Today, 8 December 2016

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  • 14 1 TODAY TODAYONLINE.COM mediacorp THURSDAY, 8 DECEMBER 2016 WE SET YOU THINKING MCI (P) 026/06/2016
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  • 747 1 AGENCIES M E U R E U D U I N D O N E S I A A strong earthquake rocked Indonesia’s Aceh province early yesterday, killing nearly 100 people and injuring more than 500, and sparking a
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    • 202 1 UMNO HAS ALWAYS EXTOLLED THE IMPORTANCE OF LOYALTY TO THE PRIME MINISTER AS A WAY TO FIGHT OFF THREATS COMMENT&ANALYSIS 16 u, v V Dagiof CkniWi SUPER, cm 08 December 2016 www.giantsingapore.com.sg/christmas WHOOPS Frozen Strawberries 500g _u^v$e^5 Singapore lacks an innovative culture? British inventor doesn’t think so HOT NEWS 14
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  • hot news
    • 863 2  -  TELCOS HELPING AFFECTED CUSTOMERS WITH TRANSITION TAN WEIZHEN tanweizhen@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —Roughly four months before the 2G network is shut down in April, some major businesses including SMRT and NETS are yet to fully switch to 3G or 4G, despite some prompting
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    • 882 4 Involvement of veteran senator Bob Dole suggests well-planned strategy not a diplomatic gaffe AGENCIES WASHINGTON —Taiwan has used former United States senator Bob Dole as an agent to establish contact with US President-elect Donald Trump’s staff, an outreach effort that
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    • 700 6  -  SUE-ANN CHIA, BEN HO sueannchiasy@mediacorp.com.sg ben.ho@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —While the Chinese government was cool in its response to United States President-elect Donald Trump’s protocol-breaking call with Taiwan’s president, the reaction of Chinese netizens was the exact opposite hot and bothered. What fanned the flames
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    • 500 8 He will continue to hold directorships in NTUC Foodfare and NTUC Link SINGAPORE —Three years after he was appointed as the first group chief executive of NTUC Enterprise, Mr Tan Suee Chieh is leaving the organisation, which will be searching
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    • 501 10 AGENCIES BANDA ACEH —After performing her ablutions for her morning prayers, Ms Murni Nasir was startled by crackling sounds in the ceiling and crushing cutlery. After being in shock for about 10 seconds, the 24-year-old resident of Bireuen in Aceh, Indonesia, started to
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    • 1146 12  -  EILEEN NG eileenng@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —Mindful of how a hardline approach could backfire and create a new generation of extremists, Malaysia has taken a softer approach towards the deradicalisation of Islamic militants and the move has paid off, said Mr Nur Jazlan, the country’s
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    • 384 12 AGENCIES SYDNEY —An 18-year-old was sentenced yesterday to seven years in prison for planning a Mother’s Day attack in Melbourne’s central business district, the latest in a series of plots in Australia involving teenagers. The young man was in the process of
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    • 1064 14  -  LEE YEN NEE leeyennee@mediacorp.com.sg MALMESBURY (UNITED KINGDOM) —As a billionaire entrepreneur and serial inventor, well-known British industrialist James Dyson, 69, is in a better position than most to recognise innovation and talent the latest buzzwords in the global economy when
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    • 504 14 SINGAPORE —The lack of physical activity, and the desire for more affordable and accessible healthy food options in and outside of schools were among issues flagged by the public to the highlevel taskforce working on recommendations to foster
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  • comment & analysis
    • 997 16  -  RACE, RELIGION, PATRONAGE DOMINATE ANNUAL UMNO MEETING AIDA AROSOAIE ANDMOHAMED NAWAB OSMAN Aida Arosoaie is a senior analyst at the Malaysia Programme in the S Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS). Mohamed Nawab Mohamed Osman is assistant professor and coordinator of
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    • 819 16  -  REMEMBERING THE CONSEQUENCES OF WRONG CHOICES KUNI MIYAKE Kuni Miyake, a former Japanese diplomat stationed in Washington, Beijing, Cairo and Baghdad, is a visiting professor at Ritsumeikan University. BLOOMBERG The anniversary of Pearl Harbour is commemorated on Dec 8 in Japan the
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    • 1591 19  -  TAPPING RESENTMENT AGAINST URBANITES, ELITES RICK LYMAN Rick Lyman is Central and Eastern European bureau chief for The New York Times. THE NEW YORK TIMES The red-tiled roofs of the tiny village cluster of around the soaring steeples of St Bartholomew
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  • voices
    • 287 22  -  FROM ROSLYN TEN General Manager, Tripartite Alliance for Fair and Progressive Employment Practices GERALDINE LOW Director, International Relations Labour Standards, Workplace Policy and Strategy Division, Ministry of Manpower We refer to Mr Edmund Khoo’s letter “Specific anti-discrimination laws needed to ensure fair
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    • 200 22  -  FROM WOON WEE MIN Borrowers here must be pondering the refinancing opportunities presented by the prospect of rising interest rates Yellen says Fed could raise interest rates ‘relatively soon’”: Nov 17, online). The expectation that rates will soon rise is not felt in
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    • 192 22  -  FROM SANTI YEO HER CHUEN I refer to the commentary “High time we stopped worrying about global rankings” (Dec 6). Singaporeans, as a nation, want to be better off, and the tendency to make comparisons is almost a national psyche. We care
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    • 115 22  -  FROM FOONG SWEE KONG The park connector network has added opportunities for families to exercise and enjoy nature. I have been using the Mandai Park connector and am a bit disappointed that it stops short of Upper Seletar Reservoir Park. One must
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  • singapore
    • 460 25 BARRED FOR LIFE FROM HIRING FOREIGN WORKERS SINGAPORE —He did not run a business, but in the span of 10 months, still managed to bring in 37 foreign workers and earned more than S$46,000 from them. Mui Chee Mun, 53, did so
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    • 347 26  -  NEO CHAI CHIN SINGAPORE Certificate of Entitlement (COE) prices for cars fell in the latest bidding exercise that ended yesterday, with premiums for Category B (above 1,600cc or 97kW power output) seeing the sharpest drop to hit a nine-month
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    • 80 26 President Tony Tan greeting an employee of markets firm Icap as he prepares to speak directly to its customers on the phone to close deals, during the interdealer broker’s Charity Day yesterday. One day each year, employees across Icap’s 60-plus offices worldwide, including Singapore,
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    • 734 26  -  KELLY NG SINGAPORE —Making jail a mandatory punishment, impounding the vehicles of offenders and holding passengers partially responsible are some possible ways to clamp down on the drinkdriving problem, said lawyers and Members of Parliament (MPs). They were commenting on the announcement
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    • 614 29  -  FARIS MOKHTAR farism@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE For close to two years, a pharmacist fabricated records to hide the fact that he was selling excessive quantities of cough syrup to individuals, and pocketed more than S$200,000 in profits. Yesterday, William Woo Tat Meng,
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  • china & india
    • 1136 30  -  COMPETITION FROM LOCAL RIVALS CHANGES GAME CAIXIN ONLINE BEIJING Labour unrest at Danone, Coca-Cola and Sony factories in China has cast a spotlight on a quiet pullback by multinationals struggling with rising costs, a slowing economy and growing competition from local
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    • 457 32  -  FINANCIAL TIMES BEIJING —China’s state broadcaster CCTV, better known as a conduit for Beijing’s propaganda efforts, is aiming to grow an international network to carry its soap operas and news in Africa, the Middle East and the United States. China International Communications
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    • 757 34 THE NEW YORK TIMES BEIJING A report that Beijing’s already notorious smog contained bacteria with antibiotic-resistant genes spread through the city recently like pathogens in a pandemic disaster movie. “Drug-resistant bacteria make people very afraid,” the Beijing Evening News said in an article reposted
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  • world
    • 638 36 EMPLOYERS’ FEDERATION WARNS THAT YANGON MAY EVEN RECALL WORKERS AGENCIES YANGON —Myanmar has stopped sending workers to Muslim-majority Malaysia as relations sour over an ongoing military crackdown on Rohingya Muslims in north-western Rakhine state. Myanmar’s Labour, Immigration and Population Ministry said
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    • 583 36 AFP KUALA LUMPUR Former Malaysian prime minister Mahathir Mohamad has vowed to topple Prime Minister Najib Razak, saying that he considered it a national duty, although the campaign is taking a toll on him. Accusing Mr Najib of “destroying” the country by clinging
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    • 643 40 AGENCIES TOKYO The United States has “enduring” interests in the Asia-Pacific region and is working for an orderly transfer of power to the administration of Presi-dent-elect Donald Trump, Defence Secretary Ashton Carter said yesterday. “The United States has important interests in this region,
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    • 685 42 KYODO TOKYO Prime Minister Shinzo Abe yesterday defended his party’s push to legalise casino gambling in Japan and his handling of plans to reform labour practices, responding to criticism from Democratic Party chief Renho Murata in their first leaders’
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    • 617 44 AGENCIES BANGKOK Thailand’s Defence Minister said yesterday that the authorities will investigate the BBC on suspicion of insulting the monarchy in connection with a Thai-language profile of the new king that has stirred social media anger. “The authorities have to pursue
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  • Page 36 Miscellaneous
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  • business
    • 569 46  -  New wave of protectionism threatens the Republic’s export-dependent economy SINGAPORE’S COMPETITIVENESS LOSING GROUND ANGELA TENG angelateng@mediacorp.com. sg S I N G A P O R E —Joining the chorus of voices warning of the impact of protectionism on Singapore’s economy, the Institute
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    • 587 46 FINANCIAL TIMES KUAL A LUMPUR —Malaysia’s troubled state investment fund 1MDB is preparing to make a repayment, with Chinese assistance, to Abu Dhabi’s state-owned International Petroleum Investment Company (Ipic), as it seeks to settle a dispute in which the Emirati fund is
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    • 601 48 REUTERS SYDNEY —Australia’s economy shrank last quarter as businesses, consumers and government all cut back on spending, a shock result that threatens both the first recession in a quarter of a century and the country’s vaunted triple-A credit rating. The 0.5
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    • 306 48 AGENCIES SINGAPORE —Asian shares rose yesterday, riding on a rally that has seen the Dow Jones industrial average post its 11th record high close since Donald Trump won the presidential election in the United States. Investors are also riding on hopes that
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  • technology
    • 394 50 New feature will allow users to filter out followers and remove unwanted comments on posts THE NEW YORK TIMES MENLO PARK (C ALIFORNIA) Instagram has announced that it will be providing more tools for users to protect themselves and others from online
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