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    16 1 TODAY TODAYONLI NE .COM WE SET YOU THINKING yVI bdiaCorp SATURDAY, 7 NOVEMBER 2015 MCI(P) 021/06/2015
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    Lock icon After the high of GE2011, a reality check for the Workers’ Party
    2894 1  -  KELLY NG kellyng@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —Four years after the capture of Aljunied Group Representation Constituency a first GRC win for the Opposition—ushered a “Workers’ Party fever”, the WP was brought back to earth with a thud following the results
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    Lock icon China, S’pore pledge to open new chapter in bilateral ties
    1472 1  -  Leaders laud progress made by both countries, agree to launch negotiations on upgrade of China-S’pore FTA signed in 2009 CHINESE PRESIDENT TO MEET PM LEE TODAY ALBERT WAI albertwai@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The leaders of Singapore and China last night lauded the
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  • hot news
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      Lock icon Amputee suing SGH, doctors for negligence; seeking over S$8m
      1090 2  -  LAURA PHILOMIN SINGAPORE A 51-year-old woman is suing the Singapore General Hospital (SGH) and two of its doctors for negligence, after going through what was supposed to be a “simple, straightforward and low-risk” procedure that she alleged caused her to lose
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      Doctor had her best interests in mind, says SGH surgery chief
      251 2  -  LAURA PHILOMIN SINGAPORE The doctor in Ms Sarina Kaur’s case had her “best interests in mind” when the decision was made to continue with the procedure under “suitable antibiotic cover”, said Professor London Lucien Ooi, SGH’s Division of Surgery
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      Lock icon Lift mishap: Safety devices were working, probe finds
      967 4 ADDITIONAL REPORTING BY AMANDA LEE SINGAPORE Releasing findings made by an independent authorised examiner for the Tah Ching Road lift mishap who found that the safety devices were working properly that day the Building and Construction Authority (BCA) said it will enhance
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      Lock icon Strong US jobs data puts Fed on track for December rate hike
      635 5 Unemployment rate falls to 5 per cent, the lowest level since April2008 JOBLESS RATE NOW AT LEVEL MANY FED OFFICIALS SEE AS CONSISTENT WITH FULL EMPLOYMENT AGENCIES WASHINGTON Employers in the United States hired workers last month at
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      SIA offers S$453m to take Tiger Airways private
      681 5  -  RUMI HARDASMALANI rumih@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Flag carrier Singapore Airlines (SIA) has made a S$453 million offer to buy out the other shareholders of its subsidiary Tiger Airways, in a move to boost operations through a full integration of the budget airline within the
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      Lock icon Xi says Vietnam ties will survive despite ‘disruptions’
      612 7 AGENCIES HANOI China and Vietnam are good socialist neighbours with a longshared history of revolutionary friendship and should be able to dispel and survive any “disruptions” in relations, Chinese President Xi Jinping told Vietnam’s Parliament yesterday. Speaking at the National Assembly in
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      Lock icon China finds money cannot buy it support in Taiwan
      840 7 THE NEW YORK TIMES HONG KONG For the past eight years, the Chinese government has showered its former enemies in Taiwan with economic gifts: Direct flights, commercial deals, even an undersea water pipeline. Trade is up more than 50 per cent,
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      70 4 (?2) CITY CHAIN OPTICAL 88 UP TO OFF DESIGNER TIMEPIECES EYEWEAR 05 07 November 2015 10:00am 7:00pm 138 Joo Seng Road #06-01 Singapore *****1 Bus Services: 22 24 |28 43 58| 62 70 70M 76 80 93 158 MRT: Tai Seng (Within walking distance, approx 10min) L TILE ROAD WE
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      103 8 wonderful* Indonesia Come and Visit Indonesia: Westgate Mall, Atrium Basement November 6 8 1 2015 .V v> J i ifli DAILY PROGRAMS TRADITIONAL DANCES 2.00 pm 2.30 pm 6.00 pm 6.30 pm MUSIC PERFORMANCE Sasando and Violin 1.00 pm 2.00 pm 5.00 pm 6.00 pm COFFEE CORNER 3.00 pm 4.00
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  • voices
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      Merger, delisting of SMRT, SBST may benefit commuters
      417 10  -  FROM WONG SHIH SHEN I refer to the report “Govt should run public transport system: Kishore” (Oct 30). Perhaps the Government, SMRT and SBS Transit can consider another model, similar to Hong Kong’s Mass Transit Railway. In 2004, MediaCorp and Singapore Press
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      Transport system needs more competition, not less
      384 10  -  FROM TANG LI I applaud the writer of “New measures enough to keep transport competitive” (Nov 3) for making a case for increasing competition in our public transport system. Despite having prospered by being friendly towards the private sector, we are strangely prone
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    • QUICK HITS
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        CHINA MADE RIGHT DECISION BY ENDING ONE-CHILD POLICY
        110 10  -  ACE KINDRED CHEONG I refer to the letter “China’s two-child policy merely new wine in old wineskins” (Nov 4). We must remember that China is the world’s most populous nation, with 1.3 billion people. Previously, China was poor and it was important
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        PROVIDE TIMELINE FOR DECISION ON CAR-HIRE APPS
        60 10  -  MOHD HAMZAH The Transport Ministry is looking into levelling the playing field for taxi drivers and third-party apps such as Uber and GrabCar, which is encouraging. Having to wait for the ministry’s decision, however, now leaves drivers of private-hire cars in limbo. A
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      Parking needs of HDB residents have priority
      210 10  -  F ROM TAN AI LING General manager (Bishan Branch), Housing Development Board We thank Mr Lim Poh Seng for sharing his views on season parking lots (“Further studies on red parking lots needed”; Nov 2). Housing and Development Board (HDB) car parks are
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      30 10 LETTER MINDSETSHIFT CRUCIAL TO WORKPLACE SAFETY Scan the QR code using the reader app on your smartphone, or you can visit bit.ly/ltrsafety1107 for the letter from U Chit Ko Pe.
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      14 10 •HAVEYOURSAY email your letters to voices@mediacorp.com.sg JOIN THE CONVERSATION facebook.com/todayonline READ MORE LETTERS todayonline.com/voices
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      204 13 We started with 400 hands. 77 hours 58 minutes later, one remained. Congratulations Nguyen Phuoc Huynh for outlasting all the other and emerging as this year's MediaCorp Subaru Car Challenge winner! A brand-new Subaru XV and $5,000 worth of free fuel from Shell is yours! And, a big thank you
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  • world
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      Lock icon Sydney hit by severe storms
      59 14 The Sydney Opera House is dwarfed by an approaching storm front as it moved along the coast towards Sydney, Australia, yesterday. Powerful storms swept across the city, with the Australian Bureau of Meteorology issuing a warning for severe thunderstorms with large hailstones, heavy rainfall and
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      Lock icon Myanmar counts down to landmark election
      860 14 On Sunday, more than 30 million voters across Myanmar can cast their ballots in the country’s first relatively free election in 25 years. The nationwide vote is a milestone in the South-east Asian nation’s transformation from isolated military dictatorship to a more open society,
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      Lock icon Dr M keeps silent after police visit, interview him
      592 15 Former PM, facing allegations ofNajib defamation, brushes off queries about possible arrest AGENCIES KUALA LUMPUR Former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, who was questioned by police yesterday over allegations that he has defamed Prime Minister Najib Razak, said that he will
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  • sports
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      TABLE TENNIS’ PUBLIC SPAT RAISES CONCERNS OVER OLYMPIC CHANCES
      485 17  -  LOW LIN FHOONG linfhoong@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Uncertainty looms over the state of the national table tennis team, currently hit by myriad issues: An unrepentant player feuding with officials, and a coaching shake-up that has seen two top-level coaches leaving their posts. The
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      Lock icon PRO EXPERIENCE HEIGHTENS RHAMANAN’S THIRST FOR MORE
      669 17  -  AMANPREET SINGH SINGAPORE His first pay cheque as a professional squash player may have been a measly AU$164 (S$165). But no amount of money can buy the satisfaction Vivian Rhamanan has been feeling after making his Professional Squash Association (PSA) debut in Australia
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      BIG-MATCH PREDICTIONS
      427 18 Man United vs West Brom The Baggies love inflicting misery on United at Old Trafford, stunning them with victories on their past two visits. Boasting four clean sheets from five away contests this term, Tony Pulis’ well-drilled outfit will quietly fancy their chances of a treble against the
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      Lock icon BORING, BORING, MAN UNITED
      1002 18  -  WHY ARE WE NOT SEEI THE ADVENTURUS ATTACKI G TEAM? ADRIAN CLARKE sports@mediacorp.com.sg Adrian Clarke is a former Arsenal midfielder who has played at every level of the English game. Now an experienced sports journalist, he writes for many publications worldwide. For the best part of
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      Lock icon COLD TREATMENT IS HOT AMONG ATHLETES
      938 19  -  The popularity of whole-body cryotherapy already a hit with sport stars is rising in S’pore LOW LIN FHOONG linfhoong@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Football superstar Cristiano Ronaldo is a fan. So is multimillionaire boxer Floyd Mayweather. And while standing semi-nude in a space-age chamber filled with -170°C
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      Lock icon DOPING PROBLEM RUNS DEEP IN RUSSIA
      665 20 Allegations that Russian athletes have routinely doped their way to success in major competitions and tried to cover up positive drug tests have shaken the world of track and field. The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) will release a report on Monday on its independent
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      LIONS HAND FIRST CALL-UP TO TAUFIK FOR JAPAN, SYRIA
      426 20 SINGAPORE Singapore national football coach Bernd Stange has handed 20-year-old forward Taufik Suparno his first call-up into the Lions squad, after star striker Khairul Amri was forced to miss the upcoming World Cup qualifiers because of injury. Taufik, who plays for
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      74 18 LIVE FIXTURES Tonight, 8.45pm Singtel StarHub Ch Ch B’mouth vs Newcastle 102 227 Tonight, 10.55pm West Ham vs Everton 103 228 Sunderland vs Saints 104 229 Norwich vs Swansea 105 230 Leicester vs Watford 106 231 Tonight, 11pm Man Utd vs West Brom 102 227 Tomorrow, 1.30am Stoke vs Chelsea
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        FROM SOUTH-EAST ASIATO DADA
        666 22  -  ART STAGE SINGAPORE REVEALS SOME OF THE HIGHLIGHTS AT NEXT YEAR’S EDITION MAYO MARTIN mayo@mediacorp.com.sg Anew Southeast Asia Forum, a tent installation celebrating 100 years of Dadaism, and talks by the likes of acclaimed architect Rem Koolhaas and celebrity auctioneer Simon de Pury these are some
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        Sweet kampung days
        469 22  -  SERENE LIM SINGAPORE Way before Kampong Glam became the heart of Malay heritage and the hip neighbourhood it is today, it gave Boat Quay a run for its money as a port town. Even its name has undergone a transformation of sorts: Its current moniker is a
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        Lock icon Ready, steady, go
        648 23  -  Who will be channelling Gerard Butler at next week’s Spartan Race? BE A SPORT JOY FANG joyfangz@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Mention the Spartans and images of gritty men with rippling muscles and rock-hard abs jostling each other immediately comes to mind and Gerard Butler shouting “This is Sparta!” But
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        STATE of THE ARTS
        213 23  -  MAYO MARTIN SINGAPORE —The National Gallery Singapore, which is set to open on Nov 24, unveiled its two-week opening celebration plans, including an art carnival on the first weekend. Also announcing plans for its next edition in January was art fair Art Stage Singapore, which includes
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        Lock icon What is the Reebok Spartan Race all about?
        176 23 SINGAPORE The Reebok Spartan Race features three categories the Sprint, a 5+ km run with over 15 obstacles, the Super, a 13+ km race with over 20 obstacles, and the Beast, a 20+ km race with over 25 obstacles. There’s also a
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        Lock icon Nightmare comes to life
        474 24  -  The Finger Players’ haunting take on the Kuo Pao Kun classic transforms war into a psychological nightmare THEATRE REVIEW: THE SPIRITS PLAY MAYO MARTIN SINGAPORE —In The Finger Players’ take on the Kuo Pao Kun classic The Spirits Play, the horrific aftermath of war has a
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    • cars
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        MIRACLE MILE
        780 25  -  BY 2050, MOST TOYOTAS WON’T ACTUALLY HAVE AN ENGINE. THE HYDROGEN-POWERED MIRAI IS ITS FIRST STEP ON THAT CO2-FREE ROAD DERRYN WONG todaycars@mediacorp.com.sg FUJI SPEEDWAY, JAPAN Toyota is again the world’s biggest car brand, and it’s made a new, very bold set of goals. By 2050, it says,
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        Forward Vision
        668 26  -  Could a supposedly dead-end technology turn out to be the petrol engine’s last hurrah? THROWBACK TO THE FUTURE LEOW JU-LEN todaycars@mediacorp.com.sg TOKYO When the Tokyo Motor Show ends tomorrow, nearly one million people will have filtered through its halls, glimpsing the future of the car as Japan’s manufacturers
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        The right ride
        659 27  -  Thinking of joining the ranks of car owners? Here’s some advice on testing and choosing a car that suits your needs CHERYL TAY todaycars@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —Owning a car here may be a big financial commitment, but it still remains an aspiration for many Singaporeans. If you’re in
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      202 24 WORLD’S LEADING OSSTAOLE RAGE Reebok SPARTAN I I MORE DAYS TO GO! RAGE DAY CHECKLIST 1. Spartan Race headband with serial number. 2. Beer wrist tag (adult racers above 18 only). 3. Gloves are useful but optional, based on your own need for rope climbing and pulling. 4. Towel, change
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      1218 28 CHANNEL tellchannel5@mediacorp.com.sg CHANNEL tellchannel8@mediacorp.com.sg 6.00AM Food Chain 6.30 On The Red Dot (HD) (CC) 7 .00 The Dr Oz Show IV (HD) 8.00 JML TV Home Shopping (Paid Presentation) 9.00 Wheel Of Fortune XXXI (HD) (CC) 10.00 Undercover Boss C USA III 11.00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show XII (HD) NOON
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      1202 29 CHANNEL tellchannel5@mediacorp.com.sg CHANNEL tellchannel8@mediacorp.com.sg 6.00AM Lose To Win II 6.30 Talking Point (HD) 7.00 The Dr Oz Show IV (HD) 8.00 JML TV Home Shopping (Paid Presentation) 9.00 Wheel Of Fortune XXXI (HD) (CC) 10.00 Undercover Boss C USA III 11.00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show XII (HD) NOON Jamie’s 15
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      316 30 ON SATURDAY 6.00AM News Plus The Best Of Body Soul With Daniel Martin 10.00 News Plus Weekend Brunch And Out About With Angela Lim And Daphne Lim NOON News Plus Sports Review Of The Week 6.00PM News Plus The Wow Club And Talking Books With Michelle Martin 7.00AM Asia Pop
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      301 30 MediaCorp’s latest online TV service offers entertainment, lifestyle, information and news across multiple devices. Log on to www.toggle.sg or download the Toggle App now. E: English C: Chinese M: Malay T: Tamil FREE TOGGLE LIVE!... Watch any LIVE broadcast programmes anywhere! FORMULA E 2015/16 Watch the second round of the
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    Lock icon A Torrent Of Migrants May Worsen
    1297 1  -  By ROD NORDLAND INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY SID, Serbia They arrived in an unceasing stream, 10,000 a day at the height, as many as a million migrants heading for Europe this year, pushing infants in strollers and elderly parents in wheelchairs, carrying life savings in their
    INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY; SERGEY PONOMAREV FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES; Source: Frontex; THE NEW YORK TIMES  -  1,297 words
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    Lock icon Measuring the Melting Ice
    1406 1  -  This article is by Coral Davenport, Josh Haner, Larry Buchanan and Derek Watkins. INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY On the Greenland Ice Sheet THE MIDNIGHT SUN still gleamed at 1 a.m. across the brilliant expanse of the Greenland ice sheet. Brandon Overstreet, a doctoral candidate in hydrology at the
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  • WORLD TRENDS
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      Lock icon Watching ‘Narcos’ in a Transformed Medellín
      824 2  -  INTELLIGENCE INTELLIGENCE/ERNESTO LONDOÑO THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY Ernesto Londoño is a member of The New York Times editorial board. Send comments to intelligence@nytimes.com. Medellín, Colombia Considering how ostentatiously he lived, Pablo Escobar has a resting place that is curiously modest. Mr. Escobar,
      THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY; PAUL SMITH FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES  -  824 words
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      Lock icon Cuba and U.S. Seek Détente in Baseball
      482 2  -  By MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT and JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY WASHINGTON Getting from Cuba to the United States to play professional baseball has never just been about 140-meter home runs and 160-kilometer-an-hour fastballs. When the New York Mets’ outfielder
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      Lock icon In a City of Trams, Tuk-Tuks Make Inroads
      620 3  -  LISBON JOURNAL By RAPHAEL MINDER THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY LISBON Residents of this port city of faded beauty and ornately tiled facades have welcomed a surge of tourists in recent years who have helped turn around an economic slide. But
      THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY; PATRICIA DE MELO MOREIRA FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES  -  620 words
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      Lock icon Going After Faux Greek Farmers
      824 3  -  By SUZANNE DALEY and DIMITRIS BOUNIAS THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY FOTOLIVOS, Greece In a stone cottage beside his pomegranate fields here in northern Greece, Christos Gontias, 46, believes his way of life is on the line. “I’m in love with the land,” said
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      Lock icon Sit Still. Stand Up. Repeat.
      571 5  -  LENS TESS FELDER THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY A sedentary lifestyle is said to be bad for a person’s health. And yet, particularly in today’s fastpaced world, we are advised of the benefits of stopping to be mindful. So should we sit still or
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      Lock icon Questions in Iraq Over Cleric’s Role
      856 6  -  NEWS ANALYSIS By TIM ARANGO THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY NAJAF, Iraq In the struggle to transform Iraq from a dictatorship to a democracy after the Ameri-can-led invasion in 2003, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, the highest spiritual authority for many of the world’s
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      Lock icon After Deadly Encampment Fire, Little Empathy for Outcast Irish
      627 6  -  By DOUGLAS DALBY THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY CARRICKMINES, Ireland The fire tore through the encampment, claiming the lives of 10 people from two families, including five young children and a pregnant woman. The October 10 tragedy in the Dublin
      THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY; PAULO NUNES DOS SANTOS FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES  -  627 words
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      93 7 THE ALL-NEW NOW ON EVERY ANDROID DEVICE ANDROID NATIVE. Built from scratch to maximise your smartphone or tablet’s potential. SOCIALLY ADEPT. Share the latest breaking news on your network of choice, be it Facebook, Twitter or Google+. Or Bookmark a story so you can visit it at your own leisure.
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  • MONEY & BUSINESS
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      Lock icon Walmart Challenged In an Amazon World
      748 8  -  NEWS ANALYSIS By JAMES B. STEWART THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY When Walmart announced recently that it was significantly increasing its investment in e-com-merce, it tacitly acknowledged that it had fallen far behind Amazon in the race for online customers. Walmart first said
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      Lock icon Bankers in Cyprus Atone for Their Role in Crisis
      759 8  -  By JACK EWING THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY NICOSIA, Cyprus The Swiss banker Josef Ackermann played a role in nearly destroying the Cyprus banking system in 2013. Now he was back in this sleepy capital, toiling to fix one of
      THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY; TARA TODRAS-WHITEHILL FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES  -  759 words
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      Lock icon In Canada, Oil Sands Boom Ends
      816 9  -  By IAN AUSTEN THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY FORT McMURRAY, Alberta At a camp for oil workers here, a collection of 16 three-story buildings that once housed 2,000 workers sits empty. With oil prices falling precipitously, capital-intensive projects rooted in the heavy crude
      THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY; IAN WILLMS FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES; THE NEW YORK TIMES  -  816 words
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      Lock icon Disney Does a Reboot Of the ‘Star Wars’ Games
      600 9  -  By BROOKS BARNES and NICK WINGFIELD THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY LOS ANGELES Never mind the movie. The first big test of the unearthly riches that Disney hopes to mine from “Star Wars” is a video game. Over the last
      THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY; ELECTRONIC ARTS  -  600 words
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  • SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
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      Lock icon Young Companies Enter Race for Fusion Energy
      645 10  -  By DINO GRANDONI THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY A group of start-ups is promising a virtually unlimited source of power, one that produces none of the gases scientists say contribute to global warming. The only problem? A way to harness the energy
      THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY; EMILY BERL FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES  -  645 words
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      Lock icon H.I.V. Could Soften Drug Policies
      741 10  -  By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr. THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY In North America and Western Europe, H.I.V. is mostly transmitted through gay sex. In Africa, the focus of most Western aid, it is spread through heterosexual sex. But in many countries notably Russia and
      THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY; ADAM DEAN FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES  -  741 words
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      Lock icon Tomb Is a Window Into the Dawn of European Civilization
      914 11  -  By NICHOLAS WADE THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY Archaeologists digging at Pylos, an ancient city on the southwest coast of Greece, have discovered the rich grave of a warrior who was buried at the dawn of European civilization. The
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