Today, 17 May 2012, Afternoon Edition

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  • 42 1 Today MICA (P) 031/10/2011 A PUBLICATION OF NEWS HOTLINE 6822 2268 Thursday May 17, 2012 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking AFTERNOON EDITION TODAY MICA (P) 031/10/2011 A PUBLICATION OF NEWS HOTLINE 6822 2268 Thursday May 17, 2012 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking
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  • 751 1  -  LIN YANQIN, NG JING YNG yanqinl@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Despite his no-show, the spectre of Workers’ Party veteran Poh Lee Guan and his actions a few days ago cast a long shadow on the Nomination Day proceedings yesterday. Cutting a lonely figure, away from the WP
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  • HOT NEWS
    • 425 2  -  LIN YANQIN yanqinl@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Describing Hougang as his “home”, People’s Action Party (PAP) candidate Desmond Choo, 34, urged the residents to give him the mandate to “create a vibrant and brighter future” for the constituency. “Residents know that we are
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    • 418 2  -  JOANNE CHAN joannechan@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE No frills and low key, that was how Workers’ Party (WP) candidate Png Eng Huat described his campaign to win over the Hougang voters over the next nine days. “It’s going to be a lot of walkabouts, house
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    • 709 3  -  But Low Thia Khiang says ‘he should have let us know’ his intentions TEO XUANWEI xuanwei@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Was it always his intention, as Dr Poh Lee Guan asserted yesterday, to be the “unofficial spare candidate” for the Workers’ Party? Or
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    • 293 4  -  AMIR HUSSAIN SINGAPORE The High Court will hear a Hougang resident’s application to declare that the Prime Minister “does not have unfettered discretion” in calling a by-election in the single-seat constituency. The Court of Appeal yesterday reserved judgment on the issue of
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    • 55 4 Top: National Development Minister Khaw Boon Wan with PAP supporters. Left: Campaign posters being put up in Hougang. Above: A young Workers’ Party supporter with an umbrella bearing the party’s logo. Below: Workers’ Party members Sylvia Lim and Pritam Singh. PHOTOS BY NICHOLAS YEO, DON WONG,
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    • 493 6  -  CHEOW XIN YI cheowxinyi@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Singapore has to decide, going forward, whether it aims to be a “Jurong Island” or a “Shenton Way”, said retired top civil servant Ngiam Tong Dow at a forum yesterday. Pitting the two models against each
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    • 249 6 AGENCIES SINGAPORE Facebook cofounder Eduardo Saverin plans to live in Singapore “for an indefinite period of time” but is not applying for Singapore citizenship after giving up his United States passport, according to his spokesman. The Brazil-born 30-year-old renounced his US citizenship
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    • 336 8 AGENCIES LONDON The shock waves from Greece’s failure to form a coalition government continued to reverberate around markets yesterday, though upbeat US economic indicators gave the more positive-inclined investor something to latch on to. Comments by German Chancellor Angela Merkel and new
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    • 391 8 AGENCIES LONDON Newly-built houses in the United Kingdom are too cramped to swing a cat, with many Britons finding that their homes are too small to store a vacuum cleaner or the weekly grocery purchases, according to the Royal Institute
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    • 220 10 AGENCIES ATHENS A day after Greece’s President warned about the possibility of bank runs, Greek political leaders yesterday began forming a caretaker government. This comes before new elections next month that could lead the rudderless country to exit the euro, a prospect
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    • 461 10 AGENCIES BERLIN The new beginning for the most important relationship in Europe between Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany and President Francois Hollande of France started on Tuesday with a bolt from the blue, an apology and a sense of harmony that seemed
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  • COMMENT & ANALYSIS
    • 1066 12  -  CLIVE CROOK Clive Crook is a Bloomberg View columnist. BLOOMBERG The chaos in Greece has resumed and a new election that nobody expects to resolve anything looms. Exasperated European Union (EU) officials have begun openly discussing the country’s exit from the
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    • 853 14  - Never mind Europe worry about India TYLER COWEN Tyler Cowen is a professor of economics at George Mason University. THE NEW YORK TIMES The economic slowdown in India is one of the world’s biggest economic stories, but it is commanding only a modicum of attention in the United States. It
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    • 891 16  -  Companies need to change practices that frustrate, drive away returning Singaporeans RICHARD HARTUNG Richard Hartung is a consultant who has lived in Singapore since 1992. A young pharmacist recently returned to Singapore after a highly satisfying stint studying and working in Australia. There,
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    • 797 18  -  MEHDI KHALAJI Mehdi Khalaji is a senior fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. PROJECT SYNDICATE The recent nuclear talks in Istanbul between the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council, plus Germany and Iran, have shifted the world’s focus to the
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  • VOICES
    • 166 20  -  Letter from Rajesh Seth THE horror of the Ferrari crash at Rochor Road, caught live on camera, would send chills down anyone’s spine. In 1992, the sale of chewing gum was banned in Singapore because it became a nuisance. The authorities should explain
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    • 338 20  -  Letter from Siva Sankar Sinnasamy IT SEEMS that there is not only a “Red alert on our roads” (May 16) due to more drivers beating the red-light traffic signal but also from a rising number who use their mobile phones to talk, read or
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    • 277 20  -  Letter from Yeo Seow Woon IT IS time for the Physical Employment Status (PES) classification system, which has been in use since 1971, to be reviewed. The pattern of diseases as well as physiological reserves and adaptations have changed over the last few decades.
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    • 361 21  -  Letter from Chan Wing Kin ALTHOUGH it was reported recently that the average selling price of private property has eased, the per-sq-ft selling price of certain developments still hit new highs. Property development is a highthreshold industry; it is capital and labour intensive,
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    • 313 21  -  Letter from Tan Chuan Poh THE Building and Construction Authority’s current review of the Building Maintenance and Strata Management Act is long overdue. In particular, restrictions should be placed on the number of proxies a person can hold at an estate’s
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    • 168 22  - The best place to be creative or like a frog in a well? Letter from Narayana Narayana CONSIDERING that distinguished author and speaker Fredrik Haren has been here for only four years, his effusive praise that Singapore is “The best place in the world to be creative” (May 14) is
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    • 188 22  -  Letter from Leong Sze Hian ACCORDING to the Energy Market Authority’s (EMA) website, the electricity tariff’s fuel component rose in tandem with the fuel price, from 2007 to this year. If this is the case, why is it that, for
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    • 304 22  -  Letter from Edwin Seah Deputy Director, Corporate Communications, Energy Market Authority MR LEONG Sze Hian asked why the electricity tariff rises in tandem with fuel price increases but does not fall correspondingly when fuel prices drop. Tariffs do fall in tandem with
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 519 24  -  Two programmes aim at the early detection and treatment of dementia WOO SIAN BOON woosianboon@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Two programmes aimed at the early detection and treatment of mental disorders among the elderly have made inroads into raising the awareness of mental health issues faced
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    • 211 24 CHANNEL NEWSASIA SINGAPORE The Megazip ride, an adventure zip line at Sentosa, has resumed operations after the operator Flying Dragon Adventure took steps to make the ride safer. The Building and Construction Authority lifted the closure order yesterday. Australian tourist Michael Joseph McCarthy broke
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    • 374 25 SINGAPORE While they believe the use of cable ties to secure rail claws on the MRT lines is acceptable, technical experts said it must not be a permanent solution. This was among the issues raised yesterday, as nine experts shared their opinions at
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    • 238 25 Hairline cracks discovered on selected third rail joints on the North-South and East-West lines “do not affect the integrity” of the rail network and “pose no safety concerns”, an SMRT spokesperson said last night. Technical experts had told the Committee of
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    • 141 25 CHANNEL NEWSASIA All Central Provident Fund (CPF) members will continue to receive a risk-free interest rate of 2.5 per cent on their Ordinary Account savings from July 1 to Sept 30. The computed rate is derived from the
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    • 360 26 SINGAPORE Starting next year, six new secondary schools will offer places for students even before they take the Primary School Leaving Examination (PSLE). The six schools are Canberra Secondary, Naval Base Secondary, New Town Secondary, Queenstown Secondary, Teck Whye Secondary and Woodgrove Secondary.
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    • 303 26 SINGAPORE To help needy parents gain access to affordable tuition for their children, the North East Community Development Council (CDC) rolled out financial subsidies in a pilot programme launched yesterday. Under the programme, the CDC will subsidise 90 per cent of tuition
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    • 347 28 CHANNEL NEWSASIA SINGAPORE The Republic’s prefabrication industry is set to change with the opening of the first Integrated Construction and Prefabrication Hub (ICPH) yesterday. Developed by Tiong Seng Holdings, the multi-storey complex houses the automated production of precast components. The
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    • 251 28  -  KRISTINE LIM CHENGDU They were supposed to arrive here in March but their arrival has been delayed for six months. Those looking forward to the arrival of two Chinese pandas in Singapore may now have to wait a little while longer. The authorities said Kai
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  • WORLD
    • 392 30 REUTERS HONG KONG In a month-long stand-off between China and the Philippines over a disputed shoal in the South China Sea, Beijing has so far refrained from sending warships from its increasingly powerful and modern navy to enforce its territorial claims. China has instead deployed patrol
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    • 111 30 BLOOMBERG The Philippines may buy two squadrons of military jets for as much as US$1.6 billion (S$2 billion), President Benigno Aquino has said, as the country pushes to modernise its defences amid a territorial dispute with China. The government could buy new training
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    • 106 30 AP Vietnam is protesting against China’s fishing ban in parts of the South China Sea that Hanoi claims as its own. Foreign Ministry spokesman Luong Thanh Nghi said in a statement posted on the ministry’s website late on Tuesday that Vietnam
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    • 266 32 AP WASHINGTON For the second time in less than two weeks, Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng has spoken by phone to a United States congressional hearing and alleged persecution of his relatives. Mr Chen complained on Tuesday that his elder brother
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    • 266 32 AGENCIES WASHINGTON A suspension of United States sanctions against Myanmar, rather than a full removal of the penalties, would keep pressure on the government to stay on track with political reforms, opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi said on Tuesday. Her comments,
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    • 140 32 AP Investigators yesterday began analysing the cockpit voice recorder from a Russian passenger jet that slammed into the side of an Indonesian volcano. They hope the final words of the two pilots will help explain what caused last week’s crash, which killed all 45 people
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    • 247 36 AP PHNOM PENH Cambodian activists say a 13-year-old girl was shot dead yesterday in the latest of several clashes between villagers and authorities trying to evict them to make room for development. Hundreds of armed police and soldiers tried to sweep
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    • 248 36 THE MALAYSIAN INSIDER PUTRAJAYA Dr Mahathir Mohamad has backed calls to form a second Malaysian Bar as an alternative for lawyers who disagree with the present Bar Council’s alleged pro-opposi-tion stand. The former Prime Minister questioned the Bar Council’s impartiality, saying that
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    • 218 36 THE MALAYSIAN INSIDER KUALA LUMPUR Election watchdog Bersih yesterday launched a fresh campaign against electoral fraud as a followup to its April 28 sit-in, this time inviting Malaysians to participate in an “election monitoring initiative” to ensure the coming 13th general
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    • 241 38 AP LUCKNOW The authorities in Uttar Pradesh state are investigating whether a billion-dollar project for parks filled with statues celebrating India’s lowest caste was an elaborate swindle. India has been rocked in recent years by corruption scandals involving government contracts for everything from mining rights
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    • 496 38 AP PYONGYANG Mass public displays of reverence for their dear leaders are a feature of North Korean life. Citizens are regularly summoned to assemble for rallies where they bow in practised unison, shake bright fake flowers in choreographed praise and sometimes
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    • 393 39 REUTERS THE HAGUE Bosnian Serb general Ratko Mladic taunted Srebrenica survivors yesterday at the start of his trial for genocide, running his hand across his throat in a gesture of defiance to relatives of the worst massacre in Europe since World War II. Mladic,
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    • 258 39 AP BEIRUT The United Nations observer mission in Syria has been caught up in a burst of violence captured on video, with a roadside bomb damaging its cars just minutes after witnesses said regime forces gunned down mourners at a funeral procession nearby. The mission
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    • 158 39 AP The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)onTuesday invited Pakistan’s President to the coming Chicago summit on Afghanistan, the strongest sign yet that Islamabad is ready to reopen its western border to United States and NATO military supplies heading to the war in the
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    • 172 39 AP Australia has announced it will contribute US$100 million (S$126 million) annually for three years beginning in 2015 to support Afghan National Security Forces after they take responsibility for their country’s security. Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Defence Minister Stephen Smith said in a
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    • 168 40 AP Female soldiers are moving into new jobs in once all-male units this week as the United States Army breaks down formal barriers in recognition of what has already happened in wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The policy change announced earlier this
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    • 319 40 AP WASHINGTON United States President Barack Obama (picture) and First Lady Michelle Obama hold assets worth between nearly US$2.6 million (S$3.3 million) and nearly US$8.3 million, according to financial disclosure reports released on Tuesday by the White House. The documents show the couple’s assets for last year.
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    • 212 40 AGENCIES President Barack Obama’s announcement of support for gay marriage has inflamed political passions but has not given him a bump in popularity, a Reuters/Ipsos poll showed on Tuesday. Roughly a third of Americans view Mr Obama more favourably and a third
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    • 249 42 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH NEW YORK A quadriplegic man has regained the use of his hand after becoming the world’s first patient to undergo an operation which rerouted his nerves to bypass his spinal cord injury. The 71-year-old had been paralysed
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    • 109 42 An employee showing the 34.98-carat Beau Sancy diamond, which is at least 400 years old, at Sotheby’s auction house in Zurich, Switzerland. Marie de Medici wore it at her coronation as Queen Consort of Henry IV in 1610, and now the Beau Sancy
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    • 252 42 AGENCIES LONDON A new study has shown that chemicals that are routinely found in the environment could be damaging to men’s sperm count, the BBC reported yesterday. Researchers from the Glasgow, Edinburgh and Aberdeen universities in Scotland and scientists from the French National Institute
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    • 428 44  -  LYNDA HONG lyndahong@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Luxury property developer SC Global Developments has launched a highend apartment at The Marq on Paterson Road. The unit, decorated by French luxury goods designer Hermes, promises to bring a new meaning to luxury living, even as the
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    • 137 44 BLOOMBERG Olam International, one of the world’s top three suppliers of rice, cocoa and coffee, slumped to its lowest in three-and-a-half years in Singapore trading after reporting a decline in third-quarter profit. Its shares closed down 11 per cent at S$1.785,
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    • 204 44  -  DOW JONES SINGAPORE Singapore Airlines (SIA), which recently reported its first quarterly loss in two years, said yesterday it will suspend flights to Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Athens in Greece because of weak demand. The last flights
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    • 315 45 AFTERNOON LATEST REUTERS ATHENS IMF chief Christine Lagarde warned of “extremely expensive” consequences were Greece to leave the euro zone, a once taboo possibility that European leaders have begun to discuss openly after the nation descended into political chaos. Fears
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    • 115 45 OVERNIGHT Euro, US stocks fall on ECB, Fed minutes US stocks and the euro slid yesterday on news that some Greek banks face emergency funding needs, while minutes from the Federal Reserve’s April meeting showed US economic prospects remain sobering. The ECB stopped funding operations for some Greek
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    • 108 45 AP Shareholders of JPMorgan Chase have filed two lawsuits against the biggest United States bank, accusing it and its leaders of taking excessive risk and causing a monumental US$2 billion (S$2.5 billion) trading loss. The company disclosed the loss last week, saying it resulted
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    • 164 46  -  DOW JONES SHANGHAI China’s largest four banks barely issued any new yuan loans in the first two weeks of this month, extending the country’s weak credit growth last month, the staterun Shanghai Securities News reported yesterday, citing an unnamed source. The
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    • 366 46 BLOOMBERG LONDON Bank of England governor Mervyn King said officials have prepared for dangers posed by Europe’s debt crisis, after the bank lowered growth forecasts and raised predictions for inflation this year. “Contingency plans have been discussed and have been for a
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    • 84 46 REUTERS Indonesia sees the 2013 budget deficit at 1.3 per cent to 1.9 per cent of GDP, lower than its 2012 target of 2.23 per cent, Finance Minister Agus Martowardojo said yesterday. Earlier, the minister said his offices expected
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    • 450 54 REUTERS DETRIOT General Motors (GM) said on Tuesday it will stop advertising on Facebook, even as the social network prepares to go public. While GM gave no specific reason for dropping the ads, a source said the company’s marketing executives
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    • 230 54 AP Few users surveyed in an Associated Press-CNBC poll say they click on Facebook ads. More than 40 per cent of American adults log in to share news, personal observations, photos at least once a week. But many do not
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    • 184 54 BLOOMBERG United States social-media advertising spending may rise to US$9.8 billion (S$12.4 billion) in 2016 from US$3.8 billion last year, as companies seek to harness new tools that help reach people who interact online, researcher BIA/Kelsey said. Higher ad
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    • 238 56 BlackBerry phones are the least favoured among users of seven phone makers, according to The American Customer Satisfaction Index. On a scale of up to 100, BlackBerry had an aggregate score of 69. In comparison Apple, the smartphone satisfction leader, scored 83, blogged The New York Times. RIM CEO
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    • 287 56 THE GUARDIAN SAN FRANCISCO The servers supporting role-playing game Diablo III went online on Monday night but promptly crashed under the weight of global demand. Players found themselves unable to access the game, many repeatedly receiving the now notorious “error37” message, informing
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    • 827 58  -  VENUS HEW venushewyl@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Creative ideas are usually not a problem for start-ups; getting funding is. So it was not without a lot of sweat and patience that local start-up PayWhere, the creator of social e-commerce tool TackThis!, is seeing results today.
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    • 129 60 语 Creative Mandarin Oral Skills Workshop Oral presentation can be intimidating to many students, but that need not be the case! The Creative Mandarin Oral Skills Workshop is specially developed to help upper primary school students master essential techniques in Mandarin oral skills and to present themselves confidently in their
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    • 476 62  -  SHAMIR OSMAN shamir@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Sitting in the lobby of Singapore’s Amara Hotel earlier this year, Nazmi Faiz said, unabashed and matter-of-factly, but with an unexpected dash of humility: “My dream is to play in Europe.” However, many doubted if the 17-year-old midfielder could survive, although
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    • 587 62  -  SSC to keep open mind on land’s future in deciding whether aborted motorsports project should be revived IAN DE COTTA ian@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The Government has begun a detailed study on the aborted Changi Motorsports Hub and will consult industry experts before deciding if the project should
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    • 267 66  -  LOW LIN FHOONG SINGAPORE For over two hours yesterday, former Olympic sprinter Ben Johnson, infamous for being stripped of the 100m gold medal at the 1988 Seoul Olympics for failing a drug test, was a celebrity, as everywhere he turned, eager youngsters at the Australian
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    • 436 66  -  Title hopes may be fading, but it has been a fruitful league season: Kadir DAN GUEN CHIN danguenchin@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Until five weeks ago, the LionsXII looked favourites for the 2012 Malaysian Super League (MSL) title. But after a recent run of inconsistent form, much of
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    • 291 66  -  SHAMIR OSMAN shamir@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Defending Great EasternYeo’s S-League champions Tampines Rovers toiled to a 4-3 over Cambodia’s Phnom Penh Crown last night in a preliminary round fixture of the RHB Singapore Cup. The Stags went a goal down before surging to a 3-1 lead, but
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    • 868 68 REUTERS AFTERNOON LATEST LONDON England manager Roy Hodgson cast aside Manchester United defender Rio Ferdinand, probably signalling the end of his international career, but included former captain John Terry in his squad for next month’s European Championship. Hodgson, appointed on May 1 to replace Fabio Capello
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    • 328 68 AP Fresh off a title in Madrid and back at No 2 in the rankings, Roger Federer defeated Carlos Berlocq 6-3, 6-4 in his opening match at the Italian Open yesterday. Seeking to win one of only three Masters 1000 events he has never
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    • 112 62 SPORTS FIXTURES HIGHLIGHTS Timing Venue Thu, 17/05/12 Singapore Cup Brunei DPMM Home United 7.45pm No telecast Fri, 18/05/12 Singapore Cup Loyola Meralco Geylang 7.45pm SB* Telecast not available at SportsBuzz(Kranji) For detailed match fixtures, please visit Singapore Pools website www.singaporepools.com.sg SB |na»]rt<.l:lTEJ3| SportsBuzz@Kranji SportsBuzz@PoMo (For 18 yrs and above) LW
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      • 1002 2  -  Give yourself a reality check with a month of ‘real life’ lined up MAY SEAH may@mediacorp.com. sg AFTER indulging lately in a deluge of melodramas involving illicit affairs, psychopathic serial killers,“twincest” and regicide, we sort of feel like we need to vary the menu
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      • 618 4  -  Internet sensation The Axis Of Awesome have become a bona fide live draw Christopher Toh christophert@mediacorp.com.sg IFYouTube is tagged as a favourite on your computer, you’ll probably have heard of The Axis Of Awesome, the Australian trio who became an online sensation when their ditty, 4 Chords
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      • 106 4 AP AARON Sorkin is going from Facebook to Apple.The Oscar-winning writer will write a screenplay based on the Steve Jobs biography. Sony Pictures co-chairman Amy Pascal says Sorkin will make the film about the late Apple founder “everything that Jobs himself was: Captivating, entertaining and
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        565 6  -  UK performace group Slung Low brings vampires to Singapore Mayo Martin mayo@mediacorp.com.sg VAMPIRES have invaded Singapore. Or at least that’s the premise behind They Only Come At Night: Pandemic, a site-specific interactive performance by UK group Slung Low at the Singapore Arts Festival. To be held at Old
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      • 347 6 REUTERS ONE of the two male masseurs who accused actor John Travolta of sexual assault dropped his US$2million (S$2.5million) lawsuit on Tuesday, but the lawyer for the second man said he was going ahead with that case and was confident of
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      • 343 7  -  Mugler’s creative director Nicola Formichetti took centrestage at the press conference for the Audi Fashion Festival SERENE LIM “SO HOT, he’s boiling,” went the introduction by Audi Fashion Festival creative director Colin McDowell of Nicola Formichetti. Mugler’s creative director was at the Audi Fashion Festival (AFF) press
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        1468 8  -  Peace, love and the bridge they said they couldn’t build in gorgeous San Francisco Bee Rowlatt feature s@mediacorp.com.sg THE DAILY TELEGRAPH SAN Francisco is the city of peace and love just don’t mess with their bridge. “My son says there’s only one thing that would make him go
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      • 666 12  -  There’s more to South Korea than pretty dancing boys like finding sanctuary at a temple stay Barbara Zitwer feature s@mediacorp.com.sg THE DAILY TELEGRAPH I DISCOVERED Templestay in South Korea quite by accident. I was in Seoul on business and, jet-lagged on my first night, I found myself
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        554 14 Travel deals and steals Angsana Laguna Phuket family fun Take advantage of Angsana Laguna Phuket’s Summer Family Festival running from now until Oct 31. Stay a minimum of two consecutive nights and receive tickets to Fantasea, Phuket’s largest cultural theme park, with transfers to and from the resort.
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        403 16  -  How to spend S$ 101 (you big spender, you) in a day in Turkey TRAVEL 101 SERENE LIM ANTALYA lives up to its reputation as the Turkish Riviera in true Ottoman style. Located on the cliffs of the Mediterranean coast upon which spills a fantastic coastline,Antalya has more than
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    • 510 17  -  A Middle Eastern party platter is easy with Keskinoglu Frozen Doner Kebab and Chicken Meat Ball Party Pack Brought to you by ANNETTE TAN food@mediacorp.com.sg One of the best-known Middle Eastern dishes is the doner kebab tender slices of chicken or beef tucked between pita bread with
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    • THINGS TO DO
      • 124 18 Immerse yourself in the rich history of our tiny island through the Images Of Internment: The Eye And Art Of William Haxworth. Haxworth, a former prisoner of war and accomplished artist, provides his perspective on World War II in Singapore
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      • 99 18 Adapted from Moliere’s famous French comedy, The Miser, The Kanjoos is a play conducted in English and a love story thrown into mystification by a stingy old man whose greed for money supersedes everything else in life. The Kanjoos is stylistically exaggerated
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      • 83 18 Through a cluster of picturesque imagery, The River We Share pays tribute to The Mekong River, which boasts a complex ecological setting teeming with rich natural resources and diverse ways of life. More than 100 ethnic groups and at least 100 million people have lived off
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      • 94 18 Stirred by the Ashtanga Vinyasa series of movements, this Flow Yoga Workshop with instructor Yun will engage your breath, core muscles, arm strength and general flexibility. Always returning to the breath and other meditational techniques, you will soon discover how to transcend your body through vital physical
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      • 101 18 Making its debut premiere in Asia atthe Singapore Science Centre, Sultans Of Science is a global touring exhibition commemorating the contributions of Muslim scholars in mathematics, technology and science during the Golden Age Of The Islamic World (circa 700 to 1700 CE), and the sway of their
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