Today, 3 May 2014

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      Number of foreigners as cops something ‘for society to decide on’
      614 2  -  Vitalfor force to understand connect with foreign community to police them well PROPORTION OF WOMEN OFFICERS MAY BE INCREASED NEO CHAI CHIN chaichin@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Can Singaporeans accept police officers who are foreigners, given the manpower crunch the force faces?
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      Lock icon Cameras to be installed in all police cars by mid-2015
      371 2  -  NEO CHAI CHIN SINGAPORE —In time, cameras will be installed at every HDB block, in-vehi-cle recording systems will be installed in all fast-response cars in the Singapore Police Force, and body cameras will be worn by police officers. The police
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      Foreign firms in S’pore must respect cultural norms: Chan Chun Sing
      452 3  -  WONG WEI HAN wongweihan@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —While foreign companies operating in Singapore are free to decide on their human resource policies, they must respect cultural norms here and should not publicly advocate causes that could sow discord among Singaporeans, said
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      Lock icon SMRT business outlook will improve after selling rail assets to Govt: CEO
      767 3  -  JOY FANG joyfangz@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —With its once-lucrative rail business battered by escalating costs, SMRT’s business outlook will improve after it sells its rail assets to the Government, its chief executive Desmond Kuek said yesterday. However, Mr Kuek, who
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      Lock icon Australia to raise retirement age to 70 by 2035
      567 4 MOVE WOULD COUNTER COUNTRY’S AGEING POPULATION, SAYS NATION’S TREASURER AGENCIES SYDNEY Australian Treasurer Joe Hockey said yesterday his government would seek to raise the country’s retirement age to 70 by the year 2035 as part of reforms aimed at stemming what
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      Lock icon US adds 288,000 jobs in April, jobless rate hits 5.5 year low
      632 4 REUTERS WASHINGTON —The United States economy created jobs at the fastest pace in more than two years last month and the unemployment rate dived to a five-and-a-half-year low of 6.3 per cent, suggesting a sharp recovery in the
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      Lock icon Red herring in MH370 search highlights flaws in air traffic control
      618 5 In remote areas, controllers sometimes have to anticipate where planes should be AGENCIES PARIS Fresh questions have been raised over air-traffic coordination after a preliminary report on the Malaysia Airlines plane that disappeared almost two months ago revealed 90
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      Lock icon Officials to meet next week to discuss how search will continue
      930 5 AGENCIES KUAL A LUMPUR —Senior officials from Malaysia, Australia and China will meet early next week to decide on the next step in the search for the missing Malaysia Airlines (MAS) jet, which could take up to a year.
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  • voices
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      Collective effort by industry, consumers needed to cut waste
      428 6  -  FROM PAUL CHAN POH HOI The annual waste generated in Singapore increased to 7.85 million tonnes last year from 7.27 million tonnes in 2012. Instead of ramping up recycling capacity, it would be better for the National Environment Agency (NEA) to
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      Lock icon Besides Earth Hour, many less visible actions boost sustainability
      424 6  -  FROM KEVIN TENG Director of Sustainability, Marina Bay Sands I refer to Mr Richard Hartung’s commentary “Turning Earth Hour into Earth Hours” (April 29). At Marina Bay Sands, we agree that actions should “go beyond the hour” to achieve positive long-term
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      Correction
      36 6 In “Experts call for incentives, rules to boost uptake of tele-health services” (May 2), we misspelt Dr Yeo Siaw Ing’s name and used the wrong pronoun when referring to her. We apologise for the errors.
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      Ensure that majority of subsidiary proprietors vote on important issues
      471 7  -  FROM STANLEY KONG The Building and Construction Authority (BCA) is still reviewing the Building Maintenance and Strata Management Act, and I urge caution against proceeding with the proposed revisions without a thorough look at the whole basis of the Act.
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      Lock icon Dip in manufacturing taken too lightly?
      403 7  -  FROM NG YA KEN In the report “Services sector becoming more crucial: MAS” (April 30), it was reported that the share of the services sector in the economy increased to two-thirds last year, while that of manufacturing dipped to 18.6 per cent. Though this
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      Allow emergency withdrawal of CPF funds for special cases
      206 7  -  FROM HE XIN LE The Central Provident Fund (CPF) Board should consider allowing emergency withdrawals for genuine cases. A friend of mine was a successful businessman until his family’s fortunes overseas were affected and he had to sell his assets to
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      27 6 LETTER EARTH HOUR, A STEPPING STONE TO MUCH MORE Scan the QR code on your smartphone or visit tdy.sg/ earthhr3may for the letter from Ace Kindred Cheong.
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      86 7 ARE KIDS SAFE ON OUR ROADS? Sixty children were hurt in road accidents from January to March. What more can schools and the authorities do to encourage safety? As parents, do you trust your children to cross the road safely? Where are the danger areas and blind spots? Should the
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  • singapore
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      NS committee may propose changes to IPPT management
      540 8  -  More support for housing, education and healthcare for servicemen among suggestions discussed at seventh meeting MEMBERS DECLINE TO REVEAL DETAILS BEFORE RELEASE OF REPORT XUE JIANYUE xuejianyue@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Suggestions to improve the management of the Individual Physical Proficiency Test (IPPT) and enhance
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      Lock icon 3,000 needy families to benefit from NTUC charity’s S$1m donation
      412 8  -  KOK XING HUI SINGAPORE About 3,000 households who require long-term assistance with daily expenses will receive additional help, after the NTUC FairPrice Foundation announced a S$1 million donation to the Ministry of Social and Family Development (MSF) yesterday. The move
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    • Article
      Doctor fined for inserting wrong lens into patient’s eye
      470 9 SINGAPORE —An eye doctor has been fined the maximum S$10,000 for giving a patient an “excessively powered” lens five years ago. Dr Cheah Way Mun, who pleaded guilty to two charges of professional misconduct, was also censured by the Singapore Medical
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      Man fined for dog abuse should be jailed, says SPCA
      544 9  -  SIAU MING EN siaumingen@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) has called on the authorities to jail a businessman a week after he was fined S$10,000, the maximum given for animal cruelty, for failing to
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      Lock icon Two Ministers and a Minister of State sworn in at Istana
      128 9 Three political office holders were sworn in yesterday at a ceremony held at the Istana, after Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong (second from left) announced their promotions earlier this week. The ceremony, officiated by President Tony Tan Keng Yam
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    • Article
      Scammers targeting phone numbers starting with ‘6363’
      241 9 SINGAPORE —If your residential phone number is “6364xxxx”, you could be one of those that kidnap scammers may call. The police have warned that scammers are likely to target households with such numbers after receiving reports of cases from residents whose home phone
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  • world
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      Lock icon Train collision in Seoul injures 200
      650 10 Preliminary investigation suggests train’s automatic distance con trol system may have malfunctioned ACCIDENT HAPPENED ON CITY’S BUSIEST SUBWAY LINE AGENCIES SEOUL —South Korea suffered its second serious transport accident in just over two weeks yesterday when a subway train in Seoul crashed into another
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      Lock icon M’sia arrests another suspected militant, warns groups might be using aid work as cover
      575 10 AGENCIES KUAL A LUMPUR —Malaysia yesterday detained another suspected militant, allegedly part of a group that was planning to carry out terrorist acts in the country and abroad, as the government said it was concerned that
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      Lock icon Philippines to give US forces access to some military bases
      381 11 REUTERS MANIL A —Up to five Philippine military bases will be made available for United States forces to rotate aircraft, ships, equipment and troops, Manila’s chief negotiator of a new security pact said yesterday, as the Philippines looks to counter
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      Lock icon US terrorism report wrong, irresponsible: Beijing
      672 11 THE NEW YORK TIMES BEIJING —Days after a deadly attack in the western region of Xinjiang, China has criticised the United States State Department’s annual terrorism report, saying it wrongly plays down China’s counter-terrorism efforts and accusing the US of holding double standards on
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      Lock icon Russia says Ukraine clashes destroy ‘all hope’ for Geneva deal
      763 12 Ukrainian forces launch attack on pro-Russian separatists in Slovyansk losing two helicopters THE NEW YORK TIMES MOSCOW —The Kremlin yesterday said “all hope” for an internationally negotiated settlement in Ukraine had been destroyed, hours after two Ukrainian helicopters were shot
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      Lock icon North Korea conducts engine tests for intercontinental ballistic missile
      569 12 REUTERS SEOUL —North Korea has recently conducted engine tests for an intercontinental ballistic missile that could potentially deliver a nuclear warhead to the United States, a US think-tank said yesterday. North Korea conducted at least one engine test for the KN-08
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  • business
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      Lock icon Bit by Bit: The tempo quickens for local bitcoin industry
      1430 13  -  But widespread adoption could take up to a decade IT IS STILL AN UNTRUSTED CURRENCY, SAYS INDUSTRY PLAYER TAN WEIZHEN weizhen@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —Hacking scandals, deep mistrust, massive volatility for all the controversy and bad press it gets, bitcoin should be
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      Lock icon Household spending in Japan soars to four-decade high
      693 14 CONSUMERS RUSHED TO BEAT SALES TAX HIKE THAT KICKED IN LAST MONTH REUTERS TOKYO Japanese household spending soared at the fastest annual pace in four decades in March as consumers rushed to beat a sales tax hike that kicked in last month.
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      Lock icon Lotte Shopping postpones S$1.25b S’pore REIT listing
      253 14 REUTERS S EOU L Lotte Shopping has postponed the listing of an up to US$1 billion (S$1.25 billion) real estate investment trust (REIT) in Singapore, underscoring lacklustre appetite for initial public offerings amid volatile market conditions. The operator of South Korea’s largest department
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      HDB doubles grace period for rental transfers
      308 14 SINGAPORE The Housing and Development Board (HDB) has doubled the grace period for long-time tenants affected by a rule that restricts them from transferring their business space. The three-year assignment grace window will be extended to six years for commercial and industrial tenants
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  • sports
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      KEEPING THEIR EYES ON ROMANIA
      696 15  -  S’pore will not let potential showdown with China distract them WORLD TEAM TABLE TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIPS LOW LIN FHOONG linfhoong@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —Boosted by their upset victory over South Korea on Wednesday, Singapore’s national women’s team had hoped to use their psychological advantage against the world’s second-best
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      Lock icon QUEK NEEDS ‘SPECTACULAR’ RUN TO RESTORE TITLE HOPES
      451 15  -  ADELENE WONG SINGAPORE After a strong start to his latest quest for a maiden win on the Asian Tour, Quincy Quek admits he needs to pull off something “spectacular” to get his hopes of winning the US$1.5 million (S$1.9 million) The Championship
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      Lock icon WIN OR LOSE, EXPECT TEARS ON A MERSEYSIDE
      922 16  -  EVERTON v MANCHESTER CITY COMMENTARY BY ADRIAN CLARKE sports@mediacorp.com.sg TODAY’s~ EPL~ analyst~ Adrian~ Clarke~ is~ a~ former~ Arsenal~ midfielder~ who~ has~ played~ at~ every~ level~ of~ English~ football.~ Now~ an~ experienced~ sports~ journalist,~ he~ writes~ for~ many~ publications~ around~ the~ world.~ Follow~
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      Lock icon WHAT THEY NEED TO DO TO WIN THE TITLE
      138 16 AGENCIES LIVERPOOL Position:~ 1st~ (Played:~ 36,~ Points:~ 80) Liverpool~ need~ six~ more~ points~ to~ win~ their~ first~ league~ title~ since~ 1990,~ but~ Manchester~ City’s~ superior~ goal~ difference~ means~ they~ should~ regain~ the~ title~ if~ they~ win~ their~ last~ three~ games. CHELSEA
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      Lock icon UNFASHIONABLE PALACE MAY PROVE LIVERPOOL’S STUMBLING BLOCK
      334 17  -  ADRIAN CLARKE LON DON Hounded out of Stoke City this time last year for boring the fans senseless with his physical, direct and largely unfashionable brand of mid-table football, Tony Pulis and his trusty baseball cap are well and truly back in fashion
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      Lock icon WE WANT WIN FOR OURSELVES, NOT LIVERPOOL: MARTINEZ
      686 17 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH LONDON —Everton manager Roberto Martinez believes they will provide Manchester City with their toughest away test of the season at Goodison Park this weekend, and City can expect no favours. City will lift the Premier League title by winning
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      Lock icon BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR
      997 18 City chief Soriano warns that United manager-elect Louis van Gaal not easy to work with INCENDIARY OBSERVATIONS WERE MADE WELL BEFORE MOYES’ SACKING THE DAILY TELEGRAPH LO N DO N Ferran Soriano, Manchester City’s chief executive, has said that Louis van Gaal, Manchester United’s
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      Lock icon FOUR THINGS THAT UNITED CAN EXPECT FROM VAN GAAL
      349 18 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH Training:Unlike Ferguson, Van Gaal often takes training himself and his sessions are generally 100 per cent ball-based, with the emphasis on technique. Van Gaal also pays close attention to his opponents and often holds 11-versus-11 training sessions on
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      Lock icon NBA PLAYOFF WATCH
      519 19 GAME OF THE DAY While none of the games on Thursday stood out, the Atlanta Hawks, Memphis Grizzlies and Los Angeles Clippers all missed the opportunity to book their places in the next round, and must now contend with a deciding Game 7. The Clippers perhaps had
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      Lock icon NO SYMPATHY FOR STERLING
      543 19 NBA owners keen for disgraced Clippers owner to be booted out AP NEW YORK NBA’s owners seem as committed as Commissioner Adam Silver to ending Donald Sterling’s ownership of the Los Angeles Clippers. The league’s advisory/finance committee held its first meeting about Sterling on Thursday (yesterday
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      Lock icon FORMULA 1 SALUTES SENNA
      628 20 Alonso, Raikkonen among F1 stars at poignant ceremony THE LOVE FROM THE PEOPLE IS STILL VERY MUCH ALIVE, SAYS SENNA’S NIECE PAULA REUTERS IMOL A —Thousands of fans joined Formula 1 drivers past and present on Thursday in marking the 20th anniversary of the death of
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      Lock icon ATHLETICS LEGEND BANNISTER HAS PARKINSON’S
      356 20 REUTERS LONDON Almost 60 years to the day since becoming the first man to run a mile in under four minutes, Sir Roger Bannister has revealed he is suffering from Parkinson’s disease. The 85-year-old Briton said he had been suffering from the degenerative nervous disease
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      65 17 LIVE FIXTURES Today, Channel 7.45pm mio TV West Ham v Tottenham 102 Today, 9.55pm Newcastle v Cardiff 103 Swansea v Southampton 104 Aston Villa v Hull 105 Stoke v Fulham 106 Today, 10pm Man United v Sunderland 102 Sunday, 12.30am Everton v Man City 102 Sunday, 8.30pm Arsenal v West
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      55 21 SATURDAY, 3 MAY 2014 THE PRICE OF ART JUSTWH T RE THE THINGS THAT MAKE ARTISTS WHO THEY ARE 22 24JAIL TALES A NEW PLAY LOOKS AT THE 1960s RIOT AT PULAU SENANG 26REDISCOVERING MJ PRODUCER RODNEY JERKINS ON MICHAEL JACKSON’S NEW ALBUM 28ALL APOLOGIES TOP GEAR’S JEREMY CLARKSON BEGS
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    • arts
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        Lock icon ARTISTIC LABELLING
        846 22  -  DO WE REALLY NEED TO PIGEONHOLE OUR ARTISTS? MAYO MARTIN mayo@mediacorp.com.sg “If you needed to be miserable to be an artist, then Singapore would be the centre of the art universe.” Or so said Daisy Irani. Cheeky. The theatre and television actress’ retort, a nudge-wink allusion to that
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        Lock icon History in the (re)making
        425 23  -  The conversation continues in this restaging of The Finger Players’ docu-comedy RANT RAVE MAYO MARTIN SINGAPORE —Who said history is written only by the winners? If anything, The Finger Players’ 15th anniversary opening production Rant Rave makes a case for another option: If you tenaciously engage
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        Lock icon Letting it linger
        593 24  -  Why going super slow and steady can be a good thing these days SAVOUR THE MOMENT MAYO MARTIN mayo@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Can you sit through an hour-and-a-half of non-stop gorgeousness? In slow motion? That’s exactly how Sankai Juku’s production, Kagemi: Beyond The Metaphors Of Mirrors, felt like. In
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        STATE OF THE ARTS
        196 24  -  MAYO MARTIN SINGAPORE —Lawrence Wong was promoted from Acting Minister to full Minister Of Culture, Community And Youth and, today, he’ll be gracing the Jurong Regional Library for JRL Live!, one of the Community Arts And Culture Nodes initiatives meant to boost awareness of the arts
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        Lock icon A riot of a play
        446 24  -  Drama Box brings to life Jean Tay’s latest offering about the ’60s prison riot in Pulau Senang FALSE FREEDOM MAYO MARTIN SINGAPORE —It was a lofty experiment that went awry. The island called Pulau Senang is now a military area for live-fire exercises but, back
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    • culture&lifestyle
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        Of bands and brands
        538 25  -  What it means to blend the art of sound and the business of branding MARKETABLE TALENTS KEVIN MATHEWS features@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —One clear demonstration of where the Singapore indie music scene currently stands in the general scheme of things is to look at it from the perspective
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        Lock icon What’s on
        382 25 Performances and exhibitions to check out this week TODAY’S PICK (MUSIC) BILL MEDLEY OF THE RIGHTEOUS BROTHERS THE PLATTERS The Platters make a much-anticipated return after their sold-out concert last year. Joining them is Bill Medley of The Righteous Brothers in a doublebill concert. Expect songs such as
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        Lock icon New Michael Jackson album ‘a great job’
        509 26 Producer Rodney Jerkins says a key question was: What would Michael want from this? KING OF POP AP NEW YORK —The first single from late singer Michael Jackson’s posthumous album premiered at the iHeartRadio Awards on Thursday. Called Love Never Felt So Good,
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        Lock icon Arts NMP gets first candidate
        399 26  -  MAYO MARTIN S ING A PORE Theatre director Kok Heng Leun has dropped his name into the hat in the search for the next possible Nominated Member of Parliament (NMP) to represent the arts. The 48-year-old artistic director of Drama Box decided to step forward
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        Lock icon Is Maggie Cheung now a rock star?
        126 26  -  HON JINGYI S I N G A P O R E —Has Maggie Cheung gotten tired of acting? The Hong Kong superstar unveiled her new rock band at the Strawberry Music Festival in Shanghai on Thursday night. On a video uploaded to Chinese
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    • family
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        Weekend Planner
        498 27 KIDS 12 AND BELOW TODAY’S PICK THE GREAT EGG-VENTURE Easter may be over but you can still be part of Singapore’s biggest egg hunt. Rummage through the nooks and crannies of Mount Faber, HarbourFront and Sentosa for 100 giant eggs. Measuring 1.5m x 1m, these are creative interpretations
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    • television
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        Lock icon Top Gear presenter begs forgiveness
        709 28 Jeremy Clarkson’s future on TV could be on the line after alleged racist remark WORDS WORTH THE DAILY TELEGRAPH LONDON —Could we see the last of Jeremy Clarkson on Top Gear? The BBC has refused to confirm Clarkson’s future on the popular car programme, as
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      16 28 What would Spidey do? Andrew Garfield on putting on the red-and-blue spider suit again (http://tdy.sg/ spidey3may).
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      353 29 MediaCorp’s latest online TV service offers entertainment, lifestyle, information and news across multiple devices. Log on to www.toggle.sg or download the Toggle App now. E:~ English C:~ Chinese M:~ Malay T:~ Tamil CATCH-UP Watch episodes on Toggle after they are shown on TV FREE NIKITA III A woman escapes from
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      550 2  -  By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY CAIRO The architects of the military takeover in Egypt promised a new era of tolerance and pluralism when they deposed President Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood last summer. Nine
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      827 8  -  By CLIFFORD KRAUSS THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY HUGOTON, Kansas There is an old joke in the energy business that advanced biofuels are the fuel of the future, and always will be. A Spanish company, Abengoa Bioenergy, has bet $500 million
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      660 11  -  By BETTINA WASSENER THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY HONG KONG Six bottles of 19 9 0 Roma née Conti Burgundy sold to an Asian buyer at a Christie’s auction in Hong Kong in March for 980,000 Hong Kong dollars ($126,345). A case of
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