Today, 15 August 2017

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  • 13 1 TODAYONLINE.COM WE SET YOU THINKING TODAY mediacorp TUESDAY, 15 AUGUST 2017 MCI(P) 082/04/2017
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  • 69 1 Singapore’s Mohd Taufik Suparno reacting to his team’s loss to Myanmar in the SEA Games 2017 Group A football match yesterday at Selayang Stadium in Kuala Lumpur. A brace from Myanmar forward Aung Thu dented Singapore’s hopes of qualifying for the semi-finals.
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  • 813 1  -  KENNETH CHENG kennethcjw@mediacorp.com.sg S I N G A P O R E Fresh from raising US$2 billion (S$2.72 billion) to fuel its growth, Grab is ramping up efforts to dominate the ride-hailing market and grow its payments platform. In the next few weeks,
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    • 22 1 TH E DAI LY BRI E F Outram Park MRT Station trial offers helping hand to less mobile commuters HOT NEWS 2
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    • 18 1 Military option against N Korea last resort: US General Dunford HOT NEWS 4 SI NGAPORE S PORTS 18
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  • hot news
    • 149 2 Princess Tunku Tun Aminah Sultan Ibrahim, the only daughter of the Sultan of Johor, with her new husband yesterday. The 31-year-old princess married Dennis Muhammad Abdullah a 28-year-old Dutchman who has converted to Islam atthe Serene Hill Palace in Johor Baru, with the
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    • 464 2  -  Help zone, wheelchairs to be located in the station as part of trials to help people get around ILDYKOANG ildyko.ang@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —Elderly, frail and disabled commuters can now seek help more easily, thanks to two trials launched at Outram Park MRT
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    • 124 4 Comfort women statue miniatures are displayed to mark the 5th International Memorial Day for Comfort Women in Seoul, South Korea, yesterday. Mainstream historians say up to 200,000 women, mostly from Korea, but also other parts of Asia including China, were forced to
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    • 759 4 AGENCIES SEOUL —The United States’ top general reassured South Korea yesterday that President Donald Trump is prioritising a diplomatic solution to tensions with North Korea, echoing comments from administration officials who sought to tamp down fears of imminent nuclear
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    • 1467 6 THE NEWYORK TIMES WASHINGTON —North Korea’s success in testing an intercontinental missile that appears able to reach the United States was made possible by blackmarket purchases of powerful rocket engines probably from a Ukrainian factory with historical ties to Russia’s missile
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    • 480 7 Beijing willing to make joint efforts with US to maintain stable economic ties AGENCIES B EIJING —The Chinese government urged United States President Donald Trump yesterday to avoid a “trade war” as Washington prepared to launch an investigation into Beijing’s theft
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    • 275 7 attempt REUTERS United States President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign released its first television advertisement on Sunday (US local time), a 30-second spot that attacks Democrats and touts the accomplishments of his first seven months in office. The ad’s release
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    • 464 9  -  KENNETH CHENG kennethcjw@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE By next month, Grab users will be able to transfer GrabPay credits to other users, paving the way for greater uptake of the company’s payments platform, which it ultimately hopes will be used for shopping and other transactions. The
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  • singapore
    • 557 10  -  ALFRED CHUA alfredchuam@mediacorp.com .sg SINGAPORE —Four days into their trial for raping a 23-year-old woman when she was drunk and unconscious, three British men yesterday pleaded guilty to reduced charges of aggravated outrage of modesty. Khong Tam Thanh, 22, Vu
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    • 286 10 SINGAPORE —Eight F-15SG fighter aircraft and more than 100 personnel from the Republic of Singapore Air Force (RSAF) will be participating in this year’s Exercise Red Flag-Nellis, a major air combat wargame hosted by the United States Air Force. The other
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    • news
      • 409 11  -  58-year-old lawyer reveals in Facebook post that she flew to top US hospital for treatment WONG PEI TING wongpeiting@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —Mrs Jennifer Yeo (picture), the wife of former foreign minister George Yeo, has been diagnosed with a rare form of nose cancer
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      • 691 12  -  VALERIE KOH valeriekohsf@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —Singapore might not be a rice-producing country, but that has not stopped it from contributing to research in the field. Last week, Dr Yin Zhongchao, 50, was named the Outstanding Rice Scientist of Singapore at the Association
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      • 140 12 PHOTO: KARL CHRISTIAN Madam Noraini Samsi could not believe her luck when she found out that she had won S$10,000 in the TODAY Shop To Win draw. Mdm Noraini, seen here receiving her cheque from Jasmine Ong, marketing and communications executive of OG, had spent a
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    • 550 13  -  ALFRED CHUA alfredchuam@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —The man who held demonstrations in the Central Business District last month against the judiciary and Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong was sentenced to three weeks’ jail and fined S$20,000 yesterday. Yan Jun (picture),
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    • 449 13  -  ALFRED CHUA SINGAPORE —In making false or altered claims, a 22-year-old shipping clerk submitted payment vouchers bearing her boss’ signatures and pocketed more than S$380,000 from her company over nine months, using the money to buy a new car and
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    • 335 13 SINGAPORE After suspending the Tiger Sky Tower rides in Sentosa, the authorities have ordered the operator to appoint a specialist professional engineer who has knowledge of amuse-ment-ride engineering to investigate the cause of last Saturday’s incident. A system malfunction
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    • business
      • 541 14  -  Investors deem Republic more attractive than London Hong Kong, or Australian cities supply,” added Mr Tan. agencies, with ADDITIONAL REPORTING BYTAN WEIZHEN BY TAN WEIZHEN AGENCIES, SINGAPORE Analysts see the Singapore property market on the cusp of a multi-year upswing,
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      • 444 14  -  RUMI HARDASMALANI rumih@med iacorp.com .sg SINGAPORE The GoSpree mobile app, launched to much fanfare as the digital solution to revive the sagging fortunes of the Republic’s Great Singapore Sale (GSS), was “suboptimal” and its impact “almost negligible”, a study by homegrown e-commerce
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    • sports
      • 1075 15  -  Team Singapore heads to the 29th SEA Games this month with a roster of established athletes, as well as several youngsters who will be looking to make a name for themselves in Kuala Lumpur. TODAY is
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      • 611 18  -  Two defensive lapses prove costly for S’pore as they lose 2-0 in SEA Games’ opening match NOAH TAN IN KUALA LUMPUR noahtanyw@mediacorp.com.sg KUAL A LUMPUR —They pressed hard, harried tirelessly and even threatened their Myanmar opponents on more than one occasion
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      • 512 18  -  LOW LIN FHOONG SINGAPORE —Defending SEA Games men’s marathon gold medallist Soh Rui Yong has received a formal and final warning by the Singapore National Olympic Council (SNOC) for “repeatedly” breaching the rules regarding the promotion of personal sponsors on social media. SNOC
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    • 425 19  -  Learn how courage culture and influence can lead to success from the next generation of business leaders BY NICOLETTE ONG BY NICOLETTE ONG CREATED BY BRAND STUDIO PRODUCTIONS Find out how you can overcome your fears to achieve your personal or organisational goals at the Singapore Management
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  • comment & analysis
    • 1023 20  -  CRITICAL THINKING ABILITY AT RISK IN RUSH TO BECOME ‘NETWORK SOCIETY’ ADRIAN WJKUAH Adrian W J Kuah is senior research fellow at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy. At a technology summit in February, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong lamented
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    • 1059 21  -  BALANCING IMPARTIALITY AND RELEVANCE TANGSIEWMUN AND JASON SALIM Dr Tang Siew Mun and Mr Jason Salim are respectively Head and Research Officer at Asean Studies Centre, Iseas-Yusof Ishak Institute. This is part of a series of commentaries TODAY is running
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    • 1654 22  -  TOUGH CHALLENGES AHEAD FOR JUGGERNAUT, INCLUDING DEBT MATTHEW GARRAHAN Matthew Garrahan is global media editor at the Financial Times. FINANCIAL TIMES The trailer for actor Will Smith’s latest movie looks like a block-buster-in-waiting for the Hollywood star. Set in a
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    • 24 20 Fears persist that Netflix’s debt splurge could become problematic particularly if subscriber growth slows unexpectedly or its borrowing costs substantially rise. MATTHEW GARRAHAN 22
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  • voices
    • 394 24  -  FROM EE TECK SIEW Singapore’s MRT network has experienced delays owing to the signalling tests, and Transport Minister Khaw Boon Wan said that the media had “magnified the problem unfairly” in their reporting (Khaw slams media coverage of train delays as
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    • 338 24  -  FROM C H LOE NG YUN LE NG Singapore should be worried that diabetes is increasingly being diagnosed in children owing to the increased in- cidence of obesity (Protect your child against diabetes; July 31). Cultivating a healthier lifestyle in
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  • world
    • 1311 26 THE NEWYORKTIMES CHARLOTTESVILLE —It was a deadly weekend of rage-fuelled street battles. And after the violent demonstrations in Charlottesville, Virginia, leaders of white nationalist groups claimed success. “It was a huge moral victory in terms of the show of force,” said Mr
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    • news
      • 719 27 Revelations that DPM may be New Zealander put govt’s slim parliamentary majority at risk AGENCIES SYDNEY —The future of Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s government was thrown in doubt yesterday after it emerged that his deputy was a dual citizen, placing the
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      • 527 27 REUTERS TAIPEI —Chinese military aircraft conducted a third day of training near Taiwan yesterday after doing close fly-bys of the island over the weekend, Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defence said. Two Chinese military transport aircraft flew through the Bashi Channel that
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    • 887 28 The Indonesian dictator, who died in 2008, is still revered in central Java THENEWYORKTIMES KEMUSUK (INDONESIA) Indonesia’s former dictator looms in bronze over the entrance to the small museum set amid the palm trees and emerald rice fields of central Java. Depicted in a
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    • sports
      • 1107 29  -  The English Premier League returned with an almighty crash, bang and wallop on a dramatic opening weekend. Having surveyed the wreckage, TODAY’S EPL analyst Adrian Clarke (sports@mediacorp.com.sg) offers his debrief of the action. Adrian Clarke (sports@mediacorp.com.sg) MANCUNIAN MAGNIFICENCE One swallow
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  • Page 30 Miscellaneous
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    • 252 30 TV HIGHLIGHTS LION MUMS II (HD) (PG) When Jennifer and Durrani receive an invitation to a playdate with Hilary Lian, they are giddy with excitement. At last, they will have a chance to meet the famous Chae Lian face to face. Complications ensue, however, when Jennifer discovers that the playdate
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