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PERSONAL assistants,
administrative assistants,
secretaries and office support
staff are the most wanted
employees in Singapore this
year.
This is according to results
of an annual talent-shortage
survey released by
workforce-solutions firm
Manpower Singapore
yesterday.
Nearly 40,000 employers
in 42 countries and territories
were surveyed in the first
quarter of the year.
The 8th Talent Shortage
Survey found that 47 per cent
of employers in Singapore are
experiencing difficulty finding
staff with the right skills.
Global results of the
survey showed that 35 per
cent of employers worldwide
are reporting shortages, the
highest level since before the
global economic crisis.
In the Asia-Pacific region,
the hardest jobs to fill are
those of sales representatives,
followed by engineers and
technicians.
Manpower said in a
statement that as the
education and skill profile of
the local workforce improves,
human-resource personnel
will need to develop a
successful workforce strategy.
Of the Singapore
employers surveyed, 54 per
cent indicated that they will
re-look their work models.
Meanwhile, 41 per cent said
they will increase their focus
on improving their talent
pipeline, such as through
building a succession
management approach.
Despite acknowledging the
impact talent shortages have
on their businesses, 22 per
cent of employers worldwide
are not changing course to
identify new ways to address
these shortages.
Director Anthony Chen receives the Camera dOr in
Cannes. He is the first Singaporean to win the prize, handed out to the best first feature film at the
Cannes Film Festival. The 29-year-olds movie, Ilo Ilo, brought forth very important issues
childhood, immigration, class struggles, according to the jury citation.
Spores
most
wanted
workers
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Film-maker does Spore proud:
T
he top reason why Singaporeans wont intervene when they know a woman is being abused
is this: They dont know how to. Findings released yesterday by Aware showed that most
people eight in 10 would not intervene in such instances. The No. 2 reason for not doing
anything is that people fear their meddling would only cause more hurt to the victim.
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Why Sporeans wont step in
when women are abused
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T
HE Singapore dollar
is suffering its biggest
losses in a year as
Asias economic slow-
down confounds policymakers
here, whose priority is controlling
inflation.
The Singapore dollar has weak-
ened 3.4 per cent against its Unit-
ed States counterpart this year,
and is lower against all but two of
the 10 most-traded Asian curren-
cies tracked by Bloomberg.
A weaker exchange rate has
the potential to add to inflation
by making the cost of imported
goods more expensive.
In Asia, theres a lot of con-
cern about the regions economic
outlook, and the Singapore dol-
lars weakness is linked primarily
to that, Mr Hans Redeker, the
global head of currency strategy
at Morgan Stanley in London,
said in a May 24 phone interview.
The firm called the Singapore
dollar one of our key shorts in
a research report last week, refer-
ring to trades that would profit
from the currencys decline.
Chinas unexpected loss of mo-
mentum in the first quarter is
weighing on Singapores econo-
my, which is already smarting
from measures to curb property
speculation.
That is putting pressure on the
Monetary Authority of Singapore
(MAS), the countrys central
bank, which last month main-
tained its policy of allowing the
Singapore dollar to gradually ap-
preciate to curb inflation.
The Singapore dollar fell as
low as S$1.27 per US dollar last
Thursday, its weakest level since
July last year. Over the past 52
weeks, the currency has ranged
from as low as S$1.2971 last June
to as strong as S$1.2152 last Octo-
ber.
This months 2.6 per cent drop
is its biggest since last May. The
Singapore dollar has tumbled
against all of its main Asian peers
this year, except the Japanese
yen and South Korean won. It is
down 5.5 per cent versus the Thai
baht.
Its a massive depreciation,
said Mr Dariusz Kowalczyk, a sen-
ior economist at Credit Agricole
in Hong Kong. Money is being
drawn away from Singapore,
he said.
The Singapore dollar got some
respite last Thursday, rising 0.3
per cent, as the trade ministry
said gross domestic product rose
an annualised 1.8 per cent in the
first quarter. The median esti-
mate in a Bloomberg News sur-
vey was for a 1.2 per cent drop.
On the same day, the Depart-
ment of Statistics said that the
consumer price index rose 1.5 per
cent from a year earlier, after the
Government tightened curbs on
vehicle and property purchases,
down from 3.5 per cent in March.
The report came after MAS
managing director Ravi Menons
forecast that the inflation rate
will be about 1 percentage point
higher this decade than last.
Singapore uses its currency as
its primary means of controlling
monetary policy, managing the
currency within an undisclosed
band against a basket of its peers.
The Singapore dollar has re-
mained within the band, MAS
deputy managing director Ong
Chong Tee told reporters last
Thursday, without specifying a
timeframe.
MAS reiterated on April 12 its
policy of seeking a modest and
gradual appreciation of the Sin-
gapore dol l ar to contai n
inflationary pressures.
The median estimate of 24 ana-
lysts surveyed sees the Singapore
dollar strengthening to S$1.23
against the US dollar by Dec 31.
The outlook has been cut from
S$1.19 in February.
BLOOMBERG
BY FELICIA CHOO
SINGAPORE is expected to re-
main the fourth-most-visited
city in the world this year, based
on the results of a study released
yesterday.
According to MasterCards
2013 Global Destination Cities
Index, the country is poised to at-
tract 11.75 million visitors this
year, based on previous years in-
dex data. This is an increase of
2.95 million visitors from 2010.
Singapore clinched the same
position in last years rankings.
Bangkok is expected to be
the top most-visited city this
year and is tipped to draw more
than 15 million visitors. The
Thai capital is followed by Lon-
don and Paris (see table).
London clinched the top spot
last year but this year about
25,000 visitors separates it from
Bangkok a difference of about
1 per cent.
MasterCard said the 2012 in-
dex was calculated based on ac-
tual visitor arrivals but this
years index comprises projec-
tions based on overnight visitors
those who stay for one or more
nights. Affordability is why
Bangkok trumps Singapore, said
Ms Alicia Seah, CTC Travels
senior vice-president of market-
ing and public relations.
The two cities international
and local connectivity are com-
parable, but Bangkok pips Singa-
pore because it has both an ur-
ban landscape and nature, while
Singapore predominantly boasts
man-made attractions, said Ms
Seah.
However, Singapore has
many unique draws too, which
has helped it to attract more visi-
tors than either Kuala Lumpur
or Hong Kong.
We have great, world-class
infrastructure, like Changi Air-
port and the Singapore Cruise
Centre...this is probably the
most important reason for our
fourth-place ranking, said Ms
Seah.
Other factors include Singa-
pores positioning as a hub in
South-east Asia for Meetings, In-
centives, Conferences and Exhi-
bitions, its medical-tourism in-
dustry and variety of shopping
and food choices.
However, Singapores total
annual tourist arrivals have been
increasing at a slower rate.
The increase was 15.2 per
cent between 2010 and 2011,
but dropped to 3.8 per cent be-
tween 2012 and 2013, based on
MasterCards projected figures.
Travel agents explained that
Singapore has become a mature
market, as many tourists have
visited the country before. This
makes it more difficult to in-
crease the number of tourist ar-
rivals, they added.
Ms Seah said the key now is
to attract more repeat visitors to
the country and encourage them
to spend more.
One way is to introduce more
tour packages with longer stays
here, instead of those which of-
fer only layovers in Singapore
for one or two nights before visi-
tors head to neighbouring coun-
tries.
Cities in the Asia-Pacific re-
gion dominate this years report.
Of the 132 cities ranked, 42 are
Asian countries. It is also the
first time an Asian city has
topped the index since it was
first published in 2010.
feliciac@sph.com.sg
Fall of Sing$ puts pressure on MAS
Singapore
tipped to stay
4th most
visited city
A five-year Comprehensive Marine Biodiversity Survey that was launched in 2010
has so far resulted in more than 100 newly documented and discovered marine
species in Singapore. Of these, 10 species have been rediscovered, such as the
zebra crab last seen in the early 1960s. Fourteen species are possibly new to
science, including the lipstick sea anemone found in the mudflats at Pulau Ubin.
10 MARINE SPECIES REDISCOVERED IN SINGAPORE
ERP RATES DOWN FOR
SOME ROADS IN JUNE
ELECTRONICRoad Pricing
(ERP) rates at some roads and
expressways will fall by 50 cents
to $1 for the June school holidays.
These include Dunearn Road and
the southbound Central
Expressway before Braddell Road.
The new rates will apply from
Saturday to June 29 and revert to
existing charges from July 1. Visit
www.lta.gov.sg for details.
NEA ROPES IN PUPILS TO
COMBAT DENGUE
THE National Environment
Agency is getting pupils to fight
dengue with the launch of a
toolkit for all Primary 5 pupils.
The kit encourages them to be
ambassadors by taking the
dengue-prevention message
home.
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at this years international
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Awards, the Oscars for the
real-estate industry.
The win is for the Public
Infrastructures/Amenities
Category.
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Singapore update
Most visited
Number of overnight
visitors expected in 2013
City Number
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
Bangkok
London
Paris
Singapore
New York
Istanbul
Dubai
Kuala Lumpur
Hong Kong
Barcelona
15.98m
15.96m
13.92m
11.75m
11.52m
10.37m
9.89m
9.2m
8.72m
8.41m
SOURCE: MASTERCARD
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BY LISA OON
W
E DONT know
how to: That is
the top reason
why Singapore-
ans do not intervene when they
know that a woman is being
abused by her husband or part-
ner, even if she was their friend
or even their relative.
Survey findings released yes-
terday by the Association of
Women for Action and Research
(Aware), a gender-equality advo-
cacy group, showed that most
people here about eight in 10
would not intervene in such in-
stances of violence.
The No. 2 reason for not doing
anything is that respondents fear
their meddling will cause more
hurt to the victim.
The third-most-cited reason
was that the abuse might have
been a one-time event, and the
No. 4 reason was that it was none
of their business.
Aware and Ngee Ann Poly-
technic carried out the survey in
November and December last
year. A total of 1,322 people
were polled, of which 667 were
women and 655 were men.
On why not knowing how to
intervene was the top reason for
not doing anything, Ms Corinna
Lim, Awares executive director,
said it could be that there is not
enough awareness of the issue.
Mr S. Tiwari, the divisional di-
rector of Thye Hua Kwan Moral
Charities, said: There is a lack of
awareness of what abuse is. Most
people do not know that shouting
and screaming is abuse, too.
People may also not intervene
because they feel they are not
up to the task of calming a violent
person, or they may make mat-
ters worse, including putting
themselves in harms way, said
National University of Singapore
sociologist Tan Ern Ser.
There are people who be-
lieve in minding their own busi-
ness, he added.
Gender stereotypes might also
help perpetuate the problem as
abuse may be sparked off by a dif-
ference in opinions or beliefs.
The poll showed that most
women 52.8 per cent did not
agree that women should take
care of household chores and
care-giving. However, most men
58 per cent agreed that wom-
en should take on those roles.
Ms Lim said that such differ-
ences in views could potentially
lead to a woman being abused by
her husband or partner.
For example, a man may ask
a woman why she does not cook
well. This is due to his expecta-
tion that women are in charge of
the household chores, she said.
Said Associate Professor Tan:
Domestic violence has much to
do with power relations within
the family. Where the relation-
ship between marriage partners is
egalitarian, there is less likeli-
hood of spousal abuse.
To address concerns on the
abuse of women arising from the
survey, Aware has launched a
We Can! campaign that aims to
promote gender equality and
non-violence, such as through art,
sports and new media.
oonlisa@sph.com.sg
Most wont
speak up for
abused women
Survey findings
Some 81 per cent of the people
polled said they will not intervene
if they knew that a female friend,
relative or neighbour was being
abused by her husband or
partner.
Only 17 per cent of
respondents said under no
circumstances should women
stay in violent relationships. Some
42 per cent said women should
remain in such a relationship if
the partner promises to change,
but 53 per cent said women
should stay in a violent
relationship because she has
children to care for.
Some 90 per cent of
respondents said regularly
slapping the face of ones partner
is an act of violence, while 87 per
cent said throwing, smashing or
hitting something during a quarrel
is a violent act.
For non-physical violence, 78
per cent recognise that criticising
and insulting ones partner is an
act of abuse, while 65 per cent
said that controlling a partners
money and finances is an act of
abuse.
Some 66 per cent of men said
men are the head of households
and should make most family
decisions. Agreeing with this was
46.3 per cent of women.
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Survey: dio ch
Awareness: y shi
Domestic violence:
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SEOUL
S
OUTH Korean officials
yesterday launched an
investigation into cram
schools after a cheating
scandal led to the nationwide
cancellation of US college entrance
exams earlier this month.
The education office in the capital
Seoul started the special probe into a
number of private academies suspected
of illegally obtaining questions for the
SAT test and offering them to students,
a spokesman told AFP.
The administrator of the SAT the
most-widely-used test for applying to
United States colleges scrapped the
scheduled May 4 exams after
discovering that questions were already
circulating among some test-prep
schools.
The College Board also cancelled
subject tests in biology scheduled for
next month.
The moral hazard prevalent among
some SAT prep schools has reached a
serious level, the Seoul education
office said in a statement, criticising
school operators for tarnishing the
national reputation and harming
innocent applicants.
Those cram schools discovered to
have leaked questions will face closure
as well as special tax audits, with the
owners banned from opening new
schools for a certain period, it added.
The cancellation of the SAT exam
prompted a flood of soul-searching
editorials in the national press.
This incident reveals the dark side
of our education culture that has no
qualms about cheating, even at an
international level, said the Kookmin
Daily, which called the scandal a
national shame. The JoongAng Ilbo
said such incidents were bound to be
repeated, given the number of students
and parents apparently willing to sell
their souls if they can boost test scores.
AFP
POLICE arrested a 19-year-old
Singaporean man on Sunday
for breaking into homes at vari-
ous Housing Board (HDB) es-
tates this month.
Some of the loot from the
crimes, such as cash and mo-
bile devices, were recovered,
said the police in a statement
yesterday.
The suspect is believed to
be involved in more than 20
cases of housebreaking and
theft at HDB estates in Bishan,
Toa Payoh, Whampoa, Bende-
meer, Marine Terrace and Tam-
pines.
Victims would usually dis-
cover their units broken into
and ransacked after returning
from work or after waking up
in the morning, said the police.
Investigations revealed that
the culprit entered the homes
either through unsecured
doors or windows, or by forc-
ing open aluminium window
grilles along common corri-
dors.
A task force of officers from
Tanglin Police Division was set
up to apprehend the culprit.
The police said they con-
ducted extensive enquiries and
mounted daily ambushes at lo-
cations where the culprit was
likely to strike.
Their efforts paid off when
closed-circuit TV footage
showed the suspect at one of
the affected HDB blocks in Toa
Payoh.
The suspects identity was
subsequently established and
several ambushes were mount-
ed. He was finally arrested in
Bendemeer Road.
The police would like to re-
mind home occupants to en-
sure that all doors, windows
and other openings are secured
with good-quality grilles and
closed-shackle padlocks.
S. Korea
probes
SAT
cheating
Man, 19, arrested for spate of HDB burglaries
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81122 120 Green Voucher for Laguna Bintan Golf Club (4 balls)
81150 114 Samsung Omina M S7530
81152 32 Motorola EX119
81195 19 Hilton High Tea Voucher
81209 66 Nokia 820
81265 113 Samsung Omina M S7530
81409 6 1 Economy Class return ticket to anywhere that
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81440 57 GLORES Kneading massage pillow
81544 111 Nokia X6
81552 36 Samsung Galaxy S3 mini
81563 22 Buffet Lunch for 2 @ M Hotel
81600 69 Suede Duffel Bag
81730 127 The Cocoa Trees Hamper
81752 129 Sony Xperia TX
81768 51 Limited Edition Ikasu Wedge
81841 118 2 Days 1 Night stay at Bintan Lagoon Resort
81854 119 Green Voucher for Laguna Bintan Golf Club (4 balls)
81928 64 Samsung Galaxy Camera GC100
82067 17 1 pair of return Tiger Airways tickets to Krabi
82089 130 Sony Xperia TX
82138 122 HTC HD Mini
82207 4 Breitling Travel Bag
82253 40 Selphy CP 900 (white)
82254 117 Jumbo $100 Voucher
82311 121 HTC 7 Mozart
82333 35 Nokia 603
82380 123 Perry Gear Boston Bag
82399 65 Samsung Galaxy Camera GC100
82458 20 Hilton Sunday Brunch Voucher
82529 37 Legria HF36 (black)
82542 44 Hybrid (Gosen V-Series Viva)
82550 42 SX 260 (Red)
82599 63 Samsung Phone E1232
82720 34 Samsung Omnia W
82728 21 Voucher for One Night Weekend Stay for Two in
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Jet Airways ies
82841 11 1 pair of return Tiger Airways tickets to Phnom Penh
82866 13 1 pair of return Tiger Airways tickets to Perth
Jet Airways ies
83033 41 PowerShot D20 (Yellow)
83183 15 1 pair of return Tiger Airways tickets to Bangkok
83528 62 Samsung Phone E1080
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Jet Airways ies
83723 10 1 pair of return Tiger Airways tickets to Kochi
84244 14 1 pair of return Tiger Airways tickets to Kuala Lumpur
84495 67 Zegna tie
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84622 112 Nokia X6
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LOS ANGELES
A
NGELINA Jolies
aunt has died of
breast cancer, it
was reported on
Sunday, less than two weeks af-
ter the Oscar-winning actress
announced that she had under-
gone a preventive double
mastectomy.
The Hollywood entertain-
ment website E! News cited Jol-
ies uncle, Mr Ron Martin, as
saying that his wife, Debbie
the younger sister of Jolies
late mother died at age 61 on
Sunday at Palomar Hospital in
Escondido, California.
According to Mr Martin, his
wife had the same defective
BRCA1 gene that Jolie has,
but did not know it until after
her 2004 cancer diagnosis.
Had we known, we certain-
ly would have done exactly
what Angelina did, he said in
a phone interview.
Angelina has been in touch
throughout the week, and her
brother Jamie has been with
us, giving his support day by
day, he was also quoted as
saying on E!s website.
Jolie, 37, revealed in an arti-
cle in the May 14 edition of
The New York Times that she
had chosen to undergo surgery
to minimise the risk of develop-
ing breast cancer, due to the in-
heritance of the faulty gene.
The actress partner and fel-
low screen star Brad Pitt led
worldwide praise, declaring Jo-
lie heroic, followed by her doc-
tors, other stars and thousands
of supporters.
Cancer campaigners also
cheered Jolie but warned wom-
en against rushing to be tested
for the gene mutation that
threatened the actress life.
Not only is the BRCA1 mu-
tation rare in the female popu-
lation, they said, but it is also
expensive to test for Jolie
paid US$3,000 (S$3,800).
Jolie and Pitt have six chil-
dren, three adopted and three
biological. The actress mother,
Marcheline Bertrand, passed
on the gene that put Jolie at
higher risk, and died of ovarian
cancer at the age of 56.
Jolies doctors estimated
that she had an 87 per cent risk
of developing breast cancer and
a 50 per cent risk of ovarian
cancer, prompting her to take
action to cut the chances that
she might die at a young age.
The actress said in the news-
paper article that her likeli-
hood of developing breast can-
cer is now just 5 per cent,
though she still runs a relative-
ly high risk of contracting ovar-
ian cancer.
Jolie, respected for her
humanitarian work overseas
with the United Nations, said
she was speaking out to help
other women understand their
options, and to urge govern-
ments in lower-income coun-
tries to provide the health care
that women need.
I started with the breasts,
as my risk of breast cancer is
higher than my risk of ovarian
cancer, and the surgery is more
complex, she wrote. I can
tell my children they dont
need to fear they will lose me
to breast cancer.
AFP, AP
Jolies aunt dies of cancer
Tens of thousands of leather-clad, tattooed veterans
descended on Washington on Harley Davidson motorcycles during the Rolling Thunder ride
on Sunday. The rally was organised to show support for veterans past and present, as well as
remember those who have fallen in war or are missing in action.
PHOTO: JOSHUA ROBERTS/REUTERS
Had we known, we certainly would
have done exactly what Angelina did.
MR RON MARTIN, HUSBAND OF ACTRESS ANGELINA JOLIES AUNT, WHO SAID
HIS WIFE HAD THE SAME DEFECTIVE GENE THAT JOLIE HAS.
US salutes its heroes:
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BY ADRIAN LIM
S
INGAPORE Press Holdings
(SPH) will seek to raise about
$1.048 billion in a real-estate in-
vestment trust (Reit) listing, the
company said yesterday.
It will inject two of its retail properties
The Clementi Mall and Paragon, worth a
total of $3.07 billion into SPH Reit.
The announcement was made after the
company received Eligibility to List ap-
proval from the Singapore Exchange yes-
terday.
SPH Reit will be established to princi-
pally invest, directly and indirectly, in a
portfolio of income-producing real estate,
used primarily for retail purposes in
Asia-Pacific, as well as real estate-related
assets, the company said in a statement.
The Reit listing is scheduled for July,
subject to an extraordinary general meet-
ing on June 18 to get the approval of
SPHs shareholders to establish the trust.
Approval will also be sought for a spe-
cial cash dividend of $0.18 to be distribut-
ed to SPH shareholders.
Upon the Reits listing, 99-year lease-
hold interests in Paragon and The Clemen-
ti Mall will be sold to the Reits trustee, for
an aggregate value of $3.07 billion.
Paragon, an upscale retail mall in Or-
chard Road, has been valued by Knight
Frank at $2.5 billion and The Clementi
Mall, a mid-market suburban mall, at
$570.5 million.
SPH said it will hold about 70 per cent
of the Reits units, giving it continued ma-
jority ownership of the properties.
Mr Tony Mallek, SPHs chief financial
officer, said that of the $1.04 billion
raised, $360 million will be used to pay
off loans, and $290 million will be used to
pay the special dividend to shareholders.
The Reit listing is also expected to
strengthen SPHs balance sheet.
If the Reit initial public offering had
been completed on Aug 31 last year, it is
estimated that SPHs net gearing would
have decreased from 40.6 per cent to 9.3
per cent before payment of the special div-
idend. The net asset value would have in-
creased by more than 63 per cent, from
$1.39 to $2.27 per share.
SPH chief executive Alan Chan said:
The special dividend will reward share-
holders for their investment in the SPH
Group and, through SPHs stake in SPH
Reit, they will continue to benefit from
the establishment of SPH Reit.
SPH is a media organisation whose
portfolio also includes properties, broad-
casting, and events and outdoor advertis-
ing.
Asked what the future holds for SPHs
business strategy, Mr Chan said the print
business will remain its mainstay, as the
bulk of revenue and profits comes from
newspapers and magazines.
On whether SPH will look into invest-
ing in residential properties, he said: Our
mainstay is on retail properties because
they present a constant stream of in-
come...whereas residential properties are
one-off affairs.
adrianl@sph.com.sg
TAIPEI
TAIWAN and the Philippines swopped
teams of investigators yesterday follow-
ing weeks of acrimony over the fatal
shooting of a Taiwanese fisherman.
A team of eight Philippine officials, in-
cluding experts from the National Bureau
of Investigation (NBI), flew to the island
and were promptly whisked away upon
arrival at Taoyuan Airport in the north. A
Taiwanese team of experts also flew to
the Philippines.
Bot h t eams wi l l revi ew how
65-year-old Hung Shih-cheng was shot
dead by the Philippine coast guard on
May 9, an incident which has sharply
raised tensions between Manila and Tai-
pei and prompted economic sanctions by
Taiwan.
The visitors will have a look at the au-
topsy report on Hung Shih-cheng this af-
ternoon, a spokesman for Taiwans Jus-
tice Ministry told AFP.
Before leaving on Friday, the Filipino
team will also inspect evidence from local
prosecutors, visit the fishing boat, review
voyage-data records onboard the vessel
and inspect ballistic evidence, the spokes-
man said.
Taiwan said its team in the Philippines
would visit the coast-guard vessel, inspect
the guns used to fire on the fishing vessel
and review video footage.
A spokesman for the NBI confirmed
the Taiwanese team had arrived but
would not comment on what the members
were doing or how long they would stay.
The Philippines has claimed that the
fishing boat intruded into its waters and
that coast guards were forced to open fire
when it tried to ram their vessel.
The Taiwanese authorities have re-
leased the boats voyage-data record and
insist that the ship was fishing within its
exclusive economic zone when the shoot-
ing took place. The zones claimed by the
two sides overlap in some areas.
AFP
SPH plans to raise
$1b in Reit listing
Manila and
Taipei teams
probe shooting
World update
INDIAN ANTI-TERROR AGENCY
TO PROBE MAOIST ATTACK
INDIAS chief anti-terrorism agency will
investigate a weekend Maoist rebel attack
that killed 24 people, including top local
politicians, the deadliest such strike in
three years, officials said yesterday.
A team from the National Investigation
Agency created after the 2008 Mumbai
attacks to investigate terror-related crimes
will head to the site of last Saturdays
attack in the central state of Chhattisgarh,
officials said.
AFP
BOMB BLAST IN BANGKOK
SUBURB INJURES SEVEN
A BOMB blast at a busy suburban shop-
ping area in Bangkok left seven people
wounded, Thai police said yesterday.
The homemade device, hidden near
rubbish bins, exploded at about 9pm on
Sunday in Ramkhamhaeng, Police Colonel
Narongrit Promsawan said. None of those
hurt was in serious condition.
AFP
THAILAND TO MAINTAIN
RICE-BUYING PROGRAMME
THAILAND has pledged to renew its
controversial rice-buying scheme for a
third year, defying opposition over a
policy that has been blamed for straining
government finances and slashing exports
as the grain piled up in warehouses.
The two-year-old programme to pay
farmers more for rice than what it is worth
on international markets has cost Thailand
its spot as the worlds top exporter, and
raised concern at the World Trade
Organisation.
REUTERS
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BEIJING
T
HE defacement of
a stone sculpture
in an ancient tem-
ple in Egypt by a
Chinese teen triggered an on-
line uproar as Internet users
dubbed it a loss of face for
all Chinese people.
A microblogger found the
Chinese characters carved on a
cameo at the Luxor Temple,
one of Egypts most renowned
archaeological sites, early this
month. The characters read
Ding Jinhao was here.
The microblog picture, post-
ed last Friday night, triggered
heated discussion online. The
act of vandalism was con-
demned as being disrespectful
to cultural relics.
Dings parents, who live in
Nanjing, the capital of Jiangsu
province, apologised for his be-
haviour last Saturday and
asked for forgiveness from the
public, after angry Internet us-
ers discovered and revealed the
identity of the 14-year-old mid-
dle-school student in Nanjing.
We want to apologise to
the Egyptian people and to
people who have paid atten-
tion to this case across China,
Dings mother said in Modern
Express, a local newspaper.
Ding has realised the seri-
ousness of his misconduct, ac-
cording to his mother.
His father said they felt re-
gretful after news about the
case was spread online.
Mr Shen, the microblogger
who posted the picture of the
vandalised relic, visited the
Egyptian temple on May 6.
He said: I felt embar-
rassed. It was my most unhap-
py moment in Egypt.
He hopes the case will re-
mind Chinese tourists to be-
have while abroad and teach
them the importance of pro-
tecting cultural relics.
The bad manners of some
Chinese tourists, which in-
clude spitting and littering,
have been featured prominent-
ly in the media in recent years.
In March 2009, a retired man
from Changzhou, Jiangsu prov-
ince, carved his name on a rock
in Taiwans Yehliu Geopark,
triggering intense criticism. In
February, a tourist carved his
name on a large cauldron in Bei-
jings Palace Museum.
CHINA DAILY/ASIA NEWS
NETWORK
VANDALS have struck at a rain
shelter in Haig Road Walk, with
profanities spray-painted onto the
glass panels of noticeboards there.
Sales manager Vishal Shah, 34,
saw the graffiti on Sunday. He
took photos of the scene and post-
ed themon citizen-journalismweb-
site Stomp.
When he passed by yesterday,
the graffiti was still there.
He said: It is completely dis-
tasteful and wrong to do that.
My Paper understands that the
rain shelter was built as part of the
Estate Upgrading Programme.
JOY FANG
DISRESPECTFUL: Graffiti scratched by a Chinese teen on a sculpture in
an Egyptian temple read Ding Jinhao was here. PHOTO: CHINA DAILY
Chinese teen
vandalises
Egyptian relic
Profanities sprayed on Haig Road noticeboards
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News
PARIS
C
LUB Mediterranees
top shareholders plan
to make a bid valuing
the French holiday
firm at around 541 million euros
(S$881 million), seeking to accel-
erate its shift to fast-growing
emerging markets and away from
recession-hit Europe.
Chinese investor Fosun Inter-
national and AXA Private Equity
said yesterday they would team
up with management to offer 17
euros a share for the stock they
do not already own a 23 per
cent premiumto last Fridays clos-
ing price.
Founded in 1950 and listed
since 1966, Club Med was a pio-
neer of the all-inclusive holiday
resort.
But it fell on hard times earlier
this century amid stiff competi-
tion and an unsuccessful expan-
sion into services, and its more re-
cent drive to recast itself as an up-
market operator has been ham-
pered by a flagging European
economy.
One Paris-based trader, who
declined to be named, said the in-
volvement of Chinas Fosun in
the offer could help Club Meds
chances of succeeding in that
country.
This generous friendly bid
has great chances of success. The
management always made clear it
has great plans to develop in Chi-
na and was clearly seeking a busi-
ness partner, he said.
Club Med, which operates
about 70 resorts, said it would ap-
point a committee of independent
directors to assess the offer,
which is expected to be filed in
the next few days.
Fosun first invested in the
French company in 2010 and
Club Med reiterated yesterday it
hoped to make China its sec-
ond-biggest zone after France by
the end of 2015.
The bid proposal comes as trav-
el firms and airlines across Eu-
rope saw bookings fall in recent
months.
Bookings in Europe over the
last eight weeks were down 4.6
per cent, mostly due to a weak
French market, while they
jumped 13.9 per cent in Asia.
Net debt at the end of last
month stood at 112 million euros,
down from 123 million a year
ago.
Club Med competes with glo-
bal hoteliers such as Interconti-
nental and Accor, as well as tour
operators such as TUI Travel and
Thomas Cook.
The move does not necessarily
signal a new wave of takeovers in
the sector, according to Mr Chris-
tian Jimenez, who heads the Dia-
mant Bleu Gestion fund.
This is a very specific take-
over, he said. Fosun was al-
ready in the capital and intended
to raise its stake and Club Meds
management backs the deal.
AXA Private Equity currently
holds 9.4 per cent of Club Med,
while Fosun owns 9.96 per cent.
Club Med chief executive Hen-
ri Giscard dEstaing, who became
CEO in 2002 and has spearhead-
ed Club Meds upmarket shift, is
also taking part in the deal.
Mr Giscard dEstaing currently
owns less than 0.01 per cent of
the share capital. He will remain
CEO if the takeover goes ahead,
with Michel Wolfovski also con-
tinuing to be deputy CEO.
Should the buyers secure 95
per cent of Club Med, they re-
serve the right to squeeze out oth-
er shareholders.
Societe Generale is advising
AXA Private Equity and Fosun
on the deal.
REUTERS
JOHOR
UEM Land Holdings, Malaysias
biggest developer by market val-
ue, will start selling RM4 billion
(S$1.7 billion) worth of newresi-
dential and commercial projects
this year, targeting Singaporean
buyers.
About three fourths of new
developments will be at Nusa-
jaya city in the southern Malay-
sian state of Johor, where
new-condominium prices have
more than doubled since 2009,
said chief executive officer Wan
Abdullah Wan Ibrahim.
Thats within the 222,600ha
Iskandar Malaysia economic
zone, promoted by the govern-
ment to tap demand from neigh-
bouring Singapore for every-
thing from seafront homes to oil
storage.
Land value in Nusajaya is
gaining momentum, Mr Wan
Abdullah said in an interview
last Thursday in Kuala Lumpur.
Investors are seeing a trend
that they like very much.
UEM Land is taking advan-
tage of the closer ties being fos-
tered by the two South-east
Asian countries after decades of
arguments over issues, including
land ownership, were resolved.
The developer announced
the projects, which include a For-
mula One racing test track and
an exhibition mall, in Decem-
ber.
UEM Land, based in Kuala
Lumpur, is the biggest landown-
er in the Iskandar region. The
company still has more than
2,400ha of land in the area to be
developed, in addition to
1,400ha outside Nusajaya, Mr
Wan Abdullah said.
BLOOMBERG
Top investors plan Club Med takeover
UEM eyes Spore buyers
for Johor properties
Mr Albert Bessudo of France checks his
Jaguar XK120, produced in 1950, as he prepares for the Peking-to-Paris
Motor Challenge, one of the longest and toughest classic-car rallies. The 96
classic and vintage cars from 26 countries will set off from the Great Wall
today on a 12,500km route to Paris lasting 33 days.
PHOTO: KIM KYUNG-HOON/REUTERS
33-day classic-car rally:
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BY JOY FANG
S
HE has been living in
Los Angeles (LA) since
1999, but home-grown
singer-songwriter Cor-
rinne May is still very much a Sin-
gaporean at heart.
Speaking to My Paper over
the phone l ast week, the
40-year-old peppered her replies
with Mandarin and Malay terms
like jaga, which means to
watch over, and talked about her
love for durians.
She recently bought a house in
Singapore, and returns here with
her husband, music producer
Kavin Hoo, 38, and daughter
Claire, four, for about a month at
least once a year.
Our family is in Singapore, so
we are quite rooted here... I want
Claire to have some time with her
family here, to foster that sense
of family bonding and communi-
ty, May said.
But she admitted that her
daughter talks like an ang moh
(Caucasian) and doesnt speak
Singlish. Thankfully, Claire is
picking up some Mandarin and
loves local food such as dou nai
(soya-bean drink) and yi mi
shui (barley water), May added.
The songbird, who is known
for her soaring and emotive
tunes, said it is really hard bal-
ancing these two worlds as LA is
their creative home while Singa-
pore is their community home.
But their hearts still belong
here, and one thing the singer is
certain of is that she will not give
up her Singapore citizenship.
I believe in Singapore and
Im proud to be Singaporean. Its
part of my DNA, and to give it up
would feel like betraying a part of
myself, said May, who holds per-
manent residency in the United
States.
Im proud that Singapore is
such a young nation and has
achieved so much.
She will sing at the Esplanade
Concert Hall next Friday.
The last time May was here,
she performed to a 6,000-strong
crowd for Rhythm With Nature, a
three-day festival held to mark
the official opening of Gardens
by the Bay. And a day before that
gig, which took place on June 30
last year, she appeared in Jason
Mrazs concert to perform Lucky
with him.
In March last year, she re-
leased her fifth studio album,
Crooked Line, five years after the
album before, Beautiful Seed,
which has achieved platinum sta-
tus here, selling more than
17,000 copies to date.
May is known as one of Singa-
pores most successful English-lan-
guage s i nger s , but t he
down-to-earth star does not let it
go to her head.
I just hope that Im able to
reach out to people with my mu-
sic. It means I have achieved a
particular standard, she said.
Im flattered...and a little
blushingly embarrassed, she
said with a laugh.
Asked what she thinks of com-
ments that her songs are becom-
ing too similar, May replied that
she doesnt mind them.
While she explores other mu-
sic influences for instance, she is
thinking of incorporating sounds
from the angklung, a bamboo in-
strument she said that there is
always a core sense of music sensi-
bilities that artists gravitate to-
wards, such as certain chords, or
a certain feel.
I think its good that one can
tell that its a Corrinne May song.
Every musician has his own signa-
ture sound... I wont change my
music for the sake of changing
it.
joyfang@sph.com.sg
Corrinne May: Your Song takes
place next Friday at the
Esplanade Concert Hall. Tickets
start at $68. Visit Sistic at
www.sistic.com.sg for more
details.
ENIGMATIC French electro-duo
Daft Punk scored their first Brit-
ish Number One album as Ran-
dom Access Memories became
the fastest-selling album of the
year so far, according to the Offi-
cial Charts Company.
The album sold 165,000 cop-
ies last week, knocking veteran
performer Rod Stewart from the
top spot.
The dance pairs success on the
album chart comes on the back of
a four-week stay at the top of the
single chart with the hit Get Lucky.
It is the bands fourth studio al-
bum and is unusual in that it fea-
tures session musicians and live in-
strumentation.
The LP features collaborations
with Strokes singer Julian Casa-
blancas, electro pioneer Giorgio
Moroder and disco-legend Nile
Rodgers.
Theres long been a show-biz
bent to the work of Daft Punk
duo Thomas Bangalter and
Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo,
who for the last 13 years have hid-
den their faces in public appear-
ances by wearing robot helmets
and costumes.
Bangalter compares the mys-
tique-building masks to an ev-
er-evolving comic-book superhe-
ro who starts as a side story then
maybe 50 years later it becomes
like a big franchise movie in Hol-
lywood.
Yet their new album Random
Access Memories isnt the spe-
cial-effects-filled summer block-
buster you might expect.
The group that helped popular-
ise electronic dance music in the
United States have used almost
exclusively live instrumentation
on the 13 songs, many modelled
on the easygoing groove of late
1970s pop and disco.
At a time when drum ma-
chines and urgent computer-gen-
erated chords dominate the
charts, Daft Punk went the oppo-
site direction.
Human voices in pop music
are becoming more and more ro-
botic, Bangalter said.
(The album) is a robotic
project and a technological one
that is trying to get more and
more human.
Early response to the hotly-an-
ticipated album which streamed
on iTunes prior to its release last
Tuesday has been mixed.
This album makes me not
like LA, DJ-producer Diplo
tweeted. These guys are way
smarter than me. Im definitely
missing something.
Billboard called the album
messy but said it was fantastic
to hear these masterminds trying
again, while Pitchfork praised
its musicianship and amazing
level of detail.
AFP, AP
BALANCING ACT: Los Angeles-based Corrinne May returns to Singapore with
her husband, music producer Kavin Hoo, and daughter Claire, for about a
month at least once a year. PHOTO: WARNER MUSIC SINGAPORE
MYSTERY DUO: Thomas Bangalter
(left) and Guy-Manuel de Homem-
Christo have, for the last 13 years,
hidden their faces. PHOTO: AP
Daft Punk land at Number One
Spore is home, says Corrinne May
International superstar Psy, who was here last week for the Social Star
Awards, popped into Korean restaurant Bibigo at Marina Bay Financial Centre
on Saturday before returning to Seoul. He and his team of dancers and
managers ate black-rice spicy-pork hot-stone bibimbap (mixed rice),
char-grilled bulgogi (marinated beef), and sweet-and-spicy rice cake.
PSY VISITS KOREAN RESTAURANT HERE
I believe in Singapore and Im proud to
be Singaporean. Its part of my DNA, and
to give it up would feel like betraying a
part of myself.
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Showbiz
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C
OMEDIAN Ken Jeong
appears once again in
The Hangover Part
III.
Besides another full-frontal na-
ked scene of him, the Kore-
an-Ameri can i s al so seen
paragliding over the casinos of
Las Vegas.
Despite his antics in the Hango-
ver trilogy, the 43-year-old is one
of the very few practising medical
doctors-turned-comedians.
Jeong tells us more about his
role as Leslie Chow, a flamboy-
ant Chinese gangster.
What do you think of what happens
with Chow in The Hangover Part III?
Chow is basically like the devil;
hes like Lucifer in the Wolfpack.
In the first movie, they deal
with Chow to get Doug back. Its
kind of this loose metaphor of do-
ing a deal with the devil. By the
third movie, everyones ready to
move on with their lives. Alan
needs to grow up. He needs to let
go of the past, and the only way
he can do that is to dance with
this guy one more time.
So, its that metaphor that fas-
cinated me on an epic level. But
thats just my own interpretation.
I might be wrong.
Your naked entrance in the first
movie was that your idea?
Yes, because this is a Todd Phil-
lips movie. I remember reading
the script, and Chow had slacks
on in the script. I was telling my
wife: This is screaming for Chow
to jump out naked.
I told Todd that, and I didnt
know him at that time, so I very
politely and nervously asked him,
like, Is it okay if I do it naked?
Hes like, You dont have to tell
me twice.
You seem to really enjoy working
with this group of people. Is that
right?
Hangover people, theyre my fa-
vourite people in the world to
work with, period. Theres no
ego; theres no diva behaviour.
Everyone works for a common
goal. It is pure heaven working
with guys like these, because
theres just no attitude, man. No
ones competitive; no ones jeal-
ous of each other. Were just in
for the greater good. And look
what happens.
What was it like parachuting over
the Las Vegas Strip for this movie?
Well, that was incredible stunt
doubles. I had nothing to do with
that, except that there were
close-ups where I was suspended
40 feet in the air.
I have a massive fear of
heights, like, Im the kind of guy
that cries at roller coasters and
Ferris wheels.
Jack Gill, the stunt coordina-
tor, found a way to desensitise
me by raising my harness 10,
then 15, then 20 feet. That was
the greatest moment of my acting
career because I was able to kind
of conquer that legit fear of
heights.
AGENCIES
The Hangover Part III will be
released in cinemas island-wide
on Thursday.
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MY PAPER TUESDAY MAY 28 2013 A13 Showbiz My Executive
BY WINONA WEE
A
GLASS of wine after
work helps one wind
down from the hustle
and bustle of the Cen-
tral Business District.
But how about pairing that
with a sandwich?
P.L.T Sandwiches, a quick-ser-
vice restaurant set up by Cedele,
the healthy-gourmet purveyor, is
set to put a newspin on sandwich-
es.
Its first branch at Robinson
Point, which opened in February,
is offering pairings of its sand-
wich creations with two kinds of
wine on any given day, as well as
beer.
When asked about the deci-
sion to pair alcohol with bread, a
spokesman for P.L.T said: Eat-
ing sandwiches with a glass of
wine or beer brings out a differ-
ent taste experience, so we feel it
is a good pairing to offer.
The recommended pairings of
wine with sandwiches follow the
basic rule of red wine comple-
menting red meat.
Apart from red wine, P.L.T
Sandwiches serves white wine,
which can go with vegetari-
an-friendly sandwiches like the
ShroomTofu Burger a combina-
tion of tofu patty, mushroom,
pepperonata, Bavarian mustard
and mayonnaise.
The spokesman also told My
Paper that the sandwich joint is
targeted at the grab-and-go CBD
crowd, where people are pressed
for time and need something fast
yet healthy.
One of the sandwiches to try is
the signature P.L.T sandwich, or
Pancetta, Lettuce and Tomato
sandwich, which consists of a de-
lectable trio of hit ingredients:
pancetta, ham and pepperonata.
It also has an equal amount of
greens with sweet mustard and
mayonnaise to complement the
combination.
What sets this sandwich bar
apart from the rest is its 16 hand-
crafted sandwiches made daily,
which boast novel combinations
like the Reuben, a sandwich
made of corned beef and bacon.
For those who are keener on
the drinks at P.L.T, the joint even
has happy-hour discounts on its
alcoholic beverages. Its selection
of beers, unlike the wine, stays
the same every day.
The restaurant has a basic eve-
ryday menu, which includes a sta-
ple salad. But it also rotates its
soup and salad daily, to give cus-
tomers a variety of choices.
Diners can also customise
their salad dressings with a selec-
tion of honey mustard, raspberry,
plum and Caesar sauces.
wwee@sph.com.sg
P.L.T Sandwiches is at 39
Robinson Road #01-01A (tel:
6438-2648). Open weekdays,
7.30am to 8pm.
Fancy some wine
with your sandwich?
Fast-food chain KFC recently launched two additions to its Snackers
range: Spicy Roasta Drumlets oven-roasted drumlets marinated in spicy
Sichuan pepper and Cheesy Pasta Shrimps, which are battered sticks of
shrimp, pasta and cheese-based sauce. Each Snackers pack costs $3.95,
and comes with french fries and Pepsi.
KFC SNACKERS RANGE JUST GOT YUMMIER
Other choices in the CBD
OBriens
At OBriens, sandwiches are
prepared freshly in front of
customers.
What makes them so special
is their preservative- and
sugar-free sandwich loaves.
The signature sandwich, the
chicken-and-bacon triple-decker
sandwich, is a sweet combination
of chicken, crispy bacon,
coleslaw, red onion and tomato,
enclosed in thick bread with a thin
slice of toast in between.
China Square Central
3 Pickering Street, #01-26
Mon to Fri: 8am to 7pm
Tel: 6327-8160
Joe & Dough
This sandwich place has its
bakers work through the night,
and has the bread delivered fresh
to its outlets every morning.
No two sandwiches are alike,
as each sandwich has its own
handcrafted bread and
combination of ingredients.
It uses quality ingredients like
Parma ham, sun-dried tomatoes,
back bacon, emmental cheese
and fruit chutneys.
The sandwiches are never kept
overnight. Those left unsold after
a long day will be donated to
Food from the Heart, a voluntary
food-distribution organisation that
delivers unsold food to welfare
organisations, needy families and
individuals.
Marina Bay Link Mall
8A Marina Boulevard, B2-68/69
Mon to Fri: 7.30am to 7pm;
Saturday: 9am to 4pm; closed on
Sundays and public holidays
Tel: 6636-9698
Munch
The salad-smith opens its second
outlet in a food-court setting next
Monday at China Square Food
Centre, 51 Telok Ayer Street.
The hallmarks of this bakerys
success are speed and reliability.
Munch collaborates with the
Singapore Corporation of
Rehabilitative Enterprises to help
rehabilitate and enhance the
employability of inmates and
former offenders.
All its breads are made by the
prisoners at Changi Prison daily.
Robinson 112
112 Robinson Road #01-01
Mon to Fri: 8.30am to 7pm
Tel: 6223-5197
Marina Bay Link Mall
8A Marina Boulevard, B2-19
Mon to Fri: 8.30am to 7pm
Tel: 6509-9825
China Square Food Outlet
51 Telok Ayer Street, #01-011
Tel: 9851-1797
E-mail: chinasquare@munch.sg
Vegan Burg
Vegan Burg has made
plant-based diets possible for the
masses. Now, vegetable lovers
can enjoy fast food on the go
without health concerns as the
burgers are nutritious, wholesome
and good-for-all.
Try the Smoky BBQ, for
example. A delectable thick patty
of succulent minced mushrooms,
oven-baked and slathered in
barbecue sauce, complemented
with layers of fresh lettuce,
tomato, fresh onion rings and
alfafa, and nestled within an
organic ciabatta bun.
2 Marina Boulevard
Marina Bay Financial Centre
Tower 3, #02-05
Mon to Fri: 11am to 9.30pm;
Closed on Saturdays, Sundays
and public holidays.
Tel: 6604-6018
Hustle and bustle:
yng j xun xio
Mustard: ji mo

Ingredients: ci lio
Novel: xn q de
POSH NOSH: Here, at the Robinson Point branch of P.L.T Sandwiches, diners can pair their sandwiches with two kinds
of wine on any given day. The restaurant offers 16 handcrafted sandwiches made daily. PHOTO: P.L.T SANDWICHES
VEGETARIAN CHOW: The Shroom Tofu Burger is made of tofu patty, mushroom,
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NEW YORK
S
CHOOL was out,
a n d Mr J a c k
Kaufmann, who
teaches Latin at the
elite Hewitt School in Manhat-
tan, was on his way to catch
the train home to Westchester.
Thats hardly surprising, ex-
cept that Mr Kaufmann is 71
years old and has been teach-
ing for only the last three years.
For much of the last 32
years, the dapper, silver-haired
Mr Kaufmann was a partner at
the law firmDewey Ballantine.
I really enjoyed it, he
said of his lawcareer. But at a
certain point, I felt that I didnt
need to keep practising.
So in 2002, Mr Kaufmann,
who had enough money to re-
tire, left the firm and began
taking university classes.
He found the work so fasci-
nating that it led to a masters
degree in Classics at the City
University of New York and
eventually to teaching jobs,
first at the Browning School,
then at Trevor Day and then at
Hewitt.
He is not unique in his deter-
mination to do more than sim-
ply take some courses.
Whether such adult stu-
dents find auditing classes too
passive, want to play a role in
a second chosen field, or just
want to expand their know-
ledge, officials at graduate
schools say it is now routine to
count a sprinkling of them pur-
suing another degree.
Many people now live well
beyond the conclusion of tradi-
tional careers.
Half the children born
since 2000 in the developed
world are expected to live past
100, said Mr Marc Freedman,
founder and chief executive of
Encore.org, which helps baby
boomers find second careers in
fields like education, health
care and the environment.
We still have a life model
that was designed for a
three-score-and-10 life span.
You work for three or four dec-
ades, and then you get a bal-
loon payment of leisure at the
end. I dont think you can just
stretch and strai n that
20th-century model.
Ms Jane Holly DeBlois,
who is working towards her
PhDin computer science at the
University of Massachusetts, is
another adult learner. She
hopes to become an assistant
professor when she finishes.
I am having the time of
my life, said Ms DeBlois, a
former Harvard graduate and
software engineer in her early
60s. She is halfway towards
completing her degree.
I would like to teach as an
assistant professor, because it
has more stature in the aca-
demic community and affords
more time to write, she said.
Whatever motivates these
degree seekers, their teachers
are thrilled.
I find it enriching for me
as a professor, said Prof Lau-
ren Benton, dean of the gradu-
ate school of arts and science
at New York University and a
professor of history.
These are people who want
to learn more, or go back to a
field they had loved when they
were undergraduates, she said.
The variety of motivations
and interests is the hallmark.
NYT
Adult learners
on the rise
Actress Eva Longoria, 38, was congratulated by former United
States president Bill Clinton after she graduated with a masters
degree in Chicano studies last week. He tweeted: @EvaLongoria
Thanks for inspiring others to never stop learning and for your
support of @ClintonGlobal. Congrats on your degree.
WELL DONE, CLINTON TELLS LONGORIA
These are people
who want to learn
more, or go back
to a field they had
loved... The variety
of motivations and
interests is the
hallmark.
PROFESSOR LAUREN BENTON OF
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY, ON
ADULT LEARNERS
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T
HE f o u n d e r o f t h e
soon-to-be-launched Interna-
tional Premier Tennis League
(IPTL) is planning to meet the
sports integrity unit in London next month
to try to ensure the competition is not affect-
ed by illegal gambling and spot-fixing.
The league, due to start late next year,
has been compared in format with crickets
Indian Premier League (IPL), a competition
recently embroiled in a spot-fixing scandal.
Former India test bowler Shanthakuma-
ran Sreesanth and two other players were
arrested along with 11 bookmakers last
week on suspicion of spot-fixing in the on-
going Twenty20 league.
The IPTL will take place in six
as-yet-undecided cities across Asia and
will see some of the sports biggest names
drafted into teams to play against each oth-
er in one-set shootout tennis.
The competitions founder, Indian dou-
bles specialist Mahesh Bhupathi, said they
will do all they can to ensure the league is
unaffected by the problems that have
tarnished cricket.
I have some meetings with people
who are part of the Tennis Integrity Unit
in London next month, Bhupathi said in
an interview at the French Open in Paris.
We will try and batten down as much
as we can to ensure we do not have these
issues... It (illegal gambling and spot-fix-
ing) is a huge issue in the IPL right now
and we will do all we can to ensure we
have all the is dotted and ts crossed.
Bhupathi said a number of cities were
under consideration to form teams for the
tennis league, including Tokyo, Hong
Kong, Singapore, Jakarta, Manila, Banga-
lore, Calcutta, Doha and Dubai.
There are a couple of important crite-
ria, the first is that they have to have an in-
ternational airport, security, stadium size,
so we have a mandate, Bhupathi said.
At the end of the day, we would like
to spread it, ideally in the first year. I dont
want to have two teams in India, even if
there is demand because of the IPL suc-
cess. As we grow, we plan to start with six
and grow over time.
REUTERS
MAN AT THE HELM: Mahesh Bhupathi (right, with his ATP World Tour Finals partner Rohan Bopanna
last November) is the founder of the International Premier Tennis League. PHOTO: GLYN KIRK/AFP
New tennis league
to curb spot-fixing
Residents living in the Rattanakosin Island area have opposed a proposal for a 2015
Formula One race there, citing concerns over road safety, traffic congestion, cultural
exploitation and noise pollution. Sports official Kanokphand Chulakasem said the F1
proposal was meant to attract more international events to Thailand and boost
tourism, and that he was aware of resistance to the idea and concerns over its impact.
THAI RESIDENTS AGAINST PLAN TO HOST F1 RACE
THE Fly Entertainment
artist, who has hosted
ESPN and E! news
programmes, is a
Sundown Marathon
charity ambassador for
this year. His aim? To
raise awareness and
cash for the Childrens
Cancer Foundation.
Golding, 26, will
participate in the run,
and aims to cover
10km in under one
hour.
My Paper speaks to
him about the
challenges of a
first-time runner, and
about his chosen
charity.
What is your fitness
and diet regime like in
the lead-up to the
marathon?
I stick to a very balanced diet,
making sure I consume lots of
fresh greens, red meats and
plenty of fruit.
I try to stay away from fast
food.
In terms of fitness, Ive been
trying to jog every other day since
March, when I came aboard the
charity programme.
What are the challenges
you find yourself facing,
as a first-time runner, in
the lead-up?
I have never completed a 10km
run under race conditions.
That would be something to
overcome.
(I think) the adrenalin of
running with a thousand other
runners would give me a boost in
this area.
Your chosen charity,
the Childrens Cancer
Foundation (CCF), is
one you feel strongly
about as your mother
had a brush with breast
cancer when you were
a child. What are your
memories of this time?
It was in 1995, and I was eight
years old at the time.
My father realised that she had
a slight bump on her breast and
after a check-up, it was confirmed
that it was early-stage cancer.
Doctors managed to remove
the lump before it spread.
About a year later, they found
that it had grown back slightly, so
my mother underwent another
procedure.
Its quite strange, you never
imagine (something like cancer)
will hit so close to home.
I have learnt that cancer cares
not for age, wealth, skin colour or
sex.
But if caught early, the
chances of survival are infinitely
higher.
Why is the CCF your
choice of charity?
Although in my own life, it was
my mother who survived cancer, I
felt the need to reach out (to the
CCF) because it must be the worst
feeling in the world to have your
child suffer from cancer.
The CCF also provides
adequate and appropriate support
for families in need.
What is your message
to those suffering from
cancer?
Keep strong, and never give up
hope.
ATALIA CHUA
The Sundown Marathon 2013
takes place on Friday at F1
Pit Building, 1 Republic
Boulevard. Registration has
closed. To donate to the
marathons charity program-
me, Sundown With Love,
visit http://www.sundown
marathon.giveasia.org/
movement/sundown_with_
love_2013
Q&A
TV
presenter
HENRY
GOLDING
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SAN FRANCISCO
V
IDEO-GAME indus-
try legend Peter Mo-
l yneux says that
smartphones are the
future of gaming.
The former Lionhead Studio
chief and Microsoft Game Studios
executive has teamed up with Ja-
pan-based DeNA to get his latest
project, Godus, on the array of
mobile devices powered by An-
droid or Apple software.
There is something incredible
happening on these devices, Mr
Molyneux said, while hefting a
smartphone in one hand.
This is where the home of
gaming should really exist.
Mr Molyneux, whose back-
ground in the computer-game in-
dustry stretches back to the early
1980s, left Microsoft Studios last
year and founded start-up
22Cans.
He revealed his project
which 22Cans is building and De-
NA will distribute in the same
week that Microsoft unveiled the
Xbox One console, designed to
be at the heart of home entertain-
ment in the Internet age.
When I decided to leave Mi-
crosoft and come to this space, the
first thing I had to do was think in
a completely different way, Mr
Molyneux said of the shift to play-
ing on smartphones and tablets.
Console games are the equiv-
alent of making films, whereas
mobile games are much more like
television soap operas, he add-
ed.
In one, you design for a de-
fined time spent sitting, while in
the other, you design to keep the
person coming back to see what
happens next.
WAR OF GODS
Godus puts a mobile-Internet
spin on a God game genre pio-
neered by Mr Molyneux decades
ago.
Players can shape and mould
their in-game worlds with brush-
es, taps or strokes on touch-
screens.
At the heart of the genre is
the ability of people to create and
engage with their own unique
world; being able to feel like this
world is yours and that what you
do in this world has amazing ef-
fects, Mr Molyneux said.
The more a player gets inhabit-
ants to believe in his godliness,
the more powerful he becomes.
Godus also allows players to di-
rect their wrath in the formof tor-
nadoes, earthquakes or volcanic
eruptions at the followers of rival
gods in battles for dominion, ac-
cording to Mr Molyneux.
You can take some of your
precious followers into these bat-
tles; that is more edge-of-the-seat
stuff, he said.
Victory is rewarded with more
followers or personalised gifts,
such as additional powers or
in-world items.
When Godus is released later
this year, it will be free to play,
with revenue based on in-game
sales of virtual items or abilities.
Mr Molyneux praised mobile
devices for the intimacy of
touchscreens and rapid-fire inno-
vation, compared to years-long
cycles for generations of vid-
eo-game console hardware that
puts space between players and
television screens.
I would give up the big
screen forever, as long as I could
keep touchscreens, he said, as
he sculpted a landscape in Godus
with light strokes on his smart-
phone screen.
It destroys this barrier be-
tween the audience and the gam-
ing experience.
He described the smartphone
in his hand. This device is creat-
ing millions of consumers enjoy-
ing games every day, and that is
why the opportunities are mas-
sive.
AFP
SOLMS, GERMANY
PREMIUM German camera com-
pany Leica is teasing its fans
ahead of the surprise launch of a
new model.
Called the Mini M, the new
camera is represented by a plain
black box on Leicas website, ac-
companied by a June 11 release
date.
Leica doesnt exactly churn
out cameras. It offers its dedicat-
ed followers a small range of ex-
quisitely crafted and designed
models, each of which features a
hefty price tag.
Each camera is also a demon-
stration of how to retain a design
ethos and a look and feel without
rejecting the advancements in
technology that are making pho-
tography as popular and as sim-
ple as it is today.
The black box has got camera
bloggers excited, and the consen-
sus appears to be that the Mini M
will be the companys long-await-
ed entry into the mirrorless
market.
Mirrorless four thirds, or hybrid
cameras, combine the best ele-
ments of a digital SLR camera
great image sensor, interchangea-
ble lenses, professional quality
with the best elements of a com-
pact, point-and-shoot digital model
lightweight, small, simple to use.
By doing away with the pent-
aprism inside a DSLR camera and
substituting it with the viewing
screen, a hybrid camera can be
much smaller, yet still pack a
punch in terms of performance.
As smartphones continue to deci-
mate the traditional digital-cam-
era market, hybrids are the only
area where demand is growing.
AFP
MYSTERIOUS: The consensus among camera bloggers appears to be that the
Mini M, represented by a black box on Leicas website, will be the companys
long-awaited entry into the mirrorless market. PHOTO: LEICA CAMERA AG
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Gaming legend plays God on phones
Leicas plain black box
has bloggers all excited
Google is reportedly set to unveil the new Gmail user
interface tomorrow. The interface is expected to work on
a tab-based system with five categories: Main, Social,
Offers, Notifications and Forums. Mail will reportedly be
organised according to those categories.
NEWGMAIL ALL SET FOR LAUNCH
VETERAN: Former Lionhead Studio
chief Peter Molyneaux pioneered the
God game genre decades ago.
Hefting: j q
Console: yu x j
Wrath: fn n
Touchscreens:
ch m png
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BY KAREN LIM
A
T THE age of 29,
home-grown director
Anthony Chen al-
ready has a glowing
track record of awards and recog-
nitions under his belt.
But the director who won
the Camera dOr, or best first fea-
ture film, for his movie, Ilo Ilo, at
the Cannes Film Festival on Sun-
day is your typical Singaporean
guy.
He prefers to stay at home,
watch DVDs, surf the Internet,
and enjoy his personal time. In
fact, he has said in previous inter-
views that hes like an old man.
And, if he didnt make it as a
film-maker, he would have been
a chef and spend the entire day
in the kitchen, Chen told My Pa-
per.
But his childhood passion for
the arts, film and theatre spurred
him to pursue his interest.
Chens triumph at the festival
is the first time that a Singapo-
rean feature has won at Cannes.
At the 2007 Cannes Film Festi-
val, the graduate from Ngee Ann
Polytechnics School of Film &
Media Studies bagged a Special
Mention award for his short film,
Ah Ma. Chen also won awards in
South Korea, Belgium and France
in 2004 for his first short film,
G-23.
Ilo Ilo, Chens first full-length
film, is about a Singapore family
and its newly-arrived Filipino
maid in the midst of the 1997
Asian financial crisis. The movie
was inspired by his personal mem-
ories of being brought up by a
maid.
Chen, who is married with no
kids, told My Paper that he was
heartened that a story about an
ordinary family here could touch
the hearts of audiences miles
away.
There is nothing more I can
ask for with this very humble first
film, said the film-maker.
His achievement even got a
special mention by Prime Minis-
ter Lee Hsien Loong, who con-
gratulated the director and the
cast on his Facebook page.
This is the first time a Singa-
porean has won the award. Well
done indeed! Mr Lee wrote.
Netizens have also expressed
their support and encourage-
ment.
This is an inspiration to our
young in Singapore, who aspire
to contribute and develop in the
film and production industry,
wrote netizen Angelina Foo on
Facebook.
klim@sph.com.sg
HUMBLE: Director Anthony Chen told My Paper that he was heartened that his
film, Ilo Ilo, could touch the hearts of audiences miles away. The 29-year-olds
flick is the first Singaporean feature to win at Cannes. PHOTO: FISHEYE PICTURES
Film-maker could
have been a chef
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Ken Jeong
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Oops, Cannes!
Whoopsie! The official website
of the Cannes Film Festival
initially said that Anthony Chen
hailed from China, instead of
Singapore.
The error, which was
reported on citizen-journalism
website Stomp, appeared in a
list of Cannes prizes. The error
has since been rectified.
Q&A
Founder &
director of
Mums@Work
(Singapore)
SHER-LI
TORREY
Q: I am a breastfeeding
mum and I work at a small
and medium-sized
enterprise. My immediate
supervisor does not come
across as very
family-friendly. How do I
suggest to her that I need
to take a break in the
afternoon (in addition to a
one-hour lunch break) to
express milk for my
newborn?
A: Employers often want to create a
win-win situation. They would love to
have employees who are committed
and happy to be at work. So, even if
an employer is deemed as not
family-friendly, you can still try to
bring up your request.
With this mindset, you might want
to first approach your immediate
supervisor with a friendly, informal
chit-chat session. Let her know that
being a breastfeeding mum does not
mean that your work-productivity
level is going to be compromised.
Share with her that, as an
employee, you do want to be
committed to your role. By setting the
tone right, you can proceed to
negotiate for the changes you are
asking for.
If your supervisor does not agree
to giving you an extra hour to
breastfeed, try using the
compromise tactic negotiate and
demonstrate your willingness to
compromise.
Perhaps, in exchange for an hour
away to express your milk, you might
take 15 minutes off your lunch hour.
Or you can stay an extra 15 minutes
after your usual work hours.
In this way, you are trying to
create a win-win arrangement for
both parties. Most importantly,
reassure your supervisor that you will
fulfil your job duties (and stay
committed to that promise).
It is unlikely that a supervisor will
turn down a request for breastfeeding
time off due to personal
vindictiveness. Often, she is worried
about the employees productivity
being affected.
If you can constantly reassure
your supervisor through your work
performance and show that you are
willing to make the effort to
compromise, it is more likely that
your supervisor will agree to your
request.
You can even gently remind her
that statistics have proven that
breastfed babies tend to fall ill less
often.
You are therefore hoping to have
a healthier baby, who will potentially
result in fewer leave requests in the
future. Let your supervisor know that,
due to her support for your role as a
mother, you feel more committed to
your job. Having her understanding is
likely to result in you being a happier
employee.
In addition to time off, you might
face the problem of not having a
proper breastfeeding area. Trying to
source for a clean, hygienic
environment with access to an
electric socket might be a challenge.
If your human-resource
department is not able to come up
with a solution, try to source for
space yourself.
You will need a private room
ideally with a lock (which is not a
toilet) where you can express your
milk a clean fridge for storing
expressed milk and a place to wash,
sterilise and store containers. If you
have to create a temporary Do Not
Disturb sign to display on the door
of the room, do so.
myp@sph.com.sg
Mums@Work (Singapore) is a
social enterprise set up in 2010
to help mothers find work-life
balance through flexible work
arrangements or setting up
businesses.
Do you have a question related
to your job, career or
workplace? Send it to
myp@sph.com.sg (with Ask
The Career Coach as the
subject header) and we will
help you ask industry experts
for advice.
For information on career
opportunities, visit the website
of recruitment and
human-resource consultancy
The GMP Group at
www.gmprecruit.com
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