Today, 16 June 2011

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    19 1 TODAY MICA (P) 057/10/2010 A PUBLICATION OF NEWS HOTLINE 6822 Thursday June 16, 2011 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking
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    George Yeo says he won’t run for President
    409 1 SINGAPORE After thinking over “it long and hard”, former Foreign Minister George Yeo has ruled himself out of the race for the President’s office. Meanwhile, former Deputy Prime Minister Tony Tan, who is the executive director of Government Investment Corporation of Singapore,
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    Unemployment at three-year low
    630 1  -  But companies could face talent crunch, higher wage expectations JOANNE CHAN joannechan@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE As the labour market improved amid healthy economic growth, Singapore’s unemployment rate fell to a three-year low of 1.9 per cent in March down from 2.2 per cent last December. Real average monthly
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      Lock icon Thomson Medical Centre charged with breaching condition of its Health Ministry licence
      314 2  -  SHAFFIQ ALKHATIB shaffiq@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Thomson Medical Centre has been charged with breaching a condition of its Health Ministry licence some seven months after news broke about a sperm mix-up at the facility. The medical centre allegedly failed to
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      Lock icon Home Minister vows to probe nude squats
      323 3 AGENCIES KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia’s Home Ministry will conduct an investigation into reports that the Johor immigration department forced two Singaporean women to strip naked and perform squats last Thursday. Home Minister Hishammuddin Hussein said yesterday that an inquiry will be held, adding that
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      Lock icon Congestion-hit JB businesses urge biometric exemption for Singaporeans
      368 3 AGENCIES JOHOR BARU The Johor Baru Chinese Chamber of Commerce and Industry (JBCCCI) has urged Malaysia’s Immigration Department to exempt Singaporeans entering the country from having to use the new biometric system, claiming some businesses have experienced drops in human traffic of
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      Private home sales fall as Government pushes out more supply
      385 3  -  LINETTE LIM linettelim@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Private home sales fell 12.7 per cent last month, compared to April, and analysts expect sales as well as prices to moderate further given the Government’s plans to push out more supply in the coming months.
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      Lock icon Thai army chief urges voters not to repeat past choices
      570 4 AGENCIES BANGKOK Thailand’s powerful army chief, who helped oust former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, has urged voters not to repeat the outcome of past elections in next month’s balloting an apparent warning against supporting Thaksin’s allies. General Prayuth Chan-ocha (picture)
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      Lock icon Coast is clear to resume Perth and Tasmania flights: Qantas
      361 4 AGENCIES SYDNEY Qantas said it plans to resume services to and from the western Australian city of Perth today, after several airlines grounded flights yesterday afternoon because of a volcanic ash cloud edging up the country’s western coast. Qantas, Jetstar
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      Lock icon To take the sting out of dengue ...
      480 6  - To take the sting out of dengue Singapore institute eyes first non-invasive dengue test kit, develops improved mosquito EVELYN CHOO evelynchoo@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE ASEAN Dengue Day took flight yesterday with a concerted 10-member nation assault against the virus. The fight is timely, coming during a month where dengue is expected to
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      S'pore to focus on 'larger stock listing, corporate transparency'
      360 8  -  RACHEL KELLY rachel@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The Republic has emerged as the top city in Asia and ninth among 26 leading cities worldwide according to a study released by Pricewaterhouse Coopers (PwC). The study was conducted by PwC in partnership with New York
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      Lock icon The choice city for financial professionals
      297 8  -  TRAVIS TEO travisteo@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The Republic is the most sought after Asian city for financial professionals seeking overseas experience, according to a survey of more than 3,000 AsiaPacific financial professionals. The results show the level of intra-Asian mobility in financial markets and Asia remains
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      Jury still out on how much financial muscle affected electoral battles
      713 10  -  TEO XUANWEI xuanwei@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The People’s Action Party’s (PAP) biggest winner at the May 7 polls Dr Amy Khor in Hong Kah North happened to also be the biggest spender among candidates standing in single-member constituencies (SMC), totting up
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      How the political candidates spent their election budgets...
      394 10  -  NEO CHAI CHIN chaichin@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Bukit Panjang Single-Mem-ber Constituency (SMC) Member of Parliament Teo Ho Pin had bought his team members chrysanthemum tea, gingko nuts and herbal jelly at the recent hustings. He had also bought umbrellas and raincoats, and footed the
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      Trio arrested for selling illegal insurance bets at Marina Bay Sands
      249 12 SINGAPORE In what is believed to be the first case of its kind here, the police have arrested three members of an illegal betting syndicate at the Marina Bay Sands (MBS) casino for selling illegal insurance bets. The trio,
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      'Strong executive powers not necessary to make an impact’
      471 12  -  ESTHER NG estherng@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The President’s office is not a separate political centre, nor does it have any executive power, presidential hopeful Tan Kin Lian, 63, acknowledged on his blog yesterday. However, he reiterated that there is scope for the President
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      SINGAPORE RETAIL NUMBERS UP
      185 14  -  JONATHAN PEERIS With the economy going strong, Singapore’s retail sales went up 8.1 per cent in April, compared to the same time last year. Excluding motor vehicles, the increase would be even greater, up 10.1 per cent year-on-year in April, according to figures released by the
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      Lock icon No outright ban on junkets, says CRA
      396 14  -  SATISH CHENEY SINGAPORE —The Casino Regulatory Authority (CRA) is reviewing “more than a handful” of junket operators to see if they can be given licences to work with the casinos here. Junket operators usually have strong connections and bring in high rollers. They
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      Illegal set top boxes on sale no match for StarHub
      392 14  -  TAN WEIZHEN SINGAPORE An underground trade in illegal cable television decoders appear to be thriving a few years after it was wiped out from the retail market. Such devices claim to offer free access to all of StarHub’s cable TV
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  • COMMENT&ANALYSIS
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      Lock icon When old enemies turn allies
      1013 16  -  Vietnam’s plans to reopen historic Cam Ranh Bay to foreign naval ships a measure of worry over China’s rise BEN BLAND THE FINANCIAL TIMES LIMITED Nguyen Duc De knows at first hand how alliances can change. The former Vietnamese soldier was stationed on the disputed
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      Lock icon An ominous return to Thaksinomics
      871 18  -  It is poor odds that Yingluck can resist her brother’s influence and the cronyism holding back Thailand WILLIAM PESEK William Pesek is a Bloomberg View columnist. The opinions expressed are his own. BLOOMBERG Just when we thought we had seen everything from Thaksin Shinawatra, the
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      Lock icon Justice goes global like a rock star
      941 20  -  Why Harvard political philosopher Michael Sandel is such a celebrity in Japan and China THOMAS L FRIEDMAN Thomas L Friedman is an American journalist, columnist for The New York Times and author. THE NEW YORK TIMES You probably missed the recent special issue
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      Lock icon Unthinking waste and your bottomline
      904 22  -  WILLAM WIILLEMS William Wiillems is the regional vice-president, Regus Australia, New Zealand and South-east Asia. Companies often blindly continue with existing practices just because they are the norm, rather than carefully deliberating how little they may actually contribute and how much money may be wasted
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  • VOICES
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      Passport was not processed
      249 24  -  Letter from Nancy Foo ON JUNE 14, my sister, some friends and I took a bus to Bukit Indah. We cleared immigration smoothly. On the return trip, we arrived just before 5pm at the Malaysian checkpoint. There was no crowd and I proceeded to the immigration
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    • The real problem is ...
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        Inconsiderate drivers
        123 24  -  Letter from Liaw Kok Hwee I REFER to the letter, “Paid express lanes to ease Causeway jams” (June 14). I travel to and from Johor Baru for work almost every day and was caught in the jam at the Second Link for five to six hours on June
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        Levies just postpone the problem
        137 24  -  Letter from Soh Ah Yuen LET us not make this yet another problem where the only solution we know is to put a monetary value to it to curb usage. Take for example traffic congestion or the taxi shortage levies were revised but the problem
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    • Cyclists taking over pedestrian turf
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        Bells, lamps and tests are what they need
        369 26  -  Letter from Narayana Narayana THE letter “Dad in coma after bicycle hit him” (June 6) highlights the dangers posed to pedestrians by inconsiderate cyclists. Footpaths which previously used DirctorDrChitraNewsEditorsTeoC to be the preserve of pedestrians now DerrickPaulo,ClementJuliaNg,Imel have to be shared with
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        Lock icon Young, old at risk
        137 26  -  example is a nightmare, walking on the cycle in the world. Letter from mpesangmare,walkingonthecycle Gloria Wong BLOOMBERG I TOO have encountered youngsters cycling at top speed along the void decks of blocks 426 and 427 in Pasir Ris. Last year, an 83-year-old man was almost hit
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      Safety railings at Pioneer, Benoi
      187 26  -  Letter from Tan Nguan Sen Director, Catchment and Waterways Department PUB, the national water agency PUB, the national water agency, thanks Oun Hui Peng for the letter “Take safety in industrial areas seriously (June 14). Since June 2, the PUB has begun a systematic review
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      243 24 have your say email your letters to voices@mediacorp.com.sg join the community www.todayonline.com/voices THAI GIRL WHO LOST LEGS GETS S$250,000 DONATION PAGE 30 psb Academy For people who love a challenge. At PSB Academy, we work our students hard. When our graduates head out into the world, they're armed with more
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  • SINGAPORE
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      Get into the Spirit ... with NDP campaign
      342 29  - Get into the Spirit with NDP campaign ALVINA SOH alvinasoh@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE From singing to photography to designing T-shirts, Singaporeans can tap on a variety of ways to express how they feel about what it means to be Singaporean, as part of the National Day Parade (NDP)’s efforts to reach out
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      Pockets of solitude, places to retreat to in Green Corridor
      368 29  -  LYNDA HONG SINGAPORE The possibility of conserving the KTM railway and its green environs, termed the Green Corridor, is under serious consideration, said Minister of State for National Development, BrigadierGeneral (NS) Tan Chuan-Jin. He revealed on his Facebook page that
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      Lock icon A birthday present for Thai girl who lost her legs
      313 30 SINGAPORE It is a birthday present that will bring much cheer to Thai teenager Nitcharee Peneakchanasak (picture), who turns 15 today: A sum of S$250,000 for her medical rehabilitation expenses. The money to help Nitcharee, who lost both her legs
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      Alleged overspending by club management upsets SICC members
      463 30  -  CONRAD RAJ editor-at-large conrad@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Some members of one of Singapore’s most prestigious country clubs are up in arms over what they alleged to be overspending by the club’s management, including plans to hold a gala dinner outside the club’s premises, hiring
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      s$215,000 worth of unlicensed software seized in police raid
      257 32 SINGAPORE Some S$215,000 worth of unlicensed software has been seized from a company, in the second raid by the police and the Business Software Alliance (BSA) in seven days. Last Wednesday, they raided a business process outsourcing company, believed to one
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      Lock icon iPhone app to bring history to life
      297 32 SINGAPORE The Asian Civilisations Museum (ACM) will bring to life via augmented reality (AR), location-based gaming and interactive features its exhibition, Terracotta Warriors: The First Emperor and His Legacy, with the help of an iPhone app. The ACM: Terracotta Warriors app, said to
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      WEB ADDRESSES TO GO MULTILINGUAL TO SPEAK TO INDIAN, CHINESE MARKETS
      116 32 Businesses and consumers can now look forward to using full Chinese and Tamil characters in their website addresses to better reach their customers and friends. The Singapore Network Information Centre (SGNIC), the national registry for domain names, will be
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  • WORLD
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      Lock icon Malaysia works to foil hacking threat
      469 34 AGENCIES KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia stepped up monitoring of government websites yesterday to thwart a planned hacking attack by Internet vigilante group Anonymous, who accuse the authorities of Internet censorship. The hacker group said it would target the Malaysian government’s online portal www.malaysia.gov.my from 3.30am
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      Lock icon INDONESIA BRACES ITSELF FOR VERDICT IN BASHIR'S TERROR TRIAL
      193 34 AP Indonesia’s capital will be secured by more than 3,000 police and soldiers today for the verdict in the terrorism trial of radical cleric Abu Bakar Bashir. Bashir is accused of helping to organise and fund a jihadi training camp in
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      Lock icon KAN’S TENURE ‘MAY LAST SIX MORE WEEKS’
      108 38 BLOOMBERG Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan, facing calls to detail his plans to resign, may stay in office for another six weeks. Law-maker Hajime Ishii from the ruling Democratic Party of Japan said Mr Kan will last “one more month or a month-and-a-half”
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      Lock icon As distrust deepens, Pakistan arrests CIA men
      338 38 THE NEW YORK TIMES REUTERS WASHINGTON Pakistan’s top military spy agency, the InterServices Intelligence (ISI) directorate, has arrested some of the Pakistani informants who fed information to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in the months leading up to the raid that led to
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      Lock icon China accused of covering up lead poisoning epidemic
      215 40 AGENCIES BEIJING Chinese children suffering lead poisoning from polluting smelters and factories have been denied testing, effective treatment and even basic information by officials who downplayed health threats, a human rights advocacy group said yesterday. The report from New York-based Human Rights
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      137 55 Mainboard-listed ST Engineering says its marine arm, ST Marine, has won a shipbuilding contract worth about S$171 million. The contract, which was awarded by a wholly-owned subsidiary of Swire Pacific, is for the building and outfitting of four Anchor
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      545 55 REUTERS HONG KONG Standard Poor’s (S&P) ratings agency lowered its outlook on China’s red-hot property market to negative from stable, citing increasingly challenging credit conditions due to regulatory tightening and leverage concerns. China’s property prices are expected to fall by
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      333 66  -  TANYO-HINN Local shuttlers had a mixed start on the first day of the main round of the Li-Ning Singapore Open 2011 badminton championship yesterday. Defending women’s doubles champions Yao Lei and Shinta Mulia Sari moved into the last 16, but only after
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      270 66  -  IAN DE COTTA SINGAPORE In another bribery scandal involving a Singaporean abroad, K Rajendran was slapped with a total of 11 counts of match-fixing in courts in Shah Alam and Seremban, respectively, yesterday. He is alleged to have paid footballers between RM200 (S$81)
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