Today, 18 April 2011, Afternoon Edition

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    21 1 AFTERNOON EDITION MICA (P) 057/10/2010 A PUBLICATION OF NEWS HOTLINE 6822 2268 Monday April 18, 2011 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking
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    Lock icon PAP manifesto a call to ‘secure future together’
    735 1  -  LEONG WEE KEAT weekeat@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE As he set out the ruling party’s vision for the next five years ahead of the imminent General Election (GE) Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong also took the opportunity to take stock of the People’s Action Party’s
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    Class of 2011 not an ordinary slate, says PM
    522 1  -  Up to half could become office-holders and at least five are Minister material LEONG WEE KEAT weekeat@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE As he prepares to send the fledgling politicians into electoral battle, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong gave a ringing endorsement of the People’s
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  • SINGAPORE VOTES 2011
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      Opposition reacts to PAP manifesto
      648 2  -  Some party chiefs express scepticism over promises; others see similarities with their own HETTY MUSFIRAH, WAYNE CHAN hetty@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The People’s Action Party’s manifesto drew varied responses from the Opposition parties yesterday, with some taking credit for parts of it while others cast doubt on
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      Lock icon Wooing WP-held Hougang 'not easy' but PAP rookie finds hope
      422 3  -  ONG DAI LIN dailin@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE On his first ground visit to Hougang estate, People’s Action Party (PAP) candidate Desmond Choo (picture) got a taste of what he would be up against if he is fielded in the Workers’ Party-held ward.
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      ‘I know what it is like to worry about earning a living for the family’
      673 3  -  Controversial PAP candidate Tin Pei Ling refutes her perceived lack of experience ONG DAI LIN dailin@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Acknowledging the “storm of online criticism” on her candidacy for the coming General Election, Ms Tin Pei Ling
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      Lock icon Ho Peng Kee to take on new MHA role post-politics
      437 4  -  TANYA FONG tanyafong@mediacorp. com.sg SINGAPORE He may be stepping down from politics but Senior Minister of State for Law and Home Affairs Ho Peng Kee (picture) will continue to play a role in the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) the
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      18 retiring MPs ‘put the nation’s needs first’
      372 4  -  ONG DAI LIN SINGAPORE It can be hard for Members of Parliament (MPs) to let go of their wards and retire, when they have projects underway and personal ties with residents and grassroots leaders. And for the activists, they lose an MP
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      RP chief cannot comprehend ‘why NSP cannot return the favour’
      435 6  -  SATISH CHENEY, WAYNE CHAN satishkumar@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The Reform Party (RP) confirmed yesterday that it will contest West Coast GRC and the Single Member Constituencies (SMCs) of Radin Mas and Pioneer, even as it briefly expressed unhappiness on its official Facebook
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      WE CAN DO WITH SMALLER INCREASES IN THE RESERVES: NSP
      176 6  -  WAYNE CHAN The National Solidarity Party (NSP). which wants to take on National Development Minister Mah Bow Tan in Tampines GRC, has responded to Mr Mah’s comments that lowering the cost of state land was equivalent to taking money from
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      SDP unveils 2 potential candidates, confirms contest in 3 constituencies
      332 6  -  QIUYI TAN SINGAPORE The Singapore Democratic Party (SDP) unveiled another two potential candidates for the coming General Election during a walkabout yesterday, as it confirmed three of the constituencies it plans to contest. Introduced to residents at Ghim Moh Market
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  • HOT NEWS
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      Lock icon China raises bank reserve levels again to curb inflation
      332 8 AGENCIES HONG KONG China raised bank reserve requirements for the fourth time this year to lock up cash and limit inflation after economic growth exceeded forecasts and consumer prices rose by the most since 2008. Reserve ratios will increase a half
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      Lock icon A pledge to cooperate — and a warning
      539 8 A pledge to cooperate and a warning AP BLOOMBERG WASHINGTON Global finance ministers and central bankers concluded three days of talks late on Saturday with pledges of greater cooperation to avert another financial crisis leaving uncertain how far they would go in changing their domestic policies in response to international
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      SIA refused to divert flight, claims man who had heart attack
      244 8  -  MONICA KOTWANI SINGAPORE A passenger has accused Singapore Airlines of leaving him with long-term heart damage after he had to endure a 14-hour flight while suffering a cardiac arrest. The British newspaper Daily Mail reported yesterday that Mr Max
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  • COMMENT&ANALYSIS
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      Lock icon China’s bad growth bet
      1083 10  -  It’s in for a hard landing come 2013 unless it can save less, consume more and stop over-investing NOURIEL ROUBINI Nouriel Roubini is chairman of Roubini Global Economics (www. roubini.com), professor of Economics at the Stern School of Business at NYU and co-author of Crisis Economics,
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      Lock icon 30 years on, fairy tale gloss is gone
      991 12  -  Singapore doesn’t care about William and Kate’s royal wedding and that suits me PAUL GILFEATHER gilfeather@mediacorp.com.sg Paul Gilfeather is the principal correspondent at Today. As someone who catches cabs several times a day, I tend to use my many conversations with the
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      Lock icon Doctors as accidental leaders? No more
      1273 14  -  Healthcare in Asia needs chiefs who can straddle oft-divergent worlds of management, politics and medicine JEREMY LIM, AUDREY CHIA-CHAN Dr Jeremy Lim chairs the SingHealth Centre for Health Services Research. Associate Professor Audrey Chia-Chan is with the NUS Business School. This article is part
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  • VOICES
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      TONE DOWN ANNOUNCEMENTS ON NORTH-EAST LINE, PLEASE
      127 16  -  LETTER FROM LIU I-CHUN As a frequent user of the North-East Line (NEL), I find the announcements and warning beeps in the train carriages unbearably loud. In fact, the volume in the NEL seems to be the loudest of all the MRT lines.
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      Focus is on whether the company is run well
      281 16  -  Letter from Goh Yong Siang Senior Managing Director, Strategic Relations, Temasek Holdings WE REFER to Conrad Raj’s article “Stanchart’s board needs a Singaporean” (April 15), which questioned why Temasek is not keen to participate in the running of Standard Chartered Bank,
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      Secularism in its extreme can be intolerant
      353 16  -  Letter from Sanjay Perera I REFER to “Why one defends a secular state” by Zhou Ziqian (April 13), where there seems to be a misunderstanding of what “public reason” implies. Having a secular state as believed by some is to give preference to
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      NAB SMOKERS AT EPL SCREENINGS IN COFFEESHOPS
      146 18  -  LETTER FROM COLIN YAM I refer to the letter by Ng Ee Laine, “Smoke only in smoking rooms” (April 15), and I agree that there doesn’t seem to be much enforcement done on smokers lighting up outside the “yellow boxes“ in coffeeshops. The
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      An abandoned bag on MRT train
      194 18  -  Letter from Valen Luah I WAS on an MRT train between the City Hall and Dhoby Ghaut stations at around 12.45pm last Friday when I noticed an abandoned bag on a seat. Two other passengers also took note of the suspicious article and the
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      Better ways than to spy on your child
      441 18  -  Letter from Charles Tan I REFER to the letter “The day I confiscated my 12-year-old’s handphone” (April 14) by Foo Chin Peng. Having been in a similar situation, I can empathise with her daughter and would like to offer some insight from
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      163 18 Your body talks to you all the time, but do you listen? headaches ear infections neck pain immune system asthma digestion problems lower back pain reproductive problems hip pain and sciatica Even if you tried, the distracting pace of a modern life makes it difficult. At New Life Family Chiropractic,
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  • SINGAPORE
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      The why behind the where
      736 20  -  Amid horsetrading and gamesmanship, Opposition parties share how they choose their battlegrounds NEO CHAI CHIN chaichin@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE As the clock ticks down to Nomination Day, the various hot-spots shaping up to be key battlegrounds are beginning to take shape. Yet, up until the last minute,
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      Lock icon I want to tackle issue of broken families: SDA hopeful
      284 20  -  HETTY MUSFIRAH SINGAPORE The Singapore Democratic Alliance (SDA) might field a second Malay candidate Mr Mohammad Shafni Ahmad (picture), 32, who works as a marketing executive at property developer Xinya. Mr Shafni, who has a bachelor’s degree in political science
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      Sentosa murder: Man, 44, arrested
      200 22 SINGAPORE A 44-year-old Singaporean man has been arrested for the suspected murder of a 28-year-old Singaporean man whose body was found in a luggage trolley bag at Sentosa on Saturday morning. The bag, containing a decomposed male body, was found floating near the shore in
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      Lock icon Singapore has one of the lowest stillbirth rates
      237 22 AP LONDON Singapore and Finland have among the lowest stillbirth rates worldwide at two per 1,000 births, according to research estimates published last Thursday in the medical journal Lancet. Nigeria and Pakistan were at the bottom of the list with 42 and
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      Easier soon to use sports and recreational facilities
      302 22  -  DYLAN LOH dylanloh@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Residents may soon find it easier to use the sports and recreational facilities at sports complexes and community clubs (CCs). The Singapore Sports Council and the People’s Association (PA) are exploring how sports complexes co-located at CCs can
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      Lock icon 'Painful' drama a Breakout success at Star Awards
      496 23 SINGAPORE The first instalment of the Star Awards 2011, held yesterday evening at the MediaCorp TV Theatre, saw awards in the technical categories given out to those in the television production industry, as well as popularity awards for various artistes. Hosted by
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  • WORLD
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      Lock icon TEPCO unveils clean-up plan
      476 24 Officials say it is a first step, unclear when evacuees can return AP TOKYO The operator of the crippled nuclear power plant leaking radiation in northern Japan announced a plan yesterday to bring the crisis under control within six to nine months and allow some evacuated
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      ASIAN ALLIES VITAL FOR UNITED STATES 'ECONOMIC REVIVAL'
      102 24 United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said that South Korea and other Asian partners are vital to the US’“economic renewal”. The South Korea-US Free Trade Agreement will deliver “significant benefits to both of our peoples”, Mrs Clinton said yesterday at
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      Lock icon Tornadoes wreak deadly havoc
      168 24 AP RALEIGH A furious storm system that kicked up tornadoes, flash floods and hail as big as softballs has claimed at least 37 lives on a rampage that began in Oklahoma days ago, then smashed across several southern states as it reached a new and deadly
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      Lock icon Presidential candidates 'friend' social media
      398 26 AP NEW YORK Republican Tim Pawlenty disclosed his 2012 presidential aspirations on Facebook. Rival Mitt Romney did it with a tweet. President Barack Obama kicked off his re-election bid with a digital video emailed to the 13 million online backers who helped power his historic
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      Lock icon Carcinogens 'injected into wells in US'
      331 26 AP WASHINGTON Millions of gallons of potentially hazardous chemicals and known carcinogens were reportedly injected into wells in the United States by leading oil and gas service companies from 2005 to 2009. A report by three House Democrats said on Saturday that 29 of
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      Lock icon Super rich in US see taxes drop dramatically
      256 26 AP WASHINGTON The super rich pay a lot less taxes than they did a couple of decades ago and nearly half of United States households pay no income taxes at all. The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) tracks the tax returns with the
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      Lock icon Laos 'has begun work' on controversial dam
      256 27 AP BANGKOK Laos has quietly begun work on the first dam across the lower Mekong River even before a four-nation meeting to decide on the project is held, an environmental group said yesterday. The governments of Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia and Thailand are scheduled
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      BMI TO BE LISTED IN REPORT CARDS: MALAYSIA
      163 27 Students’ body mass index (BMI) will be noted in their report cards while unhealthy food will be banned from school canteens effective immediately, said Malaysian Health Minister Liow Tiong Lai yesterday. “By listing students’ BMI on their report cards, parents have the
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      Lock icon BN coalition celebrates boost from Sarawak poll
      356 27 AGENCIES KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia’s ruling coalition voiced optimism yesterday that an electoral triumph in the country’s largest state will foreshadow similar success in national polls expected within a year. Prime Minister Najib Razak’s Barisan Nasional coalition fended off a strong challenge from the
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      Lock icon RAUL CASTRO PROPOSES TERM LIMITS
      96 30 AP President Raul Castro proposed term limits on Saturday for Cuban politicians, a remarkable gesture on an island ruled for 52 years by him and his brother Fidel. MrCastro, 79, lamented the lack of young government leaders and told delegates to a communist party congress
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      Lock icon UN PANEL URGES PROBE OF ALLEGED WAR CRIMES
      96 30 AGENCIES A United Nations panel has called fora thorough investigation into allegations that war crimes were committed by both sides in Sri Lanka as its decades-old civil war between the government and Tamil Tiger rebels drew to a close nearly two years
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      Lock icon US, allies seek refuge for Gaddafi
      361 30 THE NEW YORK TIMES WASHINGTON The Obama administration has begun seeking a country, most likely in Africa, that might be willing to provide shelter to Colonel Muammar Gaddafi if he were forced out of Libya, even as intelligence reports suggest that no rebel leader
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      Lock icon UNDERGROUND BEIJING CHURCH MEMBERS DETAINED
      116 32 AP Nearly 50 members of an underground Beijing church were detained yesterday as part of a crackdown on the unregistered congregation, a United Statesbased rights group said. Mr Bob Fu, president of the China Aid Association, a Christian rights group, said in an email that
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      Lock icon TAIWAN POLITICIAN REFUSES TO SAY WHETHER SHE IS GAY
      115 32 AP Taiwan’s main opposition leader is refusing to respond to another politician’s request that she clarify her sexual orientation. Ms Tsai Ing-wen is the favourite to become the Democratic Progressive Party’s (DPP) presidential nominee in elections scheduled for next year. Former
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      Lock icon SUU KYI WELCOMES NOMINATION OF NEW US ENVOY
      122 32 AP Pro-democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi says she hopes that a new United States special envoy to Myanmar will be able to help usher in true democratic reforms. President Barack Obama last week nominated Mr Derek Mitchell, a defence official and
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      Lock icon Odd work schedules 'pose health risk'
      470 32 AP WASHINGTON Reports of sleeping air traffic controllers highlight a long-known and often ignored hazard: Workers on night shifts can have trouble concentrating and even staying awake. “Government officials haven’t recognised that people routinely fall asleep at night when they’re doing shift work,” said
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      Lock icon Inspirational best-seller Three Cups of Tea ‘inaccurate’
      253 33 AP NEW YORK A CBS 60 Minutes investigation has alleged that the inspirational and multimillion seller book Three Cups ofTea is filled with inaccuracies. It also claims that numerous schools in Pakistan and Afghanistan, which co-author Greg Mortenson’s charitable organisation is said to
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      Lock icon SALT MARCH RE-ENACTED
      45 33 Men dressed as Mahatma Gandhi participate in a re-enactment of the Salt March in Durban yesterday. The annual event honours the 1930 march when Gandhi proposed a non-violent protest against the British Salt Tax to help free India from British control. REUTERS
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      Lock icon Implant lets you move things with your mind
      441 33 THE OBSERVER PROVIDENCE (Rhode Island) The robotic arm clutched a glass and swung it over a series of coloured dots. Behind it, a woman sat immobile in a wheelchair. Slowly, the arm put the glass down, narrowly missing one of the dots.
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      323 34  -  MILLET ENRIQUEZ emelita@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Inflation will hit the bottomline of Singapore firms, with those facing high material or wage costs, low margins and limited pricing power the hardest-hit, according to a recent Credit Suisse report. According to official forecast, inflation is expected to reach
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      415 34  -  JO-ANN HUANG SINGAPORE Banks in Singapore are chasing young, successful professionals as potential clients for a new segment of consumer banking the “emerging affluent”. There are an estimated 500 million emerging affluent individuals in the region. Banks have differing standards and definitions
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      535 36  -  LOIS CALDERON loiscalderon@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Listed companies with operations in China are racing against time to put in place strict new measures that could give them more control over their mainland-based legal representative or top executives. These so-called S-chips, or Chinese companies
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      273 36 SINGAPORE Mainboard-listed Keppel Corporation broke ground for its mixed-use development Seasons City project located in the Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-City yesterday. Its wholly-owned subsidiary, Keppel Integrated Engineering Limited (KIE), also signed a joint venture to pursue the building, owning and operation of a water reclamation
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      390 37 BLOOMBERG AFTERNOON LATEST WASHINGTON The United States, China, Japan, Germany, France, Britain and India will face deeper scrutiny from their peers to ensure their policies do not derail a global expansion that finance chiefs bet is strong enough to absorb
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      901 38  -  Or how to grow your business with some friends (and a little technology) COMMENTARY HOWARD LO Howard Lo is the owner of Standing Sushi Bar and a social media junkie. Most of us do not get a say on the technology in the workplace. You sit
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      316 40 Wilshire given PFA’s young player THE DAILY TELEGRAPH AFTERNOON LATEST LONDON Tottenham’s Gareth Bale has been named as the Professional Footballers’ Association Player of the Year. The 21 year-old has been in imperious form for Spurs in both the Barclays
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      123 40 AP Napoli faces a mountain to climb to win its first Serie A title since 1990 after missing a late penalty in a 2-1 loss to Udinese yesterday. Gokhan Inler and German Denis scored the goals that leaves Napoli trailing AC Milan by six
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      559 41 La Liga Real Madrid 1 Barcelona 1 REUTERS MADRID Jose Mourinho’s troublesome relationship with the Madrid-based media continued on Saturday night (yesterday morning, Singapore time when he refused to answer their questions after 10-man Real Madrid’s 1-1 draw with La Liga leaders Barcelona in
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      347 42  -  COMMENTARY IAN DE COTTA ian@mediacorp. com. sg Ian De Cotta is F1 Senior Correspondent with MediaCorp NewsHub. Give Lewis Hamilton the thumbs up. By defying team orders to preserve his tyres, the McLaren ace’s gutsy move to take the Chinese Grand Prix yesterday stopped Red
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      714 42 McLaren’s Hamilton outsmarts German to claim Shanghai title REUTERS FORMULA 1 Chinese Grand Prix SHANGHAI McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton won a thrilling Chinese Grand Prix yesterday to deny Formula One world champion Sebastian Vettel a third triumph in a row this season. Germany’s Vettel, in a Red
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      435 43  -  EWAN MAH ewanmah@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Just over a year after they first announced plans to launch the sport into the professional era, the Singapore Tennis Association (STA) are ready to name their picks for their S$500,000 scheme. In
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      60 42 League SPORTS FIXTURES Home Team I Away Team Match KickOff (Singapore date/time) [PLAY® Always play with care. [responsibly! Do not bet illegally. No person under the age of 18 years shall be allowed to purchase a ticket or to claim any prize. For details, visit www.singaporepools.com.sg or call 6786 6688
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      368 43  -  Seniors Ng and Chan steer club to fourth title IAN DE COTTA ian@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Nike Marlins (picture) captured their fourth Netball Super League (NSL) title when they beat Blaze Dolphins 51-40 to win the grand final at the Toa Payoh Stadium. The victory earned Marlins, who
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      240 11 ON MEDIACORP MEGA MONDAY MOVIE: MEN IN BLACK II Channel 5, 7.45pm J uncovers an evil plot by Serleena, a shapeshifting Kylothian queen who disguises herself as a gorgeous model.To stop her,J must convince his former mentor K, who has no memory of his time spent with the MIB, to
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      378 10 1 Say Ahh Sharks are misunderstood, or are they? Find out exactly how scary, or not, the sharp-toothed creatures are at the Planet Shark: Predator Or Prey exhibition. Expect life-sized shark models, 350-million-year-old fossils and props from the all-time classic shark movie, Jaws. Date: Until Aug 21
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      864 9  -  Why champagne and design make such great drinking buddies SERENE LIM serenelim@mediacorp.com.sg The Perrier-Jouet Flower Table will be at Le Saint Julien for amuse-bouche and Perrier-Jouët champagne pairings till May 15. WHEN it came to champagne at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile (also known as Milan Design Week),
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      128 8  -  SERENE LIM Nothing exists in a vacuum: Think again if you thought the dreary chore of vacuuming is only confined to the floor space. Many upholstered and fabric-clad furniture are home-sweet-home to dust mites; ceilings and walls, especially those plastered with wallpaper, collect dust quickly; and your
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      334 7  -  Roslisham Ismail’s Secret Affair reveals you really are what you eat SINGAPORE BIENNALE YOUNG ART WRITERS PROGRAMME JAMIE LEE to offer. JAMIE LEE, SINGAPORE POLYTECHNIC SIX identical refrigerators stood in the centre of an otherwise empty room at the Singapore Art Museum at 8Q forming a circle.There were
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        181 4 Imagined Future Benefits Tara Tan and Gareth Mayer take on 100 chairs, with which they simultaneously construct and destroy an installation of sorts, creating meaning from the ongoing activity. April 21 to 23, 8.30pm,The Gallery, Old School, 11 Mount Sophia.Tickets at S$15 from tickets@tara-tan.com. Limited to 30 seats each
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      131 4  -  MAYO MARTIN STATE OF THE ARTS: Cultural philanthropists get their annual day in the sun as the National Heritage Board dished out the Patron of Heritage Awards 2010 on Friday. 41 generous corporations and individuals were recognized for pumping in S$8.12 million in cash and kind for
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