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Hit play inspired by discrimination of Normal (Academic) students

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It has been 12 years since Faith Ng, 29, left the Normal (Academic) stream in an all-girls secondary school.

Faith Ng’s (above) play Normal (Top and below) is on its second sold-out run.Photo: Checkpoint Theatre

But she is still dealing with the repercussions because of the discrimination she faced from her teachers, friends and relatives.

Her husband jokingly called her stupid during an argument – prompting her to write the sold-out play, Normal, about her experiences as a former Normal (Academic) student.

It has been so successful that schools have sent teachers and students to watch it, two ministers recently attended it and Ms Ng has been receiving letters from Normal (Academic) students grateful to her for giving them a voice.

Normal is on its second sold-out run by Checkpoint Theatre at the Drama Centre Black Box in the National Library Building at Victoria Street.

The first run was in 2015.

Faith Ng’s play Normal (above) is on its second sold-out run.Photo: Checkpoint Theatre

The play follows two Secondary 5 students in a fictional Singaporean school, Trinity Girls’ School , who are discriminated against for being in the Normal (Academic) stream.

Ms Ng admitted that she was gutted seeing the words ‘Normal (Academic)’ on her Primary School Leaving Examination (PSLE) result slip. Her twin sister went to the Express stream in the same school.

She told The New Paper: “I was disappointed. The finality to the way the words were on the paper was quite distressing.”

She declined to name the school, saying discrimination exists in society as a whole.

In one scene of the play, students from the Express stream visit Changi Museum on an excursion to appreciate the building’s history, while the Normal (Academic) students go to Changi Women’s Prison instead.

A character jokes it is to see their future homes.

Ms Ng said this actually happened to her in Secondary 1.

She has a master’s degree in creative writing from the University of East Anglia in Britain and teaches playwriting at the National University Singapore (NUS).

Normal’s current run started on March 23 and ends on April 16 . It is sold out, but Checkpoint Theatre says single tickets may be available on request at the door.

Deputy Prime Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam watched the play last Saturday with his family. Education Minister (Higher Education and Skills) Ong Ye Kung also attended with his wife.

Ms Ng is proud schools are sending teachers to watch it.

She said: “I can see schools becoming open to having these discussions with their students.”

Miss Carin Pay, 27, a former Normal (Academic) student from Paya Lebar Methodist Girls’ School, attended Tuesday’s performance and said she connected with the theme of suicide in the play.

She said she considered suicide after failing her O-levels.

Now a trainee pre-school teacher, Miss Pay said: “I will never be like some teachers who discouraged me. I will never discourage my kids.”


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George Michael's funeral held in private

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LONDON – George Michael’s funeral took place in private on Wednesday, three months after his shock death at the age of 53, the legendary British pop star’s publicist said.

The singer was found dead at his home on Christmas Day, but it was not until the coroner’s ruling earlier this month –  that he died of natural causes – that he could be laid to rest.

“Family and close friends gathered for the small, private ceremony to say goodbye to their beloved son, brother and friend,” his spokesman said.

” George Michael’s family would like to thank his fans across the world for their many messages of love and support.”

The ceremony took place at Highgate Cemetery in the singer’s native north London, newspapers reported.

His partner Fadi Fawaz, as well as Andrew Ridgeley, the other half of his pop duo Wham!, and Martin Kemp of 1980s new wave band Spandau Ballet were pictured attending.

The Daily Mail said it was understood that Michael would be buried alongside his mother.

The cause of death was dilated cardiomyopathy with myocarditis and fatty liver, according to Darren Salter, senior coroner for Oxfordshire, northwest of London.

Fawaz said he had found the star, who enjoyed a 35-year career punctuated by years of drug-taking, “lying peacefully” in bed at his home in the village of Goring on the River Thames on December 25.

Dilated cardiomyopathy, which can be caused by substance abuse, affects the heart’s ability to pump blood due to the muscle becoming enlarged and weakened.

Myocarditis is an inflammation of the heart wall.

A spokesman for singer George Michael confirmed that his funeral had taken place on Wednesday.Photo: Reuters

Soulful vocalist

Born Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou to a Greek Cypriot father and English mother in north London in 1963, Michael shot to fame with Wham! and sold more than 100 million records in his career.

A soulful vocalist, he met Ridgeley at high school and the pair formed Wham! in 1981.

With their good looks, perma-tans, highlighted hair and carefree image, the duo captured the spirit of the 1980s and fast became one of Britain’s biggest pop acts with a string of hits including “Last Christmas” and “Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go”.

Michael only revealed in public that he was gay in 1998 after being arrested by police in Los Angeles for allegedly engaging in a lewd act in a public toilet.

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He went on to become a major campaigner and donor for gay rights and HIV charities.

Michael notched up police cautions for cannabis and crack cocaine possession in his final years and in 2010 was sentenced to eight weeks in jail after crashing his car into a London shop while under the influence of cannabis and prescription medication.

In 2011, he spent several weeks in hospital in Vienna after contracting pneumonia while on tour, later saying he had come close to death.

Stories about Michael’s quiet but extensive philanthropy have been shared widely since his death.

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Cannes festival accused of airbrushing star's thighs

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PARIS – The official poster for this year’s Cannes film festival sparked an outcry Wednesday over claims that Italian actress Claudia Cardinale’s thighs had been airbrushed to make them thinner.

French media poured scorn on the festival for seemingly tampering with a photograph of Cardinale swirling her skirt on a Rome roof in 1959.

“Claudia Cardinale dropped a dress size in one swirl,” said the left-leaning Liberation, while the culture magazine Telerama questioned why it was necessary to retouch the famously sexy star when she was in her heyday.

“While the poster is magnificent, the photograph has clearly and deplorably been airbrushed to thin the actress’s thighs. What a pity,” it said.

There was a similarly hostile reaction on social media, with one Twitter user saying, “If even Claudia Cardinale cannot represent beauty without being retouched, we really are in trouble.”

Others bemoaned the “dictatorship of thinness” or claimed that “Cardinale wasn’t thin enough for Cannes”.

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The actress, now 78, was unimpressed by watched she called a “fake row”.

“This image has been retouched to accentuate this effect of lightness and transpose me into a dream character,” she told Huffington Post.

“This concern for realism has no place here and, as a committed feminist, I see no affront to the female body. There are many more important things to discuss in our world. It’s only cinema.”

Cardinale said in a statement released by the festival that she was honoured to feature on the poster for its 70th anniversary year.

“That dance on a roof in Rome… reminds me of a time when I could never have imagined climbing up the red-carpeted steps of the most celebrated” film festival in the world.

But Claire Serre-Combe, of the French women’s group Osez le feminisme! (“Dare to be Feminist”), said it was a scandal that Cardinale who was “thin and magnificent in the original photo”, should have to “lose kilos” for the poster.

The festival’s director Thierry Fremaux told AFP that the poster had been “very well received”.

Tunisian-born Cardinale starred in some of the greatest European films of the 1960s and 1970s including Federico Fellini’s “8½” and Luchino Visconti’s “The Leopard”.

The furore comes as Fremaux is whittling down the line-up for the festival, which will run from May 17 to 28.

Sofia Coppola’s US Civil War story “The Beguiled”, starring Colin Farrell as a wounded soldier who is given refuge in a girl’s boarding school, is hotly tipped to make the main competition.

Coppola’s previous hits “Virgin Suicides” and “Marie Antoinette” also premiered on the Croisette, and her new film comes with the starry trio of Nicole Kidman, Elle Fanning and Kirsten Dunst.

Brad Pitt, Matt Damon

Fellow US indie director Todd Haynes is also among those thought to have made the cut with “Wonderstruck” his time-shift story of two deaf children starring Julianne Moore and Michelle Williams.

Speculation is also swirling around “War Machine”, the big-budget Afghan war story starring Brad Pitt.

Matt Damon could end up being in two films at the festival, Alexander Payne’s sci-fi comedy “Downsizing” and George Clooney’s new family drama “Suburbicon”.

There has been much talk too of a special screening of Cannes favourite David Lynch’s revival of his cult television series “Twin Peaks”.

There is also likely to be films from Palme d’Or winners Roman Polanski – “After a True Story” starring Eva Green – and the unsparing Austrian director Michael Haneke tackling the migrant issue in “Happy End”, which reunites him with French actress Isabelle Huppert.

Another winner of the festival’s top prize, the Franco-Tunisian Abdellatif Kechiche (“Blue is the Warmest Colour”) is expected to return with “Mektoub is Mektoub” (Fate is Fate).

French Oscar winner Michel Hazanavicius (“The Artist”), whose film on the cinema revolutionary Jean-Luc Godard is called “Redoutable”, is also likely to be back this year.

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URA to develop Kallang River into lifestyle hub

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At Kallang Distripark in Geylang Bahru Road sits the dull, boxlike shape of a disused rubber factory that has been converted into a warehouse.

But a plan to breathe life into the waterway and its surroundings has been put in motion, to transform it into a place where sportsmen kayak in the nearby Kallang River and residents cycle along seamless park connectors.

The 15ha private industrial estate has been identified as a potential site, among several others, that can be redeveloped as part of the Urban Redevelopment Authority’s (URA) ambitious plan to turn the area along the 10km river – almost three times longer than the iconic Singapore River – into a lifestyle hub.

The Government aims to redevelop certain plots and put in place new infrastructure so that it will one day be possible for residents to walk, jog or cycle from Lower Peirce Reservoir, where the river originates, to Gardens by the Bay and the Central Business District.

Among the URA’s suggestions is building a cycling bridge that spirals over and across the Pan-Island Expressway (PIE), which would make it more convenient for cyclists and joggers to cross the PIE.

They currently have to use an overhead bridge.

It also hopes to build underpasses across Kallang Bahru Road and Upper Boon Keng Road so that people using the park connector will not need to navigate a traffic crossing.

The agency’s ideas for improvements are on display at the URA Centre in Maxwell Road, in the A River Runs Through It exhibition. It was launched by Minister for National Development Lawrence Wong yesterday and will run till May 2.

The URA hopes to get public feedback through the free exhibition, which is open from 9am to 6pm on weekdays.

Consultations with residents, landowners and other stakeholders will continue for the next couple of years, though more details can be expected next year, the URA said.

The budget for the project has not been finalised.

Ms Tang Hsiao Ling, director of JTC’s Land Planning Division, said it will work closely with the URA to transform Kallang Industrial Estate into a vibrant mixed-use precinct with high-rise facilities to meet the evolving needs of industry.

“The revitalisation plans for the estate are still under discussion, and could potentially include integration with future residential developments along the waterfront and parks, which will bring jobs closer to home,” she said.

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Record-high COE premium for motorcycles in latest tender

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Riders will now have to pay $8,081 for a Certificate of Entitlement (COE) before they can buy a motorbike.

The record-high premium – 8 per cent higher than the previous rate ($7,483) – emerged in the latest tender yesterday.

The COE premium for cars up to 1,600cc and 130bhp rose by 1.9 per cent to end at $51,765. The COE premium for cars above 1,600cc or 130bhp inched up by 1.3 per cent to close at $54,000.

The premium for an Open category COE, which can be used for any vehicle type, finished 2.8 per cent higher at $54,501. All three new prices are the highest in four months.

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Commercial vehicle COE bucked the trend by closing 4 per cent lower at $47,036.

Singapore Motorcycle Trade Association honorary general secretary Norman Lee said the record-high COE for two-wheelers was fuelled partly by buyers who are downgrading to smaller models after heftier taxes were imposed on bigger motorcycles last month.

By moving from say, a 1,200cc model to an 800cc model, Mr Lee said “they easily save $10,000 right away”.

With the saving, they are bidding more aggressively.

Parliamentarians have voiced concerns about the skyrocketing motorbike COE and its impact on low-income families.

Read also: Motorcycle COE hits new high

Mr Sitoh Yih Pin, chairman of the Government Parliamentary Committee for Transport, said the higher taxes were “targeted at reducing demand for larger-capacity motorcycles”.

This way, “it was hoped that COE prices will be reduced in order to aid buyers of smaller motorcycles, who use their bikes for essential transport or work”.

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143 people trained to be Appropriate Adults

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They will sit by a young suspect’s side during a police interview, intervene if the teen appears agitated or unable to understand a question, and take notes of the entire process.

From April 17, trained volunteers, or Appropriate Adults (AAs), will only be an SMS away.

Alerts will be sent out to a freshly trained pool of 143 AAs when a suspect below the age of 16 is taken to certain police or Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB) divisions.

Those confident of turning up at the location within 1½ hours respond to the text and are activated.

While their role is to provide emotional support to the young suspect and facilitate communication with officers if needed, there are boundaries to be observed.

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AAs are encouraged not to touch a child while providing emotional support, unless the child agrees.

They will not remain in contact with the suspect or family members after the interview either. Volunteers must also declare if they are related to the suspect.

AAs who are lawyers are not to represent the suspects in court later on to prevent conflict of interest.

The volunteers are being recruited as part of an AA scheme set up after an inter-agency review of police investigation processes, following the death of schoolboy Benjamin Lim last year.

The 14-year-old was found dead at the foot of his housing block hours after being questioned by the police over an alleged molest case.

The Singapore Children’s Society (SCS), which is running the scheme, was appointed by the National Council of Social Service last month as the service provider of the new AA scheme for two years.

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About 300 trained volunteers are needed by next year.

The scheme has first been rolled out at the police’s Bedok Division, the Criminal Investigation Department, and CNB’s investigation division.

Among the initial pool of AAs are 16 SCS youth social workers, who may be called upon if there are not enough volunteers immediately available, or for “complex cases”, said Ms Ann Hui Peng, director of SCS’ student service hub in Bukit Merah yesterday.

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“Internally, every three months, we are going to review processes and collect data,” she said, adding that the quarterly review will likely go on for the first two years.

SCS also plans to get feedback from investigation officers, volunteers and, eventually, the young suspects themselves, to fine-tune procedures, added Ms Ann.

Read also: Help schemes for at-risk youth to be centralised

But beyond operational issues, “the nature of the programme hinges on the volunteers’ capabilities”, she pointed out.

Apart from regularly engaging trained volunteers in their 12-month tenure, SCS intends to contact those who have handled cases to ensure they are coping well, added Ms Ann.

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Taxi surge pricing gets mixed reaction

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Dynamic pricing hit about 40 per cent of the taxi fleet in Singapore with little fanfare yesterday.

After a week of beta-testing, JustGrab – which combines about 50,000 fixed-fare taxis and private-hire cars on the same platform – was made available to all commuters.

Dynamic pricing, or surge pricing, which adjusts fares based on demand, is used by ride-hailing apps Grab and Uber.

The Land Transport Authority and Public Transport Council gave taxi firms the green light to implement this pricing model two weeks ago.

A check at three taxi stands in the Central Business District yesterday evening showed that it was business as usual for commuters and cabbies.

A consultant, who wanted to be known only as Max, 32, managed to hail a cab in five minutes.

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He said: “There are lots of offers on Grab, so it is convenient to use those sometimes. But if I see an available taxi on the road, I won’t use an app to book one.”

While JustGrab fares are generally lower during off-peak periods, they can be significantly higher when dynamic pricing kicks in during peak periods. For instance, at 6.50pm yesterday, it cost $47 to travel from Raffles Quay to Woodlands on JustGrab, compared to an estimated metered fare of $26 to $34 on GrabTaxi.

Miss Victoria Ng, 21, a veterinary technician who uses Grab about three times a day, is keen to try JustGrab.

“It’s a great initiative from Grab. It allows me to reach my destination at a reasonable rate with the added benefit of having to wait for only up to four minutes for my ride,” she said.

Read also: Taxi operators get green light to implement surge pricing

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Reaction among cabbies was mixed.

Mr William Lim, 40, a Prime taxi driver who was involved in the beta testing of JustGrab, said it was a good initiative.

“I get a few more bookings with the combination of JustGrab and GrabTaxi during non-peak period. I am depending on dynamic pricing to improve my takings.”

But TransCab driver Heng Buk Chye, 48, a cabby of seven years, said he was earning less with JustGrab, which he was introduced to yesterday.

Grab takes a 10 per cent cut from cabbies assigned to JustGrab passengers, while GrabTaxi cabbies pay a flat commission of 50 cents.

He said: “It is already tough to get rides (since the introduction of) apps such as Grab and Uber as it is rare for people to flag cabs. It is even harder to get bookings with JustGrab because we have to compete with GrabCars.”

Read also: Older cabbies not keen on surge pricing

A spokesman for Premier Taxis, which has about 3,000 drivers on the Grab platform, told The New Paper yesterday it was still too early to provide feedback on usage of the app.

Transport economist Michael Li thinks the JustGrab model has given Grab a stronghold in the industry and that dynamic pricing will be the norm in the future.

ComfortDelGro, which controls about 60 per cent of taxis here, has said it will not introduce surge pricing for now but will instead use a flat-fare structure similar to metered fares for trips booked via apps.

Professor Li added: “It remains to be seen if commuters would be fully comfortable with dynamic pricing and ComfortDelGro could use that to its advantage. Alternatively, they could team up with Uber.”


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'Hideous' Cristiano Ronaldo statue sparks social media laughs

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FUNCHAL – When the island of Madeira on Wednesday (March 29) renamed its airport in honour of its hometown hero Cristiano Ronaldo, all eyes were expected to be on the four-time world player of the year who is adored not only for his football skills but also his model looks.

But grabbing attention instead was a bronze bust of the player with a toothy grin and bulging eyes that instantly created a laugh on social media because of its debatable likeness.

“I defy you not to feel better after viewing this picture of Cristiano Ronaldo alongside his portrait bust,” wrote one Twitter user, Tom Sutcliffe.

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“That hideous Ronaldo statue is going to be a meme in 5,4,3…,” posted another.

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Another Twitter user deemed the statue “the most gloriously awful bust” of Ronaldo.

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The 32-year-old Real Madrid player’s girlfriend, Georgina Rodriguez, and his mother, Maria, both attended the renaming ceremony of Portugal’s Aeroporto da Madeira, now known as Cristiano Ronaldo Airport.

The newly revealed statue holds the distinction of being the second bust of the football star and occasional model that has been the subject of online ridicule.

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Another statue, also in Ronaldo’s hometown, was picked apart for what some saw as glaring obscurities and differences in likeness between the player and his bronzed counter-part.

“For a very handsome man, Ronaldo has had some appalling luck with statue-makers,” quipped Twitter user Tom Williams, posting images of the two statues side by side.

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On Tuesday (March 28), Portugal played their first match on the island in 16 years, the hosts losing 3-2 to Sweden despite an early Ronaldo goal.

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Samsung Galaxy S8 unveil: 5 things to know

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SINGAPORE: Electronics giant Samsung on Wednesday (Mar 29) threw the covers off its latest flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S8, with much of its fortunes – at least in the mobile phone space – riding on it being a hit with consumers.

The South Korean conglomerate knows that it must reverse the public perception on the safety of its products, following a year strewn with bad publicity. Its previous offering, the Galaxy Note7 saw an ill-fated launch after consumers reported of the phone’s battery bursting into flames while charging, forcing the company to issue a global recall and eventually retire the model for good.

The mobile unit’s president, Mr DJ Koh, noted as much, saying it has been a “challenging year” for the conglomerate during his opening remarks at the launch event in New York, which was also streamed online.

Channel NewsAsia was able to get a first-hand look at the new device, and here are some quick observations: 

No bezel, no problem

The company kicked bezels to the curb in the latest iteration of the Samsung Galaxy smartphone. Coming in two models, the S8 and S8+, screen estate is now 5.8-inch and 6.2-inch, respectively, now that the borders have been eliminated. This follows Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi’s Mi Max, which also sported the bezel-less look, when it was unveiled last year.


Bye bye, home button

Samsung took a leaf from Apple’s playbook, and went one step further, by eliminating the physical home button completely on the S8. Instead, the pressure-sensitive home “button” (see below) emerges when tapped on, even when a full-screen app in use covers it.

Other hardware innovations include a 10nm processor, which gives more zip to processing power, and comes with 3,000 mAh and 3,500 mAh battery power for the S8 and S8+, respectively. This fares favourably compared with the 1,960 mAh and the 2,900 mAh sported by Apple’s iPhone 7 and 7 Plus.

Recent woes with the Note7 battery were, not surprisingly, given little mention.


Software, software, software

Not content with the hardware innovations, Samsung also showed its software chops by introducing a new digital assistant, Bixby, which it touted to be aware of what’s going on on the screen even as the user gives audio commands. It also introduced new biometric authentication methods such as iris scans and facial recognition software, to go with fingerprint scans and the conventional numeric and pattern passwords. 


Samsung = Smart 

Or at least, that’s what the company hopes to be known as, even as it made another push to control consumers’ smart devices at home using a single app – Samsung Command. Samsung executive Sriram Thodla said during the unveil that this is a platform to manage one’s Web-connected appliances. 
No mention, though, whether they should be from Samsung.

Expanding the ecosystem

Samsung also made its recent US$8 billion acquisition of Harman International Industries count, when it announced that all S8 devices will come bundled with a pair of wired AKG earbuds. This will be music to some consumers’ ears.

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