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  • 34 1 TODAY TODAYONLI NE .COM WE SET YOU THINKING yVI bdiaCorp SATURDAY, 26 SEPTEMBER 2015 MCI (P) 021/06/2015 TODAY TODAYONLI NE .COM WE SET YOU THINKING yVI bdiaCorp SATURDAY, 26 SEPTEMBER 2015 MCI (P) 021/06/2015
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  • 3966 1  -  MOHAMED NAWAB, MOHAMED OSMAN MOHAMED NAWAB, MOHAMED OSMAN FOR TO DAY FOR TO DAY able,” he said. ADDITIONAL REPORTING BY ALBERT WAI AND LEE YEN NEE able,” he said. ADDITIONAL
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  • 1070 1 THE NEW YORK TIMES WASHINGTON American President Barack Obama yesterday rolled out an elaborate White House welcome for Chinese President Xi Jinping, projecting a strong partnership between the world’s two largest economies even as the leaders prepared to hash
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    • 28 1 SINGAPORE, A PLACE WHERE BUSINESSES COME TOGETHER, IS ‘A MAJOR PLATFORM FOR E.U.’S ECONOMIC INTEGRATIONIN REGION’ WORLD 15 Legal complaint filed against Valencia’s owner Peter Lim SPORTS 18
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  • 775 1  -  Four errant companies served ‘preventive measure notices’ under Transboundary Haze Pollution Act 24-HOUR PSI EXPECTED TO REMAIN IN ‘VERY UNHEALTHY’ RANGE SIAU MING EN siaumingen@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Wielding the Transboundary Haze Pollution Act for the first time since it was passed last
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  • 917 1 (2nd Edition) REUTERS WASHINGTON —President Barack Obama hosted Chinese President Mr Xi Jinping for his first US state visit yesterday and the two announced a common vision for a global climate change agreement, a bright spot amid tensions over alleged Chinese cyber spying, Beijing’s economic policies and
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  • 776 1 (2nd Edition)  -  Four errant companies served ‘preventive measure notices’ under Transboundary Haze Pollution Act 24-HOUR PSI EXPECTED TO REMAIN IN ‘VERY UNHEALTHY’ RANGE SIAU MING EN siaumingen@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —Wielding the Transboundary Haze Pollution Act for the first time since it was passed last
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    • 28 1 (2nd Edition) SINGAPORE, A PLACE WHERE BUSINESSES COME TOGETHER, IS ‘A MAJOR PLATFORM FOR E.U.’S ECONOMIC INTEGRATIONIN REGION’ WORLD 15 Legal complaint filed against Valencia’s owner Peter Lim SPORTS 18
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    • 790 2  -  STACEY LIM staceylim@mediacorp.com.sg ADDITIONAL REPORTING BY MARISSA YEO, TOH EE MING AND FRANCIS LAW SINGAPORE While it was a break from the usual school day for students, educators were busy putting into action plans drawn up for the Republic’s first school closure due
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    • 790 2 (2nd Edition)  -  STACEY LIM staceylim@mediacorp.com.sg ADDITIONAL REPORTING BY MARISSA YEO, TOH EE MING AND FRANCIS LAW SINGAPORE While it was a break from the usual school day for students, educators were busy putting into action plans drawn up for the Republic’s first school closure due
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    • 409 2  -  JOY FANG, SIAU MING EN A group of volunteers could become the first to launch a civil suit using the Transboundary Haze Pollution Act against companies involved in starting fires in Indonesia. The Haze Elimination Action Team (HEAT), led by Dr
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    • 409 2 (2nd Edition)  -  JOY FANG, SIAU MING EN A group of volunteers could become the first to launch a civil suit using the Transboundary Haze Pollution Act against companies involved in starting fires in Indonesia. The Haze Elimination Action Team (HEAT), led by Dr
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    • 789 4  -  Many office workers head outdoors for fresh air, work carries on at construction sites PRECAUTIONARY MEASURES FOR THOSE WORKING OUTSIDE NG JING YNG, JOY FANG, FRANCIS LAW jingyng@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —It was business as usual yesterday for workers of all stripes, who
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    • 299 4  -  MARISSA YEO A total of 60,000 N95 masks were collected by 30,000 residents at the 108 community centres (CCs) islandwide by 3pm yesterday, even though air quality improved over the day after tipping over to hazardous levels in the morning. The haze
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    • 429 4  -  VALERIE KOH SINGAPORE As air quality crept closer to record levels seen in 2013 on Thursday night, nursing homes and hospices proved they were better equipped this time, with air purifiers and coolers already fully deployed. At Kwong Wai Shiu Hospital,
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    • 582 6  -  ANGELA TENG angelateng@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Manufacturing output contracted for a seventh consecutive month amid a factory slowdown across the region, lending weight to views that Singapore will slip into a technical recession during the third quarter and raise the case for a monetary policy
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    • 444 6 AGENCIES KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian police announced yesterday that they detained three men, including two foreigners, for questioning over their possible involvement in terrorism after the United States and Australian embassies there warned of a potential attack at a popular hawker street
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    • 150 9 (2nd Edition) REUTERS Mr Obama and Mr Xi agreed yesterday to take new steps to address cyber spying issues, saying in a joint statement that neither country’s government would conduct or knowingly support cyber-enabled theft of intellectual property. They agreed to create a senior expert group to further discuss
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    • 105 9 (2nd Edition) REUTERS Mr Obama said he had “candid” discussions with Mr Xi on disputes in the Asia Pacific, specifically focusing on growing tensions in the South China Sea. “We did have candid discussions on the East and South China Seas and I reiterated the right of all
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    • 322 6 National Environment Agency Safeguard Nurture Cherish f% ■N r IIHII a Join us, in creating a Sustainable Future At the National Environment Agency, the work we do touches the daily lives of all Singaporeans. By protecting Singapore’s resources from pollution, maintaining a high level of public health and providing timely
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  • voices
    • 420 10  -  FROM KWAN JIN YAO I refer to the commentary “Aspire to be a technopreneur, rather than a doctor or lawyer” (Sept 24). Calls for the Government to invest more in technopreneurship are often marked by anxiety, with warnings that, in the immediate future,
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    • 319 10  -  FROM LEE TECK CHUAN I refer to the letter “Parents should empower teachers to curb mischief” (Sept 23). We cannot speak in this age for fear of having labels stuck on us by so-called liberals, who have become increasingly vocal, if not combative.
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    • 209 10  -  F ROM DANNY CHOW The comments from the Shuqun Secondary School principal, reported in “Principal advises students to step up and stop bullying” (Sept 25), demonstrate a lack of leadership and could explain why the bullying had been happening for a period of
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  • singapore singapore
    • 469 12  -  TOH EE MING toheeming@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Pre-school teachers can now sign up for a new career development programme, as well as track their professional development through a new online platform, said Social and Family Development Minister Tan Chuan-Jin at the Early Childhood Conference
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    • 469 12 (2nd Edition)  -  TOH EE MING toheeming@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Pre-school teachers can now sign up for a new career development programme, as well as track their professional development through a new online platform, said Social and Family Development Minister Tan Chuan-Jin at the Early Childhood Conference
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    • 233 12  -  TOH EE MING Teachers looking for ways to make Mother Tongue classes more lively for pre-schoolers will now have more resources to turn to, with the launch of new guides by the Ministry of Education (MOE). These guides, available in Chinese, Malay and Tamil, will
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    • 237 12 (2nd Edition)  -  TOH EE MING Teachers looking for ways to make Mother Tongue classes more lively for pre-schoolers will now have more resources to turn to, with the launch of new guides by the Ministry of Education (MOE). These guides, available in Chinese, Malay and Tamil, will
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    • 286 12  -  AMANDA LEE SINGAPORE Rebates will be given to parents affected by the PAP Community Foundation (PCF) pre-school fee hikes for next year as a goodwill gesture, the foundation said yesterday. In a statement, PCF said these rebates will
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    • 286 12 (2nd Edition)  -  AMANDA LEE SINGAPORE Rebates will be given to parents affected by the PAP Community Foundation (PCF) pre-school fee hikes for next year as a goodwill gesture, the foundation said yesterday. In a statement, PCF said these rebates will
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    • 346 12 S I N G A P O R E The PAP Seniors Group (PAP.SG) has called for an open space at Fort Canning to be turned into a memorial park to honour the founders of Singapore. PAP.SG, which
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    • 338 12 (2nd Edition) SINGAPORE The PAP Seniors Group (PAP.SG) has called for an open space at Fort Canning to be turned into a memorial park to honour the founders of Singapore. PAP.SG, which is the People’s Action Party’s advocacy group for
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    • 231 13  -  KELLY NG SINGAPORE A couple who routinely abused their Indonesian domestic helper over one-and-a-half years by slapping her, pulling her hair and hitting her head with a plastic stool yesterday had their jail terms extended by the High Court, which granted
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    • 421 13  -  KELLY NG SINGAPORE A staff sergeant with the Singapore Police Force was charged yesterday for allegedly having his palm greased to help a suspect in an investigation avoid prosecution. Woo Poh Liang, 28, faces two counts of corruptly obtaining S$35,000 in gratification to
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    • 64 12 (2nd Edition) womans BIBIE SECBETS or imu-Bcm*. SUCCESS INUFE BIBLICAL SUCCESS SEMINAR Free Admission by registration, To register, please SMS your name to *****783 Speaker: John Shepherd Lim Website: www.JSL.tv Date Time: 2 Oct 2015, 7:30pm (Friday) Light dinner will be served at 6.30pm Venue: Oasis Theatre Park Mall, level 13 Sunday
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  • world world
    • 495 14 Strong criticism for ravishing the environment, failing to stop atrocities and rejecting refugees FIRST-EVER PAPAL ADDRESS TO THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY THE NEW YORK TIMES NEW YORK —It is the largest gathering of presidents and prime ministers ever at
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    • 521 14 (2nd Edition) FIRST-EVER PAPAL ADDRESS TO THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY THE NEW YORK TIMES UNITED NATIONS A day after making history as the first pontiff to address the American Congress, Pope Francis yesterday issued a sweeping call to the UN for
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    • 397 14 AGENCIES TOK YO Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe yesterday urged Japanese negotiators involved in a Pacific Rim free trade initiative to make an all-out effort to achieve the best possible outcome, as he expressed hope the 12 countries involved
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    • 396 14 (2nd Edition) AGENCIES TOKYO Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe yesterday urged Japanese negotiators involved in a Pacific Rim free trade initiative to make an all-out effort to achieve the best possible outcome, as he expressed hope the 12 countries involved in
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    • 1372 15 As Singapore celebrates its founding 50years ago, TODAY is running a monthly series of interviews with the ambassadors of several countries that play a key role in Singapore’s foreign relations. This month, Rumi Hardasmalani (rumih@mediacorp.com.sg) speaks to the European Union
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  • business
    • 612 16 Chairwoman prefers timely and gradual tightening to sudden andforceful intervention CENTRAL BANK DOES NOT PLAN TO WAIT MUCH LONGER AGENCIES AMHERST (MASSACHUSETTS) —The Federal Reserve still intends to raise its benchmark interest rate this year, barring unpleasant surprises, Fed
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    • 301 16 AGENCIES Federal Reserve chairwoman Janet Yellen received medical attention on late Thursday (Friday morning Singapore time) after coughing, pausing and struggling to finish a speech in which she said the US central bank was on track to raise interest rates this year
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    • 508 16 BLOOMBERG SINGAPORE —Bank of Singapore, the private banking arm of Southeast Asia’s second-largest lender, Over-sea-Chinese Banking Corp (OCBC), sees further consolidation in the Asian wealth management sector, as business gravitates to the larger firms and smaller players find it harder to offer the range
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  • sports
    • 871 18  -  Unfair administration among list of complaints by former club vice-president ACCUSATIONS INCLUDEMISAPPRPRIATION OF FUNDS, UNFAIR ADMINISTRATION, CORPORATE CRIME ADELENE WONG adelenewong@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Singapore billionaire Peter Lim, who owns Spanish club Valencia CF, has been hit by a legal complaint by former club vice-pres-ident Miguel
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    • 369 18  -  AMANPREET SINGH SINGAPORE With the worsening haze condition forcing an unprecedented closure of primary and secondary schools for a day yesterday, Sport Singapore are also getting in on the act by regulating their sports facilities’ operating hours to ensure the wellbeing of
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    • 1523 19 Following Nacra 17 duo Justin Liu and Denise Lim’s victory at the International Sailing Federation World Cup in Qingdao, China, which also clinched them a qualifying spot for the 2016 Rio Olympics, Singapore Sailing Fed era tion president Benedict Tan wrote
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    • 1135 20 It’s confirmed Manchester United’s Anthony Martial (picture) will be one of the most closely watched players in the English Premier League this weekend and for the rest of the season, too after the wonder teen scored his fourth goal in four games
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    • 490 21  -  ADRIAN CLARKE LONDON —They’ve gone from battling it out for the coveted Golden Boot, to punters rushing to give them the boot. Seen as must-picks by millions of us a few weeks back, Fantasy League managers the world over are fast running out
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    • 983 21  -  COMMENTARY BY CHRIS BASCOMBE Chris Bascombe covers football in the north-east for The Daily Telegraph. THE DAILY TELEGRAPH Whatever you think of Brendan Rodgers, he deserves better than to endure a debate about his possible successor while he is still in the job.
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    • 358 22 AP Nobody does ruthless like New Zealand. Three of the six highest scores in Rugby World Cup history are by the All Blacks. Another big score was predicted on Thursday against the lowest-ranked country in the tournament. But Namibia promised they wouldn’t
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    • 243 22 (2nd Edition) REUTERS ZURICH Swiss prosecutors have opened a criminal investigation into Sepp Blatter, the head of world football body FIFA, on suspicion of criminal mismanagement and misappropriation, the Swiss attorney general’s office said yesterday. It said Blatter was interrogated after a meeting of FIFA’s executive committee in
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    • 509 22 OUTH AF ICANS SEEK REDEMPTI N AFTER CRUSHING LOSS AP LONDON Before the Rugby World Cup, South Africa would have viewed tonight’s Pool B game against Samoa as an opportunity to stamp their authority on Pool B and virtually seal their place in
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    • 509 22 (2nd Edition) OUTH AF ICANS SEEK REDEMPTI N AFTER CRUSHING LOSS AP LONDON Before the Rugby World Cup, South Africa would have viewed tonight’s Pool B game against Samoa as an opportunity to stamp their authority on Pool B and virtually seal their place in
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    • 212 22 ITALY v CANADA (5-2 overall, 1-0 in RWC, tonight, 9.15pm) Canada and Italy started play in Pool D with convincing defeats, to Ireland (7-50) and France (10-32) respectively, and already look to be playing for the “best of the rest” tag with Romania. After four straight
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    • 212 22 (2nd Edition) ITALY v CANADA (5-2 overall, 1-0 in RWC, tonight, 9.15pm) Canada and Italy started play in Pool D with convincing defeats, to Ireland (7-50) and France (10-32) respectively, and already look to be playing for the “best of the rest” tag with Romania. After four straight
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  • Page 21 Miscellaneous
    • 58 21 TV TIMES Tonight, 7.45pm Channel Singtel StarHub Tottenham v Man City 102 227 Tonight, 10pm Man Utd v Sunderland 102 227 Leicester v Aston Villa 103 228 Southampton v Swansea 105 230 Stoke v Bournemouth 106 231 West Ham v Norwich 107 232 Tomorrow, 12.30am Newcastle v Chelsea 102 227
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    • 52 23 SATURDAY, 26 SEPTEMBER 2015 SG50 IN NYC IT WAS A WEEK OF CELEBRATING S’PORE RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF MANHATTAN 24 LAYERING ART MIKE CHANG’S SOLO ART EXHIBITION IS A STUDY IN REPRESENTATION 25 HUMMING TO THE HAZE SONGS THAT YOU CAN SING ABOUT THIS SMOG SEASON 25 PHOTOS: SINGAPORE
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    • culture&lifestyle
      • 910 24  -  SINGAPORE’S CREATIVE TALENTS TAKE OVER THE BIG APPLE AT STB’S TRAVELLING ARTS SHOWCASE SINGAPORE: INSIDE OUT MAYO MARTIN IN NEW YORK mayo@mediacorp.com.sg On Wednesday afternoon, a queue was forming at one corner of Madison Square Park. Standing in line were American tourists Allan Robert and his
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      • 560 25  -  It’s a case of layered representation at Mike Chang’s first solo exhibition ART REVIEW: DOG AND BUTTERFLY BRUCE QUEK SINGAPORE Artist Mike Chang’s first solo exhibition in Singapore, Dog And Butterfly, now on at Yeo Workshop, has a distinct lack of dogs and butterflies featured,
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      • 595 25  -  CHRISTOPHER TOH SINGAPORE The haze has been a bugbear for years now, and many netizens have once again taken to the Internet to complain about the situation. But some have been a little more creative than others and come up with musical expressions
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  • Page 26 Miscellaneous
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    • 300 28 ON SATURDAY 6.00AM News Plus The Best Of Body Soul With Daniel Martin 10.00 News Plus Weekend Brunch And Out And About With Angela Lim And Daphne Lim NOON News Plus Sports Review Of The Week 6.00PM News Plus The Wow Club And Talking Books With Michelle Martin 10.00 Automated
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    • 294 28 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 FREE TOGGLE LIVE Watch any LIVE broadcast programmes anywhere. GREAT EASTERN-YEO’S S.LEAGUE 2015 Watch the Great Eastern-Yeo’s S.League
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  • 1069 1  -  By ALEX WILLIAMS INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY Hear the word “millennial,” and plenty of images spring to mind. There’s Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, in his hoodie, earning his first billion by the age of 23. There’s the singer Miley Cyrus, preening for the cameras in
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  • 1072 1  - Inside Syria a Daily Nightmare By MAHER SAMAAN, ANNE BARNARD INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY Beirut, Lebanon EVERY MORNING, AT the dawn call to prayer, women and children move silently from the Damascus suburb of Douma to the surrounding farm fields, seeking safety from the day’s bombardments by the Syrian government. The walk
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  • WORLD TRENDS
    • 1095 2  -  INTELLIGENCE PAMELA DRUCKERMAN THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY Calais, France “You like the place?” That’s what people in the “Jungle” of Calais keep asking. They want to know what I think of this dirty, unelectrified stretch of land below a highway, filled with camping tents,
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    • 519 2  -  By ELISABETH MALKIN, PAULINA VILLEGAS THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY MEXICO CITY The day-trip-pers swarmed onto Ostional Beach on Costa Rica’s Pacific Coast to watch one of nature’s most extraordinary sights, as hundreds of thousands of olive ridley sea turtles
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    • 917 3  -  By JAVIER C. HERNÁNDEZ THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY SUBIC BAY, Philippines In a flash of anticolonialist fervor nearly a quarter-century ago, lawmakers in the Philippines expelled the United States from an enormous naval base here, then the largest overseas outpost of
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    • 633 3  -  By SOMINI SENGUPTA THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY UNITED NATIONS In Darfur, United Nations peacekeepers have covered up evidence of government-led attacks against civilians and, on occasion, even attacks on themselves. In Mali’s northern badlands, attacks on blue-helmeted peacekeepers have killed 42 of them
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    • 575 4  -  LENS TESS FELDER THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY Rooftop bars and gardens may be social hot spots in big cities, but humans aren’t the only ones enjoying the view from above. One place other creatures are flocking to is New York’s Jacob K.
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