<p>GOOD news for pay-TV viewers.<p>Whoever wins the rights to the 2014 English Premier League (EPL), they will be able to watch it on their current set-top box. </p><p>The Government on Friday announced that pay-TV providers like SingTel and StarHub will have to carry exclusive content purchased by another player, a move expected to make such content more accessible and cheaper for consumers. his is unlike the situation today where EPL matches - exclusive to SingTel - are only available on its mio TV service. </p>

Telcos must share content

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<p>KUALA LUMPUR - MALAYSIAN religious officials in the northern state of Kelantan are investigating two cases of child marriage involving girls under the age of 12, according to reports on Friday.

Kelantan probes child marriages

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<p><b>HONG KONG & CHINA</b><br> Hong Kong stocks closed flat in quiet trade on Friday as investors remained cautious after China revealed the day before that inflation had jumped in February.

Asian stocks mixed

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<p>THE Housing Board on Friday served notice that it is stepping up enforcement action against unauthorised subletting of HDB flats.<p>It also disclosed that it has acted against 56 errant owners between January 2008 and last December, and fined them between $1,000 and $21,000. The board also repossessed a flat from an owner who had blatently flouted the subletting rules.</p>

HDB steps up enforcement

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<p>MILAN - ONLINE fashion retailer Yoox said it expected to grow more this year after reporting it had more than doubled its 2009 core profit.</p> <p>Yoox said on Thursday its earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation was 15 million euros (S$28.7 million), compared with 6.8 million euros the previous year.</p>

Online retailer Yoox doubled profit

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<p>SINGAPOREANS'S can look forward to a display of interesting costumes this Sunday at the annual St Patrick's Day Parade, which is set to kick off at 3pm.

Roads closure for parade

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<p>A FORMER child care supervisor who pocketed about $87,500 of company funds was jailed for 21/2 years on Friday.</p><p>Bawani Murugiah, 27, was working at Kinderjoy Educare as a supervisor and administration assistant when she misappropriated the money.</p>

Childcare staff took $87,500

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<p>A MAN who hacked into his previous employer's online payment account and cleaned out about $60,000 was jailed for 24 months on Friday.</p><p>Lee Kai Peng, also known as Eddie, 31, admitted to accessing the PayPal account of Success Resources and induced PayPal to reduce the cash balance of the account by $11,773 on each of four occasions on June 19 and 20 last year.</p>

Man hacked account, jailed

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A Japanese whaling ship with a New Zealand anti-whaling activist aboard on Friday sailed into Tokyo port where he was expected to face arrest for trespassing on the vessel, an AFP reporter saw.

Japan whaling ship with NZ activist aboard arrives in Tokyo

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<p>LONDON - BRITISH fashion retailer SuperGroup showed there was still life in the initial public offerings (IPO) market with an oversubscribed share offer valuing the firm at 395 million pounds (S$821 million).</p> <p>The firm behind the Superdry brand worn by celebrities such as soccer player David Beckham and High School Musical star Zac Efron said on Friday it had priced its share offer at 500 pence.</p>

SuperGroup float values firm

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<P>FILM-MAKER Jack Neo apologised to his family and his fans on his blog on Friday, a day after breaking his silence on his affair with a young actress at a dramatic five-minute press conference filled with tears and drama.<p>He also said his public fall from grace was 'a retribution'.</p><p>'There is a saying: You reap what you sow. I often use this phrase as a line to strengthen the plot. I didn't expect it to apply to me,' the 50-year-old actor-director of films such as Money No Enough 2 said in an open letter on his blog.</p>

Jack Neo says sorry

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<P>SEPANG (Malaysia) - LOTUS F1 team principal Tony Fernandes described this weekend's season-opening Formula One grand prix in Bahrain as a 'baptism of fire' for the team.

Bahrain a 'baptism of fire'

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A Japanese whaling ship with a New Zealand anti-whaling activist on board on Friday sailed into Tokyo port where he was expected to face arrest for trespassing on the vessel, an AFP reporter saw.

Japan whaling ship with NZ activist aboard arrives in Tokyo

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<p>SINGAPORE shares closed higher on Friday, with the benchmark Straits Times Index (STI) at 2,881.36, up 0.26 per cent, or 7.45 points.</p> <p>About 1.36 billion shares exchanged hands.</p> <p>Gainers beat losers 244 to 207.</p>

STI closes 0.26% higher

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<P>YANGON- MYANMAR'S military regime unveiled on Friday the last of its election laws, which detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has described as unjust and repressive.

Suu Kyi slams election laws

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<p>A NATIONAL census to collect a wide range of information on Singapore's population and households began on Friday.<p>To be carried out till June, this is the fifth census since Singapore's independence, said the Department of Statistics.</p>

Population census starts

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<p>SINGAPORE, in its push to become a Global City, must not create a 'second-rate' Western city, said a Nominated MP who fears this is happening given what he sees as the island-state's obsession with Western content.<p>In a hard-hitting speech in Parliament on Friday, NMP Calvin Cheng did not mince his words, asserting that Singapore is the 'only country in Asia with such an overwhelming hang-up with what is Western,' based on his own observations and experience in the media, entertainment and media scene.</p>

Don't be a Western wannabe

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<p>PHNOM PENH - SEVENTEEN new roads will provide quick access to Cambodia's Angkor complex in case of fires at the ancient temples, officials said on Friday.

Roads protect Angkor from fires

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Climate change is pushing some bird species "towards extinction," US Interior Secretary Ken Salazar warned Thursday as a new report on the threats facing North American birds was released.

Climate change pushing bird species 'towards extinction:' US

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<p> BANGKOK - TENS of thousands of supporters of deposed Thai premier Thaksin Shinawatra began to mass on Friday in their trademark red shirts ahead of weekend protests in Bangkok aimed at toppling the government.</p><p>Some 4,000 protesters began early demonstrations in the capital, chanting incantations for good luck, while at least 30,000 others gathered in the rural north before starting their journey to Bangkok for the main rally on Sunday.</p>

Thaksin protesters converge

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