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  • 13 1 TODAY TODAYONLINE.COM WE SET YOU THINKING mediacorp WEDNESDAY, 3 FEBRUARY 2016 MCI(P) 021/06/2015
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  • 47 1 THE LONG WAY HOMEPassengers waiting to board a train at Shanghai Hongqiao Railway Station in China yesterday. Hundreds of thousands of migrant workers are making their way home ahead of Chinese New Year the country’s most important holiday on Feb 8. PHOTO: REUTERS
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    • 105 1 IS THERE A MIDDLE GROUND WHERE CHILDREN CAN USE SOCIAL NETWORKS WITHOUT COMING TO EMOTIONAL HARM COMMENT&ANALYSIS 16 Young Lions snag S$4m sponsorship deal from e-gaming company Garena HOT NEWS 4 nffli hSTdeals uimfTfi BULL'S BBQ SAUCE >* r •a CHICKEN NUGGETS (6PCS) NEAL: $4» WASABI FISH'N CRISP™ NEAL: $4«
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  • 1098 1  -  Fixed-asset investments forecast to total S$8b-S$10b a 13 to 30 per cent drop from 2015 LEE YEN NEE leeyennee@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —The Republic is expected to suffer a plunge in inbound investments of as much as 30 per cent this year in light
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  • 934 1 AGENCIES SINGAPORE —Countries around the Asia-Pacific region are shoring up their defences against the Zika virus by raising their alerts and putting in place measures to prevent an outbreak as more cases were reported yesterday, a day after the World Health Organization (WHO)
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  • 47 1 (2nd Edition) THE LONG WAY HOMEPassengers waiting to board a train at Shanghai Hongqiao Railway Station in China yesterday. Hundreds of thousands of migrant workers are making their way home ahead of Chinese New Year the country’s most important holiday on Feb 8. PHOTO: REUTERS
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  • 1098 1 (2nd Edition)  -  Fixed-asset investments forecast to total S$8b-S$10b a 13 to 30 per cent drop from 2015 LEE YEN NEE leeyennee@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —The Republic is expected to suffer a plunge in inbound investments of as much as 30 per cent this year in light
    Source: Economic Development Board (EDB); TODAY  -  1,098 words
  • 935 1 (2nd Edition) AGENCIES SINGAPORE —Countries around the Asia-Pacific region are shoring up their defences against the Zika virus by raising their alerts and putting in place measures to prevent an outbreak as more cases were reported yesterday, a day after the World Health Organization
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    • 105 1 (2nd Edition) IS THERE A MIDDLE GROUND WHERE CHILDREN CAN USE SOCIAL NETWORKS WITHOUT COMING TO EMOTIONAL HARM COMMENT&ANALYSIS 16 Young Lions snag S$4m sponsorship deal from e-gaming company Garena HOT NEWS 4 nffli hSTdeals uimfTfi BULL'S BBQ SAUCE >* r •a CHICKEN NUGGETS (6PCS) NEAL: $4» WASABI FISH'N CRISP™ NEAL: $4«
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  • hot news
    • 557 2 GEARS UP TO COMBAT OUTBREAK IN LATIN AMERICA, AVOID SPREAD TO ASIA AGENCIES GENEVA —Less than a day after declaring the Zika virus and its suspected link to birth defects an international public health emergency, the World Health Organization (WHO) said
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    • 557 2 (2nd Edition) GEARS UP TO COMBAT OUTBREAK IN LATIN AMERICA, AVOID SPREAD TO ASIA AGENCIES GENEVA —Less than a day after declaring the Zika virus and its suspected link to birth defects an international public health emergency, the World Health Organization (WHO) said
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    • 730 4  -  FRANCIS LAW francislaw@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —Counsellors, lawyers and Members of Parliament yesterday welcomed the police’s review of their procedures when questioning young persons, as they called for the Appropriate Adult (AA) scheme under which an adult will be present when persons
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    • 730 4 (2nd Edition)  -  FRANCIS LAW francislaw@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —Counsellors, lawyers and Members of Parliament yesterday welcomed the police’s review of their procedures when questioning young persons, as they called for the Appropriate Adult (AA) scheme under which an adult will be present when persons
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    • 772 4  -  AMANPREET SINGH SINGAPORE The Young Lions, an S.League club run by the Football Association of Singapore (FAS), clinched what it says is the biggest cash sponsorship deal ever for an S.League club when it unveiled e-gaming and e-commerce company Garena as its
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    • 780 4 (2nd Edition)  -  AMANPREET SINGH S I N G A P O R E The Young Lions, an S.League club run by the Football Association of Singapore (FAS), clinched what it says is the biggest cash sponsorship deal ever for an S.League club when it
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    • 677 6  -  ANGELA TENG angelateng@mediacorp.com.sg value-added activities,” Mr Yeoh explained. ADDITIONAL REPORTING BY LEE YEN NEE SINGAPORE The Republic’s manufacturing sector contracted for the seventh straight month in January although the start of the year is traditionally busier ahead of the Chinese New Year holidays.
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    • 678 6 (2nd Edition)  -  ANGELA TENG angelateng@mediacorp.com.sg tivities,” Mr Yeoh explained. ADDITIONal REPORTING BY LEE YEN NEE SING A PORE The Republic’s manufacturing sector contracted for the seventh straight month in January although the start of the year is traditionally busier ahead of the Chinese New Year
      tivities,” Mr Yeoh explained. ADDITIONal REPORTING BY LEE YEN NEE  -  678 words
    • 906 8  -  YES, SCHEME IS STILL RELEVANT NEOCHAI CHIN, CLIFFORD LEE SINGAPORE The public may submit the names of people they wish to see as Nominated Members of Parliament (NMPs) from now until Feb 23, with an eight-member committee led by
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    • 631 8  -  ASYRAF KAMIL SINGAPORE Having served a relatively short term in Parliament just one year before an election was called last year some immediate-past Nominated Members of Parliament have expressed an interest in seeking reappointment. Others who served at the same time, however, said they
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    • 556 10 AGENCIES DES MOINES, IOWA (UNITED STATES) Texas Senator Ted Cruz, a fiery conservative loathed by his own party’s leaders, swept to victory in Iowa’s Republican caucuses yesterday, overcoming billionaire Donald Trump and a strong-er-than-expected showing by Florida Senator Marco Rubio. In the
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    • 995 12 THE NEW YORK TIMES NEW HAMPSHIRE Hours before the end of the Iowa caucuses, three Republican candidates had already assembled in New Hampshire to rally their supporters for the primary next week. Anticipating disappointment in Iowa, the group made up of current and
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  • comment analysis
    • 953 14  -  MARKET-SAVVY OFFICIALS REQUIRED TO IMPLEMENT MEASURES IN SHORT, LONG TERM ANDREW SHENG, XIAO GENG Andrew Sheng is distinguished fellow of the Asia Global Institute at the University of Hong Kong and a member of the United Nations Environment Programme Advisory Council on
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    • 959 16  -  CLOSE, HEALTHY PARENT-CHILD RELATION SHIPKEY TO CURBING NEGATIVE EFFECTS DIXON HO Dixon Ho is a fellow of the Institute of Asian Consumer Insight and an assistant professor of Marketing at the Nanyang Business School, NTU Singapore. His research interests include business-to-business marketing,
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    • 968 18  -  THE BEST QUOTES FROM THE ECONOMIC FORUM ARE MOSTLY DISMAL TWADDLE LUCY KELLAWAY Lucy Kellaway is an associate editor and management columnist at The Financial Times. FINANCIAL TIMES You can always go faster than you think you can. Those are not my words. They
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    • 57 14 m Oi fity <’ fC<A fL > Op n "> op Cv CV o fv Chinatown Chinese New Year Celebrations 2016 16 January 8 March COUNTDOWN PARTY STREET LIGHT-UP FESTIVE STREET STALLS NIGHTLY STAGE SHOWS CHINATOWN WISHING TREE For more information: www.chinatownfestivals.sg Organised by: Kreta Ayer Kim Seng Citizens’ Consultative
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    • 23 14 Is there a middle ground where children can enjoy the freedom to use social networks without coming to emotional harm? DIXON HO 16
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    • 118 18 Luhite sands W Spring is here at an all-new White Sands! Mall-Wide Lc Hei 13 Feb '16, Saturday 12.30pm to 2pm Around the Mall McFrills Kerdama Jan jointly organised by Cube Sprout/ NoFrillsFactoryOutlet 13 Feb '16, Saturday 4.30pm to 9pm Atrium Ladder Challenge Win a 2-night stay at The Canopi,
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  • voices
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    • 308 21 Exclusive Cny Discounts Welcome the Lunar New Year with Bioskin’s wide array of beauty gift hampers and festive products! The Solution To Troubled Skin Biosm SKIN REJUVENATION INTERNAL LUBRICATION OVERALL WELL-BEING CNY HAMPERS ONLY AT OUR POP-UP STORE AT ROBINSONS (JEM and Raffles City branches only) t INNER SUNSCREEN INNER
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  • singapore
    • 642 22  -  JUDICIAL COMMISSIONER MAKES IT CLEAR IN LIGHT OF CASE INVOLVING CHARITABLE TRUST KELLY NG kellyng@mediacorp.com.sg SING A PORE The Islamic Religious Council of Singapore (MUIS) is the only body that oversees all Muslim matters, including the administration of Muslim
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    • 249 22 SINGAPORE Ridership on the Downtown Line (DTL) has risen by up to 30 per cent since the work and school year began on Jan 4, said Transport Minister Khaw Boon Wan yesterday. “This has also brought benefits to
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    • 189 24 SINGAPORE —Close to 33,800 babies were born in Singapore last year, the highest annual number of births in more than a decade. Senior Minister of State (Prime Minister’s Office) Josephine Teo, who announced the figure yesterday, said she was “very encouraged”
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    • 550 24  -  KELLY NG kellyng@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Promising monthly profits of S$30,000 for investing in a coffee shop business, a freelance driver managed to cheat a childhood friend of over S$26,000. When he was nabbed by the police in a routine check, investigations
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    • 500 24  -  CLIFFORD LEE SINGAPORE Waste paper, which is of little use to most, has been given a new lease of life by National University of Singapore (NUS) researchers: As a “super material” that can absorb oils up to four times its weight, making
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    • 156 23 DO YOUR PART TO HELP 80 FAMILIES IN NEED As a part of Mediacorp radio station’s 80th anniversary, in partnership with Daikin Singapore, we are committed to bring relief to 80 needy families by providing them with household necessities and subsidising their monthly bills for an entire year. A partially
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    • 150 24 Chinese New Year 2016 Celebrations 7 to 22 Feb A 16-day festival at the 176-year-old “living” national monument and an architectural masterpiece. Bask in the history of Singapore Chinese customs, traditions, culture and heritage. Traditional Temple Fair on 7 Feb @10pm Calligraphy Paper Cutting Traditional Red Date Tea Stilt Walkers
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  • health
    • 688 26  -  Implant relieves heart-failure symptoms such as shortness of breath BUYS THE TEENAGER TIME AS HE AWAITS TRANSPLANT EVELINE GAN eveline@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE In late 2011, advanced heart failure left teenager Choong Wei Tzen on the brink of death. With a condition called dilated cardiomyopathy,
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    • 648 27  -  EVELINE GAN SINGAPORE About half of advanced heart-failure patients do not survive beyond a year if they rely only on medication, said Dr C Sivathasan, director of the Heart Transplant and Mechanical Assist Device Programme at National Heart Centre Singapore (NHCS).
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  • china & india
    • 1251 28 MUSLIMS IN NINGXIA FACE FEWER RESTRICTIONS THAN IN TROUBLED AREAS SUCH AS XINJIANG THE NEWYORK TIMES WUZHONG (CHINA) As the call to prayer echoed off the high walls of the madrasah and into the surrounding village, dozens of
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    • 651 29 Children ’s Minister says they would lead to a fall in the country’s high levels of female foeticide AFP NEW DELHI —India’s Children’s Minister has called for mandatory tests to determine the sex of an unborn child, in a bid to counter
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    • 276 29 Marriage Convention 19 20 March 2016 Families for Life brings to you Marriage Convention 2016 MY LOVE OUR MARRIAGE Join us and hear from internationally- renowned clinical psychologist, Dr. Huang Wei-Jen, also known as Dr. Love, and other local marriage experts for insights on how couples at different stages of
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  • world
    • 848 30  -  Expert says SEA needs to move beyond a simplistic view of US-China regional politics HIGHLIGHTS COMPLEXITIES OF GROWING REGIONAL ARCHITECTURE ALBERT WAI albertwai@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE One of the factors that may undermine the United States’ relationship with South-east Asia is how
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    • 682 31 Former UMNO members question M’sian A-G’s decision not to press charges against PM AGENCIES KUALA LUMPUR —Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak is not one of the suspected public officials in Switzerland’s criminal investigation into 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB), said
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    • 699 32 Source says party will meet soon to decide the fate of Shwe Mann and his supporters EXPULSION TALK DOGS FORMER PARLIAMENTARY SPEAKER THE MYANMAR TIMES N AY P Y I DAW Crushed and humbled by Myanmarese voters at last November’s polls,
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    • 606 33 Rare double dissolution is a ‘live option ’to be weighed up as Senate stymies legislation AGENCIES CANBERRA —Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull told government colleagues yesterday that an early General Election within weeks was “a live option”, said a government minister.
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  • business
    • 543 34 Men have significantly more debt than women HALF OF THESE OWE AT LEAST S$10,000 SINGAPORE —Even without including housing loans, one in three investors here are saddled with debt, mainly because of living expenses such as food, utilities and transportation and
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    • 523 34 SINGAPORE Ahead of Budget 2016, which will be unveiled next month, business consultancy PwC has put forward a set of recommendations to boost Singapore’s economy. These include co-ordinated government assistance for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), refining the Productivity and Innovation
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  • technology
    • 394 35 But Facebook is still working out how to make money from the popular messaging app AGENCIES SAN FRANCISCO —When Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg agreed to pay a staggering US$19 billion (S$27 billion) for WhatsApp in February 2014, his justification was simple: The messaging
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  • sports
    • 607 36  -  From recreational to serious cyclists, federation plans events for everyone NETS SINGAPORE CEO WANTS A FRESH START FOR SPORT LOW LIN FHOONG linfhoong@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Three months after assuming office at the Singapore Cycling Federation (SCF), newlyelected president Jeffrey Goh and his 10-man team are
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    • 485 36  -  ADELENE WONG SINGAPORE It is not a record that makes for pretty viewing. For the past three S.League seasons, the Young Lions, effectively the national Under-23 team with two foreign signings, have finished near the bottom of the table. The team,
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    • 924 37 Govt warning on Zika virus comes as WHO declares global emergency AGENCIES RIO DE JANEIRO Brazil has issued a warning to pregnant women to stay away from the Summer Olympics in August after the World Health Organization (WHO) declared an
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    • 945 38  -  GUARDIOLA COUP BOOSTS AMBITIONS TO OVERTAKE THE RED DEVILS COMMENTARY BY PAUL HAYWARD Paul Hayward is the chief sports writer at the Daily Telegraph. THE DAILY TELE GRAPH If you thought Jurgen Klopp to Liverpool was big, observe the euphoria at Manchester City,
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    • 346 38 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH LONDON —John Terry (picture) could earn £20 million (S$41 million) net by playing just one season in China when his Chelsea career finishes at the end of this campaign. The Chelsea captain has announced that he will not be
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  • Page 36 Miscellaneous
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    • 49 39 WEDNESDAY, 3 FEBRUARY 2016 40 P HO T O C HUA HONG Y IN TWO OF SINGAPORE’S TOP STARS TALK ABOUT WHAT IT REALLY MEANS TO BE A CELEBRITY 41 GIG NEWS JAY CHOU ANNOUNCES NEW S’PORE CONCERT 44 DON’T SHOW, DO TELL WHY TECHNOLOGY IS CRAMPING OUR IMAGINATION
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  • culture & lifestyle
    • Article, Illustration
      1515 40  -  AILEEN TAN AND MARK LEE QUIZ EACH OTHER IN THEIR MOST CANDID CONVERSATION YET GENEVIEVE LOH genevieveloh@mediacorp.com.sg She’s the bilingual Mediacorp actress who charmed her way into Singaporean audiences’ hearts when she won First Runner-Up and Miss Photogenic at the first Star Search back in 1988. He is
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    • 112 41 SINGAPORE Jay Chou, sometimes dubbed Asia’s reigning Mandopop King, is returning to Singapore later this year, with his all-new concert tour at the National Stadium. But don’t click “enter” yet. Tickets only go on sale from Feb 24 from Sports Hub Tix
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    • 584 44  -  Theatre actress Danyah Miller says technology is impeding children’s ability to craft their own stories KIDSFEST 2016 JOY FANG SINGAPORE —It’s a common gripe: The widespread use of technology and the easy access of visuals and information at the click of a button has wreaked havoc on
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    • 116 40 PICK OF THE POPS 933 Tune in to YES 933’s weekly chart show hosted by Zhong Kunhua and Chen Ning, every Fri 8-10pm or Sun 12-1pm (encore). YOUR TOP 20 SONGS Sunday 31 January t 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 不林失蔡再
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