Today, 2 August 2013, Afternoon Edition

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  • 25 1 TODAY AbdiaCorp FRIDAY, 2 AUGUST 2013 MICA (P) 053/06/2013 TODAY AFTERNOON EDITION WE SET YOU THINKING /VI bdiaCorp FRIDAY, 2 AUGUST 2013 MICA (P) 053/06/2013
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    • 133 2 £h Moves Vote Play when you re indoors, work when you’re outdoors. The Samsung GALAXY Note 8.0 lets you multitask efficiently no matter where you are. SAMSUNG Which beach suits you best! 1.Choose V our location Samantha Tan next mo nth Priority inbox [URGENTICEOS Starred Mike Gardne required Meeting invite,
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  • 591 1  -  TP attribute rise in violations to increased enforcement, pledges tough policing stance ALMOST 130,000 BOOKED IN 6 MONTHS SUMITA SREEDHARAN sumitas@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —More drivers seem to be busting speed limits on the roads here. In the first six months
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  • 418 1 AFTERNOON LATEST SINGAPORE The Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation (OCBC) has reported a net profit after tax of S$597 million for the second quarter of this year, down 8 per cent from S$648 million a year ago. That lagged behind the S$640 million
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    • 237 1 EQUATORIAL SINGAPORE HAS EVERY REASON TO GET INVOLVED IN ARCTIC COUNCIL’S POLAR POLITICS: JOSEPH LIOW COMMENT&ANALYSIS 12 The all-new TODAYAPP FOR ANDROID SMARTPHONES exclusively available on Samsung Apps tdy.sg/newsandroidapp BUSINESS 54 LINKEDIN REVENUE SOARS AS MORE MEMBERS COME ON BOARD M I C A P) 0 5 3/0 6/ 2
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  • hot news
    • 527 2  -  Chan Soo Sen also disqualified from driving for a year, after failing breathalyser test OFFENCE WAS ‘NOT INTENDED’ AMANDA LEE leeguiping@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —Two “wrong decisions in a row” resulted in former Joo Chiat Member of Parliament (MP) Chan Soo Sen committing his
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    • 754 4  -  Policy Portfolio the central component, will have 6 core asset classes instead of 13 TO KEEP PACE WITH CHANGING ENVIRONMENT LIN YANQIN Assistant News Editor yanqinl@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Government investment arm GIC, which reported “steady returns” in its latest annual report, is implementing a
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    • 331 4 SINGAPORE Former World Bank President Robert Zoellick is joining the Temasek Holdings board of directors in a move which will help the investment company expand its presence in the United States. Mr Zoellick, 60, also served the US government in various roles, including
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    • 365 6 AFTERNOON LATEST REUTERS MOSCOW Russia rejected pleas from the United States and granted American fugitive Edward Snowden a year’s asylum yesterday, letting the former spy agency contractor slip out of a Moscow airport after more than five weeks in limbo while angering the
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    • 719 8 AFTERNOON LATEST THE NEW YORK TIMES Cleveland A former school bus driver who pleaded guilty to more than 900 counts, including aggravated murder, kidnapping and rape, after imprisoning three women in his west Cleveland house for a decade, gave a rambling
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    • 456 8  -  WONG WEI HAN SINGAPORE The failed bid to acquire a controlling stake in Indonesia’s Danamon Bank is not a setback for DBS as the bank remains on track for organic growth in Indonesia and other regional markets, Group Chief Executive Piyush Gupta
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    • 537 10 HIGH-PROFILE SHOOTINGS IN MALAYSIA AGENCIES PUTR A JAYA A spate of high-profile shootings has pushed Putrajaya to start intercepting communications and electronically monitor suspects out on bail under new security provisions, the government’s Performance Management and Delivery Unit (Pemandu) said yesterday. Pemandu Chief
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    • 291 10  -  PETER YEO SINGAPORE SingTel has been fined S$50,000 for an outage that occurred last November. According to the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA) yesterday, a service difficulty incident occurred in SingTel’s fixed-line network, which caused some to experience disruptions on their fixed-line telephone
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  • Page 8 Miscellaneous
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  • comment &analysis
    • 1173 12  -  THE ARCTIC COUNCIL JOSEPH CHINYONG LIOW Joseph Chinyong Liow is Professor of Comparative and International Politics and Associate Dean at the S Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University Singapore. Singapore’s recent accession to the Arctic Council as an observer has, understandably, raised
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    • 868 14  -  THE WAY WE LEARN K RANGA KRISHNAN K Ranga Krishnan is Dean of the Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School Singapore. A clinician-scientist and psychiatrist, he chaired the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Sciences at Duke University Medical Centre from 1998 to 2009.
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    • 1006 16  -  IMPACT ON OTHER ECONOMIES DAVID PILLING David Pilling is the Financial Times’ Asia editor. THE FINANCIAL TIMES LIMITED Few parts of the world have benefited as much from China’s rise as Latin America. In 1990, China was a lowly 17th on the
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    • 310 14 This is part of a series on the way we learn. To read the other articles, visit tdy.sg/comkrishnan or scan the QR code. i E m K L 9 i By Beebanz A VENUE: SINGAPORE MARRIOTT HOTEL, BALLROOM III, LEVEL 3, 320 ORCHARD ROAD DATE: 3 AUG (11 AM 8PM)
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  • voices
    • 165 20  -  FROM JOANNE TAN I refer to the report, “More outdoor activities under new PE syllabus” (Aug 1). My children are in Primary 2 and 4. They have three periods (1.5 hours) of Physical Education (PE) every week. But their teachers often take away PE periods and
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    • 356 20  -  FROM JAMES POH CHING PING I refer to this week’s VoicesTODAY topic, “Is Singapore a place to grow old in?”. InternationalLiving.com may not rank Singapore among the top 10 countries to retire in, but we are still one of the best countries where safety
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    • 385 20  -  FROM EDWIN KHOO BOO TECK I refer to this week’s VoicesTODAY topic, “Is Singapore a place to grow old in?”. The average Singapore resident at age 65 last year is expected to live 20.4 years, although it is not the life expectancy but
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    • 126 20  -  FROM JAIRAM AMRITH There has been a spate of letters in Voices expressing concern at the plight of the elderly in Singapore, a plight that will grow as life expectancy increases. Few senior citizens would wish for increased life expectancy with the inability to pay
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    • 230 23  -  FROM NICK MCHUGH I wrote regarding the condition of the old Keretapi Tanah Melayu railway track, in “Take action before we lose our Rail Corridor” (July 9). I am pleased to say that the Singapore Land Authority (SLA) must have taken
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    • 310 23  -  FROM ALAN TAN Vice-President, Aviation Security, Changi Airport Group We thank Mr Yeo Shuan Chee for his feedback, in “Changi Airport efficient to the world but...” (July 29), on waiting times for airport pass applications. To enhance Changi Airport’s services, we recently
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  • singapore
    • 681 24  -  Some cite speed, lack of frequency and reliability of service as deterrents MOST PEOPLE SEE SERVICE AS ‘NOVELTY’ WOO SIAN BOON woosianboon@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —The move to have water taxis serve as a form of daily transport could be in need of
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    • 496 24  -  WOO SIAN BOON SINGAPORE —Having newly-licensed taxi drivers take on the role of relief drivers may help cabbies meet the distance requirement under the new taxi availability standards, said National Taxi Association (NTA) adviser Ang Hin Kee yesterday. In addition, taxi drivers
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    • 577 26  -  INDIVIDUALS ALLOWED TO CONTINUE RELIGIOUS DUTIES NEO CHAI CHIN SING A PORE —The Commissioner of Charities (COC) has agreed to defer removal proceedings against eight City Harvest Church (CHC) executive members until after criminal proceedings against six of them conclude. In
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    • 132 26 CHANNEL NEWSASIA SINGAPORE —Four Malaysians were arrested and about 3.2 kilogrammes of heroin and 250 grammes of “ice” estimated to be worth some S$373,000 were seized at Woodlands Checkpoint on Wednesday, said the Central Narcotics Bureau yesterday. Officers had stopped a Malaysiaregistered car at
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    • 305 28 VICTIMS RESPONDED TO ONLINE ADS SINGAPORE The police are warning of scam cases involving persons pretending to be a police officer or a parent to extort money over the phone from male victims who responded to online advertisements of
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    • 118 28 CHANNEL NEWSASIA S I N G A P O R E The Immigration and Checkpoints Authority said traffic flow through the land checkpoints at Woodlands and Tuas is expected to be heavy with Hari Raya Puasa and National Day coming up next week,
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    • 133 28 What are your best memories about Singapore and what makes it truly home to you? Share with us your #SGmoment via Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, or submit it at www.todayonline.com/sgmoment. The best entries will be featured in the TODAY newspaper and stand to win a pair of tickets to the
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  • science
    • 471 30  -  NEW TECHNOLOGY USES LESS ENERGY TO COOL KATHY CHENG kathychenghy@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —Enjoying the air conditioning in tropical Singapore may be somewhat of a guilty pleasure for the environmentally conscious, but researchers here are trying to make it less so with technology that uses
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  • china&india
    • 550 36 Debt-laden countries in the Caribbean Europe offer visas and citizenship to immigrants ALL THEY WANT IS TO BUY PROPERTY DOW JONES BEIJING —Cash-strapped governments are slashing requirements for visas and citizenship to attract wealthy Chinese immigrants in the hope of drawing capital to
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    • 260 36 AGENCIES NEW YORK —The wife of Chinese President Xi Jinping, Ms Peng Liyuan, has made it to fashion magazine Vanity Fair’s international best-dressed list for the first time, becoming the only Chinese person to earn a spot on the list
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    • 596 38 PRIVATE BUSINESSES FACING SUCCESSION ISSUES REUTERS HONG KONG —Mr Dai Yintao, 21, is the only son of the millionaire owner of Chinese real estate, pharmaceutical and mining companies. He has no interest in taking over his father’s business, opting instead to work on
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  • world
    • 602 40 GOVT TO INVOKE INTERNAL SECURITY ACT BLOOMBERG B A N G KO K —Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has made a legislative push that includes an amnesty for jailed supporters and two trillion baht (S$81 billion) of railway investments, which, if passed, could trigger
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    • 559 42 I WAS MISUNDERSTOOD: ASO AGENCIES TOKYO —Japanese Finance Minister Taro Aso has retracted a comment suggesting that Japan should follow the Nazi example of how to change the country’s constitution, following protests by neighbouring countries and human rights activists. In a speech
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    • 584 44 WOMEN AND CHILDREN WILL SOON FOLLOW AGENCIES SYDNEY —Forty single men who are the first group of asylum seekers to be transferred to Manus Island, Papua New Guinea, under the Australian Labor government’s new policy arrived yesterday, and women
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    • 108 44 AGENCIES Papua New Guinea Prime Minister Peter O’Neill, in an interview with The Australian newspaper, yesterday outlined the cost of other projects that Australia has agreed to fund as part of the asylum deal. The total cost is expected to be around A$787 million
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    • 461 48 AGENDA TO INCLUDE COUNTERTERRORISM AND BORDER MANAGEMENT AP ISLAMABAD —United States Secretary of State John Kerry and his Pakistani counterpart, Mr Sartaj Aziz, said yesterday that the two countries will resume high-level negotiations over security issues. Mr Kerry also said he had invited
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    • 540 50 KREMLIN DOWNPLAYS IMPACT ON US RELATIONS AGENCIES MOSCOW National Security Agency (NSA) whistle-blower Edward Snowden left the transit zone of a Moscow airport and officially entered Russia after the authorities granted him asylum for a year, his lawyer said yesterday, a move that suggests
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    • 433 52 AFTERNOON LATEST REUTERS FR ANKFURT The European Central Bank (ECB) yesterday left interest rates at a record low 0.5 per cent and affirmed that they will remain there for some while to come and could yet fall further. ECB President Mario
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    • 190 54 REUTERS NEW YORK A Manhattan jury found former Goldman Sachs Group VicePresident Fabrice Tourre liable for fraud for his role in a failed mortgage deal that cost investors US$1 billion (S$1.28 billion), giving the United States Securities and Exchange
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    • 280 54 AFTERNOON LATEST REUTERS SAN FR ANCISCO —LinkedIn yesterday reported that its second-quarter revenue jumped 59 per cent to US$363.7 million (S$464.2 million) after membership grew at a faster pace for the first time since late 2011. The site boasts 238 million users,
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    • 233 54 REUTERS N E W YOR K Activist investor Carl Icahn yesterday sued Dell and its board, his latest attempt to derail a US$24.4 billion (S$31 billion) buyout bid by the computer maker’s founder and CEO, Mr Michael Dell. Mr Icahn asked
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    • 214 56 SINGAPORE —Sembcorp Marine said yesterday its second-quarter net profit fell 12.5 per cent from a year earlier, primarily due to lower interest income and contribution from associates. It warned of a challenging market environment and competition from Chinese and Korean yards. The company,
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    • 331 56 BANK AIMING FOR MORE OVERSEAS GROWTH AGENCIES dinary share. AGENCIES, WITH ADDITIONal REPORTING BY WONG WEI HAN SINGAPORE United Overseas Bank (UOB) yesterday reported secondquarter net profit rose 9.9 per cent from a year earlier to S$783 million on an increase in net
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      • 93 58 This National Day, pay tribute to Singapore while expressing your individualism with UNIQLO’s range of red and white apparel. From shortsleeved shirts to bra camisoles and pants, UNIQLO has a variety of designs and patterns to choose from. Look out for special collaborative items, such
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      • 182 58 Watsons has opened its largest store (4,000 sq ft) in the west at JEM, thrilling customers with a range of trendy beauty and healthcare items, as well as new and innovative retail concepts. Here are the highlights: JBeautyLand This Japanese beauty counter offers a wide selection of
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      • 142 58 Learn to protect yourself at Krav Maga Culture (KMC). You’ll be taught Krav Maga, a self-defence system that equips you with the skills and knowledge on how to prevent, deal and counter attacks. Mr Edwin Peng, head instructor at KMC, said: “Krav Maga is not a sport. It
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      • 96 58 Allure Beauty has opened a spacious new outlet at City Square Mall. It also introduces The Golden Ratio concept into its eyebrow embroidery so as to achieve perfect balance and proportion while harmonising the rest of the features together. Visit Allure Beauty’s roadshow at City Square Mall, from
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      • 163 58 TUPPERWARE Brands is celebrating Singapore’s 48th birthday by giving 250,000 one-litre TUPPERWARE Brands Eco Bottles to all taxi drivers in Singapore. With this campaign, “TUPPERWARE Brands, We Care”, TUPPERWARE Brands hopes to reward and share the joy of National Day celebrations with taxi drivers,
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      • 231 58 TODAI has added a longevity section to its all-you-can-eat buffet line. Diners can enjoy 10 varieties of healing foods to help boost their immune system and strengthen their vital organs. A hot favourite is the abalone ginseng chicken soup, which combines the health benefits of abalone
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    • 177 62 SINGAPORE —The Council for Estate Agencies (CEA) and the Consumers Association of Singapore (CASE) will kick off a new series of quarterly seminars on the property sector this month, with the first seminar featuring industry experts who will speak
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    • 425 62 ‘HARSH PROPERTY CURBS UNLIKELY’ AGENCIES BEIJING —China’s new home prices rose last month by the most since December amid expectations that the government will not tighten the property market further and push housing values lower. Prices surged 7.9 per cent last month from a
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    • 300 64 AGENCIES SAN FR ANCISCO Facebook will start allowing TV-style advertisements on users’ newsfeeds later this year. Sources close to the social network said the 15-second ads will sell for up to US$2.5 million (S$3 million) daily. The videos will be the same length as
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    • 553 66  -  LionsXII likely to stick with strategy of soak-and-strike for away matches in Malaysia Cup SUNDRAM TARGETING CLEAN SWEEP OF HOME FIXTURES AMIR YUSOF amiryusof@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —A major factor in the LionsXII’s Malaysia Super League (MSL) title-winning campaign has been their ability to grind out results
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    • 459 66  -  LOW LIN FHOONG SINGAPORE —National table tennis players can now further their studies at the University of Liverpool (UoL) after the Singapore Table Tennis Association (STTA) inked a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the British institution yesterday. The partnership will see UoL providing two
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    • 676 67 AFTERNOON LATEST REUTERS BARCELONA American teenager Missy Franklin won her fourth gold of the week and compatriot Ryan Lochte claimed the 13th of a glittering career on a thrilling day of action at the world championships yesterday (this morning, Singapore time) Australia’s James Magnussen
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    • 242 67 THE GUARDIAN L O N D O N Liverpool have bid €25 million (S$42 million) for Atletico Madrid striker Diego Costa (picture) as manager Brendan Rodgers looks to add quality to his squad before the transfer deadline. The Anfield club have moved
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    • 351 67  -  PHILIP GOH SINGAPORE —There will be plenty of reason for cheer for Singapore cyclists this month. Apart from the 2013 National Road Cycling Championships (Aug 24-25), they will also get the opportunity to race in a controlled environment on three consecutive Sundays before the
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    • 1141 68  -  Why has this summer’s transfer season been such an ugly one, with the top clubs tussling for one another’s key players? TODAY’S EPL analyst Adrian Clarke gives his take on why the market has gone mad. £40M HERE, £42M THERE... Adrian Clarke TODAY
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    • 661 69 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH LONDON —Liverpool skipper Steven Gerrard has revealed that he will be doing his part to convince unsettled team-mate Luis Suarez to stay at Anfield this season to help the Reds to chase Champions League football. In a wide-ranging interview with
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    • 220 69 AGENCIES LONDON —Tottenham Hotspur say a deal has been reached with Valencia to sign striker Roberto Soldado. The 28-year-old Spain international, who scored 80 goals in 146 appearances for Valencia, has to pass a medical to complete the £26-million (S$50.4-million) move, which would be a club
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    • 117 68 SPORTS FIXTURES HIGHLIGHTS Fri, 02/08/13 International Football LA Galaxy Real Madrid 10.30am S.League Warriors FC Home United 8.00pm LW t- This match is played on neutral ground. LW* Telecast not available at Livewire(Singapore Pools) For the latest live' telecast listing, visit www.singaporepools.com.sg I w Tfcfiiiirc] Livewire (MBS) Livewire (RWS) (21
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      • 619 8  -  5 QUESTIONS WITH... VINCENT LEE SINGAPORE —Eight hours. That’s how long make-up maestro Kai Chang once spent on one look for Taiwanese host Pauline Lan when she hosted the Golden Horse Awards. The duo also work together on Lan’s variety lifestyle show, Lady First, where
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      • 166 8 SING A PORE French fashion house agnes b will be kicking off its Snap Cardigan Photo Exhibition at The Paragon Shopping Centre next month, from Sept 5 to 14. In addition to about 70 photographs archived from over
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      • 571 10  -  Director Mira Nair on gardening, 9/11 and The Reluctant Fundamentalist FILM BREAK CHRISTOPHER TOH christophert@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —When it comes to managing the work-life balance, many people try to head down the middle path. But there are those, like the awardwinning film-maker Mira Nair, who subscribe to
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        333 10  -  Heman Chong’s latest S’pore show focuses on his photography ART REVIEW: THE PART IN THE STORY WHERE WE LOST COUNT OF THE DAYS (2) BRUCE QUEK SINGAPORE —We usually think of stories as fairly straightforward things they start somewhere, resolve something terribly dramatic along the way, and end
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      • 92 12 REUTERS LOS ANGELES American pop singer Selena Gomez topped the Billboard 200 album chart for the first time on Wednesday, besting rapper Jay-Z and the soundtrack to Teen Beach Movie. Backed by her hit single Come Get It, 21-year-old Gomez’s fourth studio album, Stars Dance,
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      • 175 13 REUTERS LOS ANGELES —Lady Gaga had a “huge breakage” and “giant craters” in her right hip that forced the pop singer to cancel about two dozen concerts this year and undergo surgery. “My injury was actually a lot worse than
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      • 160 13 SINGAPORE —Singapore’s National Art Gallery has announced the appointment of former MediaCorp News CEO Woon Tai Ho as its new Director for Media and Marketing. He will lead the marketing communications team in the planning, developing and implementing of an integrated media
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      • 174 13 REUTERS LONDON —British playwright Tom Stoppard has won the 2013 PEN/Pinter Prize established in memory of the late Nobel laureate and fellow dramatist Harold Pinter, organisers said. The 76-year-old Czech-born Stoppard, who co-wrote the Oscar-win-ning screenplay for the 1998 film Shakespeare In Love,
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      • 428 14  -  Singaporean Andrea Loh loses to Filipino Jonathan Yabut THE APPRENTICE ASIA MAY SEAH SINGAPORE —As if to reinforce the stereotypes that Filipinos are passionate and emotional, and Singaporeans are practical and hardheaded, The Apprentice Asia’s final challenge saw Filipino contestant Jonathan Yabut relying more on sentiment
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      • 289 14 SINGAPORE —Is Singapore ready to go down the path of Korea’s successful entertainment business model of grooming young talents into singing, dancing and acting stars? It certainly looks that way with FLY Entertainment and JM Artiste Network (J Team and mm2 Entertainment) joining forces to
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