANYA FONG tanyafong@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE No longer content with advertising in the media, the stiff competition in the industry is driving licensed moneylenders to other avenues of advertisement they are now slotting their name cards under doors and in mailboxes at Housing Board
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    • 204 23 The impact of recent global upheavals on the Republic will dominate discussions in Parliament when it convenes today. Almost half 10 out of 21 of the questions tabled by Members of Parliament (MPs)forthe session
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    • 490 23  -  They are dissatisfied with reasons given why closed tunnel is unfeasible NEO CHAI CHIN chaichin@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Their proposal to extend the covered tunnel stretch of the future North-South Expressway (NSE) has been rejected by the Government, but residents of Nuovo executive condominium at Ang Mo
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    • 206 25 SIM Management House I Application for July 2011 intake closes on 16 April. Akash Modi BSc (Hons) International Business University of Birmingham, UK Seizing the opportunity to better himself. Uncovering his hidden potential. He’s bringing out his best at SIM. entrepreneurial Akash wanted to enhance his career prospects with up-to-date
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  • WORLD
    • 379 26 AGENCIES BEIJING China’s official Xinhua news agency has reported that artist Mr Ai Weiwei (picture), whose detention has drawn international criticism, has been accused on the Internet of “stealing” the idea for a 2007 exhibit. Xinhua published late on Saturday a critique of Mr Ai,
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    • 232 26 REUTERS REYKJAVIK Iceland faces more economic uncertainty and a drawn-out European court case after its voters rejected for a second time a plan to repay US$5 billion (S$6.3 billion) to Britain and the Netherlands from a bank crash. The British and Dutch
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    • 393 26 AP BEIJING Beijing police yesterday detained dozens of worshippers from a Christian house church who were trying to hold services in a public space after they were evicted from their usual place of worship, a worshipper said. Leaders of the unregistered Shouwang
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    • 332 27 LAMITAN (Philippines) Army troops yesterday defused a powerful bomb outside a school in the same southern Philippine province where, just the night before, a blast destroyed a lodging house and another explosive was found near a hotel. The attacks blamed have been
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    • 65 27 Investigators inspect the wreckage of a six-seater Piper Aztec plane which crashed a few minutes after taking off from the airport of popular mountain resort city Baguio in the northern Philippines yesterday. One passenger was killed instantly and another died in hospital later. An
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    • 140 27 AP A veteran politician said on Saturday that Taiwan’s main opposition party should drop its anti-China stance and sanction unrestricted Chinese investment in the self-governing island in order to win next year’s Presidential Election. At a live television debate hosted by the Democratic
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    • 330 28 THE MALAYSIAN INSIDER SUNGAIBULOH Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak yesterday dismissed the notion that his unprecedented plan to spend six days in Sarawak for the upcoming state election was a desperate move to defend the hornbill state, saying
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    • 95 28 A PEACEFUL PROTEST Two anti-government “red shirt” protesters lie on the ground, pretending to be killed, near the Democracy Monument in Bangkok yesterday. Thousands of Red Shirts gathered in the Thai capital for a peaceful rally to mark the oneyear anniversary of a violent confrontation with the military, in which
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    • 216 28 HULU SELANGOR A young Malaysian family of three perished in a horrific road accident in Selangor on Saturday morning when their car was crushed under a lorry. The victims were 29-year-old University Malaya Medical Centre medical assistant Mohd
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    • 358 30 AGENCIES AJDABIYA Military forces loyal to Colonel Muammar Gaddafi pressed a coordinated ground attack on Ajdabiya yesterday, bringing the front lines of the battle with the Libyan opposition forces back to the doorstep of this strategically vital rebel city. Col Gaddafi’s forces
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    • 214 30 AGENCIES CAIRO More than 1,000 protesters ignored an army order to leave Cairo’s main square yesterday, extending their calls for a quick move to civilian rule and a deeper purge of corrupt officials into a third day. On Friday, hundreds of thousands returned to Tahrir
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    • 299 30 REUTERS AMMAN Syrian tanks were deployed overnight in flashpoint areas, residents said yesterday, in a government effort to prevent further outbreaks of pro-democracy unrest. Once-unthinkable public dissent challenging President Bashar Assad’s authoritarian rule has spread across Syria, despite his attempts to defuse
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    • 246 31 AGENCIES LONDON A HMS Astute crew member who was posted as a sentry while the British submarine was moored in Southampton, England, opened fire with an automatic weapon in the control room and killed its weapons engineering officer on Friday. The
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    • 274 31 AP AMSTERDAM Church services were held yesterday in a quiet suburb 30km outside Amsterdam to mourn six people killed by a gunman at a crowded mall, as investigators were puzzled over his motive and struggled to explain how he was able to obtain
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    • 124 31 AP JERUSALEM A senior Hamas government official in Gaza has gone on Israel Radio to make a rare direct appeal to the Israeli public for a halt in the current round of bitter fighting since Thursday. Hamas Deputy Foreign Minister Ghazi Hamad
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    • 246 32 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH LONDON Cannabis plants are being grown at a secret facility in the south of England, in the hope of producing a new treatment for epilepsy. Researchers at the University of Reading have discovered that three compounds found in cannabis leaves
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    • 196 32 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH LONDON It is the “will they, won’t they?” question hanging over the royal wedding. Prince William and Kate Middleton (picture) have seldom appeared intimate in public, leading many to query whether they would forgo the tradition of a post-wedding
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    • 144 32 AP A bomb squad recovered the bodies of two more people on Saturday, who had been missing after a fireworks storage bunker blast in Hawaii, bringing the death toll to five, officials said. The blast, near the Waikele Business Centre at
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    • 125 32 THE NEW YORK TIMES Police stepped up patrols at synagogues and other houses of worship, in a Los Angeles area on Saturday, as a suspect in a blast outside a synagogue remained at large. The blast was initially thought to be the
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    • 121 29 Comprehensive online coverage of General Election 2011 VOTE2011 f'aily HM Ut Mmuiy a-i VMM ft!! WHIMf, Mj» U" Hr.) G€ StamcnAcdt m K Ot StXmsilMO Wojtnatn -KttefODC lUiMuy 'M GE: West Coast GRC team a good mi* of diversity, says Urn Hng Kiang SB Today we set you thinking rov
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    • 181 32 „NUMENTAL ENCOUNTERS I Experience a fascinating night at the museum! Explore beautiful contemporary pieces from the Southeast Asian Region on this special night at the Singapore Art Museum. Allow the art exhibitions to titillate your senses and embrace your appetite for art. Develop your artistic skills with caricature drawing and
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  • BUSINESS
    • 553 34  -  Despite some stock downgrades, analysts confident due to rental growth and rising consumer spending JO-ANN HUANG joannhuang@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Concerns over policy risk and moderating home sales have trickled into market sentiment, prompting downgrades on some property developer stocks. Still analysts are sanguine on retail property
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    • 419 34  -  TRAVIS TEO travisteo@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE It was probably a change of mind when Carlsberg dropped its “Probably the best beer in the world” slogan for “’That calls for a Carlsberg”. Mr Soren Ravn, managing director, Carlsberg, explained: “We are coming with a brand new communication
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    • 214 35 SINGAPORE Amber Towers was sold to Resource International Holdings, a wholly owned subsidiary of China Sonangol Land Pte Ltd, for S$161.6 million, said sale manager Savills Singapore. The District 15 freehold redevelopment site occupies an area of approximately 40,708 sq ft
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    • WEEKLY ROUNDUP (APRIL 4 TO 8)
      • 50 35 FRIDAY CLOSE 3,187.31 (+0.49%) THEWEEK AHEAD Regional markets are likely to sustain their gains when trade opens this week as fears over the Japan crisis ease and analysts forecast a favourable earnings season. Thursday 3,171.65 p 0.04% Wednesday 3,170.33 p 0.75% Tuesday 3,146.75 p 0.20% Monday 3,140.62 p 0.65%
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      • 30 35 HANG SENG 24,396.07 (+3.69%) Ç Ç Ç NIKKEI 9,768.08 (+0.61%) Ç SHANGHAI Ç 3,030.02 (+2.51%) Ç AUSTRALIA Ç 4,940.57 (+1.62%) MUMBAI 19,451.45 (+0.16%) MALAYSIA 1,557.49 (+0.14%) SEOUL 2,127.97 (+0.33%)
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      • 5 35 OIL US$112.79 (+4.49%) Ç
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      • 21 35 US$1 s$1.257 £1 s$2.056 €1 s$1.815 ¥100 s$1.483 A$1 s$1.324 RM1 s$0.416 Rp1,000 s$0.145 HK$100 s$16.18 RMB100 s$19.23 RS100 s$2.852
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      • STOCK CALLS
        • 59 35 Outperform s$2.60 CIMB maintains rating with S$3.21 target price, following firm’s highest bid of S$543 million for the 99-year leasehold Bendemeer site under the Government Land Sale Programme. “While we see this bid as a mild negative, maintain Outperform as we see value in its chief commercial asset,
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        • 59 35 Buy s$8.38 DBS maintains rating with a target price of S$11.50. Says SGX still has ample opportunities in its existing businesses and is well-positioned to leverage on prospects in Asia. “We do not think SGX is in a rush to pursue another M&A so soon” DBS says after
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    • 600 36  -  LOIS CALDERON loiscalderon@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Government bonds will lose their safe-haven appeal amid beliefs that the monetary authorities will tighten policy further as inflation continued to head north, market analysts said. Investors will instead be drawn to rising stocks, a trend that is clearly
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    • 617 39 Wenger’s men pull off a vital win against game Seasiders AGENCIES ENGLISH PREMIERSHIP Blackpool 1 Arsenal 3 LONDON An edgy Arsenal overcame a brief Blackpool fight-back to win 3-1 at Bloomfield Road yesterday and close the gap on Manchester United to seven points at the
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    • 630 40  -  IAN DE COTTA senior F1 correspondent ian@mediacorp.com.sg FORMULA 1 Malaysian Grand Prix SEPANG Malaysian interest on the grid at every Formula 1 Grand Prix over the last few years is healthy, with carmakers Proton backing the Lotus Renault team and oil giants Petronas in
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    • 88 40 SPORTS FIXTURES For fixtures of all E Premier, E League Champ, Spanish League and UE Champions, please visit Singapore Pools website. LIVE TELECAST AT LIVEWIRE(MARINA BAY SANDS RESORTS WORLD SENTOSA) E Premier j Liverpool j Manchester City j Tue, 12/04/11 3.00am Always play with care. Do not bet illegally. Towards
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    • 258 13 ON MEDIACORP MEGA MONDAY MOVIE: MEN IN BLACK Channel 5, 7.30pm Kay and Jay are members of a top-secret organisation established to monitor and police alien activities on Earth. They find themselves in the middle of a deadly plot by an intergalactic terrorist who has arrived on Earth to assassinate
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      1055 9  -  She used to feel inadequate, but after nearly six years abroad, Sharon Au says: ‘I like myself much more’ May Seah may@mediacorp.com.sg CLAD in a blazer and black-rimmed glasses, Sharon Au’s wistfulness for Japan, where she spent the last five-and-a-half years pursuing a Bachelor of Liberal Arts degree
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    • 132 5  -  MAYO MARTIN STATE OF THE ARTS: Last week proved to a rare lull period smack inbetween two busy ones.The previous one was notorious for the Singapore Biennale boo-boo that led to the shutting down of Simon Fujiwara’s homo-eroticism-meets-Spanish-fascism hotel installation and consequent negative repercussions on the credibility
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      • 57 5 Can Cannot Also Can Performance artist Lee Wen returns to his roots with this musical show as part of his Anyhow Blues Project.The Cultural Medallion recipient wil be singing and performing his own folkbased songs backed up by Zai Kuning, Reef and Hafiz *****. April 15 and 16,8pm,The Substation
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      • 68 5 Unshakeable—To Japan Following a silent auction held over the weekend, Light Editions Gallery is exhibiting the works by more than 40 Singaporean and international artists organised by Light Edition Gallery in support of fund-raising efforts for the tsunami and quake victims in Japan. Until April 17, 10.30am to
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