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  • 25 1 TODAY /4= diaCorp FRIDAY, 20 DECEMBER 2013 MICA (P) 053/06/2013 TODAY TODAYONLINE.COM WE SET YOU THINKING /VI bdiaCorp FRIDAY, 20 DECEMBER 2013 MICA (P) 053/06/2013
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  • 88 1 Thailand’s antigovernment protesters returned to Bangkok streets yesterday, turning one of the capital’s major intersections into a lunchtime picnic spot in their bid to force Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra from office. The turnout, estimated at around 6,500 people, was smaller than at a rally earlier in
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  • 777 1  -  Global markets react coolly to the news despite an initial euphoria CENTRAL BANK VOWS TO MAINTAIN NEAR-ZERO BENCHMARK INTEREST RATE WONG WEI HAN wongweihan@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE After months of speculation as the world watched anxiously, the United States Federal Reserve is winding down the era
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  • 431 1  -  SUMITA SREEDHARAN sumitas@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —The two public transport operators here submitted applications yesterday to the Public Transport Council (PTC) to raise fares for bus and train services, ahead of the midnight deadline. Responding to media queries, SMRT and SBS Transit said they
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    • 43 1 SOCIAL MEDIA CAMPAIGN GIVINGTUESDAY SHOWS HOW YOU CAN BE CREATIVE AND INCLUSIVE WHEN GIVING: PATSIAN LOW COMMENT&ANALYSIS 16 Download the new TODAY ANDROID APPSFOR SMARTPHONES tdy.sg/todaydroidmobile AND TABLETS tdy.sg/todaydroidtablet HOT NEWS 6 Headless body case: Police seeking husband of dead woman WORLD 49
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  • hot news
    • 210 2 NEW YORK The impact of the US Fed’s decision to start tapering its quantitative easing programme will be keenly felt by American consumers, who have got used to years of easy credit. Analysts said that American consumers should start to prepare now for interest
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    • 323 4  -  LTA CONTRACTOR RESPONSIBLE FOR FAULTY CABLE XUE JIANYUE xuejianyue@mediacorp.com.sg S ING A PORE —A cable damaged by a Land Transport Authority (LTA) contractor led to a power failure that stopped train services at 23 stations on the Circle Line on Wednesday night, affecting
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    • 536 6  -  INDIAN NATIONAL ENTERED M’SIA BEFORE WIFE’S DEATH WAS REPORTED AMIR HUSSAIN amirhussain@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE At about 7am last Thursday, Harvinder Singh (picture), 33, crossed the Woodlands checkpoint and entered Malaysia, based on immigration records. About half an hour later, the
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    • 746 8  -  Both learnt not to give up and wanted to make their parents proud ‘I JUST WANT TO GIVE BACK WHAT MY MUM GAVE TO ME’ NG JING YNG, AMANDA LEE jingyng@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —Household finances became so challenging that Nur An Shahira Anwer
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    • 336 8  -  NG JING YNG SINGAPORE —About 1,100 Normal (Academic) graduates applied for the yearlong polytechnic foundation course last year, the Ministry of Education (MOE) said yesterday. The Polytechnic Foundation Programme, which is open to applications from the top 10 per cent of N(A)
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    • 564 10  -  SOME SHOPS ARE HOPEFUL CROWD WILL RETURN KOK XING HUI xinghui@mediacorp.com.sg the workers. ADDITIONAL REPORTING BY AMANDA LEE SINGAPORE Provisions could be delivered to the dormitories of foreign workers, while areas could be set aside for them to congregate, eat
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    • 161 10  -  ASHLEY CHIA Three of the Indian nationals charged last week with taking part in the Little India riot on Dec 8 have been further remanded until Monday, after Deputy Public Prosecutor John Lu applied to the court for more time to facilitate police investigations. All 28
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    • 822 12 ENVOY’S CLAIMS OVER TREATMENT DISPUTED AGENCIES NEW DELHI —India’s Foreign Minister demanded yesterday that the United States drop the case against a diplomat who was arrested and stripsearched in New York City, saying she was the victim of a blackmail attempt by her
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    • 215 14 ‘STRONG LEADERSHIP VALUABLE IN IMFC’S DELIBERATIONS’ SINGAPORE —Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance Tharman Shanmugaratnam has accepted an invitation to extend his term as the chairman of the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) policy advisory committee for an additional year. The International
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    • 224 14 REUTERS BEIJING Early next year, Chinese journalists will have to pass a new ideology exam to keep their press cards, in what reporters say is another example of the ruling Communist Party’s increasing control over the media under President Xi Jinping. It
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    • 265 14 AP BEIJING —China has begun constructing its fourth Antarctic research base to enhance research into climate change and other fields, state media reported yesterday. Taishan Station is being built about 500 km inland, the China Daily newspaper and other media said. It is to
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  • comment & analysis
    • 850 16  -  TOWARDS MORE CREATIVE INCLUSIVE PHILANTHROPY PATSIAN LOW Patsian Low is Head of the Philanthropy Division in the National Volunteer and Philanthropy Centre and an accredited United Nations Capital Development Fund/Asian Development Bank Institute Microfinance Trainer. Giving is fundamentally about the intent to do
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    • 111 18 Prashant Thakker, Global Business Head of Microfinance at Standard Chartered, writes: “Microfinance is, at its heart, an effort to provide financial services to people who are not served or are underserved by the formal banking system. Microfinance has been lauded for its potential to advance
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    • 1062 20  -  CAN ‘COMMON MAN’ PARTY TAKE ON BIG BOYS? RONOJOY SEN Ronojoy Sen is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of South Asian Studies and Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore. The recently announced results of the five state elections in India,
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    • 145 16 The AAP’s remarkable success was based on disgust among voters with the corrupt politics associated with India’s parties. This was reflected in the voter turnout in Delhi, where the numbers are usually low. The question on everybody’s mind was whether the A AP could replicate its success outside Delhi. RONOJOY
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    • 18 18 Share your story To share your story about ways you have found to give, go to www. givingtuesday.sg.
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    • 9 18 COMMENT To read this commentary, go to tdy.sg/ prashant20dec.
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  • voices
    • 218 24  -  FROM HO KONG LOON I refer to Mr Jolovan Wham’s letter, “Costs of protracted judicial process not reason for denying access to justice” (Dec 19). While his position in and commitment to Workfair Singapore mandated his stance, would he also make a personal stand for
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    • 406 24  -  FROM BRAEMA MATHI President, MARUAH Singapore We refer to Law and Foreign Affairs Minister K Shanmugam’s statements defending the Government’s powers, under the Immigration Act, to repatriate foreigners outside of the judicial process on the basis of the time and expense of
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    • 155 26  -  FROM SELVEN SADANADOM Deputy Head (Corporate Administration), Singapore Medical Council We refer to the letter, “Can companies influence doctors on issuing MCs?” (Dec 17). A doctor’s primary duty is to his patient. He is duty-bound to determine a patient’s need for a
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    • 281 26  -  FROM DARREN CHAN KENG LEONG With the “Rise in mental health patient load at two public hospitals” (Dec 18), it is good that more doctors are being employed to handle the increase, as mental illness can have a debilitating effect on
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    • 89 26  -  FROM KWANG FOOK KAM Reimbursements from health insurance policies that are not Me-disave-approved plans should not be channelled back into Medisave. One cannot use Medisave to pay the premiums for AIA’s Pink of Health plan, for example. But when I was
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  • singapore
    • 337 30 70% OF PARTICIPATING HOUSEHOLDS POLLED UPGRADE TO BIGGER FLATS SINGAPORE —Almost nine in 10 residents who swapped their old flats for new ones in Housing and Development Board (HDB) en bloc exercises have supported the scheme. Under the Selective En bloc Rede- velopment Scheme
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    • 193 30 SINGAPORE —Six crew members of a barge that capsized in Singapore waters were rescued yesterday morning by the Singapore Police Coast Guard, and a search is ongoing for another five individuals. The Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) said it received
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    • 488 32  -  MORE GOVT NOT ALWAYS BETTER GOVT SAIFULBAHRI ISMAIL saiful2@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The Government will do more to help Singaporeans cope with new challenges, but more government is not always better government, and the ultimate test of success does not lie in greater social
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    • 363 36  -  SIX STATIONS TO OPEN ON SUNDAY DYLAN LOH dylanloh@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE No effort has been spared to ensure that commuters have a smooth journey when the first six stations of the Downtown Line open this Sunday. Emergency plans have been
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    • 243 36 SINGAPORE From today, members of the public who wish to report suspected cases of insurance fraud can call a new hotline by the General Insurance Association of Singapore (GIA). The hotline, GI-FRAUD (1800 443 7283), can be used to alert the association to possible
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    • 158 38  -  CLAIRE HUANG SINGAPORE —A former Director of the Singapore Civil Defence Force’s Technology Department was yesterday charged with two counts of criminal breach of trust. Jeganathan Ramasamy, 62, faces two counts of misappropriating two Apple iPad 2 devices, valued at nearly
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    • 283 38  -  ACCUSED POSED AS WOMAN ON FACEBOOK CLAIRE HUANG clairehuang@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —A man, 24, who lied to take screenshots of a semi-nude girl, was yesterday jailed for four weeks for threatening to post the pictures online. Johnson Song Jian Sheng, who had
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    • 103 38 Ms Tan Beng Geok (centre), winner of S$10,000 in the weekly TODAY Shop to Win draw, receiving the cheque from Ms Mabel Tan Mei Kee (lef t), Consultant of London Weight Management, and Ms Caroline Bone, Marketing Manager of MediaCorp Press. Said Ms Tan, who
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  • science
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  • china&india
    • 572 44 Regulators plan to overha ul ownership of govt companies; Beijing to retain full control in sectors ‘vital to security’ MOVE FOLLOWS PLEDGE TO RAISE COMPETITION AGENCIES BEIJING —More Chinese state-owned companies might be spun off as private entities to help improve economic
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    • 567 45 DOW JONES NEW DELHI —Indian and Japanese navy ships started their first joint exercises in Indian waters as the countries took steps to strengthen military ties at a time when both are facing territorial disputes with China. Two destroyers from Japan joined three ships
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    • 410 46 AGENCIES JA K A RTA —Indonesia and Malaysia have agreed to raise the issue of espionage at next year’s summit of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). It was one of many agreements reached by both countries’ leaders in
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    • 305 48 MAN HELPED CITY SECURE 2020 OLYMPICS AP TOK YO The Tokyo Governor who helped his city secure the 2020 Olympics resigned yesterday after revelations that he received ¥50 million (S$608,000) from a hospital company. Mr Naoki Inose had come under growing pressure to step
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    • 521 49 AGENCIES BANGKOK —Thailand’s anti-govern-ment protesters returned to the streets of Bangkok yesterday, turning one of the capital’s major intersections into a lunchtime picnic spot in their bid to force Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra from office. A few thousand people marched peacefully through
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    • 502 50 OVERALL FISCAL SPENDING LEVELS FOR GOVT AGENCIES RESTORED TO S$1.28T AGENCIES WASHINGTON —The United States Senate has passed a two-year budget deal to ease automatic spending cuts and reduce the risk of a government shutdown, but fights are already breaking out over how to
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    • 510 52 CEO of parentfirm wants airline to become low-cost equivalent of Emirates SERVICES TO RESUME BY 2016 AGENCIES PARIS —Malaysian budget carrier AirAsia X, the long-haul unit of Asia’s largest low-cost airline, said it plans to return to Europe using Airbus widebody
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    • 701 54 Demand for new equity rises on optimism that Fed will keep interest rates low CHINA’S LARGEST FUNERAL SERVICE PROVIDER LEADS THE PACK AGENCIES HONG KONG Several stocks made strong debuts in Hong Kong yesterday, led by the initial public offering of Fu Shou
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      • 130 56 Until Dec 25, catch Santa riding his sleigh, reindeer winking and snowmen dancing at the winterthemed atrium at Marina Square. Simply download the free Marina Square Augmented Reality (AR) Christmas app on your iOS and Android phone/ tablet, and watch the festive characters come to
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      • 152 56 Until Dec 29, be rewarded when you purchase H-TWO-O isotonic drinks. In the H-TWO-O Get Sporty Sports Gear Redemption campaign, consumers have to collect bottle labels of H-TWO-O Original range or Sparkling range to exchange for sports items. Choose from four items: Microfibre sports towel (collect six
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      • 144 56 Top up your ez-link card easily, quickly and securely with the new Near Field Communication (NFC) mobile application My ez-link Mobile. The app transforms NFC handsets into portable personal top—up devices so you can reload your ez—link card at your convenience. The top—up process is cashless,
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      • 190 56 The new Acer Aspire S7-392 Ultrabook boasts an iconic design and offers a great user experience. Slim and light (1.3kg) with an aluminium unibody chassis, the ultrabook is stylish yet tough enough to withstand the wear and tear of daily use. The 13.3-inch model sports a glossy
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      • 113 56 To mark its 75th anniversary, NESCAFE launched Smoovlatte a smooth, premium bottled coffee at Orchard Cineleisure on Dec 7. The ready-to-go coffee was given out to 10,000 shoppers for their well-deserved break from Christmas shopping. At the launch, red silk scarves were tied to balloons to symbolise the
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      • 81 56 Drive in style this festive season with a JM Auto Solution car grooming package. Specially for Christmas and Chinese New Year, pay only S$68 for the CAT A Single Premium Grooming package (UP: S$168) and S$98 for the CAT B Single Premium Grooming package (UP: S$198). Call
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      • 77 56 Until Dec 24, Max Steel fans can enjoy an immersive experience at the Max Steel Go Turbo augmented reality (AR) event in Takashimaya. Go turbo just like Max Steel as you control his avatar to perform actions similar to the cartoon animation. Anyone can participate in
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      • 81 56 Have a fun hot dog party or a delicious gourmet-style breakfast with Handwerker sausages by Singapore Food Industries, a wholly-owned subsidiary of SATS. Made from high-quality meat and natural sheep casing, these sausages are Halal-certified and come in four flavours: Smoked Gouda with Chicken and Beef, Chicken and
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    • 612 58  -  PRIVATE HOUSING COMMENTARY BY COLIN TAN property@mediacorp.com.sg Colin Tan is Director of Research and Consultancy at Suntec Real Estate Consultants. Now that the United States Federal Reserve has announced its long-awaited tapering of its stimulus, the 800-pound gorilla is removed and investors will likely
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    • 513 60 Social media company accused of concealing the impact of rising mobile usage on revenue FIRM SAYS CASE LACKS MERIT REUTERS NEW YORK Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg and dozens of banks must face a lawsuit accusing the social media company of misleading
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    • 714 62  -  YOUNG LIONS TO FACE M’SIA FOR BRONZE HIRANAND SUNNY hiranandsn@mediacorp.com.sg derby game.” additional reporting BY PHILIP GOH THAIL AND SINGAPORE 1 0 NAYPYIDAW Singapore’s quest for that elusive SEA Games football gold medal came to an end last night after they lost 1-0 to
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    • 220 62  -  DAN GUEN CHIN Defending champions Malaysia missed out on the opportunity to win a hat-trick of SEA Games football titles after they lost 3-4 to Indonesia on penalties in yesterday’s semi-final clash in Naypyidaw. The game went into the dreaded shootout after ending
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    • 354 62  -  ADELENE WONG NGWE SAUNG (MYANMAR) Singapore’s sailors look set to better their performance from the 2011 SEA Games, with three golds secured pending official confirmation going into today’s final day of competition at the Ngwe Saung Beach. After the penultimate day of the
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    • 487 64  -  S’pore maintains top perch in South-east Asian table tennis BOTH VICTORIES OVER THAI OPPONENTS PHILIP GOH IN NAYPYIDAW Deputy Sports Editor philipgoh@med iacorp.com .sg NAYPYIDAW —It looked as though the endings were synchronised yesterday especially since the gold med-al-winning points for Singapore’s men’s
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    • 507 64  -  LOW LIN FHOONG NAYPYIDAW Singapore have finished the SEA Games athletics programme with a final medal haul of two golds, three silvers and three bronzes after women’s shot put champion Zhang and Du added a silver and a bronze in the
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    • 816 66  -  Singaporeans say she was robbed of gold in latest scoring controversy in Myanmar LOW LIN FHOONG IN NAYPYIDAW linfhoong@mediacorp.com.sg our country.” additionalreporting BY ADELENE WONG AND DAN GUEN CHIN NAYPYIDAW The online community in Singapore have reacted strongly to taekwondo exponent Chelsea Ann Sim’s (picture) second-placed
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    • 274 66  -  ANOTHER HISTORIC WIN ADELENE WONG NAYPYIDAW —Diving became the latest sport to deliver a historic Southeast Asian (SEA) Games medal for Singapore yesterday after Mark Lee won a silver in the men’s 3m springboard in Naypyidaw. The 19-year-old scored 324.15 points, with
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    • 87 66 For the latest live’ telecast listing, visit www.singaporepools.com.sg I w IWhireI L i vewire MB S) Livewire (RWS) (21 years and above) LW Livewire (Singapore Pools) (21 years and above during live’ telecast) SB SportsBuzz@Kranji (18 years and above) Ip Y(i) Always play with care. [responsibly] Do not bet illegally.
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    575 67 That’s what students at the oktoAsia PSLE Maths Preparation Workshop found out MATHS CAN BE FUN that’s what 42 students learnt during the oktoAsia PSLE Maths Preparation Workshop (powered by Pearson) held at MediaCorp from 10 to 12 December. The workshop comprised a series of half-day sessions where
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    • 458 68 CITY TO FACE WEST HAM, UNITED PAIRED WITH SUNDERLAND AGENCIES LO N D O N This season’s Capital One League Cup final could be an all-Manchester affair after neighbours City and United were kept apart in the draw for the semi-finals yesterday. Four-time winners United
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    • 422 68  -  DAN GUEN CHIN SINGAPORE —The LionsXII will go on a three-match tour of Indonesia as part of their preparations for the Malaysian Super League (MSL) season, which kicks off on Jan 17. New LionsXII head coach Fandi Ahmad has
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    • 46 1 FESTIVE LOOKS HOW TO GLAM IT UP FOR THOSE YEAR-END PARTIES WITHOUT GOING OVER-THE-TOP FRIDAY, 20 DECEMBER 2013 2 FARCE FORWARD ALFIAN SA’AT’S NEW PLAY HITS ALL THE RIGHT NOTES 16 LIFE LINES WHAT HAPPENS WHEN BEN STILLER TAKES ON WALTER MITTY 18 PHOTO: JASON HO
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      • 639 2  -  FIVE BEAUTY LOOKS TO TRY OUT THIS FESTIVE SEASON ZHANG WEIFANG weifang@mediacorp.com.sg What makes a look work? In a word: Balance. Yes, that is all it takes, really. There are, of course, your basic rules of thumb. For instance, if you want to play up
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        291 8  -  Slap, slather and spritz on latest beauty and grooming must-haves LOOKING GOOD BY ZHANG WEIFANG A shot of hydration Keeping late hours and having too much tipple this festive season can dehydrate the skin, leaving complexion uneven and dull. The solution? La Mer’s The Nourishing Collection, which includes
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        313 9  -  Latest digs around town GET IT NOW BY KENNETH CHOY Season savings The weather outside may be frightful, but celio’s Holiday Sale makes shopping for that festive ensemble delightful. With a wide selection of apparel and accessories up for grabs, you can expect discounts on selected items ranging
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      • 539 10  -  ZHANG WEIFANG SINGAPORE Home-grown fashion designer Alfie Leong has been keeping himself busy this year. Besides bagging himself an esteemed President’s Design Award as one of the Designers of the Year for 2013, Leong unveiled the second edition of Workshop Element (W.E.) at
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    • culture&lifestyle
      • 615 12  -  The critically acclaimed band has been one of the bright musical sparks of 2013 FAMILY TIES KEVIN MATHEWS SINGAPORE —Consisting of three sisters Este, Danielle and Alana Haim the band Haim has taken the music world by storm this year. Haim’s debut album, Days Are
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      • 317 14  -  Singapore indie rockers release special EP celebrating 10th anniversary of their album, The Gift MELODY MAKERS CHRISTOPHER TOH christophert@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE One of Singapore’s most enduring indie bands, Plainsunset, has announced a series of limited edition offerings to celebrate the 10th anniversary of their album, The Gift.
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        519 16  -  Alfian Sa’at’s excellent farce takes on Mas Selamat THEATRE REVIEW: KAKAK KAU PUNYA LAKI MAYO MARTIN mayo@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE With the side-splittingly funny Kakak Kau Punya Laki (Your Sister’s Husband), playwright Alfian Sa’at has come up with an excellent farce to wrap up Teater Ekamatra’s 25th anniversary season.
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      • 903 18  -  Ben Stiller chats about the most challenging and meaningful film of his career MOVIE MAN GENEVIEVE LOH genevieveloh@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The Secret Life of Walter Mitty is definitely not the type of film one would normally associate funnyman Ben Stiller with. Stiller directs and stars in this surreal and
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        301 19 Take A Bet On T’ang T’ang Quartet invite you to be adventurous with this surprise gig. Literally. There’s no set list given. You’ll have to wait and see what the four maestros deal out on the night itself. Dec 20, 7.30pm, Esplanade Concert Hall. Tickets from S$20 to
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      • 169 20 AP LOS ANGELES —There may be legal ramifications for actor Shia LaBeouf after he acknowledged borrowing from another artist’s work without giving proper credit. LaBeouf debuted his short film, Howard Cantour.com, online on Monday. Starring Jim Gaffigan, it examines the life of an anguished
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      • 235 20  -  MUSIC NOTES KEVIN MATHEWS CHRISTOPHER TOH For the full reviews, visit http://tdy.sg/tdymusicrev. The Road to Red King Crimson Perhaps it is fitting that progressive rock pioneer King Crimson is not content to merely re-issue your standard deluxe editions, preferring a 21-disc boxset for this one. KEVIN MATHEWS
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