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  • 15 1 TODAY TODAYONLINE.COM WE SET YOU THINKING yVI bdiaCorp WEDNESDAY, 6 FEBRUARY 2013 MICA (P) 093/06/2012
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  • 887 1  -  AMIR HUSSAIN amirhussain@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Pledging results from enhancements to the public transportation system within the next five years, Transport Minister Lui Tuck Yew yesterday assured commuters that they do not have to wait too long before “gradual but noticeable and perceptible” improvement
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  • 1317 1  -  WPproposes zero growth in imported labour until2020, butPAPMPs and businesses warn of drastic consequences POPULATION WHITE PAPER NEO CHAI CHIN chaichin@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Manpower needs of companies and the Workers’ Party’s (WP) labour force proposals were intensely debated in Parliament yesterday as members wrestled with
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    • 49 1 FOR MORE BIRTHS, SINGAPORE MUST RESTRUCTURE ECONOMY TO LET WOMEN COMBINE PAID WORK WITH MOTHERHOOD COMMENT&ANALYSIS 10 SPORTS 38 S’POREAN A ‘MAJOR PLAYER’ IN FOOTBALL MATCH-FIXING VIDEO PARLIAMENT DEBATES WP’S PROPOSALS ON LABOUR PARTICIPATION Scan the QR code using the reader app on your smartphone, or visit tdy.sg/ wpdebate0206.
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  • hot news
    • 714 2  -  Govt to help shift societal attitudes by addressing workplace pre-school needs MARRIAGE AND PARENTHOOD PACKAGE TAN WEIZHEN tanweizhen@mediacorp.com. sg SINGAPORE —Some Members of Parliament had wondered whether the Government is doing enough to encourage Singaporeans to get married earlier and have more children, with
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    • 274 2  -  TAN WEIZHEN Efforts to integrate new immigrants are a ‘critical’ complement to Singapore’s immigration policy and ‘important in strengthening our Singaporean core’, stressed Minister in the Prime Minister’s Office Grace Fu yesterday. ‘Many Singaporeans have shared with us their deep sense of belonging to the
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    • 422 8  -  Restricting operators ability to make profits is not viable, says Transport Minister Lui PUBLIC TRANSPORT SUMITA SREEDHARAN sumitas@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —While public transport operators (PTOs) should be encouraged to develop additional revenue sources to remain financially viable, Transport Minister Lui Tuck
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    • 348 8  -  SUMITA SREEDHARAN SINGAPORE —With Certificates of Entitlement (COE) premiums hitting record levels, several Members of Parliament (MPs) yesterday urged the Government to review the system. For example, some suggested a separate category for first-time car buyers and the possibility of higher COE premiums for households that
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    • 457 9  -  ASHLEY CHIA ashley@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —While the median gross monthly income from work including employers’ contributions to the Central Provident Fund for the bottom income group has gone up over the years, the rate of increase has slowed. From 1996 to 2002,
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    • 228 9  -  WOO SIAN BOON SINGAPORE —Low-income households faced the brunt of inflation last year, which was driven largely by housing, transport and food costs. However, excluding imputed rentals on owner-occupied accommodation, inflation for this group of households the bottom 20 per cent of
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  • comment &analysis
    • 1018 10  -  BIRTH RATES AND THE ECONOMY TRISHA CRAIG The Government deserves a great deal of credit for its much-antic-ipated White Paper on Population that has initiated a frank conversation on Singapore’s future, and has shown how the dynamics of family life, the exigencies of the labour market,
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    • 779 11  -  AUSTRALIA’S GENERAL ELECTION WILLIAM PESEK William Pesek won the 2010 Society of American Business Editors and Writers prize for commentary. BLOOMBERG Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard is going American in a big way by setting the next national election seven months from now. The record length
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    • 1090 12 A COUNTRY’S WELL-BEING BLOOMBERG BLOOMBERG EDITORIAL Which is better for a country’s well-being: US$10 million (S$12.4 million) spent constructing a jail, or spent producing a line of smartphones? How about clear-cutting rain forests to produce US$10 million in lumber? Or a storm that requires
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    • 22 10 Increasing GDP should not be governments’ only objective. Nor should GDP be considered a definitive measurement of human welfare. BLOOMBERG EDITORIAL 12
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  • voices
    • 313 14  -  FROM NOEL CHIA KOK HWEE Although the Government has assured us that it is planning ahead for a projected population increase of up to 6.9 million in 2030, one wonders how the infrastructure in our small country will develop over time to cope
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    • 122 14  -  FROM STEPHEN STEPHEN TENG Mr Abhijit Ghosh and Mr Ajay K Sanganeria said in “Consider tax relief for population woes” (Feb 4) that the Government could incentivise adopting a healthy lifestyle. An example given was to grant tax reliefs or rebates to individuals for
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    • 198 14  -  FROM DANNY G TAN I refer to the Traffic Police’s statement regarding international studies showing that cyclists who wear helmets tend to display more risky behaviour (“Why TP does not enforce wearing of helmets for cyclists”; Feb 2). This implies that the
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    • 179 15  -  FROM KEVIN TEOH Deputy Registrar of Moneylenders, Registry of Moneylenders (Insolvency and Public Trustee’s Office), Ministry of Law We refer to the letter, “Moneylenders Rules not adequately protecting those who earn more” (Feb 4). Interest rate caps are not imposed on those who
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    • 347 15  -  FROM RIO HOE XIANG LOONG In relation to the debate over Section 377A of the Penal Code, the Attor-ney-General’s Chambers (AGC) announced that it takes a “serious view of any statements which are sub judice and will, if necessary, act to protect...
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  • singapore
    • 497 16  -  AFTER THE BY-ELECTION HENG WEI XIANG hengweixiang@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Although having lost in the Punggol East by-election, Dr Koh Poh Koon of the People’s Action Party (PAP) will continue to serve the ward alongside Pasir Ris-Punggol GRC Member of Parliament Teo Ser Luck,
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    • 408 17  -  New HDBflats priced based on, among other factors, household income of families PUBLIC HOUSING TEO XUANWEI xuanwei@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Affordability remains the “core principle” in how new flats are priced so that Singaporean families can own their homes, National Development Minister Khaw Boon Wan told Parliament
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    • 175 17 CHANNEL NEWSASIA SINGAPORE An independent office within the Singapore Police Force (SPF) has started investigations into allegations made by two former SMRT bus drivers that they were assaulted by police investigation officers. The two ex-drivers, who had been charged for their roles in
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    • 320 18  -  This applies to those who left on or after Dec 3 MOU was signed with unions WAGE DISPUTE WOO SIAN BOON SINGAPORE —Singapore Airlines (SIA) has clarified that cabin crew who left the company after Dec 3 last year would still have
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    • 146 18 CHANNEL NEWSASIA SINGAPORE —Acting Minister for Culture, Community and Youth (MCCY) Lawrence Wong said in Parliament yesterday that his ministry will undertake a study to address the longer-term manpower needs of the sports sector. Mr Wong was responding to a question from Nominated
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    • 285 19  -  CLAIRE HUANG SINGAPORE —A Thai woman has been sentenced to 12 months’jail for acquiring criminal benefits. Thanyarat Jarutraveevit, 35, was convicted on three counts of acquiring criminal proceeds, one count of attempting to acquire such benefits and one count of removing another person’s
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    • 126 19 CHANNEL NEWSASIA SINGAPORE —The police have arrested a 31-year-old man suspected of obscene acts in Chinatown. He was caught at about 4pm on Monday, about three weeks after he allegedly committed the offences, and charged in court yesterday. He is believed to have exposed his private
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    • 155 19 CHANNEL NEWSASIA SING A PORE —The number of immigration offenders arrested continues to drop due to tighter measures at the checkpoints. Last year, the number of immigration offenders dropped by 530 from 2011 to 2,580. This comprised 690 illegal immigrants and 1,890 overstayers, which
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  • health
    • 733 21  -  Increasing age and wider spacing of children can affect ability to conceive REPRODUCTION EVELINE GAN eveline@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE While some women are happy with having only one child, Mrs Janine Clements is the opposite. The 40-year-old homemaker would love to have at least three children if she
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    • 368 22 REUTERS NEW YORK —Infants given a traditional Guatemalan drink in their first month of life are almost twice as likely to have stunted growth than other children, according to a new study. “We believe that aguitas may be part of the explanation for
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    • 528 23  -  CANCER TREATMENT EVELINE GAN eveline@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Mr Kim Boh Seng, 73, feared the worst when he was diagnosed with Stage 3 liver cancer in 2009. One of the most lethal cancers, liver cancer is notoriously hard to treat once it is in
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  • china&india
    • 447 24 EAST CHINA SEA DISPUTE AGENCIES TOKYO Japan lodged a protest with China yesterday after it said a Chinese warship directed a type of radar normally used to aim missiles at a Japanese warship, in a new escalation on the stand-off over disputed
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    • 392 25 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH SHANGHAI China’s incoming leaders have embarked on a tour of the country’s impoverished towns, in the hopes of boosting their grassroots credentials ahead of the political handover next month. Mr Xi Jinping, who formally takes over next month
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    • 179 25 AP BEIJING —A Beijing court sentenced 10 people to jail yesterday for illegally detaining citizens trying to take their local grievances to the central government, Chinese state media reported. Xinhua news agency said the defendants received sentences ranging from six months to two years.
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    • 180 26 AGENCIES BEIJING A police chief in the southern province of Guangdong has been alleged to own at least 192 houses and a fake identity card, the state media reported yesterday. Mr Zhao Haibin, a senior police official in Lufeng, has been accused
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    • 264 26 AP BEIJING A rural bank officer who allegedly obtained fake identity cards and used them to illegally purchase dozens of properties worth hundreds of millions of dollars was in police detention yesterday, weeks after she became China’s newest symbol of official corruption. The
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  • world
    • 374 27 Abdul Ghani says support is still strong for BN in the state which is UMNO’s birthplace MALAYSIA POLITICS THE MALAYSIAN INSIDER KUALA LUMPUR —Johor Chief Minister Abdul Ghani Othman said Pakatan Rakyat (PR) can only dream of capturing the state in
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    • 379 28 MALAYSIA POLITICS THE MALAYSIAN INSIDER KUALA LUMPUR Talks between opposition alliance Pakatan Rakyat (PR) and the independent Sabah Progressive Party (SAPP) have come to a temporary halt, indicating that a fractured opposition front may face the long- ruling Barisan Nasional (BN)
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    • 249 29 AGENCIES WA S H I N G TO N —The United States Department of Energy’s electronics network has confirmed that it was attacked by hackers in the middle of last month but that no classified data was compromised. The attack led to “the
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    • 391 29 DOW JONES SEOUL North Korea’s state media said yesterday that its authoritarian regime may do something “stronger than a nuclear test” to respond to what it called signs that it is about to be attacked by the United States. North Korea routinely
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    • 561 30 What Richard III’s bones show He was King of England but, for centuries, he lay unmarked and unmourned beneath a city parking lot, in a corner of the buried ruins of the Grey friars Priory. On Monday, a team of experts at the University of Leicester concluded on the basis
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  • business
    • 403 32 EXCHANGES AGENCIES LONDON —The Singapore Exchange (SGX), Asia’s second-largest bourse operator, is in talks to buy a stake in transatlantic clearing house LCH. Clearnet, betting on an increase in trading volumes for derivatives, London’s Financial Times (FT) reported yesterday. The SGX may participate in the
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    • 259 32 SINGAPORE —The tender for a private housing site in Commonwealth Avenue closed yesterday with the top bid of S$562.8 million coming from a Hong Leong-led group, Housing and Development Board data showed, but only three bids were submitted, suggesting developers had turned cautious.
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    • STOCK CALLS
      • 62 32 BUY S$0.82 OCBC maintains its rating with a S$0.95 target price after the trust said it divested its entire interest in Roppongi Primo building in Tokyo for ¥700 million. The house says: “The divestment is likely to lead to an improvement in both occupancy and yield. It
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      • 54 32 HOLD S$0.21 OCBC maintains rating but puts its S$0.20 fair value estimate under review after the electronics equipment company reported Q3 results showing revenue from continuing operations fell 16.3 per cent year-on-year to HK$508.1 million. Profit dipped 41.8 per cent to HK$25.6 million. The house says it expects the
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      • 27 32 Readers should seek independent financial advice before making any investment decision. TODAY cannot be held liable for any consequence arising from the use of this information.
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    • 789 33  -  Recognising prior learning benefits experienced employees, and plugs knowledge gaps TOURISM CAREERS THROUGH SINGAPORE WSQ MELODY TAN SING A PORE The learning does not stop, even at managerial level. Accord­ing to Mr Steven Chan (picture), Gene­ral Manager of Crowne Plaza Hotel, Changi Airport, the evolving nature of the
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    • 163 34 REUTERS JA K A R TA Indonesia saw the slowest growth in two years in the fourth quarter of last year, with weak exports and low government infrastructure spending casting a cloud over prospects for South-east Asia’s largest economy. Fourth-quarter growth in gross domestic
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    • 400 34 QUARTERLY REPORT AGENCIES Z U R I C H —UBS saw weak client inflows at its flagship private bank in the fourth quarter as it reported a hefty net loss due to a US$1.5-billion (S$1.85-billion) fine for rigging benchmark interest rates and
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  • technology
    • 314 36 SOCIAL MEDIA BLOOMBERG MENLO PARK (CALIFORNIA) Facebook is developing a smartphone application that will track the location of users, two sources with knowledge of the matter said, bolstering efforts to benefit from growing use of social media on mobile computers. The app,
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    • 238 37 AGENCIES LONDON —Nokia is bringing its “revolutionary” 41-megapixel Pureview sensor to its Lumia range of Windows Phone handsets, said sources close to the Finnish handset maker. Known as EOS, the new model will launch by summer in the United States, reported The Guardian.
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    • Article, Illustration
      291 37  -  ALVIN CHONG alvinchonggl@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE One look at the frighteningly built Aftershock X17 and you can see it is not bought off-the-shelf. Custom built by three Singaporeans at their shop in Serangoon, Aftershock is a local brand that offers a range of bespoke laptops that you can design
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    • 696 38  -  Singaporean Dan Tan said to be one of ‘tens of people’ involved here FOOTBALL LOW LIN FHOONG linfhoong@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE International football was rocked by Europol’s announcement on Monday that a match-fixing investigation had uncovered more than 680 suspicious matches that included World Cup and European Championships
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    • 380 38 REUTERS BUDAPEST —Liverpool’s 2009 Champions League tie against Debrecen was yesterday alleged to be one of 380 European games under suspicion of match-fixing, but there is no suggestion that anyone at the English club was involved in any wrongdoing. Europol said on Monday that
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    • 311 39 AGENCIES Dec 28, 2009: Malaysia 3-0 Zimbabwe Singaporean Wilson Raj Perumal was named in 2010 by a Zimbabwean Football Authority (ZIFA) investigation as having paid players and helped arrange highly suspicious matches on an Asian tour in December 2009. Zimbabwe lost all three
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      • 583 46  -  Irfan Kasban’s new play looks at the men in blue BOLEH TAHAN MAYO MARTIN mayo@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —During his National Service stint as a sergeant in the police force, playwright and director Irfan Kasban received a call from a man who wanted to be arrested. “We got to the
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      • 210 47 REUTERS LOS ANGELES —Reg Presley, the lead singer of 1960s British rock band The Troggs, who scored a hit with the rock anthem Wild Thing and the ballad Love Is All Around, was reported to have died at his home in England on Monday after
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      • 386 48 Final Maurice Sendak book pays tribute to his brother BROTHERLY LOVE AP NEW YORK —The last completed book we are likely to get from Maurice Sendak remembers a man he often insisted was the real genius of the family, his brother Jack. Sendak died last May, aged
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