Today, 19 July 2016

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  • 14 1 TODAYONLINE.COM WE SET YOU THINKING TUESDAY, 19 JULY 2016 MCI (P) 026/06/2016 TODAY mediacorp
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  • 51 1 FRANCE FALLSSILENT FOR ATTACK VICTIMS People gathering on the Promenade des Anglais in Nice on Monday as France observed a minute’s silence for the victims of last Thursday’s Bastille Day attack, when a man drove a truck through revellers, killing 84 people.WORLD 24 PHOTO:
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  • 692 1 AGENCIES BEIJING —China will not halt the construction of islands and reefs in the South China Sea, the country’s navy chief said yesterday, as Beijing announced new military drills in the disputed waters after an international tribunal
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  • 941 1  -  Republic’s investment firm may buy remaining 46% of shares that it does not own SMRT SHARES SUSPENDED FOR SECOND DAY ABDUL HADHI AND ALFRED CHUA abdulhadhi@mediacorp.com.sg alfredchuam@mediacorp.com .sg WITH AGENCIES SINGAPORE —The Republic’s investment firm Temasek Holdings is exploring the
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    • 42 1 MALAYSIA’S DILEMMA: RECONCILING ITS DEEPENING TIES WITH BEIJING WITH ITS OWN SOUTH CHINA SEA CLAIMS COMMENT&ANALYSIS 12 NAZAL sato n m SPRAV NAIAL NEW PACKAGING Reverting to a closed world will make everyone worse off: PM Lee HOT NEWS 10 people.WORLD 24
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  • hot news
    • 557 2  -  Signing to pave way for line’s construction tender; PM Lee to attend ceremony in Putrajaya TAN WEIZHEN IN KUALA LUMPUR tanweizhen@mediacorp.com.sg KUALA LUMPUR —Three years after Singapore and Malaysia announced a historic High-Speed Rail (HSR) linking Singapore and Kuala
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    • 709 4 Bank has so far received more than 1,000 calls this month from public and customers SINGAPORE —A sharp rise in reports in recent weeks related to phone scams, where callers impersonate OCBC Bank employees, has led the bank to issue
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    • 1022 6 Arrests after failed military coup lead to fears the rule of law is being abandoned AGENCIES ISTANBUL —Turkey has detained more than 7,500 people so far, Ankara said yesterday, widening a purge of the armed forces and judiciary after a failed military
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    • 284 6 AGENCIES Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim yesterday stepped up pressure on the United States to extradite exiled cleric Fethullah Gulen, accused by Ankara of being behind a failed military coup late on Friday in which more than 200 people were killed.
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    • 1258 8 THE NEW YORK TIMES ISTANBUL Turkey’s liberals have spent years feeling that the country was being piloted in the wrong direction by a very powerful captain. They have watched with trepidation as President Recep Tayyip Erdogan expanded his powers,
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    • 1039 10  -  Challenge is for leaders to convey this fundamental reality to people he says KENNETH CHENG kennethcjw@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —In a globalised world, it is important that countries stay open or everyone would be “worse off” because the levels of
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    • 1041 10 (2nd Edition)  -  Challenge is for leaders to convey this fundamental reality to people he says KENNETH CHENG kennethcjw@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —In a globalised world, it is important that countries stay open or everyone would be “worse off” because the levels of
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    • 618 11  -  RUMIHARDASMALANI rumih@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE In a long-awaited move that will strengthen its corporate governance, the Singapore Exchange (SGX) will set up a subsidiary to carry out its regulatory role, more explicitly separating its regulatory functions from its commercial operations. The new subsidiary will
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    • 36 6 COMMENT&ANALYSIS IS FETHULLAH GULEN A MODERNISER OR WOLF IN SHEEP’S CLOTHING? 14 HOT NEWS FOR TURKS, ‘THE WORST DEMOCRACY IS BETTER THAN THE BEST COUP’ 8 VOICES TURKEY COUP, TIANANMEN PROTEST SIMILARITIES WORTH LEARNING FROM 16
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  • comment & analysis
    • 1611 12  -  SCARBOROUGH SHOAL A KEY FLASHPOINT GEOFF DYERAND TOM MITCHELL Geoff Dyer and Tom Mitchell are Financial Times’ correspondents in Washington and Beijing, respectively. Whoever replaces United States President Barack Obama will face many difficult choices, but few are likely to be as stark
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    • 1037 12  -  UNDERSTANDING PUTRAJAYA’S NUANCED RESPONSE TO VERDICT TANG SIEW MUN Tang Siew Mun is a senior fellow at the Regional Strategic and Political Studies Programme at Iseas-Yusof Ishak Institute, where he is also concurrently head of the Asean Studies Centre.
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    • 1480 14 THE MAN ‘BEHIND THE TURKISH COUP’ Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has publicly accused his bitter rival Mr Fethullah Gulen, a reclusive cleric who has been in self-imposed exile in the United States, of organising a failed coup over the
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    • 835 15  -  PERFECTING THE ART OF POISED EXASPERATION LUCY KELLAWAY Lucy Kellaway is the Financial Times’ associate editor and management columnist. Last week, an anonymous colleague of Theresa May’s told the Financial Times how the new British Prime Minister used to comport
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    • 48 12 It is to the credit of (Turkey’s President) Erdogan and (his rival) Fethullah Gulen that significant parts of the military, the opposition and the public backed Turkey’s democratically elected President and helped foil the coup, irrespective of what they thought of his politics and leadership. JAMES DORSEY 14
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  • china & india
    • 1117 22 The number of those calling for ‘Anyone But CY Leung’ to lead Hong Kong is growing SUPPORTERS INCLUDE PRO-ESTABLISHMENT CAMPS BLOOMBERG HONG KONG —Hong Kong is readying another test of China’s willingness to satisfy its democratic yearnings: A cross-party campaign to replace the
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    • 1482 23 Hardliners push Prime Minister to build over old mosque site REUTERS AYODHYA (INDIA) Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was flying high in June, jetting from Afghanistan to Mexico in a whirlwind of red carpet diplomacy crowned by a speech to
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  • business
    • 579 26  -  Last month’s slump confirms views that improvement in May was not sustainable NON-OIL DOMESTIC EXPORTS FALL 2.3% LEE YEN NEE leeyennee@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —Sales of locally produced goods to overseas markets slipped in June after a huge gain in the previous month,
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    • 501 26 BLOOMBERG SINGAPORE —Holders of Singapore-dol-lar bonds, already stung by the first default since 2009, face more companies struggling to meet the terms of their debt, after two oil and gas companies sought to extend maturities. Ausgroup and Otto Marine are among 10 Singapore-listed firms
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    • 546 27 US presidential race adds to global uncertainty as the precious metal stays in favour BLOOMBERG SINGAPORE Gold is in a major bull market and may surge to more than US$1,500 (S$1,976) an ounce as low interest rates buoy demand and the United
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  • technology
    • 850 28 NEED FOR SPEED REUTERS MANILA Patrolling downtown Manila in his new Toyota, Uber driver Daniel Canezal, 61, is grumpy. It is not the heat, grime or traffic of the capital’s clogged streets, it is the Philippines’ ramshackle Internet service that is
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    • 479 28 BLOOMBERG HONG KONG SoftBank Group agreed to buy ARM Holdings for £24.3 billion (S$43.36 billion), securing a slice of virtually every mobile computing gadget on the planet and future connected devices in the home. The Japanese company is offering 1,700
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  • sports
    • 841 29  -  Team Singapore aims to defend two bronze medals at the Olympics, but Feng wants to ‘focus on the journey’ DETERMINED TO ENJOY THIRD GAMES OUTING LOW LIN FHOONG linfhoong@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —The Republic’s women’s table tennis team head into the Rio Olympic
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    • 287 29 REUTERS SHANGHAI China will send 416 athletes to Rio de Janeiro next month, its largest overseas delegation in Olympic history, continuing its pursuit of medals that saw it take second spot in the table behind the United States four years ago. The
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    • 801 30  -  Local start-up unveils prototype for sports rehabilitation STANLEY HO Deputy Sports Editor stanleyho@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —Singapore national basketball player Chase Tan is a happy customer of his new physiotherapist, Emma. “Emma’s back massages are quite good,” said the Mediacorp artiste. His only gripe,
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    • 379 30 AFP SHANGHAI —Former Chelsea striker Demba Ba’s career could be over after the 31-year-old suffered a horrific broken leg in the Shanghai derby at the weekend. The Senegalese marksman tangled with SIPG defender and captain Sun Xiang in the
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    • 687 32 AFP TROON (UNITED KINGDOM) At the age of 40, Henrik Stenson is hoping his long-awaited first major victory at the British Open on Sunday proves to be just the beginning of more good things to come. Stenson had long been considered one
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    • 412 32 REUTERS MELBOURNE World No 1 Jason Day has hit back at critics of the golfers who have elected to skip the Rio de Janeiro Olympics. Golf’s return to the Olympics for the first time since 1904 has been soured by
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    • 59 33 QUICK EXIT SINGAPORE ART MUSEUM’S HEAD HONCHO LEAVES AFTER LESS THAN A YEAR ON THE JOB TUESDAY, 19 JULY 2016 35 TODAY EXCLUSIVE STRESSFUL BUSINESS WHY SIMON PEGG WANTED TO QUIT WRITING FOR STAR TREK BEYOND THREE TIMES 36 34 TAKING A LOAD OFF KIT CHAN ON DECLUTTERING HER LIFE
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  • culture & lifestyle
    • 895 34  -  KIT CHAN’ S FIRST ORIGINAL ALBUM IN 12 YEARS REFLECTS HER CURRENT ATTITUDE TO LIFE RACHEL KWEK features@mediacorp.com.sg Twelve years is a long time for an artiste to be away, and it seems homegrown songbird Kit Chan has a lot to say in her new album of
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    • Article, Illustration
      655 35  -  Singapore Art Museum chief quits after less than a year QUIET DEPARTURE REENADEVI SINGAPORE —Less than a year after marketing and arts management specialist Leng Tshua took on the post as the Singapore Art Museum’s (SAM) chief executive officer (CEO), the 52-year-old has stepped down, with nary a
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    • 264 35  -  MAYSEAH SINGAPORE —Dog owners will soon have anew event to hang out at with their pooches. The inaugural All ‘Bout Canines carnival, to be held in October, will be the first canine lifestyle event of its kind. Organised by marketing agency Luminart,
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    • 887 36 Simon Pegg talks about his challenges writing for Star Trek Beyond TODAY EXCLUSIVE Star Trek fans. TRANSCRIPT: UNITED INTERNATIONAL PICTURES SINGAPORE The pressures of writing for a sci-fi movie (that is part of a mega franchise) can get to anyone. That much rings true for English
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  • Page 38 Miscellaneous
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  • Page 39 Miscellaneous
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