The Straits Times, 30 July 2013

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  • 28 1 THE STRAITS TIMES SINCE 1845 TUESDAY, JULY 30, 2013 108 PAGES IN FIVE PARTS TO SUBSCRIBE: 6388-3838 www.sphsubscription.com.sg 90 cents A Singapore Press Holdings publication MCI (P) 050/02/2013
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  • 532 1  -  But some senior officers will have salaries reduced by up to 15 per cent By TOH YONG CHUAN MANPOWER CORRESPONDENT tohyc@sph.com.sg FROM next month, junior officers in the public sector who turn 62 will not suffer a pay cut when
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  • 389 1 KU A L A L UM P UR I n t h e second high-profile shooting in Malaysia in three days, ArabMalaysian Banking Group founder Hussain Ahmad Najadi, 75, was gunned down yesterday afternoon at a carpark in central KL. His
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  • 405 1  -  By JESSICA LIM CONSUMER CORRESPONDENT limjess@sph.com.sg THE next time you travel overseas and plan to use your credit or debit card to buy something, be sure to activate it before leaving Singapore. The Association of Banks (ABS) told The Straits Times yesterday that all
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  • 43 1 ELECTRONIC road pricing rates will reach a record of $6 at two gantries on the East Coast Parkway (ECP) expressway, when they are revised on Aug 5. The prices beat the previous record of $5. TOP OF THE NEWS A6
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  • 34 1 THE Malaysian ringgit has fallen to a 15-year low of RM2.5479 against the Singapore dollar, amid a strengthening Singdollar and weakening outlook for Malaysian exports. TOP OF THE NEWS A6
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  • TOP OF THE NEWS
    • 593 2  -  Terminally sick to go straight home after treatment at revamped hospice By SALMA KHALIK SENIOR HEALTH CORRESPONDENT salma@sph.com.sg www.facebook.com/ST.Salma TERMINALLY ill patients will be able to receive urgent treatment without being hospitalised under a new initiative. Those who suffer problems such as severe
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    • 292 2  -  SALMA KHALIK THEY are objects of beauty created in the darkest of times. Mrs Kamala Krishnan completed the paintings while fighting pancreatic cancer. The former nursing officer had been planning to give three of them to VIPs at the ground-breaking ceremony
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    • 358 3  -  But contempt of court case for ‘scandalising judiciary’ still stands By MARYAM MOKHTAR maryamm@sph.com.sg THE Attorney-General, after reviewing evidence gathered by the police, will not take cartoonist Leslie Chew Peng Ee to court for sedition for an online comic strip. Chew, 37, was informed
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    • 431 3 ASSOCIATED PRESS REUTERS AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE ROME A tour bus filled with Italians returning home after an excursion plunged off a highway into a ravine in southern Italy on Sunday night. It smashed into several cars that were slowed by heavy traffic before
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    • THE NEWS IN 5 MINUTES
      • 59 4 JUNIOR officers in the public sector who turn 62 will not suffer a pay cut when they are re-employed. The change takes effect next month, said the Public Service Division. Another change is that senior officers who are re-employed at a lower salary will have their
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      • 30 4 TERMINALLY ill patients will be able to receive urgent treatment without being hospitalised when Assisi Hospice moves to a bigger building in 2016. PAGE A2
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      • 62 4 Primary 1 school registration is more contentious than ever as places in favoured schools fill up faster. The question of links to schools as a qualifying factor is controversial. It is time to reappraise the system. Balloting for all except sibling applicants may be
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      • WORLD
        • 71 4 MALAYSIA has indefinitely postponed the release of Chinese-language film The New Village after Malay bloggers and papers accuse it of glorifying communism. It is based on Chinese resettlement camps set up by the British in the 1950s at the height of the 12-year war between Malayan
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        • 74 4 TAIWAN’S Defence Minister Kao Hua-chu (right) has stepped down following weeks of outrage over the death of a conscript subjected to overly harsh physical training. He will be replaced by his deputy Andrew Yang. The minor Cabinet reshuffle also sees the exit of Chief Financial Regulator
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        • 44 4 TWO well-known Indian economists are publicly sparring over India’s growth model. Nobel prize winner Amartya Sen wants more public spending to build an educated workforce. Columbia University’s Professor Jagdish Bhagwati argues that higher growth is a pre-condition for state-funded welfare. PAGE A12
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        • 44 4 FIJI’S Foreign Minister Ratu Inoke Kubuabola accused Australia of dumping problems on its Pacific neighbours by deciding to resettle boat-borne asylum seekers in Papua New Guinea. And he said Canberra did not consult its Pacific neighbours over the policy. PAGE A13
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      • OPINION
        • 46 4 AS PROPERTY prices soar, central banks round the world are imposing curbs on property and other loans, going beyond interest and exchange rates to influence the economy. But do these measures work? Find out from Senior Economics Correspondent Fiona Chan. PAGE A18
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      • HOME
        • 56 4 SCRATCH-AND-WIN scams are still ensnaring Singaporeans across the Causeway despite numerous warnings and an ongoing crackdown by the Malaysian authorities. The average amount stolen has hit $6,300 up from $4,000 last year. PAGE B1 A notice in Johor warning people about lucky draw scams.
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        • 49 4 NEW requirements that mean construction firms must ensure new projects are easier to build will now kick in on Sept 1, instead of from the start of this month. The authorities said this is because it took “longer than expected” to brief the industry. PAGE B7
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        • 58 4 PEPPER the dalmatian must return to Singapore after its owner lost an Australian court battle to set aside a quarantine chief’s decision. The six-year-old dog was found to have a canine form of rickets after moving to Adelaide to live with its owner last year despite
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      • LIFE!
        • 96 4 IT’S back the famous boneless braised duck from Lim Seng Lee Duck Rice Eating House in South Buona Vista Road that closed last month. Now called South Buona Vista Road Famous Teochew Boneless Duck Rice, it opened two weeks ago near Farrer Park MRT station. It
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      • MONEY
        • 29 4 A FLURRY of new listings on the Singapore Exchange’s Catalist board so far this year is already about to outstrip last year’s total. PAGE B10
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      • SPORT
        • 34 4 MANCHESTER United walloped Kitchee 5-2 in a football friendly in Hong Kong last night. But rivals still sense a weakness in the English Premier League champions’ pre-season preparations. PAGE B20
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        • 84 4 HO KUN Xian, 22, is proving that Singaporeans can dominate the world especially when it comes to gaming. The professional gamer, aka DM.Xian, is best known for his achievements in Super Street Fighter 4. Acknowledged as one of the best in the world, he recently became the
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        • 27 4 IN THIS third part of our National Day Special, we take a look at how teaching and students have evolved through the years.
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      • stomp.com.sg
        • 28 4 STOMPER WJP spotted an auntie whose unusual and obtrusive method of reading the newspaper by spreading it on the train floor caught his attention.
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        • 24 4 A CAR got stuck on a kerb after a female driver tried to reverse into the spot too quickly, said STOMPer Marie.
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      • straitstimes.com
        • 43 4 A TOUR bus filled with Italians returning home after an excursion plunged off a highway into a ravine in southern Italy on Sunday night. Watch a video and view pictures of the horrific crash that left at least 37 dead.
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        • 38 4 FOR residents in a village in north-eastern India, prolonged periods of non-stop rain and no sunshine are common. Their scenic home holds a Guinness record for the highest average annual rainfall of 11,873mm. www.stasiareport.com
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        • 44 4 WHAT happens when a car collides with a tipper truck? View a picture gallery of a car almost entirely covered with what looks like cement. A car covered with what looks like cement after it collided with a tipper truck. PHOTO: STOMP
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        • 71 4 CREATE a music video of yourself singing a past National Day song, and stand to win a night’s stay during the National Day weekend at the brand new Ramada Hotel. The good folks at Ramada Hotel will also throw in an $80 dining voucher to be used
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    • 798 6  -  Amount of debt per borrower has also risen from 5 years ago: Credit Bureau By YASMINE YAHYA yasminey@sph.com.sg SINGAPOREANS are not only loading up on more and more debt these days but increasing numbers are taking out two or more loans. The data comes from
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    • 555 6  -  By RACHEL CHANG rchang@sph.com.sg A NEW book by former prime minister Lee Kuan Yew will be launched next Tuesday. The 400-page book, titled One Man’s View Of The World, contains Mr Lee’s views on geopolitics and the future of world powers such
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    • 387 6  -  By JERMYN CHOW jermync@sph.com.sg TWO electronic road pricing (ERP) gantries on the East Coast Parkway (ECP) expressway will become the most expensive in the history of the scheme, in the latest revision of rates starting on Aug 5. Drivers of
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    • 275 6  -  By JONATHAN KWOK jonkwok@sph.com.sg SINGAPORE shoppers in Malaysia will be in the money after the Singapore dollar hit a 15-year high against the ringgit yesterday. Malaysian workers employed here will also benefit after the exchange rate hit RM2.5479 to the Singdollar. This is the
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    • 322 6  -  By YUNITA ONG yunitaso@sph.com.sg IT IS not the fancy bodywork you would want on your car. A picture of a car covered in what looked like wet cement had netizens speculating if it was thick mud instead. The vehicle was covered in
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    • 465 7  -  Employer found guilty of 5 counts of causing hurt to maid By ELENA CHONG COURT CORRESPONDENT elena@sph.com.sg A MAID suffered “unimaginable” pain after being kicked in the groin, chest and abdomen by her female employer. Ms Juwarti, 25, was left bruised and
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    • 579 7  -  By NIRMAL GHOSH INDOCHINA BUREAU CHIEF nirmal@sph.com.sg IN PHNOM PENH CAMBODIA’S opposition leader Sam Rainsy has rejected the results of Sunday’s election, claiming the opposition was robbed of victory by Prime Minister Hun Sen’s Cambodian People’s Party (CPP). “We don’t accept the
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  • WORLD
    • 582 8  -  Chinese movie glorifies communism, say pro-Malay bloggers and groups By YONG YEN NIE MALAYSIA CORRESPONDENT yennie@sph.com.sg IN KUALA LUMPUR THE Malaysian government has shelved indefinitely the release of a Chinese-language film that was to have hit the theatres next month, following accusations by pro-Malay
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    • 160 8  -  YONG YEN NIE NEW Chinese villages or camps were set up by the British during the Malayan Emergency to resettle some 500,000 Chinese living in Malaya then. The camps helped the British to stop the community from, willingly or unwillingly, aiding members
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    • ASIA
      • 557 9  -  Move comes amid public furore over soldier’s death By LEE SEOK HWAI TAIWAN CORRESPONDENT seokhwai@sph.com.sg IN TAIPEI TAIWAN’S defence minister has stepped down following weeks of public outrage over the death of a conscript who was made to undergo overly harsh physical training. The departure of
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      • 252 9 REUTERS SEOUL Former United States president Jimmy Carter is planning to visit North Korea soon to try to win the release of a US citizen held for committing crimes against the reclusive state, South Korea’s Yonhap news agency reported yesterday. Mr Carter is likely to
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      • 162 9 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE XINHUA BEIJING A man stabbed three passers-by to death in southern China’s Shenzhen city yesterday, local police said, the latest in a series of killing sprees in the country in less than a week. The man surnamed He grabbed a knife from
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      • 64 9 Women soldiers from China’s first special operation company practising wrestling and unarmed combat in Inner Mongolia ahead of Army Day on Aug 1. The company’s members are all college graduates. They are also trained in skills such as rock climbing. All of them achieved
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      • 547 10 Controversial project underscores economic ties as political links falter AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE ASSOCIATED PRESS BEIJING Gas has started flowing to energy-hungry China through a pipeline from Myanmar, a Chinese state oil company said yesterday, in a controversial project that highlights the countries’ economic links even as
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      • 481 10  -  By HO AI LI CHINA CORRESPONDENT hoaili@sph.com.sg IN BEIJING JAPANESE Vice-Foreign Minister Akitaka Saiki is in Beijing for a two-day visit amid continued tensions between China and Japan over a territorial spat in the East China Sea. Mr Saiki’s visit comes after
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      • 561 10 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE ASSOCIATED PRESS BANGKOK Thai navy personnel were battling to clean up a beach on a popular tourist island after oil from a pipeline leak washed up in a national park. Roughly 50,000 litres of crude oil gushed into the sea about
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      • 438 10 ASSOCIATED PRESS JAKARTA Moderate Muslims in Indonesia have called for the disbanding of a hardline Islamic organisation after a pregnant woman was killed in a car accident as the group conducted illegal raids to curb prostitution during the holy month of Ramadan. The Islamic Defenders Front,
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      • 724 11 Burqa-clad female cartoon superhero triggers a debate about her costume NEW YORK TIMES ISLAMABAD Cartoon fans in Pakistan have been excited by the arrival of the country’s first caped crusader, in the form of a female superhero who flies through the air, battling villains
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      • 572 12  -  Dons’ debate reflects rival economic visions of 2 opposing PM candidates By KRITTIVAS MUKHERJEE INDIA CORRESPONDENT mkritti@sph.com.sg IN NEW DELHI TWO of India’s top economists are publicly sparring over what should be the best growth model for the country, a grand
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      • 72 12 Activists with faces painted to resemble tigers taking part in a protest against Sumatran tiger trade on Global Tiger Day, in Jakarta, Indonesia yesterday. The Sumatran tiger is the world’s most critically endangered tiger subspecies, with fewer than 400 of them surviving in the
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      • ASIA BRIEFS
        • 62 12 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE stopover TAIPEI Taiwan’s President Ma Ying-jeou will transit in New York on his Aug 11 trip to Paraguay and the Caribbean, but will keep the stopover low-profile to avoid upsetting China, officials said yesterday. It is unclear if he will meet any United
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        • 61 12 ASSOCIATED PRESS JAKARTA The death toll from the sinking of a boat carrying asylum-seekers has reached 20, while four people have been arrested for people-smuggling, police said yesterday. A tugboat carrying more than 200 people sank on July 23 off the coast of West
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        • 54 12 ASSOCIATED PRESS KABUL An overnight bombing and an early morning explosion yesterday in southern Afghanistan killed at least 14 people. The attacks came as the government announced that the country’s security forces are prepared for the presidential election next April, although five districts
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      • 300 12 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE NEW DELHI An Indian court has ruled that the daughters of a late maharaja should inherit his 200 billion rupee (S$4.3 billion) estate because his will was forged, ending a 21-year legal battle, reports say. A magistrate in the north-western city of
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      • 415 12  -  By NIRMALA GANAPATHY INDIA CORRESPONDENT IN NEW DELHI SINGAPORE’S Foreign Minister K. Shanmugam, who is on a three-day trip to India, yesterday toured the site of the new Nalanda University in Bihar. It was his first visit to the site. “I wanted to
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    • 413 13 Minister blasts arrogance of Canberra in dumping asylum seekers on PNG AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE SUVA (Fiji) Fiji has said an “arrogant” Australia was dumping problems on its Pacific neighbours by deciding to resettle boat-borne asylum seekers in Papua New Guinea. Foreign Minister Ratu Inoke Kubuabola said
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    • 318 13 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE MOSCOW President Vladimir Putin’s opponents are trying to prove that the Russian strongman had massively exaggerated the weight of a pike which he caught on a recent fishing expedition to Siberia. The Kremlin last Friday had announced that Mr Putin
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    • 277 13 ASSOCIATED PRESS WELLINGTON A report claiming that United States spy agencies and New Zealand’s military conspired to spy on a freelance journalist in Afghanistan has opened a new front in the debate over the surveillance programme revealed by National Security Agency (NSA)
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    • 519 14 Army cracks down on Brotherhood as EU envoy arrives in Cairo for talks ASSOCIATED PRESS BLOOMBERG REUTERS CAIRO Egyptian police have detained two leaders of a Muslim Brotherhood-allied party in the latest in a wave of arrests of prominent Islamists, while the European Union’s
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    • 110 14 Tourists visiting the Grandmother And Grandfather monument outside the city of Stepanakert in the Armenian-controlled Azerbaijani region of Nagorny Karabakh on June 26. A growing number of foreign tourists are heading to the breakaway territory which is not recognised by any state and say
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    • 416 14 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE WASHINGTON Israeli and Palestinian officials are set to resume direct peace talks after a threeyear hiatus, amid hopes that US Secretary of State John Kerry’s quiet diplomacy may this time carry some chance of success. In a landmark agreement,
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    • 273 14 REUTERS AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE VATICAN CITY Pope Francis, in some of the most conciliatory words from any pontiff on gays, said they should not be judged or marginalised and should be integrated into society. But he reaffirmed church teaching that homosexual acts are a
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    • WORLD BRIEFS
      • 114 14 WASHINGTON The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has rescued 105 child sex-trafficking victims, its assistant director Ronald Hosko has announced. The youngest of the rescued children was nine, according to Reuters. At a press conference yesterday, officials said the weekend crackdown involved more than
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      • 85 14 ASSOCIATED PRESS BAGHDAD A wave of a dozen car bombings hit in and around the Iraqi capital during morning rush hour yesterday, officials said, killing at least 36 people in the latest coordinated attack by insurgents determined to undermine the government. The blasts, which
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      • 143 14 ASSOCIATED PRESS PARIS A state prosecutor said the organiser of a diamond exhibit and sale has more than doubled the estimated value of diamond jewellery stolen in a brazen weekend heist at a luxury hotel on the French Riviera to some US$136 million (S$172 million).
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      • 97 14 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE GALICIA Mourners gathered for a memorial service yesterday for the 79 people killed in Spain’s worst train disaster in decades, after the driver was charged with reckless homicide. The driver, whom the judge released on bail, was charged with 79 counts of
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    • 700 15  -  But trilateral talks may be impeded by the neighbours’ political squabbles By KWAN WENG KIN JAPAN CORRESPONDENT wengkin@sph.com.sg IN TOKYO JAPAN, China and South Korea begin a second round of free trade talks in Shanghai today amid growing calls for them to set
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    • 564 15 BLOOMBERG REUTERS TOKYO Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s economic recovery plan is filling the coffers of manufacturers from Toyota Motor to Sony. Fourteen of Japan’s 27 largest companies are projected to beat their own fullyear forecasts by 5 per cent or more, while the
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    • 69 15 Taiwanese lawmakers scuffle at a podium before the start of a session aimed at debating Taiwan’s latest trade pact agreement with China yesterday. The pact, signed between the sides on June 21, allows each to invest in the other’s service sectors, including banking. Its approval by
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    • 316 15 BLOOMBERG BEIJING Most Chinese provinces reported first-half economic growth that in some cases was already lower than last year’s goals, underscoring the breadth of China’s slowdown. Seventeen of 30 provinces and provin-cial-level cities said January-to-June expansion trailed targets this year, compared with 14 of
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    • 514 16 Saudis award contracts worth $27.8b for 6-line network to ease congestion BLOOMBERG AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE REUTERS RIYADH Saudi Arabia has awarded more than US$22 billion (S$27.8 billion) of contracts to develop a metro line in the capital as the world’s biggest oil exporter
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    • 286 16 THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK JOHOR BARU Malaysia’s tallest condominiums, twin residential blocks at 70 storeys and 65 storeys in height, are being planned in Johor Baru. The new buildings, to be built by private developer Astaka Padu, will be just a few floors
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    • 349 16 BLOOMBERG DUBAI Dubai will finance the world’s tallest office tower with Islamic debt as the Persian Gulf business hub steps up sukuk, or bond, sales amid plans to create a global centre for the industry. The state-owned Dubai Multi Commodities Centre
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    • 292 16 REUTERS BEIJING Foreign carmakers are reaping exorbitant profits selling imported luxury cars in China and should face an anti-trust investigation, the official Xinhua news agency said, in what may amount to a shot across the bow for foreign auto firms. Xinhua said the
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    • MONEY BRIEFS
      • 57 16 REUTERS KUALA LUMPUR A unit of Malaysia’s sovereign wealth fund Khazanah Nasional will pay US$252 million (S$319 million) to buy a 90 per cent stake in Acibadem Sigorta, Turkey’s third-largest insurer by market share, Khazanah said yesterday. Acibadem is a 50-50 venture between Abraaj Group
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      • 45 16 REUTERS NEW YORK Boeing has asked airlines to inspect aircraft worldwide for data on Honeywell International emergency beacons that are under scrutiny after a fire on a parked 787 Dreamliner two weeks ago. Up to 1,200 aircraft have the devices.
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      • 57 16 REUTERS BRUSSELS China and the European Union (EU) have agreed there is a “window for discussions” to resolve claims of Europe dumping wine in China, the EU trade chief said yesterday. The agreement is part of a deal to defuse a row over the
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    • 444 18 THE Primary 1 registration season now in full swing remains contentious. The issue could get socially divisive, at the rate more preferred schools have been filling up each year on such criteria as parents’ alumni connections and other forms of community and service
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    • 1555 18  -  EYE ON THE ECONOMY As property prices soar, central banks round the world are imposing curbs on property and other loans, going beyond interest and exchange rates to influence the economy. But do these measures work? By FIONA CHAN SENIOR ECONOMICS CORRESPONDENT fiochan@sph.com.sg IMAGINE this scenario:
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    • 1105 19  -  By ZAKIR HUSSAIN INDONESIA BUREAU CHIEF zakirh@sph.com.sg IN JAKARTA WHENEgyptianstrongman Hosni Mubarak was deposed two years ago, it seemed the Middle Eastern power could learn a few things from Indonesia’s experience in making the transition to democracy. Like Mubarak, president Suharto presided over a
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    • 685 19  -  By NAYAN CHANDA FOR THE STRAITS TIMES stopinion@sph.com.sg The author is editor-in-chief of YaleGlobal Online, published by the MacMillan Center, Yale University. THE advantages enjoyed by emerging economies when capital fled the reces-sion-hit US market in search of higher returns are finally petering out.
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    • 995 19  -  By MARTIN SANDBU FINANCIAL TIMES THE bankruptcy of the once great US city of Detroit comes just a few years after that of General Motors, Motown’s legendary car manufacturer. Both collapses crystallise decades of accumulated failures, including a failure to look reality
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    • 1183 20  -  By GOH SUI NOI SENIOR WRITER suinoi@sph.com.sg DURING his visit to Singapore recently, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe sounded like the international statesman that he had been shaping up to be during his short term as premier from September 2006 to September 2007. Carrying
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      • 155 22  -  Karen Ng (Dr) Head, Ang Mo Kio Polyclinic National Healthcare Group Polyclinics WE THANK Mr Goh Chee Leong for sharing his experiences at Ang Mo Kio Polyclinic (“Why the need to consult doctor?”; last Tuesday). The National Healthcare Group Polyclinics reviews its procedures regularly
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      • 254 22  -  Jake Goh A NEW phase for Primary 1 registration should be introduced to help children from low-income families get into a school near their homes, so they can save on transport costs. These children may have working parents who cannot find time to
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      • 209 22  -  Samuel Ng RECENT court cases have revealed how product suppliers either cultivated or made use of their relationships with key public officers to gain an advantage in public-sector tenders. The latest Auditor-General’s report shows that procurement lapses are still happening despite established procedures and policies (“Auditor-General
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      • 300 22  -  Noel Chia Kok Hwee (Dr) IT IS heartening to learn of the spike in employers’ interest in hiring disabled people (“Firms hiring more ex-offenders, disabled”; last Thursday). Preparing the disabled for gainful employment involves three important phases: empowerment, emplacement and employment. First,
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      • 270 22 What can be done to strengthen racial harmony in Singapore? Do you have a friend of a different race? What led to the friendship? Don’t differentiate by “race”, see ourselves as Singaporeans. Lim Shien Yew A common language brings people together. Singaporeans should be mindful to speak English
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      • 213 23  -  Tan Suan Jin SINGTEL, having failed in its bid to circumvent the Media Development Authority’s cross-carriage rules, is now making English Premier League fans pay a higher price to watch the games (“Price to watch EPL shoots up after SingTel loses appeal”; last Saturday).
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      • 155 23  -  MYPOINT Chong Wei Weng IT IS ironic that the Media Development Authority’s (MDA) cross-carriage rule has resulted in higher charges for watching English Premier League matches (“Price to watch EPL shoots up after SingTel loses appeal”; last Saturday). One of the aims of the rule was to eliminate
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      • 359 23  -  Bey Mui Leng (Ms) Director, Corporate Communications Ministry of Health Leo Yee Sin (Associate Professor) Clinical Director, Communicable Disease Centre, Tan Tock Seng Hospital Director, Institute of Infectious Disease and Epidemiology, Tan Tock Seng Hospital WE AGREE with Dr Daniel Ng Peng-Keat
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    • 701 1  -  Amounts of cash lost rising despite fresh crackdown by Malaysian police JOHOR SCRATCH-AND-WIN SCAMS By LIM YAN LIANG yanliang@sph.com.sg SINGAPOREANS are still falling victim to scratch-and-win scams in Malaysia despite many warnings and an ongoing crackdown by the authorities across the Causeway.
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    • 640 2  -  They try out different jobs then get training to help secure relevant work By JANICE TAI jantai@sph.com.sg MORE than 200 youth who have spent time on probation or in juvenile homes have benefited from a hub set up last year to help
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    • 465 2  -  JANICE TAI “KENNETH” remembers vividly the dread that gripped his heart when a loan shark came pounding at the door of his flat one night. Then a pre-schooler, he ran to hide in his room, only to be greeted seconds later
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    • 530 2  -  JANICE TAI EYES glued to their iPhones, five secondary school students were so engrossed in playing mobile games and puffing cigarettes at a Tampines void deck that they did not notice three youth workers approaching. They barely batted an eyelid when they saw them. Smiling
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    • 590 3  -  In complying, The Independent agrees not to accept foreign funds By TESSA WONG twong@sph.com.sg A NEWS and current affairs website called The Independent, due to launch officially on Aug 9, will comply with a Government request to register under the Broadcasting
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    • 455 3  -  By LIM MIN ZHANG mzlim@sph.com.sg NEEDY elderly people in Singapore are finding it easier to apply for wheelchairs and other aids they require. Before July 1, all applications for subsidies under the Seniors’ Mobility and Enabling Fund had to be approved by
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    • 533 6  -  Family shuts business after 60 years, citing avian flu, dwindling interest By YUNITA ONG yunitaso@sph.com.sg ONCE upon a time, if you wanted to buy an eagle, you would head to Ann Soon Hong Bird Shop. But the Balestier establishment believed to be the
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    • 488 6  -  By GRACE CHUA caiwj@sph.com.sg WHEN biology undergraduate David Tan got a call telling him that a sea turtle had been spotted at East Coast Park, he found himself wrestling with two conflicting impulses. While he wanted a rare glimpse of
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    • 512 7  -  Sept 1 deadline to ensure projects have simpler designs, are easier to build By CHARISSA YONG charyong@sph.com.sg CONSTRUCTION firms have a two-month breather before they must ensure their new projects have simpler designs and are easier to build. These new requirements will be in force
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    • 335 7  -  MARYAM MOKHTAR MISTAKING the door of an unlocked lift shaft for that of an adjacent toilet, a 29-year-old Filipino doctor plunged four storeys, suffering fractured ribs and broken bones in her left foot. Dr Hannah Tan, who was in Singapore with family
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    • 623 8  -  SAF Overseas Scholarship recipient fought to persuade reluctant parents By DAVID EE davidee@sph.com.sg WHEN Myanmar-born Maung Thet Naing Win, 19, first told his parents in 2011 of his wish to pursue a career with the Singapore Armed Forces, they instinctively baulked at the idea. Having
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    • 356 8  -  By GRACE CHUA caiwj@sph.com.sg AFTER a spate of MRT train breakdowns more than a year ago, researcher See Kye Yak decided to do something about it. The electrical engineering professor, who is 52, came up with a device that can inspect
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    • 345 8  -  By PEARL LEE leepearl@sph.com.sg SINGAPORE must continue to show the “pioneering spirit” by seizing new opportunities and tapping on new trends in order to provide good jobs for its people, Deputy Prime Minister Teo Chee Hean said yesterday. He was speaking at the Economic Development
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    • 256 8  -  By MARYAM MOKHTAR maryamm@sph.com.sg THE number of new dengue cases is continuing to fall, with 306 reported last week. This is down from 391 and 541 in the preceding weeks, and it is the fifth straight week that numbers have gone down. Minister for
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    • 546 9  -  Pet must be returned to S’pore after testing positive for infection: Judge By K.C. VIJAYAN SENIOR LAW CORRESPONDENT vijayan@sph.com.sg A DOG owner who moved from Singapore to Adelaide has been told by an Australian court that his six-year-old dalmatian must be returned
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    • 211 9  -  By DEBBIE LEE ldebbie@sph.com.sg DONATE your new or used stamps for a collage dedicated to Singapore’s 48th National Day next week. Starting today, Singapore Post is taking in contributions for a montage titled Gift To The Nation. It is made of a
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    • 438 9  -  By KHUSHWANT SINGH khush@sph.com.sg A FORMER staff sergeant decided to set up a pub after a sterling 20-year career with the Singapore Armed Forces. But within three years, Face 2 Face in Jalan Besar went belly up when it was investigated for
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    • 292 9  -  KHUSHWANT SINGH A TEENAGE serial burglar had a request to be sent to prison turned down yesterday, after he told a judge he “feared” the Reformative Training Centre would not help him to change his ways. Muhammad Feroz Abdul Malik, 19, made off with nearly
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  • MONEY
    • 714 10  -  Flurry of IPOs on secondary board as SMEs go on fund-raising spree By JONATHAN KWOK jonkwok@sph.com.sg A FLURRY of new listings on the Singapore Exchange’s Catalist board so far this year are already about to outstrip last year’s total. Heavy hitters SPH Reit and OUE
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    • 514 11  -  Five owners who objected to sale are upset over amount they have to pay By CHERYL ONG ocheryl@sph.com.sg THE landmark collective sale of Gilstead Court could be blocked after objections from five owners unhappy they may have to pay up to $27,000 each,
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    • 540 11  -  By MELISSA TAN melissat@sph.com.sg RESALE home prices fell 0.4 per cent last month from the preceding month as more property buyers opted for new launches. The rate of decline was slightly steeper than the 0.2 per cent dip from April to May, according
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    • 516 12 Facility can hold 200 tonnes, catering to strong interest from Asia’s wealthy BLOOMBERG A SILVER vault that can hold 200 tonnes opens in Singapore this week as demand for physical precious metals rises among Asia’s rich, even as the commodity leads declines this
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    • 467 12  -  By RACHAEL BOON rachaelb@sph.com.sg NEW “vertical” factories that reduce ground area by adding floors have opened in Tanjong Kling in Jurong. Known as small footprint standard factories, they are designed by JTC to allow production to be housed on three storeys instead of sprawling
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    • 273 12  -  By MELISSA TAN melissat@sph.com.sg TWO statutory boards under the Trade and Industry Ministry (MTI) are getting new board members. There will be three new faces on the board of JTC Corporation (JTC) and two at the Economic Development Board (EDB), it was
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    • GLOBALISING SINGAPORE MONEY
      • 1188 13  -  His strategy of staying in China to oversee franchises there has paid off Singapore has always made internationalisation a key plank of its growth strategy, with trade agency IE Singapore at the forefront of the strategy for 30 years. This series shares stories of local
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      • 708 13  -  By CHIA YAN MIN chiaym@sph.com.sg FOR the inventor of the ubiquitous thumb drive, the success of the storage device “which took the world by storm” is tinged with bittersweet memories. Mr Henn Tan, chief executive of technology solutions provider Trek 2000, said the
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    • MONEY COMPANIES
      • 642 14  -  Experts say STI’s diversity makes it stable, less volatile than other indices By ALVIN FOO alfoo@sph.com.sg YEARS ago, tin, rubber and industrial stocks were the main indicators of how the Singapore stock market was faring. These days, the 30-stock Straits Times Index (STI)
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      • 336 14  -  By CHRISTOPHER TAN SENIOR TRANSPORT CORRESPONDENT christan@sph.com.sg TRANSPORT operator SMRT Corp expects an imminent change to an operating framework to turn its loss-incurring bus business around. Managers told shareholders at its 14th annual general meeting yesterday that the way public bus services are
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      • 337 14  -  By JONATHAN KWOK jonkwok@sph.com.sg WATER treatment company United Envirotech wants to acquire the business and assets of membrane supplier Memstar Technology for $293.4 million, both firms announced last night. Memstar’s membrane products have been used extensively by United Envirotech in its water and wastewater
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      • 239 14  -  YASMINE YAHYA AURIC Pacific now controls a 76.41 per cent stake in takeover target Food Junction. The firm said that by 5pm last Friday, it owned, controlled or had agreed to acquire some 93.2 million shares in Food Junction. Auric, which
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    • MARKETS MONEY
      • 438 15  -  STI flat as investors await slew of economic data from US this week BULLS AND BEARS By ALVIN FOO alfoo@sph.com.sg CAUTION took centrestage yesterday on the Singapore bourse, ahead of a keenly awaited United States central bank policy meeting starting tonight and other
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      • COMPANY BRIEFS
        • 138 15 CHINA Print Power Group’s wholly-owned unit Goldlink Capital has signed a memorandum of understanding that opens the way to invest in a China-based natural gas company. It is seeking to buy 79 per cent of Benxi Liaoyou Xinshidai Ranqi Company. Benxi Liaoyou is building natural gas pipelines,
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        • 124 15 LIONGOLD Corp has offered to acquire Canadian gold company Acadian Mining Corp for up to $9.1 million in an all-cash transaction. It bought 9 per cent of Acadian in March. It now wants to buy all the outstanding shares of Acadian which is listed on the TSX Venture
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        • 17 15 STI TRADING VOLUME 225.33 million shares STI UP DOWN Gainers: 10 Losers: 15 Unchanged:5
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        • 85 15 Points Change Mid Cap Small Cap Fledgling Catalist China China Top Maritime 767.37 576.19 868.39 1,080.08 231.27 202.09 243.51 -5.31 -1.23 -2.71 -7.42 -0.83 -1.14 -3.08 Points Change Basic materials Consumer goods Consumer serv Financials Health care Industrials Oil and Gas 203.21 472.05 835.26 836.17 1,289.81 796.38
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        • 21 15 STOCK TRADING VOLUME 1.74 billion shares worth $856.6 million UP DOWN Gainers: 138 Losers: 261 Unchanged: 401
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        • 55 15 Yesterday’s close Index Change -118.8 21,850.15 13,661.13 1,899.89 1,976.306 941.3258 Hang Seng Nikkei 225 Seoul Kospi Shanghai Comp Shenzhen Comp Bursa KLCI -468.85 -10.92 -34.544 -18.6671 1,798.78 -8.83 Yesterday’s close Index Change Jakarta Comp SET Thailand Sydney ASX 200 Friday’s close Dow Nasdaq 4,580.467 1,454.28 5,046.327 15,558.83 3,613.165
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        • 155 15 For a full list of SGX stocks, warrants and bonds, visit btstocks.asiaone.com TRANSACTION DATE: JULY 29, 2013 Top Rises Jul 29 CENTS (0) Jul 29 CENTS DBXT MSEmerAsi 10US$ 368 16.5 3.7 DBXT MSAsExJp 10US$ 3221 13.9 0.3 5609 144.3 DBS Bk 4.7% NCPS 100 ***** 6.0
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        • 37 15 By Volume CENTS Vol CENTS Vol CNA 25 Thai Beverage ...................52.5 58,647,000 M Devt 2 74,934,000 FreightLinks .....................11.2 39,136,000 13.6 72,375,000 WE Hldgs Intl Healthway ...................41.5 33,619,000 72,169,000 Thai Beverage 52.5 58,647,000 64 5 58,000,000
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        • 61 15 52-WEEK CURRENCY LAST 'VOL DAY GROSS NET M CAP HIGH LOW COMPANY TRADED SALE +OR-'000 HIGH LOW YIELD P/E $MIL COMPANY CORRENCY LAST TRADED SALE +0R'VOL '000 DAY GROSS HIGH LOW YIELD NET P/E M CAP $MIL 226 152.5 CapMallsAsia 198 cd unch 2615 199 196
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        • 114 15 MAIN CATL TOTAL Up Down Unch Up Down Unch Up Down Unch Multi Ind 4 7 4 0 0 0 4 7 4 Manufacturing 35 64 36 3 12 11 38 76 47 Commerce 10 32 21 6 5 4 16 37 25 Tpt/Stor/Comms 12 20 9 1 2
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    • 742 20 Contenders plot strong start to put pressure on Moyes’ slow-burn team AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE THE TIMES, LONDON ASSOCIATED PRESS HONG KONG David Moyes might have just recorded his second pre-season win as Manchester United manager but rivals of the English champions are already conspiring to keep
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    • 297 20 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE REUTERS QUITO Ecuador international Christian Benitez has died at the age of 27, his Qatari football club El-Jaish said yesterday. T h e p l a y e r s a g e n t J ose Chamorro, told Ecuadorian
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    • 398 17 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE REUTERS BUDAPEST A heartbroken Lewis Hamilton has dedicated his victory at the Hungarian Grand Prix his first win as a Mercedes driver to his former girlfriend Nicole Scherzinger. The Briton, having started from pole position, kept his title hopes alive with a comfortable win
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    • 296 17 Cricket 2nd and final Twenty20 int’l In St Vincent: Pakistan 135-7 in 20 overs (Ahmed Shehzad 44, Umar Akmal 46 n.o.; S. Badree 2-16, S. Narine 3-26). West Indies 124-9 in 20 overs (D.J. Bravo 35; S. Tanvir 2-20, Z. Babar 2-37, S. Ajmal 2-21). Pakistan win by 11
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    • 264 18  -  By SANJAY NAIR nsanjay@sph.com.sg SINGAPORE’S Griselda Khng and Sara Tan claimed an impressive silver medal at the 49er FX Youth World Championships in Gdynia in Poland on Sunday. With 23 points across nine races, the duo, who were making their debut in the women’s
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    • 377 18 Both swimmers produce stunning performances at the world c’ships REUTERS AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE ASSOCIATED PRESS BARCELONA A day after China’s Sun Yang matched a feat achieved only by Australian Grant Hackett, Lithuania’s Ruta Meilutyte set a world record in the semi-finals of the 100m breaststroke
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      • 91 18 REUTERS OAKVILLE (Ontario) Golfer Brandt Snedeker promised to use some of the US$1 million (S$1.2 million) purse from his Canadian Open win on Sunday to buy Hunter Mahan’s new baby daughter Zoe a gift after his rival surrendered a shot at a big pay day
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      • 39 18 PARIS Brazil defender Thiago Silva has signed an extension at Paris Saint-Germain, ending speculation that he will move to Barcelona. The 28-year-old is contracted to the Ligue 1 champions until 2018, reported French newspaper L’equipe.
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      • 38 18 REUTERS STOCKHOLM Goalkeeper Nadine Angerer saved two penalties to help Germany beat Norway 1-0 and win an eighth European women’s football championship on Sunday. The triumph was also their sixth consecutive success.
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      • 53 18 ASSOCIATED PRESS BERLIN Retired cyclist Erik Zabel has told Germany’s daily Sueddeutsche Zeitung that he used banned substances, including EPO, over several years of his career. The 43-year-old, who won 12 Tour de France stages and earned the sprinters’ green jersey six times,
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      • 63 18 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE ATLANTA (Georgia) Top-seeded John Isner saved two match points before beating Kevin Anderson 6-7 (3-7), 7-6 (7-2), 7-6 (7-2) on Sunday to win the ATP Atlanta Open. In a tennis match billed as the tallest final in the history of the ATP Tour,
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    • 580 19 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE LONDON Spanish goalkeeper Jose Reina yesterday launched a scathing attack on Liverpool after accusing the club of forcing him to join Napoli on loan. The 30-year-old started his season-long spell at the Italian side yesterday after months of speculation over his
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    • 345 19 THE TIMES, LONDON LONDON Tottenham chairman Daniel Levy is ready to offer star winger Gareth Bale a new deal worth £170,000 (S$330,000) a week after leaving his family holiday in Florida to hold talks with the Welshman’s representatives. Spurs have already rejected
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    • 268 19 LONDON Manchester City are ready to dip into the transfer market for an established centre-back that would take their close-sea-son spending past the £100 million (S$194 million) mark. With central defender Matija Nastasic likely to miss the start of the season, City manager Manuel Pellegrini
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      • 1578 2  -  Theatre director Simon McBurney constantly challenges audiences’ perceptions in his works Corrie Tan corriet@sph.com.sg British theatre director Simon McBurney, 55, cannot resist the allure of unfamiliar cultures Singapore included. This drive to seek out and to understand led him to peruse Singapore’s dramatic literature after
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      • 652 4  -  Jean Tay’s Everything But The Brain, on caring for a loved one who suffers a stroke, is restaged Corrie Tan corriet@sph.com.sg After actor Edward Choy, 33, read the script of Everything But The Brain for the first time, he was so emotionally shaken that he could not bring
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      • 1149 5  -  Heman Chong’s shows in Hong Kong, Bangkok and Singapore centre on the launch of his monograph Huang Lijie Arts Correspondent lijie@sph.com.sg Artist Heman Chong has launched a serial exhibition in three Asian cities that goes on show around the same time, but his ambition is
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      • 512 5  -  Akshita Nanda Review Dance PURNIMA/FULL MOON/I, CYCLOPS Bhaskar’s Arts Academy (Singapore)/inDance (Canada) Lee Foundation Theatre, Sunday Four-hundred-year-old dance forms can be extremely edgy when presented by the well-known Bhaskar’s Arts Academy. Sunday’s double bill was a collaboration with Toronto troupe inDance and is
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      • 522 5  -  Eve Yap Visiting Singapore’s museums and monuments could net you a $50,000 cash prize. Liberty Hunt: Capturing The Lion City is a treasure hunt that will happen over 12 days from Aug 19 to 31. There is an entry fee of $35 for each
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      • 1048 6  -  Writers should represent themselves accurately or risk alienating readers Culture Vulture Akshita Nanda akshitan@sph.com.sg Writing under a false name is incredibly freeing for a writer, so I understand why J.K. Rowling recently tried her hand at crime fiction under the pseudonym of Robert Galbraith.
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        • 102 6 Local theatre company Ravindran Drama Group Company Limited presents My Name Is Cine-ma (right), in collaboration with Chennai-based drama collective Stray Factory. The play is about a young girl, Cine-ma, who never went to school but learnt about life through films. Written and directed by
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        • 63 6 Courses at the Arnoldii Arts Club are now open for registration. Priced from $170 a class to $6,500 for a six-week course, they cover art investment, legal concerns in art deals, art history and production. Speakers include Stephen Lazarides, gallerist of street artist Banksy, and Henry
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        • 91 6 Six East Malaysian artists from art collective Cracko Art Group will hold a group exhibition here, titled Circus (right). They are Anddy R. Dulait, Ashly Nan- dong, Cracko, Kwan Aks, Taco Joe and ZK Teo. Their works range from acrylic on canvas portraits of clowns to
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        • 82 6 As part of the Singapore Writers Festival, Timbre Music Academy is organising the third edition of Poetry Of Song, an annual songwriting competition. This year’s theme is Love You/Hate You, and selected entries will be performed at a live showcase during the festival. Writers of selected entries
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    • 782 3  -  The founder’s brother-in-law, who had worked with him for 28 years, reopens business in Sam Leong Road at cheaper prices Eunice Quek euniceq@sph.com.sg The famous boneless braised duck from Lim Seng Lee Duck Rice Eating House in South Buona Vista Road is back,
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    • 684 3  -  Rebecca Lynne Tan People hankering after light, fluffy doughnuts from popular American chain Krispy Kreme need wait only until October, when the chain opens its first outlet in Singapore at Tangs Orchard. Famed for doughnuts coated in a signature sugar glaze, the store will
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    • 667 15  -  Champion Li Yan from China will consider acting options, but wants to hone his martial arts skills further first Yuen Sin yuensin@sph.com.sg He may have emerged as the winner of TVB8’s inaugural International Chinese Kung Fu Championship, billed as “the search for the next
      PHOTOS: STARHUB  -  667 words
    • 873 15 New York Times New York Though musicologists who specialise in Gustav Mahler have long taken the memoirs of his wife Alma with a grain of salt, most of them have accepted her portrait of him as a fairly chaste ascetic who had few romances before
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    • 611 16 A lone gunman made off with gems meant for an exhibition on Sunday New York Times Associated Press Paris A ¤40-million (S$67.3-million) jewellery theft in the French Riviera on Sunday morning had all the hallmarks of a Hollywood movie, including the set. The
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    • 666 16 New York Times Carcaliu, Romania On a snowy day in January, Radu Dogaru, in front of a computer at his mother’s house in this remote Romanian village, set out the terms for a deal that had eluded him for months, but
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      • 275 18 Hong Kong Chow Yun Fat is headlining his first TVB production in decades, a Chinese New Year comedy also starring Nicholas Tse. Back in 1981, before he became a movie star, Chow had appeared in the TVB gambling drama The Shell Game II, with Tse’s father,
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      • 320 18 Bloomberg London Hannibal Lecter, the cannibal in the novel The Silence Of The Lambs, was inspired by a doctor in a Mexican prison, author Thomas Harris said. He said he met the doctor while working as a journalist in the 1960s and visiting a prison
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        • 56 18 Singer Frankie Valli will lead his 1960s group The Four Seasons to perform at The Star Theatre on Sept 4. He and his newly constituted group will perform hits such as Big Girls Don’t Cry and Walk Like A Man. Tickets from $98 to $198
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        • 45 18 Ex-supermarket worker Jahmene Douglas, 22, topped the British album charts for the first time on Sunday with Love Never Fails, the Official Charts Company said. The X Factor contestant’s debut album pushed Robin Thicke’s album Blurred Lines into second place.
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        • 47 18 The Wolverine, the Marvel superhero film starring Hugh Jackman, was the top weekend movie in North America, with US$55 million (S$70 million) in ticket sales. Though it performed strongly overseas, it missed forecasts as it was predicted to take in at least US$70 million.
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        • 66 18 NBC’s remake of cop show Ironside has few similarities with the 1960s original starring Raymond Burr, said its star Blair Underwood at the Television Critics Association last Saturday in California. Like Burr, Blair, as paralysed cop chief Robert T. Ironside, will use a wheelchair. But “everything else is
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  • S SPECIAL WORKPLACE SAFETY AND HEALTH AWARDS 2013
    • 19 1 Top accolades for companies that provide a safe working environment PHOTO: CHONG JUN LIANG
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    • 660 2 The WSH Council has continuously raised the bar to encourage businesses to strive for higher safety standards THE ability to adapt to changes is important. How well a business does this within its organisation and in the oper ating environment will determine its success. Companies that stay
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    • 758 4  -  The 16 WSH awards that Woh Hup has won this year is a result of its commitment to a progressive safety culture By ahmad osman WOH Hup (Private) Limited won 16 awards this year for its efforts to ensure the safety and health of workers in projects at
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    • 762 6  -  Rockwell Automation is steadfast in its efforts to keep the workplace secure on firm foundations by teo kuan yee ROCKWELL Automation Asia Pacific Business Center is a winner of the Workplace Safety and Health (WSH) Performance (Excellence) Award in this year’s WSH Awards. The WSH Performance
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      733 8  -  Jurong Primewide changes behavioural traits through its ‘buddy system’ and education films by suresh nair JURONG Primewide faced a lot of the proverbial “blood, sweat and tears” in winning the SHARP (Safety and Health Award Recognition for Projects) award. “We faced many challenges along the way to
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    • 691 10  -  A zero accident record helps KTC Civil Engineering Construction clinch its first WSH SHARP award by ahmad osman THERE was no accident last year at KTC Civil Engineering Construction’s Tampines MRT station project. The zero accident record helped the company to clinch its first Safety and Health
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    • 715 12  -  Sembcorp Marine sweeps 17 awards across five categories for upholding safety, health standards and culture by narendra aggarwal SEMBCORP Marine, a leading global marine and offshore engineering group, has again reaped a bounty of Workplace Safety and Health (WSH) Awards, thanks to its continued emphasis on this
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    • 748 13  -  Multiheight Scaffolding successfully meets stringent criteria to win the WSH Performance Award by ahmad osman TO WIN a 2013 Silver Workplace Safety and Health (WSH) Performance Award, Multiheight Scaffolding had to ensure that there was no accident or occupational disease that could cause death or permanent
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    • 706 14  -  Siemens’ success is the outcome of a firm commitment to its zero accident target by teo kuan yee SIEMENS is a winner of the SHARP award (Safety and Health Award Recognition for Projects) for its PacificLight Power 800 MW Combined Cycle Power Plant project, which achieved
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    • 745 14  -  Infineum Singapore celebrates 22 years without any lost time caused by workplace injury by narendra aggarwal THANKS to an enviable safety track record, Infineum Singapore has been awarded the Workplace Safety and Health (WSH) Performance Excellence Award again this year. It recently celebrated its 22nd safe year
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    • 735 16  -  Roche Singapore Technical Operations’ continually improves its management system to do better by douglas chew by douglas chew ROCHE Singapore Technical Operations (RSTO) has won the Gold Workplace Safety and Health (WSH) Performance Award at this year’s WSH Awards presented by the WSH Council and supported
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    • 825 17  -  Sembcorp Design and Construction involves stakeholders in its approach to create a safe workplace by douglas chew DESIGN and build construction service provider Sembcorp Design and Construction (SDC) won the Safety and Health Award Recognition for Projects (SHARP) for its construction of an ancillary institution block in
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    • 814 18  -  Safety is twice as important as quality, delivery or cost at Hitachi Plant Technologies by mervin tay IT MAY be a simple formula, but it forms the cornerstone of workplace safety and health at Hitachi Plant Technologies. Formulated by the President of Hitachi Plant, it
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    • 786 18  -  Shanghai Tunnel Engineering instils a sense of ownership in its employees to enhance the workplace safety culture by april chong THE measure of success for a company in the construction industry is its safety record. That is why workplace safety is deeply entrenched into the ethos
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    • 706 20  -  Showa Denko HD’s comprehensive method ensures that its manpower and highly automated factory operate in top form by douglas chew SHOWA Denko HD Singapore (SHDS) is a first-time winner at the Workplace Safety and Health (WSH) Awards organised by the WSH Council. “Manpower and our highly automated
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    • 708 22  -  United Engineers ensures that workplace safety is second nature among its employees by suresh nair AT UNITED Engineers, the message “Make safety and health our way of life” comes across loud and clear. “We have always been committed to workplace safety and health, especially when the core businesses
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    • 768 24  -  M+W Singapore creates a green, injury-free and healthy work environment for its workers by hazel tan GLOBAL engineering, construction and pro ject management company M+W Singapore takes environment, health and safety (EHS) issues seriously and Mr Chandran Vellasamy (right), senior EHS coordinator, says this commitment is reflected
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    • 602 24  -  Jacobs Engineering Singapore cares for its employees through effective work practices by douglas chew JACOBS Engineering Singapore is the only engineering and construction contractor to receive the Workplace Safety and Health (WSH) Performance Excellence Award this year. This award recognises companies or organisations that have performed
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    • 887 25  -  A multi-layered process makes Gammon’s safety record one of the best in the construction industry By tan bah bah WITH a safety management framework called the Swiss Cheese Method, it is no wonder that you will find that Gammon’s workers are always ready to say “Cheese!” and
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    • 222 1 sembcorp Sembcorp Design and Construction Pte Ltd Safety and Health is Our Top Priority t X vi!S v 0 sembcorp H urn >'■ At Sembcorp Design and Construction, we have built a culture of health, safety and environmental (HSE) stewardship within our organisation, taking pride in upholding the highest HSE
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    • 308 2 LISTEN. THINK. SOLVE! r\ Nr Pi •> 4* I r v a -c>>u «or The Excellence Award winner in the WSH Awards 2013 Rockwell Automation is proud to be named the Excellence Award winner for the third time in the Workplace Safety and Health (WSH) Awards 2013. This award is
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    • 148 3 ACHIEVING SAFETY EXCELLENCE Across the Group, we work closely with our customers and contractors to ensure that we share and reach our safey goals together. Through vigilance and teamwork, the Keppel Group has garnered a total of 32 Workplace Safety Health (WSH) Awards 2013 from WSH Council and Ministry of
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    • 208 4 Smart thinking. Safe hands •> V 4 RU 1 HOIAKYI Rotary Engineering Limited 17Tuas Avenue 20 Singapore *****8 I 61 Jurong Island Highway Singapore *****0 R* ROTARY OUR UNWAVERING COMMITMENT TOWARDS SAFETY Health, Safety and Environment has always been an integral part of Rotary's core values. With employees as our
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    • 82 6 Winning numbers 192 companies and individuals are honoured in seven award categories at the Workplace Safety and Health Awards this year 1 Workplace Safety Health Officer Award 1 Workplace Safety Health Developer Award 3 Workplace Safety Health Risk Management Awards 9 Workplace Safety Health Innovation Awards Workplace Safety Health Awards
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    • 305 7 Achieving Excellence in Workplace Safety and Health Awards 2013 Siemens-Samsung Consortium Receives SHARP Award for PacificLight Power 800 MW Combined Cycle Power Plant Project WSHV^ards k Performance 2013 SHARP SIEMENS a, PacificLight SAMSUNG C&T a ;5fj tit ti 1 h m *ir. J ft I- i v- J u ££iK
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    • 144 12 Superior value, World-class safety We are honoured to receive the 2013 Annual Workplace Safety and Health Performance Excellence Award from the Workplace Safety and Health (WSH) Council and the Ministry of Manpower (MOM), Singapore. It’s no wonder our passion for safety is becoming well-known: Our corporate culture places a high
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    • 253 13 The Business of Improving Human Lives At RSTO, there are two state-of-the-art facilities that employ different production technology platforms to manufacture biologic medicines, supported by 495 highly skilled employees. RSTO manufactures biotherapeutics that are derived from bacterial cell cultures. Pfl r. mm 4: T 4? J_» jdl r 4 WSHV^ards
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    • 378 15 JURONG Primewide A member of JURONG International T77T7I7 SINGAPORE OHSMS IS*****0 ISOM OHSAS ***** 2007 SS ISO *****: 2004 SS ISO 9001: 2008 h'Mi ACCREDITATION COUNCIL ADVOCATE Partner WSH\ AWARDS x L Performance 2013 SHARP WSH SHARP AWARD 2013 WINNER, Tuas West Extension C1685 Tuas Depot Project -V7 N, kii.-
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    • 93 19 Ill M W GROUP We are committed to an injury free workplace where everybody goes home safe. in Respect for people means to care for them and to protect the environment which we live and work. i M+W Singapore is proud to achieve the 20H| WSH Performance (Silver) and SHARP
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    • 204 20 mult! height MULTIHEICHT SCAFFOLDING PTE LTD Subsidiary of Nordic Group Limited, listed on SGX I) NORDIC Group Limited wshV™ Performance 2013 We are proud to receive the Workplace Safety and Health Performance (Silver) Awards 2013 -t^rr T fmmm no hi mm i N y s m a Vs' n y
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    • 115 23 Showa D EIMKO i y jm Showa Denko HD is proud to receive the Silver Award (WSHPA) for WSH Awards 2013 WSHV™s Performance 2013 4 U Showa Denko HD Singapore Pte Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of Showa Denko K.K. (SDK), is the flagship factory to produce Hard Disk Media
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    • 295 26 WOH HUP(PRIVATE) LIMITED UILDING WITH INTEGRITY Safety -and Health Awards 2012 M •i* *I'S; y v *'f II H 4 V 1 HI f W‘ T? g#, 7 S V i IP*' k rsi > ■3^-! Nv -r f SAFETY. NO Compromise! At Woh Hup, safety is not an option,
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      • 588 3  -  ACTIVITY BY ANG YIYING SUT, July 21 SAF to recruit more women By Jermyn Chow The Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) is looking for more women to join it as career soldiers as the pool of qualified male enlistees shrinks. For a start, it wants at least
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      • 99 12 A Malaysian couple could be jailed for up to five years because of an offensive post. Bloggers Alvin Tan and Vivian Lee (both right) posted a Ramadan greeting with a photo of them eating pork. WHY IT MATTERS Ramadan is a sacred time of the year for Muslims,
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      • 126 12 Japan’s railway operators have launched a campaign to stop people from using their mobile devices in train stations. In one incident, a 10-year-old boy fell off the train platform because he was busy using his cellphone and was nearly killed by an oncoming train. WHY IT
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        419 14 / 15 ACTIVITY ACTIVITY 2A: Fill in the blanks with the correct word. (ST, July 15) 1. Some 120 senior citizens headed to their neighbourhood coffee shop in Kim Tian Road yesterday morning and more than coffee and eggs. more than coffee and eggs. a) has b) had c) have
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      • 649 16 / 17  -  By Matt Winchester By Matt Winchester, senior teacher at the British Council ADVICE FOR TEACHERS With the changes to the O-level exam, this may be the last time pupils are encouraged to write a narrative. It is important that you not only give the children the
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    • 257 9 ’I’ BLK 21 Dover Cres High flr. Value $400k Vacant. Move in. Min MRT. Call Parry *****450 3 3’NG’ 109 RENO. Lift paid. Pets clinic. All races/ SPR. Valued $350K. neg. Amenities *****732Jenny OPEN HSE! 1 pine Close 5 rm. MRT, must sell, bring cheque, VTO. Chinese ratio filled, call
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    • 337 9 LHG ELITE LISTER- HDB Div Blk 645. 4A (100sqm). MRT 100% move-in. A1 reno. Call Val: 9199 3088. NEW LIST! 5-RM Blk 986A. Near MRT. High flr. Corner. Windy. Reno. 100% move in. Theresa Lim *****833 PRICE REVISED!! BLK 714 Mais. Can contra. Near amenities MRT. All races Call Ang
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