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Article, Illustration835 2011-06-06 1 ESTHER NG - ESTHER NG estherng@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE It looked like a scene straight from the movies. Water cascading down escalators, filling every nook and cranny, then pouring onto the floor below like a waterfall. By 10.30am yesterday, the basement and car parks of Tanglin Mall were in knee-deepPHOTO COURTESY EVA VAN DEN BERG; PHOTOS BY OOI BOON KEONG - 835 words
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Advertisement212 2011-06-06 1 COMMENT&ANALYSIS CHRISTIAN OLIVER, SONG JUNG-A SOUTH KOREA, AN ECONOMY DIVIDED 14 PANKAJ MISHRA IF INDIA AND PAKISTAN COME TO NUCLEAR BLOWS, BLAME THE US 16 HARRIET ALEXANDER THE 13-YEAR-OLD FACE OF THE SYRIAN UPRISING 18 T SECTION PAGE A nets flashpay EVERYDAY TREATS WIN S$100,000 PLUS UP TO 30 iPADS!212 words
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Article, Illustration541 2011-06-06 2 SAIFULBAHRI ISMAIL - SAIFULBAHRI ISMAIL saifulbahri@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Environmental and Water Resources Minister Vivian Balakrishnan yesterday outlined five key areas that he will focus on in dealing with floods in Singapore. Speaking at a news conference after inspecting the flooded areas at Tanglin Mall,PHOTO COURTESY DAWN TAN; PHOTO COURTESY BONITA PANG; COURTESY OF DAWN TAN; PHOTO BY OOI BOON KEONG; PHOTO COURTESY JOSEPH LOH - 541 words
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Article, Illustration492 2011-06-06 4 CONRAD RAJ - CONRAD RAJ editor-at-large conrad@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE This time last year, Malaysian sovereign wealth fund Khazanah Nasional was embroiled in a stiff tussle with India’s Fortis Healthcare for the control of Parkway Holdings. Now, as Today has learnt, Khazanah is onBLOOMBERG - 492 words
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Article, Illustration222 2011-06-06 4 MONICA KOTWANI - Lum wins Ernst Young World Entrepreneur award MONICA KOTWANI SINGAPORE The group CEO and president of Hyflux, Olivia Lum (picture), has been named the Ernst Young World Entrepreneur Of The Year 2011 at an awards ceremony held in Monte Carlo. She is the first woman and the first Singaporean toTODAY FILE PHOTO - 222 words
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361 2011-06-06 6 TANYA FONG - TANYA FONG China’s Minister for National Defence, General Liang Guanglie, tackled a range of questions from the participants at the Shangri-La Dialogue. The first was whether China thought that the United States was trying to restrict its actions in Asia. This361 words
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Article, Illustration635 2011-06-06 6 TANYA FONG - TANYA FONG tanyafong@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Peace was mentioned no less than 27 times in the 45-minute speech of China’s Minister for National Defence, General Liang Guanglie (picture), at the Shangri-La Dialogue yesterday. He sought to reassure other countries that China’s growing economic and militaryAP - 635 words
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284 2011-06-06 8 AGENCIES SINGAPORE NATO is “one step’’ from sending troops into Libya to help rebels remove Muammar Gaddafi from power, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov said yesterday. British and French attack helicopters struck for the first time inside Libya onAGENCIES - 284 words
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Article, Illustration399 2011-06-06 8 TANYA FONG - TANYA FONG tanyafong@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Practical defence cooperation is crucial in building up personal ties among regional militaries to reduce misunderstanding or miscalculation, said Minister for Defence Ng Eng Hen at the close of the Shangri-La Dialogue yesterday. Dr Ng, who was on the panelAP - 399 words
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281 2011-06-06 10 REUTERS SINGAPORE India will feel pressured to retaliate if Pakistan-based militants launched an attack similar to the Mumbai assaults that killed more than 160 people, the Minister of State for Defence, Mr M M Pallam Raju, said on Saturday.REUTERS - 281 words
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Article, Illustration367 2011-06-06 10 TANYA FONG - TANYA FONG tanyafong@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Despite China’s general silence on the territorial dispute over the resource-rich South China Sea, it remained a hot topic at the Shangri-La Dialogue yesterday. Defence ministers from some of the claimant countries including Malaysia, Philippines and Vietnam tackled the issueREUTERS - 367 words
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Article, Illustration140 2011-06-06 12 By the end of the first Silver Tribute Charity Night yesterday, more than S$2.7 million was raised for more than 8,000 needy elderly and their caregivers from eight Voluntary Welfare Organisations (VWOs). It is the first television fund-raising show solely for the needy elderly. Organised by SMRT,140 words
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442 2011-06-06 12 JOHOR BARU The biometric fingerprint scanning system of the Immigration and Quarantine (CIQ) checkpoint at the Sultan Iskandar Building (SIB) had problems coping with the huge number of tourists on Saturday. Tourists, who were travelling amid the weekend and school442 words
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312 2011-06-06 12 MILLET ENRIQUEZ - MILLET ENRIQUEZ emelita@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE A sinking feeling may seep into the Singapore stock market this week as the recent weakness in investor sentiment is expected to continue for another week. Analysts expect markets to trend lower when trade opens today, dampened312 words
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COMMENT&ANALYSIS
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Article, Illustration1694 2011-06-06 14 CHRISTIAN OLIVER, SONG JUNG-A - CHRISTIAN OLIVER, SONG JUNG-A THE FINANCIAL TIMES LIMITED South Korean police identified the 35-year-old only as Mr Bang. He killed himself in the southern province of Jeolla on March 10 by locking himself in his car and lighting a brazier of charcoal briquettes. The noteTHE FINANCIAL TIMES LIMITED; BLOOMBERG - 1,694 words
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Article, Illustration1246 2011-06-06 16 PANKAJ MISHRA - PANKAJ MISHRA Pankaj Mishra is a columnist for Bloomberg View. The opinions expressed are his own. BLOOMBERG Are India and Pakistan likely to stumble into nuclear war? This appalling possibility has long been kept alive by conflicts between theBLOOMBERG - 1,246 words
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Article, Illustration981 2011-06-06 18 HARRIET ALEXANDER - HARRIET ALEXANDER THE DAILY TELEGRAPH Ibrahim Al Khatib knew that his country was enduring dark days. But he only realised quite how appalling things were when his 13-year-old nephew returned to the family home in a body bag, horrifically mutilated and distorted. “GodTHE DAILY TELEGRAPH - 981 words
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VOICES
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256 2011-06-06 20 Kwee Chong Yeo - Letter from Kwee Chong Yeo I REFER to the letter “Victim of bike rage” (June 2) by Harshal Patil. My 63-year-old father was a victim of a bicycle accident on the morning of May 30. As a former stroke patient with renal failure,256 words
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193 2011-06-06 20 Edwin James Fawcett - And then there is jogger rage Letter from Edwin James Fawcett IN RESPONSE to the letter on cyclist “road rage “(June 2). I would like to share my experience as a cyclist. Last month, while I was cycling home from work along the Bedok canal on the designated cycle path,193 words
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335 2011-06-06 21 Lim Teck Koon - Letter from Lim Teck Koon IN RESPONSE to the letter “Surprise checks are conducted on operators” (June 3) by the Public Transport Council, my observation as a public transport user is that the priority given to public buses on the road and the roll-out335 words
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259 2011-06-06 21 Danny G Tan - Letter from Danny G Tan MY CHILDREN’S teachers recently updated us on their progress in primary school. They had not been performing in some subjects and the teachers were justifiably concerned. They said that my children needed to improve or they would259 words
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351 2011-06-06 22 MONICA KOTWANI - MONICA KOTWANI Mr Raymond Ng was just 12 years old when he started smoking. The taxi driver, now 37, said he wanted to fit in with his peers. At home, his father was also a smoker. When he ran out of cigarettes, his father351 words
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Article, Illustration691 2011-06-06 22 ONG DAI LIN - HPB launches series of measures for National Smoking Control Campaign this year ONG DAI LIN dailin@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Workers wanting to kick their smoking habit can join programmes conducted at their workplace. Or a smoker seeking financial assistance at the Community Development Council (CDC)TODAY FILE PHOTO - 691 words
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Article, Illustration442 2011-06-06 24 VIMITA MOHANDAS - VIMITA MOHANDAS vimita@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Passenger traffic at Changi Airport is expected to exceed 50 million by 2014 from 42 million last year, according to the Changi Airport Group. Passenger movement grew from 30 million to 42 million in the six years from 2004 toPHOTOS: BLOOMBERG - 442 words
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215 2011-06-06 25 Leaders from Singapore and Mauritius have affirmed their long-standing bilateral ties, and have given their support to businesses to use the two countries as springboards into Asia and Africa. These were discussed yesterday when President S R Nathan met Mauritian215 words
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Article, Illustration129 2011-06-06 25 What do break dancers, acrobats and contortionists have in common? They are all part of Cirque Eloize, a highenergy contemporary circus production from Montreal performing in Singapore for the first time. Cirque Eloize integrates different circus disciplines and art forms from acrobatics to theatre to dance and music.PHOTO COURTESY THEATRE T & CIE/ VALERIE REMISE - 129 words
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236 2011-06-06 25 LYNDA HONG - LYNDA HONG SINGAPORE Sterilisation is just one of the many ways to curb the stray cat problem in HDB estates, Minister of State for National Development Tan Chuan-Jin said yesterday. Speaking on the sidelines of a community event, the MP for236 words
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WORLD
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Article, Illustration485 2011-06-06 26 AGENCIES SANAA/RIYADH Protesters danced, sang and slaughtered cows in the central square of Yemen’s capital yesterday to celebrate the departure of the country’s authoritarian leader for medical treatment after he was wounded in a rocket attack on his compound. Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, wounded inAGENCIES; AP - 485 words
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188 2011-06-06 26 AGENCIES Israeli troops opened fire yesterday on Palestinian protesters in Syria who rushed towards a border fence. “Anyone who tries to cross the border will be killed,” Israeli soldiers shouted at the crowd of several hundred through loudspeakers on the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. SyrianAGENCIES - 188 words
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179 2011-06-06 26 AGENCIES The Malaysian-made vaccine to combat the virus that causes hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD) is set to undergo the first phase of clinical trials next year, The New Straits Times reported yesterday. The vaccine for the Enterovirus 71 (EV71) is developed byAGENCIES - 179 words
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Article, Illustration99 2011-06-06 28 A teenaged girl in Germany who forgot to mark her birthday invitation as private on Facebook fled her own party when more than 1,500 guests showed up and around 100 police officers, some on horses, were needed to keep the crowd under control. Eleven people wereAP - 99 words
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235 2011-06-06 28 AP TOKYO Nintendo was targeted in a recent online data attack but no personal or company information was lost, the Japanese maker of the Wii game console said yesterday. The server of an affiliate of Nintendo’s United States unit was accessed unlawfully aAP - 235 words
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Article244 2011-06-06 28 AP MANILA The Philippine Vice-President has recommended that former dictator Ferdinand Marcos should not be buried at Manila’s Heroes’ Cemetery but that full military honours could be accorded if he is laid to rest in his northern political stronghold instead, officials said yesterday. Marcos wasAP - 244 words
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Article, Illustration245 2011-06-06 28 AP TOKYO The Japanese utility battling to bring its radiation-spew-ing nuclear reactor under control said yesterday that 1,500 more tonnes of radioactive water will be moved into temporary storage the latest attempt to prevent a massive spill of contaminated water into the environment.AP - 245 words
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332 2011-06-06 29 AP NEW DELHI Hundreds of Indian policemen fired tear gas yesterday to break up a hunger strike by a yoga guru seeking to root out corruption. An ensuing stampede by angry supporters of Baba Ramdev left more than 60 peopleAP - 332 words
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217 2011-06-06 29 AP KABUL US Defence Secretary Robert Gates expressed his concern about pulling troops out of Afghanistan too soon as he embarked on two days of farewell visits to remote US bases in the country. He began by flying to a base near KandaharAP - 217 words
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132 2011-06-06 29 AP It’s not Big Brother, but “big business’’ that Internet users are more worried about. A new survey, from the Centre for the Digital Future at the University of Southern California, found that nearly half of Internet-connected Americans aged 16 andAP - 132 words
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119 2011-06-06 29 REUTERS The Portuguese went to the polls yesterday to elect a government which will lead the nation through a period of deep austerity and recession after it received a €78-billion (s$140-billion) bailout from the European Union and the International Monetary Fund. The election willREUTERS - 119 words
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445 2011-06-06 30 AGENCIES LONDON Food and drink sold in Britain is under a growing threat from terrorist groups which might try to poison supplies, the government’s security advisers have warned. Manufacturers and retailers have been told that their sector is vulnerable to attacks by ideologically andAGENCIES - 445 words
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Article, Illustration478 2011-06-06 30 THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH TOKYO The first Westerner to be admitted to the closed world of Japan’s geisha hostesses has left after being accused of bringing the movement into disrepute. Former Oxford University student Fiona Graham (picture), originally from Melbourne, Australia, was the firstTHE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH - 478 words
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321 2011-06-06 31 AP BERLIN German-grown bean sprouts are the likely cause of the recent deadly E coli outbreak, the health authorities said yesterday. The news came as hospitals in northern Germany are being overwhelmed as they struggle to provide enough beds and medical care forAP - 321 words
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Article, Illustration122 2011-06-06 31 UP, UP AND AWAY Nine-year-old Bobby Bradley floated into history early on Saturday, taking off solo in a hot air balloon and landing perfectly about a half-hour later to become the youngest trained pilot to accomplish such a feat. Showing maturity and composure well beyond his years, Bradley proved anyAP - 122 words
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222 2011-06-06 31 AP LONDON A group of prominent British academics said yesterday that they are starting a private university in London to rival the country’s elite institutions in Oxford and Cambridge. The New College of the Humanities will be ledAP - 222 words
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BUSINESS
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Article492 2011-06-06 32 RACHEL KELLY - RACHEL KELLY Rachel@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Singapore’s next big listing, Perennial China Retail Trust (PCRT), is hopping on board the transportation phenomenon that is sweeping over China. Plans for developments in high-speed rail are already underway across the country, such as the line between Beijing and Shanghai which492 words
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WEEKLY ROUNDUP (MAY 30 TO JUNE 3)
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Article48 2011-06-06 32 FRIDAY CLOSE 3,145.67 (-0.47%) Thursday 3,160.60 q 0.39% Wednesday 3,172.87 p 0.41% Tuesday 3.159.93 p 0.62% Monday 3,140.60 p 0.16% THEWEEKTHATWAS Asian stocks look to decline further as weak US job data drag market sentiment and analysts say trading volume is likely to remain thin this week.48 words
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Article30 2011-06-06 32 HANG SENG 22,949.56 (-0-73%) È È Ç NIKKEI 9.492.21 (+0.67%) SHANGHAI 2,728.02 (+0.67%) AUSTRALIA 4,583.10 (+0.60%) È Ç Ç Ç MUMBAI 18,376.48 (+0.60%) MALAYSIA 1,559.85 (+0.72%) SEOUL 2,113.47 (+0.63%)30 words
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STOCK CALLS
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Article92 2011-06-06 32 Neutral s$3.14 Credit Suisse downgrades from Outperform and maintains its target price of S$3.20. The house says the stock has risen to its target, “driven by the receipt of a forestry permit and expectations of rising coal prices driven by China’s power shortage”. It says the valuation92 words
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Article65 2011-06-06 32 Hold s$0.25 OCBC initiates with S$0.31 fair value. It says the firm has a construction pipeline of seven projects valued at S$406 million (S$146 million already booked), as of March 31. “Its development portfolio has six projects in Singapore and one in China. We value KSH using a65 words
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Article, Illustration483 2011-06-06 33 JO-ANN HUANG - JO-ANN HUANG joannhuang@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Sales of luxury properties have hit a sluggish patch in recent weeks. That is according to industry players who said that the segment has underperformed despite the overall property boom last year. Analysts said most buyers ofTODAY FILE PHOTO - 483 words
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247 2011-06-06 33 JO-ANN HUANG - JO-ANN HUANG SINGAPORE Keppel Offshore Marine (O&M), a unit of Keppel Corp, is expected to deliver its first Floating Production Unit (FPU) which was wholly-built in Brazil to Petrobras Netherlands on time and within budget. Keppel O&M said in a statement yesterday that it achieved 9247 words
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Article, Illustration481 2011-06-06 35 AP BEIJING Once considered a rebel, Li Na’s landmark French Open victory has sparked celebrations, with state media now equating her with the likes of basketball giant Yao Ming and Olympic champion hurdler Liu Xiang and urging other athletes to learn from her asAP - 481 words
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Article, Illustration365 2011-06-06 35 THE GUARDIAN LONDON Samir Nasri (picture) has risked fracturing his relationship with Arsene Wenger by casting doubt over his readiness to sign a new contract at Arsenal this summer, with the France international suggesting he is also keen to discover whether Manchester United’s interest in himTHE GUARDIAN; REUTERS - 365 words
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Article527 2011-06-06 35 REUTERS PARIS Roger Federer trailed Rafael Nadal by two sets to one at press time in the French Open men’s tennis final after taking the third set at Roland Garros in Paris yesterday. Spain’s Nadal, who will tie Bjorn Borg on a record six French OpenREUTERS - 527 words
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Article, Illustration551 2011-06-06 39 SHAMIR OSMAN - They are enthusiastic but Lions hopefuls have much to learn SHAMIR OSMAN shamir@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE On one side of the pitch at the Jalan Besar Stadium, the likes of Daniel Bennett, Hariss Harun, Lionel Lewis and Aleksandar Duric along with most of the Lions’ old guard were engagedTODAY FILE PHOTO - 551 words
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Article, Illustration408 2011-06-06 4 JEREMY TAN - Cirque Eloize may not be ground-breaking, but it still has its moments THEATRE JEREMY TAN THANKS to the gargantuan popularity of the mothership Cirque Du Soleil and all its similar spawn like Les 7 Doigts De La Main and Cirque Shanghai, going to the circus isPhotos: 2010 Theatre T & Cie / Valerie Remise; Photo: 2009 Theatre T & Cie / Albert Rudnicki - 408 words
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Article, Illustration674 2011-06-06 5 THE NEW YORK TIMES - Music and the arts might be the healing salve for Turkey’s culture THE NEW YORK TIMES NOT so long ago, playing Kurdish music over a loudspeaker in theVizyon Muzik Market in Diyarbakir,Turkey, might have provoked theTurkish police.Just speaking the names of certain Kurdish singersPHOTO:NYT - 674 words
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