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  • 20 1 TODAY MICA (P) 057/10/2010 A PUBLICATION OF NEWS HOTLINE 6822 2268 Tuesday September 6, 2011 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking
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  • 1245 1  -  Lee Kuan Yew warns that Singapore must not veer away from meritocratic system TEO XUANWEI, NG JING YNG xuanwei@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Even as he acknowledged that a political divide “has already happened” in Singapore, Mr Lee Kuan Yew warned that this must not
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    • 48 1 ARE YOU READY TO SECURE YOUR RETIREMENT? Visit www.areyouready.sg 10 YEARS AFTER 9/11 HOT NEWS Adapting to urban terror Page 10 COMMENT ANALYSIS Condoleezza Rice Why democracy prevails Page 12 Gary Younge Can US move beyond narcissism of 9/11? Page 14 WORLD The children of 9/11 Page 30
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  • HOT NEWS
    • 745 3  -  ESTHER NG estherng@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Both Mr Lee Kuan Yew and Minister Yaacob Ibrahim came out yesterday to clear the air over comments recorded in leaked United States’ diplomatic cables as the WikiLeaks saga once again made waves in cyberspace
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    • 274 4 AGENCIES ISLAMABAD Pakistan’s spy agency arrested three senior members of Al Qaeda in an operation assisted by American intelligence, the army said yesterday. An army statement identified the most senior detainee as Younis Al-Mauritani, who was reportedly ordered by Osama bin Laden to target
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    • 575 4 BLOOMBERG MANILA Australian billionaire James Packer and Mr Lawrence Ho, son of Macau gambling mogul Stanley Ho, may invest at least US$1 billion (S$1.2 billion) in a Manila casino project, the Philippine gambling regulator said. “Discussions are still ongoing” with
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    • 344 4  -  SHAFFIQ ALKHATIB SINGAPORE A director of an automobile company, City Car Leasing, has become the first licensed moneylender to be sentenced in court for breaching regulations laid down by the Registry of Moneylenders. Liew Yoon Kwai, 53, was fined S$31,000 after pleading guilty last month to
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    • 622 6 REUTERS HONG KONG As global companies expand in Asia, financial hubs such as Hong Kong are suffering a shortage of international school places that may blunt the city’s competitive edge against regional rivals, including Singapore. International schools across Hong Kong are reporting
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    • 374 8  -  TAN WEIZHEN SINGAPORE The controversy over the capture and captivity of 25 wild dolphins for Resorts World Sentosa’s (RWS) Marine Life Park attraction has taken a new twist, with the resort accusing animal welfare group Animal Concerns Research and Education Society (ACRES) of “cyber harassment”
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    • 384 8  -  Customers just want their money back TANYA FONG tanyafong@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE True Spa customers, fed up with the twists and turns in their quest to have their money returned, are rejecting the initial terms of offer from the spa companies who have collectively
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    • 420 8  -  CHEOW XIN YI SINGAPORE The global centre of gravity for wealth may be moving towards Asia but banks offering private banking services in the region face challenges ranging from talent acquisition to cost management and operational efficiency, a PricewaterhouseCoopers’ survey of 43 such institutions has
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    • 209 10 10 YEARS AFTER Elite units of the Singapore Police Force and the Singapore Armed Forces have revamped and re-organised to prepare for the threat of urban terrorism. The police’s Special Operations Command has armed itself with better equipment and tactics to combat terrorist threats. Units of
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  • COMMENT&ANALYSIS
    • 1120 12  -  For 60 years the United States sought stability at the expense of democracy in supporting authoritarian regimes, but we should have known better CONDOLEEZZA RICE Condoleezza Rice was Secretary of State from 2005 to 2008. She was national security adviser from 2001 to 2005. She is a
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    • 1109 14  -  War on terror has been disastrous abroad and divisive at home GARY YOUNGE Gary Younge is a feature writer and columnist for The Guardian based in the US. THE GUARDIAN In the immediate aftermath of the attacks on 9/11, the then National Security
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    • 803 16  -  AARON L FRIEDBERG Aaron L Friedberg, a professor of politics and international affairs at Princeton, is the author of A Contest for Supremacy: China, America and the Struggle for Mastery in Asia. THE NEW YORK TIMES America’s fiscal woes are placing the country on a path
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  • VOICES
    • 250 18  -  Letter from Lim Chuan Yang NATIONAL Development Minister Khaw Boon Wan noted last month on his Facebook page that abolishing cash-over-valuation (COV) and relying on professional valuers to set resale flat prices was tried “years ago”. “COV then went underground as ‘under counter cash payment’,”
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    • 221 18  -  Letter from S Tharmaraj I WOULD like to draw the attention of the Singapore Examinations and Assessment Board (SEAB) to the fact that a core subject in the O-level examination is scheduled for the day after a festive holiday. The Mathematics paper is
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    • 210 20  -  Letter from Chin Kee Thou I RECEIVED an unsolicited SMS marketing alert on a public holiday, promoting a product from a bank with which I have an account. The unsubscribe process takes 10 business days. When translated into the calendar
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    • 223 20  -  Letter from Lim Poh Seng THERE was a time when we did not have Automated Teller Machines (ATMs). When they came along, everyone was happy: Banks need not handle so many manual cash-with-drawal transactions; customers need not wait too long to withdraw their money.
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    • 157 20  -  LETTER FROM YEO SHUAN CHEE At 10am on Aug 28, I received 10 messages at one go. The problem was that the first SMS was dated Aug 25, 10.23am. Ironically, it was an advertisement SMS from SingTel, my provider. I also missed out
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    • 125 20  -  Keep up the good work! LETTER FROM KELLY DOSS KELLY DOSS The Singapore Civil Defence Force hosts an open house, at all but Jurong fire station, every Saturday from 9am to 11am for children and adults. The firemen and women do an excellent, professional job educating the
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 193 22 SINGAPORE A research institute under the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) has put Singapore into the Guinness Book of World Records for the world’s smallest moleculesized gears (picture). The Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE) worked with gears
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    • 389 22  -  HETTY MUSFIRAH hetty@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE More companies in Singapore are becoming involved in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) programmes, with membership at the Singapore Compact the national organisation promoting the cause up by 60 per cent from two years ago, to 366 members. And more companies should embrace
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    • 113 22  -  CHANNEL NEWSASIA CHANNEL NEWSASIA SINGAPORE To raise the general command of both spoken and written English among students, a new institute to drive excellence in the teaching and learning of the English language in Singapore’s schools will be launched today by former Minister Mentor Lee
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    • 145 24 CHANNEL NEWSASIA The Singapore Armed Forces’ (SAF) first High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) battery is now operational. Officiating the commissioning ceremony yesterday in Khatib Camp, Defence Minister Ng Eng Hen (picture) said the successful induction of the HIMARS reflects well
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    • 238 24  -  SHAFFIQ ALKHATIB shaffiq@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE A freelance foreign exchange investment trader who misappropriated S$106,986 of her clients’ money was yesterday sentenced to seven months’jail. Julaiha Juraimi (picture) received S$75,000 from Mr Chia Quee Khee after entering into an agreement with him for a three-month period
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    • 154 24  - Pills misappropriated SHAFFIQ ALKHATIB SINGAPORE A former pharmacy technician with the National University Hospital was sentenced yesterday to three weeks’ jail for misappropriating 3,500 sleeping tablets worth nearly S$2,400. Isnawati Zainolabidin’s (picture) misdeed came to light during a stock audit in September 2009. Her colleague noticed that a huge number
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  • WORLD
    • 386 25 Focus appears to be shifting towards fuel efficiency THE NEW YORK TIMES TIANJIN After a decade of nurturing China’s automobile industry to become the largest in the world, the country’s leaders are having second thoughts. A succession of government officials at a
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    • 333 25 BLOOMBERG BEIJING Ms Luo Ting is snacking on a saltfree cracker in a Beijing maternity ward, part of a regimen to curb the glucose in her blood that threatens to cause lifelong harm to the baby she is due to deliver this
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    • 111 26 AP A corruption trial in which former French President Jacques Chirac is the star defendant resumed yesterday, but the 78-year-old did not appear with his lawyers saying that he was not feeling well. A Paris judge can either suspend the proceedings to await
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    • 366 26 AP TARHOUNA (Libya) Rebel reinforcements arrived outside one of Muammar Gaddafi’s last strongholds in Libya yesterday, even as the forces arrayed against the toppled dictator gave the town a chance to surrender and avoid a fight. Thousands of rebels have converged on Bani Walid, a desert
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    • 205 26 AGENCIES Representatives of Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi visited Beijing in July seeking to buy arms, though no contracts were signed and no weapons were shipped, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said yesterday. Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu confirmed that Gaddafi’s officials met with representatives
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    • 138 26 AP Egypt’s ousted President Hosni Mubarak returned to court yesterday for a third hearing on charges of corruption and complicity in the killing of protesters during the 18-day-uprising that toppled him. The proceedings move into a new phase, as four
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    • 136 28 AGENCIES TOKYO Honda Motor Co announced yesterday that it will recall a total of 962,000 cars worldwide to fix power windows and computer systems. It will recall 936,000 units of the Fit subcompact, CR-V crossover and Fit Aria in North America, Asia, Europe and Africa.
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    • 277 28 THE GUARDIAN MEXICO CITY A man and a woman are facing 30-year prison terms in Mexico for allegedly using Twitter to spread panic over a series of child kidnappings. Gilberto Martinez Vera, 48, a private school teacher, and Maria de Jesus
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    • 87 28 AP A Thai lawyer says police have arrested a computer programmer on charges of insulting King Bhumibol Adulyadej on a Facebook page. The charges carry a penalty of up to 15 years in prison. Mr Lomrak Meemeuan said his client, 40-year-old Surapak Puchaisaeng,
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    • 307 29 AGENCIES LONDON The British parents of seven children may have their four youngest removed from them after social services ruled that they failed to help their children lose weight. The authorities in Dundee have threatened to have three girls aged 11,
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    • 194 29 REUTERS Europeans are plagued by mental and neurological illnesses with almost 165 million people or 38 per cent of the population suffering each year from a brain disorder such as depression, anxiety, insomnia or dementia, according to a new study. With
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    • 80 29 AGENCIES Hundreds of migrant domestic workers demonstrated outside the Houses of Parliament in central London on Sunday against the government’s proposed changes to the domestic workers visa. One of the proposed measures aimed at cutting net migration by 2015 is to remove the
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    • 621 30 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH NEW YORK When the two planes slammed into the World Trade Centre on Sept 11,2001, more than 100 unborn children were instantly orphaned. The first were born just days after the disaster, the last came nine months later to mothers who did not
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  • Page 33 Miscellaneous
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  • BUSINESS
    • 53 34 MONDAY CLOSE 2,773.17 (-2.46%) Friday 2,843.09 q 0.84% Thursday 2,867.18 q 0.63% Wednesday 2,885.26 p 3.34% Tuesday Closed TOP 5 BY VOLUME NAME VOL PRICE CHANGE Sheng Siong 89,942 $0.475 q 3.06% Genting SP 73,786 $1.560 q 3.41% MDR R 71,498 $0.001 UNCH GoldenAgr 59,600 $0.640 q 0.78% MDR
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    • 26 34 HANG SENG 19,616.40 (-2.95%) È È NIKKEI 8,784.46 2,478.74 SHANGHAI 2,478.74 4,141.90 È È È AUSTRALIA È 4,141.90 (-0.74%) MUMBAI 16,713.33 (-0.64%) MALAYSIA 1,463.12 (-0.74%)
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    • 55 34 STOCK CALLS Neutral S$1.08 Goldman Sachs keeps rating but lowers target price to S$1.30 from S$1.75. The house says, “While NOL’s 1H financial performance and operating metrics have been in line we are concerned that earnings recovery may be delayed due to a weaker outlook for containership volumes in
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    • 468 34 AGENCIES LONDON Fears of a new global recession sent stock markets reeling across Asia and Europe yesterday, after International Monetary Fund (IMF) chief Christine Lagarde warned that the world economy was on the brink of a new crisis. Concerns over the weak United States jobs market also
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    • 305 36 DOW JONES HONG KONG Singapore investment company Temasek Holdings has invested a further HK$21.7 billion (S$3.4 billion) into China Construction Bank (CCB), raising its stake to 8.1 per cent from 6.3 per cent of the bank’s Hong Kong-listed shares, according to a regulatory
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    • 207 36 SINGAPORE The Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) posted a reading of 49.4 last month, up 0.1 point from July but still below the 50 point mark, indicating that the manufacturing sector contracted for the second straight month after having previously recorded nine months of continuous expansion. The
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    • 269 36 SINGAPORE Starhill Global REIT will be filing an appeal against the High Court’s decision to dismiss its application to declare that the rent review mechanism in its lease agreement with Toshin is “not operable”. Starhill has a 27.23-per-cent stake in Ngee Ann
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    • 307 37 AP BEIJING China can boost global economic growth by pressing ahead with reforms to promote domestic consumption and reduce reliance on exports and investment, World Bank president Robert Zoellick said yesterday. Chinese authorities have said repeatedly they want more self-sustaining growth based
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    • 272 37 REUTERS BEIJING China’s fledgling services sector grew last month at the lowest pace on record, a private survey showed yesterday, reinforcing signs that the world’s second-biggest economy is losing steam, but analysts said there is little possibility of a hard landing.
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    • 164 37 DOW JONES Inflation in Indonesia accelerated to 4.79 per cent last month from 4.61 per cent in July due to higher prices of gold, food and transportation during Ramadan, the Central Statistics Agency said yesterday. From a month earlier, the consumer price index rose
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    • 104 37 MARjGQLD For health. For life. Singapore’s Favourite Milk now comes with Milk’s Favourite Cookie. fZrE-iLifcQTWn HIGH CAt' Low in Lactose 99% Fat-Free £2 BonePlus—7 /VitaminsW_ K+D Nj>' Cr C 6 J We would like to give all our supporters a treat for voting MARIGOLD HL Milk the gold winner in
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    • 123 38 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH Sony Ericsson’s new top-of-the-range mobile phone will be able to take 3D panoramic pictures using a standard 2D camera. The Sony Ericsson Arc S achieves this by taking multiple images and stitching them together to simulate 3D on any 3D-capable television sets. The
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    • 672 38  -  Should online anonymity be preserved for the sake of free speech? COMMENTARY ERIC PFANNER Eric Pfanner is a columnist for The New York Times And The International Herald Tribune. THE NEW YORK TIMES Three years ago, after the suicide of a popular actress who had been bullied
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    • 628 39 How the giant online retailer aims to take down Apple’s iPad AGENCIES LOS ANGELES Amazon.com plans to unveil a cheaper, smaller US$250 (S$301) rival to Apple’s iPad tablet device in November, industry blog TechCrunch reported on Friday. Sporting a back-lit 7-inch screen smaller than the iPad’s and
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    • 141 39 BLOOMBERG Samsung Electronics lost a chance to showcase its latest tablet at one of the world’s largest electronics shows after Apple won a second injunction blocking GalaxyTab sales in Germany. Samsung pulled the just-unveiled Galaxy Tab 7.7 out of the IFA con-sumer-electronics show in Berlin
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  • SPORTS
    • 592 40  -  Singapore coach banished to the stands tonight, but his men vow to be ready SHAMIR OSMAN shamir@mediacorp.com.sg ASIAN WORLD CUP QUALIFIERS, GROUP A Singapore vs Iraq Jalan Besar Stadium, 7.30pm SINGAPORE He is famous for gesticulating wildly from the sidelines, either passing on instructions
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    • 516 41  -  But Singapore football chief Zainudin agrees with FIFA that it works SHAMIR OSMAN shamir@mediacorp.com.sg ASIAN WORLD CUP QUALIFIER GROUP A Singapore vs Iraq Jalan Besar Stadium, 7.30pm SINGAPORE His arrival at the Jalan Besar Stadium yesterday sent security personnel and Football Association of Singapore (FAS)
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    • 246 42  -  TAN YO-HINN SINGAPORE If you are good enough, an exciting professional career with a monthly salary of about S$6,000 may be on offer for Singapore sailors. That is the objective of the management team behind the Singapore-based Audi Ultra
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    • 487 42 Italian wants England’s ground to strike fear into opponents, with Wales first up AGENCIES EURO 2012 QUALIFIER, GROUP G England vs Wales LONDON Looking ahead to the Group G clash with Wales here tonight (tomorrow morning, Singapore time), England head coach Fabio Capello says he wants Wembley
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    • 139 42 Jessie Phua, Singapore’s chef-de-mission for next year’s Olympics, will work with the various national sports associations to ensure athletes going to London get the best preparation. Speaking at the launch of “Great Britain 3D”, a project to promote Britain as a tourist destination at the Hilton
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    • 313 42 World Cup Thailand Oman Tue, 06/09/11 7.00pm World Cup Singapore Iraq Tue, 06/09/11 7.30pm World Cup Indonesia Bahrain Tue, 06/09/11 8.00pm International Football Argentina Nigeria Tue, 06/09/11 9.00pm World Cup Uzbekistan Japan Tue, 06/09/11 10.00pm World Cup Lebanon UAE Tue, 06/09/11 10.00pm Euro Champ 2012 Russia Rep of Ireland Tue,
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    • 1967 43 The magazine for those who are curious about the world around them… and beyond! SCIENCE HISTORY NATURE FOR THE CURIOUS MIND ASIA EDITION Vol. 3 Issue 9 Old friends 10 years on: how 9/11 redefined the ‘special relationship’ p24 Plus: Why Britain supported the South in the American Civil War
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    • 121 44 This Xtember, Channel 5 dares you to join us for SOME OF THE MOST XTREME AND XOUISFTE XPERIENCES! Singapore Night Race sow rl i X Factor y S Thu Fri, premieres *2 2 5t 23 SEP DIRECrOFF s£jELlJTE OPM, ICOI OpM -V, n A M i*« S 8 W television
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  • MUSIC
    • 913 2 Hip-hop musicians double the ante with full-length renditions of their classic albums THE NEW YORK TIMES LAST year, the touring hip-hop bonanza RockThe Bells picked up on the voguish festival concept in which an artist performs an old record from beginning to end. It went
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    • 783 3  -  British ’80s band China Crisis say respect and good songs are the secrets to longevity Christopher Toh christophert@mediacorp.com.sg BACK in the ’80s, China Crisis were one of the bands from Liverpool alongside Frankie Goes To Hollywood, Echo And The Bunnymen,A Flock Of Seagulls, The La’s, Lightning
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      • 242 4  -  KEVIN MATHEWS CLASSICAL music and rock may seem like strange bedfellows, but ever since British band Procul Harum hit the top of the British charts in 1967 with its Bach-inspired single, AWhiter Shade Of Pale, baroque music influences have been a mainstay in rock. So
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      • 167 4  -  CHRISTOPHER TOH IT HAS been some time almost seven years since we heard anything musically new from Taiwan actress/ singer Linda Liao.And in the very fickle world of Asian for pop, you would be forgiven for thinking that she’s a newcomer to the scene. Love Presents,
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      • 135 4  -  KEVIN MATHEWS THE key to Yellowcard’s success is the ability to communicate thoughts and emotions through dynamic melodic pop- rock songs. Sing-along tunes coupled with irresistible rhythms have always been a potent combination, and Yellowcard’s latest album proves this truth cogently once again.
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      • 153 4  -  KEVIN MATHEWS THERE is nothing quite like good old fashioned pop music.You know, the kind of infectious, hooky, freewheeling, three-minute sweetness that ruled the airwaves from the ’60s to the ’80s. However, it is to indie pop that true blue pop music lovers must look to
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        262 5  -  Relooking a classic CHRISTOPHER TOH Crush Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark (1985) AFTER five albums of experimenting with electronic and synthesiser music, one of the leading lights in the synth pop movement of the ’80s, Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark (OMD), went on a very decidedly commercial
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      503 5 SHINee.The popular Korean band makes a stop and promises to wow fans. Sept 10, 6pm, Singapore Indoor Stadium. Tickets at S$138 to S$218 from Sistic. B’3. A variety concert featuring Ding Dang, Yen J and MP Magic Power. Sept 10, 8pm,The MAX Pavilion Singapore Expo. Tickets at S$28 to
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  • ENTERTAINMENT
    • 474 6 Madonna may not have struck gold for her movie, but maybe her new album will REUTERS MADONNA’S latest cinematic effort, W.E., isn’t exactly wowing the critics at the Venice Film Festival, but maybe the singer will have better luck with her return to music. According
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      775 7  -  But singer-songwriter Priscilla Ahn feels that she still has a lot of work to do CHRISTOPHER TOH WHEN do you grow up? That’s the question American singersongwriter Priscilla Ahn, has tried to answer in her latest album WhenYou Grow Up. “I hope the answer is never,” said
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    • 866 7 CATHAY THE CATHAY CATHAY reaLD)) THE SMURFS* (3D) 11.50am, 2.10pm, 4.30,7.15pm GLEE THE 3D CONCERT MOVIE* (3D) 1.25pm, 5.45, 7.45pm, 12.15am *4: > THE SMURFS* 11.15am, 12.50pm, 3.00,4.40, 7.00,9.40, 11.45pm CRAZY STUPID LOVE* 2.10pm, 4.35,9.35,11.55pm FOUR LIONS* 3.25pm, 9.40pm THE CAT* 11.20am, 2.45pm, 9.05, 11.10pm PLATINUM FINAL DESTINATION 5 11.00am,
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  • HEALTH
    • 772 8  -  An expert shares tips on maintaining an exercise programme Eveline Gan eveline@mediacorp.com.sg BY NOW, most of us would have had the benefits of exercise drummed into our heads. It keeps us toned, improves our heart and lung function, and reduces risk of premature
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    • 642 9  -  Eveline Gan undergoes a fitness test and finds out she is a couch potato EVELINE GAN LIKE most computer-bound workers, my daily exercise regimen consists of working out (my fingers) on the keyboard and taking leisurely 500m strolls to the food court to tar bao lunch.
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    • 253 9 HEALTH BITE THE NEW YORK TIMES THE FACTS Recently, the American Heart Association surveyed 1,000 people nationwide about their thoughts on sodium and heart health. Sixty one per cent said that they believed sea salt was a low-sodium alternative to table salt. They can
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    • 234 8 HEALTHY PARTICIPANTS NEEDED! Pfizer Clinical Research Unit (PCRU) needs healthy participants for a research study involving an experimental medicine used in the treatment of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus. The purposes of this study are to evaluate the following: the extent to which three formulations of the medicine are absorbed in
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    • 162 9 HEALTH LISTINGS A serious matter of the heart With our increasingly stressful lives and less-than-ideal eating habits, the occurrence of heart attacks is becoming more common in Singapore. Learn about the causes of heart attacks, treatments and advances in cardiac medicine and surgery, and how you can lead a heart-healthy
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    • 183 9 Did you know? A small curry puff has 300 calories which will take you 3km to run off. Healthy eating is all about balance. You can still have your favourite food but the key is eating them only once in a while and balancing your diet with healthier foods and
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  • Article, Illustration
    469 10 Fear of Writing A parable of the politics of today, this marks local playwright Tan Tarn How’s return foray into theatre after 10 years. Fear of Writing covers the existentialism of self-censorship and freedom, and boundaries of art, artist, citizen and humanity. With sell-out shows last week,
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    • 220 11 ON MEDIACORP 2014 FIFA WORLD CUP QUALIFIER: Singapore vs Iraq (Live) Channel 5, 7.25pm The Lions did Singapore proud by beating Malaysia in the two-legged clash to move on to Round 3 of the 2014 FIFA World Cup Asian Qualifier. In this round, the Lions have been drawn in a
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    • 629 11 6.00AM Planet’s Funniest Animals VIII 6.30 AM Live! 9.00 The Martha Stewart Show VI 10.00 The Doctors 11.00 Planet’s Funniest Animals VIII 11.30 Buffetlicious NOON Under One Roof V 12.30PM Polo Boys 1.00 Triple Nine III 2.00 The Two Of Us CHANNEL 6.00AM Focus 6.30 Green Pals 7.00 Good Morning
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    • 245 11 ON MEDIACORP MODERN MARVELS: CHOCOLATE okto, 9pm Chocolate is one of the world’s most popular foods, yet most people who eat it don’t think about where it comes from. This documentary takes the audience through the whole complicated chocolate-making process from bean to bar, from seed to sweet. GET REA!
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